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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
If President Dementia finally falters for good and Vice President Cackler is somehow persuaded to allow herself to be eased into a comfortable and lucrative retirement, and if the persistent rumors about a Michelle Obama presidential campaign prove to be just that — rumors — the Commissar of the California Soviet Socialist Republic, Gavin Newsom, is waiting in the wings. In 2028, he won’t have so many people ahead of him in the Democrat food chain, and he could conceivably turn out to be the occupant of the Oval Office someday. But some of his recent dealings in the tarnished Golden State may end up derailing his ambitions before he even announces a formal run for the presidency.
As part of his relentless efforts to destroy California as an economic powerhouse and make it the perfect prototype of the borderless socialist hellhole that the left wants to make out of the entire country, Newsom several months ago signed a law raising the minimum wage of fast food workers in the state from $16 an hour to $20 an hour. This should have been enough in itself to kill Newsom’s presidential ambitions, for minimum wage hikes are among the cruelest and most damaging of the many tricks and deceptions that leftists use to gain support.
Raising the minimum wage seems to be an act of looking out for the little guy. Minimum wage laws are supposed to ensure that the greedy top-hatted capitalists of leftist myth are forced not to keep all the profits for themselves, but to ensure a decent living for those whose labor they’re exploiting. Socialist politicians such as Newsom, however, never tell voters about the downside. The New York Post reported Wednesday that “earlier this month, Chipotle executives warned that consumers in California should expect to see ‘significant’ price hikes due to the minimum wage hike.”
Business owners large and small don’t generally take minimum wage hikes as a cue to tighten their belts and make sacrifices. Maybe in a perfect world they would, but this is not a perfect world. Instead of absorbing the increased costs themselves, they pass them on to the consumer in the form of price increases, or they lay off a few workers and make the ones who are still employed work harder for almost the same money. Minimum wage laws thus increase both prices and unemployment. Under the guise of giving ordinary workers a fair shake, they make life more difficult for them.
It gets even worse than that. Much worse. The Post noted that Newsom has just “signed a law that exempts Panera Bread from a new $20-an-hour minimum wage hike for fast food chains after the billionaire owner of several of the chain’s locations donated to his campaign.” This is the epitome of socialist rule: the elites make laws that the common folk have to obey, or else, while the elites themselves luxuriate at their sumptuous villas, exempt from all the burdens they have placed upon those who make it possible for them to live in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
It seems that Newsom’s Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (FAST Act) “includes an unusual carve-out that exempts ‘chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item.’” The person responsible for this “unusual carve-out” was reportedly Gavin Newsom himself, and the exemption “benefits among others Greg Flynn, the billionaire CEO of Flynn Restaurant Group, the company that owns some two dozen Panera Bread locations in the state.” Flynn, as it turns out, “attended the same high school as Newsom” and “has been involved in business dealings with the California governor.” He also “has donated at least $164,800 to Newsom’s campaigns.”
What a coincidence! For his part, Flynn insists that “he played no role in crafting the bread exemption,” and Newsom shrugged it off, dismissing the sweetheart deal for his well-heeled donor as just “part of the sausage-making” in politics. Yeah, and who’s enjoying the sausage that gets made? Gavin Newsom and his cronies. The Post says that Michelle Korsmo of the National Restaurant Association asserted that “everyone’s scratching their head” about the big exception in Newsom’s minimum wage bill, but there is no reason for anyone to be puzzled or confused about anything. What is happening here is crystal clear. Newsom scratched Flynn’s back, and Flynn scratched Newsom’s.
This is a level of naked corruption that we usually only see in corrupt socialist states that impose one-party rule and muzzle the press so that it only reports what the elites want it to report. That’s nothing like Old Joe Biden’s America — oh, wait…
Newsom the Nuisance this Pea-Brain wants to ban Gasoline Cars all over this false threat of Global Warming/Climate Change he thinks the 2nd Amendment needs be replaced with Gun Control and his smiling face is totally annoying
Who doesn’t want to punch his greasy head when they see it? people say he’s handsome but I don’t see it. I’m WAY better looking and I actually have testicles.
And oh, yeah. Only left-wing losers eat at Chipotle. It keeps losing franchises throughout the Southwest for a reason.
He looks like a con man, ugly , sleazy and stupid
Yes, I honestly hate him and I hate few people. Everybody hates the Bidens, of course, but it’s hard to actually hate people.
California is broke. Not only do they have a huge deficit of many billions, they are hemorrhaging businesses, jobs and middle class workers – but also owe the state pension funds over $1 trillion
I’m a life long California resident and I can assure you that everything in California is worse, far worse than anyone can imagine.
For example, what’s little known outside of California is that the Mexican Drug Cartels grow their marijuana in the forests of northern California. Local l aw enforcement is well aware of it but lack the man power to do anything serious stop it. And law enforcement officers have families they have to worry about……. Drug cartel enforcers aren’t common street thugs, they’re paid professional killers
Also a life-long Californian here. And all I can say is Newsom was once mayor of San Francisco. Look at how that worked out. Pray this idiot megalomaniac never becomes president!
Yes, they grow crop in CA, AZ, NM, WA, and every state we can think of. They even grow it in Canada! And they may shoot you if you wander onto their farms!
All No Border Biden approved, of course. I know some of those cartel guys (everybody needs a job, right, and sometimes it’s illegitimate) and they all say this shit didn’t happen when Trump was President. They say they had to be sneaky and circumspect back then. In bean talk.
Money to fund Cal. pensions is not the problem. When Gray Davis was gov of Cal. the State contributed 0 dollars to its pension fund – because the pension fund was self-funded thru employee contributions from their monthly paycheck and from the pension fund managers investing the funds into investments like the stock market. If Trump can return to the white house, the country can return to having a good economy. thus making everything including pension funds economically strong again. Cal’s pension fund survived the great depression and WWII and it will survive the Biden regime.
The only true trillion dollar unfunded liability for the taxpayers is the millions of illegals entering our country – and Trump will solve that liability also by deporting the illegals.
The last I knew, 800,000. people fled my state in 2022. Who knows how many took off last year? The smart ones flee to Texas and Florida. The scumbags infest the Phoenix area of Arizona, Santa Fe New Mexico, Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington.
That’s too bad. Those places used to be extremely nice. I lived in Seattle back in the mid 90s. It was wonderful back then..
The problem with people fleeing California is that they bring their Dem convictions with them and vote Dem in their new state (like they aren’t smart enough to figure out that the Dems created the shithole in the first place).
Yes. They never learn. The cretins,.
Looks like the “carve-out” was. uh, baked into the legislation.
Newsom’s personal corruption outdoes the political variety. Have you forgotten that Donald Trump Jr’s fiancée is Kimberly Guilfoyle, Newsom’s ex-wife, who left him when she found out that he was tossing it to the wife of his campaign manager and best friend? When it comes to morals, Newsom makes Bill Clinton seem like Mother Teresa.
Newsom was caught by Kimberly doing it in Newsom’s office while Newsom was supposed to be working – too bad we don’t have a video of that to show America.
I wouldn’t want to see that. I bet Newscum has a tiny pecker. Kimberly Guilfoyle is probably glad she’s with a Trump now.
I’m surprised a scrawny Nancy Boy like him can even get laid.
He is very charming, very smooth and has all the delightful traits of a psychopath.
He’s just the type most democrats will vote for. Especially democrat women who have only one criteria when voting for a candidate:: is he cute and handsome ?
Run a monkey wearing sunglasses and sporting a greasy slick backed doo as a democrat candidate and 80% of democrat women will vote for the monkey. The monkey could be as dumb and clueless as Newsom and the democrat women won’t care.
Yes, Dirtbagocrat women are dumb. I’d write that they’re only good for one thing but most of them aren’t even good for that. They all think they are, though. Losers.
he’s as greasy and fork tongued as they get!
And he’s scrawny. I bet he has a tiny pecker.
What ? You don’t remember ? (Rodney Dangerfield)
Rodney was so funny. He used to bust up Johnny Carson, And that guy only laughed at the best.
Well then I think ALL of the other restaurants in CA affected by the new law and wage hike need to start baking bread and selling it as a stand-alone product!
the law doesn’t say how much bread one has to bake – so just get a small toaster oven, set it on a table in the kitchen, and bake just one piece of bread each day – remember, that’s what commie Newsom would do if the shoe was on the other foot.
$2,200., actually. As if I could afford a typo like $22,000. Shit. I’m not a Biden Bitch.
There are plenty of mom N’ pop restaurants here in CA which do just fine. And they pay $20 bucks per hour.
Try to pay less than that here and stay in business.
Here in San Jose CA, a studio apartment costs $22,00 to $30,000 a month.I know. I pay $22,000. (one of the cheapest rentals in the city – one of my girlfriends only pays $895!!!??? but her apartment is smaller than my bathroom and she has to put up with all kinds of shit from her property landlords) I resent every penny I pinch out. Luxury condos go for a cool million. Good luck renting that shit on less than $20. bucks an hour.
Like my black girlfriends say, SHEEIT.
Why does California raise the minimum wage for fast food workers but not for anyone else? Is such unequal protection constitutional?
In commie California, little Fidel Newsom shredded the constitution a long time ago – his aunt Nancy Pelosi provided the shredder machine free for him.
That’s a good point. Home caregivers especially deserve higher wages. Those chicks work hard as slaves and deserve more money. Most of them here in California only make $16. to $25. bucks an hour.
Alzheimer Joe and Gavin NewSCUM, as Big Don Trump now calls him (Trump is so cool,) are nefariously corrupt but what “minimum wage” really means is “if we could pay you less, we would.” And any retard who eats at Chipotle’s deserves to get ripped off. The only people tasteless enough to eat there are the same dorkmos who eat at Panera Bread and shop at Whole Foods. Us native Californians who’ve lived here since the 60s don’t eat that shit.
No fake Mexican or fake Mediterranean panera crap for us. Only Californicater carpet-baggers eat that shit. Chipotle serves whole beans to the tards. Only dumb wedos eat that shit instead of refried beans. If I see a restaurant that advertises as “Mediterranean” I know straight off it’s a camel jockey restaurant and to avoid it. There’s a limit to how many cockroaches and boogers I want to eat in one day and that limit is zero.
We have In ‘N Out Burgers here, which pays its burger flippers $21.19 an hour for a starting wage. So long as Californians have good taste, and we natives do, that place is going to stay in business.
It’s a conservative myth that higher minimum wages kill jobs. The states with higher wages (I personally don’t consider $20. bucks high,) have higher employment rates than the stingy states do.
I don’t know about you but I want my hamburgers to be flipped by someone who gives a shit.
Newsom’s an Operative of The Democrat Communist Criminal Terrorist Organization of America.
Yes, Newscum is a turd muncher for sure.
So ANYONE who “bakes and sell bread as a standalone product” will be exempt? Subway bakes their bread! If I had a restaurant I’d bake a few loaves and save $4/hr/ee and SAVE those ee’s jobs! Gas stations should put a toaster oven on the counter – pop in a can of biscuits – and be EXEMPT! Or is it MORE SPECIFIC??
I think Panera Bread bakes its own bread, too. That place has decent French onion soup but it isn’t good enough to pay for a meal there. That place is an ex wife styled place. I ain’t married anymore so I ain’t eating there. Leave it to the Californicators and NYC scumbags who don’r know the difference between shit and soup.
I pitched a high net worth individual in San Francisco for venture capital when Newsom was Mayor. He didn’t give me any money but on my way out, he mentioned that “besides I have all of my money tied up with Gavin”. I asked him what he and Gavin were doing and he replied “buying up old warehouses South Of Market (SOMA). Miraculously…just a year or so later….that is where they built the new SF Giants stadium. All surrounding property skyrocketed in value of course. That is how corrupt…just the tip of the iceberg but an interesting “tell”.
“What is happening here is crystal clear. Newsom scratched Flynn’s back, and Flynn scratched Newsom’s.”. I think they both eat each other’s sausage!