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When David Huerta, an SEIU union boss, was arrested at a pro-illegal alien rally and charged with a felony for shoving law enforcement personnel, Gov. Gavin Newsom fumed that his political ally was “a respected leader, a patriot, and an advocate for working people” and reposted a message from SEIU urging the mobs to “resist”.
SEIU, which took part in the No Kings rallies against Trump, is a key part of Newsom’s political machine, endorsing the governor and directing $6.6 million to protecting him during the recall election, even while benefiting vastly from Newsom’s actions, such as the FAST Act, which set a fast food minimum wage of as much as $22 an hour and created a Fast Food Council to control the industry despite lacking an actual functional union for fast food employees.
But having spent $82 million on lobbying and millions on keeping Gov. Newsom in power, union bosses like Huerta could get whatever they wanted. And so could Newsom. Including the riots.
There is no way to understand the sudden violent riots in Los Angeles which required the dispatch of the National Guard, without also understanding how California is actually run. The state is not, as its leaders insist, a democracy, it’s an oligarchy run by a small group of powerful political interests, merging elected officials, unions and nonprofits, who move money looted from taxpayers, customers and business back and forth into each other’s pockets.
That corrupt system, which accounts for everything from high gas prices, the catastrophic wildfires and missing billions in homeless spending, exploded into calculated political violence meant to put Newsom in the White House. The riots entangled much of the political network around Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s powerful Democratic Party power brokers.
Whether it’s SEIU or the Coalition for Human Immigrant’ Rights (CHIRLA), one of the groups at the center of the Los Angeles riots, which spent nearly half a million dollars opposing the recall campaign against Newsom and benefited from $35 million in government funding, the consistent pattern involves government and donor money going into groups involved in the rallies and riots, and money to Newsom coming out of those same donors and organizations.
Indivisible, whose No Kings protests targeted Trump, received millions from Soros groups, Newsom had met with Alexander Soros, the heir to the Soros political machine and George Soros donated a quarter of a million to save Newsom during the recall campaign. A number of Indivisible partner groups in the No Kings rallies also got funding from the Soros networks.
Indivisible picked up millions from Tides organizations and, under Newsom, $18 million in government money went to Tides organizations.
Indivisible had been strongly backed by Newsom’s Big Tech ally Reid Hoffman and the organization received $500,000 from Big Tech divorcee Karla Jurvetson who was listed as one of Newsom’s top 100 donors. Indivisible’s partners on the ‘No Kings’ campaign include the American Federation of Teachers, which had put in $250,000 to oppose the Newsom recall.
Beyond the organizational layer, the most prominent political figure involved in direct confrontations with Trump officials was Sen. Alex Padilla: a Newsom political appointee. Padilla, previously an obscure corrupt figure in California’s local political machine, was chosen to replace Kamala even though the Secretary of State had no obvious qualifications for the job.
Padilla staged a confrontation right ahead of the wave of ‘No Kings’ rallies by Indivisible and its partners. And Newsom, who had protected Padilla during his $35 million political operative scandal, quickly linked the senator’s confrontation to the theme of the anti-Trump rallies.
Newsom’s political operatives, like Padilla and Attorney General Rob Bonta, connected to a massive corruption investigation, led the way in confrontations with the Trump administration while allowing the governor to hang back and then issue condemnations. The same tactics were used in the street riots with Newsom condemning the violence and then maximally exploiting it.
The riots were not accidental or an organic response to ICE raids. A network of organizations with ties to Newsom and to his donors mobilized and turned out mobs to not only disrupt immigration enforcement, but to provide Gov. Newsom with a path to the White House.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose term ends in 2026, has a limited window in which to make an impact on national politics. He launched a podcast meant to give him a platform after he leaves office, but the illegal alien riots put him on every news channel and news network in the country.
The California governor became a national figure once again while avoiding any consequences for the Los Angeles riots. While mobs of activists, union members and political allies like Padilla acted as cannon fodder, Newsom delivered speeches, was spread out all over social media and news shows in a way that his Democratic rivals for the nomination could only envy.
While Gov. Tim Walz struggled to attract attention to his prospective 2028 campaign, Gov. Newsom positioned himself as Trump’s rival. And now he’s talking about a presidential run. After falsely claiming that he had “sub-zero interest” in running for president, Newsom used the platform of the riots to suggest coyly, “I’m not thinking about running, but it’s a path that I could see unfold,” The New York Times more clearly laid out “the 2028 Subtext of Newsom’s Speech.”
But the subtext to the subtext is that the riots and rallies were the work of key players in Newsom’s political machine and Gavin’s political moment came at a high cost to California.
Businesses have been looted, law enforcement injured and the riots have already cost over $100 million. None of that price was paid by Gov. Gavin Newsom or those actually responsible.
Gov. Newsom is being promoted as a front-runner for the 2028 nomination. And all he had to do was set parts of Los Angeles on fire.
Newsom may indeed be on the national stage now due to the Los
Angeles firestorms and their bomb-like devastation plus the recent
riots. But even with a lack of knowledge about the corrupt money
machine that funds it all , Americans can see both the malfeasance
and incompetence that Newsom and Bass have consistently
exhibited: dried up reservoirs and hydrants – putting the life of a bait
fish before human life – letting rioters rampage then complaining
and blaming when something is done about it. They are so obviously
out to destroy and not build up their California cities nor the rest of
America.
Not a good look nationally for Newsom. Except for his low-life,
dumbass base.
Why the Founders Despised Democracy: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis
https://danafharbaugh.substack.com/p/why-the-founders-despised-democracy
Thank you for this. IMO, democracy unchecked is the polite term for mob rule.
I’ve spent 3 decades standing upon the shoulders of Horowitz, Sowell, Aquinas, Limbaugh, Hillsdale, et al… and now that I start my own writing empire.. the Left just blows a $uqinq gasket.
Hardball’s Substack, Hardball Intelligence Systems, LLC, et. al are so grateful to FPM, Friedman, and Fred G. Sanford. And if you speak US Navy, you’ll comprendolo….
Dem-marxists have discovered that they can get elected and re-elected no matter how badly they run things so, why should they even bother with management of municipalities or statewide oversight of infrastructures and necessary systems of operation?
Just make yer connections and grab the ca$h from the taxpayer$.
Most blue zones are poorly run, it seems willful as these dem-marxist hell-holes seem to erupt in chaos monthly, if not weekly with very little attempts at maintaining civic peace. Blue zones are their own no-go zones.
Newscum is going to crash and burn. He has no talent except being a parasite.
He’s only the Governor of the country’s most populated state.
Admittedly, unlike you, he can’t check off “beat up a homeless guy” on his bucket list.
Wasted Kook,
he’s only the illegitimate Goobernor of CA. No way did we vote for him…….ever.
And a population of wetback retards and other D-Bags is nothing to brag about.
I populate my toilet with turds every morning. Should I admire it and brag about how many there are or flush it? Cretin.
You need to be flushed along with Grease head Newscum and his firestorms, homelessness, crime, exorbitant taxes, Mayors and the rest of the D-Bag filth. Hasta, and chupa mi verga, jototito. Chinga.
The GOP needs to use these Riots as a weapon against News-Scum
My thought: You will not defeat Newscum in his home state. The elections here in Cal now are all mail-in, which is fraught with corruption. And corruption is the only way his kind of politician stays in power.
Whoever they nominate will get a massive MSM propaganda campaign guaranteeing even a cardboard cutout 48% or so of the vote 🙂
Seriously a lot of people live in a TV type fantasy world, their brain filled with that nonsense to the point where it becomes their worldview.
Combined with the fact that humans are born ignorant and rarely escape that. So the young people who have heads full of Democrat propaganda will be delusional for decades, at least.
I just voted twice in two months. CA seems to have some “special election” every month.
I don’t even remember what I voted on. Against tax dollars for school administrators (It’s never really for the kids as the liars claim) and some Latin homo politician.
Not that my vote means a shit in CA.
Hell, one of the CA ballots is still lying in front of my door because I forgot to take it to the mail room last time I left. I only left at all for a chick. I can do without oxygen but not without chicks. You married guys have it good but us single guys take a gamble every time we pull our pants down and are always chasing after it or getting chased..
Not that I really care what I voted for. My vote isn’t going to matter anyway and I’m lucky I don’t have any STDs. Thank God for condoms and chicks who prefer clean guys.
CA. The lefties have ruined this formerly great state. I remember Ronnie Reagan used to be the Governor. It was before my time but CA used to be sane.
I remember when the stinky hippies ushered in and heralded the apocalypse in 1968 and then Dick Nixon won the presidency in 1969. The beginning of the end. I was only four but I remember my stepfather losing his job. Boxed macaroni and cheese for dinner? Naw, I didn’t like that. And once in awhile “hamburger patties.” FTF? The hamburger was a lot more expensive than the buns. Buy some buns, you cheap mofo. He wouldn’t even let my brother and me use bread. It was like it was his mission in life to make us go hungry and eat crap.
You’re so lucky you had a good father. I really admire good fathers. Any real man will do anything he can for his kids.
Why is the Tides Center allowed to launder money? Isn’t that illegal?
Unless the Bosley Group can do something miraculous with Fetterman in the next three years Gavin will be running.
Maybe somebody will assassinate him? I sure hope so. I would laugh my ass off. I would hoist a pint to that.
Gruesome Newscum was never and will not ever, be a ‘front-runner’ for US presidency. Demonocrats are not qualified, they don’t even know what a woman is !!!