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Maenad's avatar

My favorite incident of Newsom’s turning bowls of shit into fresh cream was the re-opening of the biggest LA freeway, burned and melted in a dramatic fire after neglecting years of warnings about the heaps of flammable junk swept under the overpass. All the striving Dems, Newsom, Karen Bass, Padilla and Kamala celebrated their competence and smooth executive ability after propping it back up a few days ahead of schedule with never a peep about the cause.

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Brad Pearce's avatar

that checks out. Sounds like they could have been using convicts to clean up junk instead of fight fires lol

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Maenad's avatar

That would be proactive tho. You gotta have disasters to create opportunity.

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José Freitas's avatar

[by having a podcast between us, Alexis and I are only half pulling our weight.]

Slackers!! 😄

Great article, and the comparison to Alcibiades is great, if only because I would actually have loved to meet him in person, and might have considered voting for him if I was sufficiently pissed about something or other.

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Brad Pearce's avatar

Lmao yeah I considered kind of doing a whole article making the comparison but figured he is really famous and there is plenty to say about Newsom on his own

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José Freitas's avatar

I am so glad for you that you are optimistic enough to assume that Alcibiades is famous, out there in the wide internettins fields!! 🤣

One of the weird things about Newsom is that his family seems like a genuinely happy, functional one. Maybe one day one of the kids will write a memoir of how horrible it was, who knows, but that 's not what the pics seem to show today

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Brad Pearce's avatar

Well, he's at least sufficiently well documented that we know the name of his Spartan nurse, which is uncommon

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