Oh, Gavin

One of the things I despise most nowadays is Repugliclowns. Repugs (and especially gay Repugs) are in that special niche reserved for TERFs, homophobes and racists: they are despicable and inexcusable. Rethugs have become a desperate species of vermin that has been infected with the MAGAt virus: a deadly ailment that brings the worst in people and parties.

When I read that Gavin Newsom, the California Governor was facing a recall, I was confused: was this the same governor that had managed to half stabilize a state plagued by water shortage, deadly fires and COVID-19 tragedies? The same governor that tried to save as many people as possible with mask mandates and closures? THAT Gavin Newsom? All I had known until then is that h managed one of the biggest economies in the US, had been married to the harpy now fucking one of Cheeto's sons (I don't remember which? Maybe the cokehead?) and that he is very handsome (I'm vacuous, don't judge me). 

California apparently can recall its governors and the Repugs, knowing they cannot win in a normal governor race, jumped at the chance of ousting Newsom and making a power grab in one of the most Dem states in the US. The wanted to hack the system. Just like they have been doing after IMPOTUS2 lost and this was one of those opportunities because the recall was a hack in itself:

If Newsom had failed to top 50 percent of the vote on the recall question, he would have been ousted. Then whoever came in first place in the crowded field of candidates running to replace him would have become governor — even if they got far less than 50 percent of the overall vote. Newsom was prohibited from running as a replacement candidate himself.

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The repugs saw it as an easy win: frame Newsom as inept, insert a clown in the same vein as Agolf Twitler as replacement and spread the rumor that the recall was rigged. Then, wait for the people to be as stupid as ever and take over. Simple, no? And it almost worked. Elder, a populist, unqualified, uberconservative radio host who parrots all the GQP talking points (sounds familiar?) was poised to take over and polls showed him making inroads. How could that happen, I wondered? Were people in California that stupid? (Rhetorical). 

Newson got more than the 50% of the vote, but Elder got around 30%. How scary is that? But it should not surprise me. People do work against their best interests most times and are always unhappy with their lot, no matter how good they have it. It's always greener, you know?

Newson framed his staying in office as a matter of life or death and that was (and is) true: Elder was all for ending mask mandates and followed the Repug playbook in what concerns vaccines. It was a disaster waiting to happen. But that's what almost happened in California.

So with conservatives seemingly unable to win ordinary statewide elections in California, expect future attempts to try to dislodge Democrats through the recall. This time around, the strategy didn’t work out. But in 2003, it did, and perhaps in the future it could again, given the right circumstances.

Even if Democrats are hesitant to try to eliminate the recall altogether (voters generally don’t like power being taken away from voters), reforming its bizarre asymmetrical structure seems like a no-brainer for them.

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Newsom was not recalled, or better put, the Repugs almost won the recall. And this is a call to arms to every person who does not want a Kakistocracy in the United States: Vote. And Vote Blue no Matter Who, people. Because the worst is yet to come. The Rethuglyclowns are not gonna stop until power gets back to their grubby, greedy fingers.

XOXO