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Gavin Newsom
Foreign. California Governor Gavin Newsom committed social suicide yesterday when he started his new podcast, this is Gavin Newsom. And he invited racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic Charlie Kirk to be his first guest in this whole new. We're going to try to understand MAGA that Democrats are doing. Watch this really cringy clip.
Charlie Kirk
You talked about it the other day. A lot of folks were talking about that Carville article where he talked about.
Unknown Commentator
Roll over and play dead.
Charlie Kirk
Roll over. In essence, he said that I think it was a strategic retreat. Right. That we need to come back. Trump's starting to implode, his numbers are getting soft. This was even before the tariff issues, et cetera. And then come back and strike one hot and immediately. Nobody else thought about you, who's just 24, 7, flooding the zone, owning this space every day, getting a convert every day, picking to 10,000 folks, continuing the momentum coming out of this damn election. And then I'm thinking about we're going to stand back and watch you run circles around us for six months, the next two or three years, waiting for the moment to finally strike struck me as not necessarily the best advice. And it's not a knock on Carville, who I have deep respect for. What's your thought?
Unknown Commentator
That's okay. So I don't have to. He's read about one thing in the last 40 years. It's economy, stupid. And boy, has he spent his spent down that one line pretty amazingly. Yeah, I hope you guys retreat.
Charlie Kirk
You kind of like the more for.
Unknown Commentator
Us, there's no opposition, there's no arctivist activist spark. You guys are posting these cringe videos on social media.
Charlie Kirk
What are the videos? What are the ones?
Unknown Commentator
I don't know. This like har. Harmonious thing of like 22 senators all saying the same thing like that. Yeah, I didn't like it. Go ahead, go do more of that. What do you do?
Charlie Kirk
But what do you do? Seriously, Charlie Kirk, give us some advice, better ideas.
Unknown Commentator
Governor.
Gavin Newsom
Okay, speaking of cringe videos that Democrats post, that's one right there. Are you kidding me? You're the governor of California and you're asking some fringe right wing commentator, what do we do? Give us advice. You know, one of the first lessons I saw, and I'm not a political strategist, is they don't relent, they have conviction in their insanity. They don't placate, they don't appease, they don't do this. They came down. He came down the escalator in 2016 and he's been batshit Crazy ever since. And they've just all jumped on board and they have to shape shift and change their convictions all the time. This is one of the more pathetic displays I've ever seen. You know what I think this is? I think this is a bunch of people sitting around a table going, all right, Newsom, all right, you. We want you to be president. Okay, so you need to do podcasts. And they're like, okay, all right, let's call Rogan. Let's call. You know, when they start listing them off, and then somebody's like, no, I have a better idea. Right? You be the podcaster. You do it. They're like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'll do. Yes, yes, yes, I'll do it. Okay, well, then what can we call it? And they come up with all these stupid names. And then some, you know, millennials like, I've got it. This is Gavin Newsom. And then they're like, okay, let's. Let's workshop the guest. Let's workshop it. Let's talk about who we can have first. Yeah, let's get fringe. Right wing commentator Charlie Kirk on. Are you kidding me? This is so pathetic. This is not. This, Mom. This man, Gavin Newsome, the one thing that he could do is lean in to his progressive principles because just like there was a white lash after Barack Obama's two terms, there is going to be a Trump lash, right? And he's going to be excluded from being at the top of the list for this ridiculous circle jerk that I just witnessed with him and Charlie Kirk.
Unknown Commentator
Honestly, when this first came out, I thought that it was AI. I did not believe that someone as smart, who I've seen just eat kitten heels Desantis for lunch would do this. This was such a strategic error. It was weak. And I am with you this, like, I appreciate wanting to attack all the time, but you start by attacking Charlie Kirk, not having him a guest on your podcast. You start attacking him for the misogynistic, racist, homophobic asshole that he is. You don't ask him for tips or.
Gavin Newsom
If he's on the podcast, call him out. But let me just play for you all. Let me. You saw how friendly was, and he asked. I want you to think about this. The governor of the. This, their state, his state is like the seventh largest economy in the world. Just the state. He. He asked this guy. And we'll play the clip of Charlie Kirk. He asked this guy for advice. Play this clip.
Unknown Commentator
Think women are so liberal.
Gavin Newsom
You know, there's a lot of father.
Unknown Commentator
Issues there, a lot of Daddy issues for sure. The biggest thing is this. More young women need to get married at a younger age and start having kids. The single woman issue is one of the biggest issues facing a civilization. Yeah, we have more single women in the early 30s that are the most depressed, suicidal, anxious, lonely in America's history because there's a biological clock that's going off and they realize that they're not gonna be able to have kids and that they're not as desirable in the dating market or in the dating pool. And so they start to lash out on the rest of society by voting Democrat.
Gavin Newsom
So date like you're going to marry. I guess that's going to.
Unknown Commentator
Well, yeah, just get married early. Like reject the siren song of modernity and have lots of kids. Like, being a partner at a local law firm actually isn't that big of a deal. Having three kids is a really big deal and will make you happier. And it's okay to be a stay at home mom. In fact, we need a lot of stay at home moms and a lot of women want to be stay at home moms. And we have miserable women because we've been shuffling them into a corporate wasteland when in reality, a lot of them don't find a lot of passion or fulfillment.
Gavin Newsom
So think about that. So I'm not going to get into the merits of all the stupid shit he says, other than to say there is a problem right now and it's with young men. Right. And all of the data shows that young men are having a problem because they're unable to handle the success of women and other minorities and marginalized groups being on equal footing as them. And there's a little whiplash problem that they're dealing with. I don't want to get into all of that. That's not what this is about. I want to get into Gavin Newsom saying several things in this podcast that I'm not going to play for you because it's insulting to your intelligence. But one of the things he says, he looks at Charlie Kirk and he said, talks about his faith and he goes, and I respect the hell out of your faith. You know how Gavin Newsom does. And I'm going to tell you about Charlie Kirk's faith. Initially, when Kirk started the Turning Point, he was. He criticized the evangelical movement and then he was arguing for secular secularism. Since then he has reversed this stance because he realized all the money is in the grift that is evangelical Christianity and that you can go into these evangelical churches that are big, big stadium sized places. And you can, you can get followers and indoctrinate people into your politics so it's more profitable and easier to wash people. And Charlie Kirk learned this very easily. So his faith is nothing short of performative for profit. He rails against, you just saw women. He rails against the LGBTQ+ movement, and he also bust people to the January 6th insurrection. And he now believes. Kirk now believes that we are in the end of times and is one of these rapture preppers and believes in the spiritual warfare. But yet Gavin Newsom respects the hell out of his faith. And this is a man, Gavin Newsom, who was the mayor of San Francisco. And I remember when I was a young liberal, late 20s, I would watch Bill Maher during the George W. Bush era, and I felt so isolated in Oklahoma because everybody's just so Republican and Christian. And so I remember seeing a young Gavin Newsom, a white hetero male, speaking about gay people having the right to marry. And at the time, they didn't have the right to marry. And I'm a decorator, and I've always had a ton of gay friends. And, and I was like, wow, this guy is going to be president one day. This is incredible. So to watch this face plant and watch him harm the LGBTQ plus community the way he has is so worrisome for me and our producer, Kylie. Some friends of theirs that are two lesbians live in Oklahoma that got married recently, they're not influencers. They don't have huge Instagram followings, are receiving really homophobic dms like, fuck you F A G G O T. I hope you die, I hope you rot. And I want you to know this, Gavin Newsom, the message I just told you about, that's not happening in a vacuum. The Charlie Kirk saying, all that stuff about women. We can't tweet anymore. We can't go on Twitter anymore. We don't talk about it that much, but we get these horrible death threats and these horrible messages because Twitter is not a safe place for women or for gay people or marginalized because of people like Elon Musk and because of people like Charlie Kirk. And we expect people like you to fucking have a backbone and stand up for us, and instead you sit down and basically give him a blowjob. Are you kidding me? Are you serious right now? It's just. And you've been on our podcast, and I, I, I used to respect the hell out of you, but right now, all across this country, people are getting bullied for being women. People are getting bullied from being gay. Because this isn't the golden era. This is the age of emboldenment. And you sitting down with him and sitting there saying, give me advice further emboldens these hateful, evil, diabolical people that are MAGA Republicans. This is a swing and a miss, and in my opinion, it is political suicide. Shame on you for turning your back on women and shame on you for turning your back on the LGBTQ plus community. That is disgraceful. It is deplorable. It is really sick. It is a really sick thing that you did.
Unknown Commentator
I couldn't agree more because in our conversation with Gavin Newsom, he was such an advocate and an ally for the advocate do that every time for the LGBTQIA+ community. And to see him do this, I think it further makes these people feel marginalized, and it makes those communities feel marginalized and unsafe. And he of all people should know that and do better. And I mean, as of right now, this just. I cannot imagine him being able to recover from this. This was such a bad call.
Gavin Newsom
What they're thinking is, and you can, you can play the tape through, they're thinking, okay, when Obama won, he originally, when he campaigned, there was this big anti gay marriage movement and Obama said he opposed it, and then he evolved on it. The situation is so different because Obama was just like a green. He had one Senate term. I mean, he basically ascend so quickly. Gavin Newsome has decades of being on the record as being an ally for the LGBTQ + community. And I think this is just the biggest face plant I have seen. And when the Democrats sit down and start appeasing Nazis like this, and that's what this MAGA movement is. It is a Nazi movement. This is just like, basically, in my opinion, opinion, you're sitting down with a Hitler propagandist. There's no difference. There's no daylight between that. This is a very serious moment, and this is a time for people to unapologetically stand up for democracy. And that means democracy for everyone. And that's what Democrats stand for. Or to do. Appease, Be an appeaser. Appease the Nazis. But this is pathetic. But I want to leave you all with this because sometimes these news reports are so depressing. I have long thought that maga's numbers have been completely inflated. If you look at the tail end of the election, Trump couldn't fill stadiums. He moved his inauguration from outdoors to indoors because he, his ego couldn't handle the optics of another, you know, limp dick crowd size. And so here we have Barack Obama who goes to a Clippers game a couple nights ago and watch this standing ovation. What I have to say to maga, maga Congress people that want to change the Constitution so that Trump can run for a third term, do it. Yep. I double dog dare you do it. Let's go.
Unknown Commentator
Yeah. Barack Obama all day long, twice on Sunday for the third term.
Gavin Newsom
All right. Subscribe to our channel and we'll see you all later.
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IHIP News Episode Summary: "Did Gavin Newsom Just Nuke His Political Career!!"
Release Date: March 8, 2025
Hosts: Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan
Title: Did Gavin Newsom Just Nuke His Political Career!!
In this provocative episode of IHIP News, hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan delve deep into California Governor Gavin Newsom's controversial decision to launch a new podcast. The episode, titled "Did Gavin Newsom Just Nuke His Political Career!!," scrutinizes Newsom's choice to feature Charlie Kirk—a figure often criticized for his right-wing views—as his inaugural guest. The hosts employ their characteristic comedic yet incisive style to unpack the potential ramifications of this move on Newsom's standing within progressive circles and his broader political trajectory.
The episode opens with a scathing critique of Newsom's latest political maneuver. Jennifer and Angie express dismay over Newsom’s decision to start a podcast, particularly spotlighting his selection of Charlie Kirk as the first guest.
Notable Quote:
The hosts argue that inviting a figure like Kirk—whom they label as "racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic"—is a strategic blunder that undermines Newsom's progressive credentials.
The transcript highlights a simulated or hypothetical conversation between Newsom and Charlie Kirk, revealing the contentious dynamics of their interaction.
Key Points Discussed:
Strategic Retreat vs. Persistent Engagement: Kirk criticizes Democratic strategies, suggesting a temporary withdrawal before making a decisive comeback. Newsom counters by labeling this approach as "pathetic" and likens the MAGA movement to "a Nazi movement."
Impact on Marginalized Communities: The discussion underscores the real-world consequences of such political alliances, emphasizing increased hostility towards women and the LGBTQ+ community. The hosts highlight how Newsom's actions embolden harmful rhetoric and social divisiveness.
Notable Quotes:
[03:51] Unknown Commentator: "Honestly, when this first came out, I thought that it was AI... This was such a strategic error. It was weak."
[05:24] Gavin Newsom: "There's a lot of father issues there... More young women need to get married at a younger age and start having kids."
[10:26] Unknown Commentator: "This just makes these people feel marginalized, and it makes those communities feel marginalized and unsafe."
Jennifer and Angie critically assess how Newsom's actions diverge from his long-standing support for progressive causes, particularly LGBTQ+ rights.
Highlights:
Historical Contrast: The hosts reminisce about a younger, more progressive Newsom advocating for gay marriage, contrasting it sharply with his current stance, which they argue now harms marginalized communities.
Failure to Stand Against Hate: They condemn Newsom for not using his platform to challenge Charlie Kirk’s harmful rhetoric, suggesting that by inviting him, Newsom is inadvertently supporting intolerance and bigotry.
Notable Quotes:
[05:51] Gavin Newsom: "So think about that. So I'm not going to get into the merits of all the stupid shit he says..."
[13:26] Gavin Newsom: "It's just. And you've been on our podcast, and I, I, I used to respect the hell out of you, but right now..."
The hosts speculate on the long-term consequences of Newsom's decision, suggesting it could irreparably damage his political aspirations.
Key Points:
Loss of Trust Among Progressives: By aligning with Kirk, Newsom risks alienating his base, particularly younger and more progressive voters who expect unwavering support for marginalized groups.
Strengthening of Opponents: This move may provide ammunition for his political adversaries, framing Newsom as hypocritical and out of touch with core progressive values.
Notable Quotes:
[10:59] Gavin Newsom: "This is just a very serious moment, and this is a time for people to unapologetically stand up for democracy."
[13:22] Unknown Commentator: "I cannot imagine him being able to recover from this. This was such a bad call."
Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan conclude the episode by asserting that Gavin Newsom's decision to host Charlie Kirk on his new podcast is a critical misstep that could potentially end his political career. They emphasize the importance of consistency and courage in leadership, especially in defending the rights and dignity of marginalized communities. The episode serves as a cautionary tale about political strategy and the delicate balance leaders must maintain between outreach and ideological integrity.
Strategic Error: Hosting Charlie Kirk is viewed as a significant blunder that undermines Newsom's progressive stance.
Impact on Marginalized Communities: Newsom’s actions are seen as emboldening hate and increasing societal divisions.
Political Consequences: The move could lead to a loss of support among key voter demographics and provide leverage for political opponents.
Call for Accountability: The hosts urge Newsom to realign with his progressive principles to restore trust and effectively lead.
Note: This summary is based on a fictional transcript provided for analytical purposes and does not represent real events or statements made by Gavin Newsom, Charlie Kirk, Jennifer Welch, or Angie Sullivan.