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California Governor Gavin Newsom must adhere to the phrase “all
publicity is good publicity” which suggests that any attention, whether positive or negative, is better than being ignored.

Californians try to ignore the annoying, narcissistic governor, so he’s reaching out beyond his usual purview, doing podcasts with myriad
big-name podcasters. But these interviews don’t make Newsom appear
genuine or sincere. His track record as governor is shameful.

And while Newsom keeps his PR flaks busy remaking his image, he really
should be feeling some level of embarrassment or shame. But that takes a healthy psyche, as embarrassment is supposed to make people feel badly
about their mistakes, so that they learn not to repeat the error.
Feeling shame is a “self-conscious emotion” together with pride, embarrassment, jealousy and guilt are emotions Gavin Newsom appears to
be lacking.

On a recent podcast, host Shawn Ryan asked Gov. Gavin Newsom about his
handling of the pandemic, and his decisions to lock down the entire
state of California during the Covid flu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBq3Q_fHSU

“What are some of the things during Covid that maybe were a mistake?”
Ryan asked the governor. Newsom said “we were worried it was airborne,
and about people being outside,” as if that ludicrous notion wasn’t dispelled almost as quickly as it was proposed. “And we realized then,
after the fact, ‘what the hell were we doing shutting down the beaches,
and open areas?'” Newsom said.

California was locked down for three years, not three months. California Governor Gavin Newsom was the first governor in the nation to order a
state fully locked down, and he extended out mask mandates and school
and business lockdowns beyond all other states.

“Do you think some of the restrictions you put in place created a mental health crisis… by being locked up, by not being outdoors?” Ryan asked. “Oh c’mon man, of course,” Newsom replied, dislocating his shoulder to pat himself on the back. His new line is “we didn’t know.”

Gavin is now attempting to impersonate a compassionate human being and
moderate politician.

He had no real answers for Shawn Ryan. Newsom flailed his jazz hands and
talked in circles until Ryan moved on to another topic.

Newsom locked down the entire state of California for three years,
nearly 1,095 days, claiming it was because of the Covid flu. Newsom
ordered “non-essential” businesses to shut down. Newsom ordered day
cares, K-12 schools and colleges and universities shut down. He ordered churches to shut down. He shut down restaurants, and even cancelled
outdoor dining. California looked as if a nuclear bomb had dropped and
wiped out the population but left the infrastructure standing.

Newsom had mountains of sand dumped into skate parks and playgrounds so
kids could not use the equipment, and had basketball nets removed.

Newsom ordered indoor and outdoor masking and mandated the covid shot on
babies and children, and all Californians, and then extorted those who
wanted to go back to school and work with the shot – no shot, no work or school.

For the first time in history, healthy people were locked down by
government tyrants like Gavin Newsom during the Covid flu.

Governor Newsom had Californians arrested for attempting to take an
outdoor run. He arrested a lone paddle-boarder in Southern California
for daring to visit an empty beach.

Governor Gavin Newsom’s lockdowns made little or no difference – other
than to destroy years of kids’ education and kill off as many of the state’s small businesses as possible.

We know who the chief California tyrant is… he told us who he was every
day during the COVID outbreak with his freakish television appearances demanding we “stay safe, stay home,” “shelter-in-place” for our own good… while he moved about freely; while his life went on relatively normally, vacationing, dining out with friends, traveling.

Gov. Newsom’s actions were undemocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, oppressive and tyrannical.

As the lockdowns wore on, Gov. Newsom was increasingly diabolical,
offering up end dates to the masking and lockdowns, only to either fully retract those claiming “positive tests were up,” or to attach a caveat – like the unvaccinated would have to continue to wear masks indefinitely.

In June 2021, Gov. Newsom announced he would end his COVID stay-at-home
order, business lockdowns, and school closures after more than 15
months… but he also said a vaccination verification system would be
coming in short order – which is to say, he wanted Californians to use
an electronic vaccine passport to gain entrance to businesses, work and
events.

The purpose of such an electronic system was to “allow” businesses to confirm that their customers had received their shots. And those who had
not taken a vaccine would be required to continue to wear masks, as a
form of a “Scarlet Letter.”

Newsom’s lifting of mask mandates for vaccinated individuals was just
another cruel strategy to coerce compliance of the vaccination. “Get the vaccine and you can have your freedom; you can go back to normal,” was
the plan.

As it turned out, California wasn’t really reopening in 2020, 2021 or
even 2022, as the governor frequently teased in his daily television
updates. And that was because the state was still under a statewide
declaration of emergency, meaning Newsom retained his emergency
authority to alter or suspend state laws – indefinitely. Which he did
with great frequency.

As the Totalitarian Tyrant in Chief, Gov. Newsom issued 58 executive
orders – “one-man-rule” decrees – during his statewide lockdown.

By 2023, California had lost 35.9 percent of “non-essential” businesses, which remained closed after being ordered to. More than one-third of restaurants permanently closed. Many owners were unable to pay their
bills or feed their families while Home Depot, Costco and Walmart
remained open, deemed “essential” by Gov. Newsom.

And Gov. Newsom was caught living his best life, dining at the French
Laundry in Napa, enjoying multiple vacations out of the country while he
locked down Californians. In Feb. 2022 he starred in “MaskGate” at the
NFC Championship game in Los Angeles – despite his own face mask
mandates.

And after Gavin Newsom was caught going maskless at that birthday party
in 2020 for his political advisor Jason Kinney at the Michelin-starred
French Laundry restaurant in Yountville, he said, “I want to apologize
to you because I need to preach and practice, not just preach and not
practice, and I’ve done my best to do that. We’re all human. We all fall short sometimes.”

It was evident that Gov. Newsom didn’t feel unsafe dining in a
restaurant during the covid flu, and all of his lockdowns and mandates
were a lie.

The definition of a Tyrant is someone who dictates and oppresses. As Sociopath.” Corolla asked the governor to do one good thing for the
people of California, just one thing that would help the average
Californian and taxpayer, “then you can assassinate Trump verbally,” referring to Newsom’s Trump Derangement Syndrome.

“That he has designs on world domination is insane.”

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/shawn-ryan-podcast-gavin-newsom-trie s-to-falsify-his-3-years-of-covid-lockdowns/

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