Gavin Newsom Torches Trumpers W/ Messaging That Wins

The Democrat who's set the standard by trolling Trump by using his own tactics against him, mocks & makes mincemeat of MAGA, yet again

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When Your Gift Comes Wrapped In You Suck

California Governor Gavin Newsom, one of the most effective and prolific Democrats at hitting back—and forward—at MAGA denizens of Dumbpr*ckistan, has done it again.

Thankfully, Newsom gets it.

He gets you don’t fight abuse of power with conciliatory gestures, don’t respond to masked, unidentified, warrant-lacking goons breaking car windows with arguments over health care subsidies.

He continues to see subtlety as the sin it is in these times.

Unlike Democratic congressional leadership, when Trump demands Dems do the Texas-two-step, Newsom’s response is simple.

Like Harrison Ford’s Jack Ryan in Clear And Present Danger, a character himself who rejects the entreaties of a corrupt President busy embalming our Constitution to fight an illegal foreign war:

I’m sorry Mr. President, I don’t dance.

So Newsom had already set up a “merch store” as part of his non-stop operation to engage in psychological warfare vs Trump and his MAGA midges that hits them right where it hurts.

He doesn’t go after their intelligence, as so many past Democrats have, because he knows they don’t care about that. But question their manhood? Independence? Point out how their support for Trump bankrupted their business?

Now we’re talking!

There are a bunch of products in the store. This one was my favorite, for its trolling MAGAs on multiple levels:

The reason I said “was,” is…they have a whole new product line just in!

Newsom has released and promised to send a “very pragmatic gift” per HuffPost, to some very specific drawers-sniffing, morally-doddering Americans who still worship the dementia-soaked, deity of incapacity at 1600 PA Avenue.

In a not-so-sweet token of indignation for all those so often bending the knee to Trump they’ve torn miniscus, Newsom came up with a cheeky “f*k you,” wrapped in merchandise packaging.

And ever so helpful for, say, Lindsey Graham or Ted Cruz.

Knee Pads! 😆

Newsom laid it out in his tweet to the tired and tender CEOs, university presidents and MAGA electeds.

You, the real put-upons, like nine-figure-banking CEOs who’ve grown so very weary of getting that write-off for their second—but not third!—corporate jet.

And those seven-figure presidential masters of academia.

They hold the nice cocktail parties with elite, self-important prigs whacking it to theories of abundance while students have to sell a kidney to attend their illustrious university.

And those special, ever-ambitious cads from podunk towns and lazy strip malls who go to DC (or their state capital) once they’ve distinguished themselves as possessing the most potent Montezuma’s-Revenge morality worthy of MAGA.

I.e. Republican elected officials. And appointed. And their their little Nazi elves.

More on the latter in a moment. Here’s what Newsom had to say to all of them:

Right. On.

Newsom’s opened the pallet of political mockery, and it’s slightly more aggressive cousin, trolling, and dipped in a brush. A much needed Picasso of an underused—at least among Democrats—art form.

Not only is it a legit instrument of policy and public relations, but an absolute must when dealing with the corrupt, clownish and cruel-based organisms of MAGAtopia.

Mockery communicates to those listening that its object is not to be taken seriously; weak, a joke. If you grant the putrid, performative prats respect, more Americans will see them as deserving of it.

You do that, hell, you may as well do the same for blow up dolls, expanding rashes, crash test dummies, the movie Gigli, Eric Trump’s dentist, Christian Nationalism, ketamine and Kash Patel’s eyes every time they actually work in tandem.

What Newsom is doing, is sending one message, and sending it loud and clear: “If you’re going to kneel for this malodorous sod, we’re gonna tell everyone you’re on your knees.”

A strategic jab in a larger rhetorical conflict with Trump-erect autocrats.

Now, you may laugh. Good!

But the symbolism is serious. It’s about power, sycophancy and spectacle. Newsom’s laying down a marker: blind, pathetic loyalty to Trump is not a badge of honor, but a scarlet letter.

He’s daring them to deny it. To have the stones to express any independence from Trump. Because we all know how that ends…a 2am Truth Social harangue rife with mis-spellings, mental vacations and old-man smell.

But worst of all—though only slightly worse than the old man smell—the threats emanating from a golden crapper deep within the bowels of BedBug-Alcatraz-a-Lago.

Look, we didn’t invent this dumb political world. Right wing and corporate media did that. But we either fight back on the playing field as it exists and win, or act like we’re above it and get used to Trump’s White House telling us what time it’s ok to pee.

Those are the choices, my friends. And I’m with Gavin.

His team gets the trolling and mockery flow into a broader strategy. He’s making the moments he messages against MAGA resonate, to make the “f*k you gift” more than a gag, but part of a narrative.

Rendering it a viral, cultural signifier of how we should see—and mock—those he targets.

It leaves the MAGA mob looking like exactly who they are—the ones who were always told an empty seat next to anyone normal on the school bus was “taken.”

In this age of spectacle politics, my friends, a permanent negative association can be a campaign killer.

And Newsom’s making it clear, if you kneel, they will come...they, being a well-oiled mockery machine ready to expose and destroy you politically.

Not for the fun of it (though it is fun!), but for the know-nothing, Trumpers you’ve become.