Gavin Newsom sucks. He is the slimy, smarmy Governor of California. By any measure he is a failure. He has been doing all he can to raise his stature and visibility for a Presidential run in 2028, which really isn’t a good idea. Increased visibility means increased scrutiny. As I mentioned already, Newsom is a failure. PJ on X has complied a handy list for us:
Governor Gavin Newsom’s top 20 failures in California
1. Homelessness Crisis: Over 180,000 unsheltered despite $24 billion spent since 2019.
2. Housing Shortfall: Promised 3.5 million new units by 2025, but construction lags severely.
3. Rising Crime: 13% crime increase in 2022, linked to Proposition 47 and 57 weakening enforcement.
4. High Gas Prices: Taxes nearing $2 per gallon by 2026, burdening residents.
5. Business Exodus: Companies fleeing due to high taxes and regulations, doubling relocation rates.
6. Wildfire Mismanagement: Only 11,399 acres treated for prevention versus claimed 90,000.
7. Budget Deficits: Projected $20–30 billion annual deficits from 2026, driven by 90% spending increase.
8. Water Crisis Mismanagement: Despite claims of addressing California’s water issues, Newsom’s policies have failed to resolve chronic shortages, with 2021–2022 droughts exposing inadequate infrastructure planning; only 50% of requested water was delivered to farmers in 2022, crippling agriculture.
9. Neglect of Water Infrastructure: Newsom scaled back ambitious water projects like the Delta Conveyance Tunnel, critical for modernizing the State Water Project, leaving California reliant on outdated systems unable to handle drought or population growth.
10. High-Speed Rail Cost Overruns: The California High-Speed Rail, initially budgeted at $33 billion in 2008, has ballooned to over $135 billion with no operational tracks laid after 16 years, earning the moniker “train to nowhere.”
11. Train to Nowhere Mismanagement: The project, meant to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco, is now reduced to a 171-mile Central Valley segment (Merced to Bakersfield) with no clear path to completion, criticized as a “boondoggle” with $15.7 billion spent for minimal progress.
12. Funding Misallocation: Newsom has defended continued funding for the rail despite a $12 billion state budget shortfall, diverting resources from critical needs like water infrastructure while suing to restore $4 billion in federal funds pulled due to project delays.
13. Environmental and Economic Disconnect: The rail project’s environmental benefits are questionable, as it duplicates an existing Amtrak route with low ridership potential, while water shortages continue to harm Central Valley communities and agriculture.
14. Lack of Transparency: Newsom’s administration has been criticized for poor oversight, with the rail project lacking a comprehensive financing plan and facing lawsuits over land acquisition and utility relocation failures, further delaying progress and wasting resources.
15. Proposed Police Funding Cuts: In 2024, Newsom’s budget proposed a 1.6% reduction in the California Department of Justice’s funding, including $10 million from the Division of Law Enforcement and $97 million from trial court operations, amid a $27.6–$45 billion deficit, criticized as defunding police while crime rates, like San Francisco’s 8,686 thefts in 2024, remain high. His office denied direct local police cuts, claiming a 33% increase in DOJ funding since 2019.
16. Promotion of Crisis Counselors: In 2020, Newsom advocated reimagining policing by shifting roles like mental health and addiction response to crisis counselors and social workers, but implementation has been limited, with no clear statewide program success reported, leaving gaps in addressing homelessness and mental health crises.
17. Prison Closures and Reduced Capacity: Newsom has closed three state prisons and multiple prison yards since 2019, with plans to deactivate 4,600 beds across 13 facilities to save $80 million, citing a declining prison population (from 130,000 in 2019 to 93,000 in 2024). Critics argue this weakens incarceration and public safety, especially with rising crime rates.
18. California Model for Prison Reform: Newsom’s “California Model” aims to reform prisons with rehabilitation-focused facilities, like a new San Quentin center, but critics, including abolitionist groups, call it a “near enemy” of progress, costing $25 million annually while failing to address systemic issues like violence and poor conditions in facilities like the California Rehabilitation Center.
19. Failure to Address Crime Surge: Despite claims of investing $1.1 billion in law enforcement since 2019, violent crime rose 27% from 2013 to 2022, and retail thefts have driven businesses out, with critics linking Newsom’s policies, including prison closures and reduced law enforcement funding, to a “vicious cycle” of weakened public safety.
20. Veto of Prison Capacity Bill: In 2023, Newsom vetoed a bill to reduce prison capacity by maintaining empty beds, prioritizing departmental control over cost savings, which could have freed billions for housing or mental health, further fueling criticism of misplaced priorities amid a budget crisis.
And remember Newsom dining at the French Laundry without a mask during COVID while demanding everyone else wear one?
Newsom has been critical of Trump using the National Guard for crime prevention but was quick on the draw when using the Guard to rein in non-believers
Remember on 11/11 Gov. Newsom Extends California’s COVID State Of Emergency For 3rd Time.
Closed down small businesses & kept corporations open
Closed down schools but his kids in a private school with no restrictions
Unleashed the National guard on Californians and allowed for… pic.twitter.com/8qssOEaMU0— Denise Aguilar (@InformedMama209) June 15, 2025
Newsom has a couple of retards writing X posts for him.
Which one wrote this gem.. pic.twitter.com/5gC1qV52kP
— Gigs (@GigiHSVARK) August 19, 2025
You will notice the mimicry of Trump’s style of using all caps.
His latest scheme is threatening the redistrict the state to eliminate several GOP seats, but California does want any part of that.
I’ve had several liberals try to explain to me how Newsome trying to mimic Trump is really funny and I just don’t get it.
This is the actual joke. Californians don’t want him gerrymandering any further: pic.twitter.com/JY9dfMqTKV
— Dromedarius (@DromedariusGB) August 15, 2025
This should be enough to close the book on Newsom but if it’s not a recent event may have crashed it fatally.
An eighteen-wheeler drive by two Sikhs decided to carve a U-turn in the middle of a highway cutting across the median. While they were committing this offence, a car slammed into the trailer, killing 3 Americans.
Unbelievable footage of the Florida wreck. Why haven’t names been released? Probably because they can’t pronounce them. More foreigners driving trucks. More lives lost! pic.twitter.com/ezCHPd2Zye
— Bonehead Truckers (@boneheadtruckrs) August 15, 2025
He wasn’t just any Sikh. The driver, Harjinder Singh, is an illegal alien who gained entry to the country in 2018.
Singh was able to secure a CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) in California, a state that hands out driver’s licenses to illegals like candy.
Not only was Singh an illegal alien, but he also failed an English fluency and road sign tests.
The Indian immigrant truck driver accused of killing three people in a crash when he made an illegal U-turn across a Florida highway badly flunked English fluency and road sign tests following the smash-up, the US Department of Transportation revealed.
Harjinder Singh answered just two of 12 questions correctly when being tested for English language proficiency by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after the April 12 crash.
And when asked to read highway signs and their meanings, Singh could only identify one out of four signs shown to him, the US Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.
Despite these failures, Singh – who is believed to have entered the US illegally in 2018 — had been granted commercial driver’s licenses in California and Washington state.
California apparently has a school for aspiring illegal alien Indian truck drivers.
It’s the CDL schools. There’s literally one in California named Punjab Truck Driving School. It’s run by Indians. They’re helping Indians submit false paperwork to get their CDLs.
https://t.co/Jvp31ijLXp pic.twitter.com/Gb0Inz11ZS— Lauren G (@lbc360) August 17, 2025
That’s a great comfort. These deaths are on Newsom, a narcissistic reprobate with no conscience and incapable of shame. It’s something to recall when the Presidential season arrives.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
Governor Nuisance wants to replace the 2nd Amendment while he panders to the Illegal Aliens and allows for violent felons to roam the Streets for new victims
CA has 53 (or is it 52?) Congressional districts based on population and gerrymandering.
38% of votes in CA are for Republicans.
Mathematics dictates that should translate into 19 or 20 GOP majority districts.
BUT only 9 districts are Republican.
Now Gavin wants to over-rule a law about when and how redistricting is done to reduce those 9 GOP majority districts to only 4.
The voters realize this is petty, dictatorial as well as expensive ($200 MILLION just to try to do it.)
But the real question is, can Gavin be reined in?
Voters in Bellflower and Downey disagree with you (I live elsewhere; but have friend sin both). They will , if given the chance, vote FOR his plan! Long Beach Mayor also says it a good plan!
e won twice!
The best of the best the Democrats have to offer is nothing but a poor imitation of Trump. They don’t understand Trump’s popularity because it’s based on Trump’s authenticity and his successes, neither of which the Democrats possess. So, they just try to imitate his “style”. They still believe the reason they can’t win elections is because they don’t lie well enough.
You, I think, have insulted Don by saying “imitation of Trump”!
GWB’s friends n media say that; but they are LIARS! AS IS HE
A POOR imitation of Trump. They can only mimic some of his personality, they can’t duplicate his love of this nation, his policies, his dedication to the Constitution or his courage under fire. They can’t match his leadership, they can only mock him with their cheap quasi-duplication.
But they won’t gain anything by it because Trump is FOR America and they are everything that is WRONG with America.
Right
Governor Nuisance wants to make California a Haven for Illegal Aliens(Future Democrat Voters and Supporters)while Disarming us his Bullet Train in nowhere