It’s an open secret, at least in some circles, that Cali Governor Nephew-of-Nancy-Pelosi, better known as Gavin Newsom, aka Graven Newscum, aka Willie Brown’s Boy Toy, aka the Prince Of Hair Gel, is gunning for POTUS 2024. He’s up against a lot of competition, particularly the Jim Henson Muppet Company which recently snatched the contact for Joe Biden’s deepfakes away from Meta/Facebook* after it recently tested positive for cocaine, which is why he’s already launched social-media salvos against Florida’s DeSantis and Texas’ Greg Abbott… predictable GOP contestants.
*This is not true. AFAIK. But yes, the trending headline du jour is if Biden isn’t being deepfaked then his body language says cocaine. They forgot to make it blink.
Hair Gel is also trying to simultaneously end firearm production and pwn the Repukelicans with a new anti-gun law that parallels Texas’ sue-the-abortionist law. If it works then it could be a centerpiece of legislation to launch his campaign with while also enabling gloating at Approved Enemies. Pretty sweet.
It’s not going to work, though.
In fact, it’s gonna fail so badly that even gun-banners are already complaining about it! But perhaps not for reasons you’d expect. Crack a cold one and enjoy some realpolitik.
California’s New Gun Bill Is Bad Law and Dumb Politics
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By Alex Berke (probably not male), 27 July 2022
Last Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1327, a law that allows individuals to sue Californians for selling or attempting to sell particular types of guns, as well as for selling weapons to anyone under the age of 21.
This bill is a legislative trolling of Texas, which last year passed SB 8, a bill that now allows citizens to sue Texans who “aid and abet” abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
“If they are going to use this framework to put women’s lives at risk, we are going to use it to save people’s lives here in the state of California. That’s the spirit, the principle, behind this law,” Newsom said in announcing SB 1327 becoming law.
Heh, liberals still can’t meme. Let me show you what I see.
A conservative reading that would be upset at the prospect of being bankrupted by a million petty lawsuits. That’s because conservatives are system-oriented.
But a Leftist reading that? What he sees, is exactly why the Texas law worked so well. He sees the little people being given a role in politics. Just as the Texas law gave Joe Sixpack the chance to call down the heat upon Planned Parenthood, this California law would let a nobody become a Somebody.
Leftism is the politics of envy. It is not a cooperative endeavor. Its endgame is a hive of faceless social insects ruled by a tiny cabal of sociopaths. They aren’t going to get there by opening the field to freelance mercenaries. If one of those nobodies actually won such a lawsuit, they’d gain fame and wealth without first becoming a controlled asset. Free agents are a far worse threat than Glock surviving to pay taxes.
There’s not one single shark in the California tank that wants to see this law actually be utilized. They are sharks. Parasites. Their economics are negative-sum, focused on cashing out before a collapse. The very last thing Leftist leaders want to do is set a new place at the inner table, earned by merit!
What you would expect to see instead on the Left, is an organized, large-scale assault by multiple legal firms, which would not possibly create a single, big winner. And that is what we actually saw in the Sandy Hook civil case against Remington, which ran until the bad guys “won” when the insurance companies… not Remington itself… agreed to a settlement.
But let’s continue! There’s more to be learned.
The day that the Supreme Court allowed SB 8 to remain in effect, abortion services in Texas almost completely ceased. In contrast, gun sellers in California have not closed their doors. The NRA has not even released a statement in response to the law.
The logic behind the laws may be similar, but a clear difference between SB 1327 and SB 8 has emerged: Texas won.
Women respond to fear. The possibility of being sued was enough to affect their behavior. Conservatives mostly being men, we are not threatpointed so easily.
This is not surprising. Progressives in general, including gun safety advocates, will not win by playing by the right’s rules—especially when the right’s rules are designed explicitly to accomplish their goal of cementing minority rule.
A fine piece of projection, that. He saw what I saw, but instead of admitting the truth, he blamed us for exactly the Leftist Leadership’s agenda: cementing minority rule. Excuse me, “democracy”.
Some have argued that Newsom is also trolling the Supreme Court, hoping that challenges to SB 1327 will force the conservative-dominated court to confront the mistake it made in allowing Texas’ “abortion bounty law” to stand—or at least to face its own partisan hypocrisy.
Newsom is trolling, yes, but in preparation for a power play. Conserving last week’s gains is Drudge work, if you catch my meaning.
But here’s the thing, Republicans don’t care if you think they’re hypocrites. They care about winning (and they are). The Supreme Court’s conservative majority doesn’t care what the public thinks. After the Dobbs opinion leaked in May, Justice Samuel Alito had an opportunity to respond to the public criticisms against him, but he did not make any substantive changes.
Projection again! Republicans obsess over whether they’re hypocrites. They live in terror of “you’re the real racist!” accusations. You could not ask for a more noble defeatist than a 20-year RNC veteran.
The Federalist Society spent 30 years laser-focused on creating the current 6-3 Supreme Court majority. The right-wing legal group succeeded, in large part, because in 2016 then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to hold hearings for Merrick Garland—nominated to the Supreme Court by then-President Barack Obama—in an election year. Four years later, McConnell had no compunction about fast-tracking hearings for a Trump nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, while votes had already been cast in the 2020 election.
I should do a post someday, on Garland managing the Oklahoma City bombing. What a small world it is at the top! Defeated for SCOTUS, he’s now US AG.
A semi-hidden organization laboring thirty years to undermine the judicial system? If we were talking about Leftists then thirty years ago would be about when the Clintons came along.
And those 30-year veterans wouldn’t be wanting any Johnnie-Come-Lately types to seize their victory, now would they? No wonder Congress resembles a necromancer convention.
No amount of punchy newspaper ads mocking McConnell for his hypocrisy changed the fact that 6-3 rule is cemented for decades barring extraordinary action. Sure, Gov. Newsom got to run his ad, unfortunately, it only illustrates what happens when we play by their rules.
A conservative might not realize the existential crisis that Leftists are having, because this isn’t just about abortion. They have lost control of Moscow. The highest authority is no longer Amenable! RvW will not amount to much from the perspective of Red America, but the disrespect shown towards the key sacrament of the Globalist Religion is… again, as I said at the start, the Left is all about centralizing. They don’t want a team effort, they don’t want to work within the existing System, they want an SCOTUS whose decisions… always Narrative-correct… cannot be challenged.
That is the Conservative’s Achilles Heel. “You have no appeals left within the System. It’s time to give up.”
All the attention Newsom has generated for the new law would be better directed toward building power for genuine change. Instead, Newsom is attempting to twist right-wing pretzel logic into a progressive purpose. This is dumb politics, and bad law.
Correct, because They are nothing like Us. We want to be peers of each other and servants of God (or at least, an objective standard). They want to be kings and pawns locked in eternal war over finite resources. Giving Normies a chance to act against feminists was genius. Giving Normies a chance to act against firearm companies is asking for a new, competent rival to emerge.
The Texas law that gifted rights to individuals to sue—even if they are not personally impacted by the alleged violation of the law—was rightly referred to as a “bounty hunter” provision, since the law empowered any pro-life Texan to sue [abortionists and their supporters], and to get paid for doing it!
Boom, there it is. Private citizen Joe got an opportunity to actually participate. Even to receive a material benefit.
It is essential to America’s legal system that in order to bring a lawsuit, you must have standing, or be personally impacted by the action you are alleging is unlawful. By providing standing to anyone who differs in opinion, SB 8 dangerously weaponized the law. Ironically, very few lawsuits were actually filed in Texas, since the very existence of the law accomplished its goals. At least until Dobbs was decided.
The Hive does not want everybody to cooperate. The Hive wants to command and be obeyed, with its violent goons locked up in jail until the Hive royalty generously lets them out again. Doing so maintains the pecking order of who has power and who has not. This drives law enforcement nuts… they call it “revolving door policing”… but the reason it’s a perennial thing is that reminds the pawns that their Elites can always lock that revolving door without notice. It’s a loyalty reinforcement mechanism.
A tactic that police could try against revolving-door, is assuring them… let’s assume, today, “them” means low-level riot arrestees… that charges will be dropped whether or not they call that special phone number they were given. In the short run, that’d be a bad look for police, but in the just-slightly longer run, the Elites will shit themselves when they see their minions skipping out of prison without their approval.
If nothing else, it’d be a fun way to get fired. “The Attorney General always lets them out so I just let them out myself to save him the paperwork. I have no idea why he’s so upset that I’m the one granting them their freedom instead of him. I would never call in that favor to get revenge on the guy who just demanded my termination.”
The anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life still took the opportunity to sue abortion funds. The judge in the case allowed them to exchange discovery before the group even filed its lawsuit. The executive director of the pro-abortion Texas Equal Access Fund and deputy director of the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity…
Sigh, hiding in plain sight.
…provided sworn affidavits stating that their organizations fund abortions “after the period in which cardiac activity is usually detectable,” opening the abortion funds up to potential lawsuits.
Conservative politics do BETTER when normal people are given real chances to participate. Marxist politics do WORSE because you don’t want the people being robbed to have a say about their being robbed.
(A lot of my tax money goes towards paying fat pensions, many of which were agreed upon before I was born. When did I agree to this?)
Also, because the slaves can’t pick the winner. You must realize that many people actively want to be a faceless minion in the service of a tyrant. It’s hypergamy! It’s the same instinct that makes women turn down happy marriages to ordinary men in order to be Chad’s alternating Thursday, except in religion instead of sexuality. Which as we Christians know from Genesis 1, are two very related topics.
There may still be interesting lawsuits brewing from gun safety advocates after the passage of SB 1327, but until the people who are making, selling, transporting or distributing illegal assault weapons and ghost guns are scared into ceasing their activities—SB 1327 won’t be as effective as SB 8.
Moving the goalposts in order to discourage support for the gun bill.
And that’s why Newsom’s legislative stunt is folly, and his efforts to help people in need of abortion rights or gun safety would be better spent on things that have a chance of actually affecting positing change.
Such as, presumably, blanket bans on firearms followed by State-level civil disobedience against the Supreme Court. That would be an example of why breakup is a bad solution to the convergence of institutions in America at this point. The breakup would establish a new “highest court” which if it starts out captured, will, at this point, be a near-vertical descent into tyranny and civil war.
Confusion over who is king, also works to the advantage of conservatives. We don’t need Elites bossing us around. We don’t wait for orders from Moscow. But the pawns are typically afraid to act on their own… they might accidentally violate the Narrative.
I am no stranger to the paradigms that form this asymmetrical war. I cannot connect your final point on what makes Hair Gel’s edict limp d* in nature.
Meaning, my point about breakup? The simplest way to see it is that “divide and conquer” is a classic Leftist strategy. Polarize the population against each other and then referee the conflicts.
But divide & conquer doesn’t work if the power inciting it cannot act as the referee and pick the winner. Granting universal standing to bring a lawsuit is a terrible idea for anybody with deep pockets… which is the Elites almost by definition. They would be empowering the general public, which is the exact opposite of their power centralization, and they would have only limited control about the fallout. And no Elite would get their ten percent of any victories.