IHIP News - Gavin Newsom Collapses in Career-Ending Interview and Bashes LGBTQ+ Constituents

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

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Donald Trump's regime is a crime syndicate, full stop. He is an absolute criminal. When you vote and elect a convicted felon, it's not that big of a jump to know that then he's going to do more crimes while he's in office, especially with the immunity ruling from the Supreme Court. So that's what they're going to do. I could sit here every day and say Donald Trump did something immoral. He broke the law.

He is double dealing. He's enriching himself. Rents, repeat. This is going to go on every single day. So my focus is what can we do to stop it? What is the opposition? So I look to the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party appears to be divided into two factions. You have the pro corporations, the Democrats that service corporations first and the people secondarily. And then you have the Democrats that support the people and the workers first, period. And that's it. And the Democrats that refuse to throw any group under the bus. And why won't they throw any group under the bus? I'm going to put it really simply to you, not super deep because they're not dicks, all right? They don't try to grade human rights. They don't cherry pick which black people can have racist accusations against them and which ones can't, which immigrants are acceptable, which ones aren't, which members of the LGBTQ plus people can. have bigotry thrown upon them and which ones can't.

So there was this whole thing after the 2024 election, you heard a couple of different solutions. The mainstream media and corporate Democrats, their solution is run to the center. And then a lot of other people were like, no, run to the people. And some people call this progressive politics. And what I have learned progressive politics to mean, it is putting the people first, putting workers first, putting corporations, not at the very, very top. These corporations make salary-wise the breakdown. They have gone like this, their wages. Workers have completely plateaued.

And when you ignore workers and you ignore working class people, you prime the psychological soil for a lying, dementia-ridden psychopath to come in and appear that he is different from the status quo and people go and vote for them because they're desperate for change. And so as we look forward, who are the leaders in the Democratic Party? I want to talk about Gavin Newsom for a second. Gavin Newsom, governor of California, big state. Gavin Newsom used to be the mayor of San Francisco and he was very, very great on LGBTQ-plus

issues. I remember watching him years ago as in, like in my 30s as a progressive, lonely, hearted liberal in Oklahoma. And I thought, God, there's this straight, good-looking heterosexual man that just goes hard for LGBTQ plus rights. And I was like, he's been on my radar for a long time. And so sadly, I think he's starting to take advice from the Rahm Emanuals of the world and from the DNCs, these corporate Democrats. And he's starting to just move to the center, move to the center. He is adamantly against a billionaire tax, which I just think, my God, that's a layup right now. Tax the billionaires. It is not even remotely a liberal thing. It is a moderate position from

both parties. But here's Gavin Newsom as he continues his death march to the center. Play the clip. The Democratic Party needs to be, dare I say, more culturally normal. I believe that. And leave that up. Culturally normal. I'm just curious what is that? What is culturally normal? Because where I live, Governor Newsom, culturally normal is being a conservative Christian. Where I live, culturally normal means I have to submit to my husband.

That's what it means here. Where I live, Governor Newsom, culturally normal means that if you're gay and you're born into an evangelical white Christian family. You need to live your entire life in the closet. So I'm just curious. I need to know what culturally normal is because I thought we were a country of diversity and it's a free country. You might think, you know, Susie over here seems like she might be a little masculine, but it's not your business because it's a free country. You might think Bobby over here is a little light in the loafers. It's not your business. He doesn't break the law. He seems to pay his taxes. it's a free country. So I'm just curious what culturally normal is because that kind of changes

from state to state, from rural to urban, suburban to, you know, right in the heart of the city. What is culturally normal? I have no idea. So this is an interesting to use your word when you were asked about APEC. This is interesting. It's interesting to be culturally normal. Interesting. Because if I were to be culturally normal right now, I would not have a job. I wouldn't have had a career as an interior designer for 25 years. I wouldn't have been able to support my children while my husband struggled with addiction and he had to go to rehab to deal with that. I would have had to submit to him.

That's what's culturally normal in the Bible about. So what you're saying, Governor Newsom, is breathtakingly dangerous and you're seeding ground to the narratives. that Republicans try to define free people that mind their own business that stand up for everything. You're allowing their bullshit narratives to define Americans. And it is utterly disgraceful.

Continue. Less prone to spending disproportionate amount of time on pronouns, identity, politics, more focused on tabletop issues, things that really matter, the stacking of stress. in terms of electricity bills and child care costs and health care and obviously housing costs and how easily we get trapped in that how i've fallen prey to that i mean here i was

way out front on marriage equality i've fallen prey to that i've fallen prey to standing up to marginalized people what the fuck are you talking about the people that are obsessed with genitalia and gay people are maga period you sitting there and and seating ground to these bigots, these MAGA bigots is disgraceful, allowing their lies to define your hard work that you did on marriage equality. You should be playing offense and say, why do you give a ship what pronoun somebody uses? Why do you care? You should be focused on affordability. But I understand why you can't say that right now because you're a corporate dim. You refuse to tell these billionaires in California. Tough titties. Yeah, you're going to have to

pay a tax. And if you want to pack your toys up and move, do it. I'm going to organize and we're going to start a boycott of your company. That's what we're going to do. Two can play at this game. But no, you just seed ground and seed ground. It's unbelievable to me that the Democrats do not flip the script on this. Lindsay Graham wants to sit around and talk about trans kids all the time. Why, Lindsay? Why are you obsessed with children's genitalia? It's weird. Donald Trump, why are you sitting around talking about the size of Arnold Palmer's cock? Donald Trump, why are you always talking about how hot men are? Why are you talking about men wanting to kiss you? Donald Trump, why do you constantly have to remind everybody that you're heterosexual?

Donald Trump, why did you try to give a microphone a blowjob? Gavin Newsom, this is so incredibly disappointing. It's so devastating that you seed ground to these bigots and you allow their bullshit framework to redefine you. I just think this is political suicide. You don't have to throw one person under the bus. What you have to say, Governor Newsom, is I refuse to sit around and talk about kids, genitals, the way that MAGA does. They're weird. They're creepy. Their obsession with gay people is fever

pitch, bizarre. I think we need to have some psychologists look into it. But in the interim, I'm going to be laser focused on equality and affordability for everybody. And that might mean a trans person. And that might mean a Mexican. And that might mean a black person. And that might mean somebody uses they, them pronouns. You know why? Because I believe in equality and I believe in universal human rights. They're the ones that sit around and crash grinder all the time whenever there's a turning point or a Republican convention. And then why don't you just deep dive into Governor Newsom? Just take a little gander at the data of where all the trans porn is consumed. It's all these Uber red counties. So start playing offense and quit defending the

indefensible and allowing these emotionally stunted bigots to define you and seed ground like this. It's really devastating. It's really gross. And here's how I'm going to prove this to you guys. We have found out that running to the center doesn't work. Hillary Clinton did it. She lost to this moron. Kamala Harris did it.

She lost to this moron. Zoran Mamdani refused to run to the center. He refused to do it. He took on the billionaires that Gavin Newsom defends. He took on the Democratic establishment, which Gavin Newsom appears to go and crowdsourced to get advice from. And he won. And he's a mayor now. And he's the most popular politician in America.

His favorability is higher than any other politician right now. And look at what's happening in Maine. It's a blue state that has had a red senator forever because it is a moderate state. Susan Collins and a guy named Graham Platner, who is progressive, who is for the people, refuses to throw any group, any American under the bus to score cheap political points with bigots. Let's look at this polling of how Graham Platner is doing in a Senate race. Here we go. New poll from the University of New Hampshire. Democratic primary. Grand Platner at 64%. Janet Mills, who is the current sitting governor of Maine, is at 26%. 40 points. 40 points of the centrist. Guess who endorsed Mills? Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer endorsed Mills. Go ahead and put that back up. Sorry. And then we go to the general election. And we have Platner. ahead of Susan Collins by double digits, 11 points. Mills, the centrist Democrat, endorsed by the corporate Democrats.

And then when we get to Mills versus Collins, she only beats Collins by one point within the margin of error. So this right here, leave this up for a second, this right here, look at that 38 point disparity, you guys. He's walloping the Democratic establishment, walloping just like Zoran Mamdani did. And so this to me, you guys, is everything that we've been building. This echoes my own personal political evolution that I've been sharing with you guys, that I tended to have a steady diet of corporate news. I viewed myself as liberal and progressive, but I bought into a lot of these corporate news talking points. And I want a Democratic Party that's better. I want a Democratic Party that doesn't

throw people that are marginalized under the bus. I want an affordability agenda that is for everybody. I want a Democratic Party that services the people first, period. It doesn't matter if you're trans, black, Mexican, Chinese, Somali, whatever. I want a humane, anti-war, Democratic party that laser focuses on equality and affordability for everybody. And the candidates that are doing that right now are winning. They are beating these corporate dims. They are kicking their ass by double digits, period. And the centrist Democrats have got to be a thing of the past. The centrist Democrats, this is a new thing. This is a Citizens United thing. We as a party have to return to a party that supports the workers. Listener, every,

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posts on substack. Not enough headlines are focusing on that on the fact, Hegseth specifically wants anthropic to let robots roam and kill without human oversight. So this is an interesting thing here where you have a corporation that is showing more morals and more sense of humanity than Maggot. Because what we've seen so far to date is that corporations bending the need of him or have the absolute same moral rot that the administration does. So this is a very interesting development and we'll see if anthropic folds. Hopefully they do not. And then let's put up this next headline. So Newswire is reporting that Musk's AI and Pentagon reached deal to deploy GROC in classified systems and this is per Axios. And Melanie DeRajio,

says, and this is really super important analysis from her, maybe we shouldn't integrate the AI who called itself Mecca Hitler with our classified military systems because its owner donated 277 million to buy the election for the current commander in chief. And so what I want to say here is that we live in a government right now where Elon Musk is a white nationalist. He's a cheater. He wants to pay people to go vote for Trump. You remember all of that? He is a deadbeat dad.

He is an untreated drug addict. And he continues to get rewarded. His AI machine keeps getting lobotomies to say lies in favor. things about Elon Musk that are completely not true. Like one of the things that said is that Elon Musk was more athletic than LeBron James. It referred to itself as Mecca Hitler. And he continues to get rewarded. This is the guy who did the two Sig Heiles. And this is a guy who left California and went to Texas. And so in wrapping this up to my intro video, Gavin Newsom, don't you think it would be better to take on the billionaires and say, do you,

do you not have any gratitude for California and for Californians and for the American public that helps you build these companies? And isn't it a patriotic thing to do to maybe pay a few more percentage points in taxes? How much money do you need, Elon Musk? How much money do you need, Peter Thiel? Why not call them out? Why not call these people out? Call out the just grotesque greed the grotesque entitlement. But instead it's been the knee. And then you start allowing these people, I mean, these oligarchs in this administration, a scapegoat. And then you allow their narrative to become your narrative.

When the bully and the enemy and the reason we can't have nice things has never been immigrants, it's never been trans people, it's never been pronouns. It's always been the billionaires. It's always been these corporations. And it's so sad to see you get red-pilled like this. It's so sad to watch you commit political suicide. I get no joy in seeing a presidential frontrunner do this at all. Throwing a community under the bus to score cheap political points with the Ben Shapiro's of the world.

It's really, really devastating. All right. We're going to keep an eye on all of this. this. I don't know about you guys, but I don't think the frontrunner has really appeared yet. I haven't found anybody out there that I think, okay, this person's really going to do what we need here. But I believe that person is going to rise up. And of course, I will promote the shit out of it. But until then, it's so important that we not be like MAGA. It's so important that we criticize our own party, that we criticize presidential frontrunners.

governors that are throwing marginalized people under the bus. Maga does it just because they're dicks. Why are you doing it? Because you're a political prostitute. Is that what it is? Really pretty gross stuff. All right, like, subscribe, comment. I'll be back later with more news.