The Josh Innes Show - Gavin Newsom Is Right

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

Gavin Newsom is 100% correct about how left wing people need to approach issues that are ultimately unimportant to the majority of America. Here's the issue....you can't put the Genie back in the bottle. Plus, James Carville is a maniac and I love him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And Gavin Newsom, of course, is left-wing guy, governor in California and all that. That's a dated reference. But let me see if I got the right audio here. So Gavin Newsom talking about the different things. He's doing something that is not a smart move because, I mean, it is a smart move, but it's never going to work because the genie's out of the bottle, as we say on here all the time. Like, there's no putting the – you can't put the genie back in the bottle. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's impossible, right?

You cannot do it. And one of those things is talking about how everything is revolving around identity, politics, race, gender, sexual orientation, transgender, LGBTQIA plus, whatever. You can't do it. But my man said something that's gotten them a lot of backlash. And it's the right idea. It's just never going to work because you're too in bed with this weird ideology. But here's this audio. No doubt that the Democratic Party needs to be, dare I say.

more culturally normal. I believe that. 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. So I understand this from both and the receiving end of this and on the, no. All right. So, let's think about that.

He is correct. That the thing that's the biggest detriment to left-wing people, to the left-wing ideology, or to really, let's just say Democrat, right? Because I think that left-wing and right-wing, alt-wing and alt-right, like, those are the terms for the most outrageous, bizarre people, the most extreme of those groups, right? but there are leftist, whatever. Then they're just Democrats, right? And then there are the right-wing people,

and then there are just, you know, Republicans. And what you end up with here, and the biggest issue you're running into and why the people have just gone off the reservation and why people like Bill Maher, who is a hardcore liberal person, goes off on this group of people. Why James Carville, who, by the way,

and this audio is old, I don't know why it's all over social media now, but like James Carville went off on Ilya and I guess when it's gone viral again because of what she did at the state of the union, I guess. But like this shit with Carville is bonkers because like I'm listening to this guy. And everything he does seems unhinged. But then I'll listen to him and I'll go, yes, you're an 80 year old dude and you look angry and creepy and you do it in this weird Louisiana way where you're really fucking scary.

But he said something that I'm like, he understands it too. And by the way, James Carville is a political strategist. He helped get Bill Clinton elected. He and George Stephanopoulos helped get Bill Clinton elected. If you haven't seen it, watch the documentary, and I don't remember what the damn documentary is called. But there was a documentary from the early 90s that the movie primary colors, I think, was loosely based on. But about trying to get Bill Clinton elected. This guy is a strategist.

His job just wins. Winning is the only thing that matters stupid. Like, that is James Carville. His objective is to get a guy elected. And when he's saying this shit, it's like, you guys have lost the fucking map here. You guys have lost the plot. Lady, why don't you just get out to Democratic Party? Honestly, start your own movement.

All right, let's do the simple math. Probably 69%. I don't know. We call Jim Gerson or Jim Gerson, or Jeff Garon. Roughly 69% of people are going to vote in November, maybe more. Let's do 70 for just round mayor are going to be white. Of that 48%, maybe a little more are going to be mayor. So that's roughly, let's just call it 33 and a third percent of the entire.

election. And I think this was from last year, like maybe last May. So you're, you're heading towards the, I guess it would have been last May, right, that you were heading towards the election here. Well, let's just run against them because that's so goddamn smart. All right. So now we're going to have a campaign, but a progressive left against white men who vote about a third of everybody that votes in an election. Why don't you, lady, start your own party. And then when it's over, you're you want to caucus with the Democrats, fine. We agree with a lot of things that you do, but we don't believe we ought to be running against white men.

In fact, we don't think we ought to be running against any gender, any ethnic group, any race, any religion, or anything else. God damn, these people are just helpless. They cannot be helped. There's nothing you can do to help them. They don't want to be helped. And if they had any guts that start their own goddamn political party and get out of ours. Bingo. And that's older audio.

That's, you know, a year or so old audio, and it's kind of resurfacing because James Carville is everywhere today because of the State of the Union thing and because he was calling Trump a fat fuck. And I mean, look, the guy, like, I'm actually fascinated by watching him because he seems so fucking unhinged that, like, but the thing is, it's wild when someone's super unhinged. And then they say things and you're like, okay. Like, does that make me unhinged? It's like when we would watch the Boosie videos and Boosie would be talking about, like,

transgender shit and you're like, this sounds like I should be offended by this or I should be like, well, that's a little much. But then I'm like, I fucking agree with Bousie. Does that make me fucking crazy too? Like, that's kind of how it is when I listen to James Carville. And by the way, his job was to get people elected. Political strategist, campaign manager type guy. How do we get elected? How do we get Bill Clinton elected? The object is not to tell the truth. The object is to be able to lie to people enough to get them to vote for you. That's all this is political strategy. It's campaigning, right? That's all this shit is. And like, that kind of goes back to the Newsom thing, which is like we can't run on, you know, issues that most people don't give a shit about.

Most people's lives are not impacted by pronouns. Most people's lives are not impacted by whether or not a guy who is, you know, transitioning to a woman wants to be called she. Right? Like, that's not what most people's lives are about. Most people's lives are about how do I fucking neat. Like some guy was arguing with me on on Twitter yesterday. It might have been the same guy. No, I don't think it was the same guy because I kept quote tweeting that guy and I was like, tell me

what I am, tell me what I care about. And some guy was like, well, you probably when you vote, like, you probably voted for whatever was best for you. Like, yeah, that's what everybody votes on. And I'm not talking about the assholes that go to social media. I want you to know that they care about the rainbow coalitions. I'm not the rainbow coalition, but you get

like the rainbow warriors out there. and the people that are in the alphabet community and all this shit. They'll tell you they care about all that shit because they want to get the clout and they want to get the recognition and they want you to know that they're progressive and they want you to know that you're on their side. But at the end of the day, nobody votes based on what's best for everybody else and anybody who tells you they do is full of shit and they're just chasing clout. Do you think that like gay people when they go to the polls?

Do you think when gay people go to the polls and they go vote? Do you think they're like, you know, I'm pretty comfortable. with my life, let me vote on what's best for some straight white guy. No, they're going to vote for people who benefit them the most. That's how the fucking world works. Do you think when somebody's running for student body president or homecoming king or queen and there's votes for it? Do you think they go in and vote for the other person? No, they don't. And why? Because people care about themselves and they should care about themselves. And that's how that works.

So people vote based on what benefits them the most. So if your whole talking point, and Carville is dead on balls accurate, he's a fucking nutbag, but he's dead on balls accurate. And I'm intrigued by my life. I interviewed him once. Before I knew anything about politics at all, because nobody cared about politics in 2009, 2010, because it wasn't dominating the sports. I met the guy in Miami at the Super Bowl and interviewed him.

I didn't know a fucking thing, except that he was from Louisiana and he wore wacky shirt. and he was campaigning for the Super Bowl to come back to New Orleans, which it was, I think, two, three years later. But he's not wrong. He might be a psycho, and he might have lost his fucking mind, but he's not wrong. And Gavin Newsom's not wrong either. He's like, I'm never going to win because I can't win over. He can get the left-wing people because the left-wing people are going to have no other choice.

Like, let's say he's the candidate. They have no choice. They can't vote for the right-wing guy because the right-wing guys are Nazis, right? So they have to vote for him. He needs the Nazis to vote for him. And how can the Nazis vote for him? Well, for starters, a lot of those Nazis are straight white men, right? Do you think they want to vote for a party that tells them their pieces of shit all the time?

No. And I think I've been saying that somehow I'm fucking smarter than so many people that like this is their life to look at politics. And then, of course, people will rip you when you say this and they like, oh, look, poor pitiful white guy. No, I'm telling you from a strategy standpoint. You want to know why Hillary didn't fucking win? Because Hillary told a bunch of people they were fucking deplorables and it ignited something. Do you want to know why Kamala and these people don't win?

Because they spend too much time focusing on shit that doesn't matter for people that they're not going to lose anyway. What other option? If you're a gay person, who the fuck are you going to vote for? If you're a transgender person, if you're all these people that they pander to, and your options are the Nazis on the right side, or the left-wing people who you're taking?

You think they're ever going to vote for right-wing people, the most extreme of these people? No. How is it that I see this? The sports radio slash talks up fucking Pat Benatar Records now, guy, how do I know this? How is that possible? But it's common sense.

This is common-sense shit. And Gavin Newsom's not wrong. Because Gavin Newsom, in theory, could talk to somebody like me. Someone who's not, like, maniacal, right wing guy. And I'm not saying all right wing people are maniacal, but I'm saying like hardcore right wing dude who's like, you know, red till I'm dead guy. I could be had by a guy like Gavin Newsom. And Gavin Newsom gets that the objective in life can't be to just sit here

and pander to people that are alphabet warriors or pander to these type of people or people that care about pronouns or people that are going to lose their fucking minds because the hockey team laughed at Donald Trump's joke about the way. women's hockey team or that they showed up and shook his fucking hand. He knows and anybody with a brain knows that you're never going to win over those people if you're hopping on board with these people. You're never going to win over those right wing people are the moderate people that you need to win an election. Never.

And they know that. And they know that maybe the right wing people are actually going to throw somebody out there that maybe is, you know, because there's a lot of right wing people that are turned off by Trump. I'm turned off by Trump. I do not like him. That's the beauty of all this. Like I'm amused by. him and I voted for him once, but I watched this guy and I'm like, you're, you're, dude, I feel like he's a fucking farce most of the time.

But like, if they ever throw somebody out there that's kind of a normal right wing person, a lot of people, like that I guarantee you there's a lot of right wing people who are excited about the prospect of finally voting for someone that isn't Trump, they're probably fucking thrilled. They had to because he's all they had. And they weren't going to vote for Kamala, who by the way, hates white guys and hates the cops and everybody else. and they're not going to vote for any of these other wackos who hate white people and hate the cops. It's a horrible strategy. And they're never going to vote for those people. So if either one of these sides ever kind of gets it right, great. Here's the problem.

You've spent now decades, not decades, but like really in earnest, you've spent over a decade telling people that if they're gay, if they're transgender, if they're minority, if there anything, if there anything that's not white, straight male, you've told them that they are special. You've told them that straight white males are trying to end them. You've told them that your pronouns are important. You've told them that whose dick you suck is important. You've told them that if you scissor, you are important, and there's a bunch of people out there that are out to get you. That is the enemy. They are white men, and they hate you.

So if you spent a decade telling people this, how exactly are you going to try to take that back from them now? You've empowered these people. And you're part, you acknowledged it, Gavin Newsom, you're part of the problem. You've empowered this group of people. But now you're going to take that power away from them and say, oh, you're just like everybody else. Let's not focus on pronouns and let's not focus on being able to shower in the ladies' locker room. And let's not focus on Black History Month or let's not focus on gay history month.

Or let's not focus on things that at the end of the day aren't impacting people's lives. and let's focus on the real issues like, you know, affordability for rent and everything. I'm with you. Rock on, brother. You know who's not going to be with you? The people who you've empowered and you've told are special for the last decade plus. You want to tell me that I'm great for a decade and then out of the blue you're like, turns out your shit doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, they're just going to go, yeah, I'm with you.

You're right. I'm not special. Okay, dokey, chief. Okay, dokey. See what else I have on here. I think this is the other audio from, this is the other audio about how we had a 960 SAT. Lady, why don't you just get out?

Oh, no, that's back to our man, Carville. I love that guy. He's fucking nuts. And like his videos are so deranged and so fucking unhinged now. They're extremely watchable. I'm guessing this video that's on Twitter most recently from Carville has to be a recent one. I think this was from today.

Dude, this one where he's calling Trump a fat sack of shit. shit and he's going after. Dude, this is comedy shit. And he looked like the cameras, like right in his fucking face. And like he's lecturing him like he's actually talking to Donald Trump. Dude, this shit is electric.

Give me more of this. You know what he reminds me of? He reminds me of a network when I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore when the guy just finally lost his fucking mind. And that became a schick. Every day he'd go on the news and then faint. Like, this is James Carville. I have a personal

message for Donald John Trump. And you sit still, you son of a bitch, when I'm telling you, just going to tell you right where you are. This guy is such a fucking old man and it's great. Like he's 80. This dude's in his 80s. The thing is, though, a lot of the shit he says, I'm like, yeah, you're right. But then he's, it's like Boosie.

We compared it to Boosie earlier. When Boosie gets on there and he's like, man, tell them all transigent demand to get the fuck out the pool, stop swimming with them ladies and them churins, man. And I'm like, it sounds like it's offensive. But then I'm like, I fucking agree with it. Now, I have a personal message for Donald John Trump. And you sit still, you son of a bitch, when I'm telling you, this is going to tell you right way you are, you fat, sorry, sack of shit.

This is great. This is outstanding entertainment. People hate you. Now, let me give you. And that's not wrong, a lot do. And I'm not just saying this because I don't like you. I'm saying this because I'm telling you what's happening to you right now. And get ready to tell you what's going. First of all, everybody is stabbing you in the back.

You can trust no one. I saw the story today where, of course, the Pentagon, because your boy, Pete, he can't control shit, okay? It was already back leaking. And he's going to keep doing all. I'm not going to play the whole thing. Then there hits another point where, like, he resets and points back at the beginning and says, no, don't you get up, you sack of shit.

Talk to the New York Times. And they're going to talk to everybody else, just like your own staff, right? Susie Wiles. She hates you. That's effort. Sherry. Already told you that. They're all leaking like crazy. They're all wondering what's going to happen to the next job.

They don't give a shit about you. Okay? They really don't. No, you can't trust anyone. Trust no. Okay, maybe Stephen Miller. Let's see if I can find where he points. I told you not to get up again.

You sack of shit. I told you to listen to me. You know, if I said, still, Trump, I'll tell you to sit. Let's tell what I'm talking about to, you son of a bitch. Okay? When you're a loser, you lose. Man, you are a loser, a big time loser. Oh, God.

It's spectacular. I love this fucking guy. He's a hoot. And the thing is, he was a brilliant political strategist. Oh, is there a document? I don't know how old his Twitter is. Let's see when the last time he tweeted. Well, in February.

But in his bio, Carville, winning is everything stupid, now streaming on Max. I'll watch that. But again, he was a brilliant political strategy. He got Clinton elected. And again, the shit he said about Illinois more, yeah. You're like, totally, dude. Rock on. Like, you can't win continuing to tell people that white people are the worst.

It's a horrible strategy. You're never going to win those people. Oh, this documentary is from 2024. That looks good. Dude, I'll watch the shit out of that documentary, though, from Carville. Anyway, that said, fascinating. But your boy is not wrong. Your boy Gavin Newsom.

They get it. The smart people understand it. They get it. They understand what's happening here. Like, they know that you're never going to win playing up the pronouns and everything's race, everything's gender, everything's gay straight, everything's black, white. And you're never going to win telling white people that they're the biggest piece of. a shit on the planet. He's not wrong. The issue is you're never going to get the toothpaste back into the tube. That's the problem you're going to run into. So anyway, more to come.