Arnold Schwarzenegger Comes Off the Bench
With a Big Warning to Newsom on Gerrymandering
Red State,
by
Nick Arama
Original Article
Posted By: 4250Luis,
8/16/2025 3:59:48 AM
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had an embarrassing rally on Thursday to promote his push for redistricting in his state to help the Democrats.
In addition to not having many people at the rally, Newsom was also upstaged by the Border Patrol making arrests nearby. He flipped out, assuming it was meant as a message to him. He was also upset that someone sent him a "Trump 2028" hat, which he claimed was evidence that President Donald Trump was going to run again. It was a festival of Trump Derangement Syndrome on display.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/16/2025 4:50:39 AM (No. 1991130)
Thank you, Arnold! I had forgotten the Independent Redistricting Committee was one of his reforms. The last few days I'd been wondering how California was ever blessed with such a law. TK and I attended one of their public meetings during the Tea Party days. It was standing room only.
More people are getting fed up with the disastrous results of Dim governing. The Palisades and Altadena fires woke up many sleepwalkers. I believe MAGA is California bound!
MCGA - Make California Golden Again
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cThree 8/16/2025 6:37:58 AM (No. 1991144)
Not much love for Arnold in the comments section at Red State, and I'd bet the same would be shown to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the other prominent figure entering the fray. These same commenters would show the same impatience toward California Independents who oppose Gavin on Westunt, no doubt.
But it's those Independents who will smack down this Gavin circus. They resoundingly oppose his move, and most remember voting for the present law. Twice, I think.
We complain about libs and Dems who never come to their senses, and we complain about Republicans who do.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cThree 8/16/2025 6:39:59 AM (No. 1991148)
"Westunt" somehow came out of "this stunt." Sorry.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/16/2025 7:00:57 AM (No. 1991159)
The day is coming soon when Hairgel will be seeing a MAGA hat behind every tree and people smirking at him at every dem event because they just don't understand him. The straight jacket is not too far behind.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 8/16/2025 7:09:34 AM (No. 1991166)
The Arnold quote I cite most often is "It's not a tumor!" from Kindergarten Cop. But in the case of California, Newsom is a tumor which has metastasized and caused massive damage to the state and needs to be cut out. If only Californians had enough sense to seek the necessary treatment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/16/2025 7:14:16 AM (No. 1991167)
It's really fun to play with your food before you gobble it up. Newsom has proven to be particularly sensitive to exposure as a poseur and he is easy to trigger with nonsense. Really, an anonymously sent Trump 2028 hat is all it takes. We should send him some "Space aliens are coming for YOU!" hats and see how he responds.
Of course, most Leftists are easily triggered but they don't have easy access to the public stage to demonstrate how stupid they are. It is also funny that the media, if they were clear thinking, would realize what an embarrassment Newsom is and look for more vibrant and realistics images to support Leftism. Yet, they can't seem to do that. Big theater is more important to them than robust content and, of course, the pickings are rather slim for Leftists that can do more than rant.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mean Gene 8/16/2025 7:22:51 AM (No. 1991172)
It's one thing to want to add a bunch more Dem districts in CA.
But it's a minimum of $200 MILLION to actually put the special election for it on a ballot and see if the voters want it.
Gavin might think thru how all that cash could be better spent than on a publicity stunt.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 8/16/2025 7:32:04 AM (No. 1991176)
MCNSA= Make California New Spain Again. Might as well make it official.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 8/16/2025 7:53:23 AM (No. 1991186)
Every time I see Gavin Newsom on TV I think of the Carly Simon song "You're So Vain".
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Which did more damage to our country, the China virus or Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Remember when it was only Bush Derangement Syndrome? Those were the days…..
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 8/16/2025 10:32:19 AM (No. 1991256)
Gerrymandering is wrong on so many levels, including pronunciation. (Eldridge Gerry was pronounced with a hard "G".) Gerrymandering is preemptive corruption of the voting process to secure advantages for one party or group, and it's fundamentally un-american no matter who does it. I hope Schwarzenegger does come out fighting against it.
I would be perfectly happy to start from scratch and lay an honest automatic grid across the country that drew simple squares of various sizes containing the requisite voting populations until all the edges touched. Tweak it around the edges as needed. I'm sure a clever computer programmer could make such a program and make it completely honest.
I don't know which party such a program would benefit more, and I don't care. However, as with all things involving the Democrat party, preemptive corruption has already happened. Republicans either redistrict along partisan lines to correct that corruption, or they lose.
It's another of the many ways Democrats ruin this country: They force us to to do things that make us more like them to--partisan and unprincipled.
And that I will not forgive.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franco 8/16/2025 11:06:13 AM (No. 1991273)
Those here who are remembering "the governator" fondly should recall that he endorsed Kamala Harris for President less than a year ago. Is that someone you really want to rely upon to be the face of opposition to Gov. Hairgel now? If I were a voter in CA, I wouldn't.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/16/2025 11:57:21 AM (No. 1991296)
This is great news! The CA Republicans will be led ny men with power and guts. In the past they tried to rely on Tom McClintock, a cipher who was sure in his own safe gerrymmandered district, He only cared about himself, had no policies,formed no alliances. Except for his vote he was useless. He may be dead now. He seemed to be then. Arnold saved the siate from crooked Gray Davis (recall) and Cruz Bustemante, the Dem replacement candidate, who represented the Mexican faction that promoted the erroneous belief that CA still belonged Mexico. You go, Arnold!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/16/2025 12:23:01 PM (No. 1991308)
So slick hair plans to slice and dice the state to get rid of the few remaining Republican seats. What about democracy, tyranny, and all that?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/16/2025 12:27:21 PM (No. 1991310)
Re #12, I read his "endorsement" at X. His take on Trump was wrong, as was his take on Kamala. His take on Gavin is right on and his advocacy for the redistricting commission is as well. His track record in CA is very strong as the showed in the past that he could gain support across party lines. There is also a large No Party Preference voter faction (not called Independents in CA) that went his way in the past. Thanks for your sincere concern, but he'll be fine.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
franco 8/16/2025 12:47:43 PM (No. 1991320)
#15: Well, if you live there, it's your problem and your prerogative. Good luck with that. If you will recall, however, in 2006 he folded like a cheap suit when faced with a spendthrift Assembly that had no intention of going on the spending diet he had in mind. [And that's one of the reasons CA is now $20 billion in debt in a state with a state constitution that demands balanced budgets.] To be fair to the governator, any governor in that spot would have been in a real bind. He couldn't stop a veto override, but he should still have publicly opposed the Aseembly and he could have begun a statewide crusade against all of them and campaigned against the re-election of each and every one of them. Instead he tucked tail, served out his term, and faded away. I don't call that leadership. Cowardice is more like it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/16/2025 12:53:45 PM (No. 1991323)
The state is BROKE. Running billion dollar deficits with no end in sight. They have massive expenses coming to cover their over-generous pensions (the $100,000+ per year folks are growing rapidly) which are paid FIRST, then they pay other obligations.
So, yes, all sorts of programs will be cut to pay these pension obligations.
Democrats are over represented in nearly every state in the country mostly due to gerrymandering.
Even Rahm Immanuel agrees Illinois is gerrymandered which he help shape.
There is no emergency in CA to warrant a special election they can't afford.
Texas already had the precedent when Democrats pushed a redistricting in the mid-1990's which altered Control of the House of Representatives.
Democrats can't win over people based on their ideas they need specially constructed districts.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 8/16/2025 12:59:11 PM (No. 1991331)
Arnold married into the Dems, he won't do much.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hershey 8/16/2025 1:01:51 PM (No. 1991335)
Whomever it was should have sent him a huge Trump 2028 suppository....un lubricated...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 8/16/2025 5:00:06 PM (No. 1991437)
I'm grateful to Arnold Schwarzenegger for a lot of things that have nothing to do with politics. Terminator 2 is a fantastic movie, for example. He also is an immigrant who, while bodybuilding professionally, was interviewed by Roger Ebert. At the time, Ebert noticed he was reading a book for his MBA class. And this in a second language he re-learned as an adult.
At the height of his fame, he was buttonholed by a reporter about doing a promotion for national review, at that time still a conservative magazine and anathema to liberal journalists. Instead of turning tail, he leaned into it and said (insert governator voice here): "No, I don't worry about being a conservative reading National Review in hollywood. I like being one of the only people who knows what's really going on."
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