Knucklehead Of The Week: Californians Are Fleeing In Record Numbers, But Gavin Newsom Has This Solution
by PF WhalenJuly 2, 2022
The similarities between California Governor Gavin “Gruesome” Newsom and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are quite remarkable. They both spend far too much time focusing on their hair and looking in the mirror. They’re both entirely self-absorbed and are thoroughly impressed with themselves. And they’re both completely incompetent, far-left clowns with virtually no morals. Newsom and Trudeau are truly despicable human beings. They also appear to be in a competition to see who’s the biggest knucklehead. For the time being, Mr. Newsom takes that honor by breaking a tie between himself and Trudeau, as Newsom makes his second appearance in our weekly tribute to stupidity. Winner: Californians are fleeing the state for greener, safer, and less expensive pastures at an incredible rate, and their governor’s solution is to offer them free abortions on demand.
If you haven’t been to California since January 2019, when Gavin Newsom took control of the statehouse in Sacramento, your point of reference is skewed. The Golden State has changed dramatically in the past three years. Crime, particularly violent crime, is skyrocketing thanks to Newsom’s and other leftists’ bizarre soft-on-crime policies. The homelessness crisis has reached a point that even the New York Times is calling it a “desperate and dangerous” situation.
And, of course, it’s outrageously expensive to live in California. According to National Review, California “has the highest sales-tax rate, the highest gasoline-tax rate, the fourth-highest income-tax collections per capita, and the fifth-highest overall state-and-local tax burden.” Not surprisingly, Californians are rejecting the advice of Jed Clampett’s kinfolk, and they’re loading up their trucks and they’re leaving Beverly… Hills, that is.
Companies like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and Palantir have said “hell, no” and have moved their operations to other states. Billionaires such as Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Joe Lonsdale have also said goodbye. And an astonishing overall number of Californians have fled the state, with almost 650,000 hitting the road in 2020, and another 360,000 leaving last year. That’s math that even Gavin Newsom could do, with a nice round number of approximately one million folks leaving in just two years under his stewardship.
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