So, in case you haven’t been following California Gov. Gavin Newsom — and heaven knows, you should try to avoid it if you can until he starts running for president in earnest — he’s still doing that whole impersonating-Donald-Trump-on-social-media thing where he writes posts all in caps like a smart aleck.

Someone on his campaign staff thinks it’s funny. I’m assuming Newsom must be in on it, even though he’s told us he can’t really read. (Another real thing that’s happened these past few months in Newsom-dom, for those of you who can avoidPatrick Bateman: He’s assured us hecan’t actually read a speechbecause of his dyslexia. This was supposed to make him relatable to black voters.Seriously.)

There are probably a few liberals with dim senses of humor who still get a giggle out of it. The rest of us find it tiresome.

Well, whatever. This usually isn’t a problem for anyone except those who get fed this idiot-bait by the algorithm so that we can be assured Newsom’s social media team is still playing that one note. However, it becomes a little more problematic when 1) Newsom is picking a fight with the most important podcaster in America and 2) he’s doing it at the same time he’s not only soft-launching his presidential campaign, but where the gubernatorial campaign in his state might go so sideways that a Democrat doesn’t end up in the general election.

In yet another all-caps pseudo-Trumpian rant, one of Newsom’s team responded to Joe Rogan calling Newsom a “f***ing con man” by calling him “LITTLE GUY” and “TOO CHICKEN” to have him on his podcast.

This comes after establishment favorite Rep. Eric Swalwell was forced to quit both the gubernatorial raceandCongress in the space of a week following sexual misconduct allegations. Since then, two Republicans have stayed at or near the top of California’s “jungle primary” for governor, in which only the top two candidates advance, regardless of party.

The untimely contretemps came after Rogan, aformer California resident who left for Texas in 2020, said that “nobody wants President Newsom” during a recent podcast.

“Nobody believes in that guy. That guy’s a f***ing con man,” Rogan said in the clip. “I mean, everything he did in California, from trying to mandate vaccines for kids when it was totally unnecessary to being caught out in public without a mask and lying about the fact that he was outdoors.”

Newsom, Rogan said, was simply the kind of old-school political huckster who didn’t work in an era where voters seem more attuned to authenticity.

“He’s just a politician, just a stone-cold, narrative-driven politician, you know, and nobody thinks he’s a real human. Whether you like Trump or not, whether you think he’s corrupt or not, that’s a human being,” Rogan said. “With Newsom, you get like this construct, this cardboard cutout of a person.”

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