"NEWSOM'S "EFF IT' MOMENT - AND HOW IT COULD SAVE AMERICA - 6.12.25"

[orleans]

https://omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/newsoms-eff-it-moment-and-saving-america-6-12-25

GAVIN NEWSOM'S "EFF-IT" MOMENT: A week ago he was dropping a bothsidesist podcast with Dr Phil🤦🏼‍♂️

Since? He's proposed a tax strike, dared Trump's goons to arrest him, given a watershed "eff-it" speech.

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— Keith Olbermann (@olbermann.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T04:16:54.459Z

SPECIAL COMMENT: Gavin Newsom has reached his "EFF IT" moment - and it might prove to be the moment we began to save the democracy.

If you MISSED Newsom’s speech (and trust me, I did, its only failure was its rollout) I am going to play the whole thing at the end of the first segment because it was that good. Eight minutes of escalating but suppressed righteous indignation bordering on rage – eight minutes building towards Eff-It - of which I think I am still the Official Exclusive East Coast Distributor. I think I KNOW my eight-minute suppressed righteous indignation speeches and this was outstanding.

Newsom alone has realized that all you have to do is stop playing Trump's version of this game, and introduce him to a NEW version in which the Mike Tyson Law applies - and he will have no chance. And Mike Tyson’s law – is that everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” As you listen to the speech, my connoisseur’s advice is to listen to the slow burn and the rapidly decreasing time between each metaphorical shot Newsom takes. It’s not just the FIRST grown-up speech responding to Trump’s evil. It’s a really good one. And it ends with… Trump getting metaphorically punched in the face.

But consider the larger context. Newsom’s emergence – this is a stupid analogy but it somehow works – was like a caterpillar emerging as a gigantic butterfly, a butterfly equipped with nukes, a stealth bomber butterfly – and THAT was last Friday with his threat to crash Trump by withholding all of California’s federal taxes, all 692 billion of it – THE economic civil war game-ender I have been advocating out here in the wilderness for a decade. Then he says “wait, I’m not finished yet” and he goes back inside the cocoon for a minute and comes out even LARGER with MORE nukes and now he is THE Resistance, THE Democratic Party, and THE hope to save America.

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[Klarkashton]

1. How about just plain "Get ICE the fuck out of LA"

[synni]

2. Yeah, that would work

Trump will obey immediately. After all, he's so cooperative....

[Klarkashton]

4. I take it the subject didn't come up. That's sad.

He said a lot of other stuff that trump obviously isn't going to do so why not that?

[C Moon]

5. More Newsom hate, when he's leading a charge against this fascist crap from trump?

[BannonsLiver]

12. He's not going to win the DU primary .

Which might be a good sign for his overall chances. I’m enjoying the fact he’s moved into the de facto leader of the opposition spot after all the hate he got. It’s delicious.

[Skittles]

6. YES

like RUSSIA, GET THE FUCK OUT OF UKRAINE

[Pachamama]

9. Get ICE the fuck out of CA

Out of our streets, out of our businesses, out of our schools, out of our homes, out of our fields….

Go back Nazis to hole you crawled out of

[Auggie]

10. He said that, without the vulgarity. Support Democrats.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. I like to think of them as "Popeye moments."

That point in the older cartoons when, after being brutalized and/or humiliated, he would say "That's all I can stands; I can't stands no more!" The Popeye fanfare plays, he whips out his squeezable can of spinach, eats it all in one gulp, and then proceeds to whoop some ass.

The young Krasnov might have possibly benefitted by having a can of whoop-ass occasionally opened on him in his formative years.

[Skittles]

7. yesssssssssss

[William769]

8. K&R!

[niyad]

11. KNR