By Stephen Kruiser - October 4, 2022

Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Darren rarely spoke of the unfortunate dung beetle incident that ended his occasionally drunken forays into entomology.

It’s only been four-and-a-half years since I left California and returned to my native Arizona. I had spent 25 years of my adult life in Los Angeles, along with four years in San Diego when I was a kid. There were a lot of things about California that I loved.

I don’t know if any of them exist anymore.

At CPAC earlier this year, I bumped into several of my L.A. friends from the old secret Hollywood conservative underground days. All had left California after I did. It was quite the ex-pat gathering.

The news out of California — and there’s been a lot of it already this week — is always creepy lately.

Take this example that Lincoln wrote about yesterday:

Newsom, in his never-ending quest to make California a post-apocalyptic wasteland of mob rule, Mad Max-style running battles, ritual cannibalism, mutant animals, and the adult version of Lord of the Flies, has signed AB-2098 into law, according to the Post Millennial. The law essentially penalizes physicians for mis- or disinformation when it comes to COVID-19.

Sigh. C’mon, Newsom. COVID-19 is so last year. Hell, it’s not even last year at this point. I thought we were all going to die of Monkeypox, or whatever the next scheduled public health conniption will be. Timing aside, the questionably Honorable Gavin Newsom just can’t leave anyone or anything alone.

Gavin Newsom is a full-on fascist. I was fortunate to end my time in California before he became governor. The thought of him in the White House is petrifying. He comes from the same San Francisco political toilet that’s given us Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi. People from the most radical part of an already radical state keep rising to power.

Athena wrote a post yesterday about another bill that’s truly disturbing:

California, the sickest state in the nation, has just taken it upon itself to entice unhappy American children to within its borders to be brainwashed, sterilized, and mutilated. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB-107 into law on Thursday, setting up California as a sanctuary state for minors seeking medical and psychological assistance in their delusional quest to become a member of the opposite sex. Now, once a confused or manipulated kid sets foot on the cursed California soil, the state can take “temporary emergency jurisdiction” over the minor “because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.”

SB-107 was introduced by ultra-LGBTQ Calif. Sen. Scott Wiener (heh) in August. “As so many states work to erase trans kids and criminalize their families, California must always have their backs,” spouted Wiener. ”California is forcefully pushing back against the anti-LGBTQ hatred spreading across parts of our nation. The rainbow wave is real, and it’s coming.” LOL okay.

They’re becoming very bold about coming for our children now. Dems used to prefer a slightly stealthier approach via taxpayer-funded public education. This is straight-up predatory police state stuff here.

While Newsom and his commie cronies in Sacramento are busy legislatively violating common sense and freedom, the streets in the big cities are being terrorized. We’ve been reading about businesses fleeing San Francisco because of the crime and the out-of-control homeless problem. My friend and HotAir colleague John Sexton wrote a story yesterday about a woman in West L.A. getting hit in the head with a fire extinguisher in a random attack.

I lived in West L.A. for the last 12 years that I was in California. They weren’t exactly mean streets there. It’s heartbreaking to think that people aren’t safe anywhere in the city now.

Yes, California has been run by Democrats at the state level for a long time. There were still plenty of smaller cities and counties that weren’t, however. It’s a lost cause now, but the story of how quickly the state has gone off of the leftist cliff under Newsom should also be a cautionary tale. People tend to be dismissive of what goes on in California as if all of the lunacy were contained by its borders.

California is very good at exporting its lunacy . . .

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