Until it happened in real life, the idea that California’s governor would have come out publicly in defense of child trafficking and forced labor on illegal drug farms in his state would have been relegated to the dustbin of the absurd.
But of course, the absurd is real life in Gavin Newsom’s California…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media Thursday to bash a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California, where agents clashed with protesters and sprayed tear gas.
“Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum,” Newsom wrote on X in response to a video from KTLA of protesters and apparent targets of the raid running from tear gas sprayed by officers in Camarillo, Calif.
Trump administration officials hit back at the governor’s comment.
“Why are there children working at a marijuana facility, Gavin?” the account for the Department of Homeland Security replied.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said 10 minors in the country illegally were found at the facility, which he said is “now under investigation for child labor violations.”
“This is Newsom’s California,” Scott wrote.
And when the absurd rears its head, it’s rightly ridiculed by the sane…
Are Dems actually trying to convince us that we have to maintain the status quo of illegal immigration because we need little children to pick marijuana in California?
What’s the argument here? Gavin Newsom’s donors need their slave labor?
This is blowing my mind! pic.twitter.com/FZjPpH4lpm
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 12, 2025
Gavin Newscum lost his child slave labor at his California pot farm, and he’s mad about it.
He’s lashing out at President Trump for freeing them. pic.twitter.com/HVncSpBX2I— The Sardonic Patriot (@Mayflower_21) July 12, 2025
Dear ICE,
Thank you for saving the trafficked children from Gavin Newsom’s donors, who were using them for slave labor on their weed farm.
Signed,
Americans.— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 14, 2025
Yes, you did read that correctly. Newsom came out throwing bombs at the Trump administration for sending ICE to raid a weed farm on which child laborers — unaccompanied minor illegal aliens comprising most of those — were found to be among the labor force, and that weed farm just happened to be owned by one of Gavin Newsom’s donors and a major backer of the California Democrat Party.
The President of Glass House Farms, the cannabis farm that federal immigration authorities raided in California on Thursday despite protests, has donated thousands to Democrats in California.
Co-founder, president, and board director Graham Farrar, who self-identifies on social media as residing in Santa Barbara, California, has made numerous political donations to the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee’s federal political action committee and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., according to Federal Election Commission records.
According to California public campaign finance records, he also donated $10,000 to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018, and his most recent public political donation was to California Democratic Assemblymember Gregg Hart in July 2023.
This is what’s known in the common vernacular as a bad look.
Gavin Newsom disgracefully uses child slave labor and California is still $1.6 trillion in debt. pic.twitter.com/qYv3apoWp9
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 13, 2025
But Newsom doesn’t seem to notice. In fact, while everyone was noticing that people possibly/likely working for Mexican drug cartels were shooting at ICE officers as they liberated the child slaves on his donor’s weed farm, he was doing this…
35% of Anaheim’s residents are immigrants.
Disneyland doesn’t run without them.
Enjoy their labor, @JDVance. https://t.co/6g1wYMNTvn
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) July 13, 2025
You wouldn’t think this is what he’d want to do.
It’s hard to explain.
Then again, it’s easy to explain if you filter these things into an assumption that Newsom, and most of his pals in California Democrat politics, are actually working for the cartels rather than the people.
For example, does anybody really think the purpose of carving off chunks of the Pacific Palisades for “affordable” housing isn’t to allow for a New Jack City-style takeover of one of the parts of the Los Angeles metro area that wasn’t overrun with drugs and crime?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Tuesday that he had allocated $101 million in new spending on low-income housing in the areas devastated by the Palisades and Eaton Fires, confirming residents’ fears.
Residents have long worried that state and local authorities would use the opportunity provided by the fires to build low-income housing — perhaps even for the homeless population, or for housing for illegal migrants.
When Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appointed Steve Soboroff as “chief recovery officer,” without any kind of public process, some residents suspected that Soboroff’s role would be to push for “affordable” housing.
Many residents felt that there was already “affordable” housing in the area, whether the trailer park near Pacific Coast Highway, or postwar bungalows that had once been cheap before rising dramatically in value.
Local developer Rick Caruso — who ran against Bass in 2022 — argued that Pacific Palisades should retain its pre-fire character, while Soboroff argued that state law required new low-income housing to be built there.
Some more conspiratorially-minded residents wondered whether the fire had been allowed to spread — or even set deliberately — to allow politicians to build low-income housing on what was once prime real estate.
It’s essentially a catechism of urban governance, at least on the Left, that when you intentionally flood poor people into good neighborhoods, you will inevitably introduce drug trafficking, which is only natural, given that you’re marrying latent (or not so latent) demand with a willing cadre of suppliers. And that’s essentially the opening of new markets for the cartels.
Monday morning over six months after the fire and zero work. No trucks no crews no materials pic.twitter.com/BlUrhsFT26
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) July 14, 2025
So the meme, which shows Newsom in the easy chair as the child slaves pick the crops, is probably not all that accurate.
Newsom isn’t the boss. He’s not the guy who owns the plantation. He’s more like the overseer.
He’s the Simon Legree wielding the whip on California’s cannabis plantations.
Yes, it’s absurd. On the other hand, it’s on brand for the Democrat Party, going back more than 200 years.
And perhaps what’s most absurd is that any of this is given credit by supposed adults in legacy media and otherwise.
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