Gavin Newsom's Podcast
Sep. 1st, 2025 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianDuring tonight's walk, I listened to what seems to be a newish political podcast hosted by Gavin Newsom, my state governor. The guest was Charlie Kirk, someone I'd never heard of before. According to the discussion, Charlie Kirk is some kind of conservative political activist.
I was disappointed in the podcast. Newsom spent a lot of time talking over his guest, bantering, and making empty declarations about respecting Kirk's positions without engaging with them politically. He also dodged questions.
The podcast started out on a low point: in response to Kirk's questions about Newsom's position on male athletes in womyn's sports, not only did Newsom give an ambiguous answer about appreciating the importance of fairness (fairness to whom, he didn't specify), he also brought up trans people's high rates of depression and suicide.
It's not society's fault that trans people are miserable with their bodies. Society does not owe it to trans people to play along with their cosplaying as people they are not. If the cosplaying is what's going to prevent them from being depressed and suicidal, we don't owe it to them to treat their depression and suicidality. This upending of society to address something that isn't an injustice, isn't anybody's fault, is insanity. Politics doesn't exist to prevent people from offing themselves over unsolvable personal problems. That's the glaring issue here: People who want to be the opposite sex, or have body parts of the opposite sex, largely have a problem that has no solution. That's undoubtedly part of the reason why some of them still off themselves after transitioning. Medical transition is incredibly limited in its outcomes, and, the trans community's delusional theories of embodiment aside, they continue to be their "birth sex" with cosmetic alterations and/or artificially induced hormone levels.
I didn't know that Newsom was such a slimy person, but I suppose I should have been able to guess given that he's a politician. The endless bullshitting in politics is exhausting, and it's not just the politicians who bullshit. I've found person after person online who will willingly bring up their political beliefs yet dodge straight-forward questions about those same beliefs. They speak in generalities and won't give specifics. Do they think they are fooling anyone or convincing anyone? I'm not sure what they think they are doing.
Lately I've begun to wonder: What is the point of my being an anarchist given that I want humankind to go extinct? I was an anarchist first, but why continue to be one? What's the point of having any long-term political beliefs if I don't want people to exist long-term? I haven't thought about it much and it doesn't even really matter because humankind will follow its trajectory regardless of what I think; however, it seems to me, as I consider the question now, that my response to the charge of the unlikelihood of the realization of anarchism is also applicable to this question: I didn't adopt anarchism as a political belief because it's likely; I did it because I find anarchism to be the best political system. Similarly, I continue to find it to be the best political system regardless of whether I want humanity to survive long enough to enact it.
Today's workout was a bench press. Seventy pounds. Fasted. I can't recommend it. I'm happy to be back up to benching seventy, however. For months I was weak and stuck in the sixties. I used to have a bench press goal, but I no longer care.
I keep having hot episodes. They seem to coincide with low blood sugar readings but maybe they are hot flashes? They're particularly annoying because only the inside of my body gets hot, so I want to continue wearing clothing while I'm out walking late in the evening to keep my skin warm, but the clothing feels stifling. I'm continually removing and putting on my gloves.
I'm going to ask my primary care provider for some kind of maintenance medication for migraines. I'm still having one every day and I'm still not quitting the new eating schedule.
My hair has been looking bad for the past couple of weeks and I've just today figured out why: buildup from the leave-in conditioner. Using any kind of leave-in product that cannot be washed away with water alone is probably not a good idea for someone who doesn't shampoo.
I get so tired right after my evening meal; it's really a drag.
I was disappointed in the podcast. Newsom spent a lot of time talking over his guest, bantering, and making empty declarations about respecting Kirk's positions without engaging with them politically. He also dodged questions.
The podcast started out on a low point: in response to Kirk's questions about Newsom's position on male athletes in womyn's sports, not only did Newsom give an ambiguous answer about appreciating the importance of fairness (fairness to whom, he didn't specify), he also brought up trans people's high rates of depression and suicide.
It's not society's fault that trans people are miserable with their bodies. Society does not owe it to trans people to play along with their cosplaying as people they are not. If the cosplaying is what's going to prevent them from being depressed and suicidal, we don't owe it to them to treat their depression and suicidality. This upending of society to address something that isn't an injustice, isn't anybody's fault, is insanity. Politics doesn't exist to prevent people from offing themselves over unsolvable personal problems. That's the glaring issue here: People who want to be the opposite sex, or have body parts of the opposite sex, largely have a problem that has no solution. That's undoubtedly part of the reason why some of them still off themselves after transitioning. Medical transition is incredibly limited in its outcomes, and, the trans community's delusional theories of embodiment aside, they continue to be their "birth sex" with cosmetic alterations and/or artificially induced hormone levels.
I didn't know that Newsom was such a slimy person, but I suppose I should have been able to guess given that he's a politician. The endless bullshitting in politics is exhausting, and it's not just the politicians who bullshit. I've found person after person online who will willingly bring up their political beliefs yet dodge straight-forward questions about those same beliefs. They speak in generalities and won't give specifics. Do they think they are fooling anyone or convincing anyone? I'm not sure what they think they are doing.
Lately I've begun to wonder: What is the point of my being an anarchist given that I want humankind to go extinct? I was an anarchist first, but why continue to be one? What's the point of having any long-term political beliefs if I don't want people to exist long-term? I haven't thought about it much and it doesn't even really matter because humankind will follow its trajectory regardless of what I think; however, it seems to me, as I consider the question now, that my response to the charge of the unlikelihood of the realization of anarchism is also applicable to this question: I didn't adopt anarchism as a political belief because it's likely; I did it because I find anarchism to be the best political system. Similarly, I continue to find it to be the best political system regardless of whether I want humanity to survive long enough to enact it.
Today's workout was a bench press. Seventy pounds. Fasted. I can't recommend it. I'm happy to be back up to benching seventy, however. For months I was weak and stuck in the sixties. I used to have a bench press goal, but I no longer care.
I keep having hot episodes. They seem to coincide with low blood sugar readings but maybe they are hot flashes? They're particularly annoying because only the inside of my body gets hot, so I want to continue wearing clothing while I'm out walking late in the evening to keep my skin warm, but the clothing feels stifling. I'm continually removing and putting on my gloves.
I'm going to ask my primary care provider for some kind of maintenance medication for migraines. I'm still having one every day and I'm still not quitting the new eating schedule.
My hair has been looking bad for the past couple of weeks and I've just today figured out why: buildup from the leave-in conditioner. Using any kind of leave-in product that cannot be washed away with water alone is probably not a good idea for someone who doesn't shampoo.
I get so tired right after my evening meal; it's really a drag.
