{"id":669340,"date":"2026-09-16T12:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=669340"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:34:23","slug":"newsom-looks-back-at-his-own-covid-rules-and-calls-one-of-them-insane-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=669340","title":{"rendered":"Newsom looks back at his own COVID rules and calls one of them \u2018insane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Revisionist history found California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) dismissively talking about the \u201cspirit\u201d of draconian lockdowns and \u201chindsight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the further misadventures of the Patrick Bateman lookalike and pal of The Science\"\u2122\", CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, an admission on beach closures came six years after a fact most people had seen as obvious at the time. After first taking a swipe at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Newsom offered, \u201cI mean, the idea that we closed beaches was insane, in hindsight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, the schools taking too long [to reopen]. A lot of districts were open, but the big ones weren\u2019t. LA refused, and I regret that, obviously,\u201d continued the governor in the clip from a Montana fly fishing trip with Tapper released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The topic of COVID came up after transitioning from a clip of Newsom taking the Lord\u2019s name in vain while joking about the temperature wading through mud, with Tapper downgrading years of fearmongering about a pandemic to assert the \u201cbiggest challenge he faced was the COVID epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere needs to be like a 9\/11 Commission on COVID, you know. What we did right. What we did wrong,\u201d the journalist said while flicking his rod about after having remained silent in the immediate aftermath of the release of the Fauci Diaries.<\/p>\n

Notably, the trove of documents<\/a> revealed Tapper had been chummy with the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci, including hosting the anchor with his wife, Jennifer Tapper, at his home while publicly advising families to skip Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, everyone\u2019s a genius in hindsight,\u201d came Newsom\u2019s response as he agreed with the CNN personality who wondered at what might have been. After talking about his own focus on hand sanitizer, the governor swiped at DeSantis over the Florida executive\u2019s temporary restrictions on beaches.<\/p>\n

Absent from the take was context, as in Florida, DeSantis left beach closures up to local communities and only issued a crackdown<\/a> on thousands of spring breakers continuing to revel in spite of initial concerns about superspreader events.<\/p>\n

This stood in stark contrast to the once-Golden State, where skate parks were filled with sand and individuals keeping their distance from everyone were subject to arrest, like a lone paddleboarder near the Malibu Pier.<\/p>\n

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Lone California paddle-boarder seen cornered by police, taken away in cuffs sparks fierce debate https:\/\/t.co\/tHaaTSP0es<\/a><\/p>\n

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After both Newsom and Tapper took a position as proponents of reopening schools, a clip from a March 2021 interview was aired with the anchor questioning his guest about the infamous rules for thee but not for me dinner at The French Laundry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI already gave you sh*t for French Laundry. That was a long time ago,\u201d said Tapper as Newsom feigned self-flagellation, \u201cI gave myself sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Describing it as a \u201cboneheaded decision\u201d made while \u201cexhausted\u201d to celebrate a friend\u2019s birthday, the governor with White House aspirations<\/a> talked of mandates as mere suggestions as he insisted,\u00a0\u201cIt was just against the spirit of the rules that I was promoting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Revisionist history found California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) dismissively talking about the \u201cspirit\u201d of draconian lockdowns and \u201chindsight.\u201d (Video Credit: CNN) In the further misadventures of the Patrick Bateman lookalike and pal of The Science, CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, an admission on beach closures came six years after a fact most people had seen as obvious… Continue reading Newsom looks back at his own COVID rules and calls one of them \u2018insane\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/669327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}