When you’re running one of the largest economies in the world into the ground, you probably don’t have time to fact-check your vacation photos.
On Tuesday, the official Governor Newsom Press Office account tried to clap back at a critic on social media platform X. Instead, it ended up showcasing Nevada.
Newsom had posted a video of his interview with podcaster Shawn Ryan, in which he defended and in some cases downplayed his record of gun control.
A user named “One Bad Dude” replied, “FACT: Democrat run states are sh**holes.”
Rather than respond to that policy criticism with, say, facts or statistics, the Newsom Press Office fired back with four scenic photos and a caption that simply read: “sh**hole.”
Because when you’ve got nothing else, just say “nuh uh!” and post a couple of pretty landscapes.
There’s just one problem: one of the images — specifically the lower left one — wasn’t even from California.
It was from Sand Harbor. That’s not a California location. It’s the main beach of Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park.
Yes, Nevada. As in, not California.
To be fair, Lake Tahoe does straddle the state line. But Sand Harbor is clearly and entirely within Nevada’s borders.
So if you’re keeping score at home: Newsom’s team tried to prove California isn’t a “sh**hole” by promoting a different state.
This is the same governor who’s been in office for nearly six years. (I observed open-air drug use myself in a large homeless encampment in Los Angeles just months ago in broad daylight on a Tuesday.)
In any event, who posts state tourism photos and forgets to check which state they’re actually from?
Hellbound and Down 