Built from Broken: A S... Hogan, Scott H Best Price: $2.73 Buy New $10.50 (as of 09:36 UTC - Details) Jack Callahan was frying rainbow trout on his camp stove along the Upper Sacramento when the news broke on his iPhone. California’s Caligula was at it again, crying about federal agents doing what they’re supposed to do—enforce the law.

This time, Gavin Newsom was throwing his slick-haired tantrum over immigration raids at marijuana farms where ten children were found working illegally.

“Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum,” whined Slick on social media. Jack set down his spatula and shook his head. Here was the second-worst governor in America—barely edging out Oregon’s Tina Kotek for the title—defending child labor while posturing as the champion of righteousness.

On this issue, the Golden State Gasbag cannot see the forest for the trees of farmed cannabis. Federal agents discovered ten illegal alien minors at the Glass House Farms facility in Camarillo, eight of them unaccompanied. These were children—children—toiling in marijuana fields while families across America struggle to find honest work.

Yet Newscum focused his outrage not on the exploitation of these kids, but on the federal agents who rescued them.

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Under his watch, the Golden State has become a playground for illegal exploitation while he spends fifty million taxpayer dollars fighting the federal government instead of protecting vulnerable children.

Jack Callahan knows what real Americans are thinking as they watch this spectacle unfold. While the governor tweets about “kids running from tear gas,” he ignores the fact that these same kids were being exploited as cheap labor in his marijuana wonderland. The man who calls himself a progressive champion is defending a system that turns children into field hands.

The Oily Eel is giving the Sapphic Sphinx up north a run for her money as America’s worst governor, but at least she has the decency to keep her failures closer to home. Newsom broadcasts his moral bankruptcy to the world while spending taxpayer money on legal battles against the work of law enforcement.

Jack finished his trout dinner as the sun set over the Trinity Mountains, thinking about the ten children pulled from the weed fields. Do they not deserve better than Slick’s California, where exploitation masquerades as compassion and child labor hides behind progressive talking points?

Fogged by a lifetime of narcissism, the governor doesn’t recognize what the rest of America sees clearly: a sociopath who values political theater over protecting children.

This article was originally published on The O’Leary Review.