California, one of the loveliest states in the union, and still one of the most entrepreneurial places in the world, is run by total degenerates.
Because of that, the state is rapidly becoming unlivable for many people.
The fact that possessing child porn can be pled down to only a misdemeanor in Gavin Newsom‘s pedo-protecting California is a far bigger story than this waste of oxygen running for office. https://t.co/ls8ahmpGwF pic.twitter.com/0FZY899kpP
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) February 26, 2026
California used to be what we would all call quirky. That was a time when people worked hard, played harder, enjoyed the climate, and, most of all, lived and let live. It embodied the American dream. A place where anybody could come and make a nice life in a beautiful setting, own a home on a single salary working for an industry that was thriving.
We tend to think of the state as Deep Blue, but that is a very recent phenomenon. The politics of San Francisco were an outlier, not the standard-setter. People like Scott Weiner wouldn't be powerful Senators and soon-to-be Congressmen, but rather activists shouting to the void on a street in San Francisco—essentially a street performer for tourists who would walk by shaking their heads at the nutcases.
The inmates are running the asylum now, and the state, which has built up quite a stockpile of seed corn over the years, is rapidly eating into it without much prospect of a new crop to replace it. The middle and entrepreneurial classes are fleeing, the cultural elite is running amok, and registered sex offenders can be legitimate candidates for public office.
We shouldn't be surprised. This is the state that Scott Weiner built, where sex trafficking is the norm, and degenerates like Scott Weiner pass laws that reduce the sentences for hiring child prostitutes and decriminalize soliciting.
The sex trafficking is so bad in Los Angeles, ABC News is dedicating an entire prime time show to covering it
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 20, 2026
In just one month, on one street “LAPD has found 10 underage girls trafficked into a life of essentially selling sex in plain sight”
“LA also has a much darker side.… pic.twitter.com/bpYVcYLbN2
In such an environment, it only makes sense to elect actual pedos to public office.
As Kevin Dalton pointed out in his X post above, the fact that a sex offender is running for office isn't that big of a shock, especially in California, and for all I know, he could get trounced, it being Fresno and not San Francisco.
What is really shocking...what should blow you away...is that he had kiddie porn and paid no price for it. I'm surprised that it doesn't qualify you for a free dinner at the French Laundry, or a sex romp with Scott Weiner.
HORRIFYING: A p*dophile named David Funston kidnapped multiple kids under the age of seven & r*ped them—one little girl was just 3—and California just granted him parole as part of Gavin Newsom’s elderly parole program.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 23, 2026
The p*dophile & r*pist was convicted and sentenced to 3… pic.twitter.com/rlg8Erpxk8
HORRIFYING: A p*dophile named David Funston kidnapped multiple kids under the age of seven & r*ped them—one little girl was just 3—and California just granted him parole as part of Gavin Newsom’s elderly parole program.
The p*dophile & r*pist was convicted and sentenced to 3 life terms in 1999 but was just granted early release thanks to Newsom’s law to release elderly (and hardened) criminals from jail.
The law was first enacted by Democrat lawmakers in 2017 and then expanded by Governor Newsom in 2021.
Gavin Newsom’s 2028 campaign isn’t just pro-crime, he is cementing his legacy has a pro-r*pe and pro-p*dophilia candidate.
Possessing child porn is, apparently, no big deal. Even serial child rapists are now being treated to a new lease on life under Gavin Newsom.
Who are the California politicians behind the progressive laws that allow a serial child rapist like David Funston to be released from prison early?
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 26, 2026
Funston was described by a judge as “the monster parents fear most”. The CA prosecutor who handled his case tells me it’s the… pic.twitter.com/xcAdc7g8da
Who are the California politicians behind the progressive laws that allow a serial child rapist like David Funston to be released from prison early?
Funston was described by a judge as “the monster parents fear most”. The CA prosecutor who handled his case tells me it’s the worst she’s seen in her career. In 1995, he sexually assaulted 7 children, including a 5-year-old girl who was left with vaginal trauma after having her own underwear shoved down her throat to stop her screaming. He drove around the Sacramento area using toys and candy to lure small children into his car before beating and raping them. And yet, despite being sentenced to three consecutive 25 to life terms, and a separate 20-year term after being convicted of 16 counts of kidnapping and child sexual assaults, the California Parole Board has found him suitable for early release from prison due to California’s elderly parole laws – pushed by progressive Democrats.
In 2020, California Assemblyman @AsmPhilTing (D-San Francisco) introduced AB 3234, which changed California’s elderly parole laws to move parole eligibility from age 60 and 25 years served on a sentence, to age 50 and 20 years served on a sentence. It was signed into law on 1/1/2021 by Governor Newsom after being passed by the state’s Democratic supermajority in the California Assembly.
Notably, the law had no exceptions for violent sex offenders. Not even for child rape, forceful sexual penetration, or sodomy by force.
California Republicans are trying to change this. In February 2025, CA Republican state senator @SenBrianJones introduced SB 286, which would block anyone convicted of a violent sex offense from qualifying for California’s elderly parole program.
In April 2025, SB 286 passed out of the CA Senate’s Public Safety Committee with bipartisan support.
But in May 2025, SB 286 was blocked from a vote by the Democratic leadership of the California Senate Appropriations Committee, including the then Chair of the committee, Democratic CA state senator @CASenCaballero (now running for CA Treasurer) who wrote in an analysis of the bill that it would potentially cost the state $2 billion over 10 years to keep inmates in prison longer and that “every dollar spent incarcerating aging adults is a dollar diverted from more effective public investments like rehabilitation.” She added that “tough on crime” policies contribute to prison overcrowding, and “disproportionately harmed communities of color.”
The bill has been stalled in the committee ever since. There remain no exceptions to elderly parole for violent sex crimes, and David Funtson may soon be a free man as a result.
Funstson is, indeed, a free man now. He is 64, so he is considered "elderly" enough to be returned to the streets.
Outrage at Gavin Newsom's prison board as vile pedophile David Allen Funston is freed because he's old https://t.co/ADP2xYHD5D pic.twitter.com/C5iVddVoQH
— California Post (@californiapost) February 26, 2026
The insanity has reached a point where one really has to wonder whether as many people are voting for it as appears. It IS true that California is filled with a lot of liberals, but are there really enough to explain why Democrats keep winning blowout elections while promoting policies like these?
I have no evidence other than common sense to say that the only reason why Democrats dominate California is that they cheat, admittedly, but the only alternative explanation is that the state is 60% degenerates, and that strikes me as implausible.
Honestly, I would be much more relieved to know that California's descent into degeneracy is the result of voter fraud rather than the moral degeneracy of the population. The alternative is too awful to contemplate.
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