As IF the list of California governor wannabes wasn't already long and ignominious enough.
Katie 'Potatoes' Porter or 'Old Spuds and Guts' as she is affectionately known to her...who am I kidding?
She doesn't have any friends.
Dem CA gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter seen shooting death stares at her staff during a Zoom meeting after they messed up her lighting.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 9, 2025
"I need the lights off... the bright lights... I need you to turn these off. These, that are killing me... Not that dark."
I'm convinced… pic.twitter.com/hE6JCwhjli
Xavier Becerra, the former Biden Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS), known for his brilliant and hands-on managerial style, had no clue his former chief of staff, along with Gov Gavin Newsom's chief of staff, had been draining one of his dormant campaign accounts to funnel money to themselves to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
@XavierBecerra at the center of “the biggest scandal to hit Sacramento in years” pic.twitter.com/k1uFWxrWAi
— Antonio Villaraigosa (@AVillaraigosa) November 19, 2025
He was polling at 8% a month ago. Everyone else is noise in the background.
By God, the moment is nigh!
The Democratic primary field is wide open for a hero to step in - they are crying out for a real tiger.
A real street fighter with fang...fangs.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, a former Democratic presidential candidate who helped lead the second impeachment of President Donald Trump, has officially entered the fray to succeed California Gov. Gavin Newsom in next year’s gubernatorial race.
His core message? “Prices are too high and people are scared.”
Swalwell, 45, a prominent Trump antagonist on social media and a cable news darling who ran a short-lived bid for the White House in 2019, made the announcement Thursday night at the tail end of a nearly 10-minute interview with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
After joking that California was “the greatest country in the world,” to laughs from the Los Angeles studio audience, Swalwell grew serious and decried how Californians have been disproportionately targeted by a second Trump administration, whether through vengeful immigration raids or the cancellation of critical cancer and health research.
“This great state needs a fighter and a protector,” Swalwell said.
DEY GOT DIS GUY
I just want to take a scrub brush to his gnarly, groaty face.
— tree hugging sister 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) November 26, 2025
Of course, while wearing rubber gloves and a mask. https://t.co/Iu5nDsn4oU
What is wrong with that state?
Swalwell filed a federal lawsuit against Bill Pulte over at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to try to wiggle out from under his awkward mortgage issues. Is he a California or Maryland man?
To be determined. In the meantime, stop picking on poor Eric.
Rep. Eric Swalwell on Tuesday filed a civil lawsuit against Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, alleging violations of the Privacy Act and First Amendment over Pulte’s criminal referral of him to the Justice Department for alleged mortgage fraud violations.
In the suit, filed in federal court in Washington, DC, the California Democrat and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump alleged that Pulte abused his position as federal housing chief “by scouring databases at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac” for private mortgage records of prominent Democrats, including Swalwell.
Pulte’s actions represented “a gross abuse of power that violated the law,” Swalwell alleged, by targeting him for prosecution “based solely on his protected political speech and views.”
Swalwell alleged that the referral violated the Privacy Act because the law “explicitly forbids federal agencies from disclosing—or even transmitting to other agencies—sensitive information about any individual for any purpose not explicitly authorized by law.” He asked the court to direct Pulte to withdraw the criminal referral he submitted to DOJ and for damages over alleged violations of the Privacy Act.
It's just so darn inconvenient that if he really is a Maryland Man, he can't be a Sacramento King.
Filmmaker, Joel Gilbert, has filed an election voter complaint with the CA Secretary of State against Eric Swalwell.
— David Joe May (@TheGrayRider) November 25, 2025
Swalwell recently declared his candidacy for governor of CA.
Gilbert claims Swalwell is ineligible as his mortgage documents state the he's a resident of D.C.… pic.twitter.com/Hp2pEcv7RR
I can't wait to see how it settles out. And I hope it takes a good, long time.
Sadly, though, it looks like the D.C. Court Gods are with Swalwell.
🚨 JUST IN: Eric Swalwell's lawsuit against Trump FHFA Director Bill Pulte has been assigned to Judge James BOASBERG.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 26, 2025
IMPEACH THIS CORRUPT JUDGE ALREADY! pic.twitter.com/UIhyr9nrWj
Can't catch a break, can we?
Speaking of homes, Swalwell's House biography is just so darn homey, too. If you didn't know who he was, you'd almost think he was human.
Scrappy little booger nose.
Meet Eric
It's not something Democrats typically say about themselves, but Congressman Eric Swalwell was raised by Republicans.
His father was a cop, and his mother ran a small business. They brought him into the world in Sac City, Iowa, then raised him in Dublin, California, the oldest of four boys. His childhood was about family, sports, and hard work – from running a paper route at the age of 10, to sanding and installing window frames as a teenager. A Division One soccer scholarship allowed him to become the first in his family to go to college.
Swalwell is also busy making sure everyone knows he's the conscientious objector and seditious member liaison with the American military. It's not enough that six idiots had to make a wink-wink-nudge-nudge textbook CIA propaganda video tacitly encouraging action while feigning innocence and earnestly reminding service members of a duty that they are reminded of in yearly briefings. Swalwell wants America to know HE is also close to the beating heart of the Trump resistance effort.
Service members know they can confide in Eric.
CHECK
California gubernatorial candidate and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell claimed that members of the military are telling him they can be a "check" on President Donald Trump.
On Don Lemon's show Monday, Swalwell discussed the controversy over a video of six Democratic lawmakers urging service members to "refuse illegal orders" from Trump.
...Swalwell argued that the Trump administration "told on" itself by going after Kelly for his call to resist "illegal orders" and revealed that some service members have been behaving as a "check" on the president.
"What gives me hope, and I talk to service members all the time. They tell me that I don't appreciate enough and the public doesn't appreciate enough that while Congress is not a check on the president anymore, and the judiciary at the Supreme Court is hardly a check, military members have told me, ‘We can be a check,'" Swalwell said.
"They’re essentially saying, ‘We’re not going to betray our oath to the Constitution because this guy tells us to.’ While it's not codified that way — they're not a branch of government on their own— their honor and integrity might just save us."
Swalwell agreed with Lemon that the Trump administration and, by extension, Republicans are now telling service members to "ignore the Constitution."
I'll bet they tell him that all the time. And then his cat wakes him up.
Swalwell is going to have problems with some of the girls back home, though. They're not all easy-going like Don Lemon.
Tish Hyman, the dynamite lady who blew a gasket over the man in her gym locker room, nailed Swalwell's greasy hide to the floor at a recent town hall over his support for transgenders, with men in girls' sports and locker rooms.
The guy who is all about 'protecting Californians' had no answer for the woman who challenged him on exactly who he was going to protect.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES! Jaw-dropping moment as California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell gets RIPPED to his face by Tish Hyman, the woman who went viral for being kicked out of Gold's Gym for opposing men in women's restrooms
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 26, 2025
HYMAN: Show the women of California you will PROTECT… pic.twitter.com/p3AtScvuvL
He's such a weasel.
But he does love pandering to that CA base.
After four years of allowing criminal illegal aliens to pour into our country, disgraced Democrat Eric Swalwell claims the U.S. is now “lawless” because President Trump is ACTUALLY enforcing immigration laws.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 25, 2025
What a joke. pic.twitter.com/oWnDZCnTwL
And he's advocating to get as many of their votes for governor as he possibly can.
PRESS UNO POR ANGLAIS Y SWALWELL
Swalwell wants hackable cellphone voting — and he’s under DOJ investigation. This is the Democrat vision for California. We need Voter ID now. pic.twitter.com/vEbRdefvWe
— Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) November 25, 2025
He wants the max, baby.
🚨 SWALWELL: “I want us to be able to vote by phone … I want us to max out democracy.” pic.twitter.com/74cVtwYDi8
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 22, 2025
What is wrong with that state?
Beege ADDS: This was a shift because of the awful breaking news yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to wish you all the LOVELIEST Thanksgiving. Please know we are all very grateful to have you wonderful folks around, and it is a joy and pleasure for me to be here with you.
God keep you all safe and happy.
Now. Behave yourselves today.
Walk away - don't waddle...right?!
BWAhahahaha!
Beege {:^)
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