Xavier Becerra is Not Fit to Lead
The Former HHS Secretary's Record on COVID-19
California has had the misfortune of having some truly awful governors, such as Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, and the vatborn nightmare that is Gavin Newsom - an early frontrunner for the Democrat Party’s Presidential Nomination in 2028, with the full backing of Roblox shareholder Nancy Pelosi. This year, the state’s Democrats are holding a primary election, and Xavier Becerra is a major contender with a SuperPAC that has all sorts of “interesting” donors. They include the following:
California Association of Realtors
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
McDonalds
Chevron
AirBNB
Uber
Meta (aka Facebook)
Y’know, just a smorgasbord of all the worst jerkwads making California (and America as a whole) all the more miserable of a place to live in. It’s not like these companies are throwing this money around in support of Becerra’s campaign out of the goodness of their heart, or some genuine belief that he’s the best choice for millions of working Californians. No, in fact, it’s a reflection of the same mentality that guided the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 pandemic response: that the whims and demands of corporate America come first - no matter who gets hurt as a result. If elected governor, the needs of working Californians will not be a concern to Becerra.
Instead, Xavier’s priority will be answering to every whim of the corporations that have worked to make much of the state unlivable and render its major cities into dystopian theme parks for the wealthy. Many not in the know are backing him as the “most qualified” candidate. Being overshadowed by the ongoing horror show led by the brain-worm from space currently operating the cerebral controls of the current Seceretary of Health and Human Services, many seem to forget that Becerra was the previous HHS Secretary under the Biden Administration. So just what did HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra do when it came to the national crisis of COVID-19?
Secretary of HHS: Heh…Heh…Schwoopsie!
Claimed That Only “Severity” Matters: As the pediatric COVID-19 death toll doubled from just over 500 to over a thousand before Christmas 2021, Xavier Becerra told CNN that when it came to the Omicron variant “It’s not about cases. It’s about severity,” an unscientific meme that was laundered into the mainstream. Millions of Americans would go on to become disabled by “mild” cases of COVID-19 (not being hospitalized or dying) that winter, and tens of millions more in the years that followed. Trying to suggest that the Biden Administration’s failed vaccine-only strategy hadn’t played a part in schools and workplaces being overwhelmed with COVID-19, and hundreds of children dying in just a matter of months, Becerra was more than happy to absolve himself of responsibility for what was unfolding.
Schools drowning in unmitigated outbreaks, with classrooms full of coughing and vomiting children, ceased to be able to educate kids. Becerra simply shrugged his shoulders while the virus burned through tens of millions of children, largely unvaccinated. This is the mentality he will bring to the governorship of California:
Prematurely Declared the Pandemic Over: On September 19th, 2022 just after Biden declared the pandemic “over” at the Detroit Auto Show because nobody was wearing masks, HHS Secretary Becerra chose not to correct the President’s false statement, but instead played good little soldier, stating, “The President is correct.” Hundreds of thousands of American would die and millions would be disabled by COVID-19 between when this statement was made and the humiliating 2024 Presidential election. Oh, dear. How embarrassing.
Oversaw Nation’s Largest Medicaid Disenrollment: With the ending of the Public Health Emergency in May 2023, states begin the rapid mass disenrollment of tens of millions of Americans who were receiving expanded Medicaid coverage. Politico reports that many of these Americans lost Medicaid coverage due to a software glitch caused by a third-party contractor, DeVoit, which received a $340 million dollar taxpayer-funded contract. In a total lack of response, Becerra writes a pathetic letter to states suggesting that they merely “space out” these mass disenrollments. This is the sort of cowardly deference to private corporations that you can expect from a Governor Becerra. This same mentality led to child poverty doubling under the Biden Administration.
Said Dying of COVID-19 Was Yer Own Dang Fault: On June 6th, 2023 Becerra declares that “The people who are still dying of COVID are unvaccinated or undervaccinated...If you’re dying of COVID today, you didn’t take precautions.” While anti-vaccine disinformation certainly did kill hundreds of thousands, that’s not the sole cause of these deaths. Since 2021, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (which falls under the HHS umbrella) quietly began tracking COVID-19 deaths by vaccination status, only making the data public in April 2022.
Well…between the beginning of September 2021 and the end of Februrary 2022, over 99,500 vaccinated Americans died after doing everything right, according to Becerra’s HHS: They got vaccinated, they took off their masks, got really sick with COVID-19, and died. When the first 100,000 Americans died of COVID-19, The New York Times printed all of their names on the front page and called it “An Incalculable Loss.” Popular podcasts such as This Week in Virology wrote off these deaths as irrelevant and not worth preventing, while smug liberals twisted their spines into a pretzel whining about the “base rate fallacy,” completely ignoring the fact that these are the very tangible casualties that resulted from abandoning masking another other non-pharmaceutical interventions in a deathmarch towards a fantasy of “normalcy.” For Becerra to outright lie to the American people about the cause of many of these deaths, blaming them for their own demise because they listened to his HHS, is utterly obscene and disqualifying.Made a Mockery of Long COVID: On July 31st, 2023 speaking with WHEC, HHS Secretary Becerra feigned ignorance about Long COVID, which we had known about since 2020 and has disabled millions of Americans since, stating: “If I get 10 people I get 10 answers of what Long COVID really is.” Instead of employing the precautionary principle of public health and advising greater precaution to prevent the COVID-19 infections which lead to Long COVID, Becerra stood idly by as millions more developed the condition. It is now the leading chronic illness in children, overtaking asthma.
On September 20th 2023, claiming that “treatment of Long COVID is a major focus for HHS,” HHS awarded a pathetically miniscule $45 million to Long COVID clinics, with no approved treatment or cure available to this day. As governor of California, you can expect more pitiful token gestures that do little to actually address the problems everyday Californians are facing. Just like California’s most beloved hero, Awh-nooooooold!
Feigned Helplessness in the Face of Internet Trolls: After his failed leadership contributed to a humiliating defeat in the 2024 election, The Washington Post gave Xavier Becerra an opportunity to reflect upon his tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Feigning powerlessness, Xavier Becerra whined that “I can’t go toe-to-toe with social media,” as if anti-vaccine disinformation was the sole cause of which hundreds of thousands of Americans died of COVID-19 and millions became disabled. Becerra whines that, as the head of a multi-billion dollar agency with seemingly infinite resources at his disposal, he was simply helpless. Seriously?
You can’t think of a single thing the entirety of the Department of Health and Human Services could have done in response to a rising tide of anti-vaccine disinformation? What did the U.S. Government do after crushing the fascist powers, Mr. Becerra? They made movies!We do know what Becerra did, which was to insist that the people who died of COVID-19 were responsible for their own demise. While anti-vaccine disinformation is certainly responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths, for the leader of the Department of Health & Human Services to throw his arms in the air & shrug truly shows how little he cared, and how little he will care about everyday Californians as Governor. This is not acceptable leadership, especially with everything that has happened since Trump took office - California needs a leader that will stand up on their behalf, not quivering on his hands and knees for the approval of corporate oligarchs like a trained circus animal.
Final Verdict
Xavier Becerra already had his chance to prove himself as a trusted leader in a national crisis, and completely blew it: As Secretary of Health and Human Services in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Becerra sat idly by as hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed by COVID-19 - many of them having done everything right according to his HHS - and millions more Americans disabled by COVID-19, of which he never took seriously. He wants to be just like his hero, Gavin:
California is a state in the midst of numerous crises from affordability to homelessness, to climate collapse and wildfires. When faced with a crisis, Becerra revealed the true nature of his character as a leader: He absolved himself of responsibility, deferred to the whims of corporate interests, and allowed the crisis of COVID-19 to grow exponentially worse under his tenure. If this is the best the Democrat Party has to offer the American people, then it might as well disband.
The absolute gall of Xavier Becerra to have completely failed in a major leadership role during a crisis, only to turn around & decide he’s entitled to become Governor of California, is absolutely revolting. Electing Becerra as governor of California would merely reward such behavior, and in exchange, you would get an empty suit that acts as nothing more than a middleman for the actual leaders of California: reactionary billionaire creeps that see you as nothing more than uppity disposable serfs.
What a waste of a legacy.
