Gavin Newsom has, once again, found himself diaper-deep in someone else’s business. The California governor, who is nearing the end of a gubernatorial tenure best described as a masterclass in managed decline, presided over rampant homelessness, a record exodus of residents, a near $30 billion budget deficit, a housing affordability crisis, dismal education scores, and a surge in violent crime. Now, rather than reckoning with any of that, he has taken to social media to unveil his newest meretricious title: Diaper Daddy. California’s unmasked Super Conman, able to leap tall budget deficits in a single bound to deliver diapers to all…while leaving actual human waste on the sidewalks entirely untouched. The initiative itself is a pitch-perfect distillation of modern Democrat governance: announce something that sounds warmhearted, execute it at roughly three times the necessary cost, layer it in politically connected middlemen, waste everyone’s time and money, and call dissenters “heartless monsters.” This time, however, the math raises more than an eyebrow. It raises the specter of fraud. Newsom announced a pilot diaper program that will initially roll out at hospitals largely serving Medi-Cal patients before expanding statewide. This summer, the state is partnering with Baby2Baby, a California-based nonprofit, to give every newborn delivered at a participating California hospital 400 diapers at no cost to the family. Budget records show $7.4 million was allocated in the prior fiscal year (2025-2026) to launch the initiative, with an additional $12.5 million proposed for the 2026-2027 budget cycle, bringing the total commitment to roughly $19.9 million. This is all on top of the $45 billion California taxpayers already pour into Medi-Cal every year. But hey, the weather is unbeatable! When people started doing the math, the flags went up fast. Divide $20 million by 100,000 babies, then divide that by 400 diapers each, and you arrive at $0.50 per diaper. The cheapest diapers on store shelves cost around $0.15 each.  A FIFTEEN-CENT diaper for just FIFTY CENTS!? What a bargain. Now, had the state simply handed parents the money to buy their own poo-catchers and let the free market do what the free market does, competition would have driven prices down further and quality up! The people would have won. Instead, the government decided it needed to get its hands into America’s smelliest supply chain, and turned a $0.15 product into a $0.50 one. Government efficiency, folks. On full display. When pressed on the numbers, Newsom’s press office clarified that the diaper contract itself only costs $6.2 million, which works out to roughly $0.155 per diaper, still more than retail. But that admission quietly concedes the obvious question: where does the other $13 million go? The answer, according to the administration, is setup, hospital rollout, logistics, warehousing, and distribution, all of which are superfluous costs that would not exist if parents were allowed to keep their money and buy their own diapers in the first place. Diaper Daddy could focus on getting Drug Demons off the streets and clearing the actual feces off the sidewalks, but hey, at least he’s not giving taxpayer-funded diapers to drug addicts. Yet.  Then there is the matter of who is running Baby2Baby. The nonprofit is led by Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein. Weinstein also sits on the board of the California Partners Project, co-founded by her BFF Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the insufferable wife of Gavin Newsom, where they fundraise and promote for the trans, gender-confused intersex folk, and the women who are supposed victims of the nefarious patriarchal powers that be. Patricof, for her part, is married to Jamie Patricof, a Hollywood big-shot producer and longtime Democratic bundler with very deep ties to the party elites. Straight Californicorruption. Here is the Democratic playbook, for those keeping score at home: announce a program that makes you look compassionate, overbill the taxpayer for something families could’ve handled themselves, insert a layer of politically connected middlemen, feed the bureaucratic boondoggles, and enrich oneself at the expense of the taxpayer. The citizen funds the apparatus. The apparatus benefits the network. The network attends the fundraiser. Repeat! Gavin, most of us love babies and new life. We’d love to see more of it. Why don’t you do what President Donald Trump is doing and cut checks directly to parents of newborns, or partner with the Trump accounts to make savings vehicles more accessible to California families, so that newborns can be sitting on meaningful sums by the time they turn 18? Or, radically, just let taxpayers keep their money, buy whatever product they want, drive competition, keep the free market functioning, and deny corrupt bureaucrats the pleasure of rerouting public funds through nonprofits within their own orbit. But no, that would be crazy. This is, after all, the same governor who spent hundreds of millions turning California into the West Coast’s premier abortion destination. Nothing says “pro-family” quite like subsidizing diapers for the babies you worked so hard to make rarer. But perhaps there is some poetic justice here. This summer, every time a new parent wipes a stinky, smelly, loaded diaper, they’ll be reminded of Gavin Newsom — and exactly where their tax dollars went.