I wasn't the one making a comparison. The only thing I was saying was that there's no reason to trust Newsom to appoint someone who's not as immensely corrupt as himself.
THAT point (which, again, was the only one I was making) still stands, so you can stow your smugness where the sun doesn't shine.
You weren't trying to disambiguate anything, you were asking a smug rhetorical question and then smugly drawing a false conclusion that you'd already made before I clarified and wouldn't change for everything.
You're being both smugly condescending and stubborn, which says nothing about me 🙄