My favorite incident of Newsom’s turning bowls of shit into fresh cream was the re-opening of the biggest LA freeway, burned and melted in a dramatic fire after neglecting years of warnings about the heaps of flammable junk swept under the overpass. All the striving Dems, Newsom, Karen Bass, Padilla and Kamala celebrated their competence and smooth executive ability after propping it back up a few days ahead of schedule with never a peep about the cause.
As a Canadian who grew up in the Trudeau era, GN reeks of someone with the same narcissistic and false persona, except with a possibly deeper malice.
The one positive thing about the horrible and disgusting man beyond words Justin T was that at least every single person in the country, including JT, knew he was literally retarded.
Everyone knew he was only elected because he was good looking, and past that he was just a pure puppet front men for globalist WEF forces.
New scum is the same, except there’s a deeper aura of evil about him, a sort of joker vibe that sexually delights in destruction for its own sake.
Trudeau and GN are the same, and we are all much much worse off for it.
Gavin Newsom does have a joker vibe for sure, I almost made such a reference in the article, but had already criticized Marvel brain lol.
People definitely think Gavin Newsom is much smarter than he is but the thing about him not understanding complex narratives is really deep insight into him as a person, since humans are naturally storytellers and understand things from storytelling. You know Trump, for example, for all I know has never completed a novel in his life, but is a wonderful storyteller and a master of narrative.
Do many Canadians believe that JT is Fidel Castro's son? Or do they even care? The evidence seems highly suggestive that JT's bio dad was the Cuban revolutionary. JT always struck me as a homosexual white theater actor dude pretending to be straight because that's what his political advisors told him the public wanted to see. Sort of like the president of France.
Agree on the strong parallels between JT and Newsom. Anglosphere countries' white men of power. Sad.
If you're asking is JT the son of Castro, the answer is very likely yes. There was an excellent expose article that came out in Canada in Trudeaus early PM days that suspiciously went very quiet very quickly. His (supposed) father, Pierre, was a well known womanizer (and occultist) who married jays mother when she was 18, and he was about 55 (nothing odd there). The mother's visits to Cuba were well known. It's a very greasy, and wicked family.
Do Canadians care? No. Not at all. Canadians, much, much more than Americans, are some of the mostly highly propagandized people on planet earth.
This is spot on: "He is basically just an ambitious sociopath with a learning disability who managed to become immensely powerful due to his coping mechanisms combining with a variety of circumstances beyond his control." And I have covered this political narcissist for two decades.
Learned more about Newsom than had known before. To be honest I always found confusing his status as a white American straight dude running the most leftist, beautiful, wacky, wealthy state in the country as bizarre. Has always seemed to me that California should be governed by anyone *but* a straight white dude. But what do I know.
It sorta makes sense - attractive, athletic, charismatic dude ingratiates himself to the wealthy elite; gets them to help him into political office, he serves as their toady and at the same time relieves his own status anxiety. Symbiosis. Makes sense. This approach is only for the shameless sociopath.
Your article also highlights what a smoke and mirrors sham so much of American political public life is. Newsom says what he's supposed to say per current cultural dictates to advocate and encourage the destruction and degeneration of California society - but would he and his wife and 4 kids ever want to partake of said destructive degenerate life? No way. Countless of our two-faced duplicitous politicians are like this. We pay them to sham us in front of our face.
I'm a GenX guy (Newsom a few years older than me) - *all* of us knew dudes in school like Gavin - energetic, charistmatic, generally athletic but not athletic stars, who sadly seemed close to crashing and burning too many times.... but they somehow always pulled through. Honestly man you gotta respect the dude's grit and perseverance somewhat.
I pray that Gavin recenters himself somehow and finds his soul someday - and that he does this process far away from the White House.
Yeah you know he had the access of benefit to a wealthy social circle but has really done an incredible amount with his life.
Regarding his race, I think California has a chaotic primary system whereby a white guy can sneak in amidst endless squabbling minorities and then the general is not competitive
Redistricting to eliminate one party or the other invariably involves sprinkling the opponents over otherwise safe districts. You'd think the holders of these safe districts would push back since their path to re-election becomes harder and more expensive.
As to Newsom's politics, since he doesn't have any core beliefs or mission, he'll spend all his time trying to get to the front of the parade. That'll mean reading the nuance of public popularity and adopting the position that polls >51%. To that end he'll just be a machine reflecting whatever good or bad positions the majority of Americans hold. It's HL Mencken democracy at its best.
So maybe a 100% Dem apportionment across the state is actually representative. A delegation of all Adam Schiffs might make C-SPAN entertaining again. I think the non-partisan top-two process of electing representatives (I assume that's how Congressional elections are conducted) might advantage more centrist candidates as the rabidly partisan districts are diluted a bit.
I don't know how CA is but that is what WA is like and you would think it would result in some 3rd party candidates getting through or whatever but indeed in a ton of districts 2 people of the same party make it to the general and the more centrist one almost inevitably wins.
Also I can't remember if federal elections are like that in WA...the state legislature ones definitely are though
I sometimes wonder how it is the only dating scammers- not the random Indians, but like the people on Cat Fish or in documentaries about successful ones- do it, and then realize if you have a certain skillset and are just pretending to be the person you’re sure the other person wants you to be, it is not all that damn hard if you can find a mark.
Anyway, that is Newsom.
He really thrives at that sort of format, it is why he loves town halls, he can only passably give a speech but you get him in shorter answers and he just combines 3-5 short facts/talking points in a seemingly random order and can answer any question.
His dimwittedness is actually much more apparent when he tries to describe his own life
I have been watching newsome for many years , he has an ackward weird movement in his one hand , like he can't controll it , seems to be his left hand . He holds a mic with his other hand and the other hand just moves out of control , like TD ,from drugs maybe . It looks so bazarre . the way he uses his hands .
Suffering from ADHD myself, I skipped over the Alcibiades preface until reading some comments informed me of how relevant it is to Newsom. Consider me disquieted.
That was a fun read. It took me a while to get around to reading it, but I am glad I did. It also remined me how thoroughly exhausting the 2024 campaign was.
[by having a podcast between us, Alexis and I are only half pulling our weight.]
Slackers!! 😄
Great article, and the comparison to Alcibiades is great, if only because I would actually have loved to meet him in person, and might have considered voting for him if I was sufficiently pissed about something or other.
Lmao yeah I considered kind of doing a whole article making the comparison but figured he is really famous and there is plenty to say about Newsom on his own
I am so glad for you that you are optimistic enough to assume that Alcibiades is famous, out there in the wide internettins fields!! 🤣
One of the weird things about Newsom is that his family seems like a genuinely happy, functional one. Maybe one day one of the kids will write a memoir of how horrible it was, who knows, but that 's not what the pics seem to show today
Well, I was immune to Bill Clinton's purported charms and even less susceptible to Newsom's, though I did with great foolishness vote for Obama twice so I don't got so much to be proud of, really.
So I'm certainly left puzzling over your final paragraph since you seem to have nailed the guy quite well. Though I'll never understand man or woman calling him good-looking. I find him physically repulsive in addition to all the other ways he's skeezy.
But isn't it awful how it seems a requirement for all candidates for the Presidency to have been badly fucked up by their fathers and their mothers, each in their own special way (the parents I mean). Perhaps no normal healthy person chooses to go into politics.
Anyway I clicked over from Alex Berenson's piece and this was certainly useful reading.
I don't understand anything about class? I'm pretty sure I've forgotten more about the topic than you ever knew! And you can nitpick this or that. It seems to be your specialty. But the Roosevelt fortune was mostly gone by the time he came along. And the phrase 1st class temperament, 2nd class intellect was commonly used to describe FDR in his own time. If you google it you'll see FDR will come up as an example. Nowadays we would say he was very high in emotional intelligence. But you are wedded to your view. And I don't really care.
I have to disagree with you. The phrase 1st rate temperament and a 2nd class intellect, not 3rd rate as I said previously, was one applied to him at the time. So the point is it was how he was seen, and he was underestimated as it turned out. And that it doesn’t change, notwithstanding the special interest he might have had in geology, or in other esoteric subjects.
Direct quote from John Gunther, who knew almost every world leader of that era,
"Of course, Mr. Roosevelt was a genius. In some respects he was a supreme genius."
I can't control how people may have viewed things, but I quite deeply researched Gavin Newsom which includes many things about himself, either telling his own story or him explaining how he came to understand various things which provide a more incisive picture into his character and mode of thinking than he perhaps realized. He is obviously dimwitted based on the things he says to people in interviews about himself, on top of which he got a 960 on his SATs which is actual empirical data about his intelligence, and one cannot write that off due to his dyslexia, as it means he also cannot do math.
In the abstract it is possible that he would have some obscure genius for leadership due to his unique traits, except we also know him to be a terrible political executive based on his time as the governor of our highest population state.
What I said was a well known description of FDR. The fact that someone wrote a book and comes up with a different conclusion hardly counteracts the view that was common in his own day. You can believe whatever you wish about Newsom, but the similarities are there - both from wealthy families, both well connected in ways that aided them politically, both not regarded as the brightest contenders, both considered opportunists, and both successful at winning elections. That’s what counts, even if a random biographer has a different take.
Newsom is not from a wealthy family. You are not even able to understand the basic facts of his life as I laid out in the article. His father spent his life living beyond his means on the verge of bankruptcy whereas his mother was the normal kind of poor. Roosevelt on the other hand was a patrician's patrician from some of the nation's oldest stock. You seem to not even understand fairly basic concepts about economic class.
John Gunther is not a "random biographer," he was one of the most famous journalists in the world during Roosevelt's lifetime and wrote the most extensive volume on life in America ever produced (Inside U.S.A.) which incidentally extensively covered the attitude towards Roosevelt in every US state. This is a man who entered Sicily with General Eisenhower and whose assessments of the personality of political leaders were used by the entire American and British ruling class in the 1930's and 40's, including by Roosevelt himself.
This conversation is clearly pointless to continue further.
That’s because you know nothing about FDR. Many people considered him a not too bright rich kid before he became president. In fact FDR was described as having a first rate temperament and a 3rd rate intellect, and that was by admirers.
I'm reading Roosevelt in Retrospect by John Gunther right now actually, and nothing about how he is described is anything like Gavin Newsom. Their backgrounds are also not at all the same. Roosevelt was from old money Dutch stock whereas Newsom is merely the child of a social climber.
Further, Roosevelt was in fact known for his incredible intellect, but yes he was kind of unusual in terms of having a lack of interest in the abstract aspects of things. However, everyone who knew him said the breadth of his knowledge, particularly of geography, was incredible and he was actually an obsessive reader and collector of books (and all sorts of other things) to the extent that before his first inauguration a family member had to go around paying off his debts at many book stores so he didn't enter the Presidency with a bunch of petty debts he wouldn't have time to get around to paying.
He was also quite notable for his ability to spin a narrative, not just his famed fireside chats but also a tendency to tell quite lengthy anecdotes before getting down to business about important events.
As I read your lengthy anti-Newsom screed, I asked myself, how much of this could be said about FDR before his presidency, or perhaps of other Democrats presidents? Does any of this tell us anything about how effective he might be as president, as opposed to how much you dislike Newsom?
My favorite incident of Newsom’s turning bowls of shit into fresh cream was the re-opening of the biggest LA freeway, burned and melted in a dramatic fire after neglecting years of warnings about the heaps of flammable junk swept under the overpass. All the striving Dems, Newsom, Karen Bass, Padilla and Kamala celebrated their competence and smooth executive ability after propping it back up a few days ahead of schedule with never a peep about the cause.
that checks out. Sounds like they could have been using convicts to clean up junk instead of fight fires lol
That would be proactive tho. You gotta have disasters to create opportunity.
As a Canadian who grew up in the Trudeau era, GN reeks of someone with the same narcissistic and false persona, except with a possibly deeper malice.
The one positive thing about the horrible and disgusting man beyond words Justin T was that at least every single person in the country, including JT, knew he was literally retarded.
Everyone knew he was only elected because he was good looking, and past that he was just a pure puppet front men for globalist WEF forces.
New scum is the same, except there’s a deeper aura of evil about him, a sort of joker vibe that sexually delights in destruction for its own sake.
Trudeau and GN are the same, and we are all much much worse off for it.
Gavin Newsom does have a joker vibe for sure, I almost made such a reference in the article, but had already criticized Marvel brain lol.
People definitely think Gavin Newsom is much smarter than he is but the thing about him not understanding complex narratives is really deep insight into him as a person, since humans are naturally storytellers and understand things from storytelling. You know Trump, for example, for all I know has never completed a novel in his life, but is a wonderful storyteller and a master of narrative.
Do many Canadians believe that JT is Fidel Castro's son? Or do they even care? The evidence seems highly suggestive that JT's bio dad was the Cuban revolutionary. JT always struck me as a homosexual white theater actor dude pretending to be straight because that's what his political advisors told him the public wanted to see. Sort of like the president of France.
Agree on the strong parallels between JT and Newsom. Anglosphere countries' white men of power. Sad.
It depends on what you're asking.
If you're asking is JT the son of Castro, the answer is very likely yes. There was an excellent expose article that came out in Canada in Trudeaus early PM days that suspiciously went very quiet very quickly. His (supposed) father, Pierre, was a well known womanizer (and occultist) who married jays mother when she was 18, and he was about 55 (nothing odd there). The mother's visits to Cuba were well known. It's a very greasy, and wicked family.
Do Canadians care? No. Not at all. Canadians, much, much more than Americans, are some of the mostly highly propagandized people on planet earth.
This is spot on: "He is basically just an ambitious sociopath with a learning disability who managed to become immensely powerful due to his coping mechanisms combining with a variety of circumstances beyond his control." And I have covered this political narcissist for two decades.
Great article - thanks !
Learned more about Newsom than had known before. To be honest I always found confusing his status as a white American straight dude running the most leftist, beautiful, wacky, wealthy state in the country as bizarre. Has always seemed to me that California should be governed by anyone *but* a straight white dude. But what do I know.
It sorta makes sense - attractive, athletic, charismatic dude ingratiates himself to the wealthy elite; gets them to help him into political office, he serves as their toady and at the same time relieves his own status anxiety. Symbiosis. Makes sense. This approach is only for the shameless sociopath.
Your article also highlights what a smoke and mirrors sham so much of American political public life is. Newsom says what he's supposed to say per current cultural dictates to advocate and encourage the destruction and degeneration of California society - but would he and his wife and 4 kids ever want to partake of said destructive degenerate life? No way. Countless of our two-faced duplicitous politicians are like this. We pay them to sham us in front of our face.
I'm a GenX guy (Newsom a few years older than me) - *all* of us knew dudes in school like Gavin - energetic, charistmatic, generally athletic but not athletic stars, who sadly seemed close to crashing and burning too many times.... but they somehow always pulled through. Honestly man you gotta respect the dude's grit and perseverance somewhat.
I pray that Gavin recenters himself somehow and finds his soul someday - and that he does this process far away from the White House.
Yeah you know he had the access of benefit to a wealthy social circle but has really done an incredible amount with his life.
Regarding his race, I think California has a chaotic primary system whereby a white guy can sneak in amidst endless squabbling minorities and then the general is not competitive
Redistricting to eliminate one party or the other invariably involves sprinkling the opponents over otherwise safe districts. You'd think the holders of these safe districts would push back since their path to re-election becomes harder and more expensive.
As to Newsom's politics, since he doesn't have any core beliefs or mission, he'll spend all his time trying to get to the front of the parade. That'll mean reading the nuance of public popularity and adopting the position that polls >51%. To that end he'll just be a machine reflecting whatever good or bad positions the majority of Americans hold. It's HL Mencken democracy at its best.
It depends how careful you are, California has plenty of 60+ dem districts
So maybe a 100% Dem apportionment across the state is actually representative. A delegation of all Adam Schiffs might make C-SPAN entertaining again. I think the non-partisan top-two process of electing representatives (I assume that's how Congressional elections are conducted) might advantage more centrist candidates as the rabidly partisan districts are diluted a bit.
I don't know how CA is but that is what WA is like and you would think it would result in some 3rd party candidates getting through or whatever but indeed in a ton of districts 2 people of the same party make it to the general and the more centrist one almost inevitably wins.
Also I can't remember if federal elections are like that in WA...the state legislature ones definitely are though
I listened to Newsom's podcast with Kirk, and he came across as extremely likeable, genuine, and brave for being willing to talk across the aisle.
Of course, not long after Newsom told Kirk that boys should not compete in girls' sports, he voted to allow boys in girls' sports.
Sociopath is correct. As is that he is a very strong candidate for president in 2028.
I sometimes wonder how it is the only dating scammers- not the random Indians, but like the people on Cat Fish or in documentaries about successful ones- do it, and then realize if you have a certain skillset and are just pretending to be the person you’re sure the other person wants you to be, it is not all that damn hard if you can find a mark.
Anyway, that is Newsom.
He really thrives at that sort of format, it is why he loves town halls, he can only passably give a speech but you get him in shorter answers and he just combines 3-5 short facts/talking points in a seemingly random order and can answer any question.
His dimwittedness is actually much more apparent when he tries to describe his own life
I have been watching newsome for many years , he has an ackward weird movement in his one hand , like he can't controll it , seems to be his left hand . He holds a mic with his other hand and the other hand just moves out of control , like TD ,from drugs maybe . It looks so bazarre . the way he uses his hands .
Suffering from ADHD myself, I skipped over the Alcibiades preface until reading some comments informed me of how relevant it is to Newsom. Consider me disquieted.
I kept the reference brief!
He's perfect, mad like the current and last mad fuckers.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-176592197
That was a fun read. It took me a while to get around to reading it, but I am glad I did. It also remined me how thoroughly exhausting the 2024 campaign was.
[by having a podcast between us, Alexis and I are only half pulling our weight.]
Slackers!! 😄
Great article, and the comparison to Alcibiades is great, if only because I would actually have loved to meet him in person, and might have considered voting for him if I was sufficiently pissed about something or other.
Lmao yeah I considered kind of doing a whole article making the comparison but figured he is really famous and there is plenty to say about Newsom on his own
I am so glad for you that you are optimistic enough to assume that Alcibiades is famous, out there in the wide internettins fields!! 🤣
One of the weird things about Newsom is that his family seems like a genuinely happy, functional one. Maybe one day one of the kids will write a memoir of how horrible it was, who knows, but that 's not what the pics seem to show today
Well, he's at least sufficiently well documented that we know the name of his Spartan nurse, which is uncommon
Well, I was immune to Bill Clinton's purported charms and even less susceptible to Newsom's, though I did with great foolishness vote for Obama twice so I don't got so much to be proud of, really.
So I'm certainly left puzzling over your final paragraph since you seem to have nailed the guy quite well. Though I'll never understand man or woman calling him good-looking. I find him physically repulsive in addition to all the other ways he's skeezy.
But isn't it awful how it seems a requirement for all candidates for the Presidency to have been badly fucked up by their fathers and their mothers, each in their own special way (the parents I mean). Perhaps no normal healthy person chooses to go into politics.
Anyway I clicked over from Alex Berenson's piece and this was certainly useful reading.
I don't understand anything about class? I'm pretty sure I've forgotten more about the topic than you ever knew! And you can nitpick this or that. It seems to be your specialty. But the Roosevelt fortune was mostly gone by the time he came along. And the phrase 1st class temperament, 2nd class intellect was commonly used to describe FDR in his own time. If you google it you'll see FDR will come up as an example. Nowadays we would say he was very high in emotional intelligence. But you are wedded to your view. And I don't really care.
I have to disagree with you. The phrase 1st rate temperament and a 2nd class intellect, not 3rd rate as I said previously, was one applied to him at the time. So the point is it was how he was seen, and he was underestimated as it turned out. And that it doesn’t change, notwithstanding the special interest he might have had in geology, or in other esoteric subjects.
geography, which is not an esoteric subject
Direct quote from John Gunther, who knew almost every world leader of that era,
"Of course, Mr. Roosevelt was a genius. In some respects he was a supreme genius."
I can't control how people may have viewed things, but I quite deeply researched Gavin Newsom which includes many things about himself, either telling his own story or him explaining how he came to understand various things which provide a more incisive picture into his character and mode of thinking than he perhaps realized. He is obviously dimwitted based on the things he says to people in interviews about himself, on top of which he got a 960 on his SATs which is actual empirical data about his intelligence, and one cannot write that off due to his dyslexia, as it means he also cannot do math.
In the abstract it is possible that he would have some obscure genius for leadership due to his unique traits, except we also know him to be a terrible political executive based on his time as the governor of our highest population state.
What I said was a well known description of FDR. The fact that someone wrote a book and comes up with a different conclusion hardly counteracts the view that was common in his own day. You can believe whatever you wish about Newsom, but the similarities are there - both from wealthy families, both well connected in ways that aided them politically, both not regarded as the brightest contenders, both considered opportunists, and both successful at winning elections. That’s what counts, even if a random biographer has a different take.
Newsom is not from a wealthy family. You are not even able to understand the basic facts of his life as I laid out in the article. His father spent his life living beyond his means on the verge of bankruptcy whereas his mother was the normal kind of poor. Roosevelt on the other hand was a patrician's patrician from some of the nation's oldest stock. You seem to not even understand fairly basic concepts about economic class.
John Gunther is not a "random biographer," he was one of the most famous journalists in the world during Roosevelt's lifetime and wrote the most extensive volume on life in America ever produced (Inside U.S.A.) which incidentally extensively covered the attitude towards Roosevelt in every US state. This is a man who entered Sicily with General Eisenhower and whose assessments of the personality of political leaders were used by the entire American and British ruling class in the 1930's and 40's, including by Roosevelt himself.
This conversation is clearly pointless to continue further.
That’s because you know nothing about FDR. Many people considered him a not too bright rich kid before he became president. In fact FDR was described as having a first rate temperament and a 3rd rate intellect, and that was by admirers.
I'm reading Roosevelt in Retrospect by John Gunther right now actually, and nothing about how he is described is anything like Gavin Newsom. Their backgrounds are also not at all the same. Roosevelt was from old money Dutch stock whereas Newsom is merely the child of a social climber.
Further, Roosevelt was in fact known for his incredible intellect, but yes he was kind of unusual in terms of having a lack of interest in the abstract aspects of things. However, everyone who knew him said the breadth of his knowledge, particularly of geography, was incredible and he was actually an obsessive reader and collector of books (and all sorts of other things) to the extent that before his first inauguration a family member had to go around paying off his debts at many book stores so he didn't enter the Presidency with a bunch of petty debts he wouldn't have time to get around to paying.
He was also quite notable for his ability to spin a narrative, not just his famed fireside chats but also a tendency to tell quite lengthy anecdotes before getting down to business about important events.
As I read your lengthy anti-Newsom screed, I asked myself, how much of this could be said about FDR before his presidency, or perhaps of other Democrats presidents? Does any of this tell us anything about how effective he might be as president, as opposed to how much you dislike Newsom?
more or less none of it could be said about FDR