"... and has endeared himself to his party rank-and-file by criticizing Democratic leaders for not fighting harder before leading by example to confront Donald Trump.... Newsom is also the best-positioned Democrat according to the new rules of politics — namely, whether you are or can become famous by breaking through on social media. Ask yourself: How many other potential candidates are plausible celebrities who can transcend the political-pop culture divide a la Obama and Trump?..."
I'm reading "Admit It. Gavin Newsom Is the 2028 Front-runner.
For years, Democrats and pundits have rolled their eyes at Gavin Newsom. But he’s positioned better than anyone else for the future of politics" by Jonathan Martin, in Politico.
At one point, Martin observes, "Newsom sounded like he was reading the stage directions, a la Bush 41, saying: 'Message, I care.'" He said: "You’ve got to be on the other side of caution. It’s just clarity, conviction. Finding your voice, being your authentic self, just letting it rip, and taking the shit along the way."
I was surprised to read "presents younger than 58 because of his hair and genes" — I thought it was politically incorrect to mention genes.
AND: I'm reminded of the old theory that the man with the best hair wins. Remember this one:
"We've got better vision. We've got better ideas. We've got real plans. We've got a better sense of what's happening to America. And we've got better hair. I'll tell you, that goes a long way."
The link goes to an old post of mine. You'll see the person who said "we've got better hair" went on to lose, and you'll see my contemporaneous statement that it was not good hair and that the only good hair was on the person who actually did win.
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I thought it was politically incorrect to mention genes.
Only if you’re a woman.
A biological woman, you know, the two X chromosomes.
The Democrats: from the party of the people to the party of social media and hair.
celebrities who can transcend the political-pop culture divide
This is a more plausible description of Michelle Obama than Governor Hair Gel.
It’s the policies that are unpopular…
Such is the state of the Democratic Party. Within a day of each other, lead stories are about Michelle Obama’s fight to straighten her hair, and Gavin Newsom’s greatest strength: his hair.
Such is the struggle of the party of the people.
As was demonstrated the last couple of times it doesn’t really matter who the person is. Clean orator or nursing home wanderer or amazingly unpopular paramour- it doesn’t matter. They won’t be called on for policy making or some such…
58 years in San Francisco, his whole life. If you’re surrounded by manure for that long, it would be a culture shock to smell fresh air.
Bernie Sanders looks like he’s about to cough up a hairball.
Oh, I hope he runs. The ads write themselves. "Six weeks to flatten the curve." French Laundry noshing while beaches, schools, and churches are closed, barkeeps arrested for defying orders, corrupt associates, CO2-belching wildfires (soon to be followed by floods and mud)... the beat goes on.
Odd that even a hack like Martin could praise Newsom’s social media team when they are actually internet famous for being so lame in trying to emulate Trump, and have been caught spreading misinformation and strange memes celebrating death and attacks on conservatives. The media strategy so far is more tone-deaf than any comms from any legitimate candidate in my lifetime. Only a fucking loser Leftist like Gavin (who has lost every legal battle vs Trump) could be continually buoyed by the prog tongue-bath specialists at Politico, the blog for cult lefties
Of course Newsom is popular with rich leftists who vote in the Dem primary, but he isn't popular with most voters. He is exactly the kind of person that voters are sick of - rich, entitled, performative, wrong on the issues regular people care about. He main benefit is that he is better than the parade of losers who may also be candidates in 2028.
Like every good commie Gavin had an 8-year Plan to End Homelessness in San Fran when he was sworn in late in the twentieth century and here we are closing out the first quarter of the 21st century and like every communist multi-year plan Gavin’s has been forgotten by all the right people and of course never did what it claimed.
It was a smashing success though, for it did get him elected Mayor of shitville.
Trump is the last of the old-style Presidents that make their own policy decisions.
Gavins many faults and problems won’t matter when he’s the new messiah. It’s the better messaging…
We’re going to imagine that the Democrats will hold real, contested primaries? On what evidence?
What a fool.
Why is this even a talking point right now? The current administration has not completed year one. I’m old enough to recall constant elections was something to be criticized here on this blog. Times and minds have changed…
Let it be so
All the Democrats would need to do is come up with a candidate who isn't a complete loon, and they would win easily. But they can't seem to find one.
It's a comfort to know that the day will come when Gavin Newsome will view the presidency not as a great accomplishment but as a 'bleak mountain' that he is obliged to ascend.
Genes and IQ is forbidden, and so to some extent approaches are as well.
.. "— I thought it was politically incorrect to mention genes. "
like EVERY THING else, it's Only Wrong when republicans do it.
There is only the Single Standard: Democrats Always Right
This would all be well and good if Newsom were a blank slate, but he doesn’t. He has a record and calling it abysmal would be an understatement. There is not a single issue that cannot be hung around his neck like an albatross.
And don’t forget that he banged his best friend’s wife.
A candidate literally standing on a mountain of aahes
Bad jeans are too expensive.
The male Kamala, searching for a way to sound authentic.
Herr …… er ….. Hair Newsome was appointed by Fast Willie Brown as head of the Parking and Traffic Commission at the ripe old age of 29. So Newsome’s grounding in the bureaucratic maze began at a young age. He worked his way up the ladder and received his Ph’d in Socialist Destruction as governor. Bigger and better targets await him.
Too eager to apear on Joe Rogan.
Captain Terrill (The Outlaw Josey Wales): “ Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.”
So it is with Newsome. Chaos, devastation and poverty. Did I forget feces. Why, yes I did.
This is the slop aid was paying for?
How tall is he?
Try this out for fun: ask AI if Jennifer Siebel Newsom has ever killed anyone. AI will bend reality and the truth to tell you ‘No’.
Except she has.
I know her parents fled to florida that tells you everything
He's positioned because you leftists in the behave-obey media are saying he is positioned.
What about the voters?
Oh right.... It's all the empire Oligarchy Mob rule Soros game on the left. who will be the obedient one.
Remember- and never forget- NEWSUM KISSED BIDEN'S RING.
Have the Dems finally worked their way out of the corner they painted themselves into with Woke? Being a white male is no longer disqualifying?
Newsom suffers from dyslexia and is open about receiving an SAT score of 960 (in the days the top score was 1600). I'm afraid he lacks the raw capacity to do the job.
They persist in not getting it: "the new rules of politics — namely, whether you are or can become famous by breaking through on social media" is not why we got Trump. (And to whoever pointed out that Newsom's social media team is a joke up thread - I see it exactly the same way. They're exactly like Bush's "Message: I care" - cargo cultists building that wooden model of the airplane.)
They keep looking for the secret sauce. Why? Why don't they understand that thinking for oneself and speaking one's mind are not scripted or focus-grouped, and that if the best you can do to fake it is profanity and belligerence, it only gets clearer that you have no ideas and no plans? They're in charge of Hollywood - shouldn't they understand that, if only a handful of actors every year deserve an Oscar for their ability to make us believe that they are the characters they play, the chances of a politician doing it successfully are miniscule?
I'm not going to say he won't win, although as I keep telling my husband the Californian, I think some Democrats are underestimating how much a lot of the rest of the country loathes Californians, especially the obliviously bossy ones. But it won't be because Newsom is a wunderkind of some New Politics. It'll be because there are a lot of Democrats who voted for Biden despite its being obvious during the 2016 campaign that he was steeply declining: blue or die.
’How many other potential candidates are plausible celebrities who can transcend the political-pop culture divide...’
I guess they’ll have to rally around good hair since the Dems can’t run on the twin disasters of Obamacare and the Inflation Reduction Act.
An obvious typo. Should read - good hair and jeans.
Cheney did get better eyeglasses.
No authentic reality on the left. It's all managed.
Politico confirms its a garbage publication as if there was any doubt
Joe Biden had an SAT score of 800 and he was President.
Gavin Newsom has American Psycho hair.
Newsome isn't just "open borders" - he thinks its immoral to enforce the immigration laws. Or keep any bi-ped that touches USA soil from having access to free Government services or the voting booth.
He owns a MJ farm and uses illegal aliens. Very cheap labor, i hear. What a smart businessman. Pays them a pittance. No labor unions for them. harhar. Pockets lots of $$. Typical Elite Democrat.
Donald Trump had horrible hair in 2016. It was one of the reasons people were so sure he would lose. (His hair is fine, now, which is kind of strange if you think about it).
He's not even orange anymore. He's normalizing before our eyes.
James spader could have played him in the 90s
Democrat POTUS dont have to be smart. They delegate and sign off. MSM protects them and praises them. Biden's behavior in 2020 - almost no press conferences, all questions prescreened. Very few speeches - would've destroyed him if he'd been a Republican.
I was sure Eisenhower would disprove the hair theory.
Until I Iooked up Adlai Stevenson.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
Odd that even a hack like Martin could praise Newsom’s social media team when they are actually internet famous for being so lame in trying to emulate Trump, and have been caught spreading misinformation and strange memes celebrating death and attacks on conservatives.
Yes, but his bumbling performances still lap the field on the port side.
To the liberal/left every loss is a chance to reexamine the marketing strategy. The product is considered perfect. All it needs is right spokesman or selling point.
The MSM has decided they went too far, too fast, with the "lets run a Female POC". America isn't ready. "Lets go back to a white man in a suit"
narciso @8:11, too right! Young James Spader is perfect casting.
"Insurance policy" - that's my new name for the corrupt democrat party machine.
Rogan must cringe AT the line of vapids that make up the democratic party
Gavin has brought so much ruin to California yet they still elevate him
Newsome is also Israel first - all the way. Hates Russia. war in ukraine forever! Big Donors love him. If you're looking for some "income equality" or "One payer health care", well look somewhere else. Bernie Bros will crab but will vote for him anyway. Just like always.
Proud to call himself the "Sanctuary Governor" back in the day (Trump's first term). Like Joe Biden, his banal intellect lets him be whatever the Party needs (pretend centrist), and the machers know he'll let them run things if he's successful. Back to open borders, green new deal and modern monetary theory..
A quick search on the subject William Ashbless raised, which I'd never heard about before, led to a NY Post article. Jennifer Siebel's sister was killed when they were playing around a golf cart. Jennifer was six and the sister was eight. Apparently Jennifer accidently backed over her sister.
Terrible and tragic, but hardly a reflection on her character as the comment seems to imply.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/15/gavin-newsoms-wife-opens-up-about-accidentally-killing-sister/
They are all sociopaths they deserve each other
Newsome didn't bring ruin to himself or his buddies. They're doing great. MJ farms, silicon valley, the entertainment industry, government contractors, real estate. Everythings booming - for them. Too bad that's a small percentage, but y'know.
Neither did your fave obama but we're still recovering from the ruin
Newsom is someone with the guts to throw Trump’s shtick right back at him. The Democrats tried the “high road” and it flopped. You can’t out-dignify a playground bully and you sure can’t out-reason his MAGA cult. Nor could the Republicans. They gave in to this cancer and it ate them alive.
The Trump base will never like anybody with half a spine, so the only real option is to mock them relentlessly and make sure they learn to respect what they’ll never embrace. Newsom gets at least the first part: he’s giving disillusioned Democrats a reason to cheer and showing the spectacle-hungry middle that he can beat Trump at his own show.
California is a super-state. It’s full of ubersmart and motivated people many of who work to make the state even better as an avocation. It’s a scientific leader that has brought incredibly forward thinking management of resources and people to the state and the country. It has hands down the best unified college/university system in the world and this serves to help keep its people upwardly mobile and the economy buzzing. It faces problems head on and doesn’t give up with setbacks. And Newsom was there managing and balancing almost 40,000,000 people. There is no other place in the US like it. Certainly a contrast to the sinister and pathetic mafia show in Washington.
Saint Croix said...
I was sure Eisenhower would disprove the hair theory.
Until I Iooked up Adlai Stevenson.
Truman over Dewey, though Truman did only win by a whisker.
Kak-a-poo
"Newsom is someone with hired X employees who throw Trump’s shtick right back at him."
fixed.
Ruin is their watchword
The race is with Butti to see who can win Annie Leibowvitz to follow them around and photograph their inevitability
Seems to me to be a too slick, oily villain in a Batman movie.
Thomas elliot hush in a number of iterations
He wont need a deaf interpreter.
"Kakistocracy said...
Newsom is someone with the guts to throw Trump’s shtick right back at him. The Democrats tried the “high road” and it flopped."
LOL. But you what's dumber than this? This:
"California is a super-state. It’s full of ubersmart and motivated people many of who work to make the state even better as an avocation. It’s a scientific leader that has brought incredibly forward thinking management of resources and people to the state and the country. It has hands down the best unified college/university system in the world and this serves to help keep its people upwardly mobile and the economy buzzing. It faces problems head on and doesn’t give up with setbacks."
Malibu and PP fires. Still in ashes. No rebuilds. Homeless problem? Billions spent. Problem is worse. Crime? Worse. High speed cho-chos. Billions spent. No fucking trains.
Mass exodus of business and wealthy people OUT of the state.
’The Trump base will never like anybody with half a spine, so the only real option is to mock them relentlessly and make sure they learn to respect what they’ll never embrace.’
Good luck with that, Sparky.
"Newsom suffers from dyslexia and is open about receiving an SAT score of 960 (in the days the top score was 1600). I'm afraid he lacks the raw capacity to do the job."
'I went to Walter Reed Hospital to get a brain scan. The doctors found nothing.' ~ Donald Trump
His record is incredible levels of corruption, failure, and stupidity, and that doesn't matter one bit to Democrats. Absolutely nothing matters but his bona fides on Trump hate, and Trump won't even be running. How do you appeal to minds like that to change? You can't. Hair or anything else will suffice as an excuse.
"The Democrats tried the “high road” and it flopped."
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!
That's only one ridiculous statement in the fantasy post above.
Literally never has there been a less authentic politician. Newsom is the embodiment of Groucho’s “These are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.” (Also, the best way to watch video of him is with the sound off.)
The only Democrat governor of California in the last 50 years who was not slavered over by Leftists and media seeking a Presidential candidate?
Gray Davis. He was so bad even California voters recalled him.
Kak comes out swinging!
Newsom is someone with the guts to throw Trump’s shtick right back at him.
The guts?! Exactly what "guts" does it take to mock Trump? College girls who tip the scales at 95 pounds do it constantly. What "guts" does it take to oppose Trump? The worst thing he ever does to his opposition is call them names - if being called names without melting is your standard for courage, get your T checked, because I might have more than you and I'm a post-menopausal woman.
The Democrats tried the “high road” and it flopped.
Hahahahaha, when was it that Democrats actually tried the high road rather than just saying they were taking it? The endless repetition of "Hitler," "fascists," "Nazis," "white supremacism," "racism" "misogyny," "pedophile," "cult," "billionaires," "dictator," "puppet"... whatever high-negative-connotation term your side thinks they could make stick to Trump or anyone who supports him, in every media outlet, every press release, every social media post - the vast majority of which they still control. The secret investigations. The spurious lawsuits. The invented crimes to justify criminal prosecution. The malicious compliance from entrenched government functionaries. The deliberate punishment of working class and impoverished Americans. The constant, dripping disdain. This has been the "high road"?
California is a super-state, in the same way that Britain at the start of the 20th century was a super-empire, though for different reasons. It is resource-rich, has ideal weather in certain areas, and has attracted a lot of smart, ambitious, creative people over the decades, first because of its physical advantages and then by gravitational pull.
But do you live here? Because I did, and I'm in California now, and my entire family, my husband's entire family, and many of our college friends still do live here, and I have some ground truth to report: in this super-state, Bogle Winery was able to buy some damn fine grapes this year because the wine market is collapsing for Napa growers. My college-age relatives have no plans to move out of their parents' houses because of the expense - and in some cases, because of the culture of safetyism to which they and their parents have fallen prey. Lunch at Carl's Jr. for three costs $50 - and that predates the dreaded tariffs. Gas is double what I pay in Texas. The roads of the capital might as well be unpaved. No houses are being built n the city limits. No apartments are being built in the city limits. Giant piles of trash, the size of a city bus, are a common sight on ordinary streets. On my morning walks through what used to be a middle class and must now, on the basis of home prices, be an upper middle class neighborhood, I regularly encounter people living in their cars.
Britain became the fragile shell of itself that it now is first through war and then through its own willful errors. California has been spared the war losses but man are they committed to willful erring.
Gavin Newsome's prominence as a candidate is a sign of desperation. But there are better Dem choices out there. If Gavin can demonstrate that Dems will accept a white male again, the others will emerge and Gavin will fade.
As long as Althouse doesn't have a dream about Newsome, we're still safe.
Newsome is the Democrat party’s Hair Apparent to the presidency.
Come to think of it, what were the qualifications for presidency of Kamala Harris or Barack Obama? The right genes, i.e., Black identity. The Party that claims that race (like sex) is just a social construct sure seems more obsessed than ever with racial and/or gender identity. But even when they're desperate to win the next election, the white men they turn to are anything but the "best and the brightest."
Gavin Newsom is the bad guy on a Miami Vice episode.
He plays a sketchy vice cop. Don Johnson says, "I don't know, there's something about that guy. I just don't trust him." Sure enough, he's a psychopath pretending to be a sleazy vice cop. Good episode!
Stephen mchattie comes to mind
"it was politically incorrect to mention genes" Apply the Althouse theorem. People don't believe what they profess to believe. Progs in particular. Beliefs are tools. Antigeneticism only goes in one direction.
Caste not genes a different thing altogether
You’re smoking crack Kak.
California is expected to lose four seats in the next census. Not a sign of success.
California ‘s income inequality is 45th.
38% of the population is on Medi-Cal. National average, including California dragging the number up is 26%.
Realtor.com rates California 48th in home affordability.
I used to compare California’ unemployment rate to the rest of the country but I stopped bothering after two decades because it was always higher.
Gas prices are projected to go up dramatically because refineries are shutting down.
California is on a downward path. Newsom steepened that descent.
"Has never lived a day outside of California"? Then it was a zombie avatar of Newsom who went down to a climate conference in Brazil and shot his mouth off--and entered into an international deal with Nigeria? The man has been traveling internationally promoting his Presidential ambitions for years now. Pro tip--there's nothing but naked ambition under that "great hair".
Newsom does not cut the mustard... he is a male Kamala...
Not many people actually have actual dyslexia (~1% of the population). It is hard to test for and often used as a substitute diagnosis for someone who is a poor reader or low IQ. My experience is that it is commonly used by rich parents to excuse the fact that their kid is just dumb.
"The Democrats tried the “high road” and it flopped."
When Democrats say they are on the "high road," what they mean is they are smoking crack while making their budget estimates for high-speed rail.
Oh yes, he’s the not so Great Pretender.
Gavin Nuisance.
The ONLY reason that Newsom is in the position he is in is because of his looks. They ordered him from Central Casting.
His skin suit is too well fitting
Marjorie Taylor Greene should run for president as a Democrat.
Newsome is the Democrat party’s Hair Apparent to the presidency.
We have a thread winner!
MTG is a nutter... and she is shifting left. That's what happens.
On the Brylcreem Boy's dyslexia--which our host mentioned above. It is a real problem for Gavin. He struggles to read a teleprompter. One year he gave his "state of the state" message from a podium in centerfield in Dodger Stadium. I'm not certain what he was reading from, but he was far enough away from any live witnesses that it didn't matter.
He's also not all that academically accomplished--see the 960 SAT when the max was 1,600. Still if "top of his law school class" Joe Biden (7 6th out of 85) having reached a state of near senility, can read a State of the Union address to Congress, I guess Newsom could manage it.
It's as if 20 years from now, some guy were to run for President and wear his hair like this.
"this" link goes to this: https://www.superseventies.com/sw_richgirl.html
That's pretty dead on, Althouse. But you knew that.
Marjorie Taylor Greene should run for president as a Democrat.
That would be great! Who is it, Marianne somebody, who runs perpetually on her signature Peace and Love platform? Taylor Greene could provide an alternative. Maybe we can someday get to British numbers of candidates, with British fragmentation of parties.
I think Gavin, to seal the Democrat nomination, needs to prove he has sucked a cock.
You can literally run Hitler on the Democrat ticket and guarantee about 50% of the two-party vote, so Newsom has good odds to become President if he can win the nomination.
Newsom's best chance to win the nomination was in 2024- just decently sized balls and he could have beaten Joe Biden in the primary and likely would have won the Presidency.
Democratic leadership are addicted to the "one simple trick to lose belly fat" class of internet memes as a tactic to counteract MAGA. The embracement if Gavin Newscum is just the current incarnation of get elected quick schemes that have failed.
There's no doubt about the power and wealth that has spawned in California. However, it has produced the greatest divide of income inequality and lifestyle inequality between the haves and the have nots.
When someone says they believe in progressive policies to properly interpret that statement you have to substitute the word regressive to understand the actual result of those programs.
And, from Maureen Dowd's column today on the latest Kennedy: "Many young people were excited to have another eligible Camelot heartthrob with a thick head of dark hair..."
The San Franciscan has never lived a day outside of California, presents younger than 58 because of his hair and genes...
"I don't like to see you come out to this clean country in oily hair... the dishonest way you pose yourself and your whole fucking family."
"I think Gavin, to seal the Democrat nomination, needs to prove he has sucked a cock."
He looks like someone who would. or at least his has been. this is important stuff on team D.
I remember when the Dems were pushing for Trump's 2016 nomination based on Trump's obvious unelectability. I want to avoid making the same mistake from the other side.
Do people really think that his Butt-Head hair is great?? WTH??
Howard @10:25, you have nailed it to the wall. I love when we can agree on something!
Democratic leadership are addicted to the "one simple trick to lose belly fat" class of internet memes as a tactic to counteract MAGA.
How many paragraphs do I usually take up to try to make this point?
But also Ampersand @10:48, yeah, me too...
A question Gov. Nuisance should ponder…
https://x.com/MCGOP_CA/status/1989877980282458184?s=20
The writer apparently believes that the presidential race is a beauty contest. Maybe it is. So much talk about Newsom's personal characteristics and so little about what he's actally done or not done seems wrong. But maybe the electorate really is so far gone that they'd elect a guy with the reverse Midas Touch if his hair was sleek and shiny enough.
Teh crack has made kak superwack.
He could have committsd himself to the rebuildinv of the palisades with private donors if necessary but he did the vanity project of redistricting in stead
If Gavin Newsom is the designated Dem candidate, then Marco Rubio should be able to waltz into White House. Newsom is a pitiful candidate, though marginally better than Harris was. California Dems need to find themselves better Dem candidates; Pelosi's designated successor is a far-left unhinged Trans lady - right?
California burned while Newsom fiddled and Bass brayed a DEIst cacophony.
Gavin Newsom should be playing Patrick Bateman in the upcoming remake of American Psycho.
>I thought it was politically incorrect to mention genes<
Someone's notion of what is politically incorrect is about as important as the number of likes one gets from strangers on social media posts.
Game win within reach of Washington Commanders, but field goal attempt misses. The holder named Way, teh kicker Matt Gay… kick is up, no good. Way Gay!
"The Democrats tried the “high road” and it flopped."
Attempting to kill your opponent is the "high road"?
Okay then.
Game of thrones rules
I had no idea what a dangerous dunce Newsom is until I moved back to California (having left 60 years ago). OTOH, look at the other prominent Democrats. Newsom is the Justin Trudeau of American politics.
Kak: ‘The Democrats tried the “high road” and it flopped.’ This sort of delusional thinking is of a kind with “Newsom for President.” We are surrounded by evidence that TDS destroys rational thinking to the point that only half of us are able to notice.
If a return to American normality is what you are hoping for, it is not obvious how you get there from here.
Free and fair elections would work. But the Supreme Court has been against free and fair elections for a generation. The Supreme Court is also against any Congressionally passed law that constrains presidential authority in any way. Goodbye Posse Comitatus law; hello ICE. The Venezuelans are a preview, not a sideshow.
When constitutionally sanctioned avenues for changing power are blocked, then the political power moves to the streets and revolution. The voter repression on election day next November will be relitigated starting the following day with a counter-revolution because democratic politics will have demonstrated its failure.
The 8 Democratic senators who caved have proved that Washington no longer works and that the reactionary autocracy now fundamentally allocates the resources, wealth, and income of the country. Washington only works for the superrich.
Just how much coup against the constitution do you need before you see the writing on the wall.
The 2020 elections were much like the sham they have been conducting in venezuela at least since 2012
Kak: you are 30-years too late. The Democrats sold out to the globalist hegemony during the Clinton administration after the debacle of Hillarycare.
It will be interesting to see if the Dems allow a full throttle primary race for the nomination, or if Newsom is just annointed and protected from intra-party take-down attempts. Otherwise he will be forced left to get the nomination, before he tacks back right to try to give the illusion of centrism. Can't wait to see that.
And the whole hands thing???
Well its a competition of who will out crazy themselves see the 1984 primary campaign
In 2020 they pretty much all commited to the same crazy agenda
If only Republicans could figure out how to run ads in Odorama.
Newsom will be considered far right by the time 2028 rolls around, so he might have a chance. My guess is that the Democrats will pick someone more radical, but I have no idea who. Name recognition might be the deciding factor.
Democrats need a pure blank slate. A cypher. Someone with no record at all. But who is very attractive.
Don’t dis Beiden, he was in the top 95% of his law school class.
when you see the crap that Quayle put up with, but he wasn't pure evil like this jackalope,
"But the Supreme Court has been against free and fair elections for a generation."
Enlighten us, Bich- which SCOTUS cases are you talking about? Be specific.
"Newsom suffers from dyslexia and is open about receiving an SAT score of 960 (in the days the top score was 1600). I'm afraid he lacks the raw capacity to do the job."
Ouch.
the mail ballot avalanche he endorses, was derided by baker and carter in 2005, around the time of a very contested election in Ukraine,
Kak: “ The 8 Democratic senators who caved have proved that Washington no longer works….Just how much coup against the constitution do you need”
Hm. By “caving,” they put an end to an extraconstitutional filibuster. Thus stopping another mini-coup against the constitution, as all filibusters are. And they got a bill passed, which would seem to be squarely within the parameters of a working Washington. CC, JSM
California is just fine if you happen to be a billionaire. There is a superstition that billionaires tend to be Republicans, like the little Monopoly man with the top hat and the dollar sign on his vest. The exception must be the California billionaires who own the place, otherwise it wouldn't be a Democrat one-party state.
Kak (12:20): “If a return to American normality is what you are hoping for, it is not obvious how you get there from here. … Just how much coup against the Constitution do you need before you see the writing on the wall.”
Despite, or perhaps in light of, this deluge of constitutional scholarship, I rest my case. (12:07)
Bob Boyd said...
If Gavin can demonstrate that Dems will accept a white male again, the others will emerge and Gavin will fade.
Josephbleau said...
Democrats need a pure blank slate. A cypher. Someone with no record at all. But who is very attractive.
If these two predictions do come to pass, I would be watching Kentucky's nepo baby governor, Andy Beshear.
"Mass exodus of business and wealthy people OUT of the state."
And there are still plenty of zillions who live in Calf - go look it up. Are you wealthy? If not, why the fuck do you care where rich people live? They sure as hell don't care about you.
Calf is terrible for average people. Its pretty Goddamn nice for rich people. And its nice for illegals and poor people. Its terrible for everyone else.
The Rich run the state Government. And they make sure it stays nice for rich people.
The white middle class and American small businesses have been moving out of Calf for 35 years. And guess what, the power elite in Calf, do..not..care. They've imported high-tech workers and rich people for overseas. And people have set up small businesses to cater to the immigrants. Legal and illegal.
Conservatives never want to fight, just run away. And then they want to believe "Well, we left. We showed them. Where's your great state, now liberals? Huh,huh?" And liberal/Leftists just laugh and say "We're doing just fine"
plenty of stupid people picked Jerry Brown, then Newsom, and eventually the reservoir is ruined, some of these people then migrate to Colorado and Arizona and Washington State, like an Andromeda colony of spores,
’When constitutionally sanctioned avenues for changing power are blocked, then the political power moves to the streets and revolution.’
Who knew Kak was a secret J6 sympathizer!! lol
As I mentioned several times before, the most objective measures of US state governance are electric power rates. There are absolutely no valid, circumstantial (non political/bureaucratic) reasons to have significantly higher rates in the lower 48. California has no reason to be charging over 2X as much as Arizone Nevada or Oregon.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a
Newsom is a creature of San Francisco/Sacramento, and the power rates come from there. A politician is no better than his milieu, and the CA political/governance milieu is indescribably awful. Newsom and his coterie will be a disaster.
CA has survived so far on the tremendous gifts of nature and generation of social and physical capital accumulated by better people. The current lot are drawing on and depleting this fund.
Note that Nevada Arizona and Oregon are mostly Democratic, at least recently. This criticism of mine is thus not (entirely) partisan. There is something "special" about California in an objective sense.
“CA has survived so far on the tremendous gifts of nature and generation of social and physical capital accumulated by better people. The current lot are drawing on and depleting this fund.”
That’s also Victor Davis Hanson’s take.
New England, New York and New Jersey are horribly run too, but not quite as badly as California.
Oh, I hope he runs. The ads write themselves. "Six weeks to flatten the curve." French Laundry noshing while beaches, schools, and churches are closed, barkeeps arrested for defying orders, corrupt associates, CO2-belching wildfires (soon to be followed by floods and mud)... the beat goes on.
It won't matter. In case you didn't notice, the left just elected a guy who openly admitted he wants to kill his political opponents. And their children.
Gavin's 'accomplishments' are nothing in comparison.
Oh, btw, you Americans should get on persecution and extermination of every anti-nuke campaigner that has ever been. No justice, no peace (and no nukes, due to perceptions of political risk). A lookback period of forty years will probably be necessary.
Talk is one thing, but power plants and pipelines and power grids are real. Death threats from some useless SOB in VA amount to just words. CA problems are real.
The Democrats tried the “high road” and it flopped.
I wouldn't call two assassination attempts the 'high road,' but maybe that's just me.
The left might choose Newsom. If they and their LIV crowd are so willfully blind that they are totally unaware of what he's done to California.
Likely a shoe in.
I wouldn't call two assassination attempts the 'high road,' but maybe that's just me.
Maybe it's a stretch to blame "The Democrats" as a group for the 2 failed and 2 successful political assassination attempts since last summer, but given the way they are always squawking about "stochastic terrorism", doesn't their constant torrent of venom and hatred certainly fit their own professed standards as a contributing factor?
Even more disturbing was the Left's widespread jubilation after the fact when Charlie Kirk and Brian Thompson were assassinated, and the even more widespread anguish when both of Trump's would-be assassins failed.
These were not just basement-dwelling nobodies spewing bile on the internet, either. I cut off all contact with a woman I had counted as a good friend for thirty years, an accomplished professional from a prominent family, after she VERY publicly lamented the fact that the kid on the roof had not killed Trump.
It's clear to me now that at least half of today's Democrats would be happy to see anyone killed who stood in the way of their crazed lust for power. We can't possibly share the same flag and territory with such depraved, dangerous, evil people. It is folly to go on considering them as fellow Americans. They are our worst enemies now.
Trump needs to use every tool that government power can offer to utterly destroy the Left's political influence and drive as many of them outside our borders as possible. If we fail, they will kill us all. Everything we do must be with that in mind. This is war.
by their own definition 'stochastic terrorism' yes they are complicit, the Alliance for Freedom that Bill Ayers is a party to, and other tentacles, that Data Republican has turned up
"Maybe it's a stretch to blame "The Democrats" as a group for the 2 failed and 2 successful political assassination attempts since last summer..."
Of the failed assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, which did you see more of from Democrats- sadness because of the attempt or sadness because it was not successful?
Of the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk, which did you see more of from Democrats- sadness because of the attempt or happiness because it was successful?
It's funny that you draw an allusion between Gavin and that prick John Kerry. They are both consummate narcissists, ex-tempo self-aggrandizing masters. But Kerry is the smarter one, he's the guy that knows the big money and graft comes from world government, not a state. And he knows how to pick his vulnerable widows, let's face it.
What did Lancey say to the Cincinnati Kid? ..."Like life, I guess. You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around you're second best. You might as well learn to live with it...."
When it comes to his record, Gavin Newsome is counting on the voters to be overtaken by the Hair-Gel-Man amnesia effect
"Long hair... makes an older man look like an unattractive woman! "
Still true today.
The only person more ridiculous and corrupt than Newsom is Jack Schlossberg. They'd make a fabulous ticket. I highly encourage the DNC overlords to push these insane hairy airheads on their constituency.
Following on Tina’s insightful comments, which on a quick read appear to be the only reference to Gavin’s festering corruption issues. He has been under investigation for corruption for three years and just last week his top adviser was arrested after three other targets on Newsom’s team pled guilty and agreed to cooperate. The aid arrested last week had refused to assist Garland’s DOJ when informed her boss was under investigation by the FBI. She also stole $250K from Newsom’s campaign funds.
So yeah let’s cheer him on like the braindead staff of the Politico.
Sending a chill down the spine of Progressives.
Today's SF Chronicle headline: "Newsom ramps up usage of religious references." It goes on - in a panic - "Overt and repeated mentions of Scripture a new feature of speeches."
Oh, the humanity.
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