February 13, 2026

"... Clavicular said he would vote for Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat, over Vice President JD Vance because he preferred Mr. Newsom’s looks to Mr. Vance’s. "

"'It wasn’t, like, a political statement at all,' Clavicular said later of his criticism of Mr. Vance. 'I was just saying he’s fat.' Of late, Clavicular has begun to refer to all politics as 'jester' — an insult in the looksmaxxing community that refers to a foolish waste of time.... Back in the van, [his female admirer] asked Clavicular if he thought looksmaxxing was 'inherently right-wing.' 'No,” he said. 'At the end of the day, I have such an influence over the movement that I could bring it in any direction I want.'"

77 comments:

Immanuel Rant said...

I am exhausted just after reading the quoted bit. Dear Lord.

Enigma said...

It'd make more sense if we saw his picks for President over the last 50 or so years. Taste? Gay? Traditional?

Jupiter said...

If Hitler was a faggot.

RCOCEAN II said...

is "narcissistic, status seeking young men" the new code word word for Gay?

MadisonMan said...

What could go wrong?

tim maguire said...

I hadn't even heard of this guy a couple days ago and now he's everywhere.

And so it goes...

boatbuilder said...

Is this another Zoolander movie?

Spiros said...

This guy is not going to age well and he'll turn to plastic surgeons. It's going to be sad. The plastic surgeons are going to mutilate him. Don't feel bad for him though -- he's a cruel narcissist and a loser.

Kai Akker said...

Still has some maxxing in front of him.

RideSpaceMountain said...

The Age of Narcissists gets more narcissistic every year.

RideSpaceMountain said...

I'm just going to go ahead and classify clav as a twinkfluencer.

Iman said...

Gee, is he still a Newscum fan after witnessing Gavy’s wife showing everyone just who wears the pants in that “marriage”.

Heartless Aztec said...

That's 1.5 seconds I'll never get back.

DrSquid said...

Is there nothing the NYT won't print?

Jimmy said...

ah yes, NYT showcasing the segment of the population it feels are important to America. Twinks, idiots, fools, and dystopian nightmares.

Whiskeybum said...

I’d say that lookmaxxing is “jester” - a foolish waste of time.

n.n said...

Trans? Left-wing ideology.

Jaq said...

"Is there nothing the NYT won't print?"

Oh, there's lots and lots that the NYT doesn't see fit to print. They prefer to shovel out this nonsense instead.

Leland said...

Oh No!! Anyway...

Jaq said...

I wonder if women who wear makeup, buy expensive clothes, get all manner of nips and tucks, are also referred to as "narcissistic and status obsessed."

Well such women are so common as to be unremarkable, it's when men do it that it becomes fodder for the NYT, which tells you something right there. Most men limit their "looksmaxxing" to keeping trim and exercising to stay in shape, and you know, showering and getting the occasional hair cut, so this guy is newsworthy. He sure seems to have a low image of women though, which he will probably tell you is justified by his experience. Fortunately for guys like me, there are all different kinds of women attracted to all different kinds of men.

Howard (not that Howard) said...

God help us.

Skeptical Voter said...

This guy goes for the "light in his loafers look". Tim Walz had it; J.D. Vance definitely doesn't have it. He's more like a reincarnation of U.S. Grant. And in fact J.D. Vance's political approach is reminiscent of Sam Grant's military approach. He'll hit them, hit them again and keep on doing it until the job is done.

Justin said...

I think the point here is that JD Vance is too ugly to be President. Which is true. Even if Republicans win in 2028, it won't be him.

Chest Rockwell said...

Clavicle? Testicle? Testicular?

Chest Rockwell said...

Honestly, I have no problem with him doing what he's doing. Making over 100K / month for Christ sake. Must be nice!

Fred Drinkwater said...

Justin, I WANT an ugly President. Enough pretty boys and pseudo-men. (What's Condoleeza Rice doing these days?)

Fred Drinkwater said...

...not suggesting Rice is ugly, sorry.

narciso said...

Who the fark is this tool

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narciso said...

Jd hasnt even let one city burn amateur

Clyde said...

Anyone foolish enough to vote for someone based on their looks deserves whatever happens to them.

n.n said...

Diversity? Left-wing ideology.

Beasts of England said...

I won’t make a call on JD’s looks, but I know a few women who find his eyes to be a selling point…

Ampersand said...

If only the rest of us could monetize their wisdom the way Braden Peters has.

Joe Bar said...

JFC

Jaq said...

California under Newsom has made a lot of progress in improving highway safety!

…private trucking programs charging $2,500 or less in tuition are exempt from licensing and regulation by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE). This has created a gray area where nearly 200 such schools issue non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) with little accountability.

Here is a CDL licensed driver who doesn't know how to turn on the headlights in the rig she is driving

https://x.com/LibOrNormal/status/2020271740195336205

Genius!

RideSpaceMountain said...

@Beasts, In the future, many a virgin shall worship his chubby visage as a god.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Chest Rockwell said, "Clavicle? Testicle? Testicular?"

Freshly extracted stem cells from baby scrotums ain't cheap.

Rigelsen said...

Skin deep will of course vote for skin deep.

Justin said...
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Justin said...

I won’t make a call on JD’s looks, but I know a few women who find his eyes to be a selling point…

It's mirroring - they see that he's using the same eyeliner and mascara as them.

Peachy said...

In CO - the Dems just voted down . on party line purity vote, making child sex trafficking a Class 1 Felony. Because the Soviet ACLU and the Democrats of Colorado care about the criminals.

narciso said...

This rent boy cant be serious

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Peachy said...

Newsum is creepy looking to me. but who cares about looks?
Our nation is desperately close to trashing itself so that the Democrats can be a One Party Corruption ring.

Joe Bar said...

Another one of those "influencer" idiots that go around taking selfies. I see he has a bodyguard following him around. He probably needs it.

Mary Beth said...

You know how when you see a movie star's brother or sister and you can see the family resemblance but they are still decidedly not as attractive as their famous sibling? This is how this guy looks to me. Not unattractive, but slightly off, where you think there must be a more attractive version.

Newsom is also not unattractive. If you think ferrets are cute, you probably think he is also.

n.n said...

He sounds like a lipsmacker. #NoJudgment #NoLabels

narciso said...

Sean Davis on X: "You don’t hate the corrupt media nearly enough. A Democrat psychopath tried to assassinate Russ Vought and his family at their home. Thankfully the Thomas Crooks/Tyler Robinson-wannabe was stopped. So of course you now have corrupt Democrat media pretending to not understand https://t.co/uMN9p7DT3b" / X https://share.google/b1Za9Ckv7PoBqprbi

buwaya said...

Womens vanity feeds a huge consumer market. Goes back to ancient Egypt at least. Heck, the economy and major personal fortunes of France are based on exactly that (the Arnaults, Bettencourt/l'Oreal etc.).
Mens vanity is much less focused on the actual male body, but there was also always a market there, and some people have always tried to exploit that market gap. If you've saturated the womens grooming/clothing market, where do you go? Exactly.
The major high-end retailer in Spain, El Corte Ingles, got to its ubiquitous position by selling English tailoring in the 1950s-60s, then seeming posh. So its been done.

Interested Bystander said...

tim maguire said...
I hadn't even heard of this guy a couple days ago and now he's everywhere.

Exactly what I was going to say. Why are right leaning sites promoting him?

narciso said...

Hes a wannabe criminal like that the jeremy morris character

Aggie said...

But this clown, there's nothing exceptional about him. He's just another body dysmorphia narcissist, already on the path of multiple enhancing surgeries, like that sad case we read about some years ago, the one with the fake ab implants and so on, that aspired to be a Ken doll but wound up looking like some kind of catlike mutant.

He's not the first, he's not unique, he's nothing. Just a self-promoting pretty boy, hustling his next surgery. ugh.

Peachy said...

Aggie - In other words - the perfect Newsum supporter.

Lazarus said...

He was born in 2005.

Something tells me that Gen Z isn't going to save us.

Peachy said...

Skin deep sheep vote for freak.

Bob Boyd said...

There are a toilets on the internet and there are rats in those toilets.

Craig Mc said...

Dear lord. The latest attempt from Newsom's social media managers to make him a thing is lamer than even I could believe.

Lazarus said...

Newsom's wife took over his press conference and attacked the reporters for not asking questions about women's issues, the reason for the gathering. She also misused the word "incredulous:" "I find it incredulous that ..."

It's not often that you get a clear vision of how horrible the future could be.

narciso said...

If anthony zerbes zombie warlord was real

AndrewV said...

Gavin Newsom looks like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

Maynard said...

Gotta love those high brow NYTimes readers. Very special people with very special issues.

Zavier Onasses said...

"...[M]ale as the key to worldly achievement."

Indeed. Just did not notice till you pointed out how devastatingly attractive is Elon Musk.

Zavier Onasses said...

Trivialization of electoral process continues apace. Democrats are already conditioned that their Presidential Primary elections are of no real purpose; Candidates are properly selected by power holding Party Leaders. Fraud in the National election is just fun time to show off bold creativity.

mccullough said...

The dude’s philtrum isn’t in line with his septum. And he’s got shotgun-sized nostrils, with the left nostril even bigger than the right. He’s failing

Lawnerd said...

Exposure to high tech from a young age has made Gen Z demented and degenerate.

Deep State Reformer said...

A pathological narcissist who is trying to politicize his affliction? FTP.

Mr. Majestyk said...

As a straight guy, I spend little time judging the physical attractiveness of other men. To me, they are all unattractive. In fact, I'm just grateful women find any of us attractive. Now, if I were to think about it, I don't see JD Vance as ugly. Ladies, what do you think?

Peachy said...

JD is adorable.

Peachy said...

You know how we all know JD is cute - the left have to alter his appearance.

Pm said...

Um, from the photo in the article he is an average bloke who spends a lot of time fussing over his looks.

To me, this trend? community? style? is essentially a reclaiming of male peacocking from the homosexuals. Look ma, heteros can fawn over the way they look too, it’s not gay at all!

Such developments are the inevitable product of the combination of the internet and female ascendancy in our society. The grrlbosses want their hot boy toys primmed and plucked and proper like now-extinct men wanted their women back in the old days, before we allowed women to take full control of reproduction and the human race entered its extinction doom loop. If you want to catch a high status female, you need to maxx out like a low-status prostitute. But no, just like the females used to aver, they want to look that way for themselves, not to ensnare a member of the opposite sex.

Knowing these sexless Gen Zs / Gen As, that might just be true.

Jim said...

In debates, JFK did this to Nixon, albeit without the effort. Gore tried to do it to Bush, walking up to him, and Bush's reaction made Gore look silly.

Pm said...

I want to second Mr Majestyk’s comment: straight males think all other males are unattractive—or else they would be screwing them, just like they do anything with a skirt.

Or at least that’s how it used to be…

Although, if you go back even further, before the homo-ization of Western civilization, it was common for males to hold hands, to embrace, and to express their fervent love of each other in florid terms. IMO, that’s because it was the furthest thing from anyone’s mind that there must exist some underlying homoerotic subtext, some queer key that unlocks the closet: homosexuality was out of the question!

Now, what with homosexuality’s ubiquity in our culture, heterosexual males are always on guard against being seen as gay. Wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea! Because society is aching to get the wrong, queer-coded idea now.

If you go to the YMCA, the common showers with old guys soaping up their junk in the midst of gaggles of prepubescent lads are long gone. Way too gay! But if you enter the vanishingly few, critically endangered male-only spaces where homosexuality is still frowned on, like say an NFL locker room, nakedness is no big deal. Again for the same reason: no chance of being thought gay.

[True, true: women have even forced their way into male locker rooms but unlike men forcing their way into female locker rooms, no one has made much of a fuss. The compromise is that there is now private time (where male nekkidness may prevail in all its glory) and then public time when the athletes clothe their modesty in towels so as not to scare the birds away.]

bagoh20 said...

"...Bush's reaction made Gore look silly."
Turns out it had nothing to do with Bush. Gore went on to make a living saying incredibly silly shit with a serious face. It's pretty funny stuff, unless you believed him.

JIM said...

That's the Democracy part of America made (even) worse by voter fraud.
Newsom is a clown. A political clown. All his worst moves and policies hidden from public view by a one-party state seeking to maintain the fiction.

donald said...

I’m a little late here, but yeah, what a fag.

Bunkypotatohead said...

Is "queer eye for the straight guy" still a thing?

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