The rare double self-own
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 23, 2026
1. He's calling attention to his struggle with a serious disability, dyslexia. We talked about that here, a few weeks ago. He seems to be confessing something that is true, making himself vulnerable and relatable. Of course, he's also exposing his limitations. But his antagonists may screw up trying to take advantage of this.
2. In saying "I'm like you" to what seems to be an audience of black people, he's taking a risk. You can hear warm laughter, as, perhaps, many people relate to him, because they've struggled with exams, for whatever reason. But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up. So, again, his antagonists will screw up trying to exploit what is, from him, only a slight innuendo. I'll bet some of you do it right here in the comments.
His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can’t read.
This means my first read on him was correct. He’s been handed so many things & put in high positions he never earned or deserved.
Do you wanna know the craziest part of this footage that will haunt him forever? He’s literally slowing his speech down & talking in a sporadic cadence.
He’s not just TELLING them that they’re all probably stupid & probably can’t read, he’s LITERALLY SLOW-ING-DOWN-HIS-SPEECH to make them understand the words that are coming out of his mouth!!!! As if they’re children!!!! That means he REALLY BELIEVES they’re slow. He’s not just saying it—he didn’t misspeak!!!! He BELIEVES it!!!!
Do ya love it?!?!!Do ya just love it, black ppl?!????
It reminds me of Jesse Jackson's criticism of Obama: "He is talking down to black people." Obama survived. Obama thrived.
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"his antagonists will screw up trying to exploit what is, from him, only a slight innuendo"
Respectully, that seems like a hell of a lot more than a slight innuendo. More like "I'm like you, I can't read, can't do well on standardized tests. So you should be able to relate to me."
Okay, so he has trouble reading and didn't do so hot on his SAT. The real question is whether he can get an ID to vote. If so, he's nothing like the black people in the audience. Or so the Democrats tell me.
“But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up.“
Isn’t it actually the one the left-wing people exploit? How else would you get 90% of a demographic voting block?
I assume Gov. Newsom has a stock answer for the obvious follow-up question which is "So what is it that makes you think you should be in charge of everybody?"
"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids".
Well, some of them are.
It’s ham fisted. He isn’t good at self deprecation and it shows.
Racism, like love, is where you find it.
I'd rather be dyslexia than an anal retention grammar Karen. Another boy superpower. Like ADHD and colour blindness. Translates into superior land navigation physical fitness mechanical aptitude and calm under pressure.
Claiming victim hood based on his greatest advantage is the type of misdirection you'd expect from a slimy cunt like Gavin
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Dyslexia is often associated with superior three-dimensional (3D) thinking, spatial reasoning, and holistic, "big picture" visualization. This cognitive profile, sometimes called "MIND strengths" (Material, Interconnected, Narrative, Dynamic reasoning), allows individuals to excel at visualizing complex objects, identifying patterns, and spatial manipulation.
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Key Aspects of Dyslexic 3D Thinking:
Enhanced Spatial Ability: Many with dyslexia possess advanced, innate abilities to mentally rotate, manipulate, and visualize 3D objects.
Visual-Spatial Dominance: Dyslexic brains often show greater activation in right-hemisphere, visual-spatial areas, leading to strong mental imagery over verbal processing.
"Big Picture" Focus: Rather than focusing on linear details (like letters in a word), dyslexic thinkers excel at seeing the overall, holistic, or "big picture" of a scenario.
Strengths in STEM/Creative Fields: These skills often translate into success in architecture, engineering, design, and complex problem-solving.
Improved Memory for Images: Dyslexics may have a stronger memory for images, pictures, and, in some cases, enhanced peripheral vision.
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While not universal for every dyslexic person, these cognitive differences frequently offer significant advantages in spatial, mechanical, and creative endeavors.
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Are we accepting that he has dyslexia? I think he’s lying. Like Biden’s “stutter,” the media just falls in line.
No, I don’t think a black audience will be pleased by this slick privileged rich white boy telling them he’s like them because he’s not that bright.
If what he says is true (and wow is it ever amazing how Democrat politicians are diagnosed with disabilities nobody noticed for years and years at exactly the right time to be beneficial for them) then he's obviously a beneficiary of 'white privilege' and should exit the race in favor of somebody like Wes Moore or even better, a two-fer like AOC. Isn't that how things are supposed to work?
“I’m just like you, I’m a blithering idiot, but at least I’m not deplorable.”
It’s supposed to be a humblebrag as dyslexics tend to be labeled with average or above average intelligence and we’re supposed to admire dyslexics who end up in status positions as they have overcome their disability. Has he disclosed any grades or any indication he doesn’t have shit for brains? He’s attracted to every horrible policy of the 19th and 20th century that intelligent humans have concluded are failures.
What if he’s dyslexic and stupid?
Breezy said...Isn’t it actually the one the left-wing people exploit?
Oh, I get it. I skipped over that line because I had no idea what she was talking about. And now I see why—because it’s not true. The left exploits the stereotype of the uneducated black. The right has very little to say about it.
Yes he’s leaning in to racist ideas about American black people but the media will cover for him. I could lean into bigoted ideas about how effective that strategy will be on college educated white women but I’ll wait for the evidence…
He's not stupid, he's certifiable narcissist personally disorganized. He can only mimic relatableness.
The Great White Hope
“I’m maybe an intellectual moron, but I’m not down to Joe Biden’s level yet ….. give me four years.”
Their playbook isn't that difficult. You import a large number of immigrants, along with the gangs who lived among them in their home countries, and work with the gangs to get out the vote, none too punctilious about the legalities, but good at enforcing the discipline to show up for low turnout primaries, and make sure the vigorish gets spread to the right people, and voila, you are at the top of the Democratic Party!
Remember that they don't have the intellectual wherewithal required to get a birth certificate either (wink! wink!) so it's racist to demand one.
A good chunk of the Prog project is racist.
Shorter Gavin: I’m a walking, talking autopen.
'Terrible waste of a white boy' better off dead
He’ll never be President. I doubt he will be the nominee now. This is a fatal mistake.
Starting with LBJ's Great Society (1965) through the Clinton and Pelosi condescension before Trump arrived -- Democrats routinely paid just lip service to black voters. They ignored the CBC, Mad Maxine Waters, and Squad-like behavior until Trump forced their hand.
Listen to LBJ's open racism per the "n***** bill" he pushed through Congress. Listen to Biden and Bloomberg when caught off gaurd. Newsom merely returns to form for the elitist bread and circuses oligarchic racist left.
There are lots of jobs that people who can't read very well shouldn't do, research assistant, reader for a publishing house, business manager, well, maybe foreman, POTUS, college professor, doctor... it's a long list.
Christopher B., “ then he's obviously a beneficiary of 'white privilege' …” That’s how he got into Santa Clara.
He’s going for cute and disabled. Turning himself into an infant will let him suckle the votes of single and childless ladies.
The black women in the audience will sympathize. The black men, at least those under 50, not so much. That latter demographic has moved on.
Hes cognitively impaired
And evil
Unwittingly?
“I'll bet some of you do it right here in the comments.“
That would be me, proudly so. Disappointed he didn’t say “I ain’t no ways tarred”. He’s a lying demigod who will contort himself into any position, depending on his audience.
"He seems to be confessing something that is true, making himself vulnerable and relatable."
And he's creating that semblance for manipulative political reasons. We shouldn't just feel, but should think. We've never heard him talk about his supposed disability until it became advantageous to his career to do so. We've never heard him express concern for children with learning disabilities (or, indeed, any concerns whatsoever for children in the declining California schools). He's trying to sell you something, and this is just advertising. Don't make the mistake of treating it as any more relatable than the cartoon bears who use toilet paper.
And for that matter, we've never heard him tell a white audience that surely they can relate to intellectual struggle and underachievement. He's the one who decided that Black people in particular would find that relatable, and it's perfectly legitimate to point out the implications of that decision. If a right-wing politician had done this, the reaction would be savage. Newsom shouldn't get a pass just because he's good-looking.
Have we lost AOC and Gavin in the last two days? Not that either could beat JD or Marco, but damn is their bench shallow and stupid. Keep hope alive, Dems…
They are still invincibly stupid thats a primary plus for them
He risks being perceived as a Diversitist. Were there any other color or class blocs in the audience? Did he use any other pejorative judgments or labels commonly used by left-wing ideologues? #HateLovesAbortion
He seems to be confessing something that is true, making himself vulnerable and relatable.
Really? It “seems to be… true”? What exactly about this greasy grifter makes his claim “seem true”? Have you seen him struggle to read cue cards? Or is it the part where he compares his poor test performance to Black audience members that rings true? My reaction to my former governor is that every aspect of him and his statements are phony baloney plastic banana level constructions.
Yes Tim. In fact he claimed a stutter just last week in an appearance.
No, I don’t think a black audience will be pleased by this slick privileged rich white boy telling them he’s like them because he’s not that bright.
He's not saying he's not bright, he's saying he performed poorly due to things outside his control. Seems to sum up today's Left pretty well.
I find it humorous that the party of "multiculturalism and fighting privilege" has a good chance of nominating a wealthy white guy who is the embodiment of the privilege of wealth.
Is his liberal impairment a congenital, progressive condition?
To make the obvious point, imagine the outrage in the media/left if Trump had used those exact words. It's a "slight innuendo" only because it came from the mouth of a Democrat. It's astonishingly patronizing, like the claims that blacks don't know how to use the internet.
Diversity politics.
Would Newsom tout his 960 SAT to the Silicon Valley and banking crowds where 1600 SATs are required for internships and jobs? He just drove a wedge in the lefty voting bloc: The true intellectual elite will look down on him as much as he looks down on blacks.
He's defending the last remaining Democratic stronghold (struggling, clumsy, dependent people), as the capable 1600 SAT voters depart for Nevada, Texas, and Florida to dodge the billionaire tax.
"...the one right wing people love to bring up." Are you kidding me?
Joe Biden made multiple bizarre comments about Black people, including a striking one about Barack Obama (he's clean and articulate).
Hillary regularly slips into her Southern Black Person dialect to try to communicate with the community in the manner she thinks is necessary.
Just yesterday, NY Gov. Kathy Hochul declared that many Black children haven't even heard of the word 'computer'. What?
Well...my, my. Democrats view of Black people is that of helpless people with childlike minds who need government to take care of them.
And no one in this country fights harder against School Choice than Democrats like Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul. Their priority is to keep those political donations coming in from the teachers unions. They care nothing of the Black community other than their vote.
Newsom's comment was akin to him patting a Black man or woman on the head and telling them that "we understand you and we'll take care of you".
Hideous. The man who wrecked San Francisco, then wrecked the entire State of California, wants to do to the nation what he did to his own state.
Hes a pampered rich kid like harry osborn the hobgoblin
’Democrats view of Black people is that of helpless people with childlike minds who need government to take care of them.’
That’s a charitable interpretation of how they really feel.
So, all on the political right are racist: "one [racist stereotype] right-wing people love to bring up." How very deplorable that basket of people must be, speaking of stereotypes.
But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up.
Ann wants to shit on white men/trump supporters again so she calls them racist.
But Ann doesn't understand the "stereotype" we bring up. Ann gets to stereotype other people but can't look in the mirror.
We point out that democrats are racists. Maybe because she is a woman she can't figure it out? Democrats think black people are too dumb to get photo ID. Gavin thinks black people are too dumb to read.
Ann is just acting out a well known stereotype.
If he cant read, no wonder he doesnt care about the millions of people leaving the state, about cities burning down about train wagons being looted like the wild west
What better person to relate to the average citizen than the dictat-I mean regular guy who wined and dined in public at the French Laundry after illegally declaring martial law and ordering his constituency into solitary confinement.
And yet what he has done says something completely different.
Diversity rhetoric with an appeal to, a reassurance of authority.
He's lying. I know because it's Gavin Newsome. He can't help it. He doesn't for one second consider himself like them. He doesn't even consider himself like the rest of his constituents either. He deserves to do what he wants, keep his business open, go without a mask, and dine at the French Laundry, while denying it all to the unwashed.
Way back in my junior year in high school, we received our SAT scores and of course compared them. It was no mystery which of our fellow students scored poorly. The high scorers went to PSU, Pitt or CMU. The lower scorers went to one of the teacher’s colleges … and here we are!
Dems are never who they say they are.
I wonder how many of his audience also have had the experience of dining at the French Laundry?
Democrats can’t properly pander if they’re not using a fake Black accent. Newsom needs to get with Jasmine Crockett to learn how to develop a such an accent for these occasions.
I ate at The French Laundry before Thomas Keller bought it. Not that great. There are better restaurants in Omaha.
That wasn't a slight innuendo. He's running as Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho.
This is consistent with most chatter from Newsom. It's always about him. The man has a giant ego the size of a giant ego.
My only conclusion is that the people who are in charge behind the scenes are either too old or have gotten stupid, because the people they're fronting as the young talent are people like Gavin Newsome, AOC, Jasmine Crockett. People of ambition, yes, but also people with just middling intelligence and a smattering of upper middle class parentage that has provided access. Their ambition is not well-supported without the patronage.
Gavin Newsome is the least relatable politician I've seen in a while, and really the only one that hilariously thinks he can demonstrate otherwise using oily charm.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...Yes Tim. In fact he claimed a stutter just last week in an appearance.
There are enough hints here that this is directed at me that I want to learn more.
"Yes Tim" what? What are you trying to say?
I remember after winning one of the 2016 state primaries, Trump exuberantly exclaimed, "We love the poorly educated!" because that was one of the categories the media divided out as Trump doing well with. In retrospect, that seems humorously so Trump. He never pandered by saying he was a dummy.
Republicans hammered Fetterman for his brain damage and relying on his tablet thingie to carry on conversations. Until they realized his brain was healing into a Republican-ish one. The D's aren't using the tablet against Fetterman yet, but it will come if he keeps daring to think clearly.
Maybe the R's will start handing Newsom difficult policy papers to read aloud. Jim Crow 2.0 literacy test. CC, JSM
"I was born a poor black child..."
It might have gone over better if he'd ditched the Armani suit.
He’s not like me. My father didn’t get preferential treatment from a previous Governor that set me up for success despite my educational difficulty. I also was among the millions told I couldn’t go to work, attend church, or host a party, while he got to have a special event at The French Laundry. Finally, I work with people around the world and of various races that worked hard to get where they are.
I can’t relate to Newsom or those that buy into his bullshit or think you can’t talk about it. This idea that some topics must be taboo to discuss is how we were taken advantage of during Covid. It is how people argued you couldn’t misuse someone’s pronouns. It is cowing people that it is improper to discuss something obvious, because it can be taken as hurtful. It is how Newsom and Democrats hope to win.
You know who does well on standardized tests? Women. Because they are process oriented and they follow instructions. Tell them to learn 1000 vocabulary words and they do it. Tell them to practice analogies, and even though analogies are more male-type thinking, they do it, and close the gap with the boys. Meanwhile the boys just say they'll figure it out from context. So the girls do 30 points better.
So by criticizing the SAT, Newsom is criticizing the gains women have made in the past 60 years. He Sexiss! CC, JSM
Yes he obviously wasn't saying black people can't read. What I'm noticing is how awkward, how stiff, he came off.
Regarding racism and political ideology: This is NOT a "right wing" thing.
Every group is prone to racism, segregation, and xenophobia. The right tends to see group membership as unchanging and favors self-isolation. The left tends to between-group tension as a challenge and routinely tilts at windmills (i.e., rules that fail and that can result in more harm as good).
Birds of a feather flock together, and only slow, gentle cross-generation intermarriage bridging seems to be sustainable. When school bussing is required, elite leftists suddenly appreciate private schools and school choice. When someone wants to build Section 8 public housing in an elite neighborhood, NIMBYs emerge from every political group.
What?!? He just told a Black audience that he’s just like them because he can’t read.
In short, don’t talk about The Emperor’s new clothes less you offend.
Also reminiscent of Senator Hruska's famous line (paraphrasing): There are a lot of mediocre people. They're entitled to representation, too, aren't they?
Gavin is basically saying "I'm the one who can best represent all you mediocre people." Of course he doesn't really think he is mediocre, just that they are.
I'm not saying he's oleaginous, but he might want to check his maintenance records to see how close he is to that 50,000-mile lube job.
Gavin Newsome is the least relatable politician I've seen in a while
Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter, Tom Steyer. Those are the current leading Dem candidates for CA Governor. It's all relative. Gavin is a star.
Enigma: "only slow, gentle cross-generation intermarriage bridging seems to be sustainable"
Mmmm-hmmm (cue Barry White soundtrack). Slow and gentle, baby. The Miscegenation Party. Make Mama Late Again! CC, JSM
Paraphrase: "I know your SAT score ... based solely upon knowing the color of your skin."
That is the most racist thing I have heard in a LONG time!
Ann, if you look in the rear-view mirror, that "slight innuendo" is a lot bigger (and a lot closer) than it appears.
planetgeo: " that "slight innuendo" is a lot bigger (and a lot closer) than it appears."
Yeah, I keep telling women that, but they never believe me. CC, JSM
In saying "I'm like you" to what seems to be an audience of black people, he's taking a risk. You can hear warm laughter, as, perhaps, many people relate to him, because they've struggled with exams, for whatever reason.
I actually thought that the crowd went quite silent as he got into the ways in which he felt himself to be "like you," as they realized what he was actually saying.
"the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up" Which right-wing people "love" to bring this up?
Does the Newsom statement count as a gaffe--the inadvertent revealing of a taboo truth? What is the relevant truth in this case--the reality of lower black ability or the usually unstated Dem assumption to that effect?
But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up.
For God’s sake, Meade, take your ignorant wife and move to somewhere where she’s forced to deal with real people living real lives — because wherever that place is, it sure as Hell isn’t la-la-land Madison. Out in the real world, right wingers like me have worked perfectly amiably with black coworkers and often enough reported to black managers since the mid-1970s so your stereotype is merely a half century out of date.
And of course, Althouse, you do not even begin to grasp why real people are so deeply offended by your stereotyping.
You are not rational. You are not educable. You scoff at facts and logic and reality because you are a full professor at an extreme leftist university and you know better. Sure, you do.
Genius!!!
Teh Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations.
Yes he obviously wasn't saying black people can't read.
I don't see that - I see him saying he is "like" black people in that he can't read, but letting the alleged dyslexia hover in the background to say that he has a valid excuse for being unable to read, unlike the audience.
The path is cleared for the sow Katie Porker…
The poor inept pretty boi younger loyal biden puppet. wont you feel sorry for him? emotion. He is one of you. *you are getting very sleepy*
when Biden wanted to show how sympatico with blacks he told his "Cornpop" story. Who in Biden's mind was a typical black kid. Y'know violent, crooked, and fond of cutting up people with rusty razors.
Newsome is a zillionaire who uses cheap illegal immigrant labor on his MJ farm. Guess Ceasar Chavez is rolling in his grave.
when white leftists pretend to care about other ethnicities and non-white skin color - they are full of shit. The white left look down their noses at everyone - especially people of color.
you will be made to look up to the king of lies.
he grew up a poor black child. People forget.
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste”… but not when you ate the paste, right, Gavin?
The 2028 Democratic primaries are going to be a contest between Donor Class and Base Democrats (everyday grass roots Democrats).
The Donor Class (which is now long accustomed to running everything) is orienting towards an anti-Trump candidate and a campaign aimed at Trump's personal deficiencies based on Trump's high and growing negatives. Beat Trump and stay with the wealth--coddling status quo is the argument. The Donor Class wants to maintain the same pro-monopoly economic concentration policies, deregulatory policies, and wealth concentration policies that have characterized the neoliberal ascendancy in tandem with an Israeli--centric Middle East policy of high tempo engagement in this volatile region that have ruled for several decades.
Base Democrats want an entirely new domestic competition policy similar to pioneering efforts made at the beginning of the Wilson administration and further built out in Roosevelt's New Deal. Domestically, Base Democrats want to reverse wealth concentration and strengthen social democratic infrastructure spending accompanied with major reform.
Gavin Newsom has been a creature of the Donor Class his entire career. He has clearly established himself as pursuing the anti-Trump political attack strategy favored by his Donor Class patrons as opposed to a program of broad-based deep reform. The goal here is to position himself as the inevitable Credible Alternative with more political standing than other candidates who will join the race later. But California also has a vibrant liberal-progressive wing to its Democratic party and Newsom will try to create a blended program with broad appeal based on his experience of working with all groups (call this the Shallow Reform program).
Newsom's biggest threat will be another credible Democratic challenger running on a Deep Reform program of major structural overhaul of Democratic party domestic and foreign policy programs. Newsom will always be vulnerable to the real thing showing up. A credible challenger from the Mid-West could be formidable.
The Democratic party is more divided than at any time since 1896 when 36-year-old William Jennings Bryan delivered his fiery "Cross of Gold" speech and changed the Democratic party forever. Bryan's nickname (formally used for years by the NYT in news stories) was the Great Commoner or just the Commoner. Everyone knew to whom the reference was. So much for elite pretensions in that reform-minded Democratic party.
A good conjecture is that only a candidate committed to Deep Reform will be able to move tens of millions of Democrats necessary to politically recapture the commanding heights of political power in Washington DC. The Democrats need a real movement, deep and wide.
Newsom could have said "I'm like you, all I want is loose shoes, tight pussy, and a warm place to shit"-- and it would still somehow be the fault of us conservatives.
Althouse is calling right-wingers "raciss". I cant just hear the boomers getting worked up. Nobody calls them raciss. Why nobody loves black folks more than they do.
Its irrelevant what Newsome says. Blacks will vote for him 80-90 percent if he runs for POTUS under the D banner. They always do.
No R Presidential canidate has gotten more than 15 percent of the AA vote since 1968. Goldwater got 6 percent. Nixon in 1960 got 30 percent.
That 30 percent sounds impressive until you realize that LBJ was from a segregation state Texas, and been AWOL on civil rights in the 1950s, while Nixon had led the charge on Civil rights and helped pass the 1957 civil rights bill.
And from 1932-1952 the Democrats usually got 70 percent of the AA vote. Pretty amazing given the Democrats were the party of segregation. And that many AA in the south, who could vote, went Republican.
tim maguire said...
Are we accepting that he has dyslexia? I think he’s lying. Like Biden’s “stutter,” the media just falls in line.
Not only are you correct that the media "falls in line" with whatever D pols say, like this, Gavin actually claimed to have a stutter too last week, like Joe. My hunch was that you were unaware of his claim, and my terse mention was a heads up. Perhaps it was a bit too spare to convey that, though.
I found it funny you mentioned stuttering because HE had done so too. Not believably but he made the claim.
Dem presidential hopefuls apparently think Trump's success means they should abandon the appearance of intellectualism -- a go-to theme for them since at least Adlai Stevenson -- and go all-in on passion and "relatability." It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
Like fascism always being predicted in America but taking root in Europe, racism is always projected onto conservatives while being expressed nakedly by lefties.
But only always. So cruel and yet not at all neutral.
Thanks Mike. I didn't know Newsom claimed to have a stutter, so I assumed "he" referred to Biden.
I wonder what he'll claim next that no media outlet will question him on...
“ But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up. So, again, his antagonists will screw up trying to exploit what is, from him, only a slight innuendo. I'll bet some of you do it right here in the comments.”
That is quite offensive, to me.
Obama survived. Obama thrived. Obama was Black.
Newsome is a white male with all kinds of what the Dems call privilege. He has to find his victimhood.
I have no doubt he will also claim he was bullied because of it and had to struggle in a system that was unfair and unkind to people like him. You have to be an oppressed victim to be in the Dem club these days.
I'm skeptical. This sudden dyslexia claim reminds me of Biden's "lifelong stutter."
@RCOCEAN II: And from 1932-1952 the Democrats usually got 70 percent of the AA vote. Pretty amazing given the Democrats were the party of segregation. And that many AA in the south, who could vote, went Republican.
Starting with FDR and becoming rigid with LBJ, the Democrats transitioned into the Rich Oligarch Robin Hood party. They gave handouts to lower income groups in exchange for what they really wanted. See Michael Bloomberg and Nancy Pelosi and the Clintons and the Obamas and Ilhan Omar and George Soros and their growing investments today.
Channeling Joe Biden--"Y'll gonna fail your SAT"
All I can say is I'm glad I'm not like Gavin Newsom.
My only comment:
https://youtu.be/bs4X4m0yNg4?si=nzYt4pzitDrmEMj9
Newsome's rich and good-looking, but he knows to be dreamy he needs something that will make women want to protect him, a vulnerability. Without that he's very "fratboyish", a class of white man Dems loathe.
“ It reminds me of Jesse Jackson's criticism of Obama: "He is talking down to black people." Obama survived. Obama thrived.”
Thrived? Even with his nuts cut out?
Self-deprecation has to be authentic to really work and Newsom is about as inauthentic a politician as you will come across. I thought, a few months ago, he was the clear frontrunner for the Dem nomination but appearances like this are making me question that belief- this was a serious error and can be easily exploited by his opponents in the primaries.
Evidently, eating at the French Laundry causes “oily discharge.”
I was only joking a few weeks ago when I wrote that Newsom would eventually tell people he was born a poor black child in Mississippi.
"You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech."
He's on a book tour. Promoting a book full of letters that he wrote but can't read.
"Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery" comes out tomorrow. Please use the Althouse Amazon portal for your purchase. $14.99 Kindle, $26.40 hardcover.
In chapter 7 he reveals that he has rhythm, a large penis and a bussin' fall-away jumper.
Maybe Althouse believes the way to win is to pander to the victim class because everyone believes they are victimized in some way and the victimization motivates them to vote. In that case, I really hope Newsom wins the primary. The volume of those victimized by Newsom’s policies grows geometrically daily.
I don’t see victimization based on skin color, but then I never voted Democrat.
Even with his nuts cut out?
Cut out? Where were his nuts?
Maybe he should open a School for Kids Who Can't Read Good.
A good conjecture is that only a candidate committed to Deep Reform will be able to move tens of millions of Democrats necessary to politically recapture the commanding heights of political power in Washington DC.
Ahhhahahaha!
Anybody else know of a former Democrat committed to Deep Reform? Who has moved tens of millions of Democrats to politically recapture the commanding heights of political power in Washington, D.C.?
Anthony--those are known as "Learing Centers."
He will surprise us by doing even stupider stuff.
@Anthony, as a white dude from privilege, he would need those extra Dyslexia points to get into Stanford.
This reminds me of politically congruent ("=") activists who were semi-inclusive under the Rainbow (i.e. albinophobic) banner and rhetoric until sims became disfavored by the Democratic blocs. The same progression that liberals encountered when babies were judged and labeled under scientific term-of-art to socially distance feminists following progressive principles and wicked solutions.
Newsom fiddled while Bass brayed a DEIst cacophony.
But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up. So, again, his antagonists will screw up trying to exploit what is, from him, only a slight innuendo. I'll bet some of you do it right here in the comments.
Snide and snarky with the clientele, AA. Nikki Minaj's response is devastating.
“ Anybody else know of a former Democrat committed to Deep Reform? Who has moved tens of millions of Democrats to politically recapture the commanding heights of political power in Washington, D.C.?”
Ronaldus Maximus?
Newsom wishes he got into Stanford. He went to Santa Clara. Supposedly because of his baseball skills.
Average US black IQ is 86. He's talking to the lower half, not the upper half that you find in successful positions all over.
“ Cut out? Where were his nuts?”
In the late Reverend Jackson’s imagination.
Soeaking of balls, this story needs more cowbell h/t NAACP at the intersection of racism and sexism.
At his next live appearance, black face and banjo.
When someone says "I'm not going to talk down to you," they are already talking down to you.
The left love victimhood. This is Newsom's attempt at it. Seems like the last person who could claim to be a victim, but it's absolutely essential in Dem politics. Everybody loves being the victim, because it so powerful. Who among us hasn't overplayed our suffering from an illness, or hardship. It's works on Mom from the moment of birth with that first cry. Men used to learn to embrace stoicism, but many now pull out the victim card too, because the whole society has been feminized. By nature, it works much better on women.
It's also a basic left/right divide. The left bases everything on who is the greater victim. The right uses victimhood too, but not usually something innate, or things you chose, but rather from someone or a group attacking you. You are expected to overcome the cards you are played.
Group characterizations are dangerous. Dealing with individuals is more defensible. By their works ye shall know them.
Gavin Newsome is gruesome. I am not surprised he has a 960 SAT. That he has achieved high office is a comment on our society's ability to sell corn flakes.
Respectully, that seems like a hell of a lot more than a slight innuendo
…don’t be fooled- she’s not the brightest bulb…
did you know Obama was black?
His only major accomplishment and he only got it half right.
He’ll never be President. I doubt he will be the nominee now. This is a fatal mistake
…when it comes to choosing a leftie front man there is no gaffe to great to be overcome….
Victimhood is a major obstacle for the modern Right. Probably the main reason people will not vote Republican is that idea that the Right is mean. The Right is Dad telling you to stop crying and clean your room, shake it off, it's just a scratch. The Left completely caves with a sob story, and like Newsom, they look for them. Lots of people want Mom in charge, because they have more power in that relationship. Low fatherhood rates are exacerbating this, and the less you know and respect Dad, the less you vote Republican. Some Moms can and do assume Dad's role, those skew right.
Most of Newsum's mental disorders are undiagnosed.
Dyslexia is so hot right now.
What would you think if he said this same thing to a gathering of Down's syndrome voters?
I wonder if his dyslexia is causing Newsom to think that Cali residents have seen a DECREASE in energy costs rather than a 60% increase over the last six years. Claiming dyslexia is a brilliant explanation for all problems. Like a quarter million residents net migrating out of Cali every year.
Well, Meade, I was thinking of Donald J. Trump, but Ronaldus Maximus was another.
Rich and the Dems keep looking in the wrong places, and fail to see the obvious.
Obama is gray, a mixture of white and black fathers... mothers.. gendered roots.
Obama was black?
His only major accomplishment and he only got it half right
Exactly. 50 shades of gray.
Gavin fucked his friend’s wife because he couldn’t tell her apart from other women. Bad case of Dyslexia.
If you’re dyslexic with pretentious hair the tried-and-true move is to call yourself a genius.
"You people." - Ross Perot
Gavin should blame Tourette's and move on.
Gavin is just another grifter. Virtually everything he says is BS. But the people around him keep telling him how great he is, so now he believes it too.
Like all grifters he never talks about his accomplishments (because he has none). Instead, he talks about "fighting" for things (and against Trump), and how he "championed" this and "lead the charge" for that. Never responsible for the Billions spent on programs that didn't work (were never going to work), and probably were never intended to work, just intended to pay his friends (and the cause) well, through public money, and give him something to talk about.
His High Speed Train to nowhere, the never-ending "Homeless" problem that he's been "fixing" for a decade or more (and keeps getting worse), his managing of the "5th largest economy in the world" which he managed into the ground...
Putz.
Remember when Dems were trying to push Bush as a C student, when in fact Kerry was also a C student.
Well, now that's a POSITIVE
"But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up."
What the hell?
Newsome was very successful in gerrymandering California. Can't solve problems like homelessness or high speed rail, but finds political power easy enough.
That's about as grossly offensive a progressive-liberal presentation can be to a predominantly black audience: I'm as stupid as you; I've a 960 SAT stat, dumber than a rock, can't read - feel me brother. No wonder many black men have turned to MAGA.
He also took money from PG&E (and they also gave money to his sister and his wife) to slow walk a new fire map.
Then paradise fire killed dozens of people
Why would anyone vote for Gavin Newsome when he couldn't even regulate public utilities well?
That's supposedly the Dem forte.
Maybe I skipped some steps - PG&E didn't clear trees from its power lines because they had bribed Gavin Newsome not to push the new fire map which would have required that.
Then their power line caused a fire where people died.
OOPS.
Newsome took money from them, plus they donated to his wife and sister's NGOs and documentary films.
Don’t worry Gavin. Democrats will vote for you because you are incompetent and because you aren’t Trump.
Didn't he also say he was to stupid to vote since he was too stupid to find his birth certificate?
I'm expecting him to tell some woman's group that he too gets too emotional and often can't control his hysteria. Maybe then our host will get the issue here.
Harun, the history of California Public Utilities Commission conspiratorial mis-regulation of PG&E is one of the great crimes of the last 70 years. Untold billions stolen, grafted, wasted. Hundreds or thousands killed. Billions in property losses. Senior employees of PG&E "failing up" into cushier government jobs.
Kim duToit is fond of the expression "red curtain of blood". The utility situation here is one of the few things that really give me that RCOB.
Latest wrinkle: Young Gavin was getting presents and trips from the Gettys, but his parents were divorced and his mom was having a hard time making ends meet. His stories of hard times growing up may have some truth in them. Or they may not.
The inability to distinguish faces is called prosopagnosia (not to be confused with the rhetorical figure prosopopoeia). A politician with prosopagnosia would be a real hoot in a comedy series, but it wouldn't be good in real life. Many politicians, though, are so dumb that they can't tell North from South Korea, and could well mistake "Rocketman" for some other world leader.
Meade said...
“ Anybody else know of a former Democrat committed to Deep Reform? Who has moved tens of millions of Democrats to politically recapture the commanding heights of political power in Washington, D.C.?”
Ronaldus Maximus?
Donald Trump
bagoh20 said...
I'm expecting him to tell some woman's group that he too gets too emotional and often can't control his hysteria. Maybe then our host will get the issue here.
Splooge stooges are in a special category.
"But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up." - part the second:
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/white-liberals-present-themselves-as-less-competent-in-interactions-with-african-americans
Study: "White liberals present themselves as less competent in interactions with African-Americans"
Like . . . What he said and as importantly *how he said it*.
Why do so many people spell "Newsom" as "Newsome"? Is this an unnoticed typo or a form of sarcasm?
"I knew some really dumb people."
Perhaps "Gavin Nuisance" would be a better spelling?
Ozzie Newsome is a Hall of Fame tight end and former top-notch football executive. Maybe why people miss-spell Gavin’s last name. Can Gavin even spell his last name?
The memes and ads just about write themselves, lol…
https://x.com/i/status/2025821762978787744
https://x.com/i/status/2025980157052293338
Unfortunately, many Blacks will continue to vote against their own interests and values by pulling the lever for sanctimonious, self-serving bullshit artists like Newsom.
We have the spelling of our Calunicornia governor’s name down out here…
Newscum.
Dyslexics are a race of people who have been living in the shadows.
Howard (that Howard)said...
The Great White Hope
2/23/26, 6:34 AM
He's campaigning as The Great White Dope.
And he's sharing the stage with the young mayor of Atlanta, Andre Dickens, who is a Georgia Tech chemical engineering graduate. Definitely not a 960 SAT dummy. Newsome is such a clown. He should never be President. Not sure why he is governor. In fact, is there any Democrat who is not a clown? Fetterman, perhaps. But I can't think of any one.
Newsome is most peek-a-boo.
I would not take the claim that he's the same as me as a compliment to me. I bet every single person in that room could do a better job running California than he did. All they need to do is be honest, and competently execute just one thing for the good of the people of that state. He's had 8 years and hasn't pulled it off yet. He could have done a great thing for the whole state by quitting and endorsing Larry Elder, a black man approximately twice as smart as him.
We now know how Newsom’ campaign is handling this… “Respectively, fuck off.” Maybe they have Tourette’s?
The Democratic Party is certainly in a donor vs base war like never before. My fear is that the donor / establishment class has not learned anything from the Clinton/Sanders fiasco and will have another nomination fight. The Democratic elites have no humility.
At this point, the only thing stopping the Democrats from running the table in the next two election cycles is the Democrats.
The Gen Zers in Gov Gruesom's comms shop are not having a good day.
Susan Crabtree of RCP made a firm but polite inquiry if The Head of Hair Gel has any contemporary documentation from any period in his life to substantiate a diagnosis of dyslexia. The comms shop reply was a fake polite "F-ck off'. (link to Instapundit)
Paraphrasing RedSteeze, I wonder if this is gonna get 10% as much play as Trump misidentifying a woman shouting a question as Peggy.
1. He's calling attention to his struggle with a serious disability, dyslexia.
Oh, bullshit. He made up the claim that he has dyslexia, so he can have some "victim credit".
He seems to be confessing something that is true, making himself vulnerable and relatable.
Only if your'e a credulous fool
2. In saying "I'm like you" to what seems to be an audience of black people, he's taking a risk.
The risk that they'll be disgusted by his racist pandering?
But he seems to be unwittingly expressing the old stereotype about black people — the one right-wing people love to bring up.
"unwittingly"? No, he knows what he's doing, And we only "love to bring up" that the Democrats always assume black people are stupid and incompetent, thus the "voter ID is racist" calls by the cheating Dems
Gavin Newsom tells Jim Clyburn that he’d have trouble complying with the SAVE Act because he doesn’t know where to find his birth certificate:
“You've got to find your birth certificate. I have no clue where mine is."
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2024561465311560068
How can you run for president if you can't demonstrate that you are a natural-born citizen?
Do all these Democrat politicians not have passports? Because the SAVE Act allows them to use a passport to register to vote.
Ignorant, stupid, or just dishonest? It's always had to tell with Democrats.
In 2023, Newsom told a white audience that he read a 263 page book the night before in less than two hours. Sounds like he lies about reading at least half the time.
It's not a good look to be a person that believes what this man tells you.
You see, in a democracy stupid people deserve to have leadership that represents them.
Black Like Me, by Gavin Newsoms ghostwriter.
Blacks vote 9 to 1 for the Democrat candidate. Why does he waste time pandering to them?
Dave Begley said...
“He’ll never be President. I doubt he will be the nominee now. This is a fatal mistake.”
Because the country isn’t just CA. Figure that he would likely carry the states that Biden won honestly (ignoring the ones he carried with visible cheating). And nothing else. Figure the Left Coast, the east coast, from VA up to VT, plus maybe MN and CO. And a sea of red in between. But then, AOC could probably carry the same states.
What the Dems need is someone relatively sane from the Midwest as their nominee. Josh Shapiro would be good - except he is Jewish. And no Jew is going to win the nomination of the antisemitic party. Plus, they would lose too many of their Muzzie votes.
“Blacks vote 9 to 1 for the Democrat candidate. Why does he waste time pandering to them?”
That may have been the case up until 2024, but Trump made significant inroads with Black men that year. In any case, Dems need Blacks for their own egos and self worth. They pretend that they are the good people because they aren’t racists, which means that they aren’t anti-Black, since they are losing Hispanics so quickly. Plus, Blacks are significantly over represented in the ranks of government workers, and esp unionized govt workers.
Of course, the Dems are the racist party. And have been for 200+ years now, esp with Blacks. They were the party of slave owners, Jim Crow, the KKK, DEI, Affirmative Action, Reparations, etc.
https://x.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/2026138649969004641
Gavin Newsom to a white audience, "I read your whole 263 page book in 2 hours."
Gavin Newsom to a Black audience "I can't read."
His "dyslexia" claim is a lie
Bunkypotatohead said...
Blacks vote 9 to 1 for the Democrat candidate. Why does he waste time pandering to them?
He needs black votes in the primary
Bruce Hayden said...
What the Dems need is someone relatively sane from the Midwest as their nominee. Josh Shapiro would be good - except he is Jewish. And no Jew is going to win the nomination of the antisemitic party. Plus, they would lose too many of their Muzzie votes.
Josh WAS sane. You seen him recently?
The Dems basic problem is that over half of their primary voters aren't sane. Unit that changes, they're screwed.
After Vance wins twice, the Dems will probably be hungry enough for victory to put up a sane politician.
I'll just point out the last time they did that was Clinton in 1992, and their immediate lurch to the Left once he got into office created the Republican Congressional takeover of 1994. Before that, Republicans had House majorities twice, each time for one term, over the course of 62 years.
Since then, the Dems have never controlled the House for more than 4 years art a time
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