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The whole world is laughing, or rolling its eyes, at California SSR Commissar Gavin Newsom after he told a black audience that he was just like them because he is supposedly dyslexic and got a 960 on the SATs. Newsom himself, however, fails to see what’s so funny.
As PJ’s own Stephen Green noted, “The choice Newsom made was to approximate a white guy suffering from lifelong dyslexia that’s so bad he ‘can’t read a speech’ to a roomful of black people who were, I dunno, just born that way, I guess.” And now our wannabe next president is responding with incandescent rage to any suggestion that that he said anything that was odd or eyebrow-raising at all.
Early on Monday morning, Sean Hannity posted on X the video of Newsom’s uber-pandering with the comment: “@GavinNewsom Thinks a 960 SAT Makes Him ‘Like’ Black Americans. Let That Sink In.” Newsom responded in a frothing fury three hours later: “You didn’t give a s**t about the President of the United States of America posting an ape video of President Obama or calling African nations s**tholes — but you’re going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia? Spare me your fake f**king outrage, Sean.”
This was Newsom at his most disingenuous, and that’s quite an accomplishment. As everyone except, apparently, Gavin Newsom knows by now, the video in question was not “an ape video of President Obama” at all, but a video about voter fraud that ended with an automated YouTube recommendation of other videos that contained the offensive material. That offensive material, meanwhile, also depicted Old Joe Biden as a monkey, so the idea that it was some shockingly racist presentation is a stretch at best.
On top of all that, Trump said in early February that he “didn’t make a mistake” regarding the video; he said he hadn’t viewed the whole thing, and hadn’t seen the depiction of Obama at the end of the video. The video was taken down.
Newsom, however, acknowledged none of that, and instead labored to reinforce the leftist canard that Trump is a racist. Newsom did the same thing regarding the “s**thole countries” business; Trump wrote in Jan. 2018: “The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made – a big setback for DACA!”
Newsom may think Trump was lying in both cases, but even if that were true, it wouldn’t establish that Trump was a racist. If everyone portrayed as a monkey in the Obama video were black, Newsom might have a case, but they weren’t. And if the African countries that may or may not have been dubbed s**tholes were models of good government, public order and prosperity, once again Newsom might have a convincing case that Trump registered distaste for them only because they’re full of black people, but they aren’t.
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WPM says
His speech about yes I am just like you ,I cannot read and have a poor credit rating (despite being worth over 100 million dollars?) a good hair cut on top of an empty head. Proof that not only that he cannot read written words ,that he cannot read an audience .Pandering on steroids gone bad ,should be used against him in a TV advertisement on his democratic primary for the the presidential election 2028.
WPM says
Racism on expecting that all black people cannot read or have poor credit ratings .Racism has always be used by the democratic party ,now it is the pandering kind ,I am surprised he did not start trying to rap for the audience .Will he next try the Hillary Clinton fake accent and bad grammar in his next speech?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yet he looks like the most likely Dem candidate in 2028. Let’s see what happens
Ugly 312 says
That would be great. Maybe he can pair up with any of the other ,”geniuses” that may run as well.
Perhaps racist was the wrong word, especially when asshole seems so much mire fitting. No wonder his state is in the shape it is.
William Kemmler says
Newsom is both a racist and an asshole. And he thinks he’s the best of the lot when it comes to the democrat nomination for president.
abu taleb says
But the Atlanta mayor who is black, laughed to the “I am stupid just like you black people”, was he applauding Newsome, or was he thinking it was funny. Seemed no hurt feeling at all.
So Newsome must have been right when he said “I am stupid just like you black people”
tgusa says
Give the boy a break. Navin Newsom was born a poor black child.
Kris says
Lol
In all seriousness, I for one take no pleasure in seeing Newsom make this gaffe. I want the Dems to win in 2028, looks like it definitely won’t be with him. He’s isolated I dare say, this is one good example of why it’s important to be open to feedback. Bet you anything he has at least one staffer who saw this coming
gravenimage says
Newsom Responds to the Blowback Over His Racist Remarks, and Boy, Is He Mad
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Good grief…
tgusa says
If you held a competition between the democrat political class and any random Junior High School student council the democrats would be easily outmatched.
David M says
He thinks the same as Sleepy Joe: “If you don’t vote for me, then you ain’t black.”