Being Real, She Says
As illustrations go, this one is worthy of note:
There are many things to dislike about progressivism, even just from a purely aesthetic point of view, and so we spend a lot of time on here ridiculing it on that basis, but it’s important always to remember that the main problem with progressivism is that it’s not true.
It’s… https://t.co/Wqs5FaS6JZ
— wanye (@xwanyex) April 7, 2026
Readers will note Mrs Newsom’s assumptions of accidental criminality – among occupants of San Quentin, a maximum-security prison – and her obliviousness regarding how much effort is required – how many accidents – to actually end up in a prison of any kind.
Such wildly inaccurate conceptions of the criminal demographic and of the psychology and motives in play, as expressed by the criminals themselves, have been noted here before, with corrective – one might say eye-widening – statistics and illustrations.
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*irony meter explodes*
It does rather widen the eyes. There’s a boggling wrongness to much of what she says.
Because some things bear repeating:
And Mrs Newsom and her peers imagine themselves our betters.
“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Ronald Reagan
Somehow, I doubt the First Partner has ever even served on any jury. She was raised in tony Marin County for criminey’s sake and never had worry one about being a victim of crime “accidental” or otherwise.
It must be quite strange, to waft through the world in that way.
“Stonehenge was built by black people.“