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.“
The word ‘probably’ is doing a hell of a lot of lifting.
Black lies matter.
Oh to be able to strap her into a Vogon poetry appreciation chair and force her to listen to a recitation of the criminal record of every inmate at San Quentin. Every inmate. Every crime.
A normal human being, if they had accidentally killed anyone, let alone a sibling, would be hardly able to live with themselves, at least not without a heck of a lot of support (from family, friends, perhaps therapists, etc.). They certainly wouldn’t go around tossing it off as something unimportant.
A psychopath, on the other hand…
She found Gavin Newsom attractive. Loveable.
Not, you know, creepy or disturbing.
We should probably bear that in mind.
I knew a man who accidentally killed his daughter by backing over her with his truck. He never got over it.
Unlike our host, apparently.
She and Gavin belong together. She accidentally killed her sister and he accidentally killed California…
By the way, the “let them out of jail” nuts attribute no agency to black criminals. Criminals are just empty vessels into which victimhood is poured. And of course they cannot explain how there can be any white criminals using their own logic. Also they cannot explain how in the 1950s (earlier?) (according to Sowell), blacks were in fact oppressed, but had the same or higher rates of marriage and very similar imprisonment rates. But never let facts get in the way of a useful narrative.
Such wildly inaccurate conceptions of the criminal demographic and of the psychology and motives in play,
I think I’ve mentioned before that for a while I worked as a prosecutor in a busy metropolitan criminal court in the north of England and where, faute de mieux, I was tasked with overseeing the proceedings in what was then still known as the Juvenile Court. Amongst my regulars were a small cabal of prolific burglars, in their early teens. They were from “broken homes”, and nominally in “local authority care”, an oxymoron to rival “Microsoft Works”, or “elegant combover”.
The sheer insouciance of the social workers tasked with their care, Guardian readers to a man and woman, was breathtaking.
“They’re just naughty boys” was a phrase I heard regularly, when what these odious little bastards were up to consisted of terrorising working class neighbourhoods on a nightly basis, breaking into other people’s houses and stealing VCR recorders, hi-fis and other stuff, which they sold to “fences” in a couple of second-hand shops, transported to and from the scenes of their crimes by Pakistani or Bangladeshi taxi drivers (presumably these latter were also enthusiastic participants in the mass rapes of the female equivalents of the burglar boys- this phenomenon did not break surface until a decade or so later).
“Just naughty boys”- as if the little buggers were acting out benign fantasies of rascally behaviour as portrayed by Richmal Crompton.
That was over three decades ago, and nothing I’ve seen, heard or read about since has persuaded me to change my mind after I came rather rapidly to the conclusion that the vast majority of lefties were and are moral cretins.
/rant
There’s also a failure to grasp that criminal and anti-social behaviour is rarely confined to one sphere.
In the case mentioned here, the trio of burglars – with over 200 convictions between them – also amused themselves by stealing cars, endangering other motorists in truly alarming ways, and assaulting and mugging the elderly and bedridden cancer patients.
But hey, accidents happen.