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Two days ago, Spencer Pratt held a cookout at Jim Gilliam Park in the Jungles. A week earlier, Rolling 60s territory. Politicians avoid these neighborhoods, scared of the anger from decades of neglect.
Spencer showed up anyway. Broke bread. Listened.
This is a new Los Angeles.
@grok @SawyerMerritt @Tesla @grok The benchmark should be overall truck sales in the same size category
@TuckerCarlson Part of the problem is how old you have to be to do interstate trucking. You have to be 21. If you graduated high school when you were 18, you probably have already started down another career path by the time you're 21.
Who to follow
@wholemars Only if you pay $99mo for it. If it was free, Tesla would probably double sales.
America is a Constitutional Republic!
@ZubyMusic The Founder. It’s about Ray Croc the McDonalds guy.
@Not_the_Bee Too little, too late. All of the famous people endorsing Pratt now should have gone public with that weeks ago.
@Jake__Wujastyk What's your take on the SpaceX IPO? Crash and burn? Takes off like a rocket? Sit's idle? Seems like that's what's causing all the hub bub for space stocks.
@drealMstenberg They can have nothing
@CAgovernor https://t.co/qBfy22DC27
LIAR!!! RACIST!!! I genuinely do not know which label fits you more, Gavin, so I went with both. Congratulations -- that is a rare achievement even by California standards.
You think you can actually be President of the United States of America? YOU? The man who inherited one of the highest GDPs in the entire world -- a state so blessed by geography, climate, and natural resources that it practically sells itself -- and somehow, SOMEHOW, turned it into a bankrupt, needle-carpeted, feces-adorned open-air disaster zone that people are FLEEING at a rate of 229,000 per year? The climate sold California for you, Gavin. You just covered it in human waste and used syringes and then had the audacity to call it governance.
I would not allow you to run my kids' lemonade stand so they could take a break. They would come back to find a sugar tax, a $20 minimum wage for the 8-year-old pouring the lemonade, and the stand on fire while you held a press conference explaining how it was someone else's fault. You are the human version of period cramps, and I mean that with the full clinical precision of a man who has a science degree.
Now. You want to talk Jim Crow 2.0? Oh, I am SO glad you brought this up.
LIAR. HISTORICAL LIAR.
Here is a fact that is going to get your two brain cells arguing with each other: MAJORITY-BLACK CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS WERE BORN FROM JIM CROW. Not created to help Black Americans. Created to CONTAIN them. Packing and cracking -- look it up, or have someone read it to you slowly, with pictures, maybe even use cryons.
After Reconstruction ended, Black Republicans -- and yes, I said REPUBLICANS, Gavin, because that is what they were -- had been elected to Congress in real, significant numbers. Sixteen Black Republicans served in Congress between 1870 and 1901 alone. So what did the WHITE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS do when they regained power? They drew the infamous "Boa Constrictor" district in South Carolina in 1882 -- a snake-shaped, gerrymandered monstrosity specifically designed to pack every Black voter into ONE box so the other six districts stayed lily-white and Democratic. Mississippi's "Shoestring" district did the exact same thing along the river. Virginia rewrote city charters in 1883 to eliminate Black representation on city councils entirely.
The whole point -- and I am typing this slowly for you (I know, that went over his head too), Gavin, trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat -- was: give them ONE seat, lock them all in it, and make sure they cannot win ANYTHING ELSE. That is your party's legacy. That is the system you are now defending as sacred.
And now you have the nerve, the absolute weapons-grade audacity, to stand in 2026 and accuse Louisiana of Jim Crow for undoing a race-based district when THE ORIGINAL JIM CROW WAS YOUR PARTY INVENTING RACE-BASED DISTRICTS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
You have delusions of adequacy, Governor. That is being generous.
Let us talk about YOUR California, since you seem to have developed a spectacular case of selective amnesia about your own house:
MINIMUM WAGE -- YOUR FAVORITE RACIAL JUSTICE POLICY: In the early 1900s, progressive economists -- YOUR intellectual ancestors, Gavin -- advocated for minimum wage laws SPECIFICALLY as a mechanism to price Black workers and immigrants out of the labor market. Princeton economist Thomas Leonard documented this extensively. White unions raised wage floors not to help workers, but to protect white union jobs from Black laborers willing to work for less. The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was pushed by Southern Democrats and northern union bosses SPECIFICALLY to wall off Black construction workers from federal projects. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in 1966 called minimum wage "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books." And here you are, championing California's $20 minimum wage as a civil rights achievement. I'm not saying I hate you, what I'm saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life -- every single day.
EXCLUSIONARY ZONING -- YOUR ACTUAL HOUSING POLICY: California's zoning laws price Black and Brown families out of neighborhoods. Lakewood, California was 99% white in 1960. That was not an accident. The minimum lot sizes and single-family zoning requirements were DESIGNED -- explicitly -- to set a price floor that kept minority families out. Today your housing policies continue to produce the same result with different paperwork. You have a 3.8 million unit housing shortfall in California. First-time homebuyer median age is now 40. In CA, most working families could not buy a tent under a bridge! And the people locked out of homeownership -- the single greatest wealth-building tool in American history -- are disproportionately young, Black, and Brown. That is YOUR legacy. That is your Jim Crow 2.0, dressed up in environmental regulations and CEQA review requirements.
I think you might actually be the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. I genuinely do.
HOMELESSNESS -- YOUR HUMANITARIAN ACHIEVEMENT: Homelessness in California rose 31.6% under your tenure, while the national rate DECLINED 10%. Your state, 12% of the national population, now houses ONE THIRD of all homeless Americans. These are disproportionately Black Americans, Gavin. But sure -- tell me more about how Louisiana is the problem.
EDUCATION -- THE CLEAREST PLANTATION POLICY: California public schools are in measurable decline in reading and math. Declining performance, declining enrollment. The children receiving the worst education in your state are overwhelmingly Black and Brown kids in urban districts that your party has run for decades. You are the reason those children cannot compete. You pull up the ladder, call it progressivism, and then point fingers at the people who are trying to fix the system you broke. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you. You owe it an apology.
THE GREAT SOCIETY CONNECTION -- BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT: In 1965, roughly 80-85% of Black children were raised in two-parent households. Then the Democratic Party's welfare architecture arrived -- designed not to lift people out of poverty but to replace the father with a government check, ensure permanent dependency, and secure a reliable voting bloc. Within a generation, that figure collapsed. The Democratic Party has always needed an underclass. In the antebellum South, it was slaves. During Jim Crow, it was segregated Black populations denied economic mobility. Today it is poorly educated, welfare-dependent families who have been told for sixty years that Republicans are the enemy while Democrats keep cashing their votes and delivering nothing. Quinn's Law #2: what liberals ACCUSE conservatives of doing is EXACTLY what they are doing.
And then there is the Greg Abbott comment. I heard you say Greg Abbott "doesn't have the backbone." You know -- the Governor. The one in a wheelchair. Due to a severed spine. I'm amazed YOU found your way out of the birth canal, I really am.
You're the reason God created the middle finger, Gavin. And I say that as someone who spent a career studying anatomy and can tell you precisely which one.
Here is the bottom line: You did not just fail California. You failed California's Black community specifically, with policies that trace directly back to the same racist architecture your party invented a century and a half ago. Minimum wage to price out Black workers. Zoning to price out Black families. Under-resourced schools to keep Black children underprepared. Welfare dependency to keep Black votes on the Democratic plantation. And then the cherry on top -- you stand up and call SOMEONE ELSE Jim Crow.
Quinn's Law #1: Liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent.
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@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2
#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
But what do I know -- I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and high school science teacher who actually reads history books instead of rewriting them to hide which party built the plantation, burned it down when it became inconvenient, and then rebuilt it with welfare checks and zoning regulations.
@CAgovernor https://t.co/qBfy22DC27
LIAR!!! RACIST!!! I genuinely do not know which label fits you more, Gavin, so I went with both. Congratulations -- that is a rare achievement even by California standards.
You think you can actually be President of the United States of America? YOU? The man who inherited one of the highest GDPs in the entire world -- a state so blessed by geography, climate, and natural resources that it practically sells itself -- and somehow, SOMEHOW, turned it into a bankrupt, needle-carpeted, feces-adorned open-air disaster zone that people are FLEEING at a rate of 229,000 per year? The climate sold California for you, Gavin. You just covered it in human waste and used syringes and then had the audacity to call it governance.
I would not allow you to run my kids' lemonade stand so they could take a break. They would come back to find a sugar tax, a $20 minimum wage for the 8-year-old pouring the lemonade, and the stand on fire while you held a press conference explaining how it was someone else's fault. You are the human version of period cramps, and I mean that with the full clinical precision of a man who has a science degree.
Now. You want to talk Jim Crow 2.0? Oh, I am SO glad you brought this up.
LIAR. HISTORICAL LIAR.
Here is a fact that is going to get your two brain cells arguing with each other: MAJORITY-BLACK CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS WERE BORN FROM JIM CROW. Not created to help Black Americans. Created to CONTAIN them. Packing and cracking -- look it up, or have someone read it to you slowly, with pictures, maybe even use cryons.
After Reconstruction ended, Black Republicans -- and yes, I said REPUBLICANS, Gavin, because that is what they were -- had been elected to Congress in real, significant numbers. Sixteen Black Republicans served in Congress between 1870 and 1901 alone. So what did the WHITE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS do when they regained power? They drew the infamous "Boa Constrictor" district in South Carolina in 1882 -- a snake-shaped, gerrymandered monstrosity specifically designed to pack every Black voter into ONE box so the other six districts stayed lily-white and Democratic. Mississippi's "Shoestring" district did the exact same thing along the river. Virginia rewrote city charters in 1883 to eliminate Black representation on city councils entirely.
The whole point -- and I am typing this slowly for you (I know, that went over his head too), Gavin, trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat -- was: give them ONE seat, lock them all in it, and make sure they cannot win ANYTHING ELSE. That is your party's legacy. That is the system you are now defending as sacred.
And now you have the nerve, the absolute weapons-grade audacity, to stand in 2026 and accuse Louisiana of Jim Crow for undoing a race-based district when THE ORIGINAL JIM CROW WAS YOUR PARTY INVENTING RACE-BASED DISTRICTS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
You have delusions of adequacy, Governor. That is being generous.
Let us talk about YOUR California, since you seem to have developed a spectacular case of selective amnesia about your own house:
MINIMUM WAGE -- YOUR FAVORITE RACIAL JUSTICE POLICY: In the early 1900s, progressive economists -- YOUR intellectual ancestors, Gavin -- advocated for minimum wage laws SPECIFICALLY as a mechanism to price Black workers and immigrants out of the labor market. Princeton economist Thomas Leonard documented this extensively. White unions raised wage floors not to help workers, but to protect white union jobs from Black laborers willing to work for less. The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was pushed by Southern Democrats and northern union bosses SPECIFICALLY to wall off Black construction workers from federal projects. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in 1966 called minimum wage "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books." And here you are, championing California's $20 minimum wage as a civil rights achievement. I'm not saying I hate you, what I'm saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life -- every single day.
EXCLUSIONARY ZONING -- YOUR ACTUAL HOUSING POLICY: California's zoning laws price Black and Brown families out of neighborhoods. Lakewood, California was 99% white in 1960. That was not an accident. The minimum lot sizes and single-family zoning requirements were DESIGNED -- explicitly -- to set a price floor that kept minority families out. Today your housing policies continue to produce the same result with different paperwork. You have a 3.8 million unit housing shortfall in California. First-time homebuyer median age is now 40. In CA, most working families could not buy a tent under a bridge! And the people locked out of homeownership -- the single greatest wealth-building tool in American history -- are disproportionately young, Black, and Brown. That is YOUR legacy. That is your Jim Crow 2.0, dressed up in environmental regulations and CEQA review requirements.
I think you might actually be the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. I genuinely do.
HOMELESSNESS -- YOUR HUMANITARIAN ACHIEVEMENT: Homelessness in California rose 31.6% under your tenure, while the national rate DECLINED 10%. Your state, 12% of the national population, now houses ONE THIRD of all homeless Americans. These are disproportionately Black Americans, Gavin. But sure -- tell me more about how Louisiana is the problem.
EDUCATION -- THE CLEAREST PLANTATION POLICY: California public schools are in measurable decline in reading and math. Declining performance, declining enrollment. The children receiving the worst education in your state are overwhelmingly Black and Brown kids in urban districts that your party has run for decades. You are the reason those children cannot compete. You pull up the ladder, call it progressivism, and then point fingers at the people who are trying to fix the system you broke. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you. You owe it an apology.
THE GREAT SOCIETY CONNECTION -- BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT: In 1965, roughly 80-85% of Black children were raised in two-parent households. Then the Democratic Party's welfare architecture arrived -- designed not to lift people out of poverty but to replace the father with a government check, ensure permanent dependency, and secure a reliable voting bloc. Within a generation, that figure collapsed. The Democratic Party has always needed an underclass. In the antebellum South, it was slaves. During Jim Crow, it was segregated Black populations denied economic mobility. Today it is poorly educated, welfare-dependent families who have been told for sixty years that Republicans are the enemy while Democrats keep cashing their votes and delivering nothing. Quinn's Law #2: what liberals ACCUSE conservatives of doing is EXACTLY what they are doing.
And then there is the Greg Abbott comment. I heard you say Greg Abbott "doesn't have the backbone." You know -- the Governor. The one in a wheelchair. Due to a severed spine. I'm amazed YOU found your way out of the birth canal, I really am.
You're the reason God created the middle finger, Gavin. And I say that as someone who spent a career studying anatomy and can tell you precisely which one.
Here is the bottom line: You did not just fail California. You failed California's Black community specifically, with policies that trace directly back to the same racist architecture your party invented a century and a half ago. Minimum wage to price out Black workers. Zoning to price out Black families. Under-resourced schools to keep Black children underprepared. Welfare dependency to keep Black votes on the Democratic plantation. And then the cherry on top -- you stand up and call SOMEONE ELSE Jim Crow.
Quinn's Law #1: Liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent.
---
If you are still reading this, WHICH INSULT FITS GAVIN NEWSOM BEST?
IF you agree:
LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it.
SHARE this -- every share is a history lesson delivered to someone who needs it.
COMMENT below -- tell me: name ONE California policy that has improved Black wealth-building under Newsom. Just one. I will wait.
JOIN Bski's Classroom on X communities or YouTube for more.
@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2
#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
But what do I know -- I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and high school science teacher who actually reads history books instead of rewriting them to hide which party built the plantation, burned it down when it became inconvenient, and then rebuilt it with welfare checks and zoning regulations.
@CAgovernor With all due respect. Gavin, it's best for you to stay quiet and just go away. https://t.co/qBfy22DC27
LIAR!!! RACIST!!! I genuinely do not know which label fits you more, Gavin, so I went with both. Congratulations -- that is a rare achievement even by California standards.
You think you can actually be President of the United States of America? YOU? The man who inherited one of the highest GDPs in the entire world -- a state so blessed by geography, climate, and natural resources that it practically sells itself -- and somehow, SOMEHOW, turned it into a bankrupt, needle-carpeted, feces-adorned open-air disaster zone that people are FLEEING at a rate of 229,000 per year? The climate sold California for you, Gavin. You just covered it in human waste and used syringes and then had the audacity to call it governance.
I would not allow you to run my kids' lemonade stand so they could take a break. They would come back to find a sugar tax, a $20 minimum wage for the 8-year-old pouring the lemonade, and the stand on fire while you held a press conference explaining how it was someone else's fault. You are the human version of period cramps, and I mean that with the full clinical precision of a man who has a science degree.
Now. You want to talk Jim Crow 2.0? Oh, I am SO glad you brought this up.
LIAR. HISTORICAL LIAR.
Here is a fact that is going to get your two brain cells arguing with each other: MAJORITY-BLACK CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS WERE BORN FROM JIM CROW. Not created to help Black Americans. Created to CONTAIN them. Packing and cracking -- look it up, or have someone read it to you slowly, with pictures, maybe even use cryons.
After Reconstruction ended, Black Republicans -- and yes, I said REPUBLICANS, Gavin, because that is what they were -- had been elected to Congress in real, significant numbers. Sixteen Black Republicans served in Congress between 1870 and 1901 alone. So what did the WHITE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS do when they regained power? They drew the infamous "Boa Constrictor" district in South Carolina in 1882 -- a snake-shaped, gerrymandered monstrosity specifically designed to pack every Black voter into ONE box so the other six districts stayed lily-white and Democratic. Mississippi's "Shoestring" district did the exact same thing along the river. Virginia rewrote city charters in 1883 to eliminate Black representation on city councils entirely.
The whole point -- and I am typing this slowly for you (I know, that went over his head too), Gavin, trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat -- was: give them ONE seat, lock them all in it, and make sure they cannot win ANYTHING ELSE. That is your party's legacy. That is the system you are now defending as sacred.
And now you have the nerve, the absolute weapons-grade audacity, to stand in 2026 and accuse Louisiana of Jim Crow for undoing a race-based district when THE ORIGINAL JIM CROW WAS YOUR PARTY INVENTING RACE-BASED DISTRICTS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
You have delusions of adequacy, Governor. That is being generous.
Let us talk about YOUR California, since you seem to have developed a spectacular case of selective amnesia about your own house:
MINIMUM WAGE -- YOUR FAVORITE RACIAL JUSTICE POLICY: In the early 1900s, progressive economists -- YOUR intellectual ancestors, Gavin -- advocated for minimum wage laws SPECIFICALLY as a mechanism to price Black workers and immigrants out of the labor market. Princeton economist Thomas Leonard documented this extensively. White unions raised wage floors not to help workers, but to protect white union jobs from Black laborers willing to work for less. The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was pushed by Southern Democrats and northern union bosses SPECIFICALLY to wall off Black construction workers from federal projects. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in 1966 called minimum wage "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books." And here you are, championing California's $20 minimum wage as a civil rights achievement. I'm not saying I hate you, what I'm saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life -- every single day.
EXCLUSIONARY ZONING -- YOUR ACTUAL HOUSING POLICY: California's zoning laws price Black and Brown families out of neighborhoods. Lakewood, California was 99% white in 1960. That was not an accident. The minimum lot sizes and single-family zoning requirements were DESIGNED -- explicitly -- to set a price floor that kept minority families out. Today your housing policies continue to produce the same result with different paperwork. You have a 3.8 million unit housing shortfall in California. First-time homebuyer median age is now 40. In CA, most working families could not buy a tent under a bridge! And the people locked out of homeownership -- the single greatest wealth-building tool in American history -- are disproportionately young, Black, and Brown. That is YOUR legacy. That is your Jim Crow 2.0, dressed up in environmental regulations and CEQA review requirements.
I think you might actually be the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. I genuinely do.
HOMELESSNESS -- YOUR HUMANITARIAN ACHIEVEMENT: Homelessness in California rose 31.6% under your tenure, while the national rate DECLINED 10%. Your state, 12% of the national population, now houses ONE THIRD of all homeless Americans. These are disproportionately Black Americans, Gavin. But sure -- tell me more about how Louisiana is the problem.
EDUCATION -- THE CLEAREST PLANTATION POLICY: California public schools are in measurable decline in reading and math. Declining performance, declining enrollment. The children receiving the worst education in your state are overwhelmingly Black and Brown kids in urban districts that your party has run for decades. You are the reason those children cannot compete. You pull up the ladder, call it progressivism, and then point fingers at the people who are trying to fix the system you broke. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you. You owe it an apology.
THE GREAT SOCIETY CONNECTION -- BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT: In 1965, roughly 80-85% of Black children were raised in two-parent households. Then the Democratic Party's welfare architecture arrived -- designed not to lift people out of poverty but to replace the father with a government check, ensure permanent dependency, and secure a reliable voting bloc. Within a generation, that figure collapsed. The Democratic Party has always needed an underclass. In the antebellum South, it was slaves. During Jim Crow, it was segregated Black populations denied economic mobility. Today it is poorly educated, welfare-dependent families who have been told for sixty years that Republicans are the enemy while Democrats keep cashing their votes and delivering nothing. Quinn's Law #2: what liberals ACCUSE conservatives of doing is EXACTLY what they are doing.
And then there is the Greg Abbott comment. I heard you say Greg Abbott "doesn't have the backbone." You know -- the Governor. The one in a wheelchair. Due to a severed spine. I'm amazed YOU found your way out of the birth canal, I really am.
You're the reason God created the middle finger, Gavin. And I say that as someone who spent a career studying anatomy and can tell you precisely which one.
Here is the bottom line: You did not just fail California. You failed California's Black community specifically, with policies that trace directly back to the same racist architecture your party invented a century and a half ago. Minimum wage to price out Black workers. Zoning to price out Black families. Under-resourced schools to keep Black children underprepared. Welfare dependency to keep Black votes on the Democratic plantation. And then the cherry on top -- you stand up and call SOMEONE ELSE Jim Crow.
Quinn's Law #1: Liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent.
---
If you are still reading this, WHICH INSULT FITS GAVIN NEWSOM BEST?
IF you agree:
LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it.
SHARE this -- every share is a history lesson delivered to someone who needs it.
COMMENT below -- tell me: name ONE California policy that has improved Black wealth-building under Newsom. Just one. I will wait.
JOIN Bski's Classroom on X communities or YouTube for more.
@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2
#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
But what do I know -- I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and high school science teacher who actually reads history books instead of rewriting them to hide which party built the plantation, burned it down when it became inconvenient, and then rebuilt it with welfare checks and zoning regulations.
LIAR!!! RACIST!!! I genuinely do not know which label fits you more, Gavin, so I went with both. Congratulations -- that is a rare achievement even by California standards.
You think you can actually be President of the United States of America? YOU? The man who inherited one of the highest GDPs in the entire world -- a state so blessed by geography, climate, and natural resources that it practically sells itself -- and somehow, SOMEHOW, turned it into a bankrupt, needle-carpeted, feces-adorned open-air disaster zone that people are FLEEING at a rate of 229,000 per year? The climate sold California for you, Gavin. You just covered it in human waste and used syringes and then had the audacity to call it governance.
I would not allow you to run my kids' lemonade stand so they could take a break. They would come back to find a sugar tax, a $20 minimum wage for the 8-year-old pouring the lemonade, and the stand on fire while you held a press conference explaining how it was someone else's fault. You are the human version of period cramps, and I mean that with the full clinical precision of a man who has a science degree.
Now. You want to talk Jim Crow 2.0? Oh, I am SO glad you brought this up.
LIAR. HISTORICAL LIAR.
Here is a fact that is going to get your two brain cells arguing with each other: MAJORITY-BLACK CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS WERE BORN FROM JIM CROW. Not created to help Black Americans. Created to CONTAIN them. Packing and cracking -- look it up, or have someone read it to you slowly, with pictures, maybe even use cryons.
After Reconstruction ended, Black Republicans -- and yes, I said REPUBLICANS, Gavin, because that is what they were -- had been elected to Congress in real, significant numbers. Sixteen Black Republicans served in Congress between 1870 and 1901 alone. So what did the WHITE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS do when they regained power? They drew the infamous "Boa Constrictor" district in South Carolina in 1882 -- a snake-shaped, gerrymandered monstrosity specifically designed to pack every Black voter into ONE box so the other six districts stayed lily-white and Democratic. Mississippi's "Shoestring" district did the exact same thing along the river. Virginia rewrote city charters in 1883 to eliminate Black representation on city councils entirely.
The whole point -- and I am typing this slowly for you (I know, that went over his head too), Gavin, trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat -- was: give them ONE seat, lock them all in it, and make sure they cannot win ANYTHING ELSE. That is your party's legacy. That is the system you are now defending as sacred.
And now you have the nerve, the absolute weapons-grade audacity, to stand in 2026 and accuse Louisiana of Jim Crow for undoing a race-based district when THE ORIGINAL JIM CROW WAS YOUR PARTY INVENTING RACE-BASED DISTRICTS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
You have delusions of adequacy, Governor. That is being generous.
Let us talk about YOUR California, since you seem to have developed a spectacular case of selective amnesia about your own house:
MINIMUM WAGE -- YOUR FAVORITE RACIAL JUSTICE POLICY: In the early 1900s, progressive economists -- YOUR intellectual ancestors, Gavin -- advocated for minimum wage laws SPECIFICALLY as a mechanism to price Black workers and immigrants out of the labor market. Princeton economist Thomas Leonard documented this extensively. White unions raised wage floors not to help workers, but to protect white union jobs from Black laborers willing to work for less. The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was pushed by Southern Democrats and northern union bosses SPECIFICALLY to wall off Black construction workers from federal projects. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in 1966 called minimum wage "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books." And here you are, championing California's $20 minimum wage as a civil rights achievement. I'm not saying I hate you, what I'm saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life -- every single day.
EXCLUSIONARY ZONING -- YOUR ACTUAL HOUSING POLICY: California's zoning laws price Black and Brown families out of neighborhoods. Lakewood, California was 99% white in 1960. That was not an accident. The minimum lot sizes and single-family zoning requirements were DESIGNED -- explicitly -- to set a price floor that kept minority families out. Today your housing policies continue to produce the same result with different paperwork. You have a 3.8 million unit housing shortfall in California. First-time homebuyer median age is now 40. In CA, most working families could not buy a tent under a bridge! And the people locked out of homeownership -- the single greatest wealth-building tool in American history -- are disproportionately young, Black, and Brown. That is YOUR legacy. That is your Jim Crow 2.0, dressed up in environmental regulations and CEQA review requirements.
I think you might actually be the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. I genuinely do.
HOMELESSNESS -- YOUR HUMANITARIAN ACHIEVEMENT: Homelessness in California rose 31.6% under your tenure, while the national rate DECLINED 10%. Your state, 12% of the national population, now houses ONE THIRD of all homeless Americans. These are disproportionately Black Americans, Gavin. But sure -- tell me more about how Louisiana is the problem.
EDUCATION -- THE CLEAREST PLANTATION POLICY: California public schools are in measurable decline in reading and math. Declining performance, declining enrollment. The children receiving the worst education in your state are overwhelmingly Black and Brown kids in urban districts that your party has run for decades. You are the reason those children cannot compete. You pull up the ladder, call it progressivism, and then point fingers at the people who are trying to fix the system you broke. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you. You owe it an apology.
THE GREAT SOCIETY CONNECTION -- BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT: In 1965, roughly 80-85% of Black children were raised in two-parent households. Then the Democratic Party's welfare architecture arrived -- designed not to lift people out of poverty but to replace the father with a government check, ensure permanent dependency, and secure a reliable voting bloc. Within a generation, that figure collapsed. The Democratic Party has always needed an underclass. In the antebellum South, it was slaves. During Jim Crow, it was segregated Black populations denied economic mobility. Today it is poorly educated, welfare-dependent families who have been told for sixty years that Republicans are the enemy while Democrats keep cashing their votes and delivering nothing. Quinn's Law #2: what liberals ACCUSE conservatives of doing is EXACTLY what they are doing.
And then there is the Greg Abbott comment. I heard you say Greg Abbott "doesn't have the backbone." You know -- the Governor. The one in a wheelchair. Due to a severed spine. I'm amazed YOU found your way out of the birth canal, I really am.
You're the reason God created the middle finger, Gavin. And I say that as someone who spent a career studying anatomy and can tell you precisely which one.
Here is the bottom line: You did not just fail California. You failed California's Black community specifically, with policies that trace directly back to the same racist architecture your party invented a century and a half ago. Minimum wage to price out Black workers. Zoning to price out Black families. Under-resourced schools to keep Black children underprepared. Welfare dependency to keep Black votes on the Democratic plantation. And then the cherry on top -- you stand up and call SOMEONE ELSE Jim Crow.
Quinn's Law #1: Liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent.
---
If you are still reading this, WHICH INSULT FITS GAVIN NEWSOM BEST?
IF you agree:
LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it.
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COMMENT below -- tell me: name ONE California policy that has improved Black wealth-building under Newsom. Just one. I will wait.
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But what do I know -- I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and high school science teacher who actually reads history books instead of rewriting them to hide which party built the plantation, burned it down when it became inconvenient, and then rebuilt it with welfare checks and zoning regulations.
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