![]() ![]() I hate how obviously fake it is, and I hate the implication that Newsom is some literary intellectual studying the classics to dunk on his rivals when he should, I’dunno, be running his state or something. What, I ask, is the point of staging an unbearably transparent photo op where you pretend to read a stack of books frequently assigned to 15-year-olds - including ones that were themselves banned in his own dang state? Who is this for? Wasn’t anyone on the governor’s staff brave enough to speak up and point out that this whole thing is Extremely Stupid? Did he even end up ordering any food? This is the governor of the fifth-largest economy on Earth, sitting in what seems to be an empty restaurant (I’m sure his friends are all just out of frame, laughing too), reading a stack of pristine new novels - not a single crease on a single spine in the bunch! - as a totally natural, not at all staged attempt to dunk on the conservative communities enthusiastically banning notable pieces of writing they find offensive or challenging or just too darn icky for their delicate literary palates. Let’s go over what we’re all looking at, here, just to make sure we’re on the same page (ha ha ha). ![]()
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