But Mr. Newsom, the California governor, looks back at his life at age 58 and sees a different figure. An awkward kid with a bowl cut and a lisp, tormented by a bully who called him Newscum, the same insult now used by President Trump. A teenager who delivered newspapers because money was tight at home. A young man who overcompensated for his dyslexia by memorizing a list of pretentious words that remain in his lexicon today.
That’s the tale Mr. Newsom unspools in his new book, “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery,” in which he explores the schisms that defined his upbringing. It is set to arrive Feb. 24 amid his ascension as a likely Democratic presidential contender and a prominent critic of Mr. Trump in a pivotal midterm election year.
Despite those circumstances, Mr. Newsom spends almost no time in the book discussing the president or recent politics, based on an early copy provided to The New York Times. And, for the most part, he ends his introspection in the weeks before he becomes governor in 2019.
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".....But Mr. Newsom, the California governor, looks back at his life at age 58 and sees a different figure. An awkward kid with a bowl cut and a lisp, tormented by a bully who called him Newscum, the same insult now used by President Trump. A teenager who delivered newspapers because money was tight at home. A young man who overcompensated for his dyslexia by memorizing a list of pretentious words that remain in his lexicon today."
I look back and see a Governor who decided out of the blue to clear out a homeless encampment in SanFran (or was it LA?) by going in there and chucking all their stuff into a dumpster, which means that all those homeless people had to have been arrested beforehand. He's never done it again, but if he becomes president, I'm afraid he will deport all the homeless to Antarctica or possibly use them as Gulag labor to build the first Moonbase before "the real astronauts" show up.
I'll never forget this: "Gavin Newsom clears L.A. homeless encampment as he tells cities to do more or risk losing funds" ("Fortune", 08-09-2024). He went into the place "by himself" and just chucked the homeless' stuff into dumpsters. If he's president, the chances are good that American homeless will be doing Gulag labor on the Moon to build the first base before the astronauts show up.
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