I've Figured Out Gavin Newsom's Face

A visitor sent me a heads-up to a story on Gavin Newsom that broke in local media yesterday, and it's developing only very slowly this morning. Here's the latest, still from California local media:

Will the “worst-kept secret in Sacramento” blow into public view?

It’s hard to say.

The secret? That Gov. Gavin Newsom was engaged in multiple alleged extra-marital affairs over the course of 2020, a time where many of his orders shuttered nearly all personal and economic activity across the nation’s largest state.

Sources on K Street and within the Capitol complex peppered The Sun with corroborating rumors of infidelity by Newsom during the pandemic year.

One such instance allegedly occurred with a high-ranking official within his own office, K Street sources told The Sun.

The original source the visitor sent me took me back to Newsom's past history. I've got to say I wasn't paying much attention at the time, simply because Newsom was the foreordained choice of the lizard people, there was nothing I could do about it, and I had better uses for my time. But the guy has a history of this kind of thing:

Governor Newsom has established a pattern and practice of engaging in inappropriate sexual relationships with members of his staff. As Mayor of San Francisco in 2007, Newsom was caught having an affair with Ruby Rippey-Tourk, his Appointments Secretary. To add to the tawdriness of the affair, the woman was the wife of Newsom’s Campaign Manager, who subsequently quit the campaign.

Newsom survived the scandal by publicly apologizing, assuring voters that he had learned his lessons, and promising that he would get treatment to deal with “problems with alcohol.”

I would guess that, given last year's party without masks, indoors at the French Laundry restaurant, where anyone could see him, the problems with alcohol are still there. And that goes to his face. Most appearances I've seen of Newsom on TV give an affectless expression something like the photo above. And it dawned on me from back in my Animal House days: the governor is normally s**tfaced. (My understanding of that term is that, when one is heavily intoxicated, one loses one's ability to have an animated facial expression. Other etymologies differ.)

But then, other photos show the governor with an extremely animated expression, a little like a wolverine that suddenly finds a wandering baby rabbit, like the one at right: Given the history we're dealing with here, in which the guy is starting to look a little like a cleaned-up Hunter Biden, I would strongly suspect that when the governor has a face like this, he's coked up.

In other words, he's just another politician working day to day under seriously impaired judgment, the tool of his handlers. COVID and the colored safe-economy tiers for California are off the radar for now and, given what seems to be looming on the horizon, they'll be off the radar for some time.