The Left Discovers Trolling: Trolling No Longer Cool (Gavin Newsom's Glow Up)

In this episode, we delve into Gavin Newsom's recent attempts at political trolling and discuss whether trolling is a necessary part of modern American politics. The conversation touches on Newsom's persona, his political strategies, and his attempts to mimic Donald Trump's trolling techniques. We also compare Newsom's affluent upbringing and political maneuvers with JD Vance's rise from poverty, highlighting how these contrasts shape public perception. The episode critiques Newsom's authenticity and examines his political record, including controversies and his handling of California's issues. Tune in to hear an in-depth analysis of one of America's most polarizing political figures.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be talking about Gavin Newsom and he figured out trolling. And the last didn't exactly figure it out. You know, he, he's sort of the human personification of the left can't meme. But he has started trolling and the left is loving it.

So it's like in Jurassic

Simone Collins: Park when the Raptor has figured out how to use door handles.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Except not really. Oh,

Simone Collins: God. But he's getting traction. I just think it's, it's too soon. He's, I, I

Malcolm Collins: also, it's a wider theme of this episode. What I want to ask is, 'cause some people have been saying this, they go, you do not appear to be able to have a voice.

Was in modern American politics without trolling that trolling is a necessary part of playing the current political game. And I would argue yes, yes it is. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing as a lot of people say. I mean, we have grown our political platform through trolling. , And I love that the left is [00:01:00] attempting to troll now because it comes off.

So bad,

Sorry, I re remembered that we have a bunch of non-American viewers. , Gavin Newsom right now is the Democrat's top contender to be running against JD Vance in the next presidential election cycle. I.

Malcolm Collins: so this, this ends up coming so bad because people are, are sharing these photos of Gavin Newsom again. Oh, you showed me one. Yeah. And Gavin Newsom. Looks like a bully. Like if you look at these, not like a bully, but like your standard rich bully kid.

Like if physio fmy as anything, he looks like a bully. And if you look at he looks American psycho. Yeah, he looks like an he. He and he acts like it, like even today. So if you could, Gavin Newsom, acts like Patrick Bateman from America Cycle. Like his whole thing feels so constructed. He saw Trump doing well.

By trolling people. And so then he goes and tries to troll people. If you look at his political rear up this, [00:02:00] he's just been like a chameleon. Copying and copying and copying whatever he sees somebody else doing.

Speaker: There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me only an entity, something illusory.

And though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense, our lifestyles are probably comparable. I simply am not there.

Malcolm Collins: I mean, I think Patrick Bateman is a much better name for him than no Scum, which is Trump's but Trump by the way. Got that. And I'll play a video of, of him admitting this, but he said that some kids called him this in seventh grade and it hurt his feelings.

Speaker 2: I have my kids' friends. Call him my kids' new scum that I get 'cause I was called that in seventh grade,

Malcolm Collins: oh. And so Trump picked upon it. Oh God. Remember having his feelings hurt for something so effing stupid from the seventh grade. Oh, good heavens.[00:03:00]

The progressives like, Trump can sniff out weakness like a hound dog or something. And I'm like, yeah, I guess.

Here's another fun early picture of the two where Gavin Newsom, uh, after high school, got money from the Gettys to buy a vineyard in Napa. And, uh, JD Vance went to join the military because, you know, of course, poor family, I.

Malcolm Collins: But this guy's going up against JD vs. And JD Vance, you look at him for the aga Me and I go, this guy looks like a guy who played Magic, the Gathering. And believe it or not, he was actually a very big fan and still a big fan of Magic, the Gathering.

So that's what he looks like. And I think that we saw this and we pointed this out in the last election cycle was the left because it is now the culture of the urban monoculture, the dominant culture in society and now is attempting to impose those urban monocultural values has become the party of the bully.

And they use this in their speech. I mean the right, because we are not the dominant culture. We intrinsically are weird. That's how weirdness is defined. It's by distance from what is seen as culturally normal.

Simone Collins (2): Absolutely.

Malcolm Collins: [00:04:00] And so you're weird if you're an Orthodox Jew, you're weird. If you're an Evangelical Christian, you're weird.

If you are JD Vance and a fat kid who plays magic the gathering and does. Nerdy socially awkward things. Like in one of the pictures, they have him like standing in a bathroom with like two women, you know, like they're, they're they're nerdy kids goofing off and that you're like, Ooh, how could you do that?

Like, what, what do you have no fun. Like, what were you, were you the Gavin Newsom of your high school? Right? Like, and I wanna point, point out here, so one. When the Progressive did this last time, the the scene from revenge of the Nerds. 'cause that's exactly what they are. They've, they've just, oh my gosh.

And bullies.

Democrats and the Harris campaign now deploying a new adjective to blast the Republican ticket. Some of what he and his running mate are saying, well, it's just plain weird. Get those nerds! I mean, on the other side, they're just weird. Nerds! It's not just a, a, a, a [00:05:00] weird style that he brings. Nerds! Nerds!

Nerds! Nerds! Where are they? I think they're talking about us. No way. Oh no! Ah! Ah! Ah

Malcolm Collins: And I think that everybody, and this is great. I mean, I hope Gavin Newsom wins and does this in the next thing. He's gonna look like a bully.

Simone Collins: He already, you hope he wins the primary? You mean for the Oh yeah.

Malcolm Collins: He's gonna try to use Trump-like tactics against. The sweet and practical JD Vance, who, who doesn't do this in the same way, he only, well, again, when

Simone Collins: you look at pictures of them too, the, the other differentiator is clearly one's coming from money and clearly one's not.

Oh, one is representative of most Americans and one is not, and it's super easy to tell.

Malcolm Collins: This is what really gets me as well, is, is, is Gavin Newsom has gone with this whole, I wasn't a rich kid thing, so I'll get to what he says in regards to that. What, how if you know JD Vance, JD Vance grew up in actual poverty [00:06:00] there's like the scene where his grandma was gonna set their grandpa on fire for coming home late and the somebody had to hide the matches or something.

We,

Simone Collins: Memaw

Malcolm Collins: Memaw, Memaw the hardcore person. You know, he, he grew up in actual. You know, Appalachian region poverty. Yeah. And he was

Simone Collins: raised by his memaw because his mother was dealing with really intense drug addiction. Lik