A couple days ago I referenced Tom Wolfe’s classic essay “The Great Relearning,” and it may be that we have to go through the Great Implosion in order to relearn things like common sense.
As you have heard, California is going through a series of rolling blackouts of the kind not seen since the botched electricity “restructuring” almost 20 years ago ultimately ended up costing Governor Gray Davis his job. Maybe Gov. Gavin Newsom had this fate in the back of his mind with this Babylon Bee-worthy (but in fact real) story from yesterday:
California governor demands probe of power blackouts
Here’s a thought for Gavin: Look in a mirror. Maybe we should start a grassroots effort to mail in thousands of pocket mirrors to aid in the probe.
Newsome used this exact same play last summer, when, as Jon Gabriel wrote, “Newsom finally noticed that his state has the highest gas prices in the nation, and he’s angry:”
So angry, in fact, he ordered his Attorney General to investigate the decades-long mystery.
“There is no identifiable evidence to justify these premium prices,” Newsom wrote in a letter to state Attorney General Xavier Becerra. “If oil companies are engaging in false advertising or price fixing, then legal action should be taken to protect the public.”
Newsom correctly identified the symptom but remains clueless about the cause. He at least pretends to be.
Having used the same “demanding an industry probe” stunt at least twice, “Pretends” is the key word here.