Gavin Newsom

And Babe Ruth only comes up once every nine times at bat.

So sometimes, as any inhabitant of Los Angeles can tell you, sometimes it's the middle infielder.

Sometimes it's the second baseman that is the deciding factor in any given moment.

So we're obligated to tell a complicated history.

There's no other word.

It's almost redundant.

complicated history or complicated human being.

And that any attempt to simplify it is really just the work of an authoritarian.

That is to say, we're going to make this simple.

We're going to keep you uninformed.

We're going to keep you subscribing to superstitions and conspiracy theories that distract you from the fact that I have my boot on the back of your neck.

Yeah, I think that, you know, disinformation is always I'm sure the first conversation between two human beings ever was a lie.

Or at least a lie was part of that.

And I think that we do a disservice and say, oh, our time is worse.

The chicken littles, the sky is falling.

I remember when new technologies come along like, oh, say, the telegraph in the 1850s.

People are wringing their hands.

This is the end of letter writing.

It's the end of this.

And so I think, yeah, there's a lot.