Gov. Gavin Newsom is dreaming about the White House. Unfortunately, half his state is on fire. Newsom could fight the fires or he could dismiss all criticism of his miserable mismanagement of the state as “disinformation”.

Two guesses which way he went.

This is pathetic even by Gov. Newsom’s standards. There’s Biden, the feeble pretender to the throne, trying to focus on the Democrat disaster Zoom session while mumbling something about “extreme weather” that some staffer probably wrote on a card in red marker and drilled him on, and the new pretender to the throne auditioning on a national stage by denouncing the “hurricane-force winds of disinformation” that some speechwriter probably thought up for him. The forced emotional intonation sounds horrendously fake.

It’s also a self-serving exercise by a politician under fire during a crisis that he helped cause.

“Misinformation” is what politicians call information they don’t like. And Newsom, who refuses to take responsibility for anything, is melting down in public.

The disastrous phone call scene has left Newsom scrambling for even more excuses.

After claiming that all the issues are the fault of local authorities (his standby line for everything from crime to homelessness), he is now “calling for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ynez Reservoir.”

Hurricane force winds indeed.