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Gavin Newsom Finds A Grain Of Sand And Declares That He Personally Built A Stunning New Beach

If you believe the governor of California, the state is laying track that it hasn’t bought yet.

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It was an induced hallucination, happily shared by a crowd of professional journalists, and a useful reminder of Gavin Newsom’s tendency to swagger like a winner on the lightest of pretexts.

Back in February, the California governor spoke to the media in a crowded railyard, posing in front of a long line of freight cars and the piles of construction materials they had just delivered while he bragged about the extraordinary new progress the state was making toward a functioning high-speed rail system.

You see what they were showing off: freight trains everywhere, rushing giant piles of construction materials to a bustling new railyard to support active, urgent work. A video posted by the California High-Speed Rail Authority spoke in present tense about all the buildings on the site, though an alert viewer would have noticed that the images were all generated with computer animation. You can maybe begin to see where this is going.

The site includes a workshop and warehouse, the video said, also describing offices and a substantial electric power system. It did not suggest that the site would one day include buildings.

Boldly proclaiming the scope of the success, Newsom’s office sent out a press release: “Governor Newsom announces major high-speed rail milestone, track installation to begin.” Again, the press release described what the site “includes,” not what the site would eventually include: “The site includes temporary freight lines and storage tracks, material........

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