It's really doesn't make sense to me that he's considered a strong presidential contender. He never sounds authentic and his political positioning at the edge of the party takes someone way more charismatic than he is.

Also, saying something with weakly good vibes and then walking it back after getting phone calls from donors was Harris's 2020 strategy and we all know how that worked out. He's got the stink of a similar mindset and similar influence networks on him.

I can't wait for him to get elected and Democrats to be crowing about how he's so much better than trump because he's blue. Meanwhile he'll continue the war in Iran, which will almost certainly still be going on at that time, because he's a feckless coward who will do anything to appease the people in charge of America, the Israeli lobby.

He's right, it doesn't apply to Israel's present. It applies to israel's past. "Perpetrator of genocide" applies to israel's present.

i regret Gavin's mom birthed him

He's a political chameleon.

He's a slimy git and he is not the leader we need in these dire times. Swipe left.

So he's in the Epstein files, too, then?

If he runs for president, he should run as a republican. At least he can pull the overton window towards the center more.

Edit: corrected "overturn"

"Regrets" his words after AIPAC privately showed him how easily they could crush him politically if he didn't change course.

"Spineless bitch regrets calling a spade a spade"

Fixed that headline for you

This is what he felt the need to apologize for:

“A lot of Democrats have looked at the Netanyahu regime and felt like, you know what, we don’t like his trajectory; that it’s time to rethink the U.S. relationship with Israel, especially military support,” Vietor said.

Newsom responded:

“The issue of Bibi (Netanyahu) is interesting because he’s got his own domestic issues. He’s trying to stay out of jail. He’s got an election coming up. He’s potentially on the ropes. He’s got folks, the hard line, that want to annex the West Bank. Friedman and others are talking about it appropriately as sort of an apartheid state.”

Co-host Jon Favreau then pressed him directly:

“Do you think, looking down the road, that the United States should consider maybe rethinking our military support for Israel?”

Newsom answered:

“It breaks my heart, because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don’t think you have a choice but that consideration.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/newsom-questions-u-alliance-israel-204355476.html

He's not even allowed to say that some day things might hypothetically get bad enough where they may need to consider not funding Israels genocides with a blank check...

He shouldn't hold any sort of political office.

Unless his reasoning is that it was just apartheid before and is full blown genocide now, he's wrong. They've been running on apartheid my entire life.

I regret ever considering him to be a viable presidential candidate.

Never, never ever, regret the truth.

milquetoast bitch of a man. pathetic.

I'm actually surprised by the people who actually think he's a good guy just cause he trolls Trump, he's just another piece of shit who is bending over to you know who, and dropping trou...

Seems like timing is a bit early to move to "center" for the general, Gavin, seeing as how we haven't had 2028 presidential election primaries yet.

Aipac givin gavin guidance

He almost had a spine

Ghoul

Yet we'll get yelled at for not supporting this scumbag.

As he should, Israel is much worse !

AIPAC made him call them daddy.

Do you think if you put a big enough check on a fish hook and dangled it above him, maybe he'd jump?

Feels like these politicians are either (1) extremely bad at reading the room or (2) they are making sure they have a space in the next stage of fascist takeover and realize it's pointless to try to appeal to the MASSIVE anti Israel polling in the Democratic party AND this country.

It felt like they were leaning into Liberal Zionism with a taste of "Benjamin Netanyahu is the problem" so they could call it a genocide.

But, now, the slimiest of these politicians like Gavin Newsom are going in complete reverse to his voters and polls. Feels like they don't even have to consider the voters. They're not speaking to us at all.

I try not to assume they are stupid. It's too simple. They are doing this for a selfish reason to maintain some sense of position or at least not be rounded up with the rest of us.

I guess it's better than 'nazi ideologists'.

Honest title: California presidential hopeful and guy channeling used car salesman energy, Gavin Newsom, regrets disqualifying himself from that sweet, sweet AIPAC funding.

Gavin Newsom regrets accidentally using the word "apartheid" to refer to apartheid

Turd Sandwich tries to take a popular stance, regrets his attempt.

If this becomes the D candidate for prez in 2028, we're cooked.

Wow, we've come so far in the last 20 years... In 2006, Jimmy Carter's book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid was released. Thank goodness we've come together as a society to figure out how best to refer to the domination of the Palestinian people 🙄.

Two faced traditional AIPAC funded corporate politician. All bark no bite. Sad that he's being upselled as THE democratic nominee

Can we just dwell on how fucking weird it is for a governor of a state to "revere" a country on the other side of the world that has no relation to him at all, genocide or not?

I regret Gavin Newsom.

I regret Gavin Newsom

"I apologize for not saying what everyone wants to hear 100% of the time. Sometimes I'll say what this group wsnts to hear, and it pisses off this other group. So I say something that pleases that other group, and now the first group is pissed. I just want you to like me so I can be the tyrant one day."

Newsome is AIPAC's litte bitch.

I don't regret it. That's exactly what they're doing, and apologizing for it just makes you seem like an insufferable douche.

I think the time has come to sumply call American Zionists traitors.

I look forward to liberals shaming me in 2028 for not voting for the Gavin Newsom/Ben Shapiro ticket.

Israel is one of the worst Apartheit states in the world. There is no need to apologize for the truth.

Do you want little genocide? or big genocide? If you don't vote and choose which of the two piles of shits you want to support, we will take all your tax money to get you extra ethnic cleansing and extra genocide

Newsom is such a corrupt piece of shit.

Here he is, another hypocritical politician. Unfortunately, they are all the same, greedy for power and money, whether it is Trump or this poor guy. "Cheap politicians are bought cheaply" (an old proverb)

...I welcome trumps third term...Jesus fuck do not put this man at the fore of the democrat party...if wishes were horses..

fuck gavin newsome, fuck talking heads, fuck settling for less because the 2 parties are playing bad guy worse guy controlled opposition for us in media charades while serving the same corporate sponsors in unity against us behind the scenes. People are too comfortable and not mad enough. The issues i care about are not being addressed by any of these fucks. The american populace is so pathetic these fucks are getting away with the dumbest shit. Comfort addicted spineless fools as far as the eye can see, making excuses and whining about trivial personal shit while people all over the world face real extreme violent consequences. People have no idea how priveledged they are, how eating out of the trash in the US is luxurious, people are scared of silly things they have never had to really be tested and see how capable they are of being amd doing more and see their discusting complicit way of life of something they cant live without. Scared fucking pigs that dont know what real fear is, addicted to status, comfort, convenience, incapable of seeing beyond their tiny perceptions to cultivate an adventurous spirit for a righteous cause, that they themselves will benefit from. Talking head corporate tool jerk offs will rule the pigpin of the cattle populace as long as people choose to be mud wallowing pigs instead of waking up to their human potential and putting effort into facing the hardship and discomfort and inconvenience of fighting this shit for real, because the reality is people are going to suffer and die either way, might as well make it part of a meaningful fight for freedom instead of a watch it all get worse from your gestation crate.

I'd rather see a third Trump term than that asshole; and unlike the other guy, I'm not kidding or being sarcastic. It's like hoping the drunk driver swerves into oncoming traffic rather than continue barreling toward an elementary school's fieldtrip class. The ratchet effect is in full force and these career/corporate dems are complicit at best.

No more stalling or stand-still 'harm reduction' strategic voting. Fix your shit or die trying America, because calling a brief time-out isn't going to put out the fires.

Mmm agreed. They're much more like Nazi Germany.

You suck so much dude

He is right.

What Israel is doing is called genocide.

OMG, he is going to be the DNC presidential candidate in 2028, isn't he? The DNC loves that blood-soaked AIPAC money.

"I regret referring to that lasagna as pasta. I will do better."

He almost had a spine there for a minute

What he meant to say was, “Genocidal cunts.”

The Democrats are so captured by corporate interest and thus losing.