When asked if he considers himself a Zionist, the governor did not respond directly: “I revere the state of Israel,” he answered. “I’m proud to support the state of Israel. I deeply, deeply oppose Bibi Netanyahu’s leadership, his opposition to the two-state solution and deeply oppose how he is indulging the far right as it relates to what’s going on in the West Bank.”

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    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 apologize for not saying what everyone wants to hear 100% of the time. Sometimes I’ll say what this group wants 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 all to like me so I can be the tyrant one day.”

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

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    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?

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

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    Gavin Newsom regrets accidentally using the word “apartheid” to refer to apartheid

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

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

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      Do you think the DNC that proffered such jems as Schumer, Clinton, Pelosi, Harris and rejected Sanders for one, is capable of coming to a real opposition? Republicans and Democrats alike are both in the pocket and under control of the Israeli Fascists. You’re already cooked because no one wants to say and run on the clear and obvious truth for fear of pissing off the Israeli puppetmasters. Oh noes! We’ll be called anti-semitic. Israel’s influence is executed through the wealth and power of Wall Street and Hollywood to name two.

      (Just to be clear, Jews are cool, as long as they aren’t supportive of the genocidal fascist apartheird potential or reality of Israel and America.)

      What’s Schumer’s job again? My dude, you’re already cooked.

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        You have it backwards. Israel is America’s foreign policy. Our government wants them to be the big swinging dick in the middle east because it furthers the economic interests of capital. Corporate dems know that genocide looks bad but they fundamentally want to keep our rabid attack dog armed and dangerous.

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          Yeah, I have no interest in becoming the 51st state but I also have no interest in fighting a protracted guerilla war under US occupation so I’d really strongly prefer choosing the path where neither of those things have to happen so we can think about eventually reintegrating our economy into a symbiotic relationship with our friendly and cooperative neighbor.

          I’m not holding my breath for it, and I’m not sure we’re ever going to go back to the way things were. But rest assured we’re not looking forward to a future where an authoritarian US government is wielding a terrifying sword of Damocles hanging over our heads either. We really, really want you guys to fix your shit, please. Best of luck, honestly. It matters a lot to us.

          Edit to add: And to be clear, I agree Gavin Newsom suuuuuuucks, if you guys end up with him as a presidential candidate we are all cooked.

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      You’re already cooked.

      Shit Americans say: “Oh no it’s clearly the Dems who are wrong, it’s not some fat old man running around naked swinging his tiny dick”

      “It’s clearly Hillarybidenkamalas fault I could not get off my ass and vote”

      Etc

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        No, because if Newsom runs he’ll lose, badly. Giving a corporate stooge like Newsom the nomination would be tantamount to giving Republicans the presidency (or, at best, getting a one-term semi-lull before fascism comes back stronger than ever in 2032).

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        They could have had some normal politician that says normal politician things. With some overly diplomatic stance on Israel.

        They chose whatever this is supposed to be right now. They chose genocide PLUS Trump Riviera on top of the bones.

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

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    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

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      Lol. This is like sending back their soup because there was a hair in it and getting back a bucket of pigshit to replace the soup. And then yelling at everybody to stop criticizing their preference to not eat a strand of hair in their soup. Oh and because they are picky about the hair in their soup everyone else in the restaurant also gets buckets of pigshit.