Gutless Gavin cancels tree-lighting ceremony: 'Tis the season to be cowardly — at least in California, where Governor Gavin Newsom just canceled Sacramento's 92nd annual tree-lighting ceremony due to fears of being scolded by pro-Hamas rabble. "Governor Newsom decided to cancel the tree-lighting ceremony rather than face the public that is enraged by his shameful silence on the genocide in Gaza," said Yassar Dahbour of the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights. In fairness to Newsom, he's not canceling the traditional Christmas ceremony entirely; he's just holding this particular tree-lighting event virtually, like he did with California's schools when he kowtowed to the teachers unions during COVID. "As the governor that kept kids on Zoom school for longer than any other state in the nation, we shouldn't really be surprised that he wanted to move this to a virtual tree lighting ceremony," mocked California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson. We should note, though, that California isn't alone in cowing to the pro-Hamas hordes. Similar protests have also disrupted tree-lighting ceremonies in the other gutless and increasingly Godless blue enclaves of New York, Massachusetts, and Michigan.