Obama’s comments appear in a new video supporting Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50 which would allow the California legislature to draw new congressional boundaries ahead of the midterms
Barack Obama has entered the political fray ahead of November’s special election in California, accusing Republicans of attempting to “rig the next election” in a new ad backing Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, a ballot measure that could reshape the state’s congressional map.
“Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years,” Obama says in the 30-second ad, urging voters to approve the proposal. “You can stop Republicans in their tracks.”
Wheeew boy. I just spent some time in progressive politics and jeez. They literally say Obama is the SAME level of evil as Hitler and Kamala is FAR right. This place seems so much more realistic.
That’s because it’s not actually for progressive politics in that com, but for making you feel like you don’t fit.
The system works
When are you going to endorse Zohran and new bloods of couragous young democrats trying to reshape the party?
When they pry the party from his cold dead hands
Holy shit, the number of whiney comments crying about Newsom when the ad is about prop 50 is staggering.
I would think that people were illiterate if they didn’t read “Newsom” and start blindly frothing at the mouth.
Recognizing names is far from literate, a 4 year old can do that easy. In fact illiteracy almost necessitates that you be able to recognize names and symbols and be able to associate a feeling with it to navigate the world. This name hurts me, avoid. This other symbol brings me pleasure, engage. So navigating by emotion rather than reason.
I’ve been watching republicans do illegal things my entire life. Nobody has ever stopped them
Some judges have.
Some people like the ACLU and Marc Elias have.
Etc.
Stopped all illegal things they do? No. But many real people have stopped many real things.
Maybe they slowed them down but this decent into facism didn’t happen overnight
All this astrofurfing and campaigning for Newsom is just a proactive effort to preempt any radical voices from gaining traction from the anti-Trump momentum. That’s the top of their agenda right now, institutional integrity and democracy is at best second.
This is a great example of “the left” being manipulated to turn on itself. Newsom ain’t great but he is better than anything my former party Republicans put forth. If he makes it through the primaries, please for the love of Satan vote for him in the general. If Republicans win again it’s completely over. If I were still one I’d be completely OK with so many worse things happening. Be more scared of what is yet to come than a groveling centrist like Newsom.
This is a great example of “the left” being manipulated to turn on itself.
Yeah, Obama is dividing the left with another power play. People don’t want Newsom for a number of reasons. People want to vote for an actual leader who has principles.
Vote for him in the general regardless. Why is this so hard? Vote in the primary and show up in the general. Our voting system is so simple.
I couldn’t vote for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary because of Obama’s power play. Convincing effectively all candidates to drop out and endorse Biden was election interference.
Our voting system is already rigged and the person warning that Republicans are rigging the next election is responsible, in part.
Nah, that just encourages them to ratfuck progressives. I am not voting for Newsom in the general.
You both can be right with these seemingly opposed stances. Doesn‘t matter actually, all that matters is that the left is divided and the right isn‘t. That‘s all it takes for evil to win.
Change that!
This is my point reiterated. I don’t like newsom either, but i would vote for him 1x10^100 if he were the candidate in the general. The “he is being normalized” shit is why the left loses all the time. Complain about him, but don’t assume enough centrists wont vote for him in the primaries for him to be the general candidate. I’m tired of people not voting, then bitching about the current administration.
Wow you’d vote for Hitler (D) over Hitler (R/) you are very brave and smart.
The .ml is insanely consistent with being incredibly stupid. I wish I was comfortable being as dumb as you are.
So there is a line. You wouldn’t vote for Literally Hitler. Good Job! How about Trump (D)? In the 90’s a lot of democrats, including Dems you probably have voted for and supported online, loved Trump.
How about a President (R ) who thinks that allowing the US to use Drones to kill anyone in the world as long as the CIA has a good reason to kill them is also ok? What if that were President (D)? Any issue there?
As if any candidate you would consider radical would have any chance in hell of winning
would have any chance in hell of winning
…why do you believe that? Kamala was the opposite of radical and lost horribly to Trump.
If anything, it’s worth trying to run on something progressive or substantive, since running on status quo policies doesn’t seem to be working.
Kamala was the opposite of radical
She wasn’t portrayed/perceived that way at all, you understand that right? You and everyone else with some political awareness might think that, but the magats and even a shitload of “centrists” (quotes because most have been captured by the magats without being aware) think she was radical.
…why do you believe that?
E.g. Bernie. The most milquetoast “radical” tested
America only has an appetite for far right radicals atm, clearly.
She wasn’t portrayed that way at all, you understand that right?
Everybody knows that those on the far-right drip are trained to think everybody to the left of them (even a little bit) is a radical.
Liberal mainstream media did not portray her that way at all.
even a shitload of “centrists” (quotes because most have been captured by the magats without being aware) think she was radical.
You’re likely referring to old-school Republicans/conservatives, and they either didn’t vote (because they are disenfranchised) or voted Trump, yes. Some may have voted Kamala, but not as much as she might have hoped (given her strategy to shift right).
A significant amount of people don’t vote in this country and the Democrats aren’t interested in capturing that demographic, nor are they interested in capturing progressive or leftist voters.
…and because they aren’t trying to appeal to anyone besides people who absolutely cannot abide by Trump, they lost and will likely continue to lose in the big elections if they don’t run on something to attract voters.
E.g. Bernie.
Who never got a chance in a general election because he got ratfucked 2x in a row by the Democratic Party et. al.
The most milquetoast “radical” tested
Bernie is the lesser evil here - he’s milquetoast, but not as milquetoast as e.g. Kamala, Biden, and Obama are to their corporate donors.
Bernie was a good sport, but he has principles he stands by and that’s more than those folks could say now.
Who never got a chance in a general election because he got ratfucked 2x in a row by the Democratic Party et. al.
This is just major debunked cope. People seem to forget, but when Trump ran for the first time, the whole “establishment” hated him, both left and right. Hell, even the heritage foundation didn’t want him. Until he got too big to ignore, he won through sheer brute force popularity. Bernie just lost the primaries to Hillary…if you think America has any capability right now to see anyone to the left of Bernie in power, you’re just delusional.
Current America would rather take an old bumbling corrupt criminal rapist(pedo too?) brainlet instead of a qualified intelligent prosecutor/AG because a woman of colour is a bit too much. Don’t make the mistake of thinking your niche is anywhere near the norm.
This is just major debunked cope.
The top brass in the DNC literally resigned due to their actions behind closed doors in 2016. Inform yourself.
And at the same time, Hillary’s campaign and the DNC created Trump and elevated him to be a leader of the pack as a pied piper candidate, as confirmed by the verified, leaked emails from her campaign. They thought it would’ve been an easy win against him and even told the media to take him seriously. Cocky.
because a woman of colour is a bit too much.
Which is cope. She lost because she wasn’t real, among numerous other real reasons like only running on not being Trump and running on the same sweet-nothings as the prior administration + a few goodies that were lukewarm, at best.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking your niche is anywhere near the norm.
It’s not a mistake, I’m seeing through the propaganda that you are trying to spin as the one true reality… and a growing amount of Americans are seeing through it too.
News flash, media and partisan politics aren’t reflective of the actual reality and people are tuning out of that bullshit. The bullshit doesn’t get an overwhelming majority of Americans to come to the voting booths and that’s evidence enough for me.
I love how the majority of comments here didn’t even read the whole headline, let alone the article, before confidently spouting whatever they already thought.
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I like how it’s still “accuses” and is not “confirming” after all the actions taken by project 2025 ghouls to rig the election since orange man waddled back up to the white house
Chairman mayo
Maybe it’s just me but it almost seems like OP was trying to make this title seem bad as if it’s not the truth.
Not just the next one, but every future one.
Oh how brave of him to stand up now when he has no skin in the game. Bravo brave sir. I hope you sleep well at night on your pile of Netflix money.
He might run 2028 if trump does with gavin as VP or vise versa.
Nope. The plan for Trump to run again is to argue that a president is not allowed to serve more than two consecutive terms. Trump has had two non-consecutive terms while Obama has had two consecutive ones. They thought of this.
The text of the 22nd amendment is pretty clear:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
If they’re going to try to argue that means 1+2 terms is ok, doesn’t seem like that would preclude 2+1.
I’m expecting them to pull some bullshit that lets them “postpone” the election when the time comes.
Ad supporting Gavin Newsom
Supporting him to do what? He’s not running for reelection for governor. Dude hasn’t declared for Senator or President. What are you supporting, you hack?
Maybe literally read for two seconds and you’d know.
Until FPTP becomes Proportional Representation I will assume all current and previous us presidents have/are Rigging The Next Election.
I mean, you’re right, just for the wrong reasons.
Elections are rigged through disenfranchisement, misinformation, and gerrymander. FPTP isn’t an issue when the people on the ballot are all corporate flaks.
