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.”
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
The system works
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 voting machines now in Republican control are a give away that they will rig the elections. We should have the UN look at how the ballots are processed in this coming election just to be sure.
Rig the next one? Like they already haven’t done that before. Just ask Elon.
Reading the comments, it seems a lot of people here are totally fine to make good the enemy of perfect and repeat history all over again.
Enjoy the fascism folks. We’re in it for the long haul it seems.
People want more people lime Zohran. Where is Zohran endorsment? Enjoy facism folks
Welcome to the left. A leftist’s favorite passtime is telling other people that they are not left enough. They’d tell Karl Marx he isn’t left enough if he lost his right arm. Drives me nuts.
The US requires a hard reset imo. The US political discourse is heavily biased towards the right causing the ratchet effect and muddies the pool of water of ideas. Liberals and progressives can’t get along because the term socialism in the country has been heavily demonized, that socialists and progressives alike have no choice but to side with the pseudo-left party that is the Democratic Party. The party exploits the lack of choice to be complacent and provide bread crumb policies. Meanwhile, conservatives and the right typically prefer order in spite of differences, so they tend to have stronger voting cohesion to elect the Republican party.
The US requires a hard reset so that the two party system is rid of and political variety will blossom. Actually popular policies will be enacted and not demonized. Progressives could decouple from the Democratic party and finally call themselves socialists without the taboo. And moderate conservatives could dissociate themselves from the far right. However, this hard reset could mean a lead up to a civil war and the only people who would benefit from this are Russia and China.
I totally agree. But until then, I’m going to be over here voting against fascism.
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So, your thing is to pin quotes to be people that never said them, and then argue against it? I don’t really even need to be a part of this debate for you to pretend to win it, do I?
Copied the wrong response. Apologies
It happens.
You’re just now figuring out that we’re in fascism, but telling people to “enjoy” it? lol
No. I’m just now explaining that those who chose not to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
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
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
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What are our other options? If we’re given 2 awful options then the least we could do would be to pick the lesser of the 2 evils.
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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 has little to do with campaigning for newsom… it’s about supporting the counter to republican gerrymandering
you might be right in general, but this is not that context
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?
And? Of course they are going to do this shit. Good people don’t rise against great evil, sort of evil people use it to slither into power.
Newsom, the Zionist guy who likes destroying homeless people’s encampements for PR ain’t “great”. That’s quite an understatement.
Newsom would be Trump if he lived in Texas. If he is the Democratic nominee in 2028 then I personally am giving up on politics. I’ve been fighting for a better Democratic party for 40 years, and after all that they are worse than the Republicans were when I started. No, fuck that. Newsom would be the last straw for me. If he gets the nomination, there is no saving the country anyways.
If I see you headed on a train to the camps I’ll make sure go give you a thumbs up while you roll by. Giving up is pathetic. Go dig your grave and don’t complain when they come for you.
Has 40 years of supporting corrupt Democrats saved us from the camps? It sure doesn’t look like it to me. Camps are proceeding right on schedule. That’s the whole point. At best the camps get put on hold for four years. At worst, they get diversity quotas for the guards.
Wait, you want to accelerate the camps by 4 years?
Also, to be clear, Newsom would be the worst scenario with diversified guards. If you want a four year pause, nominate Pritzker. If you want to take the country back, don’t settle for the first personality MSNBC jiggles in front of your face three years out from the election.
I remember all the uninformed Democratic normie voters creaming themselves over Andrew Cuomo’s Covid press conferences where he beat up Trump’s response constantly. I kept hearing he could be the one for 2020 until he disgraced himself. Now He’s allied with Trump and Trump’s Donors, and we can’t even get Schumer and Jeffries to support his Democratic opponent. And you think these people fight for you?
Cuomo is Trump in a different package. More than for any other name being thrown around for 2028, so is Newsom. He’s a chameleon and a political opportunist. The only thing he hates about Trump is that he wants Trump’s chair.
I will probably go Pritzker in the primary. But again, I’m not dumb enough not to fall in line during the general. I’ve been doing it since Hillary and regret not voting for Obama both times while I was still a registered republican. All choices on the dem ballot are better than a republican.
Are you honestly telling me that you expect Newsom would roll back more than some cosmetic fringes of Trump’s immigration policy? Biden sure didn’t. You think Newsom is going to roll back Palentir and the surveillance state? Not a chance in hell.
Will trump or the next republican do any of this either? You’re asking the stupidest question when the answer is staring you in the face.
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 otherwise 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.
He ain’t fucking wrong.
They also rigged the last election, and every election for several decades.
If all of the Geriatric Old Pedophiles various attempts at election fraud were prosecuted the US wouldn’t be a failing fascist state today.
“Purging” voters, “gerrymandering”, etc are morally and ethically no different than election fraud; you’ve already chosen treason against democracy.
This entire attack on blue cities is so obviously an extension of the ballot box violence scare tactics used by the red hats during the last election.
I don’t see anyone pointing it out in the media.
Aren’t almost all cities blue?
I don’t play games with fools.
“They rigged the election, and I became president,”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-quote-rigged-election-president/
Every accusation is a confession.
He is only telling a part of the truth, the palatable part, while disingenuously omitting the rest.
He’s wrong if he’s supporting Newsom
The smallest balls are still the biggest in a room full of eunuchs… The only thing good about Newsom is his PR team’s social media campaigns, and sadly that puts him far ahead of everyone else. Literally nothing else makes him worthy of consideration (or even mention). Dems have gone out of their way to be as inept and complicit as possible, and have purged nearly all authenticity from the party. It’s a hollow shell for capital interests wrapped in a pride flag and a costume of ‘civility.’ It’s fucking embarrassing that he’s as popular as he is right now, but that’s the best you can get from ‘liberals’ who see Bernie and Mamdani as a threat.
You better start finding a better candidate bro before the lesser evil is nominated then.
You can’t complain about what is happening around you unless you give a solution.
AOC
Hear hear! I hope she gets to be the next nominate.
It’s so funny how people get all up in arms defending shitbag neolibs as if they have no other option when the democratic socialist are literally right there.
People like the guy you responded to are why we keep losing, fucking crabs in a bucket.
There’s MANY better candidates. Problem is the actual good ones would never dream of aligning themselves with either major party. It’s why everything needs to be nuked from orbit.
You can’t complain about what is happening around you unless you give a solution.
This is the stupidest take, give me one reason why? Am I also not allowed to complain about the rising cancer rates without giving a solution for those? I sure as shit better not hear you complain about AI ever again unless you can tell me how to fix it too. And global warming? Better just shut the fuck up about it until you personally have a plan on how to fix that.
All this phrase is is a cudgel to shut up people you don’t want to have to address.
Your downvoters are weirdly quiet, almost like they have nothing substantial to reply with
Yes you can complain and should complain, probably louder. Have fun licking boot, people like you are why we got Trump.
Be the change you want to see, complain all you want but all you are doing is setting yourself and the world around you for more complaining.
(Spoilers for disco elysium) You remind me of that disco elysium communist ending, where all the comrades end up wasting their lives complaining about the bourgeoisie without actually doing anything about it, getting drunk every night each taking turns judging which sickly misery inducing rant was the most powerful.
“Be the change you want to see”
All I’ve seen you do is shut down conversation with bullshit about how neolibs are our only option.
Is that what you want to see?
People on their highhorse bullshit like this is exactly how we wound up with trump.
Real world is the levellers and the diggers and good ol’ Oliver Cromwell.
Everyone complaining. Everyone calling for change. King killed. No one had a plan for after.
Systems will only change if there is an environment conducive of that change.
I would argue Obama knows this. Change is incremental.
Enjoy more trump then
The answer isn’t Newsom or Trump. I’d take Warren, despite her age. I’d take AOC.
If newsom wins the primary then you take newsom in the general.
I don’t want him to win the primary either but I’m not stupid.
Remember when Biden and the Democrats reversed Trump’s damage by keeping his border restrictions and asylum crackdowns “for now, just until the system’s ready”? upholding several of his fossil fuel leases because “our hands are tied”? dragging their feet on reinstating clean water and emissions rules because the EPA needed more studies? maintaining bloated Pentagon budgets and arms sales while calling it “responsible leadership”? doing nothing to undo Trump’s tax cuts for corporations, but telling working people that the economy is “booming”? forgetting about the Stream Protection Rule, union rights, and the public option once the election was over? and still treating whistleblowers, immigrants, and Palestine like they’re political inconveniences?
The adults will be back in the room with Newsom.
Newsom’s stance against human rights is concerning. Newsom’s sophomoric trolling against Trump is not Presidential. If his campaign did it? Sure. But this is coming from him. I don’t want a man child in office. Newsom is captive to corporations. That’s not what I want for my President.
That last line was sarcastic btw, I completely agree with you. Newsom is a fascist and the DNC doesn’t support progressive candidates. America needs a revolution, yesterday.
I’m sorry, but Newsom gives me the same ick as Trump. I would consider third party if Newsom is nominated. That’s how much I don’t want him to be president, and I voted for both Biden and Harris.
I am tired of people with your attitude. Holy shit you’re an insufferable group.
Newsom is a transphobe, hates the homeless, supports Israel, and thinks we need to continue Kirk’s great work.
That guy, out of 8 billion, is your champion of freedom and democracy? Because his 19 year old intern mocks Trump on social media?
Edit: Go ahead and keep down voting me. I know what I stand for and support. You putting this half-nazi on a pedestal for the most vapid hollow shit is not the moral superiority you think it is. People look at the US and call us fascist inbreds who should be quarantined precisely because vaguely center right posers like Newsom are supposed to be some paragon of American progressivism. Shit is embarassing.
*Citation needed.
Nowhere near as hard as you think it is
Except that sources are good things cause otherwise people can just say whatever shit they want.
Not when it’s a deflection from a dogshit argument
No one reads your silly children’s cartoons and memes. Go away.
You’re just mad that it represents your unhappy ass.
It’s pitiful to try to use sources as a deflection because you made a dogshit point
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.
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.
Quit trying to make Newsome happen
It’s really fucking tone deaf to push a Zionist in the face of cratering support for Israel among Democratic voters.
But then the Democratic party has a history of being tone deaf, like Biden picking Kamala “top cop” Harris for vp during the height of the George Floyd protests.
Biden won, but these stunts often fail.
If someone isn’t capable of making the easy call to be against genocide, then they absolutely can’t be trusted to be defenders of democracy.
We gotta quit pretending it’s about this one issue or that one issue. Over and over again we see that there are politicians committed to fighting for what’s right, and there are politicians who aren’t. That’s it. That’s the line. The politicians that sell out to AIPAC are selling out to big tech, to Wall Street, to the military industrial complex, etc.
Yes, Obama, who was okay, bombing people in the middle east, many of which were innocent, doesn’t care about the, innocent people, in the US.
If they care, they should be in the front line protesting the shit show of the ICE. They are the one that cannot be touch by Trump and his government. He is the one who doesn’t fear losing his life nor does he fear losing his income.
These people are out of touch, they hope Trump do as much damage so they can get voted in without the need to listen to their voters.
It is like a divorce kid, where both parents are abuser. One of which doesn’t abuse you as much as knows that the other is worst.
People and Unions should break this abusive cycle.
