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.”
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?
“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’s wrong if he’s supporting Newsom
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
for the love of God, don’t stick is with newsome
AOC is my top choice, but I know everybody has a million reasons why America wouldn’t elect her as president.
But, I had this thought the other day, and I know this is nobody’s dream team, but possibly the odd couple situation that just might work. Am I crazy for thinking a Pritzker-AOC ticket might actually have a decent chance?
The Pritzkers are literally the billionaire family of the Hyatt hotel chain fortune. They are, if anything, one part of the problem with the democratic establishment. If you want there to be zero change in society when it comes to taxing the wealthy to create social safety nets, JB is your guy.
Realistically there is zero chance that an actual progressive and a Pritzker could ever function on one ticket. Thats like Bernie running with Bezos, it makes no sense
You guys demand democrats stand up to trump and the moment one does, you sit on them and kick them down. You guys deserve every bit of trump
100% and there is no way all of these downvotes are organic. There is a pretty obvious right wing brigading going on. Many people pretending to be democrats. Even more pretending to be Americans. This is why many left Reddit.
Making memes online is not standing up to a fascist, thats a delusional take. Pritzker vowing to arrest people who help ICE agents is standing up to a fascist. And neither of those things alone make’s a good candidate.
You people deserve trump
I think USAmericans gotta hit the streets, now, yelling “We won’t vote for Gruesome Newsom” just in case we do get a 2028 Election. If we don’t destroy his campaign now, he’ll be ushered to the front of the Democratic Primary like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
Grow up. You will have the chance to vote for him or one of the other Dems that run in 2028 when you have your primaries. You and your ilk are the reason why Trump got power and regained it. You are as bad for democracy as the rabid, right wing Nazis.
Cool. Let’s have another Biden-esque presidency that just leaves Americans unsatisfied to the point where they come out en-masse and vote for Vance because “it was better under the prior administration” until they realize that, whoops! they aren’t actually better under Vance, but now it’s too late.
Voting Biden in 2020 as a transitional candidate obviously wasn’t the right move. Establishment Dems are the reason the non-political Americans get rallied against “the Left”. All that figures like Biden and Newsom do is empower “both sides” political apathy.
Biden beat Trump soundly in 2020. You can blame the Dem PTB and Biden all you want but Biden 2020 clearly wasn’t Biden 2024. Americans were unsatisfied with someone who was obviously in the throws of late onset Dementia. No one can predict what is going to happen cognitively with old people and it can happen rather quickly. The same exact fate might befall Trump before 2028 when he thinks he is going to run again before you give the nod to JD.
2020 to 2024 was also a period when the GOP smear machine was eviscerating everything Biden did with the complicit help of the Conservative MSM from Trump’s Afghanistan withdraw that he, himself drew up to Hunter’s laptop and dick. They were wildly successful painting the Dems, not just Biden, as weak, intellectual cucks. Gavin is not that. He is the anti that. He comes off as a man’s man. Something that is required to win in this day and age. As you should be able to tell by now, policy means jack shit to the American voter any longer. Stance on issues means less. The want a talking head that looks good in front of the camera and talks America first talk. The young male voters want “Alpha Males” that show uo to UFC fights and then hosts them on the WH lawn. The game has changed forever. Time to start playing it right.
Craziness would be to run a woman again. Gavin’s Trump-esque Tweets have gotten more people excited about the rub in in their face retribution the base is yearning for right now. These traitors need to be punished, first in the court of public opinion ,then at the ballot box, and ultimately in the courts. Those 4 years of the Dems doing nothing to counter the momentum Trump continued to gain every day might go down as the turning point in our Democracy . We will find that in in a few, short months.
Sounds like aborting the fetus of opposition before it reaches viability.
The left has NEVER been in control of the Democratic Party.
Correct option is getting DSA candidates more light and having DSA candidates running as Dems.
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.
Rig the next one? Like they already haven’t done that before. Just ask Elon.
Obama… Obama… The mainstream dude?
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/137156-obama-says-hed-be-seen-as-moderate-republican-in-1980s/
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.
Newsom, the Zionist guy who likes destroying homeless people’s encampements for PR ain’t “great”. That’s quite an understatement.
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.
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.
Nah, that just encourages them to ratfuck progressives. I am not voting for Newsom in the general.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
They are actively shaping the electoral environment. They don’t just want to, they are actively preparing to do so.
Until FPTP becomes Proportional Representation I will assume all current and previous us presidents have/are Rigging The Next Election.
Lets not forget Obama (in-part) paved the way for the shit we’re in now
As far as I can tell, Newsom is just a ‘fascist, but not too obvious, so people won’t protest’ kind of candidate. A perfect pick if you want to salvage what remains of the empire and delay its inevitable collapse. But then again, it’s not like Americans have any reasonable candidates. And we’re also going on the assumption that there will be another election, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Would he be an improvement for the American people? And for other countries? At the very least, minorities in the USA would be [mostly] safe for a few years.
He’s just your stereotypical neoliberal corporate Democrat which is a much better alternative to Trump’s admin. I don’t like Newsom like most on here, but if he gets the nomination still show the fuck up.
He’s a capitalist. Fascist I don’t think so. We have to stop purity testing left candidates, it’s a trap. So what if he doesn’t have every opinion we have - he’s more in touch with the average voter on those issues, frankly. We need to start thinking like we want to win, not like we want to be right.
He’s a capitalist.
He’s an American politician. Of course he is.
Leftists in USA do need to band together, and I feel like it is more difficult to do so because of our individually. Most of our goals are common.
Edit: as pointed out, my comment is derailing from Governor Newsom to the broad america imperialism, So I apologize in advance for being off-topic here.
Inb4 I’m not calling you (specifically you) out. The you is aimed at “People of America” as a whole
independent of left or right, I’d like to say you guys need to elect someone that doesn’t expand that list further more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
In other words, Could You All Please Stop Fucking Raping The “Global South”? Pretty Please???
And I’m using the word rape both metaphorically and literal at the same time. Also, I’m not downplaying the word. I’m just pointing out the fucked up things US (as a nation) did to all of us outside of “global north”, “western civilization”, “first world” or whatever term you guys keeping using to refer to us, the “inferior” class of “subhumans” people.
The US was always imperialist, but now the masks are off and Trump is just bringing what US did to other countries (see the list above) inwards to US. That’s why most of the population are worried.
Except for the few leftist that called out what US always was, most people aren’t worried of US raping other countries. But they are now worried because the military force is turning inwards against the enemy within.
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Fuck Obama. What a slimy grifter he is. Hope and change my ass.
Edit: Liberals man. Obama was objectively a liar who campaigned as a progessive and governed like a centrist liberal. He spent his whole admin engaging in endless war crimes abroad while tirelessly working to destroy the left in our country paving the way for the fascist surge we are seeing today.
He could have done stuff to move us away from this path but instead doubled down on it. Go read a fucking a book y’all are remembering history with rose colored glasses.
Obama was the first Democratic president in my lifetime to corrode my trust in the Democratic party. The leadership has only continued that trend, and probably forevermore.
“they are trying to rig the election, so vote Yes on this ballot where we do the same thing they are”
Politics these days are hilarious.
late stage everything - smoke em if you got em
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.
