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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."

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

When are you going to endorse Zohran and new bloods of couragous young democrats trying to reshape the party?

[–] frog_meister 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit, can we not get behind another neoliberal?

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] frog_meister 1 points 59 minutes ago

Useful idiot response.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 hours ago

Rig the next one? Like they already haven’t done that before. Just ask Elon.

[–] lack@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 4 points 14 hours ago

Until FPTP becomes Proportional Representation I will assume all current and previous us presidents have/are Rigging The Next Election.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 14 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

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.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

People want more people lime Zohran. Where is Zohran endorsment? Enjoy facism folks

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 hours ago

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.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been watching republicans do illegal things my entire life. Nobody has ever stopped them

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He might run 2028 if trump does with gavin as VP or vise versa.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 9 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (16 children)

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.

[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 points 18 hours ago

Newsom, the Zionist guy who likes destroying homeless people's encampements for PR ain't "great". That's quite an understatement.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago
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