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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        The answer isn’t Newsom or Trump. I’d take Warren, despite her age. I’d take AOC.

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          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.

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            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.

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            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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        Yes you can complain and should complain, probably louder. Have fun licking boot, people like you are why we got Trump.

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          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.

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            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.

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      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.

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      I am tired of people with your attitude. Holy shit you’re an insufferable group.