• Egon
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    • Red_sun_in_the_sky [any]
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      5 months ago

      Finally a real educated respectable politician unlike drumpf who is a very rude guy.

    • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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      5 months ago

      She never sleeps, the Hilldawg. She says that she will never die. She whips and nay-nays in shadow and in light and she is a great favorite. She never sleeps. She is dancing, dancing. She says that she will never die.

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    • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]
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      5 months ago

      Probably. I think most of the other potential DNC ghouls are scared of eating shit and getting the mantle of Hillary 2.0 when they're fine waiting for 2028.

    • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Biden just endorsed Kamala according to news coming across the wire.

      Still remember to remind Democrats that you can't vote for her or anyone else because the primary and thus the people in our totally healthy, totally democracy CHOSE Joe Biden and that he was undemocratically forced out by unelected media, donors, and insider. As such you're either withholding your vote in protest of slap to the face of Democratic voters who CHOSE Joe fair and square or writing in Joe.

      After all people don't vote for a ticket for its vice president who is a place-holder at most, often a compromise with the visions of the candidate. They vote for the candidate, so it's not at all fair to say votes for Joe were votes for Kamala or transferable to her. Just repeat this at liberals and watch them malfunction and lose it as they cope with their impending loss.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        5 months ago

        because the primary and thus the people in our totally healthy, totally democracy CHOSE Joe Biden

        I know you’re doing this as a bit but this line pissed me the fuck off from Biden or bust losers. What the fuck primary are they talking about? Only like half of the states had primaries, and in half of those Joe Biden ran unopposed. Here in Florida there literally was no primary. And then these lanyard dick motherfuckers go on TV and say “suck it up this is what we all decided in the primary” and I’m like bitch who’s we?

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      She's the best chance they have to win imho. Because picking anyone else looks like extreme ratfuckery and loses a lot of the base. (And people here overrate how supposedly unlikeable she is lol).

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        The guesses that she’ll perform poorly are based on the 2016 primary where she wasn’t unlikeable as much as she was bland and forgettable. She’s just a blank slate now people can project what they want onto her.

        I still don’t think she has a good shot and that Whitmer or Newsom would have it. I’ll be surprised by her alleged likability when I see it.

        Edit: tbf I do know some suburban wine mom/aunt libs who love her. So clearly there’s a demographic there. Problem is that it’s very similar to Hillary’s. I don’t know if that’ll be enough to push her over the edge.

        Having the first female/non-white president is probably going to be the card they play. Will probably play up her being half-black more than half-Indian and make comparisons to Obama.

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        Yeah this. Its the easiest transition. And i know its hard for me to imagine how people who don't really follow this stuff feel about her, or how people who are going to vote feel about her. I do think people will like her less the more they see of her, but i don't know that it will matter.

        I don't think it really matters what people feel about her. The dems strategy is negative partisanship and abortion. The candidate doesnt matter as long as they can keep the conversation on Trump and abortion. Harris is really bad at this, on top of being an outright ghoul, but she can at least say the word abortion. And abortion is already boosting the base and going to drive people to vote.

        I'm not saying she'll win, but i think more or less anyone but Biden could be competitive in this race. It could go either way, but i think people here are a little kneejerk that the dems will lose to Trump.

        Disclaimer- i don't care about this election or who wins. I've just followed this stuff for way to long to not have an oponion on what might happen.

        Death to Amerikkka of course amerikkka

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Another big factor is all of that money that's been donated to the Biden campaign that only she has clear legal access to

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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        5 months ago

        I saw someone mention Mark Kelly, the astronaut turned AZ senator that flipped AZ blue. I think people could get behind that with the right campaign. I dunno if the DNC is that competent though

    • dead [he/him]
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      Biden endorsed Kamala on twitter but it's not his decision. The candidate will likely be chosen by the DNC in August.

      https://xcancel.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933

        • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          Kamala has the current vibe though, and as dumb as it sounds people have won on that before.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        5 months ago

        Doubtful, until like a week ago she was the only Dem that polled worse than Biden against Trump. Literally any Dem governor would win, and most of the house reps and senators probably would too.

        • Runcible [none/use name]
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          5 months ago

          I struggle to believe that Newsome would win. You could just say "Governor of California" and lose 2/3rds of the country (and they really wouldn't be wrong, or rather right for the wrong reasons)

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Do they have any other choice? There are a grand total of zero potential candidates with any sort of charisma.

      Maybe AOC could have worked but she's not old enough yet.

        • space_comrade [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          Wasn't everybody doing the "Biden is still good" dance in public and only shat on him behind closed doors?

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      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Tbh I think Whitmer could win. This is going to be another "vote against Trump" election, and she was literally targeted by MAGA nuts who wanted to drown her in Lake Michigan. Plus she single-handedly delivers one of the swing states that Dems need.

    • Barx [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      That's what they have been polling for so it will be very funny if it isn't

    • Hexbear2 [any]
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      5 months ago

      Yes. Joe took out himself and whoever replaces him, and possibly the Democratic party itself. NO WAY Trump can lose now, and if they put up Kopmala it will be an epic sweep. I will eat these words with a mustard sandwich if somehow the Dems win, but I'm feeling pretty safe, tbh.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    My take away from this is that it wasn’t the genocide, it wasn’t even his shitty debate performance, it was fucking covid that pushed this asshole over the edge. A small amount of justice for all the people who are suffering and dying from this terrible disease that Biden for years has simply been ignoring.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      They uncovered the secret of the Biden crime family and offered him a deal, drop out or we'll show the world you and Hunter have been running z-library.

      • kota [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        running z-library

        Would've actually gotten him a few votes

    • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      I ain't scared of that, Jack! They shot me with that back in 1980.. 1980... listen. The 1980s were dangerous for everyone, not just bla- I shouldn't say that. Anyway. It'll take more than that to stop me, Fat!

      • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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        5 months ago

        I was there in the ambassador kitchen when they got RFK man! You can't scare me with that little fella Sir... Sir... Sir Mix-a-Lot. Look, I know what this is all about and that's why... anyway. Sorry man, I talk too much, I should go now.

        biden-ok-smart-guy

    • AernaLingus [any]
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      5 months ago

      Tbf with Biden that's just hiding behind a curtain in the Oval Office and then jumping out and shouting, "Boo!"

    • VernetheJules [they/them]
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      5 months ago

      But only if they are in neighborhoods for pell-grant recipient small business owners who just graduated college 3 years ago with fewer than 10 digits on their fingers

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    elmofire oh man the convention is going to be an absolute shit show. There’s no way for the democrats come out of this looking like anything other than usurpers of the democratic process.

      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        They will; that’s my point, they look like usurpers regardless of who they pick.

        • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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          5 months ago

          How do they look like usurpers if Biden voluntarily steps down and then they give the nomination to his Vice President?

          • PKMKII [none/use name]
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            5 months ago

            Because you don’t vote for the VP choice in the primary, you vote for the president and they pick their VP later. Installing Kamala this way looks like, the party leaders wanted Kamala and used this as the way to get around the pesky “will of the voters” part that kept her out of the running in the first place in 2020.

            • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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              5 months ago

              I see what you're saying but I disagree - we already had this play out in the sham of a primary. The party leaders wanted Biden, and they avoided the will of the voters by not running a primary at all in some states, or by running Biden unopposed.

            • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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              5 months ago

              I think most people who voted for Biden in the primary understood they were voting for Kamala as VP. I dont think this is how people are going to see the situation if Kamala is chosen. She certainly at least mitigates those feelings.

    • Barx [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      How much do you want to bed the lanyards are the ones to present the pick and their entire justification is, "we polled Democrats on these 4 candidates and our choice got the best (43%) approval!"? They will then call that democracy.

      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        Ah yes, the infallible democratic process of the will of those that pick up a call from a number they don’t recognize on a landline

  • Angel [any]
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    5 months ago

    Lie about working towards progressive causes.

    Get elected.

    Do nothing progressive. Instead, obsessively back a genocidal regime.

    Have liberals back you for re-election under the assumption that you ever gave a shit.

    Drop out and fade into as much obscurity as you possibly can after all the horror you've caused.

    Show

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      heh, you kids were all out partying and ripping fat clouds meanwhile I was practicing the context of all that came before

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    May he be tortured to death by hallucinations of those he's killed in his life as a politician and the lives of those ruined with his policies. May he forget all that's beautiful in this world as he slips gracelessly from his mortal coil. Rest in piss, bastard crab-party

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Wasn’t it insane how the mainstream press completely silenced Tara reade and accused her of being a Russian plant?