“Actually Mr. President, we are NOT progressive and are NOT going to ban fracking 😏 try again orange man. Medicare for all? I don’t even know what that is 😂🤣”

  • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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    4 years ago

    They've already pivoted to "of course she's not progressive, only Mike Pence has ever said she is in an effort to trap her. Actually it's kind of racist to assume a black woman must be progressive"

    Not an exaggeration, I need to get the fuck off of Twitter

      • steely_its_a_dildo [any]
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        4 years ago

        It might be instructive to note that the lesser evil argument for voting for a democratic party candidate has been going on longer than they've been alive. Look where it got us.

        I seem to recall this argument for dukakis, clinton (it wasn't easy getting dems to vote for a republican), gore, kerry, clinton 2.0 and now biden. Obama is the only one that was actually exciting enough that the party didn't have to tell people to lay back and think of god and country.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          4 years ago

          And of course, there's that famous quote from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 about this same dynamic