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    3 months ago

    This is still a terrible idea, they have already drafted legal challenges if Dems do this, and Biden is polling fine. They just need to hold the fucking line.

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    3 months ago

    God please no. It will be Hilary all over again - got nominated only because it was her turn.

    Kamala has been MIA since past 3 years. Beyond casting tie-breaking votes during last congress I haven’t even heard if she was still living on this planet.

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      3 months ago

      While there’s only one way I could vote for the future of our society, I’d prefer someone else. She’s had four years to succeed at something and hasn’t. People on the left might still balk at her prosecutor history. People on the right probably vote against anything connected to California and against anything not white male. I just don’t see her succeeding

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      3 months ago

      It’s sad, because it’s not fair to anyone that that needs to be a concern. But given the risk, I just want Gavin Newsom to replace Biden. I don’t want to take any chances. A milquetoast white guy who is middle of the road. Then president AOC if I had my druthers.

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        3 months ago

        Yea for both! Newson 2024, 2028, AOC: 2032 , 2036! Let’s get this country working for its people again! Let’s unironically and Truthfully Make America Great Again, for all its citizens, for their children and the future, and be a force for good!

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    democrats and republicans both like the police loving far right candidates

    with all the things the US is facing not sure a prosecutor is who the country needs

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      3 months ago

      You’re not supposed to be shitting on Kamala until she gets chosen

      If you start preemptively criticizing her now, it might just produce an overall sense of hopelessness and chaos with no way out

      Oh… I see.

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      Still better than trump. Though if it was her, having Bernie or AoC as VP pick would make me much more motivated to actually vote for her and not just not trump.

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        3 months ago

        I’d be kinda worried about pulling AoC from her district seat though, is that district a solid blue or will it flip if she vacates the seat to be a VP?

        Bernie though I highly doubt his seat would flip

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        Likely DNC response: “ha, right… well look, we eased up on the Biden or Bust thing, you can’t ask us to also not pair her with a fully corporate and fully neoliberal running mate. You must understand that we just lost hundreds of millions of dollars of donations in only a few weeks of determinedly thumbing our noses at our constituents, and we’re not going to make up that kind of shortfall in five dollar donations, we’re still courting big tech and big oil, thank you very much and get lost.”

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    3 months ago

    I’ll vote for whatever Democrat there is on the ballot but I have zero confidence that this will work out the way op thinks it will. It will be Hillary all over. Oh well.

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    3 months ago

    That sounds horrible honestly. But I’m just here to vote against the convicted felon who said he wants to be a dictator.

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    If I was trying to to get somewhere, and had the choice of a broken train or no train, from a safety perspective I’d probably choose “no train”.

    But if the reality was that choosing “no train” better enabled a “crazy train” to show up and take me to “crazy town”, I’d probably just roll my dice on the broken train to Dullsville.

    What I really want is a high speed train to Happytown, but nobody is selling tickets for that…

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    3 months ago

    79% of the people we asked chose the response we guided them towards.

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      Seriously, what did the other 21% say?

      “Michelle Obama!”

      “Trump!”

      “Jon Stewart!”

      Just kidding, that last one would be genuinely a good idea, which is why you don’t hear it in these weird slanted editorials

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        As much as I love Jon Stewart, saying he’d make a great president is not a leap I’m willing to make.

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          I’d love to have him in the WH instead of any of these shitty options we have. Dude has a good brain that clearly functions, and seems to be a better person in general than any of the candidates.

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          One of my low-key unpopular opinions is that this is why Obama never accomplished much. Charismatic, gifted speaker, seemed like a great person etc… but not terribly experienced in politicking. Honestly if you compare Biden’s presidency with Obama’s blow for blow I think, hands down, Biden wins on number of things accomplished. He just knows all the right buttons to press to get things done around Washington.

          Definitely have to acknowledge the unprecedented pushback from congress that plagued Obama, but overall I think an experienced politician can vastly outperform a “good guy” in a lot of elected positions. It’s why I’m not as stoked about term limits for Congress. Sure it hurts to see some of these lifers grift for years on end but it also fosters experienced people in the role. You think AOC is doing great stuff now, give her 5-10 more years of experience in the role and she’ll be capable of doing way more.

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            I agree with the whole experience thing, but there are tons of roles to play in and out of congress. So maybe instead of hard term limits, we do something like, no more that 4 consecutive terms for House members and 2 consecutive terms for Senators, but unlimited non-consecutive terms. That way you get some turnover but experience keeps getting built.

            Idk… just spitballing

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    3 months ago

    not my first pick but if she’s it then it’s still an easy vote.