Pete Buttiegieg
✅ Military experience. We may need a leader who knows first hand the danger they are putting our young men and women in.
✅ Governing experience (if you can be a community organizer, peanut farmer, or reality TV star, being a mayor is absolutely legitimate experience)
✅ Federal experience
✅ I’m gonna say it- in hindsight he managed the rail union strike amazingly well. He avoided a supply chain catastrophy, then a few months later got the union the sick time they need. He had his cake and ate it too.
✅ Medicare for those who want it is a realistic plan. It’s it perfect? No. But it’s better and more importantly can pass through Congress.
I fully expect comments to fully support this take without any criticism for a center left candidate who doesn’t plan on tearing down capitalism brick by brick./s
All of that and he does SO much better than any one else I’ve seen on interviews. If he isn’t president this year he’ll run in 2028.
Also, I’m gonna say it, I’d love to vote for a gay man. I’d love to see the GOP desperately try to bite their tongue knowing that the overwhelming majority of Americans wouldn’t support them saying “don’t vote for the f*****” which we all know they’d want to say so damn hard. You know they’d end up slipping up and showing their true colors which could help turn people away.
You forget that half of the GOP are closeted, self-loathing homosexuals.
Oh absolutely. We need an inspiring queer leader to mark a new era, where young LGBT children can grow up knowing they have a future in our country, let alone a future at all.
I dunno. He seems kinda Cunty In Allegiance.
Other
Pete Buttigeg/AOC dream team.
Young, wicked smart, progressive enough.
Found the New Englander.
The McKinsey consultant? The guy managing the Boeing stuff currently? I guess he couldn’t be too much worse than the current situation but why would you proactively choose him?
Because he could talk his way out of a pair of handcuffs and a locked cage, and I think we need someone to highlight the stupidity coming from the right and he can do it. Let AOC be the power behind the office and keep him in line.
Fair enough
Other: Birdie Sanders, the only politician benevolent enough to be blessed by a visit from a bird during his speech.
If Democracy is threatened by fascism, as we’ve been told, then it’s time for Michelle Obama to step up. She can resign after the win. Do the right thing Michelle.
Harris would be the only pick that would prevent the Supreme Court from installing trump as dictator.
Please don’t take Josh Shapiro. I don’t have faith in my fellow Pennsylvanians not to elect a Republican.
I don’t know much about him
I’m not American and actually don’t know much about him but aside from the one glaring topic in that wiki, he sounds ok to me? Curious as to what shitty things he’s done if anyone feels like sharing.
Editing to say: the one glaring topic is a pretty fucking important topic in my books, but I don’t imagine any other American politician with a chance having a different opinion on the matter
AFAIK he’s not done anything shity, which is why I want to keep him as my governor. He’s smart, dedicated, and has a good head on his shoulders.
We probably aren’t lucky enough to get three in a row.
Also, he reminds me of David Rosen from Scandal, and it already feels too much like we’re living in that dystopia.
I’d prefer the Scandal dystopia to this. At least the main characters would be better looking.
I would unitity, not division
Like Cyclops, Unitity is an interesting mythical character: one boob.
I also like unity.
As a non-USAmerican I only know Michelle Obama from that list. But if you want real change and young voters, get AOC on the ticket. I bet you that’ll wake people up. She’s media savvy and could probably get the entire tiktok+insta viewership to campaign for her. The facebook folk probably less so, and the redditors 50/50. She would need a male vice president though. Two women in the US ain’t making it this year.
But honestly, I want Trump to win. The world needs a good shake up and divorce from the USA. New alliances have to be made and the reliance on US tech and media has to stop. I know it would hurt USAmericans, but it’d be the best for the world to stop following the USA as if hypnotised.
You’re delusional if you think it would only hurt Americans. America would become EVERYONE’S problem in a big way.
I doubt they can become a problem in 4 years. Come election time (2028), there will be a civil war and it’ll implode as Trump tries to hold on to power and become president for a 3rd time. He’s unpredictable, but one country against the world? They lost countless war games.
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I didn’t say there wouldn’t be problems 🤨 There will be, but we’ll come out of it better than before. The rest of the world that is. The US, not so much.
Already happened 2016. It was awful. Hoped we’d never be here again.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you can see its influence spread over the globe. Germany recently voted hard right. Israel is a genocidal shithouse. India is Modi’s Muslim hate factory. All strutting the Putin way: oligarchs ruling & fascist division of the people spread with propaganda (RT, Fox news, Facebook & twaXtter).
Do you seriously think that was Trump? Nah dude, that was US media that has been infecting the world since the second world war. After Europe collapsed, the US swooped into the void and filled it with media portraying themselves as the victors and saviors. It spread USAmerican tribalism far and wide.
Then social media came along and Europe still hadn’t caught up nor recognised the power of media. Investments in film, TV, music, and internet were, and still are, ridiculously small compared to US investments. The internet just helped US media percolate deeper into European society. Now it’s on everbody’s phones and is an endless barrage.
Of course fossil fuel companies have a large role to play too. They helped mold a world focused on their product, which fucks up the environment. And tech companies play an even bigger role today, exploiting poor countries that were kneecapped by the US by destroying their democracies (or attempts at democracies) decades ago.
People want to flee and Europe comparatively easier to reach than the US, so they tried and still try to escape their situations. That of course gives right wing parties fodder to spread their hatred and blame a defenseless scapegoat.
I’m not saying the US is the root of all evil, I’m saying they play a monumental part in it. Trump is just an accelerator to a possible decoupling of Europe and other economies from the US.
We all know the DNC is controlled by corporate interests. They aren’t protecting the population. All they are protecting is their investments. Had they cared about the people, they’d never had thrown their support behind a second term for Biden. He too old 4 years ago and is way too old now. If the vote is won by a democrat, and that will only happen if the DNC takes a fucking stick out of their ass and force Biden to drop out ASAP, that will just mean another 4 years where the US can keep semi-good relations with the world. The world won’t have a reset button.
Danny DeVito
I’m pretty tired of celebrities with no qualifications running the country.
Good choice, but he’s contracted to play the next Wolverine.
If Danny DeVito were president, I would love to America in a heartbeat.
The obvious answer is “whom ever the corporate lobbyist says should take over.”
I should’ve answered that. But, I picked Harris even though I wanted Whitmer.
Pritzker has done a good job here for us, but I don’t know if I’d want him as president. I hear good things about this Gretchen lady, even if she has an unenviable name. I’d have to do some actual research first, and I’m not doing that right now.
Bernie
All of 'em are better than Trump and I think Kamala probably has the best chance of winning the general.
John Cena.
After he apologized to the CCP in Mandarin?
Please don’t make this turd president.
Come now, that’s just proof of international goodwill and diplomatic accumen. We should all be kind to each other.
Also, being a polyglot is something to always be admired.
Ah yes, Zhong Xina
Haven’t seen him campaigning /s
He heh.
Michelle Obama would honestly just win by default, but I’d probably pick Whitmer realistically.
I got another message. This one I picked Whitmer.
elizabeth warren
