• bagsy@lemmy.world
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    So long as there is a real primary, then let them try to shove her down our throats.

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    “Hmmm, how do you feel about a Clinton-Harris ticket”

    “BRILLIANT you guys are the smartest people on Earth” ~Super Secret DNC AI Advisor Deluxe Edition sponsored by Meta

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    Yeah I knew Democrats were in on this shit but if they run Kamala in 2028 then they’re 100% complicit. There’s 0% chance she wins

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      Good for you, that is irrelevant because empty centrist, corporate politicians like her will never win against MAGA.

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          And then he went on to destroy the democratic party base with his bribe-induced genocide support. Centrism was mistrusted before biden and now its reviled.

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          Barely? It should have been a landslide and Biden was able to scrape his way into office as an old white guy DEI hire because of how catastrophically Trump dropped the ball on Covid.

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          Biden won because of Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic. If another centrist Democrat with no vision is elected in 2028 than it’s just a matter of time before another fascist is elected.

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    If she’s nominated, it’s a fix. Classic authoritarian playbook: maintain the illusion of democracy by propping up an opponent that you aren’t likely to lose to. Then, stuff the ballot boxes anyway.

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    Cute that US still think they will have elections after the orange buffoon. November will be very interesting, and maybe an eye opener for the remaining septics: I’ll say it here now, trump is a fascist, a pedophile, a narcissist, and a dictator. He will not leave. He will use putin’s playbook. The rest of the world needs to wake up now and consider the US as an antagonist, same as Russia and China. I would be delighted to be wrong, wait and see I guess.

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      Let’s say that he won’t run for a third term.

      JD Vance becomes POTUS.

      Trump wouldn’t accept being VP.

      What position can he take within a cabinet, assuming that no one prosecutes him and throws him in a cell where he belongs?

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        What position can he take within a cabinet, assuming that no one prosecutes him and throws him in a cell where he belongs?

        Why would he? He had zero interest in politics. He just likes being president because it’s the top job. Anything less than that is worthless to him.

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      He’s already looking to disenfranchise many tens of millions of voters if he’s unable to cancel the midterm elections wholesale.

      I’m sure that if there ever will be elections again, they will be purely performative and with a foregone conclusion, just like how North Korea has “elections”.

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      you are not wrong. What many people are missing here is that Trump is currently the most powerful human being on earth and everyone outside his power circle is wasting their time if they think they can influence his decisions. He has routinely demonstrated the law does not apply to his government and may even run for 3rd term or outright, cancel the elections because “we are at war”. He already replaced the president in Venezuela, and will do the same for Iran and Russia. China and India are actual paperweights with the illusion of a billion count human population each. That will not faze him.

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    The Democrats need to learn that they need someone that doesn’t come off like a “party person” if they want to attract voters. Kamala could have had that, but her refusal to burn Biden for his failures in office while on the campaign trail the last time did a lot of harm to her chances of ever escaping that image to the average swing voter. She is no more electable to the Presidency now than Hillary Clinton.

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      “It’s time for change!”

      “What are you going to do?!”

      “The SAME THING!”

      “Woooo!!!”

      Seriously, who strategized this thing?

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      Democratic establishment is too far up their own asshole huffing their own farts to every listen to us lowly members of the American electorate. They see as ignorant whiny losers for daring to be upset about a horrible economy where the bottom 90% of the population is losing ground.

      And all their financial donors agree with them. Kamala is the DEI candidate of their social justice wet dreams. If only she was trans she’d be a Triple Hat diversity hire! They don’t care that American public doesn’t care about any of that and just wants a likable candidate that actually addresses their concerns about the economy.

      Trump lied but he told people he would fix shit, and they voted him in for it. It’s not hard, but Democrats simple refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of the American electorates grievances that fuel who their vote for. But Kamala refused to acknowledge things were shit because it would be ‘disloyal’ to Joe Biden… and let’s not forget his dipshittery in saying he would not run again and then he wasted half the campaign year doing so…

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    I’m not saying she should.

    But the “I fucking told you so” campaign strategy might actually be somewhat effective for a certain percentage of swing voters.

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      That strategy would be effective in pushing them toward candidates and parties that don’t them swallow their ego and admit mistakes as a condition of support.

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      assuming that fair elections are still a thing at that time i’d say she would be guaranteed the win.

      which of course is exactly why they’re bringing this Dem stooge back.

      after all it is her turn

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        What do you mean fair elections? AIPAC would still get their puppet. Just from the other side of the aisle.

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        I’m not actually convinced that she actually lost the last one, with Musk’s shenanigans and other jerry-rigging all over the electoral college.

        But I generally don’t bother dwelling on conspiracy theories. It is what it is, so we’ll see what happens.

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    So far it’s Harris and Newsom. Cool. Cool cool cool.

    No, I’m not worried at all. Who said I’m worried?