• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 minutes ago

    The greatest thing about American democracy is they can run a losing candidate as many times as they want

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    12 hours ago

    Some of the protesters in the streets, when interviewed, have been basically pleading with democrat leaders to do some leading.

    The democrat says “I’ll get to it in 2 years.” skeleton-wave

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      8 hours ago

      This is my take as well (and what I came to post). I hope it happens just so she’ll fuck off forever and we never have to see or hear about her ever again (until her next book tour).

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    15 hours ago

    We are nearly 3 years out from the next election. Go fuck yourself.

    Also, you are Kamala Harris. Go fuck yourself.

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    16 hours ago

    Will she find someone to blame for losing again, or will she manage to win because she’s running against Vance or Trump 3, both of whom would also be comically unpopular?

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      15 hours ago

      Maybe they’re just assuming neo-COVID will make a centrist neoliberal electable again?

      As for blame . . .

  • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    17 hours ago

    You shouldn’t get multiple attempts at important jobs

    There are around 100 million people who are eligible to be president of the United States. Of them, there are only six who have demonstrably proven they are incapable of winning a presidential election.

    You have significantly better odds of success if you select a random person through a lottery than allowing any of those six people to run again. They are the only people who have proven they can’t do it. A failed presidential candidate is by definition the least qualified person on earth to be president.

    I am more qualified for this job than she is. You are more qualified than she is. 100 million people are more qualified than she is.

    This also goes for other big positions, like CEOs of major companies and University Presidents. You get one. If you’re a CEO and good at it, there’s no reason for you to leave the company you’re at. If you’re bad at it, no one should ever allow you anywhere near that seat again because anyone else has a better chance of doing it well.

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      16 hours ago

      I think you should get multiple attempts, but you need to be able to establish that you are more qualified than the last time you applied, and Kamala has basically done the opposite by blaming everyone but herself for her failure, which negates the possibility of improvement and itself is another serious detriment to her qualification.

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        16 hours ago

        I see little reason why you should get multiple attempts. When your pool of potential candidates is 100 million people, there’s very little “improvement” that could be done that would bring you up like, more than a standard deviation in ability. And if there is, you should do that improvement before becoming the major party nominee for president.

        Kamala is honestly the most extreme example, she shouldn’t just not be running for president, she should be in prison, both for the numerous war crimes she’s complicit in and for her failure to abide by the 25th amendment and remove an ailing president.

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      17 hours ago

      But how many of those 100 million are a kind of awkward trainwreck monster, devoted enough to making line go up, to lead millions into the jaws of death without hesitation or remorse? cap-think

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      14 hours ago

      Why bother when they can run another bot farm on r/pics to try and make her look more human than ghoul.

      Watch her follow the exact same corpo speak strategy in the next election and lose again.

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      16 hours ago

      The Democrats literally skipped the primary system twice to nominate the only two people in the USA capable of losing to Donald Trump. Bernie would have stomped him. He only won by a razor-thin margin the first time.

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        11 hours ago

        They really moved heaven and earth in order to prevent the mildest probably-hamstrung-by-both-parties soc dem president in the history of disappointing soc dems. They’d rather have right wing mobs traipsing around the halls of congress hooting about masks, jeopardizing the rule of their law, than a semblance of state welfare reassert itself. They sold the constitution, the Supreme Court, their “checks and balances” every vaunted marble-clad institution to fucking Trump of all people to stop the left.

        grill yourself and everyone around you matt-jokerfied

        It’s still so funny they did this to themselves

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    18 hours ago

    “my fellow americans, we hear you loud and clear, so when i am president, i will abolish all federal budget ceilings on ICE!”