Did he do it for the memes?

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Even if he goes full and permanent vegetable, he’s still not Trump. Top priority is stopping Orange Hitler from taking control again, so please for the love of human rights, vote for whoever has the the best shot at beating him - if that’s Biden, cool. If it’s Harris, cool. If it’s a literal ham sandwich, fucking fine - all three are orders of magnitude more qualified to do the job then Trump.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I’ll vote blue… But get this fucker off the ticket. I’d much rather it be Kamala, or like… Nearly anyone really.

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        4 months ago

        I think Kamala would be one of the single worst candidates we could put forth, but what do I know? I only worked for the dumpster fire of a DoJ she was partly responsible for.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah, the question isn’t who Democrats will vote for. It’s who independents will vote for. And there are a lot of independents.

        Relying on the “Never Trump” vote to win this election feels like a terrible risk.

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          4 months ago

          We don’t have democracy anymore.

          First, the SCOTUS ruling did away with that last week, but let’s ignore that for now…

          We have a fascist authoritarian in charge who refuses to even consider stepping down until he dies - certainly he is not going to let the people decide who gets to be the Democratic nominee - vs. someone who will become a dictator for life and do the same, but somehow much, MUCH worse.

          I hope that many people vote Blue No Matter Who… yet I fear that many independents won’t.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I think this is a dangerous attitude. He’s made some gaffs recently but overall has not been a terrible person or leader. Supporting the possibility of dropping a candidate this late in the game especially when there are no super star saviors waiting in the wings is the kind of party weakness the GOP would eat up and is a recipe for failure. You don’t have to love him at this point, but it’s too late to start over, just suck it up make a donation to his campaign and vow to become more involved in political change at earlier levels so hopefully we are not in this mess again.

      • VintageTech@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        I’m voting Joe because he is still the only qualified candidate for the job. The package he brings is a Vice President who could do the job if he were to step down due to health/age concerns to guarantee a female President as his dream come true. She then gets to pick her Vice President which should absolutely be AOC. The opposition has no convincing argument to draw this out in a court as they would need to present their arguments to AOC for rebuttal,

        It’s just so batshit crazy it can’t fail.

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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          4 months ago

          Since when has the opposition needed convincing arguments to drag things out? They’ll come up with whatever bullshit they want just to keep stuff from moving forward until they get the ball again.

        • wewbull@feddit.uk
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          4 months ago

          I’m voting Joe because he is still the only qualified candidate for the job.

          There’s a couple of hundred million other qualified candidates in the US. If you’re looking for politicial experience, there’s several hundred in Washington alone.

          Dems have totally failed to bring through the next two or three generations of candidates. That the party feels that he’s their only choice is shameful.