• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Can you imagine what it would look like if they chose someone like Jon Stewart instead? How a debate like that would have gone? A guy can dream…

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      Just anyone with more charisma than a bowl of cold oatmeal.

      If nothing matters except beating trump, why arent we coalescing around a candidate Dem voters want so that we’ll get as much votes against trump as possible

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          4 months ago

          They have no ideas, they only know that they don’t like something

          People who only dislike things are so fucking boring

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        4 months ago

        The problem is “a candidate dem voters want” doesn’t have any obvious choices.

        Like Harris isn’t that popular, but the optics of skipping over a black woman when the VP would typically be the heir apparent? You think Gavin Newsom would be a good choice? Californians don’t have a lot of good things to say about him right now. I haven’t seen a lot of other names floated.

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      4 months ago

      I mean yea, but that’s not really fair to him. Being president seems like a terrible burden.

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      4 months ago

      The problem is that the DNC would never go for him or anyone like him, because he’s not a blatant neoliberal.

      If they swap, it’ll be someone like Newsom.

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          4 months ago

          It’s funny how some people go on and on about the importance of democracy except when primary elections don’t go their way, at which point either the DNC rigged everything, or the DNC needs to step in to ‘fix’ the wrong choice the primary voters made. Sometimes they offer both simultaneously, because fuck consistency.

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            4 months ago

            Somehow the person voters actually show up for is always the wrong one. Funny how that keeps happening.

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            4 months ago

            I wonder if their goal is to undermine America as a whole, stoke apathy and distrust, and produce a certain strategic outcome.