• Orbituary
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    11 days ago

    Want to lose the election even harder? This is how you lose the election even harder. HRC is even less popular than Kamala.

    I’m already super fucking worried he can’t overcome his doddering during public appearances. The stance on Israel and his Middle East is just abysmal. He’s not gaining ground against what SHOULD BE a slam dunk on a fucking convicted felon… The fact that this is going to be a toss-up is disgusting and makes me wonder why in the living hell we call our country a democracy.

    • @btaf45@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      The WP knows this and is trolling you. It has 0% chance of happening. It never should have been published. And it should have been completely ignored after it was published.

  • @DancingBear@midwest.social
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    2612 days ago

    How about we all hold hands and vomit in our own mouths instead, continuously reswalllowing the vomit before puking it back up again.

  • @rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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    2011 days ago

    Okay, hear me out. Yes, Hilldog got the DNC nomination and lost what was supposed to be the most softball Democratic presidential victory in American history, giving us 4 years of Trump. But! But…what if we get her on the ticket with Biden, Biden secures the re-election. Hillary is Vice President for 4 years. Does a great job, makes a lot of people at Goldman Sachs very wealthy, pushes for new legislation to have black teenagers officially outlawed, etc. Then, at the ripe old age of 80, we get a Hillary Clinton presidential bid once a motherfucking 'gain. And then she loses to, oh, I’m gonna say…David Duke.

  • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1612 days ago

    How is it that in a country of 300 million where half are Democrats, you can’t find a single politician that isn’t that isn’t a terrible choice for president? I’m asking as an outsider. Why would hilare be a good VP when she was destroyed for being a war mongering asshole? Why is Biden running against Trump while on deaths door?

      • @harsh3466@lemmy.ml
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        811 days ago

        Yeah. The primary election process is entirely a sham. We have no real choice in selecting the candidates.

        • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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          211 days ago

          I mean, I guess in most countries it’s the parties who pick the candidates but at least there’s real choice of a handful

    • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      611 days ago

      We don’t really decide who we get to vote for for president. The GOP and DNC pick “their people”, and then the people who aren’t exhausted by the concept try to pick the least bad one of the two choices.

    • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      611 days ago

      Because money is speech. Those with money are the loudest. Nothing more, nothing less. Running for office is unaffordable to the average person. By Design. The system could work. If campaigns were only publicly funded.

    • BoofStroke
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      411 days ago

      People with real skills and leadership ability aren’t politicians.

  • @vxx@lemmy.world
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    1211 days ago

    Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, that’s all I need to know to dismiss all of their “reporting”.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    611 days ago

    I honestly think Clinton would have been a decent president, and that she was consistently smeared, but this is a terrible idea. There are lots of people who have bought into her being the antichrist and who could never vote for a ticket she’s on.

    • @Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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      211 days ago

      I dunno like I get that people hate her, justifiably, but I find it very hard to believe that Harris is better

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        211 days ago

        Harris doesn’t elicit the strong negative emotions as Hilary. People might not like her, but few viscerally hate her.

        • @Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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          210 days ago

          Sorry I shouldn’t been more clear; yes she would hurt the numbers in terms of voting, but I meant that she would be better at actually doing the job

          • AFK BRB Chocolate
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            110 days ago

            Oh, for sure - “career politician” has a stink to it, but those folks get stuff done

    • @btaf45@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Washington Post editor is an idiot for allowing this column to be published in there paper. Especially since it has no chance whatsoever of happening.

  • geekwithsoul
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    410 days ago

    Ah yes - Kathleen Parker, one of WaPo’s conservative opinion writers. Why anyone should care what she thinks or writes about is beyond me.