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      But anything other than aggrandizing the pants-shitting kleptocrat is communism, and as we all know communism is the devil. Do you support Satan or Freedom™️?

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      Even NY Times is starting to see the writing on the wall, and is starting to hedge.

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    . Proportionately, he uses 13 percent more all-or-nothing terms like “always” and “never” than he did eight years ago, which some experts consider a sign of advancing age.

    If you ask me this is a sign of worsening mental health as much as it is just getting older.

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    This was always the danger of defending Biden’s age, and why I never got the big push to do so.

    Running shitty candidates because trump is even shittier just lowers the bar further.

    Kamala’s not great, but she’s slightly under retirement age and isn’t openly advocating for genocide, so compared to them she looks great, but pretending she’s perfect is just keeping the bar lower than it needs to be

    It shouldn’t be a big deal to say a candidate is good enough to vote for, but isn’t everything you want.

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      She’s a much better candidate than Biden, and Biden was a much better candidate than trump or Hillary Clinton. It’s been eight years, or closer to ten if you include the campaign season for the 2016 election. People are rightfully excited about Harris. You’re absolutely right that we can do better, but this is the most excited I’ve ever been for a candidate. I was pessimisticly excited for Obama, but was afraid he wouldn’t be able to win the general election.

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        But you’re ignoring that she’s not better than 2012 Obama, and definitely not better than 2008 Obama.

        Like, everyone knows Hillary was a terrible candidate, we all know Biden was a bad one.

        But Kamala being a decent candidate doesn’t mean we can’t be happy about that, or that we can’t acknowledge reality about her.

        She’s not as progressive as the average Dem voter.

        And until candidates start matching the Dem voter base, shit feels like trump always have a chance

        If the DNC ran a candidate that matched their voter base, it’d be a landslide. Just a lot less money flowing thru the campaign and the DNC. The people running the party have different goals than the people voting for it

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