• Plume (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    People. We, the French, pulled a left-wing coalition out of our asses in less than a week and managed to “win” an election. You have months. Hope is permitted.

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      It’s very true. We’ve been brainwashed into a year long campaign mostly because it generates a lot of money for various parties but prior elections have proven it’s mostly what happens in the last month that makes a difference.

      Y’all are lucky you can make coalitions, though. This is more akin to your election if you only had centrists and far right running. Two party system and all that.

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    I don’t understand you people in this thread.

    Ever since the debate, people have been calling for Joe Biden to step down from the presidential race and give the place to someone else.

    Now I read the comments and everyone is criticizing and accusing the Democrats of not knowing what they’re doing? Are you for real? They’re doing EXACTLY what people have been asking for. They’re doing EXACTLY what needs to be done if they want to win.

    Fucking hell you guys, make up your fucking mind.

    Sincerely,

    A Canadian with severe anxiety over your next presidential election.

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    I’ll say just one thing:

    Every single one of you assholes who wouldn’t shut up about him stepping down since the dude missed the toilet bowl fifty years ago after a particularly wild night out better sure as fuck step up now that Old Joe has stepped down.

    A sitting god damned President of the United States has stepped aside less than half a year before reelection. Make no mistake: The man swallowed his pride and ego HARD to make this decision. Let’s honor that by creating a wall of votes so god. damned. thick. Riley Reid would gasp.

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      man swallowed his pride and ego HARD to make this decision.

      Should anyone care about his pride and ego?

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    Wait wait, let me guess, now all of the sudden we’re not literally fascists for thinking that it would be best if Biden stepped down. A sincere fuck you too everyone who commented accordingly for the last month.

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    for everyone sake: phew. i feel sorry for him, he obviously lacks energy and needs to not be trying to run america and fight trump.

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      Honestly, the decision should have been obvious. If he stayed in and lost, his legacy was done.

      Now, he has this nice story of being the bridge candidate and handing it over to the next generation. He can enjoy the remainder of his life with less stress, still in an advisory role, enjoying time with friends & family. He’s had some rough moments in his life and he should get some peace.

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        that and having the legacy of ‘political genius who completely upended trump’s campaign by waiting until they’d over-committed and then not competing’

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    To every one of you in here who spent the last year defending him: shut the fuck up. It was obvious he is a senile segregationist piece of garbage. You need to reevaluate all your political opinions.

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    Makes me giggly thinking of all the comments about how his age was a nothingburger

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    Fair amount of schadenfreude at the panic right now, having been shouted down for weeks for telling people they should stop self-indulgently and anxiously begging Biden to step aside, since he already beat Trump and has gained a lot of allies through progressive legislation.

    I’m very curious who the DNC is going to dredge up since the only person who could unite the left is Bernie Sanders and the DNC has previously explicitly declined him.

    Enjoy laying in the bed you’ve made, every short-sighted doofer who asked for this.

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    Its extremely worrying he didnt announce who is replacing him. This election might wnd up being decided by the supreme court after republicans challenge the replacement in the courts

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    Well BidenBros, are you happy you divided the party so much to try and get your guy in?

    If trump wins, it’s your fault… BidenBros. Hope it was worth it BidenBros.

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    Goddammit.

    I’m just going to say it. They can’t put Harris up. Not because she’s lacking in any political skills, she isn’t, but there are far too many swing voters that will sit on their hands or vote for trump if the Dems try to put up a woman who also happens to be African American as the nominee. There’s still too much prejudice and misogyny that wants an old white man over anyone else. She’s been far too quiet as VP to build any sort of following. The press will pull a Hillary on her, the clueless SJW in the Dems will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because they’d rather have a woman run than win an election. I’ll vote for anyone they put up, but I sure as hell hope they can put someone up that the swing voters will show up for too.

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    All I know about Harris is from a youtube short where she was just being super weird about that catchphrase of hers.

    She’s got no chance against trump and his cult of personality. Noone’s going to be passionate about her.

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      She’s a nothing-burger. If she is the candidate, we have all the same problems, except we don’t have a reasonable excuse for why she can’t speak coherently. But it’s her turn!

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    Y’all gonna get real sick of me, but I dont think it matters, even if she does win it.

    If anything, this will supercharge the racist bigots into political violence. I hope to God they aren’t numerous enough to cause any serious damage, but Jan 6 is all the evidence we need to see just how horrible MAGAts are.

    I will vote Kamala. I will start spreading the news, and get everyone I can behind her. Because it’s anyone vs a Nazi. We don’t have a choice. The Nazis must not come back to power.