• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months 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?

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      2 months 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.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months 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.

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

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          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

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    2 months ago

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

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    2 months ago

    Wapo columnists and Hillary can go jump off a cliff together. Everyone’s sick of them both.

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    She would have been amazing as a president, but if you really want to trigger a red wave of insane Trump voters foaming at the mouth about “her emails!” bringing back Hillary would definitely be the way to do it.

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      I dunno, I haven’t forgiven that slavemaster for y’know, chattel-slaving Arkansas prisoners for the Governor’s Mansion while Bill was still running it. Note: when I say “haven’t forgiven”, what I really mean is “I pray for the spiritual successor to John Brown to appear every two weeks”.

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      As they say, “opinions are like assholes; we all have them.” Also, “opinions are like kittens and everyone’s giving them away.”

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    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 against 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.

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      It’s amazing that these idiots can’t quite understand how angry people are, still, that this bitch shouldered Bernie Sanders out of the way so that she could lose to Donald Trump. Clinton is the reason we ended up with Donald Trump. The protest votes were more than were needed for him to win.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    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.

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

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          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

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    Jesus fucking christ.

    Have pundits learned nothing? Clinton lost against Trump in critical states, even through she won the popular vote. If she’s in a race with Trump, and a president as unpopular as Biden, she would almost certainly help Biden lose. Harris is mostly just meh; she’s fairly progressive personally, but doesn’t have a lot of direct power as a VP, and she’s pretty low profile, so there’s not a lot of hate for her. Clinton though?

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