A robust primary to find the best possible candidate?
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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No no! Let's shove a preselected candidate down everyone's throat and hope they hold their noses. That'll be good enough! Best out of 3!
Hey, how many other presidential candidates have made it to a general election while never earning a single primary delegate in their entire career?!
She's a once in a generation candidate!
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Best I can do is sheepdogging and pre-blaming you for the failures of the corporate establishement
-BlueMAGA
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She's an idiot to think her loss to a convict and rapist was anyone's fault but her own. She'll have even less of a chance against any reasonable candidate.
"I bet you won't vote for a woman!"
... Ok... Do you have any policy positions we should know about?
"You wouldn't vote for THAT guy over a woman would you?!"
Please ... We literally just want healthc-
"LOOK, REPUBLICANS THAT DON'T LIKE HIM!"
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Go home and stay there, you are not wanted, your fight is done.
You lost and you can never be what this world and country needs right now.
Fuck Newsome too.
I don't want centrist Republican playmates, I want progressive left scorched earth justice.
If you lose to Donald Trump, you are literally unelectable.
In order to win it requires you to fuck off somewhere else.
NO.
GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM NATIONAL POLITICS.
I'd say Democrats never learn from their mistakes, but there probably won't even be a 2028 election.
They don't. Or they'd start reading the room and actually start pushing an actual "change agent". They're too stuck on running people whose whole ethos is "if only things were how they had been back in the 90s" (when DNC had power). Was a great time for them, but since Regan, everything's been getting shittier for everyone not in the political or donor class. They need to run a FDR not a Biden.
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I know what it requires
Do you? You were happy to fund Bibi's genocide in Gaza, and it lost you the election. You moved to the right, and it lost you the election. You wouldn't distance yourself from Biden, and it lost you the election.
Take the hint.
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For the love of god fuck off. Nobody is going to vote for you. This would all but guarantee another republican win even after all of this
Kamala and I have one more thing in common: We have the same exact chance of being elected President in 2028.
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The only people I'm interested in voting for are those currently pushing back against the regime. Beyond a few tweets or comments, she hasn't even tried.
She vanished off the face of the earth post-election, only to come back with a book to peddle. Now she wants to run again? Fuck off!!!!
Dude read the room
Kamala. Exit the echo chamber. Read the room. We need change, not a return to the status quo that gave us Trump 2.0. Don't be an opportunist.
"I know what it requires".
I refer you to Sun Tzu: One may know how to conquer but not be able to do so.
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Given by her parties recent rulings on how to deal with AIPAC, I don't believe anyone in that party knows what it requires.
It requires not supporting Israel. Have you thought about that?
She knows it requires her to hoover up a bunch of votes, then back out before Super Tuesday to endorse Gavin
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The epitome of being willing to burn the world down just to keep yourself in the spotlight. Well, actually, I guess the person she lost to is the epitome of that....
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