The fact that there's even a whiff of Kamala running again is great evidence that we are so fucked and will continue to be so fucked.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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Many Americans can't deal with a woman candidate for President much less a minority as well, it's as simple as that.
Know what you are and okay between the lines. Put a white man upfront if you wanna win.
They needed someone out there on day 1 after the election to be the face and the presence of the DNC as a clear personality for the next run. Instead it’s likely you will get someone in the last five minutes.
I want a real progressive to run is the main problem.
If she wanted to run, she should be out there fighting facism. I'm not interested in voting for someone who's just letting all this shit happen.
I’ve only seen her when she wanted to sell her book on speed-running losing an election.
She could be on TV and podcasts, 24/7 presenting the alternative and pointing out all the ways Trump is breaking the law and conning the country.
Why would a centrist do that though?
She has no position from which to fight fascism.
She could be showing up to or even leading protests and marches, writing editorials and opinion columns, appearing on news channels and podcasts. She could be speaking out, rallying people in opposition. She could've shown up at any of the big protests this past year, posted comments on social media.
I have seen absolutely nothing from her this past year except a couple of tepid comments about maybe running for office again.
I get it: she had a high-profile job, was thrown into a crushing high-stakes election at the last minute, spent a lot of energy campaigning and got her hopes crushed. But she's had a year and a half to get over it, and there's still nothing.
The country needs a leader and a fighter. She's doing neither. Hard pass.
There is no DNC person out there fighting beside AOC. She does the work and I am with her for whatever office she runs for and I am all the way in the mountains of NC. My district is Tim Moore that Sméagol looking mother fucker. The NC DNC has done nothing to help the Democratic candidates in the western part of the state for years. Lakesha Womack is who the NC DNC is propping up and I have not seen or heard from her at any protest I have been to. I am sure no one in the 14th knows who she is outside of Gastonia. I digress.
She could be, and people would be telling her "You lost, shut up and go away."
She doesn't have the platform.
She doesn't have the platform because she threw it away. She was never a serious candidate to solve anything. She was never going to fight for the working class or the minorities, because in the end she cared more about selling a book than the people. She is the exact thing wrong with almost every single democrat politician. She cares more about what she can make, than what she can do.
I mean, Kamala Harris wants Kamala Harris to run
If she thinks running again is going to go well, she'd delusional.
So yes, Kamala Harris wants Kamala Harris to run.
Nobody
I want her to run... Far far away from here.
Just stop already.
I think so little of American voters that I just assume the democrats could pick any white man and win. For whatever reason, a large portion (i.e., the uneducated) of the American public is too sexist to vote for a female democratic president. The minute the republicans put one forward as a serious candidate, suddenly then it will be great.
She knows she wouldn't win. Just wants to fundraise, lose and sell another book.
never should have run her in the first place
biden should have stayed in, won, and stepped aside
Hilarious take. Biden's campaign was over the second he stumbled onto that debate stage. They might as well have started writing the autopsy then
Do you think Joe could have won again?
Only if they tricked Trump into another debate while Joe was on a lot of coke. At which point he would have had to step down right after the election anyway, due to his heart giving out.
Joe never should have ran for a second term, and he should have known better than to try it.
Originally, didn’t he claim he was not going to?
I’m dubious he could have pulled it off, the feelings in groups I follow were.. not good. He was too old, too ‘establishment’, there was no excitement.
I guess we can’t know now, but when Kamala was announced there at least was some excitement. You know, before her campaign started actively sabotaging itself.
He said he was only going to do one term really early on. Then once in office, that pipe dream evaporated. It was pretty much just some remarks during the campaign against Trump.
As for pulling it off, he probably could have, just barely. Not that he had any more enthusiasm from anyone, but he would have kept a bigger part of the elderly vote who knew him well. At least if were able to stand up on stage with Trump and be lucid. My bet is that could only happen with a fairly heavy drug cocktail, that would lead to serious health problems fairly quickly. He fell apart right after the election anyway, so it very well might have killed him on the spot.
I firmly believe he would have stayed out if Trump hadn't been on the ticket. All they needed to do was have a justice department willing to put his ass away and Joe would have gone "My work here is done!" and rode off into the sunset.
All they needed to do was have a justice department willing to put his ass away
And who's fucking fault was that?!
As much as I wish this could have happened, Joe's chances were even worse than hers. Every time he got behind a podium, his polling numbers dove even further.