Kamala's running, but she'll get savaged. We were willing to accept her as an alternative to both Biden and Trump, but that was an extremely low bar. Throw in a bunch of other Democratic and DemSoc candidates, and she doesn't even crack the Top 5.
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Harris' only advantage is name recognition, to keep that fresh she'll keep "endorsing" literally everyone, just to keep her name in the headlines.
The only way she'll stop, is if candidates start publicly rejecting her.
I understand candidates just wanting to ignore her, but we need politicians willing to see they don't want her support.
Kamala endorsing you implies you're pro-corp, pro-establishment, pro-cops.
I don't want more of the same.
Kamala endorsing anyone just means Kamala thinks it will help her.
She could endorse you, that wouldn't change anything about you.
Right, but your first sentence is why I'll publicly reject her endorsement.
She's just trying to frame herself as a defacto party leader endorsing and fundraising (for whatever these emails are actually worth) for anyone who's been nominated. She endorsed el-Sayed and he had massive opposition spending from the establishment.
Harris is like that zit that just won't go away. She's probably Biden's biggest mistake.
Nah, Biden's biggest mistake was undoubtedly appointing conservative do-nothing Merrick Garland instead of somebody who would actually do their fucking job and prosecute Trump's crimes.
Everything else is dwarfed in comparison to that. Biden is going to go down in history worse than Neville Chamberlain, as the President who let the fascists destroy the country on his watch and did fuck-all to stop them.
100%. Biden's out-of-the-gate COVID Vaccination Plan, and Economic Stimulus Plan were both wildly successful, and those two things alone would have put him among the Top 10 presidents of all time, IF he had done a decent job in the rest of of his administration.
But he appointed the most feckless REPUBLICAN in existence to be his AG, and investigate the Trump Administration, and he proceeded to dither and slow-walk EVERYTHING for two years, allowing Trump to run out the clock, and MAGA to rise again. Worse, they did it all in plain sight, boasting about it the entire time, and the Biden Administration did absolutely NOTHING to try to avoid it, as we all SCREAMED to stop them, and were ignored.
For that, Biden will be cemented among the Bottom 15, among the losers and traitors who allowed the Confederacy to gain strength and secede. Biden is one of them.
Biden didn't want to stop it because the entire party condones what the other does. It keep them all in power
Biggest mistake? That's a tough field.
I'd argue it was not charging trump with Jan6, or any of his other crimes.
or hiring and not firing Merrick Garland.
or running a second term when he should have held a primary for a new candidate.
Harris was a giant nobody during Biden's presidency. Nobody gave af about her until Biden dropped and we were just stuck with her.
or running a second term when he should have held a primary for a new candidate.
Didn’t he promise to only do one term too? I feel like I remember that, but could be misinformation at this point.
Technically he only promised to be a “transition president” and people, including myself, took that to mean that he would only be there for one term.
He did promise that
It was worse than just making Harris a nobody. He dumped on her all the no win issues he didn't want to have sully his name. He never gave her any wins and saddled her with shit. It almost looked like intentional sabotage. Certainly not the centrist master plan I expected with her being chosen.
That was the people around him doing that. He wasn't capable of hatching those sorts of political schemes any more.
What about the um…mass murder of civilians?
Not his precious genocide?
Looking at these comments, you're all fucking idiots. Downvote away.
Nevermind the ethical implication of suggesting his worst mistakes we're not his unconditional support for Israel's genocide, political cover, illegal weapons transfers, repeatedly lying about seeing beheaded children, calling students from your own base protesting that terrorists and allowing police to attack them, dragging reporters out of the press room for asking questions, I could go on...
Her unwillingness to not fully support genocide and call for "most lethal military" in the face of protests is why she wasn't elected.
Trump being dragged into a war with Iran is directly connected to the series of events that unfolded as a result Israel committing genocide with US funding and political protection and cover.
Literally everything we're dealing with today is because Biden insisted on having his genocide and callously licked ice cream while saying there are none chances of a ceasefire and repeatedly lying about seeing war crimes to justify dropping 2,000 bombs on a mostly child population.
Fuck Biden and fuck everyone who remembers him for anything but his genocide.
Unfortunately Biden was the mistake. DNC denying Bernie a second time should really put everything into perspective.
DNC didn't deny shit the second time.
This is so annoying. Bernie lost fair and square. I voted for him, others did too but many, many more coalesced around Biden.
Perhaps if him and Warren worked a deal that one would drop out in favor of the other but they didn't and thus split some votes. They didn't though, both lost.
Life would be better for millions of people on this planet if she was president instead of Trump.
Who would be your ideal presidential candidate for 2028?
Absolutely, she would have been better than Trump, but that's true of literally every other person on the planet.
AOC in 2028.
Ideal in 2024? Can’t really say who but I would’ve loved an actual primary, I voted for KH and 100000000% agree with you’re actually factual point that she would have obviously been better than Trump has been for the world as a whole. But let’s not act like the slapdash way she was(by no fault of her own) made the candidate after Biden flopped hard in the first debate was normal or helpful.
I don’t like her at all, just for being a former cop(yes AGs count as cops for me), but she never really had a good opportunity to run a proper campaign against Trump. Had Joe put her in the spotlight as the next one up from day one I think we’d be in a much better place as a species than we are now.
I asked about 2028.
Shit you right my bad, but to answer that, my ideal currently is ineligible because he wasn’t born in the US. Not that the constitution matters anymore
Mamdani can still be in the Cabinet.
That didn’t answer my question at all.
Mamdani if I need to spell it out for you.
Well you’re not the most unrealistic leftist I’ve met.
Who is? Genuinely curious
You’d think it was the people thinking someone ineligible for presidency was the ideal candidate for the election in two years when there’s like three hundred million other choices but somehow even those get surpassed by some of the others around here.
Jesus god, I don’t know what the record is for furthest distance inside one’s own ass is, but you must be in the running.
Never engaged with you on here, to my knowledge, despite seeing your takes everywhere because I thought you were mostly a contrarian troll but I’m glad I know now that you’re just an idiot who I can and will happily block so I don’t have to see the unbridled stupidity of asking for an ideal while not understanding what that word means at all.
Username is accurate as usual
But here you are picking at that zit….
Nah, you kidding?! Harris was perfect for Biden admin.
She's more like herpes, pops up out of nowhere, there's no hiding it and it lingers for a few weeks
She did give us the coconut tree meme straight off the dome though. Thats about all shes been good for.
AOC for president when
2028
