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I would love to watch AOC beat up JD Vance.
I mean hell, I’d watch her beat anybody up. All the sweeter if it’s one of those goons.
Nobody is talking about the secret C option where a war “breaks out” in 2027, martial law is enacted, and elections are suspended.
I think that’s what most people assume he’s going to try to pull.
You’ve heard Escape From Tarkov, now get ready for Escape From America.
Don’t forget to loot a GPU or two on the way out.
thats what the iran war is for, serves a multipurpose role, to distract from EPSTEIN files, to use as excuse to suspend election, also distract from domestic problems like the over-reporting on ICE activites, All the gop trying to intergrate palantir/axon/flock cameras.
also include all the economic and health disease related problems.
Ah, the Gilead option…
are you guys counting on the us having elections again? i’m not really.
I’m more afraid of the option of pseudo elections. You get to cast a ballot, but then 103% vote for the orinj. The issue is that the average voter won’t know the difference because casting a ballot is the entire interaction with the system.
Trump is so old and nearing death. MAGA doesn’t love Vance or any ideology, they’re only invested in Trump. So, yes, I’m anticipating elections. Free and fair? Ehh but hopefully too big to rig.
Watch Thiel drop Vance for an ai Trump that he runs for president lmao
It’ll be Tucker Carlson vs. Gavin Newsom, Tucker will pretend to take a hardline stance against Israel and for universal healthcare, and Newsom will take a “moderate” position on both (which will be the same as Tucker’s actual position, but his voters won’t know that), then all the liberals will blame the left when Tucker wins. I’m a time traveler folks, I came back to make sure this doesn’t happen. Heed my warning!
Fucking Option B, please.
Is she actually running for President?
Per an article from last week, she hasn’t “ruled it out” but hasn’t committed to it either.
This already seems like a best-case scenario tbh.
2 years out from the election, Democratic establishment operatives are already going around and manufacturing consent for “settling” for Gavin Newsom. If that is the response to AOC not denying she may run, imagine what will come when she does announce. I’m expecting a tsunami of “she’s unelectible” sabotage, like they did to Bernie twice.
Remember how Trump was unelectable?
Which is why Hillary’s team gave him active support in winning the Republican primary before stealing the Democratic one
Yeah but black people might get free puppies also so I gotta vote republican/s
At least it isn’t those darn injun people getting free puppies. (Heavy /s too)
The narrow-mindedness in that country is painful. As if you only have two flavors. An ice cream parlor even has more.
Not terminally online leftists and tankies once again pissing away any chance of success because the progressive DSA candidate who’s offering universal healthcare, free college, better education, public transportation, bodily autonomy, a better democracy and ending the wars apparently doesn’t actually fit their world view.
If they can’t get the zombie of Karl Marx risen from the grave to run, they would rather be led by right wing christian nationalist pedophiles.
You know the person who made this visual psychosis actually believed it, but fuck if it isn’t the funniest thing I’ve seen all day.
Marx would despise tankies. None of them understand his work
Pfff, Marx wouldn’t be marxist enough for them.
What you need to understand, according to tankies, is: bOtH sIdEs SaMe.
Yeah, I mean this feels exactly the same as when Biden was president. Right? Right?
Shaken 8-ball says…
YES
Hrm, wait, lemme try shaking it again…
Shake it harder, because apparently it’s a fucking idiot.
Shaking it again, it clarifies:
Diarrhea forever is good when Russia, North Korea, or China offers it, and free puppies are bad when offered by any Western civilization
So yeah, a fucking idiot.
I would probably vote for her. That doesn’t change the fact that she’s a bad candidate. If it were up to me, it’d probably be Elizabeth Warren or Tim Walz.
This will almost certainly not be the matchup, though. Republicans are not going to run Vance. Don’t be silly. Nobody likes him. It’s gonna be like, Carlson v. Newsom.
Tim Waltz? The guy who folded in a debate against the blueberry and a few months ago announces he was giving up? That cat is a broke reed.
Why is she a bad candidate? Not a bait question. Interested in the take.
She doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence. She has a lot of good positions, but I haven’t heard her articulate them well. She said that Harris was “working tirelessly to secure a cease-fire in Gaza”, something which we know wasn’t true, and more recently brushed off Black Lives Matter, etc. as 'Woke 1 was craazzyyy ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ"
There’s a good article about her backpedaling here.
There has to be somebody better.
It’s literally just racist misogyny. They cannot be convinced that Clinton and Kamala being women isn’t the sole reason (with the addition of brown skin for Kamala) they lost despite the many failings of both if their campaigns.
Definitely wasn’t the sole reason. But it was one of them.
A lot of these guys think there’s loads and loads of centrist voters who the DNC can sway with a more moderate candidate. It’s failed to work repeatedly because most “independent centrists” are just racist ass Republicans who don’t want their families to know they’re pieces of shit. If you’re not anti GOP at this point, you’re a lost cause afaic.
The hype a candidate like AOC could muster with younger generations is what they should be aiming for, but they don’t donate or vote in primaries so they’ll be ignored and won’t turn out, again.
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Woman
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Not white
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Inexperienced
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Would be youngest president in history
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Too far left
These things may not matter to you, the inexperience is the only one that matters to me, but I absolutely promise you they matter to a significant number of Americans. Significant enough to put another Republican in control and further erode our already eroding democracy.
Gambling isn’t smart. Especially when you’re gambling with democracy. AOC is a biiiiiig gamble.
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Something I keep seeing on Lemmy is that she sided with Israel instead of Palestine. To me, that feels like a terrible argument. Neither threatens US. Yet I don’t see arguments how Trump sided with Russia while Harris would side with Europe. You know, the Russia that also actively seeks to destroy US.
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Republicans are not going to run Vance.
They’ll run whoever starts openly expressing bigoted views. That has been conclusively proven.
Republicans do like Vance. But they probably like Rubio more.
Can we throw Satan in there as a Green Party candidate?
Trying to split Republican votes, diabolical.
Satan’s like one of those characters who has all the right ideas but would never run because they don’t want the job. Like Jon Stewart.
jon ✍️ stewart ✍️ is ✍️ satan ✍️
Satan does like to spread knowledge
Then I expect UM to be all aboard for Satan
Sure, if you want to just throw your vote away.
America hates women though
Mostly the middle part of America.
And people of color in positions of authority.
These are things the left apparently refuses to accept about our nation, to the point of being willing to lose and watch our democracy erode.
I get it. A black man was president. He was also a black man with A LOT of charisma and experience and a senator and older than AOC, who would be the youngest president in U.S. history if elected.
Winning and protecting our democracy is more important to me than sitting on a throne of ideals on the losing side.
Giant loser vs cool girl who gets it
Centrists: “Why can’t we have puppies with diarrhea forever?”
Lolz, we aren’t getting off the hook that easily. Just like Mitch McConnell, Trump is going to run again personally, for as long as he “lives”.
I’m predicting that Trump will try to institute a Russian style government with a Prime Minister and a President and claim that he can be Prime Minister for life while Vance or Kushner or one of his other toadies sits as a puppet in the Presidents seat.
He can just become Speaker of the house, while Vance is a puppet president
Speaker of the house is way too much actual work. Plus his ego would never allow the downgrade.
vance wont be able to do anything without Thiel in his corner constantly.
“lives”.
I’ve pretty much decided that Trump is powered by nothing but prescription drugs. Like, I think he’s just always pissy and in a bad mood about everything all the time because he’s suffering from a combination of dementia and some drug-fueled psychosis; his natural body is just waiting to die.
Your comment reminded me of all that.
Okay but, and hear me out: what if we threaten Republicans with letting Obama run against him if he does? They’ll be SO SPOOKED
Trump himself would probably love that idea. Hrm, maybe that thought alone should thus give us pause… 🤔😜
