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    God. Dammit.

    No more fucking neolibs. No Newsom, no Kamala, no Hillary, no Shapiro — fuck the lot of them. We must do everything in power to stop any and every neoliberal traitor from being nominated in 2028.

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        An electoral system always creates a ruling class. If you want to remove it, you need to randomly pick citizens and rotate them every x years. It’s the only option to have a legislative body that is actually representative of the people, be it for the better or the worst.

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      But…But…Blue no matter who! Do you want Trump to be elected again! It’s your fault Trump won! ((Insert all other interrupting, conversation ending phrases neo-libs use here))

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    Alright, lose to AOC in the primary then.

    I mean, at this point AOC is the only good option possible out of who is looking at running. If there’s someone with a better chance and track record, I am all ears.

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    And if she runs again and becomes the candidate, she’ll lose again.

    Kamala, dear, you’re nearly as milquetoast as Biden. You’re female, black, younger Biden. Nobody wanted Biden.

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      …and so many people didn’t quite f’n get it that if you don’t vote for Harris, you get Trump. Binary choices are easy for kids to understand but hard for American voters.

      Have the day you begged for.

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        We really need to move past First Past the Post, but the people who can institute the change are the people who are elected by FPTP.

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          We can in states with voter sponsored ballot initiatives, Michigan I think will be having a ranked choice voting constitutional amendment by referendeum after they submit a million signatures of registered voters or whatever it is.

          Other states already did it, Alaska I know. It is a superior system that rejects extremists candidates, and makes people running third party not play spoiler. If you vote for third party first, you choose if he loses, your vote goes to the democrat. If the democrat loses, then your vote goes to Crimedog McGruff, or whatever.

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        Harris is Trump, they are both cogs in the same fucking machine, changing the cog doesnt change how the machine functions.

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    She was the least popular candidate in 2020, but for some reason Biden chose her as his VP. Then she lost to Donald Trump in 2024, after practically being forced onto the ticket. And she’s still thinking about running again?

    JFC. Whoever is telling her this is a good idea, needs to be fired.

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      That’s the problem with the DNC putting identity politics over matters of policy. And I don’t even use that term in the same sense as the right-wing anti-DEI psychosis.

      DEI is a matter of policy. Choosing a milquetoast establishment neoliberal solely because she’s a woman of color is identity politics.

      It’s better to nominate a progressive regardless of race, gender, or sexuality, than it is to nominate the most intersectional minority who panders to the right-wing “moderates.”

      The Dems lost in 2016 because they forced Hillary on everyone when they wanted Bernie. Clearly they still haven’t learned their lesson…

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        She also took the most aggressive and direct shot at Biden that I can recall during the primary with her criticism of Biden’s position on busing.

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          Michelle Obama is an immensely qualified and insightful human being for a number of reasons and BitchBoyBurr sold his soul to bonesaw McGee and the oil bunch without a second thought and then whined like the pathetic little supplicant he is at heart when people called him out for it. Fuck him forever.

          Talked mad shit about those billionaires until they offered him a check finally. Turned out he was just jealous.

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    Her only merit was that she’s not Trump. It’s a very good merit, but let’s hope for some stronger candidate next time, if there ever will be a next time.

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      Ultimately americans need to turn over 3/4 of their sitting politicians by 2028 or else the power structure will remain unchanged.

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      Being “not Trump” literally only worked cause of Covid. If that didn’t happen, I can almost guarantee he would have won 2020. As annoying as it is, the people that would vote for a Dem candidate need to be convinced to do so and no amount of calling them lazy or accusing them of being terrible people will change that. Blue no matter who won’t work.

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      Her only merit was that she’s not Trump

      Correct.

      It’s a very good merit

      Not anywhere near as good as it sounds, given how difficult it is for millions of eligible voters to actually vote.

      No matter how evil the alternative is, you have to give people something to vote FOR in order to convince them to risk their livelihood while waiting in line in November weather for sometimes half a dozen or more hours, quite likely with children in tow or while paying for unaffordable childcare.

      The DNC won’t hear of it, though. They’re a for-profit corporation that exists to maximize legal (and sometimes illegal) bribes coming their way, regardless of electoral outcomes.

      let’s hope for some stronger candidate next time, if there ever will be a next time.

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        Absolutely. Unfortunately this seems to be quite common with those that aim to run.

        If Americans were actually represented by our government, things would be vastly different here and around the world.

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    I’d love for her to run again and take votes away from Gavin Newsom in the primary so an actual working class candidate can win the nomination.

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      We can thank elizabeth warren for biden since you bring that up, our great progressive champion that knowingly threw the primary to genocide joe.

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    If she wants to win, she needs to be out there today pushing back against the regime. Instead, there’s crickets. That’s a “No” vote from me.

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    I hope she does run again, because this time she’ll have to face a contested primary. I can’t wait to laugh my ass off when Kamala garners less than 3% of the primary votes. Hope the dumbass DNC wastes several hundred million on her before that happens too, serves them right to back corpo trash like Harris. Not like they’ll ever learn the right lessons from any of this anyway.

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      So your choice is between a “corpo trash like Harris” and a fascist pedophile like Trump? You guys are fucked.

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        If the establishment power structure has its way, yes. We require significant reforms to allow the people to have a voice in this alleged “democracy.”

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      every second you spend berating the democrats, the right grows stronger. pick your battles friendo. I’m sure your contempt feels good but it’s not flipping anyone’s vote for midterms. focus on what’s important, please.

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        And what is important? The DNC pushing nationally unelectable, unpopular candidates down the throat of the electorate during primaries, so they can lose the general election to the republican candidate like Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024?

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    I mean, if she manages to win a contested primary, she’ll be a better candidate.

    If nothing else, maybe she and Gavin will split the Goober vote and let some fresh blood in

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      I bet the super delegates push both of them until it’s just those two. Then they will have a battle of the corporate shill old guards.

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    I think Kamala would be a okay President (as in, “not a fucking idiot” ), however she’s still a corporate pawn, Israeli shill and centre right like most other Dems who’s main selling point is “not Trump”. There are few good options within the whole party who actually support social agendas and not whatever a company’s lobbyists or Zionists are paying them to support.

    But more crucially, she’s a woman, and not white and for 50% of the voting population (i.e. the ones who actually get off the couch to go vote), their racism and misogyny is more than enough reason to not vote for her - in fact, they’d relish in not doing so as it supports their fundamental principles of being a cunt.