What??? Why is Kamala still in the running AT ALL?!?! jesus fucking christ.
As others have said, if Harris was out there doing what Bernie and AOC have been doing, then maybe there would be room for discussion. As it stands now? Nah, step aside sis.
Second place to Harris??? Holy fuck we deserve our fate.
Edit: upon reading the article (I know…) AOC has the best net favorability. So a little more hopium there.
The fact that Harris is considered as an option indicates your statement is correct.
Jfc here we fuckin go again. Lemme guess DNC, this will totally be an open primary right? Anyone can win?
They’re going to fuck us again. They thrive on failure. Weaponized ineptitude.
Feels like controlled opposition. I know we need to engage with the democratic party because they’re the best we got but JFC can they stop sucking corporate dick for 5 seconds.
The DNC is a Corp. They are literally controlled opposition. And if we can’t find some way to work around them this country doesn’t have a future.
Republicans cannot win in free and fair elections. It’s why they’ve worked tirelessly for decades to ensure elections are neither free nor fair. Our foe on the path to progress isn’t the Republicans. It’s corporate democrats.
If only your drmocrat handlers let you vote for who you want and not for who they choose.
Fuck Harris, we have no more time for right wing “liberals.” She needs to get the fuck out of the way and progressives need to take charge
Where the fuck has Harris been this whole time? How has she remained relevant? WTF is wrong with the DNC (gestures wildly at all their dumb shit)?
I mean, she was VP just a few months ago.
And she seems to have done fucking nothing since then to help the american people. No call to the streets, no speeches at the protests, nothing.
Yep, she and Biden just disappeared after conceding. They bowed out so hard they ended up in hiding
I don’t know why they’re surfacing this week, but they can fuck back to the rock they crawled out from under
Ayyy. This shouldn’t be a shock. I think AOC should be seen as a favourite to emerge as the Democratic nominee in 2028… if we get an election then.
so people think that AOC or Harris is going to win in this very racist/sexist country we are in? Guess it will be Trump again.
Lol it was always going to be trump again because fair elections don’t exist anymore.
Kamala was an unpopular candidate attached to an unpopular presidency. Sure, the race and gender aspect was must definitely used to manipulate MAGA - but that doesn’t matter. Whoever Biden chose as VP that would end up running for president would be demonized in one way or another by Russian, Chinese, and U.S. propaganda. They would have lost as well.
Your Obama got in, and what’s more they were excited to vote for what seemed like actual charge.
That’s what stirred up the racists.
Kamala lost because she was perfect in every way but people are simply racist. No other reason can be thought up. She was the best candidate ever and everyone loved her policies. Especially when she showed up with Liz Cheney.
I don’t know what is the needs to be doubtful of polls now, after all, polls told us all over the internet that Kamala would DEFINITELY win the election, and she won it. right?
Right?
So yeah this polling must also be saying the truth
No, they didn’t. It was a toss up in all polls right till the end with a slight tendency towards Trump. The polls were pretty much on the nose
You’re both right. There were many varying polls based on what you wanted the outcome to be from what I saw.
If the Dems were smart, they’d make the runner-up in the primary their vice presidential candidate. I don’t know why they never seem to do this. I’m not a “Bernie bro”, but Clinton probably would’ve won if Bernie had been her VP.
Because there is a perception that the VP should “balance” the ticket in some ways for the general. Its why Obama had Biden, why Biden had Harris, and why Harris had Walz (idr Clinton’s). They try to calculate about what demographics are missing from the presidential candidate and get someone who fits enough of them that the racism/sexism/ageism and therefore lack of votes towards a candidate for those reasons isn’t the reason they lose. It’s why Obama had Biden, McCain had Palin, etc. The facist cult doesn’t have to bother because their voters don’t care.
What could possibly go wrong with pairing the extremely old Biden with the even older Bernie in 2020?
It feels like everyone is desperate to loose, if someone came up with a contest where winning cost you a lot of money and was nothing but pain and suffering then the race would look exactly the same as it does between dema and reps.
Wouldn’t be the first time someone accused the parties of operating as Controlled Opposition.
“How could you have picked worse candidates than this?” is a question I’ve been hearing since Clinton beat Bush Sr with the (unintentional) help of Ross Perot.
I hope we actually get a 2028 election
Such an underrated comment fr.
I doubt we’ll even have the 2026 midterms. HitlerPig can’t afford to lose his majority in either chamber, or Dems will have control of investogative committees with subpoena and arrest powers. So he’ll engineer a justification for Martial Law, and suspend elections.
He’ll have to time it right, so that the courts can’t properly react, so it will probably happen late next summer, likely with a series of violent attacks on demonstrations, which ought to be common and huge by next summer. He’ll just encourage his J6 RedHats to instigate trouble at protests around the nation, and they’ll respond since he’s already pardoned and paid them (he’s planning on compensating them for their trouble). Many won’t miss an opportunity to get a free pass to fuck up liberal protesters.
Once we’ve missed the 2026 election, it will be easier to ignore the 2028 election. Of course, the outcry will be enormous, but it’s Martial Law, so he can put loudmouths in prison without due process, and there is will be no functional court system to stop him.
lol imagine thinking there’s going to be another presidential election
Elections are far too useful as a form of control for the state to dispense with them. Virtually every country on earth has elections, even if they’re just sham elections for show. If you’re a dictator or aspiring dictator, you’re generally much better off having some pretence of democratic legitimacy than just coming out and announcing yourself as president for life.
If we give up, you are right, there won’t be any.
But we also can’t just wait and think everything will be fine by next election.
The current administration wants us to be a dictatorship. When they talk about third term, they wants us to hey used to the fact that he will stay in power until his death.
itt: we are completely fucked and this might be the end of america… but i ain’t voting for her! she better personally bless every toilet as transgender compatible and become a member of hamas before i vote for her!
I’m trans and I didn’t vote for her and I never will.
this might be the end of america
Inshallah
Inshallah
it’s unfortunate that you hate yourself and everyone else so much.
edit - congratulations, you’re the first and only person i’ve used the downvote button for. i hope you find love.
Wow you’re so cool and edgy
Obvious bait is obvious.
Don’t give into the doom that Trump & Musk want us to have. They want us thinking we’ve already lost so we don’t try to stop them, but the fight ain’t over till it’s over. We the people have power if we’re willing to use it
Join on the streets, take a part in boycotts, join strikes, etc.
Join on the streets, take a part in boycotts, join strikes, etc.
I agree, but those things aren’t voting.
Voting is over. It’s time to do something else.
If those are our two front runners we are fucked.
AOC would be great.
She’s hit and miss for me. When she’s calling people out on their bullshit regardless of party affiliation I am a fan. When she’s marching along with the ancient Democrats and being performative I can’t stand that shit.
I do not think she would do significantly better than Harris did. I think she would be an improvement, but idk if that’s gonna be enough.
But would the majority of American voters vote for her?
Because if not then it doesn’t matter how great she would be.
AOC might be a better House speaker.
Yeah, we’re not gonna get another election. We blew it as a country. Shit’s over.
Don’t play into the doom that Trump & Musk want us to all have. The fight ain’t over till it’s over
I hope so.
Don’t just hope, join the fight back! April 19th is the next day of nationwide protests
I was at the last one, and I’ll be at the next one.
Also hey person who downvoted me, I really hope you’re right. Another election would be good. It’s just there’s all this doom in the air.
I think there will be another election but you know that Trump is going to try something like refuse to leave office or challenge the validation of the election. Hopefully the midterms are a land slide for the Dems and we can get some sanity back
As a trans woman, this term has been suuuper rough on me and it’s barely a twelfth over.
🫂
Defeat, doom, and giving up just makes it a done deal and accomplishes nothing.
