• ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]
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    6 months ago

    It’s wild how Dems/libs have let this happen. I don’t think Kamala Harris would be a good candidate or president necessarily. But Biden can only get worse with time. Harris could get better for them. The Democrats should have been coaching and grooming her for this election for 4 years, instead of her wandering around drugged out of her mind saying random things, they could have buffed and polished her.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          226 months ago

          I mean if they lose the election, they will just run lucrative media gigs screeching how bad trump is for the next 4 years. There’s literally zero penalty for throwing the election.

        • @MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          Nah, they’re trying to win, they’re just constrained by:

          1. Being a capitalist party that can’t firmly promise much material aid to voters
          2. Being an imperialist party that can’t respond to widespread discontent with current imperial wars
          3. All upper leadership having golden parachutes in media, banking, law, etc.
          4. No real way to force Biden out
          5. No better option (again, given the restraints of a capitalist party) than an incumbent who’s already beaten Trump once
          6. Liberal ideology like “we need a strong Republican Party” and “we can’t simply arrest this guy we’re calling a fascist”
          7. The general incompetence that crops up when party leaders basically can’t fail their way out of endless party job opportunities

          If you and I got in a boxing match and for some reason I insisted on wearing 50 pound weights on my ankles, I could try really hard and would still suck given my self-imposed constraints.

      • ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]
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        6 months ago

        Like sure winning 2020? Okay, but there definitely needed to be an exit/succession plan straight away. And a better VP who can step up.

    • huf [he/him]
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      146 months ago

      maybe they did take a look at kamala and decided a dude with dementia is still better than whatever the fuck she has…