• buckykat [none/use name]
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    419 months ago

    No, she didn’t have the clout to run this time she got the nomination because of the timing of Biden’s decline finally becoming impossible to deny any more after the primaries but before the convention.

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    There was no clout to begin with. They bought a PR cycle for her that expired on sept. 1st.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    209 months ago

    Not at all.

    She shouldn’t have had the clout this time considering she couldn’t even fucking win her own home state in a fair primary before that.

    • AnarchoAnarchist [he/him, comrade/them]
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      69 months ago

      Wow. Sounds like this is “the most important election in our lifetime” - so why is Kamala shooting herself in the foot unequivocally supporting a genocide that hurts her chances? You think the most important issue this cycle is “securing democracy” but she doesn’t.

      As long as Kamala thinks killing brown people is more important than electing the first woman President, I will agree and withhold my vote.

    • brainw0rms [they/them]
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      9 months ago

      It’s wild to me that libs like you can say this with a straight face after Trump has already had a term as President.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        He will have plenty of time to alter the status quo. Isn’t that what project 2025 is all about? Even if Trump denies his involvement in this project, he sure knows all people involved, and he is known to lie about everything if it benefits him.

        • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          If he is such a threat to “democracy” why hasn’t he been dealt with by the democrats either via the courts, or with a timely accident? You really need to meditate on that thought.

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months ago

            There was a republican that tried to kill him, however unsuccessfully. Other than that, there have been plenty of court cases.

            But i really don’t care what happenes, because I’m not voting for any of them. It would be a very interesting social experiment to see how bad it’ll be. I’m welcoming the purge thay may follow.

            • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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              9 months ago

              There was a republican that tried to kill him, however unsuccessfully.

              That does bring us back to their question. If Trump is going to destroy the United States government, why is it that one schizophrenic man and another republican voter take him more seriously than the entire Democrat Party?

              Project 2025 is another one. Republicans have been seizing all political institutions in the US for the past 40 years or so, and the Democrats are now campaigning with Cheneys, Bushes and the like.

              I think the Dems see Trump as an awesome opportunity for fundraising. That’s it.

              • @[email protected]
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                69 months ago

                To add to that note, this would literally just be a “normal” neoliberal landslide election if the Dems just decided that stopping a genocide was an acceptable tradeoff to winning the election.

                I can’t even believe I wrote that out, it’s so farcical and yet it’s reality. Democrats would rather lose democracy than stop committing genocide.

        • Moss [they/them]
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          139 months ago

          Why would he only become interested in becoming a dictator the second time he runs? He could have taken leadership of the Jan 6 shenanigans if that’s what he wanted.

          All he cares about is his ego, it’s clear that actually running the country has no appeal to him.

    • SovietyWoomy [any]
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      169 months ago

      The vast majority of voters rapidly support genocidal political parties. America has proven beyond any possible doubt that it cannot be trusted with self governance.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      59 months ago

      Yeah, just like last time he won.

      He’ll be Chuan Jianguo (Trump the Nation-Builder) to China again, so I’m steeling myself for the repression to intensify domestically. We had so many people become socialists during his first term.

  • brainw0rms [they/them]
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    189 months ago

    Only if they completely forego the entire concept of primaries again. No way she actually gets picked by the public especially after losing.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    149 months ago

    Has anyone else ever run a third time after being unsuccessful twice? The thing about the DNC is they have a production line of anonymous tank-raised ghouls, they learned their lesson about hitching their hopes to one egg after Clinton I think

  • Luna [she/her, fae/faer]
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    139 months ago

    I don’t think she will, I feel like she only has clout now because the liberals needed to push her as a valid option over Biden (and was already his VP). Even if she does win, I have a feeling she’ll only get a single term before the Conservatives can find someone to beat her.

  • Ildsaye [they/them]
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    She had microscopic clout in the 2020 primary, but here she is. She is doing everything right to prove her ghoul-cred, and her sponsors will no doubt find further uses for her, even if not as presidential candidate. Heck, maybe she can be Secretary of Cruel and Unusual Collective Punishment under Trump