• bunkyprewster@startrek.website
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    4 months ago

    Harris isn’t burdened with some responsibility for the Gaza genocide. That will help with younger voters who otherwise would have abstained. Things feel more positive from where I sit.

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    4 months ago

    It will confuse the tankies until they can write and send out their weekly newsletter with all the fun slogans to use over the next 7 days.

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    I’m actually pretty dang hopeful right now. The right has spent so much time and effort focused around Joe being old and tired, and now that is all dead in the water.

    Now we have a new candidate starting from zero with many people, vs trump which is obviously very well known. In short I’m trying to say we have the element of surprise, the benefit of the unknown. They have to convince moderates that this new candidate is still somehow worse than trump, and these aren’t the hard right people, these are the undecided (somehow) and centered voters.

    Far right voters will always back trump, but the indecisive voters and moderate Republicans who don’t like trump but fell for the years of propaganda against Biden have been wanting anyone who is better than Biden but not trump. Same with more centered Democrats, not that they wanted to vote for trump but Biden was not a great candidate for them either.

    The rights whole plan was “Joe is so much worse than trump!” and they had 16 years of content to pull on. They can’t do that again with a new candidate. People say they handed the election to Republicans. I think it’s the opposite. I think Republicans demanding Joe drop out when anti Joe was their only message may have just accidentally handed the election to Democrats.

    If the Dems come out strong on this I think it could shake up the whole election. I see people online saying doom and gloom, I strongly disagree, I think this is a huge rallying cry.

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      Joe being old and tired, and now that is all dead in the water.

      Nope. Now it’s trump who’s old and tired. Kamala needs to go after trump and his crime family like she would other criminals and prosecute them in the press. She is a former prosecutor, after all.

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    I’m a LAW AND ORDER REPUBLICAN and I’m going to vote for the CONVICTED FELON over the COP!

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    Seems good, man. Basically that makes the election:

    Decision 2024: Cop vs Felon

    Who will America choose?

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      Yeah I don’t think DNC leadership appreciates the current public sentiment against law enforcement in the country. Based on her career, her would be base are the moutb breezers simping for trump

      For any self respecting liberal, you just have to ignore her job. There is no good way to spin it besides, she knows how to run a shop of prosecutors lol never, just don’t fucking mention it.

      Bizarro fucking time line tho jfc

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        I know we sometimes feel like the majority here on the fediverse, but we have to remember that most democrats don’t feel the same way about cops that the “far” left does. Most democrats are just capitalist liberals that enjoy the status quo and maybe some slightly progressive policies.

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          Ehh good point… Although I think it is also generational. Boomer Democrats still pretend like they didn’t know what redlining was while living in redlined communities lol

          So yeah that guy will vote

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      4 months ago

      can’t any citizen be president? I don’t remember George Washington running for president

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    4 months ago

    No one will be able to tell you. But it SHOULD change nothing regarding to what to vote for. You either vote against Trump / fascism / climate collapse, or you support those things either by vote or inaction.

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      Yes, yes. Thank you.

      We know the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” crowd was always going to vote for the blue candidate. That’s a given, and beating the dead horse is just preaching to the choir.

      What’s important is that now the Dems have a chance, and the DNC has a precious few days with which to change the future.

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        It’s not about voting blue no matter who, it’s about preventing Trump. If you think that’s beating the dead horse then you clearly still not understand the threat, the things that are at stake here, the implication his presidency has for the future of all of us.

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          If you think that’s beating the dead horse then you clearly still not understand the threat,

          And you clearly don’t understand how long I’ve had to put up with people like you shouting down any criticism of the Democrat party, no matter how reasonable or well-intentioned, as if deliberately suppressing talk about the weakness of their former presumed nominee improved his chances.