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US PoliEra 2020 |OT6| I will not be closing this thread when the second wave hits.
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Orayn please knock off the goddamn doomsaying.
It's one thing to be concerned and another to be outright masturbatory over it.
If there's a contested election that seems like the most likely way it happens to me
There was no reason to give themselves a black eye on the VP selection process. Just weird, dumb, seemingly petty inside baseball they let get way out there.
Although I think I'd prefer Duckworth, I want Kamala to get the nod just to spite these motherfuckers.
You don't give him enough credit.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup
Kamala as AG.
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Untocuhable ticket
Biden//Duckworth
There would literally be no effective angle for ANYONE to attack them
Bluntly, Dodd and co. have stupidly undermined their own cause here, because they've made potentially not picking Harris look like Biden caved to sexist lobbying.
That's not nearly as satisfying. Absolutely more poetic, though.
so the grift wall is a literal grift wall.
it isn't built up to any code.
after watching that video, that 14 ft wall is only 2-3 feet in the ground.
which, it effectively, by basic building codes should be 6-8 underground with concrete pylons.
which means the people assembling and building it are stealing tax payer cash and doing the shittiest realestate varnish in the world
If you didn't want Kamala as vp saying stupid shit publicly just puts more pressure on Biden to actually pick her
I got a text an hour or so ago. Saw his name and deleted it.
Oh geesh, if the Castro stuff didn't do Bass in, the Scientology stuff will. Like Jonathan Chait said earlier on Twitter; you can tell Bass never planned on running for president based on that Scientology video. I guess she just wanted their money, but that's cringe-y. By 2010, those weirdos were already known for all their abusive practices and cultish attitude.
I'm actually starting to think it might be Warren now, or Duckworth. Harris is kind of having to fight off too much right now, or it might seem to Biden like that.
I'm actually starting to think it might be Warren now, or Duckworth. Harris is kind of having to fight off too much right now, or it might seem to Biden like that.
in my opinion, considering the how high the police has gotten the fascism from this admin, I really don't like Kamala.
Tho Duckworth not bad opinion, double amputee, (got that disabled cred) got that military credit as well,
talking about being a big tent party as the democrat have been since whenever, She's asian which would help out some (not sure the exact amount) in the asian community which is currently getting the shit kicked out of from covid and ignorant MAGA CHUDs maybe level out the yellow panic (if you're in the asian community and getting harassed IM SO SORRY ABOUT THOSE IGNORANT ASSHOLES :(
Tho Duckworth not bad opinion, double amputee, (got that disabled cred) got that military credit as well,
talking about being a big tent party as the democrat have been since whenever, She's asian which would help out some (not sure the exact amount) in the asian community which is currently getting the shit kicked out of from covid and ignorant MAGA CHUDs maybe level out the yellow panic (if you're in the asian community and getting harassed IM SO SORRY ABOUT THOSE IGNORANT ASSHOLES :(
He will understand enough in the fact it makes him seem awesome
I still don't understand why anyone would think Harris would take the AG job. It's a dead end job politically when she can at least hold her Senate seat for another 20 years if she wanted and still keep aspirations on a Presidential run.
What I don't get is Kamala was second behind only Biden in the number of endorsements before she dropped out.
What happened for all the knives to be sharpened against her all of a sudden?
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It is of note; I don't remember Hilliary's or Obama's VP sweepstakes being this toxic or contestsed.
I don't either, I do remember being really happy about Biden and extremely disappointed with Tim Kaine...
For what it's worth, I'd be really happy with Kamala Harris.
Nope, fuck off Karen. She's poison with this scientology and Castro nonsense.
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I mean we do. I'm just backing up what others are seeing.
To those of you saying "it's taking the same amount of time" that's not what is of issue here.
Defintiely. Some of these complaints look real sketchy.
Especially when you take into account that she's a woman of color.
It is probably just a few sore losers trying a last Hail Mary attempt to sink Kamala. There will always be detractors.
I think no one really cared because everyone assumed it would be an easy win.
Now everyone on the internet considers themselves to be a professional campaign strategist.
I'd wager the fact that most campaigns during normal years are in full swing and have events filling this time contributes to the inordinate amount of focus this is getting as well and why it feels like it's dragging forever. All the same the worst things I recall being lodged against Kaine were that he was exceedingly dull and some complaining as to why it wasn't someone like a Castro iirc.
The kind of complaints being lodged against the VP selection here still stick out as strange and sexist.
The kind of complaints being lodged against the VP selection here still stick out as strange and sexist.
Clearly, the best candidates in this cycle were women. And yes, I'm talking about the Presidential primary too, not just the VP race. Biden is the candidate, and while he's not the best, he's the most electable. OK, fine. We're here.
But indicating from the beginning that it's going to be a woman adds a layer of tokenism to the mix that I feel has increased the toxicity in the VP race. Am I wrong? Was it better out of the gate to state that it was going to be a woman, or to leave it open and just pick the best candidate without a pre-established gender requirement?
But indicating from the beginning that it's going to be a woman adds a layer of tokenism to the mix that I feel has increased the toxicity in the VP race. Am I wrong? Was it better out of the gate to state that it was going to be a woman, or to leave it open and just pick the best candidate without a pre-established gender requirement?
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The truly depressing thing is that, while the misogynoir aimed at Kamala has gotten ridiculously blatant now, it was always there. At every point in the primary in terms of how she was covered.
Dodd is a dinosaur with a pretty substantial list of scandals. He's not going to be a fan of anybody who brings up past records during primaries. He's cut from the same cloth Engel is.
He's just as stupid too. Clearly Biden was leaning really hard towards Harris. All this does is make the VP folks look petty. Biden has never been the type to respond to this sort of tactic. It's like Dodd bought into the idea that Biden is dumb.
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Yep.
I remember people not liking her "getting angry" when all she was doing was calling out Biden for past mistakes in a very calm but passionate way.
They see the writing on the wall with this administration and are pivoting to deficit hawks that curtail spending under a Democratic administration. Why Obama's comments about the filibuster are especially poignant.
They cannot keep on message. Way to undermine the attempts to spin this as the fault of the democrats.
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