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It’s easy to point fingers, and the author isn’t wrong, but I remember the whole democratic party absolutely tone-deaf to their voters campaign after campaign.
It’s not just checking boxes, they had to relate. Harris had an incredible start; an injection of new blood and vigor to the stale humdrum. But for the love of jeebus, will they stop “playing the game” and do f-ing something!
Games can only be played when everyone plays by the rules. Only they are playing the game now, and they are alone at the table.
“What’re you going to do, get Trump elected?”
Fuck David Plouffe. He’s been trying to sell this bullshit since November 6th. He went on Pod Save America to explain what went wrong with the Harris campaign. Did he admit that they should have distanced themselves from Biden on Gaza? Or that campaigning with Liz Cheney and targeting moderate Republicans was a failed strategy? Or that their middle-class platform cost them working-class voters? Nope! The conclusion he came to was that they did everything right, but they just didn’t have enough time. Joe Biden should live out his remaining years in shame and isolation for refusing to step down, but Plouffe’s campaign strategy was political malpractice, and he his failures can’t be blamed in senility.
Well said! Dems are an embarrassment mostly because they have a long history of fucking up at the worst possible time and then learning absolutley nothing from it.
Everyone had the same 4 years David Plouff. If you feel you needed more time, you’re admitting to being worse than everyone else who didn’t. And considering one of those people is a reality TV felon who can’t read, you must really suck at your job.
All of what you said is true. But it’s also true that Biden’s holding out and not allowing enough time was also to blame there’s lots of factors.
Fuck David Plouffe
I second this. He’s the same as every other Democrat.
It fucked them because it locked them into Harris, who was also a uniquely awful candidate. It screwed voters out of having a meaningful primary with real debate about issues.
Who else would they have picked? Someone even further right?
Anyone who had a chance to win. “We played the best losing move” doesn’t make you a chess master, it doesn’t even get a ribbon at the fair.
How about Bernie Sanders, for once?
Bernie should have been wrapping up his 8 year run at this point
How about someone who isn’t 300 years old?
Ahh yes, one of the most qualified people to run for the seat, totally an awful candidate.
No, what was awful was the “won’t change” shift, and the courting undesirables from the right. Her campaign fucked up, and now we’re left with a literal fucking Nazi Fascist admin.
So qualified she dropped out of primaries in 2020 at 3% in the polls. She was a tool the entire time. No one with half a brain wanted to vote for her, they just didn’t have a fucking choice.
That was 4 years before she, you know, was vice president for 4 years. That tends to provide valuable experience.
I’m not gonna pretend I liked her but she wasn’t a bad candidate to begin a campaign with. But then she ran to the right in an insane way
Polished turds are just shiny turds. She was always unlikable, people only latched on to her because of the despair Biden had the party in before he dropped out. It was a simple overcorrection in sentiment that wasted away from her failure to inspire anything, just like she failed in 2020. No amount of on the job experience teaches the lessons she failed to learn twice.
There were some things she did early in the primary that kind of inspired me tbh. I really liked the Walz VP pick, especially when it looked like she was going to pick a more conservative Dem like Shapiro the Zionist or Mark Kelly. She also had a more youthful energy to contrast against Biden’s clearly aging and tired energy during his campaign. But then they squandered it by listening to the consultants and focus groups trying to triangulate to get Haley Republicans or whatever they were trying to do.
If you think even 50% of her campaign decision making reflected her personal politics you are mistaken about how the DNC operates.
As I said, on paper she was a fine candidate to start a campaign with. She could have easily converted a win if the party as a whole hadn’t totally rejected anything progressive long before she took to the campaign trail.
People forget that after you get elected you still have to collaborate with Congress. Presidential candidates are absolutely beholden to the will of the DNC, and their party platform. They will not hesitate to torpedo a presidency as retaliation for failing to toe the company line
Pete is also an incredibly qualified person and dropped out, too. Just because people didn’t vote for her, doesn’t mean she isn’t qualified. It means many voters are stupid. Case in point, the current president and his 75+ million fascist voters.
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I swear to god if they run Pete (which seems like he’s gearing up for it) I will explode from sheer rage. Pete has nothing to offer but more of the same. I hate hearing people pretend like he has a chance. It’s absolute delusion and is exactly the problem with all the other democrats. He is uninspiring and we will loose and it will be our fault.
Medicare for all who want it. Lmaoooooooooo. So upsetting. I’ve never heard a democrat say something more cringe and I watched Hillary say Pokémon go to the polls live.
Your main point that dropping out does not equate to being a bad candidate is valid though.
Stupid voters or not, the job by definition requires you get the votes. If you can’t pull votes you are unqualified. It’s not a trick statement it’s in the job description.
You’re putting the cart before the horse.
Stop that.
What is a horse besides winning the vote? I’m not sure I get your metaphor here
Wait, Biden won that primary, so he was clearly the right choice for 2024??
Your logic seems folded.
Not really you’re just missing the point, jobs can have multiple requirements for qualification. Biden failed the same test in the polls as Harris did, primary’s dont make you president, they make you a candidate.
Your argument is that Harris was wrong because she lost a primary.
The only person who passed your test was Biden.
You made a dumb argument is what I’m saying.
You can make whatever straw man you want but it won’t make you right.
She’s new Hillary. They ran Hillary against him again but younger and with a tan. Instead of of allowing the possibility of Sanders in 2016 or AOC in 2024 they threw “the game” twice.
I think Bernie is the one who would truly have made US great :)
Never forget Bernie’s Legacy
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this is their job. it’s how they keep their spot in those nice offices pretending to be opposition to Christofacism
No it’s not, the Democrats fucked themselves by not opposing Biden because it’s tradition not to.
As long as Democrats don’t improve their own democratic process, they will keep fucking themselves.
If Harris had been the candidate from the start, she might have had a better chance.
Biden being obliged when he broke his promise to not run again, was absolutely a mistake by the Democratic party.
Biden probably thought he had to save America again, and nobody told him no before it was too late.If Harris had been the candidate from the start
She had no absolutely chance to win from the start. She is a really terrible campaigner. They dont call her ‘word salad’ for no reason.
If Democrats can be counted on for something: It’s that they always make the worst decisions at the worst time, then learn nothing from it.
2000: Florida recount? Nah. It’s cool Supreme Court. Let’s have Bush around for 9-11 instead.
2001: Fuck yeah endless wars. Approved. It’s cool to lie about weapons of mass destruction too.
2002: Shame about that Patriot Act. Would be awful if that allowed all your meta data to be collected so you can be targeted for propaganda on every platform in the future.
2004: Shame about No Child Left Behind. Hope your kids don’t grow up stupid enough to think Trump would make a good president.
2008: Fuck yeah Obama! Get that HOPE ready! For Dems to have full control of every branch of the government! Only to use it to compromise with Republicans to remove the public option from national Healthcare. Hope that doesn’t create a spiral of misery for Americans culminating in them assassinating an insurance CEO!
I’m stopping here. But only because I don’t want to keep typing about Citizens United, minimum wage, and literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.
literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.
They also forgot to protect democracy somewhere along the way. 🙁
Democracy just died a death by 1000 cuts. Dems just have yet to realize it, let alone the fact they were the ones that stood by while it happened.
I’m pretty sure the ninety million people that didn’t vote had something to do with it also.
It did.
Do you feel those 90 million were supposed to vote Dem?
If so, by what mechanism?
Certainly not magic. Certainly not out of some obligation to the DNC or Democrat leaders those 90 million clearly don’t have.
The responsibility to move those 90 million towards a vote for a Democrat were the Democrats themselves.
Yet in their failure to do so, they now blame those 90 million voters for not listening to them. Instead of the very clear fact those 90 million are just too poorly educated to understand what Democrats are even saying.
Those 90 million choosing not to vote quite literally proves my point that Democrats blame others for their mistakes, instead of learning from them.
Dems want to believe this country is in a condition where they don’t need to talk at a 5th grade level to get through to the majority of people. But the sad truth is that Trump talking like that won him two elections.
Don’t blame those 90 million just because they voted for an idiot. Blame the Dems for not being able to dumb their policies down enough for the majority of this country to understand that they have a better option.
They will continue to lose elections until they do.
Do you feel those 90 million were supposed to vote Dem?
They were supposed to vote against a fascist. I honestly don’t care who the dems put against Trump, those 90 million people should have known well enough to vote against a fascist dictator that told them exactly what he was going to do.
This isn’t on the democrats.
If an evil genie tells you that you have a choice between cancer and a broken knee, you take the broken knee and hobble yourself home.
You don’t let the evil genie chose, because I’ll always be the cancer. There isn t a choice to not decide. This is how it is. Yes, it needs to change, but pouting and withholding a vote isn’t how that’s done.
Yeah. The democrats suck. But they’re better than cancer.
Has there ever been an American election where like 30% of people don’t ignore it?
Has any election in human history had the vast majority of people turn out without it being compulsory?
When a fascist dictator is one of the options?
The Democratic party is over
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have we learned anything
The Democrats probably learned they need to move more to the right and get rid of troublemakers like David Hogg. Whatever aipac tells them really.
The time for learning is over, either act or we are all heading to the last world war
we should probably learn and also act
I’ll settle with signs for either
“concerns about Biden’s mobility were so dire, advisers considered having him use a wheelchair during the campaign.”
What the what?
Biden Aides Discussed Putting Him in a Wheelchair for Potential Second Term: Book
This must be what they meant by FDR 2.0
Crazy. See FDR got away with it, they would stage photos and prop him up, cover the wheelchair with a blanket. But that’s impossible now that social media is a thing.
Yikes. I did a full news and politics cleanse during trumps first administration and was not paying a ton of attention during Bidens term. Had no idea it was that bad.
I was paying attention.
It was not, in fact, that bad.
I agree with you, if by not that bad, you mean worse than that bad.
We almost beat medicare. It was that bad.
the DNC couldnt even defeat medicare.
It was that bad because the media ignored it. Decades of “mistakes” of being racist and sexist, and then being in the oval office made him senile.
All these people care about is money. It’s all about money. Take their fucking money away. They are literally an existential threat to the rest of us.
All the Dem is gonna be long dead and the u.s.a. under a dictatorship.
I’m still going to be seeing whining and blaming everything on Dems. 😂
We f’ked.
