203

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] red_tomato@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago

Her only merit was that she’s not Trump. It’s a very good merit, but let’s hope for some stronger candidate next time, if there ever will be a next time.

[-] Canconda@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago

Ultimately americans need to turn over 3/4 of their sitting politicians by 2028 or else the power structure will remain unchanged.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Her only merit was that she’s not Trump

Correct.

It’s a very good merit

Not anywhere near as good as it sounds, given how difficult it is for millions of eligible voters to actually vote.

No matter how evil the alternative is, you have to give people something to vote FOR in order to convince them to risk their livelihood while waiting in line in November weather for sometimes half a dozen or more hours, quite likely with children in tow or while paying for unaffordable childcare.

The DNC won't hear of it, though. They're a for-profit corporation that exists to maximize legal (and sometimes illegal) bribes coming their way, regardless of electoral outcomes.

let’s hope for some stronger candidate next time, if there ever will be a next time.

[-] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

She may not be trump in name or appearance but she's a cog in the same machine

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Both parties have been for a long time.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Better sit at home and be a victim then.

[-] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

We are all the victims, some of us just happen to know who the oppressor is

[-] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Being "not Trump" literally only worked cause of Covid. If that didn't happen, I can almost guarantee he would have won 2020. As annoying as it is, the people that would vote for a Dem candidate need to be convinced to do so and no amount of calling them lazy or accusing them of being terrible people will change that. Blue no matter who won't work.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

God. Dammit.

No more fucking neolibs. No Newsom, no Kamala, no Hillary, no Shapiro — fuck the lot of them. We must do everything in power to stop any and every neoliberal traitor from being nominated in 2028.

[-] BeardededSquidward 8 points 3 months ago

But...But...Blue no matter who! Do you want Trump to be elected again! It's your fault Trump won! ((Insert all other interrupting, conversation ending phrases neo-libs use here))

[-] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 months ago

DNC will fail to read the room on 2028. Lesser evil is over, time to earn votes

[-] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 37 points 3 months ago

She’s already showing us she isn’t listening to us.

[-] underscores@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

it looks like she cares more about the presidency than representing Americans

[-] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Absolutely. Unfortunately this seems to be quite common with those that aim to run.

If Americans were actually represented by our government, things would be vastly different here and around the world.

[-] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I'M SPEAKING

[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd love for her to run again and take votes away from Gavin Newsom in the primary so an actual working class candidate can win the nomination.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

We can thank elizabeth warren for biden since you bring that up, our great progressive champion that knowingly threw the primary to genocide joe.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 33 points 3 months ago

If she wants to win, she needs to be out there today pushing back against the regime. Instead, there's crickets. That's a "No" vote from me.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

And if she runs again and becomes the candidate, she'll lose again.

Kamala, dear, you're nearly as milquetoast as Biden. You're female, black, younger Biden. Nobody wanted Biden.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

DNC: Newsom/Harris 2028 take it or leave it

[-] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 6 points 3 months ago
[-] dhork@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I mean, if she manages to win a contested primary, she'll be a better candidate.

If nothing else, maybe she and Gavin will split the Goober vote and let some fresh blood in

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

I bet the super delegates push both of them until it's just those two. Then they will have a battle of the corporate shill old guards.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 months ago

I hope she does run again, because this time she’ll have to face a contested primary. I can’t wait to laugh my ass off when Kamala garners less than 3% of the primary votes. Hope the dumbass DNC wastes several hundred million on her before that happens too, serves them right to back corpo trash like Harris. Not like they’ll ever learn the right lessons from any of this anyway.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 13 points 3 months ago

Not like they’ll ever learn the right lessons from any of this anyway.

Their paychecks depend on it.

[-] TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

every second you spend berating the democrats, the right grows stronger. pick your battles friendo. I'm sure your contempt feels good but it's not flipping anyone's vote for midterms. focus on what's important, please.

[-] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

And what is important? The DNC pushing nationally unelectable, unpopular candidates down the throat of the electorate during primaries, so they can lose the general election to the republican candidate like Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024?

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

You had your shot and chose the establishment. Fuck off into the same hole Biden is in.

[-] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 17 points 3 months ago

I think Kamala would be a okay President (as in, "not a fucking idiot" ), however she's still a corporate pawn, Israeli shill and centre right like most other Dems who's main selling point is "not Trump". There are few good options within the whole party who actually support social agendas and not whatever a company's lobbyists or Zionists are paying them to support.

But more crucially, she's a woman, and not white and for 50% of the voting population (i.e. the ones who actually get off the couch to go vote), their racism and misogyny is more than enough reason to not vote for her - in fact, they'd relish in not doing so as it supports their fundamental principles of being a cunt.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

Alright, lose to AOC in the primary then.

I mean, at this point AOC is the only good option possible out of who is looking at running. If there's someone with a better chance and track record, I am all ears.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was originally thinking AOC versus Erica Kirk.

[-] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I don't think Harris is the candidate, but who is? I'm skeptical that democratic voters can reach a consensus on a candidate. I'm sure establishment/moderate Democrats can come to a consensus on their candidate, and progressives can come to a consensus on their candidate, but there's only one party nomination. Will the progressives vote for the candidate the moderates come up with? Will the moderates vote for the candidate the progressives come up with?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Well said.

Also: will the progressives vote for the candidate progressives come up with? Because there is always the chance that when it boils down to an actual individual, they may not pass some purity test(s) that are typically run against politicians.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

they may not pass some purity test(s)

Most of those purity tests are in fact rightwing voter-suppression psyops.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Nope, give us someone better

[-] LumberjackRanger@leminal.space 2 points 3 months ago

Somebody we can believe in.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Already working for Trump, Putin, and AIPAC I see.

/u/return2ozma consistently called for no one to vote for Harris, or Biden, during 2024, actively helping Trump to win by sowing defeatist propaganda. They are a Nazi supporter, adjacently.

They don't care who the DNC runs, they will campaign against them, because no one that makes it through the primary will ever be "pure" enough for this troll.

Edit: your down vote just helps to prove my point. You are an anti-democracy troll.

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

If they run her again, they deserve to lose.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Agreed, but I don't trust this particular user to be trying to shove that down our throats again.

[-] Didntdoit71@feddit.online 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sadly, the voting idiots of he United States would just elect Donald Trump again if K.H. ran again... even if it meant digging up his dead body...because let's stop lying. It wasn't about het being "chosen" without a primary. She lisy because she was a woman and she was black. Americans will not elect s female president, probably within the next 50 years. Misogyny is alive and well, burning brightly right beside racism, in America. I say that as a white man who had seen and heard every excuse and every lie. Americans are stupid. That's the bottom line. They are ignorant and uneducated, and don't want to be educated. They enjoy their ignorance and their racism and misogyny. They will not change until the Boomers and Gen X (I'm Gen X) are dead and buried because those two generations are a millstone around the neck of this nation. Sadly, we're bringing up an apathetic pair of generations in the form of Gen Z and Gen Alpha who just don't care about anything beyond their pet causes and social media accounts. In the last 30 years, Americans have thrown our once great nation to its knees and they're guilty of raping lady liberty as surely as the Epstein rapists and murderers are guilty of the crimes they committed. I worry that ghhd country I grew up loving is going to have to burn to ash before it can be recovered...IF it can be recovered...which is justifiably questionable. Anyone saying Trump was a better choice should be forced to move to Russia...along with thd people who voted for him - or "obstained" and got him elected. This IS America's WORST GENERATION.

[-] dandylion@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

bad kamala. thats true, americans please keep voting for trump! he's your savior.

[-] dandylion@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

nice astro turfing btw

this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
203 points (100.0% liked)

politics

30038 readers
2060 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS