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[-] Redditsux@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago

Harris is like that zit that just won't go away. She's probably Biden's biggest mistake.

[-] Matrix6664@lemmy.world 4 points 44 minutes ago

Unfortunately Biden was the mistake. DNC denying Bernie a second time should really put everything into perspective.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Nah, Biden's biggest mistake was undoubtedly appointing conservative do-nothing Merrick Garland instead of somebody who would actually do their fucking job and prosecute Trump's crimes.

Everything else is dwarfed in comparison to that. Biden is going to go down in history worse than Neville Chamberlain, as the President who let the fascists destroy the country on his watch and did fuck-all to stop them.

[-] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

She did give us the coconut tree meme straight off the dome though. Thats about all shes been good for.

AOC for president when

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 points 3 hours ago

Life would be better for millions of people on this planet if she was president instead of Trump.

Who would be your ideal presidential candidate for 2028?

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago

Ideal in 2024? Can’t really say who but I would’ve loved an actual primary, I voted for KH and 100000000% agree with you’re actually factual point that she would have obviously been better than Trump has been for the world as a whole. But let’s not act like the slapdash way she was(by no fault of her own) made the candidate after Biden flopped hard in the first debate was normal or helpful.

I don’t like her at all, just for being a former cop(yes AGs count as cops for me), but she never really had a good opportunity to run a proper campaign against Trump. Had Joe put her in the spotlight as the next one up from day one I think we’d be in a much better place as a species than we are now.

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Shit you right my bad, but to answer that, my ideal currently is ineligible because he wasn’t born in the US. Not that the constitution matters anymore

That didn’t answer my question at all.

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Mamdani if I need to spell it out for you.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Well you’re not the most unrealistic leftist I’ve met.

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 1 points 37 minutes ago
[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

You’d think it was the people thinking someone ineligible for presidency was the ideal candidate for the election in two years when there’s like three hundred million other choices but somehow even those get surpassed by some of the others around here.

[-] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 34 points 5 hours ago

Biggest mistake? That's a tough field.

I'd argue it was not charging trump with Jan6, or any of his other crimes.

or hiring and not firing Merrick Garland.

or running a second term when he should have held a primary for a new candidate.

Harris was a giant nobody during Biden's presidency. Nobody gave af about her until Biden dropped and we were just stuck with her.

[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

What about the um…mass murder of civilians?

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

or running a second term when he should have held a primary for a new candidate.

Didn’t he promise to only do one term too? I feel like I remember that, but could be misinformation at this point.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

Technically he only promised to be a “transition president” and people, including myself, took that to mean that he would only be there for one term.

Here is an article about it.

[-] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

He did promise that

[-] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I don't like Harris but Biden was far less competent and suited to the moment.

Obama's biggest mistake was playing it safe with a DEI hire for an ideologically bankrupt, incompetent old white guy for his VP.

Harris doesn't have charisma with normal people (though she is apparently great at getting fundraising from the rich and powerful..) but at least she showed some kind of awareness of how to play politics unlike Biden who stumbled through his presidency and failed campaign for re-election like a dementia patient sleepwalking out onto a busy highway.

[-] 0ndead@infosec.pub 3 points 6 hours ago

But here you are picking at that zit….

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Nah, you kidding?! Harris was perfect for Biden admin.

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago
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