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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (28 children)

Yeah, the Dems better not fuck up this hard pivot!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It doesn’t have to be hard. Harris should go to the top of the ticket, and the campaign apparatus stays the same.

Have her, a former prosecutor, debate Trump and treat that shit like a cross examination.

And make Sanders the VP to make me excited.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sanders is too old. God love him, but it would not inspire confidence. If we're going for a prominent progressive on the ticket, we'd have to go AOC.

More likely though, Harris will pick someone who is an old white moderate male, though, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a difference between old and senile and ordinary old. Bernie is just old

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but the uncommitted voter is a moron.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

When you're in your 80s, decline can come about VERY quickly and without warning. It, unfortunately, is much more of a concern than it was in 2016.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aren't Trump and Sanders the same age? Though, I agree, I feel that Bernie's ship has sailed, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trump is 78, Sanders is 82. Realistically speaking, Trump is also at that age when decline can come very quickly, but:

  1. His cult doesn't care

AND

  1. Considering Trump's 'normal' behavior, how would you even tell
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Trump is also at that age when decline can come very quickly

The decline has already come. I've seen some clips of Trump from 20 years ago. He was never a good person, but he used to be coherent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

That is a ticket I would be happy to vote for

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd love someone like Hakeem Jeffries, Katie Porter, or (if God exists and is benevolent) Jasmine Crockett. Any of those choices would make me ecstatic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't know Jasmine Crockett, but Katie Porter is so fucking sharp. No idea if she would run or could win, but she would be a great fucking President.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Katie Porter just lost her senate bid after getting fucked by Schiff. So she is available....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

But vulnerable as a "loser" when added to Harris, who doesn't have a really long track record herself. Also they need someone who can pull a swing state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't she also from California? Her and Newsom wouldn't work for the same (legal) reason Trump couldn't go with DeSatan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's an interesting point. I wonder if it works better for Harris, having been in DC so long, does she claim that as her residence?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh bro. You gotta go look up Jasmine Crockett clips on youtube. She's incredible. And hard agree on Katie Porter being a great fucking president.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Trump and his team are not happy that Biden isn't the Nominee anymore. There is absolutely no chance Trump agrees to debate her.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (7 children)

It is, and always has been, in the hands of the voters. It's the non-voters who fuck it up.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Knowing the Democrats, they'll probably run an even older ticket somehow lol.

Jimmy Carter/Bernie Sanders 2024!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sanders is old but I still think he would have a shot on the ticket. He's still got the same fighting spirit he had in him when he was getting arrested at civil rights protests.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He tried but the establishment stopped his momentum short. I was one of his diehards in 16.

I like Whitmeyer, and I feel that a lot of former Bernie Bros have gotten behind her. I hope she gets the nomination, though I strongly doubt it will be anyone but Kamala.

That said, regardless of who it is, absolutely voting for them no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fucking bewilders me that he ran twice and we got Clinton and Biden instead.

I suppose its probably got to do with the DNC wanting one of their own on the ballot instead of an Independent

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Bernie hates the corporate establishment elites on the left a well as the right, and they knew the threat a Bernie presidency would be to them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

He'd be 87 at the end of a term.

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