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[–] 72 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Talarico signed up for three debates and said he’ll show up even if Paxton doesn’t.

Yes. Get up there and laugh at am empty podium if you have to. It was beyond frustrating in 2024 when the Harris campaign was like "ok, I guess the debates are cancelled". No! Make a show of it. Stand on stage for an hour and read everything wrong your opponent has every done. Dare them to show up next time. Do something.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    It was beyond frustrating in 2024 when the Harris campaign was like “ok, I guess the debates are cancelled”.

    They really did run a terrible campaign.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Especially the part where they didn't have a primary and picked the VP of the unpopular incumbent.

    I fully believe if they had a primary the winner would be president

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

    For those who have forgotten the 2020 primaries, she also had no rizz.

    I get it, they were afraid of losing the funds they had raised, but it stood to reason that everyone who wanted Biden to step down would see her as partly responsible too.

    I'm a tin hat wearer who doubts the veracity of some of the 2024 election results... So I'm on the fence of whether that would have been different with a more compelling Democratic candidate.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago

    They briefly got some actual traction when Walz was calling Republicans "weird," but then some idiot strategist stepped in and told him to stop. The campaign fell back to being anodyne and uninspiring after that, and then they tried to bring Liz Cheney in and everything just felt like it was going through the motions and expecting to have the thing handed to them on a silver platter.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Two things felt painfully obvious:

    1. They, being wealthy political class themselves, were completely detached from the people's plight and motivations.

    2. They knew no matter how badly they threw the fight, they could still be chilling back, buying low and selling exponentially high through whatever easily avoidable economic crisis hit our (not their) country next.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    All part of the riches plan.

    If you think it was a coincidence that he beat two women and almost an old man, I have some ocean front property in South Dakota to give you.

    Democrats play good cop but they are still cops

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  • [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    No! Make a show of it. Stand on stage for an hour and read everything wrong your opponent has every done

    That happened here in Romania last presidential election. Our neofascist candidate (Simion) got dunked on by the neoliberal (Dan) in the first debate, so he came up with excuse after excuse as to why he couldn't come to the rest.

    The media companies got pissed off, and instead of cancelling decided to dunk on Simion by asking the questions to Dan and playing the absolute worst clips they could find of Simion answering those questions. Definitely didn't singlehandedly lose Simion the election, but it definitely didn't help him.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Damn... It must be really nice to have media companies who are actually against fascism...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    That's giving them far too much credit. They're against losing all that delicious ad revenue from the debates and wanted to make an example of him. If Dan had cancelled, they'd have done the same to him in a heartbeat.

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