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[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 62 points 6 months ago

You shouldn’t get multiple attempts at important jobs

There are around 100 million people who are eligible to be president of the United States. Of them, there are only six who have demonstrably proven they are incapable of winning a presidential election.

You have significantly better odds of success if you select a random person through a lottery than allowing any of those six people to run again. They are the only people who have proven they can’t do it. A failed presidential candidate is by definition the least qualified person on earth to be president.

I am more qualified for this job than she is. You are more qualified than she is. 100 million people are more qualified than she is.

This also goes for other big positions, like CEOs of major companies and University Presidents. You get one. If you’re a CEO and good at it, there’s no reason for you to leave the company you’re at. If you’re bad at it, no one should ever allow you anywhere near that seat again because anyone else has a better chance of doing it well.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

I think you should get multiple attempts, but you need to be able to establish that you are more qualified than the last time you applied, and Kamala has basically done the opposite by blaming everyone but herself for her failure, which negates the possibility of improvement and itself is another serious detriment to her qualification.

[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

I see little reason why you should get multiple attempts. When your pool of potential candidates is 100 million people, there’s very little “improvement” that could be done that would bring you up like, more than a standard deviation in ability. And if there is, you should do that improvement before becoming the major party nominee for president.

Kamala is honestly the most extreme example, she shouldn’t just not be running for president, she should be in prison, both for the numerous war crimes she’s complicit in and for her failure to abide by the 25th amendment and remove an ailing president.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

I certainly agree with the second part, but I think there's a ton of things one can do to improve pretty drastically, mostly having to do with education.

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[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

I think you should get killed if you lose an election.

Would self select out a lot of these fucks

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago
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[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

But how many of those 100 million are a kind of awkward trainwreck monster, devoted enough to making line go up, to lead millions into the jaws of death without hesitation or remorse? cap-think

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 58 points 6 months ago
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[-] JakenVeina@midwest.social 51 points 6 months ago

We are nearly 3 years out from the next election. Go fuck yourself.

Also, you are Kamala Harris. Go fuck yourself.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 46 points 6 months ago

Will she somehow manage to loose against Trump another time?

[-] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago

The Democrats literally skipped the primary system twice to nominate the only two people in the USA capable of losing to Donald Trump. Bernie would have stomped him. He only won by a razor-thin margin the first time.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago

Some of the political outcomes might be regrettable but it makes fund raising so much easier!

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

They really moved heaven and earth in order to prevent the mildest probably-hamstrung-by-both-parties soc dem president in the history of disappointing soc dems. They’d rather have right wing mobs traipsing around the halls of congress hooting about masks, jeopardizing the rule of their law, than a semblance of state welfare reassert itself. They sold the constitution, the Supreme Court, their “checks and balances” every vaunted marble-clad institution to fucking Trump of all people to stop the left.

grill yourself and everyone around you matt-jokerfied

It’s still so funny they did this to themselves

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

Dems will find a way to lose to Trump's desiccated corpse

[-] huf@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

"my fellow americans, we hear you loud and clear, so when i am president, i will abolish all federal budget ceilings on ICE!"

[-] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago
[-] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

The chuds have a name for that, don't they? Some kind of bird that lays its eggs in other birds' nests?

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Shit, I never realized that those words (cuckold and cuckoo) were related but it makes sense.

[-] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Well yeah, the cuck sits by and lets another man impregnate his wife and has to raise the offspring. It's frustration as a sexual fetish. Sissies have the chastity cage, it's in the same neighborhood.

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

the grains of kamala harris' failed political projects are shortly to make a heap

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

She really hasn't done much to maintain any sort of relevance after her loss, so... good luck, I guess.

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Why bother when they can run another bot farm on r/pics to try and make her look more human than ghoul.

Watch her follow the exact same corpo speak strategy in the next election and lose again.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

Will she find someone to blame for losing again, or will she manage to win because she's running against Vance or Trump 3, both of whom would also be comically unpopular?

[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 54 points 6 months ago

Maybe they're just assuming neo-COVID will make a centrist neoliberal electable again?

As for blame . . .

[-] ryepunk@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

hillary-assassin but it's this little girls turn. Get in line kamala.

[-] EveningCicada@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

I unironically want Hillary to run again. And lose.

[-] BGDelirium@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

Hilary vs Kamala primary will feed social media discourse for centuries

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

Do you think Hillary would get surrogates to start racist rumors against an opponent... again

[-] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

At this point I've given up and just want the funniest outcome.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Going out on the way to the laughing gas chambers

[-] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

I loved when she threw a temper tantrum after losing and John Podesta had to come out to that auditorium with the glass ceiling and tell everyone to wrap it up and go home.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

She lost because her controller was unplugged.

[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 23 points 6 months ago

she lost because we failed her. You didn't understand the assignment.

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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Some of the protesters in the streets, when interviewed, have been basically pleading with democrat leaders to do some leading.

The democrat says “I’ll get to it in 2 years.” skeleton-wave

[-] deforestgump@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago
[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

i welcome this as she'd just eat shit in the primary again since they don't have an excuse to cancel it.

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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

The clown show must go on. debord-tired

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Hell yeah! Hope she loses again

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

ugh just fuckin go back up the coconut tree you fuckin loser

[-] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Oh please please please. Let her and Hillary fight for the DNC nomination. And both get defeated by Mamdani after his stellar success at cleaning up New York City, creating affordable housing and expelling ICE. That would be the funniest outcome!

[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 18 points 6 months ago

Mamdani wasn't born in the US, he's ineligible.

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago
[-] 1van5@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

most lethal military in the world

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago

Yeah, please don't. And as much as I don't want another white guy for president for a while, maybe we can elect that astronaut senator. Having an intelligent president would be such a nice change.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

this-is-fine As long as we remember to vote correctly this time, everything will be fine!

lt-dbyf-dubois The Democratic Party is helping me fix my country!

[-] miz@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

gosh, if only someone a little nicer and smarter was in charge of the imperial death machine

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

if we're going to bother voting the standard should be someone who will abolish ICE and prosecute previous administrations for their crimes.

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