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[–] 62 points 8 months ago (17 children)

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.

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 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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    [–] 58 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 51 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

    Also, you are Kamala Harris. Go fuck yourself.

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  • [–] 46 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Will she somehow manage to loose against Trump another time?

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  • [–] 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 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

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  • [–] 42 points 8 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!"

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

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago

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

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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 8 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.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    I unironically want Hillary to run again. And lose.

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Hilary vs Kamala primary will feed social media discourse for centuries

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    She lost because her controller was unplugged.

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    [–] 23 points 8 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

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    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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    [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    The clown show must go on. debord-tired

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    Hell yeah! Hope she loses again

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago

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

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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!

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    most lethal military in the world

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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