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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Of you ask me, this man is the reason for all of this. Bernie would have won reelection yesterday. Nearly anyone would have.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It wasn't just this man, it was the entire Democratic Party. Remember well that in the four years leaning up to the election, while the Republican party was playing 6-D chess trying to figure out every possible avenue they could use to sieze power, the Dems decided their best chance at defeating Trump was running Sleepy Joe Biden.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They did Bernie fucking dirty in 2016.

Then Biden knew he could run on name recognition alone and trounce Bernie in 2020. He knew people were pining for the Obama days and played off that nostalgia.

Fuck Hillary Clinton, fuck Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Kamala Harris is okay, fuck Joe Biden, and fuck the DNC. There's no reason they shouldn't run a progressive candidate, but it's clear they're allergic to winning elections.

Also, did anyone seem to notice that "weird" dropped out of campaign messaging in the last couple months following the nom? Can't help but think the DNC was behind that. Calling them weird was their kryptonite, even if Kamala Harris essentially said, "I'd do nothing different from Joe."

Joe Biden was a perfectly okay president. He was pretty invisible for the most part. He was a boring president. But he didn't bring the FIRE Bernie had in 2016 and 2020. He ran at a time when he KNEW he would win because Bernie was too far to the left for the DNC to be comfortable, and for that, I consider him a coward.

We didn't deserve a President Sanders, but holy shit did we ever NEED him. And yes, I am coping pretty hard right now.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everyone says they did Bernie dirty in 2016, but no one ever brings up how in 2020, the establishment dems all dropped out of the race in exchange for cabinet positions to rally around the elder statesman Biden—when Bernie was winning the primaries.

That, in my opinion, is far dirtier and a much bigger “fuck you” to leftists/progressives/humanists than 2016.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I brought that up, literally minutes ago. 100%

Biden was getting trounced. The party was embarrassed, so they made a bunch of backroom deals and sharpened their knives. Then Liz Warren stuck her blade in Sanders' back on live TV.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The liberal elite would rather see a fascist dictatorship, than a progressive leftist democracy, as one of those endangers their wealth and power.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

people gonna start switching sides permanently if DNC can't fix themselves

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As if that hasn't been happening already. Dems need to get their shit together.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Just imagine if he had stuck to his promise of being a one term president and didn't try to run for reelection.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well, ideally Bernie would have won reelection in 2020 so he wouldn't have been able to run this time.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone under the age of 60 ... and as a person of colour, I hate to say it but ... a white male

Elect a bunch of socially minded white male leaders for a few terms and then you can move on to a progressive modern leader like a woman of colour

We haven't jumped into the future yet ... everyone still acts like deranged cavemen so don't hope for dramatic changes to happen like eliminating racism to take place in the space of a hundred years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I think you might really mean just a return to "normal", which would be a white man. I'm white and I couldn't care less what race color or gender our leaders are.

But I sure as shit do want it back to being "boring". The constant clown show is embarrassing and exhausting.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The results are disgusting.
But this is pretty funny, thank you for the needed laugh

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He was doing worse, wasn't he?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think we woulda had our cheeks clapped either way.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only way to win was going full throttle progressive and saying fuck you to Israel. Such an anti establishment display would have rivalled people's (idiotic) perception of Trump. But instead she spent the last 3 months courting Republicans. Losing strat from the get-go.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Looking at exit polls, people were far more concerned with the economy than anything else. I don't think Israel mattered much to average people. Biden/Harris got fucked with pandemic inflation and people are too dumb to realize it had nothing to do with them. And that will be further reinforced because inflation is under control now so Trump will look great having done nothing whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was totally the fault of Democrats. They are the reason they lost. Blaming anyone else or acting like it was just a coincidence is nothing more than denying reality. Israel and the Cheney parade definitely played a role. The negative ads targeting progressives like Jill Stein played a role. Kamala hiding from progressive networks that would ask real questions played a role. The Democratic party has become nothing more than a dysfunctional corporate bureaucracy that thinks they can convince everyone that shit is gold.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All that sounds like your subjective view not based on data. Not saying the DNC is perfect by any means, but it's clear the economy was by far the #1 issue in this election. I mentioned exit polls earlier, and also Trump was way up compared to 2020 even in extremely rural counties. Israel, Cheney, Stein, etc have nothing to do with that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Sure seems like it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

exactly. I think whoever ended up as the D candidate was going to take the blame for the massive pandemic inflation. They were destined for failure from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I meant it more as neither Joe nor Kamala had it in em to rally a win because they kept pushing the wrong issues and disenfranchising voters.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Bruh if you're still giving a shit about what any pre-election polls were saying after they've repeatedly failed to predict so many elections I don't know what to tell you.

I said it before he stepped down- America is too misogynist and racist to vote in Harris. Even the economic left. Would Biden have done better? I can't say. But I do think it's pretty damning that Harris didn't even win the popular vote like Biden and Hillary did.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Biden couldn't even speak a coherent paragraph this time.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump got same amount of votes as last time, but Harris got 14m less. So congrats, Democrats have fucked themselves over, yet again! Or you hate women or you hate PoC.

Sad truth. But numbers don't lie.

On one hand, I feel sorry for you Americans, but majority of you have chose this... What a joke.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And yet despite all the warning signs his hubris disrupted the democratic process and progressives were once again told to fall in line and back a candidate who campaigned on appealing to the center-right.

The Dems have let down the American people, again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not really interested in making excuses for the 70+ million Americans that voted for a racist, sexist, felon fraud and rapist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can certainly harbor contempt for the American people who choose such a morally bankrupt coalition while also recognizing that the oppositional movement has repetitively failed to inspire its own voter base to turn out.

The fact remains that the Dems have thrice now run on a platform of unity and forsaken the will of the Left in an attempt to appeal to those who would happily annihilate the Left in pursuit of its own goals.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They shoulda run Walz for prez

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

apparently lots of people didn't even realize biden dropped out until they saw the ballot. what the us needs is basic and free education.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was at a coffee place drive-through a couple of months ago and they always leave the window open there, so I heard them chatting inside and one of them was not even aware Biden was president. She literally said, "I thought Trump was the president."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there's a certain kind of privilege in that. like, life must be so good for people to not even bother knowing who's president.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ, seriously? The amount of political ads we were bombarded with for 6 months leading up to November, and people didn't realize Biden wasn't running?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Joe Biden has an opportunity to do something very very funny with a shotgun called Official Acts.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://democrats.org/contact-us/

Their system is so bad they accepted "[email protected]" as my email so have fun.

I told them all to resign.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Yes grandpa, let's get you home.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

A nice kek at the end of the tunnel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, hilarious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

US had to leave this half way. There was still one senile old geezer left.

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