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Harris is like that zit that just won't go away. She's probably Biden's biggest mistake.
Biggest mistake? That's a tough field.
I'd argue it was not charging trump with Jan6, or any of his other crimes.
or hiring and not firing Merrick Garland.
or running a second term when he should have held a primary for a new candidate.
Harris was a giant nobody during Biden's presidency. Nobody gave af about her until Biden dropped and we were just stuck with her.
Didn’t he promise to only do one term too? I feel like I remember that, but could be misinformation at this point.
Technically he only promised to be a “transition president” and people, including myself, took that to mean that he would only be there for one term.
Here is an article about it.
He did promise that
It was worse than just making Harris a nobody. He dumped on her all the no win issues he didn't want to have sully his name. He never gave her any wins and saddled her with shit. It almost looked like intentional sabotage. Certainly not the centrist master plan I expected with her being chosen.
That was the people around him doing that. He wasn't capable of hatching those sorts of political schemes any more.
What about the um…mass murder of civilians?
Nah, Biden's biggest mistake was undoubtedly appointing conservative do-nothing Merrick Garland instead of somebody who would actually do their fucking job and prosecute Trump's crimes.
100%. Biden's out-of-the-gate COVID Vaccination Plan, and Economic Stimulus Plan were both wildly successful, and those two things alone would have put him among the Top 10 presidents of all time, IF he had done a decent job in the rest of of his administration.
But he appointed the most feckless REPUBLICAN in existence to be his AG, and investigate the Trump Administration, and he proceeded to dither and slow-walk EVERYTHING for two years, allowing Trump to run out the clock, and MAGA to rise again. Worse, they did it all in plain sight, boasting about it the entire time, and the Biden Administration did absolutely NOTHING to try to avoid it,bad we all SCREAMED to stop them, and were ignored.
For that Biden will be cemented among the Bottom 15, among the losers and traitors who allowed the Confederacy to gain strength and secede. Biden is one of them.
Biden didn't want to stop it because the entire party condones what the other does. It keep them all in power
Unfortunately Biden was the mistake. DNC denying Bernie a second time should really put everything into perspective.
DNC didn't deny shit the second time.
This is so annoying. Bernie lost fair and square. I voted for him, others did too but many, many more coalesced around Biden.
Perhaps if him and Warren worked a deal that one would drop out in favor of the other but they didn't and thus split some votes. They didn't though, both lost.
Nah fam, I disagree. The DNC was behind Biden since the very beginning, the other candidates didn't even get the same endorsements as a result. 2024 comes around and same crap again.
Life would be better for millions of people on this planet if she was president instead of Trump.
Who would be your ideal presidential candidate for 2028?
Ideal in 2024? Can’t really say who but I would’ve loved an actual primary, I voted for KH and 100000000% agree with you’re actually factual point that she would have obviously been better than Trump has been for the world as a whole. But let’s not act like the slapdash way she was(by no fault of her own) made the candidate after Biden flopped hard in the first debate was normal or helpful.
I don’t like her at all, just for being a former cop(yes AGs count as cops for me), but she never really had a good opportunity to run a proper campaign against Trump. Had Joe put her in the spotlight as the next one up from day one I think we’d be in a much better place as a species than we are now.
I asked about 2028.
Shit you right my bad, but to answer that, my ideal currently is ineligible because he wasn’t born in the US. Not that the constitution matters anymore
Mamdani can still be in the Cabinet.
That didn’t answer my question at all.
Mamdani if I need to spell it out for you.
Well you’re not the most unrealistic leftists I’ve met.
Who is? Genuinely curious
You’d think it was the people thinking someone ineligible for presidency was the ideal candidate for the election in two years when there’s like three hundred million other choices but somehow even those get surpassed by some of the others around here.
Jesus god, I don’t know what the record is for furthest distance inside one’s own ass is, but you must be in the running.
Never engaged with you on here, to my knowledge, despite seeing your takes everywhere because I thought you were mostly a contrarian troll but I’m glad I know now that you’re just an idiot who I can and will happily block so I don’t have to see the unbridled stupidity of asking for an ideal while not understanding what that word means at all.
Username is accurate as usual
Absolutely, she would have been better than Trump, but that's true of literally every other person on the planet.
AOC in 2028.
Not his precious genocide?
But here you are picking at that zit….
Nah, you kidding?! Harris was perfect for Biden admin.
She did give us the coconut tree meme straight off the dome though. Thats about all shes been good for.
AOC for president when
2028
I don't like Harris but Biden was far less competent and suited to the moment.
Obama's biggest mistake was playing it safe with a DEI hire for an ideologically bankrupt, incompetent old white guy for his VP.
Harris doesn't have charisma with normal people (though she is apparently great at getting fundraising from the rich and powerful..) but at least she showed some kind of awareness of how to play politics unlike Biden who stumbled through his presidency and failed campaign for re-election like a dementia patient sleepwalking out onto a busy highway.
Biden was a politician whose time had passed. After Obama, the party should have moved in a new direction, even though Obama was as corpo-establishment as they come. Instead of going in a new, fresh direction, they appointed Biden, and we were right back to the olden days.