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[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Can you imagine what it would look like if they chose someone like Jon Stewart instead? How a debate like that would have gone? A guy can dream...

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 months ago

Jon Stewart is someone I would actually look forward to giving my vote.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Would he have to leave the Daily Show though?

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

No but he would only agree to working one day a week as POTUS.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, he's only on once a week... Lol. In fact, he wasn't on this week, so far.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

He was on live yesterday post debate

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

He was on a live show Thursday right after the debate.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Just anyone with more charisma than a bowl of cold oatmeal.

If nothing matters except beating trump, why arent we coalescing around a candidate Dem voters want so that we'll get as much votes against trump as possible

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 4 months ago

Which candidate do you suggest, givesomefucks?

[-] CaptainKickass@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

They have no ideas, they only know that they don't like something

People who only dislike things are so fucking boring

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The problem is "a candidate dem voters want" doesn't have any obvious choices.

Like Harris isn't that popular, but the optics of skipping over a black woman when the VP would typically be the heir apparent? You think Gavin Newsom would be a good choice? Californians don't have a lot of good things to say about him right now. I haven't seen a lot of other names floated.

The problem is that the DNC would never go for him or anyone like him, because he’s not a blatant neoliberal.

If they swap, it’ll be someone like Newsom.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 months ago

Voters choose the candidate in the primary, not “the DNC”.

[-] Krono@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

This is false, the DNC has fought in court for the right to overrule the results of the primary. It was litigated in Wilding v. DNC Services Corporation.

Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It's funny how some people go on and on about the importance of democracy except when primary elections don't go their way, at which point either the DNC rigged everything, or the DNC needs to step in to 'fix' the wrong choice the primary voters made. Sometimes they offer both simultaneously, because fuck consistency.

[-] Blackbeard@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Somehow the person voters actually show up for is always the wrong one. Funny how that keeps happening.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com -2 points 4 months ago

I wonder if their goal is to undermine America as a whole, stoke apathy and distrust, and produce a certain strategic outcome.

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I mean yea, but that’s not really fair to him. Being president seems like a terrible burden.

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