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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 16 points 10 hours 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

[–] 1van5@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

most lethal military in the world

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Marasenna@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

This is my take as well (and what I came to post). I hope it happens just so she'll fuck off forever and we never have to see or hear about her ever again (until her next book tour).

[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 38 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

Also, you are Kamala Harris. Go fuck yourself.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

MY QUEEN, I KNEEL

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

She lost because her controller was unplugged.

[–] BGDelirium@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Little sister syndrome. Biden gave her the unplugged Madcatz controller to eat shit at the border while he stuttered out for four years

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 17 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 50 points 16 hours ago (2 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.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 28 points 15 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

Would self select out a lot of these fucks

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago
[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I personally think that that would not be a good policy. Punitive killing isn't a good way of running basically anything.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I think there's some way to stop people grabbing power out of a self serving motivation.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The chief thing to do is make it not represent power. Modest pay, anti-corruption laws, recall elections, the ability to actually be held liable for crimes . . .

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 13 points 14 hours 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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[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 17 points 15 hours 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

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 28 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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 34 points 14 hours ago

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

As for blame . . .

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 31 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 14 points 12 hours 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.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 12 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] miz@hexbear.net 38 points 16 hours ago
[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 31 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Will she somehow manage to loose against Trump another time?

[–] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 40 points 15 hours 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.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 10 hours 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

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 16 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] huf@hexbear.net 25 points 17 hours 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 28 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
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