Fuck David Plouffe. He's been trying to sell this bullshit since November 6th. He went on Pod Save America to explain what went wrong with the Harris campaign. Did he admit that they should have distanced themselves from Biden on Gaza? Or that campaigning with Liz Cheney and targeting moderate Republicans was a failed strategy? Or that their middle-class platform cost them working-class voters? Nope! The conclusion he came to was that they did everything right, but they just didn't have enough time. Joe Biden should live out his remaining years in shame and isolation for refusing to step down, but Plouffe's campaign strategy was political malpractice, and he his failures can't be blamed in senility.
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Well said! Dems are an embarrassment mostly because they have a long history of fucking up at the worst possible time and then learning absolutley nothing from it.
Everyone had the same 4 years David Plouff. If you feel you needed more time, you're admitting to being worse than everyone else who didn't. And considering one of those people is a reality TV felon who can't read, you must really suck at your job.
All of what you said is true. But it's also true that Biden's holding out and not allowing enough time was also to blame there's lots of factors.
Fuck David Plouffe
I second this. He's the same as every other Democrat.
All these people care about is money. It’s all about money. Take their fucking money away. They are literally an existential threat to the rest of us.
It's easy to point fingers, and the author isn't wrong, but I remember the whole democratic party absolutely tone-deaf to their voters campaign after campaign.
It's not just checking boxes, they had to relate. Harris had an incredible start; an injection of new blood and vigor to the stale humdrum. But for the love of jeebus, will they stop "playing the game" and do f-ing something!
Games can only be played when everyone plays by the rules. Only they are playing the game now, and they are alone at the table.
"What're you going to do, get Trump elected?"
Plouffe, who worked as a Harris campaign adviser, has taken aim at Biden obliquely in the past as well.
Feel like this is pretty important context for the statements. Because while I absolutely agree Biden should never have run for a second term, there seems to be a very vocal number of democratic campaign consultants and party officials who really wanted distract you from the fact that they ran a god-awful campaign. I don't know if this Democratic establishment party could have won with anybody to be honest. Not the way they chose to handle themselves. Frankly I find their behavior to be even worse than Biden's. The energy and electricity that Harris started her campaign with was transcendent, especially when they added Walz. Then they drove the whole campaign off a cliff. So excuse me if I'm not super sympathetic to the people that decided to run the Hillary Clinton campaign 2.0.
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JFC it's fucking over move on.
this is their job. it's how they keep their spot in those nice offices pretending to be opposition to Christofacism
No it's not, the Democrats fucked themselves by not opposing Biden because it's tradition not to.
As long as Democrats don't improve their own democratic process, they will keep fucking themselves.
If Harris had been the candidate from the start, she might have had a better chance.
Biden being obliged when he broke his promise to not run again, was absolutely a mistake by the Democratic party.
Biden probably thought he had to save America again, and nobody told him no before it was too late.
If Democrats can be counted on for something: It's that they always make the worst decisions at the worst time, then learn nothing from it.
2000: Florida recount? Nah. It's cool Supreme Court. Let's have Bush around for 9-11 instead.
2001: Fuck yeah endless wars. Approved. It's cool to lie about weapons of mass destruction too.
2002: Shame about that Patriot Act. Would be awful if that allowed all your meta data to be collected so you can be targeted for propaganda on every platform in the future.
2004: Shame about No Child Left Behind. Hope your kids don't grow up stupid enough to think Trump would make a good president.
2008: Fuck yeah Obama! Get that HOPE ready! For Dems to have full control of every branch of the government! Only to use it to compromise with Republicans to remove the public option from national Healthcare. Hope that doesn't create a spiral of misery for Americans culminating in them assassinating an insurance CEO!
I'm stopping here. But only because I don't want to keep typing about Citizens United, minimum wage, and literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.
literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.
They also forgot to protect democracy somewhere along the way. 🙁
Democracy just died a death by 1000 cuts. Dems just have yet to realize it, let alone the fact they were the ones that stood by while it happened.
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have we learned anything
The Democrats probably learned they need to move more to the right and get rid of troublemakers like David Hogg. Whatever aipac tells them really.
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It fucked them because it locked them into Harris, who was also a uniquely awful candidate. It screwed voters out of having a meaningful primary with real debate about issues.
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I think Bernie is the one who would truly have made US great :)
"concerns about Biden’s mobility were so dire, advisers considered having him use a wheelchair during the campaign."
What the what?
Biden Aides Discussed Putting Him in a Wheelchair for Potential Second Term: Book
This must be what they meant by FDR 2.0
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