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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

The correct word would have been "threatens"...

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please fuck off. Let Tim Walz run

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

I want Jasmine Crocket or AOC. Waltz will do though.

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

Honestly? Fuck it. Corporate Dems are pushing Newsom hard; I'd love to see Kamala wrestle with being abandoned by everyone she gave up any morals for.

Ensure we have no chance of winning.

[–] w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will splinter the two party system into a thousand little pieces. Mark my words.

[–] dvoraqs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Please. We need election reform.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love how everybody is assuming that there will be a “next election”. I’m not sure that’s guaranteed. Except, maybe, in the way that Russia still has elections.

I mean, I know you can be too alarmist about things, but there’s a very clear and obvious direction of travel in the US right now.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Doomerism would be if there were an “…and therefore it’s pointless doing anything” at the end.

I’d say the thing that helps nothing is a casual assumption of “if we campaign well enough, then we’ll win the next election and everything will be fine”, as opposed to “we are sleepwalking into a fascist dictatorship and we need to take that seriously”.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't disagree with you, but I feel like people jump to that scenario without describing the steps to get there. How do you see unfolding? How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC? What about blue states? How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus? Does it even matter? If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trump is sending "election observers" to California because of prop 50 and to New York because of Mamdani. It's reasonable to be very concerned about future election integrity. ICE has a larger budget than the Marines. They've openly ignored courts. They have fully abandoned the rule of law.

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[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How do you see unfolding?

Martial law to respond to ice agents being killed or police turning against them.

They’re already trying to instigate this.

How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC?

“The Supreme Court says it’s ok, so our hands are tied, but we’re very upset.”

They already have the Supreme Court on their team.

What about blue states?

Governors will either roll over or start a hot civil war.

Which do you think they’ll choose?

How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus?

By arresting and murdering protesters.

They’ve already identified vague groups like antifa as domestic terrorists.

If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

If you give ICE a large enough budget, they can act as a new military. And by firing non-loyal brass for not being able to do enough pushups and replacing them with loyalists, you can keep the military from intervening under the guise of neutrality.

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[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

While the whole world is focused on Epstein files, thinking it's going to be his downfall (why would it?), he's replacing the leaders of many institutions with yes men, that emergency meeting Hegseth had calling in all the military generals should honestly be the most alarming thing in recent US history, and yet we aren't even a quarter of the way through his term.

Kinda hard not to be alarmist

[–] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Kamala, with all due respect, please get mental health treatment for your apparent psychopathy.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)
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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago
[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As someone who voted for her, she can fuck off.

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[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

who is in her circle telling her that this is a good idea? Does she not have any close friends who can speak plainly to her?

You would think having lost to an actual piece of shit would be enough of a reality check. Just stop... ffs. The best thing Kamala can do is fade into obscurity like Al Gore.

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

fucking delusional

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago

I swear a few weeks ago she was leaving politics

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (10 children)

JFC don't. We don't even want to hear you. I would rather have AOC as a choice over you.

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Fuck it, let her. She had to drop out of the 2020 primary before voting started because she was on track to lose every single state, and she clearly hasn't become more electable since then. All she could possibly do is siphon some votes and donor money off Newsom or Buttigieg. If that's what she wants to do, I fully support that.

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

The comments here have killed my hope for ever seeing the GOP pushed back under the rock from whence they came.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 78 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If the Democrats run the same platform/campaign as they did before she'll lose again.

Democrats REALLY need to get it through their thick skulls that the days of campaigning on working alongside people across the aisle are over. that the days of uniting a country are over. Remember, the other side has already KILLED democratic politicians. they even KILL people on their own side they don't agree with.

they need to take the position that while a certain group of people will never support them, they'll still work for them but not with them.

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[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 39 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Holy fuck, listen I plugged my nose and voted for her last time just like I did with Hillary and Biden, but I am absolutely not voting for Harris a second time. If that happens, the only "enabler" is the Democratic establishment and I don't want to fucking hear "vote blue no matter who" after all this Mamdani shit. Stupid god damn fucking liberals, Jesus Christ.

/ rant

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (21 children)

I completely wish she won last election... but there's no way we're taking a risk on her again.

I'm not a huge fan of Newsom, but at least he's been loudly attacking this current administration. Maybe she has too, but I don't hear from her in my news cycles.

Unless some progressive comes out and surprises everyone, Newsom will likely be my choice.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip -1 points 12 hours ago

Do not pre comply with the bullshit autocrat wannabe Newsom being shoved down our throats.

He's literally mimicking Trump and so many fucking stupid Dem voters are falling for the same thing we make fun of Republicans for.

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[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely not, we really need a fresh pool of candidates, the Democratic elites need to be fired, all of them.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

we really need a fresh pool of candidates

DNC: We've listened to your suggestions and taken them to heart. We have a new candidate, someone not cut from the old cloth. In fact, he's even a socialist. Let me introduce you to our new 2028 candidate...Steven Miller. He's not just a socialist, but a national socialist! Don't forget to vote blue no matter who!

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