I'd prefer Buttigieg simply because he is such an effective communicator. Other than that I'd prefer someone much more leftist than him.
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Really? I’ve always smelled “80’s guy” on him. “Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.”
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that person would not win the election
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I'll admit it, I don't want her, either (not that someone like me has any influence). But she'd be a better option than Joe.
Especially if she picks the right VP. And please, for fucks sake, I hope they do a good job picking a VP. Don't rule out cishet white males, as a for instance, FFS. The Democrats love to play stupid identity political games and constantly do these self-owns. Although if AOC has a clone they could choose as a VP, that would be fantastic. But that's not because they tick some arbitrary set of diversity checkboxes....it's about policies.
AOC for VP or for president please!
I cannot stand her or the dems. Literally have voted 3rd party all my life, but I have family in Ukraine and the EU and I'll be damned if my need to hate on the dems and repubs is stronger than letting that fascist turnip into power just to let russia kill my family members.
What third party? America doesn't really have any (that matter, anyway).
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Just remember that during the 2016 election, the "If not Bernie, then Trump" bros turned out to be Russian interference.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's just Russia trying to split the Dem base.
Ever wonder why it's rich media companies who are screeching from the rooftops that Biden is old and needs to step down, while AOC, Bernie, and all the actual progressives are standing behind him?
This is a revolt of the ownership class against Biden's proposed tax hikes. Nothing more. And Leftists are falling for it hook line and sinker.
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Harris has done so little I had to think for a second to remember what her name was. Other VP have really gotten coverage, like Pence or Gore. But Harris has really stayed mostly on the sidelines.
I bet that was strategic, to be honest. VPs are designed to mostly stay out of the limelight.
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I’m not in the US, so I might not always be aware of every political thing happening… but Harris feels completely invisible to me.
Biden was very visible as VP, and I actually have memories of Cheney, Gore, even Pence had some notable things.
Gun to my head, I couldn’t tell you one notable or controversial thing Harris did. So I’m reallllllly hoping US voters have a more positive mental picture in regards to her VP tenure. Being ‘not Biden’ only gets you so far…
Nothing from being VP... But before she was VP she was the worst kind of cop... So not a lot of love there from the left, and of course the right hates her just because... Technically she was the first woman to ever hold the power of the presidency though... For like an hour when Joe had a colonoscopy or something.
When you say cop… i see she worked as District Attorney, and the Wikipedia doesn’t really list anything that seems wildly objectionable? Of course, some will hate everything even remotely cop-adjacent…
She has a long history as a DA of siding with the cops and doing a lot of things to expand their power and influence as well as locking up a ton of people, predominantly minorities, for minor offenses, etc.
Hmm, the Wiki does say say her office prosecuted a higher amount of weed crimes, but also that they weren’t for mere posession. She was tough on gun crime and also created a hate crimes unit focusing on LGBT-related hatecrimes. And also that she’s opposed to the death penalty, and that she actively went after truancy.
Any of those can probably be argued to be good or bad, depending on how they were applied. I can certainly see the combo of anti-truancy and anti-gun crime as policies that might disproportionately hit minorities. Not to mention that weed simply shouldn’t be illegal anyways.
Still, all of it’s hypothetical for now. We’ll see what happens the next few days…
Basically she fucked over poor people to boost her career when she had ample opportunity to be a champion of the people instead. She's proven that her loyalty lies with the oligarchy and not the people.
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