• neidu2@feddit.nl
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    16 days ago

    Wapo columnists and Hillary can go jump off a cliff together. Everyone’s sick of them both.

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    Ways to lose the 2nd easiest layup election ever: run the person who lost the 1st easiest layup election ever

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    Okay, hear me out. Yes, Hilldog got the DNC nomination and lost what was supposed to be the most softball Democratic presidential victory in American history, giving us 4 years of Trump. But! But…what if we get her on the ticket with Biden, Biden secures the re-election. Hillary is Vice President for 4 years. Does a great job, makes a lot of people at Goldman Sachs very wealthy, pushes for new legislation to have black teenagers officially outlawed, etc. Then, at the ripe old age of 80, we get a Hillary Clinton presidential bid once a motherfucking 'gain. And then she loses to, oh, I’m gonna say…David Duke.

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    How is it that in a country of 300 million where half are Democrats, you can’t find a single politician that isn’t that isn’t a terrible choice for president? I’m asking as an outsider. Why would hilare be a good VP when she was destroyed for being a war mongering asshole? Why is Biden running against Trump while on deaths door?

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      We don’t really decide who we get to vote for for president. The GOP and DNC pick “their people”, and then the people who aren’t exhausted by the concept try to pick the least bad one of the two choices.

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      Because money is speech. Those with money are the loudest. Nothing more, nothing less. Running for office is unaffordable to the average person. By Design. The system could work. If campaigns were only publicly funded.

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        Yeah. The primary election process is entirely a sham. We have no real choice in selecting the candidates.

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          I mean, I guess in most countries it’s the parties who pick the candidates but at least there’s real choice of a handful

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    Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, that’s all I need to know to dismiss all of their “reporting”.

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      Washington Post editor is an idiot for allowing this column to be published in there paper. Especially since it has no chance whatsoever of happening.

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    Jesus fucking christ.

    Have pundits learned nothing? Clinton lost against Trump in critical states, even through she won the popular vote. If she’s in a race with Trump, and a president as unpopular as Biden, she would almost certainly help Biden lose. Harris is mostly just meh; she’s fairly progressive personally, but doesn’t have a lot of direct power as a VP, and she’s pretty low profile, so there’s not a lot of hate for her. Clinton though?