• radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 days ago

    He is completely delusional if he thinks he would have outperformed Kamala, let alone win the election.

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      1 day ago

      we’ll he’s not black or female

      downvoting me win’t change how racist/sexist america is

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        23 hours ago

        Nah, see, this is a problem. IIRC, a lot of Hillary’s 2016 campaign team got put in charge of the Kamalampaign, and it shows, imo. They basically ran the 2016 playbook from cover to cover, including the completely useless “we made no mistakes, Americans are just awful” retrospective. People were fucking jazzed when Kamala and Walz showed up, and Kamala’s left-leaning record was really being talked up. Then, they started talking about their platform, and it was somehow an even more uninteresting mish-mash of Biden 2020 and Clinton 2016. I’d say it was arguably closer to Hillary’s platform in 2016 than Biden’s; I remember Biden at least had some interesting talking points like rail revitalization.

        People are drowning, everyone feels broke because the working class hasn’t seen a meaningful wage increase for fifty years while everything has kept getting more expensive. There’s a frankly shocking amount of people for whom rent consumes 40% or more of their income; that’s half you paycheck gone just to not be homeless, and now you’ve got to pay everything else. I don’t blame folks for wanting to wreck the system. I blame the democrats for not reading the fucking room; the house is on fire and they’re offering little toy buckets and saying “sorry, we got bullied by our own party, so this is the best we can do. Btw, the fire is all in your head.”

        They could have done better, they just didn’t want to. For whatever reason, there’s strong elements in the Democratic party that are fucking convinced that the best way to win elections is to never offer anything of substance ever, and just rely on not being the other candidate.