Jesus fucking Christ I hope not.
The Dems need to stop making a single asshole's ego the whole of their party's focus.
Can't wait to see all the centrists who are like "we can't run AOC! A woman can't win and we're totally not just making excuses to shut out a progressive" suddenly decide that a woman can win as long as she supports genocide hard enough.
Aren't they just going to use that reasoning to make sure Gavin is the only option? 😭
100%
It's going to happen, and people will wonder why the guy running the state where working full-time gets you a shoebox, roach-infested apartment (if you're lucky) or a tent on the street (if you're unlucky) somehow just couldn't beat the fascist-in-waiting.
Yeah, but that's before they had the ability to lose with harris again.
Can't wait for the usual pleas at protests in 2 years: "Please bro, just vote blue one more time, it'll work this time bro, Lenin would vote democrat! We gotta vote against fascism! Republicans would be worse bro! Please! Don't be an ultra-leftist!"
The DNC got wind that AOC might run. They were like “fuck that we need to get ready to shut that shit down.” So Harris must have been nudged to make a statement.
Remember: the democratic establishment wants someone slightly more electable than Hilary and equally unlikely to make any meaningful progressive changes.
While the republicans want to actively wreck society, the democrats want to just go back to the un-newsworthy background grift where the news can get back to reporting on cloned sheep and panda swaps.
Why would they want someone electable? Then they'd have to govern i.e. make people mad by breaking all their campaign promises. It's far better to lose and then collect donations from people scared about the fascist power grab.
Can you please not?
I’d support a woman presidential candidate, but I prefer candidates with actual policies that have personality. I guess taking corporate and aipac donations is a policy on some level.
but I prefer candidates with actual policies that have personality
Exactly. Policy and authenticity are what matters, and Harris lacked in both.
I mean she certainly do have both policy and personality, but the policy is genocide and personlity is a cop and ghoul.
I don't give a shit. Push a real candidate.
She's just trying to get attention for her book. Even she's not dumb enough to think she could run for president again.
She wouldn't have gotten to run the first time in the Dems had run a primary.
But then they might have had a nominee that didn't support genocide.
Unlikely
The book usually signifies/supports the presidential run. It's how they do. It's the formula.
Kamala Harness.
This is just as shocking as if Hillary Clinton said she'd run again. Whatever DNC wants, they get. As long as it's not a candidate that could threaten the ratchet effect, meaning banning anyone left of the center which is ever moving right. So no AOC, no Bernie and no Mamdani.
AOC could run on an independent ticket. Fuck dems. She could pull it off. She IS the leader of that party for those of us who are not rich assholes.
This would be the most hilarious thing ever.
I would love to see her lose again.
same
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Lol no
That's what primaries are for.. so VOTE.
What primary hahaha