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Michael McCoy's avatar

I have been asking y'all for a year to get to the bottom of who the hell is acting as President and it's clearly not Joe. If I were a Dem voter I'd be asking myself how we got in this mess. Why did the party kneecap Bernie- twice? Why did they do the same to RFKJr? Why did they settle on the heinous Hillary and the smarmy smart ass second rater Joe? Who the hell made the decision to install the mouth breathing idiot Kamala as VP? They have painted themselves into a corner. They are exquisitely screwed and have been since these clowns were elected.

The only thing you need to know at this point is that guy who calls the shots in the Dem party James Clyborn said that if it's not Biden then it will be Kamala. Or so he thinks. I'd be fortifying my security detail if I were him. Hillary has other ideas and is tanned and rested and ready to plant her ample ass in the oval office at last. So if Obama is calling the shots- how did he fuck it up this badly? Huh?

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Ted's avatar

I largely agree, but Bernie sucks. I'm from Vermont so I'm familiar with his politics. He has written more bills than anybody else, but has gotten none of them passed. He can give a good speech, but he's not someone you want running the country.

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Hyacinthus's avatar

Obama

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Pete McCutchen's avatar

There is no inner party, no kingpin, no mastermind behind it all, that's how. Hillary won because lots of people liked her better than Bernie. The party tilted in her favor because they believed (correctly) that a guy who went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon might very well lose one of those 49 state blowouts.

Biden won in 2020 because James Clyburn was entranced by his promise to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court, and his endorsement meant a lot in South Carolina.

We ended up with Kamala because the Dems are all-in on DEI, which narrowed the field. and she's a black woman. (Or, rather, partially black, like Obama.)

There's no master plan or devious supervillain making these choices. Stuff just happens.

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Michael McCoy's avatar

Sure. You believe what you like. The situation they are in is a result of random stuff happening over which no person associated with the Party has any control. And you are OK with that? The real issue here is that WE HAVE NO PRESIDENT. I read the 25th amendment twice yesterday and apparently it's up to Joe or his cabinet neither of whom are disposed to do the right thing and remove Joe from Office. Jill Biden is the villain here. Can we impeach her? Pete, this is not a partisan issue. The role of the President is sort of important which is why we conduct the elections no one has any faith in anymore.

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Matt's avatar

2016 is easy - HRC gave the DNC $27 million to get them out of the financial hole her lackey Debbie Wasserman Schultz had put them in. From that point on, her staff was running the party and all donations to the party went directly to her campaign. I don't know if $27 million rents the DNC for a cycle or buys it outright.

Why no to RFK? Because Large Corporate Donors and beltway insiders are terrified of him.

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