I’m interested to see what lemmy thinks of this, I honestly haven’t kept track of the potential options.
Bernie Sanders / AOC ticket.
Other way round.
Any order is fine by me, but part of me wants some retired cop to see that the guy he dragged away from civil rights protests in the 70s is now president.
Let’s be brutally honest here, those cops will have long since died of alcoholism.
It’s Donald’s turn to drop out.
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Anyone under the age of 50
Why? Because they will have the energy, experience and ability to take on such an important position.
How about Mayor Joseph Fitzgerald O’Malley Fitzpatrick O’Donnell The Edge “Joe” Quimby?
Seems like a great pick for the role /s
Mark Kelly.
Astronaut, has absolutely been an amazing husband to Gabby Gifords, impeccable background that is literally the American Dream, and untouchable character.
He would absolutely destroy Trump.
And he has a twin with a nearly identical pedigree, it’s insane. But I’d love to see a Harris/Kelly ticket.
I’m not even an American and I would be so psyched by a Mark Kelly run for president.
Then all we would need would be to get Chris Hatfield as or PM up here and it would be an intelligent astronaut super hemisphere.
The duopoly choice is Bernie Sanders, even though he betrayed his movement and the people that helped fund and grow his grassroots campaign.
A non-duopoly choice is a 3rd Party candidate, Jill Stien, Green Party.
I’d vote for Bernie Sanders because he has a podcast. Any politician that seeks out long conversations is a winner in my book.
A non-duopoly choice is a 3rd Party candidate, Jill Stien, Green Party.
Reading her platform, I’d say it’s a no go for me.
Two bullet points back to back are “Have the UN Security Council hold Israel accountable” and at the same time “end the UN Security Council”. So which is it, use the UNSC to hold Israel accountable or the UNSC is a bad thing?
Also on her platform, disband NATO and stop giving Ukraine aid. If we do this, then Ukraine and Russia will just hug it out and everyone will be happy. A few unrealistic things like this where it’s way too optimistic and paves the way for things to go horribly wrong.
Then there are the good intentions, but bad consequences ideas. Pay reparations to third world countries for climate. Historically, “just dump money and resources” has been tried and you just give those to regional warlords that will make things worse. Need a more thought out engagement plan than that.
Broadly some decent domestic policy goals, but pretty impractical foreign policy ideas.
How did Bernie betray his movement?
Here’s a tip: you ever see the above user say anything, ignore it because it’s stupid.
While I don’t traffic in such forceful language, I can answer what @criitz means:
Bernie Sanders raised millions of dollars on the promise to lead a political revolution. For many supporters, that proposition was taken literally. They thought that his campaign was not simply a vehicle to give him the power of the presidency, but was the organizing structure for a persistent movement of activists reengaging with democracy each and every week BETWEEN elections. And when he dropped out, a lot of those people lost their connections to social and organizing structures that were giving them hope and an outlet for meeting like-minded people to find ways to make their communities better. So when he ended his campaign and all that money and infrastructure got instantly packed up and taken away, they felt like they’d been misled.
Some found their way into activism through the DSA or climate groups, but for many, the way in which he disbanded his campaign without following through on the implied promise to transform it into something durable was a very unexpected and painful surprise.
i hadn’t heard this angle articulated before, thanks for sharing.
I see, thank you for explaining. I believe Bernie has done pretty much everything he could for decades, but I get how people may have felt misled. It can be very disheartening to try and enact real change in this country.
The anti Bernie propaganda is scared of people rallying around him since Bidens departure
Theres no real replyabout his “betrayal”
yeah, and everyone knew exactly which accounts they would be.
I think Bernie’s earned it though. He may be old, but he’s still mentally intact. Trump was never mentally intact, and Biden…well…yeah. Biden kinda fell off his rocker. Good man. I wish him all the best, and hope he gets the care he needs. However, we don’t really need someone who talks about how we defeated health care running our health care.
I may hate Trump, but he did have one line that I think sealed the deal for Biden. He said “I don’t know what he said, I don’t think he knows what he said”, and everybody just kind of saddly nodded their head, because it was true.
But Bernie will be a firecracker up your ass fighting the good fight for every American. And unlike a lot of these politicians, he’s not a phoney. Harris can say that she’s changed, and she now stands to legalize marijuanna, and all this other stuff…but she has a track record. Bernie has a track record too, except he HASN’T changed. There’s photos of him in the 60s getting arrested fighting for civil rights. I’d rather he be president than a younger person who may or may not be who they say they are. Plus I like his policies.
with a receptive white house, Bernie will be a firecracker anywhere. I would be more than happy for Bernie to retain his Senate seat and get the committee assignments that give him maximal internal clout.
[Bernie] may be old, but he’s still mentally intact.
At that age mental acuity can go fast. I would vote for Bernie over Trump or Biden in a heartbeat, but I would rather have someone younger.
jon stewart. because he would be excellent, and absolutely does not want the job
He’ll do the job. He’s only going to work one night a week though…
Hey that’s more than Trump worked his entire Presidency.
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” — Douglas Adams
“I refuse to be a part of any club that would have me as one of its members” -Groucho Marx
This statement has never been truer
Double edged sword. Jon would make a great President. But, I also bet he would be miserable doing the job and I would really hate to do that do him.
Especially is he is asked to do a drone strike.
Been saying that for years! PLUS! He can’t even use the excuse that it’ll turn his hair grey, because, well, c’mon Jon. It’s time to look in a mirror. That ship has sailed.
Secretary (Mayor) Pete Boot-Edge-Edge. Can’t wait to vote for the guy now and/or in the future.
Joe Biden. He won the primary.
He left the runnings
i got bad news buddy
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Without a doubt the best option the Democrats have right now
Of course the Democrats are gonna run someone from offworld 🙄
Turd Sandwich always struck me as an upstanding guy.
Don’t forget Giant duche has a really compelling platform
Tulsi Gabbard because she’s smart and tough
And a Russian asset?
Ah yes, the old “Russian asset” trick. I assume you have some reason for thinking this?
I like Buttigieg the most, but I don’t think he has enough time to be built up for this election. I’d be excited to see him as a VP ticket, or for next election.
I think that Kamala is our best choice, but I worry that our country isn’t ready to vote in a female president. We’re still so ridiculously misogynistic that it would be comical if it wasn’t such a fucking travesty
Pete needs to go mayor some more. He had a few good ideas during the primary, but as Transportation Secretary I’m astounded at his lack of ambition.
There are a handful of administration officials – Lina Khan first among them – who’ve learned to use their power assertively to make changes to broken systems. And Pete… he seems like he just pops up when another piece of infrastructure breaks to let us know that he’s on it. Maybe he’s doing something more, but if so he’s doing it very, very quietly.
This was sort of my impression to. Like I loosely liked him, but couldn’t really tell you what he’s directly responsible for. Which isn’t a bad thing on its own and doesn’t mean he wasnt doing a good job, just that I don’t know much about him.
Bro… Lina got put in place to show that feds are “trying”
The judiciary is clearly not impressed.
Wall Street Pete is there to cover up railroad accidents and Boeing bullshit. I don’t think he even has good intentions, just management consulting zombie being put in place to do corruption for the elites.
If I can be frank, I’m reading from your tone that you’re not here for polite, factual persuasion. But if I’m wrong, or someone else sees this, I gotta drop a fact check on the ‘Lina can’t win cases’ myth:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/out-with-a-bang-as-ftc-beats-the
More practically, this loss discredits the main argument from Wall Street. Dealmakers, and thinkers like Larry Summers, have often said that while Biden antitrust enforcers are aggressive, if corporations are willing to go to court, the government is likely to lose because judges won’t let them rewrite the law. This narrative was so strong that Lina Khan and Jonathan Kanter were questioned in Congress as to whether they were even trying to win. It’s always been a narrow and bad faith critique, but this victory, plus, the win in the Fifth Circuit over Illumina, should put that narrative to rest. Antitrust lawyers will tell their clients to go to court at their peril.
It’s kind of a deep dive, but it’s worth it.
This issue won’t be solved via executive agency.
It requires an act of congress since the current regulatory regime is broken.
She just got put in place for act like feds are doing something. It is a circle jerk.
I get that y’all spinning anything you can latch on as a W for the Democrats such as people are making more money under biden … lol
If you think that limp dick FTC has the power or the legal underpinning to regulate mega corps in 2024… Have fun!
You know, for a guy with the username “Sunzu”, I feel like you’re demonstrating a remarkable lack of vision of power dynamics.
First, I’m not a Democrat. I’m not invested in holding up that party.
Again, I’m talking more to any audience than you in particular: when someone says that any attempt to use power creatively is a waste of time, I think that is either ignorant or in bad faith. The SIZE of any given effect or the use of resources in one place or another can be certainly debated, but the logic of the revitalized antitrust movement is very, very sound. Power has been left unused, and now people like Khan and Jonathan Kantor are learning how to use it again, and showing others.
The logic you’re outlining runs in contradiction to what we might call “The Bork consensus”. A lot of the issues we face WERE developed through regulatory capture rather than legislation, led by Robert Bork under Reagan. If you don’t want to use that power for anything, feel free, but I’m going to evangelize using every tool available. And these are pretty big ones.
Why does he need to be built up?
The reason she lost is she let someone media hack convince her to wear that smile.
I think you underestimate how sexiest the United States is.
Yeah, even women hates other women.