• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    This just illustrates how afraid Democrats are of Republicans ability to dominate the narrative. This is all about optics. And Democrats are cowards, when it comes to optics.

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      I don’t like Buttigieg’s politics (or lack thereof), but he’s a fantastic speaker with a quick wit and plenty of charisma. Establishment loser Democrats (like Harris and her advisors) think that’s less important than him being gay, like Obama didn’t lead the Democrats to their greatest recent victory as a black man with a Muslim name.

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    LOL. Sorry Buttigieg. Half of American voters voted for the guy that wants to brand Transgender people as a terrorist threat.

    America isn’t ready to have a President who is straight, white, and not racist.

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      Oh bullshit, they voted for the guy who was not Joe Biden because they were grouchy about groceries and sick of neolib excuses. If RuPaul had a believable and consistent message about kicking out Biden loyalist dead weight from the administration and, say, launching a program that paired increased aid funding for local governments and schools with more aggressive investigations and prosecutions of price gouging he could have dunked on Trump.

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      The Democratic candidate never breached 30% approval rating the entire term and ran us the status quo in a time of anger and upheaval. You could not be right more wrong headed about this, and giving license to The Establishment to do it again.

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    I was a bit surprised. In every other way, Pete is the perfect mayo on white bread sandwich that I thought she wanted as a veep pick. Waltz basically had to be muzzled (while Harris campaigned alongside Liz Cheney) so he didn’t let out crazy commie talk like “everyone should get medicare”.

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    No shit.

    Is anyone surprised by this?

    America is comically racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/xenophobic.

    We can’t have nice things because a very large segment of our society are ignorant trash humans.

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    Hung up on the physical characteristics of candidates and not what they actually stand for. How insulting is that to voters? If your candidate suck people will not vote for them.

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    I admit to being mislead on Buttigieg during the elections.

    Now though? I see him as a fantastic person with lots of good ideas. I wouldn’t mind at all having him as POTUS. Love hearing him speak, he just walks all over idiots without looking like a jerk.