• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Hurr hurr hurr.

    What’s great is that because of Red MAGA, this would divide the party in such a way that it would never come back together. Blue MAGA got it’s faced punched in when the time came, but Red MAGA is much much more in control of their party.

    Expect people to write in DJT for decades after the guy is dead and burrired. Once DJT is out of the picture, they are well and truly fucked.

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        2 years ago

        There is no better word for the cult that tried to force Biden and thereby Trump on us.

        Thankfully they didn’t get the nation-state backing that Red MAGA got.

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          No one was trying to “force Biden.” Biden was the candidate. No one ran against him. The only person who had control over whether he decided to bow out was Biden himself. As long as he was the candidate, fuck yes I’m going to be all-in on Biden, because the alternative is Trump. That doesn’t prevent me from simultaneously observing reality and airing my concerns about his abilities to the party. The second he dropped out, every “Blue MAGA” you’re on about breathed a sigh of relief and lined up behind Harris, demonstrating how what you’re describing isn’t even remotely comparable to “MAGA.”

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            I get what you’re coming from, but people did run against him. It’s just they weren’t taken seriously because usually an incumbent is considered the de facto candidate for a party in most cases.

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              2 years ago

              No one with a snowball’s chance in hell of winning any primary, even if there were no incumbent. There were no realistic candidates in the primary besides Biden, and he beat all those candidates handily regardless

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                I think you’re crazy if you think no one had a chance even if Biden weren’t an incumbent.

                Part of the reason there were so few realistic candidates is because he was the incumbent. Both because of tradition and because of the momentum being an incumbent gives him.

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                  2 years ago

                  Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson, and Jason Palmer. Tell me which one would’ve won lmao

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                    I’m really annoyed that Marianne Williamson is so… kooky. I’ve so far only seen good policy ideas from her, but I just don’t think she has good judgment based on her beliefs. I don’t need to vote for an atheist, but I can’t get behind her level of magical thinking.

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              2 years ago

              What from what I said is “rewriting the past?” I lived it, my man. I was there lol

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      2 years ago

      I’ll bet everyone who knows you dreads your bOtH sIdEs/devil’s advocate bullshit and avoids talking politics with you every time they can.

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      Expect people to write in DJT for decades after the guy is dead and burrired.

      I expect politicians of both parties will call their opponent “another Trump” as an attack and insult for the next 100+ years after Donald Trainwreck is gone