Kamala was not a good speaker. Everything has to be scripted. I am not sure how she made it so far politically. The Democrats need to run a white guy. It is better than the craziness we have now.
Oooh... a little out in the open racism Expected I am not a quote unquote Republican, I have voted Dem in the past
You say this like Chicago isn't a cesspool that elected Lightfoot. That city will never be happy until they persecute and drive out every progressive DA and prosecute violence and drug related crimes. The issue is Chicago has too many basic voters to know this is what they need. Instead, their latest mayor gets more upset at microaggressions and implications of the word thug than 26 black kids dying in a weekend.
I agree with this - however I don't out and out disqualify someone for being a billionaire. Trump is doing what establishment politicians never could. His background as a media guy, personality and being from money gave him the platform to do this. Alot of non billionaires are constantly groveling and shilling for corporations. Ultimately it comes down to the person. There is nothing more pathetic than forever govt guys like Newsom who's only skill is doing the bare minimum to prevent a mutiny. So many have made careers out of that.
We are talking about 2028... yet your thoughts are still based on Trump. Your delusion of "if there's an election" is the fear mongering real world people roll our eyes at. Your gullible mind has nothing to do with Trump. The Republicans won't have the cult of personality then. Centrism is the ONLY way to show you are the adults in the room and have the rationale to lead. The Biden Kamala years lost that middle ground in all demographics. Every county shifted right. MAGA is a figment of your TDS. They're not Jan 6ers, they're patriotic middle class Americans who made noise due to how far left the dems went. They are a creation of the left, not Trump. Your entire view on this is muddled because of how you've convinced yourself you need to react to him at every corner. Cooler heads prevail and in this country, no matter how much media you consume, the majority of Americans aren't strictly Right or Left, they are somewhere in the middle. If , as an individual , you want to win via tiring people out with extremism and which candidate do they hate less, good luck being left behind.
Can you lay out the dreams the left wants? There was nothing centrist about Biden Harris. It was symbolic of the far left takeover of institutions, media and organizations that scared Americans shitless. A run of the mill frontman doesn't change the policies the deep state was pushing. Majorkas and his open invite under the rationale that no one is illegal perfectly highlighted this. Just bring back the adults who don't have 1 million private contractors doing the work to avoid accountability. The Obama model works.
Go be centrist and moderate all you want with your vote. But it isn't my TDS that blackmailed private universities and private law firms to support the president's agenda, that uses deportation as an extrajudicial punishment for dissident speech, that usurps the power of Congress to set spending and define agency missions, that tries to redefine our civil rights by executive writ, that tries to bully courts into legitimizing the power grab. We are losing the republic right before our eyes and you don't even know what you're looking at. In a corporate training session on mass shooters, out trainer said something that struck me. When people in public see something alarming, the first thing they do is look at everybody else to see what a socially appropriate reaction would be. They don't want to look like a fool running away if they were mistaken thinking it was a shooter. I see a lot of that psychology here with Trump - don't worry, it'll all be back to normal in 2028. That's dumb. For one thing, you can never go back in time. For another, even if you can stop doing things he started, you can't cure the things he will have done. You certainly can't with a 'moderate' who will defer to the new status quo. It's always the winner of the last fight that wants to encourage moderation in the next one, because that allows them to consolidate their wins. How about after 8 years of AOC, we settle into some moderate governance.
That just isn't true. Many act out of instinct and fear. You're watching too many corporate training videos and it's turning you into a fearful drone. Maybe you were always were one which explains how easily manipulated you are. Here we see the need for vengeance and revenge overriding what needs to be done for the greater good. Policy wise - what did you agree with and disagree with during the Biden admin? Do you think a country can function with mass illegal immigration? Do you think people have taken advantage of the American system at scale? Are you accepting of what pushed moderates away to voting for Trump, or do you want to pretend it's all white supremacy? Hardcore liberals like yourself need to forget about Trump, forget about your sexuality and race... and clearly define... what is it, specifically, the left wants from a policy perspective. [[[And btw, Politico is far left. There is nothing right about it nor would republicans be cheering on Rahm]]]
You want to pretend AOC is presidential material because she has tiktok friends, and being a liberal you can't read the room so go based on social media (which lead to Kamala losing by a landslide) , go ahead. But she's a hype man and routinely goes on stage and does hype man performances. The emotional liberal still thinks it's about likability -- DJT disproves that. People don't like him but voted for him in record numbers - he knows how to lead. Competence. You obsessing about her being an oppressed latina woman just panders to your base. I'd keep her as an on the ground soldier who rails about the white man , while getting railed by one, and start looking at leaders.
^^^crickets People really can't have discussions outside their narrative Obviously a spin job, but a dem that can make salient points? Definite frontrunner if dems can put their racist inclinations behind them.
I'm not a big fan of Rahm, but I will say that I want this presidential primary run to be an open process where we can let as many voices possible enter the discussion. I don't think the DNC, or whomever should go out of their way to shut this guy out if he wants to have a voice again. What he has done in the past is boyscout level stuff compared to anything a Trump regime crook has done just this week. Also... now is actually a really good time for some of the crazier people in the party to get out there. Fck it.
Rahm will have a muscular response to the Rs than what we got from Biden or Kamala. This may sell well with the D moderates and the Independents. We will see.
i cant figure out if its ATW or traderjorge/bigtexxx/mojoman/conqueefstador. saw emanuel on jon stewart last night and he came off very bad. trying way to hard to be funny and he is just awkward. i need to hear more from him, but im liking mark kelly for a 2028 run.
