“I’m the nominee of the Democratic Party. No one’s pushing me out. I’m not leaving," he said in a call to the broader campaign

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Get back to me when we switch candidates and still lose.

      You really think when the party goes into back rooms and smokes cigars to choose the candidate that the Democratic voters are just going to fall in line and vote for them?

      What if the choice the party chooses is Hillary Rodham Clinton?

      Tell me, what candidate do the Democrats even have that would electrify their voter base.

      I’m a Democrat and all I’ve got to say is “Fuck Newsom” and “I’d vote for Whitmer to stop Trump but that’s about it.”

      The very idea that the party choosing the candidate after years of people being angry about the party fucking over Bernie Sanders on purpose will be somehow a popular pick is a big fucking joke. They argued in court that it was legal for them to choose their own candidate. Lots of people remember that and will be pissed off that the party is choosing for them again.

      We’re well past the primaries. We have a month and a half until the convention. The two choices are the party picks the candidate, or they let the delegates choose at the convention. Both will be guaranteed shitshows, since none of the actual voters will get a choice in this matter.

      Maybe you could run with this argument if the DNC hadn’t purposefully locked Bernie Sanders out as a candidate twice in a row. People remember, people won’t be happy about the bullshit choice of Biden being replace with another bullshit choice. We’re not gonna magic up some primaries in a month and a half.

      The party literally chose to ignore this issue until after the primaries so voters wouldn’t have a choice. Fuck them for that.

      They chose to deny that Biden was too old, and they purposefully waited until after the primaries to admit it to deny voters an actual choice because they think the party knows better. Evidence of the last 20 years is the party doesn’t know shit.

      …but I guess if we just ignore the actual logistics and the recent past of the party itself, we can just play pretend that it will totally work out. /s

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        … what candidate…

        AOC would be electrifying. But you’ve pretty clearly already decided that it’s not possible to win with literally anyone except checks notes Joseph fucking Biden, a candidate that people didn’t even want to vote for last time.

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      Ah yes. This old tired canard.

      Tell me you don’t understand XKCD without telling me you don’t understand XKCD.