• CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca
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    They’re not and you’re lying.

    The dnc occurred, the reps voted en masse for Kamala.

    The reps were nominated by the same process that has happened for over a century. The timeline was different but the process still occurred and you’re lying about it.

    The reps that voted for Kamala were nominated in the same fashion as every US election you’ve ever been alive for. It was a televised event where everyone in the party voted and agreed. Stop this bullshit.

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      Can you help me find kamala on my primary ballot from this year? ( I voted no preference)

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        Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s running mate.

        Were Biden to have been incapacitated, Kamala Harris would step in for him. We made this choice back in November 2020, and it’ll hold true until January 2025.

        Do you expect the Dems to have a contested Primary with less than one month to go until the General? How nice. Everyone will be tearing themselves apart in order to appeal to the various different factions that make up the Democratic Party, weakening each other until the final canidate emerges with a depleted warchest and a whole bunch of bitter people whose favoured candidate DIDN’T win? And assuming Harris, the VP and assumed successor for Biden, doesn’t win this contested primary, has to return the warchest Biden built up?

        And Trump will be waiting in the wings, with a building warchest and backers setting up GOTV. Again. Does the far-left WANT Trump to win, because man, that’s what it looks like to me!

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          Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s running mate.

          Yes I know.

          Hand picked successor. Why is everyone so mad that I’m calling it what it is?

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            Because your phrasing is disingenuous. You imply nefariousness where none exists. He ran thinking he was the best choice, until he flubbed the debate, and … get this…he got the majority of delegates. 14 million people voted for him. And he won the Primary. Are you saying you and your ilk are more important than the 14.5 million people who cast their ballots for him (you couldn’t manage 2 million votes between your three alternatives to Biden…), and the 3.9k delegates he won? That their expressions of preference should be thrown out so you can have a bruising 4 week primary in August while Trump just uses your various attacks against each of the candidates and racks up hundreds of millions of campaign contributions that he doesn’t have to spend until September? And at best, we just use up Biden’s campaign warchest trying to fend your candidates off, and at worst, we have to start over with some relative unknown with a depleted warchest, and no access to the Biden/Harris warchest? And go through the whole rigamarole of qualifying for state ballots so close to election day? Not to mention the extra costs of running a second set of primaries because you couldn’t accept the fact that you lost?

            We had a primary. Biden won that primary. There’s no nefarious plan to install Harris. And the only reason that Harris has to run at all is because you lot showed up here and shat all over Biden over and over and over and over and *four hours later * over again. You lot being sore loser hard-leftists, Greenies pissed that they don’t have more of a say in government, paid actors and disinformation peddlers hired by Republicans and Russians to fragment the Left coalition like has happened time and time again (stupid ‘fall in love’ party), and of course those same Russians and Republicans who directly inject BS into our political discussion. And just to be clear, I’m not speculating on which you are, just pointing out that’s what your coalition is, and that’s why we’re here where we are right now.

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              Biden quit the race because he had no path to victory. He was 100% going to lose. The betting odds have shifted against Harris and now Trump has a 55% chance of winning. Why? Because she comes across as a cop. Because she supports a genocide. Because she cant give a beleiveable speech that makes her seem relatable. Because she stupidly brags about owning a gun. Because she has drifted right and probably will continue to, looking to get votes that dont exist while she loses the left. This is another case of the dem establishment shitting the bed, same as they always do, and losing to a clear nutcase. Why is the Democratic party engaged in supporting a far right wing war? Its for some $$$, right? So hows that truning out? Not good? THEN WHY DID SHE TAKE THE MONEY? Why is our party so stupid.

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              You imply nefariousness where none exists.

              I’m just using the language our press uses for enemy nations, like calling it the Biden regime, because it’s what I do when warmongers are president, it’s what I did for Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and here we are now.

              casual xenophobia

              I’m not speculating on which you are, just pointing out that’s what your coalition is, and that’s why we’re here where we are right now

              Like I’ll cop to being Russian but you need to understand it’s getting really insulting how often liberals go on about ‘the Russians’ like we’re some hive mind

              You know the cold war is over, you guys won, plenty of Russians left when the economy went to shit and in the end Putin is the result of your foreign policy goals. I have a deep hatred for both, because of how they have impacted me personally, and it really makes me resent when people act like anyone naysaying the current regime is just doing it because they’re Russian and hypnotized by Putin.

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                  Rather than engage or refute any of these truths, it gets all butthurt about how we distrust Russians when really,

                  Did you mean to call me it? cause my pronouns are right there

                  “I’m not xenophobic you took me out of context”

                  posts context

                  xenophobia

                  k

                  you and your dad are probably incredibly alike.

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            If you’re so uninformed you didn’t know who Biden’s running mate was when you voted, that’s your own damn fault.

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        Good for you! Pointing out inconsistencies as if they were national truths!

        You almost look like you’re pointing out a conspiracy BUT oh I’m so sorry, there is none!

        Point to the dnc! Not a png!

        Edit: to mention you didn’t vote you just now complained in a way to convince others to not vote. Thats scummy.

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          Edit: to mention you didn’t vote you just now complained in a way to convince others to not vote. Thats scummy.

          What? I voted

          Good for you! Pointing out inconsistencies as if they were national truths!

          Kamala is Bidens hand-picked successor. How is that untrue?

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            Simple she was nominated by the DNC. She was not coronated and Biden didn’t step out and say “Kamala” magically creating the bullshit you describe.

            Votes were cast by a variety of reps nominated by the same process that has existed throughout your whole lifetime.

            What part of that confounds your brain?