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Please please please dear democrats, as a European I’m begging you to select a candidate that can take it up with trump, doesn’t have dementia and I’m sorry to say that in your case it has to be male one. America just isn’t ready for a female president. Don’t fuck it up. Sincerely, a concerned European.
Please please please dear European, get your country to issue sanctions to the US and force our plutocrats to stop profiting from genocide.
When our progressive candidates try to attend debates on the campaign trail, they're arrested. Their names are not allowed on ballots. Our country is ruled by plutocrats. We have no democracy. We are the greatest threat to all life on earth. We need your help. Don't fuck it up. Sincerely, a concerned US American.
Europe can't issue any sanctions because Europe isn't a country.
The EU absolutely can issue sanctions. See Russia
As I said in my other comment, contact your MEP
We are trying our best. Already started boycotting US companies in some intiatives.
Consumerism isn't going to do it. We need legal sanctions by your country. Contact your MP and MEP.
Please europe stop depending on the usa
Two of the worst female politicians losing on uninspiring neoliberal campaigns is not an indication of whether a woman can win.
Best we can do is Gavin Newsom. Democratic leadership is brain dead ATM.
Fuck you. Gimme Pritzker. He'd mop the floor with anything the GOP puts up.
He's a zionist.
Your saying this is a perfect demonstration of the centrist dems not learning anything from losing the last election. No more genocide = no more zionists. Either the dems kick AIPAC dominance out of the party or the democratic party ceases to exist. Thats the choice for centrists. The dems arent winning another election otherwise. They cant win without the left and the left wont accept genocide.
We'll ride this right into extinction if we have to. Try us.
He can probably win pretty easily. I'll take it.
This isn't the fucking time to let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Newsome would absolutely lose.
He's insufferable.
Newsom isn't even liked in his home state. Republicans wont ever vote for a Democrat, and he's had a long history of "Rules for thee, not for me." Plus his mishandling of homeless issues, his platforming of right wing grifters on his podcast, and just general insufferable way of handling most issues is a turn off for anyone with compassion.
Newsom is good enough like Biden was good enough in 2020. Everyone is learning the wrong lessons.
He won in 2020.
Exactly. Newsom can probably win in 2028, and the Republican party will be stronger for it.
Due to COVID and a mass push for mail-in voting. If COVID wasn't a thing, Biden probably would have lost.
Which explains why Democratic leadership approved the GOP budget in the past: enabling Republicans to do their worse is their election strategy.
Maybe because Democrats get elected after Republicans mess up the economy, they want to enable their horrid polices as an attempt at an easy win.
Now that makes sense honestly. They can't win with boring candidates in stable-ish times. John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris all flopped because they didn't offer much in times of stability.
So why not enable more genocide, allow the few who have homes to lose them, ramp up racism and xenophobia, it makes "I will maybe roll some of these back" look good like it did in 2020.
Sorry mate, there won’t be a 2028.