• BMTea@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    Also stupid: ignoring calls that you’re too old, dropping out way too late for a primary and handing off to your VP who was not particularly popular last primary.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Also putting a heritage foundation sympathizer as your AG.

      Not accounting postal board members who would remove the scum that is DeJoy.

      Letting Israel genocide Palestine without cutting off the weapon supply. While also dragging us into shit with Iran.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        Biden did a lot of deeply frustrating and very wrongheaded things, but Garland for AG, imo, cleanly takes the cake. I genuinely cannot think of a more feckless, functionally useless, and societally harmful nomination that he made.

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      7 months ago

      She’d had done fine if she did three things:

      1. Continued the initial push of laying her foot into the collective asses of the MAGA collective. That first month or so was great and Dems needed that energy.

      2. Gone against Biden and condemned the situation in Gaza AND remind everyone that Ukraine is still going.

      3. Not listened to the idiot Dem “strategists” who seem so fucking convinced that courting modern Conservatives is a good idea.

      Had she done these three things and even the shit communications of the Dems could not have stopped the word of mouth and internet celebrity status she would have had.

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        7 months ago

        Maybe? The huge chunk of people who didn’t vote for her were white middle class suburban men. There might have been a simple racial bias to factor in as well.

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        7 months ago

        I was going more Afghanistan…

        Edit: Oh, you don’t have a snappy retort for that one?

        Guess you agree?

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          7 months ago

          Afghanistan was fucked the second Trump made a deal with the Taliban and cut the local leadership out of the picture. They all made their own deals with the Taliban right after that and the offensive they conducted was only a matter of time. Trump’s actions made Afghanistan untenable and then he handed it off to Biden with a lit fuse. The Ghost of Patton himself could not have prevented what happened short of deploying multiple Infantry divisions back into the country. Which would have resulted in massive protests in the US and Congress passing a veto proof bill to stop it. So even then, there was no actual path forward anymore. You can fuck off with this GOP propaganda.