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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

stupid just that one time huh.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Did he sign the 2,000-pound bombs that he sent to israel? Regarding the stimulus checks, biden is stupid alright, but it's not because he didn't sign the stimulus checks, but because he promised $2000 checks and then shortchanged it by claiming earlier payments that went out before he even entered office counted towards it.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That wasn't the mistake.

[-] BMTea@lemmy.world 154 points 2 days 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.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days 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.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 18 points 1 day ago

Or, she could have courted conservatives by going after the health insurance industry. Democrats are still operating like it's the 1990s.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago
[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 points 13 hours ago

Biden, a white man, only stepped down because his own numbers showed him losing terribly too. The dems have lost the plot and are not speaking to (both in person and as a platform) their base.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

A white man embracing Cuban and Cheney but running as a dem, supporting a genocide, and telling people worried about the economy that they're doing just fine would have lost too. Unless you're a racist yourself, dont confuse stupid with racism and sexism.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago

She didn't though. Given the fact she never won a presidential primary it was unsurprising that she ran a poor campaign.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

That's the thing: She was doing fine initially. Not even when you measured her up against Biden, just in general. She came out verbally lashing Trump and challenging everything he and his cronies tried to do. She did exactly what I was hoping she'd do and lean on her experience in law and not tried to be charismatic.

What I suspect happened is she was pulled aside and told it wouldn't work. Chances are she was made to bend and rather than leverage her position she did bend. Or perhaps she was convinced to do so, I don't know. After Bernie in 2016 I don't trust the Dems at all when it comes to elections. Not in the sense of corrupt votes or whatever, in that they'd choose a losing candidate or choose to lose over having to admit they need to step aside and let the energy flow.

[-] draneceusrex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

What I think you are trying to say is:

[-] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I’ve thought about this quote a lot since the election lol. Timeless.

[-] draneceusrex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, pretty much...

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[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 71 points 2 days 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.

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.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

"Never underestimate Joe Bidens ability to fuck everything up" --Barrack Obama.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

I was vocally against it at the time, but too many dumbasses were way too into "poetic justice" to see how stupid making the compromise candidate your first choose was

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

When I called out the appointment it was just a Republican in Biden's cabinet who wouldn't go after Jan 6 rioters or Trump, I was told I was being a doomer and unrealistic.

I hate being right about horrid shit.

[-] forrgott@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

You know, almost feels intentional. Would not surprise me, for sure. I can totally imagine that jackass thinking better for him to hand the reigns to Trump than to some dirty socialist like Bernie.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago

Left wing populists threaten the oligarchs. Right wing populists don't. It's really that simple. The Democratic establishment straight up prefers Trump to Bernie.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Trump is an idiot who looks good to run against. When Trump was gaining ground, donations went up. When Roe v. Wade was abolished, donations went up.

Why have a candidate who wants to help people and can defeat Trump when the money keeps pouring in so you can leave the country if he ever gets "too much".

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"I wasn't a lying duplicitous bastard like Trump. That's where I went wrong."

just... what?

To be fair, it says a lot about the intelligence of the average American when a lot of them think these checks were from Trump's personal bank account, just due to the signature.

Literally all you had to do was offer universal healthcare, as evidenced by *sweeping gesture at everything.

[-] WatDabney@fedia.io 23 points 2 days ago

That was my exact response - he's right in a very limited sense, and notably a sense that hinges on the sad fact that too many Americans are dumbasses who thought that Trump's signature over a check drawn on the US Treasury meant something, and therefore the absence of Biden's also did.

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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

TBF yeah people were complaining that the creation of money for the stimulus checks in the midst of deficit was causing inflation, but the fact that the economy and inflation rate both recovered and they still blamed him means he should have done it anyways.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago
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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

He was.

A better point is refusing to listen to voters and keep repeating that the economy is great showed how wildly out of touch the modern DNC is.

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago
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[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

holds the door open for Trump

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