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So what is the funniest scenario for 2024. I think it would be Biden running with Hillary as his VP, then losing to Nikki Haley with Trump as her VP, running on the platform of becoming the first female president.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, so THAT'S why all the Bidenists and bots have been getting super pissed when you bring up how much the Biden campaign is following HRC's losing strategies from 2016.

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just when you thought Biden might have a sliver of a chance to win

They bring in Hilldawg- Slayer of Campaigns

Her own campaigns

It's her turn?

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trying to ensure Harris doesn't end up first woman president?

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even Hillary isn't worried about THAT

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

I'm sure she has contingency plans for just such a possibility

[–] TupamarosShakur@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

the long 2016

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If she actually gets the VP spot there's 0% chance Biden wins. It's already vanishingly low, but with her as VP it's impossible.

[–] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Practically means you're voting for her too with his chances of dying in office or being debilitated are high. Hell, he may get COVID with this new wave and all the people he interacts with traveling due to worldwide conflicts hitting fever pitches

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lathe-of-heaven

Biden's gonna step down for health reasons before the nomination and all the super-duper-delegates will nominate Hillary as a compromise.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We'd be screwed as a nation but it would be hilarious to see her lose again to the orange

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll laugh the entire time I am constructing my hermitage in the deepest woods.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

I already figured Biden was gonna lose the next election. Now I am 100% certain of it.

[–] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

She's electable IF YOU VOTE FOR HER!

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IT'S

HER

TURN

hillary-assassin

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

It's her turn

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She should divorce Bill and marry Trump. That is the objectively funniest thing that could happen.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Need to create a rival for Barron to keep him on his toes

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Name the new successor Barack just to make it more delicious.

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Consider: she becomes Biden's running mate for 2024, somehow they win despite losing the popular vote to Trump, the day of the inauguration Biden has a heart attack on the stairs to Air Force One, dying instantly, Kamala becomes first female pres for a day causing Hillary to descend into rabid insanity, the 25th ammendment is invoked and Marjorie Taylor Greene (having somehow become Speaker) becomes the second woman to serve as President

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Well yes, but I'm talking about more realistic scenarios. I can see them ditching Kamala, it would be so funny because KHive would go insane.

[–] 4zi@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to just chill in Cedar Rapids again

[–] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Serious question:

Is this a joke? Is this satire?

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Democrats have a weird obsession with Hillary, so probably not. They actually think she's smart, likable, etc. They haven't figured out that for whatever "base" of voters she grabs, there is a larger base of "fuck no! Anyone but her!" voters. I would've thought 2008 and 2016 would've proved that point by now.

I get contention on the point of these politicians being "smart" as a thought terminating cliche. I think at some level people feel entirely comfortable not giving a fuck about what I'm saying. Which is to say that if I pushed back about this, they'd dig their heels in on the next point in my hopeless endeavor to change hearts and minds. Kissinger was not 'smart,' the fruits of his labor were millions of deaths. It's been hard to explain how someone being educated at Harvard leaves me skeptical of their credentials. It doesn't matter to me how well spoken Buttigieg is, his rhetoric is empty and his methods are status quo up-keeping bullshit. It leaves this blindspot where libs can't believe nobody else cares that Trump did documents wrong. That doesn't make the people who impeached him his intellectual superiors. Trump's (primary) problem isn't that he was dumb at the helm, but rather that he was ratcheting an austere, fascist ideology while rolling back everything that tried to protect the planet from pollution.

Hillary had a more academic debate than Trump. Do you remember anything she said? Do you remember that time Trump said that if he were in charge, she'd be in jail? She got owned.

[–] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Well you would think it would prove the point, but Biden ran like a zillion times and is now president.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

It really is incredible that thenlist of people responsible for her loss includes literally every person on earth except her at this point.

The democratic party cannot fail, it can only be failed.

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[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Satire, no. A joke? A cruel one to be sure and it’s being played on us.

[–] let_me_tank_her@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Broke: it's Joever

Woke: HRCieze the Day.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

"You know those states that you need to win in order to get elected? Check this out...... fuck em."

I think it'll be when Hillary has Joe release a series of ads that darken Trump's skin and strongly imply he's probably a secret "mulatto"

Then Biden slips on shit and breaks his hip at the Iowa State Fair

The DNC thinks about annointing Kamala but blinks. They approach Oprah about a surprise, last-minute bid, but she's not interested. They finally settle on Beto O'Rourke. He loses every state to Trump.

[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

If you thought his poll numbers were bad now, just wait!

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Queen TERF is obviously the key to a Dem sweep

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I hope she pulls some House of Cards shit and manage to whip the nation into voting for her as president and Bill as VP

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I’m going to be writing her in for my 3rd straight election. How many times have you voted for Hilary?

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LEADERSH

FUTU

FRATIC!

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Hilldog / Newsom 2024

[–] TheaJo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely wild. 2024 election gonna have Trump AND Biden losing. To what? No one knows. But there's NO way either are getting anything resembling a win.

trump can win unless a court literally rules that he's not allowed to run. i think people massively overestimate how much a criminal conviction would hurt his chances.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

ROUND TWO BABYYY LETS FUCKING GOOO lets-fucking-go

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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

This is how you win!

[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Biden V. Trump where Biden somehow has a pretty good lead about a month or two before the general. Hillary decides to kill Biden in order to become president and he gets heart-attacked-gunned. Hillary takes over and the Dem party immediately drops 8 points leading to another L for Hillary.

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