Comment on How Kamala Harris Took Command of the Democratic Party in 48 Hours

• Seasm0ke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I know everyone is rushing show unity and thats understandable but I’m having a reasonable " but I didnt vote for you" moment.

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  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    She was literally elected Vice President by millions of people. If you voted for Biden, you already elected her to be one heartbeat away from the presidency.

    There have been only 49 Vice Presidents in US history. She is closer to the presidency than any other eligible Democrat.

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    • Seasm0ke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I get how it is easy to justify and I understand people are so obsessed with beating trump that they will cast aside all other doubts but the truth is that a vote for a Biden Harris ticket is not a vote for a Harris/??? Ticket. The threat of fascism is also not going to stop with trump. The moves made here will be treated like am exception but will become the norm.

      Regardless of how I personally voted, I see this move as another example that the illusion of American democracy has been dead a long time. Maybe even since Bush v Gore. Primaries suffered a death blow in 2016 and finally kicked the bucket in 2024.

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      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Biden was old in 2020. He could have easily passed away in his first term. Trump got COVID and almost went on a ventilator.

        You definitely did vote for Harris/??? even if you don’t realize it.

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  • downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    were less than 4 months out from a presidential election vs the guy who allowed over 1 million americans to die while suggesting they inject bleach and use internal light therapy, the guy who packed the supreme court with the justices that killed roe, the guy who will ceede europe to vladimir putin, the guy who is telling his people he wants immigrants in concentration camps. what sort of insane and selfish look at me look at me "but i didn't vote for her" time wasting self mastubatory daydream one must have to be on to not recognize we lost the president, who saved democracy from this same exact evil now facing us again, as the nominee in late fucking JULY. that so much time has been wasted, it's a do or die, literal, last chance to coalesce, transfer the 100 million in donations, and full steam ahead behind the woman we DID ELECT as VICE PRESIDENT and successor TO THIS PRESIDENT in 2020. the level of abject selfishness and stupidity in the "but but but the primary" is making me realize that Republicans don't have the only enormous pool of selfish idiots, and the left has more than our fair share ourselves.

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    • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      were less than 4 months out from a presidential election vs the guy who allowed over 1 million americans to die while suggesting they inject bleach and use internal light therapy,

      About 1.2 milliion have died, 400k on Trump’s watch, 800k on Biden’s. Biden is not blameless.

      thegauntlet.news/…/joe-bidens-covid-hubris-is-the…

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m with you.

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    • Seasm0ke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Thanks. It seems crazy nobody is willing to acknowledge it.

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I’ve been saying it too, met with about the same enthusiasm as your post.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Most people didn’t vote for Biden, they voted against Trump. Hell, there weren’t even really any other candidates that were still running in the primary in my state.

    I don’t like the situation we’re in any more than the next person… but that didn’t start recently. The presidential election is a staying action, not a political shift. That’s going to take a hell of a lot more than one person, no matter how many times they’re called “the most powerful person in the world”.

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