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    Why the fuck are liberals still doing this shit? Was getting trump elected not enough of a sign that it’s stupid and doesn’t work??

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      It’s like they forgot Hillary Clinton literally propped up Trump because she thought he’d never win.

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          And you think, what, it can’t get worse than that? Fuck, man. Listen to what Orange Jesus is saying.

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            I think Nikki Haley is going to do the things Trump is saying, she just isn’t saying them. If any Republican presidential candidate takes office next year, it is likely we will end up in a christofascist dictatorship.

            Here is some current polling:

            https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/

            Polling this early on isn’t that meaningful. I think what it does illustrate is that Biden isn’t obviously dominating in a Biden-Haley match up. If anything it looks Haley beats Biden by a larger margin than Trump does.

            Rather than trying to support Haley because she is perceived to be less of a fascist, she’s not, or because Biden will do better against her in a general election, as far as we know, he won’t, we should focus on pressuring Biden to enact policy changes that his voting base are demanding.

            For example, a lot of younger voters are frustrated by Biden’s handling of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict. We should direct our time and energy on getting Biden to change his outdated views on Israel.

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    That would be the most Dem thing Dems have ever done. Play games and get Haley elected when Biden would have just cruised over trump.

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      I don’t suspect Biden will just cruise over Trump. Look at the polls, Trump leads in swing states. I hope Biden can win, but it won’t be easy.

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        Don’t mention polling. Centrists hate it because it indicates that their constant shift rightward has become unpopular.

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        Actual results since roe was overturned have been ~+9 towards dem/dem supported policies than polling has said. I still have hope.

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        If he’s lost the Muslim vote, hopefully he has, he’s gonna lose by enormous numbers. The numbers from 2020 support this.

        Georgia won by 11k votes - has 120k Muslims Arizona won by 10k votes has 109k Muslims Wisconsin won by 20k votes - has 68k Muslims Pennsylvania won by 80k votes has 150k Muslims Michigan won by 150k votes - has 241k Muslims

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      Haley isn’t getting elected. She has virtually no path towards the GOP nomination. If she did, MAGATs aren’t going to vote for her unless he was on the ballot, and then if she did put him on the ballot, she’ll lose the moderate votes.

      Trump has a chance to cause chaos by losing another general election. He could also do even more damage by winning another general election. Haley, if she somehow won the primary and general, would be so much less destructive.

      So yeah, voting for Haley in the primary is the fucking move and it’s why I didn’t vote for Biden in the SC primary.

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          Look, no Democrat is saying she’d be great or even close to being better than Biden.

          But she’d certainly be better than Trump. And if she can split the Republican votes in the general election, even better.

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              When Haley tries to overthrow the government, I’ll say she’s as bad as Trump. Until that happens, I say Trump is worse.

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            No, she wouldn’t be. Trump at least has value from an accelerationist POV, Haley’s going to do all things Trump would but as less of a publicly shitposting moron.

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                Some of these clowns have finally convinced themselves that sitting home and complaining is now direct political action and will get them the things they want, it’s wild.

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                Man - you were ON POINT until the final paragraph.

                Removed, rule 6. 24 hour ban.

                “No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning”

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          I don’t care if she sucks. She won’t beat Trump in the end. The longer she stays in the race, the more angry he’s gonna get at his own party

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            People said the exact same shit about trump in 2016 and tried to do the same meta gaming shit you’re trying to do, and look how that turned out. Ffs just admit you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing and vote like a normal person instead of big braining us into fascism again

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              Lmfao. Haley won’t be a fascist. The fascist will be a fascist. You don’t have to pretend like you know what you’re talking about

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                Liberals, the only people who will vote and run ads for the far right and then blame everyone else when democrats lose the election 🙃

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        She wins the primary if SCOTUS rules that Trump is an insurrectionist, and she polls well against Biden precisely because she appeals to “enlightened centrists.”

        The question is not whether Trump should be barred as insurrectionist. The question is what candidate the leash holders of certain Justices want.

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          I have a very hard time seeing Trump supporters coming around to vote for her when he’s painted her as a part of the deep state

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        Jesus Christ when are you gonna learn that these stupid 4d chess moves don’t fucking work? You’re gonna be literally supporting republicans, and when that gets a republican in office again you’re probably gonna blame 3rd party voters and leftists and young people and Russia and literally everyone other than yourself for republicans winning. This shit backfires all the time, don’t fuck us all over with this “big brain” bullshit again please

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          seriously. i have a policy that i only vote for someone if i want them to have the office (i know, i’m a fucking lunatic).

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    After living through the last few elections, I’m not going to bet on whether Biden vs Haley or Biden vs Trump will lead to a better result. But I really don’t see how helping Haley would actually accomplish anything. Even if the Democrats made a big (wasted) effort to push & campaign for Haley, it’s not going to be nearly enough to make her the nominee.

    Absent the Supreme Court declaring Trump ineligible (don’t hold your breath) It’s going to be Biden vs Trump. Prepare for that. Messing with the Republican’s sham primary is a waste of effort and a distraction from more constructive things Democrats could be doing like getting their voters registered and ready to go to the polls in November.

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      They don’t want her to win though, they want her to convince some republicans to hate Trump enough to vote for Joe or not vote at all. Come to think of it, it is a pretty similar strategy to the one the Republicans have been running for years—use the underdog to neuter the bruiser before they even get to the big match.

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            what no they’re dumb as hell. their justification was “I don’t want another politician”.

            thing is, they’re also frustrated and afraid and in that they’re absolutely correct. no matter what you believe the causes and solutions are, people are noticing that they’re working harder, paying more and in a much more precarious position for it than the generations before them. part of the reason that fascism is doing so well is that the people getting fucked know they need a change, and fascism is the change that the ruling class won’t oppose so they actually feel like they can get it. they’re not gonna love it when society runs out of queers and foreigners to destroy and they end up being the enemy of the week instead, but for right now all they can see is the walls of the current system closing in on them. in that situation, one where inaction is going to mean immediate destruction, a course shift into trumpism is a way of staying alive today and hoping you can figure out a way to unfuck things later.

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        I don’t really see that happening tho. She barely criticizes Trump as it is. Once she loses, she’ll go back to publicly fellating Trump and saying what a great man he is. I’d love to see her go full Liz Cheney, but she’s far too self-serving for that.

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    I think she’d win in a head to head against Biden. Unless trump, which he would, sabotages her at every chance they get.

    I can pretty much guarantee that bidens folks want to run against the guy who keeps losing vs a young competent woman.

    Don’t confuse my thoughts with support. I don’t like her, I’m just realistic.

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    This is not “messing with Trump”. Anyone in any party should participate in primaries. They decide who everyone else will get to vote for, and in some regards they are more important than the general election. For example, if someone is in a gerrymandered district, primaries are the only elections that matter for district level races.

    If one party literally has only a single candidate, and thus there is no choice, don’t vote in that primary. It’s pointless. Vote in the other primary, for whatever candidate you like best, even if you don’t like the candidate. Then there’s some hope that when the general election comes, you’ll at least be OK with both candidates. In the general election, vote for the one you like best, and if the candidate you like loses that election, you made a difference in the primary. Republican, Democrat, any party or no party, it’s the way to give your vote the most influence.

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      many states restrict primary participation to past voting record.

      Connecticut for example: Section 9-431 of the General Statutes of Connecticut stipulates that only registered members of a political party are entitled to vote in that party’s primary, though a party may choose to permit unaffiliated voters to participate in its primary.[10]

      https://ballotpedia.org/Primary_election_types_by_state

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        In those places one would need to register for the appropriate party an appropriate amount ahead of time. What the field will look like overall is taking shape well ahead of time, and in some places ballots will have already been set before party registration deadlines arrive.

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    We need to help Donald Trump as a way to sow chaos in the Republican Party and guarantee ourselves a resounding victory in 2016.

    —Hillary Clinton

    Jesus fucking christ dems have you considered running a candidate that people want to vote for because he’ll make their lives better, or did Bill Clinton convince you that you can just run as Gay Reagan every election and then either you win or your stock portfolio does?

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    If Trump is disqualified or drops out or drops dead - Nicky Haley would actually win against Biden right? And she’s a fucking nutjob too. I mean they all are.

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      If the election was held today and Trump was the republican nominee, Biden would lose. If the election was held today and Haley was the republican nominee, Biden would lose.

      It’s so bizarre to me how out of touch people are with the actual state of the electorate. Joe Biden has consistently had one of the the lowest approval ratings of any president in modern history.

      For comparison, at this point in his presidency Trump, who also had historically low approval ratings, had approval ratings 5% higher than Biden does now.

      Let me say that again. Donald “Bigly” Trump, very stable genius esq., was and continues to be a more popular president than Joe Biden.

      The problem is Biden, and we’re all just sleepwalking into a furnace.

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          Yeah, not sure I can add anything to that. But the choice of suitable candidates in either party is also pretty shitty. All of them are filtered for being shit. I honestly am starting to believe the only real democracy would be something where representation are just picked at random from the population. I’m convinced statistically it would be a massive improvement.

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    Danger. Danger.

    Who am I kidding? Democrats would creme their pants to go back to openly selling our country to the highest bidder with their GOP buddies.

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        If you don’t get it, you weren’t paying attention. I don’t go high, I go low. Nobody ever won a war by playing by the rules.

        BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA

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          What of it? Do you comment “Joseph Robinette Biden” every time you see him called Joe Biden?

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            You said you didn’t get it, I explained.

            Nikki is not short for Nimarata, Nikki is actually her middle name (which is not her first name, like I said). I assume she goes by her middle name so people don’t know she’s of Indian descent.

            Joe is short for Joseph.

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            Doesn’t bother you, doesn’t bother me. I’m sure the GOP feels the same way.