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For weeks following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance, his campaign publicly maintained the illusion that he was still well-positioned to defeat Donald Trump. Privately, they knew otherwise. As Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau revealed days after the election:

After the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine, and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters, at the time, that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. […] Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.

The implications of this are staggering, and it should be treated as a massive scandal.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I've kept voting for the left most party with a chance, for my own conscience and for harm reduction, not for hope, for 20 years.

There's been no hope because our left most party has met their opposition so far up their ass, they only look left to a full blown fascist, and both parties openly take the same corporate bribe money.

I could at this point be easily be convinced to vote third party for an explicitly anti-corporatist party even if it didn't have a chance.

The public reaction to what happened a few days ago has given me more hope for positive change in our cesspool of greed enablement than I have felt in my entire life.

I would rather a left-wing populist steal the corpo DNC's base right out from under them as Trump did in 2016 to the RNC, but I think the DNC would rather lose than be dragged along like that and lose the gravy train that left-wing populism would need to fight against.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Blah, blah, blah... and more blah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Blah, blah, blah... and more blah.

Maybe you prefer more visual replies.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

These people could easily have crushed Trump by recruiting Michelle Obama. They chose hegemony and genocide instead.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/only-michelle-obama-bests-trump-alternative-biden-2024

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

That wouldn't have been easy because Michelle Obama didn't want to run.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

electing a former presidents wife isn't fighting hegemony

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are the implications really that staggering? Are you unable to believe the DNC would lie? They do it all the time, this is hardly news. It just confirms what we already knew at the time, which is that Biden had no chance and all polling supported that conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Yep, the DNC is a private organization and can mostly operate however they want. The real problem is the duopoly between the 2 parties that prevents any real progress. As long as each party control roughly half of the government they will keep fighting to maintain the status quo.

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