• Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris.
  • Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
  • Biden’s withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race.
  • brandon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Maybe they will start to realize the persistent election cycle is not a good thing. I would love to see a ban on all election campaigning until 90 days before said election but that wouldn’t get past a 1st amendment challenge.

    • Avicenna@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lets start by putting a cap on how much money can be spent on campaigns and keep it at a very minimal level.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      1 year ago

      Just do publicly funded elections, including things like publicly funded frequent small debates where the candidates had to appear as reasonably competent adults who could defend their ideas, and resurrect some of the regulations like the fairness doctrine and caps on media consolidation

      The dogshit quality of the current election coverage is mostly a problem because it is the only type of coverage that is available. I think if there was a widely available and well funded type of election coverage that wasn’t this cash grab horse race ad supported bullshit, the bullshit would have to compete against it and would lose and improve as a result.

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    1 year ago

    I guess if only they spent more endorsing their own agenda instead of smearing it wouldnt matter right? 🤷‍♂️

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Why? There’s only downsides for Democrats. Trump supporters clearly don’t expect him to sound like a reasonable person and undecided voters are either nonexistent or so incapable of rational thinking that they may as well be. All that leaves you with is the potential for more Democratic infighting if Kamala does poorly in any area.

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    1 year ago

    This would be a good time for republicans to campaign on all the politics they intend to run. Lol. They’ve been unusually silent lately. because they can’t find common ground on anything but being anti-democrat.

    GOP will implode on itself if Democrats just stay silent for a week or two.

    • Plopp@lemmy.world
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      they can’t find common ground on anything but being anti-democrat.

      Sadly that’s all that’s needed in a first past the post system that has boiled down to two parties. It’s only tribalism at this point.

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.

    Curiously, they’re not mad about the multiple tens of millions of their dollars being spent on Trump’s lawyers.

  • Avicenna@lemmy.world
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    So they are basically admitting that their whole campaign argument was “Biden is bad Trump is not Biden” and now that he is gone, the argument is invalid. After all if it was a campaign mostly about Trump’s positive qualities (in their perspective) then it should not have really mattered who the opposition is.

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    Yeah I bet the skeevers are upset, regularless of the new nominee Trump is almost surely going to get destroyed in the next debate. Also now most of Trump’s points against Biden apply to himself instead of the other candidate.

  • ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place
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    1 year ago

    Now their candidate is the old fuck and is a felon who’s fighting against a black woman (!) that used to send felons to jail.

    Of course they are pissed! As they should be!

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      I absolutely can’t WAIT for the next debate.

      and Trump can’t chicken out without looking like a Chump…

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        He will chicken out. He’ll pull some excuse about unfair rules or a biased moderator that will be completely and utterly transparent to everyone except his base.

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          It’s transparent to his base too. It’s not that they don’t see the lies, it’s that they don’t care.

          To Republicans, winning matters more than playing by the rules. This isn’t some gentlemanly game of chess. It’s a knife fight. The future of their country hangs in the balance, and the only thing that matters is being the people who steer the ship. If you have to lie cheat and steal to get there, so be it.

          The Dems need to wake the fuck up and start doing the same.

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      Nice, I didn’t pay attention this weekend and this is the first I’m hearing Biden stepped down.

      Great way to start a Monday at least

      • ABCDE@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Harris is not confirmed, by the way, just a presumptive nominee. The Democratic Party is gathering behind her as it stands.

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            The Democratic National Convention’s rules committee are also set to meet on Wednesday to discuss the process for picking a new candidate.

            I imagine they won’t just push her forward, but who knows.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Well yeah, they’ve probably printed enough Geriatric Joe propaganda to last all the way to the election.