• Adalast@lemmy.world
    782·
    4 months ago

    I would genuinely cry. He is older than both of them and could literally run circles around them, both mentally and physically. I would 100% vote for Bernie and be fine with it. The vote for Biden is because the armpit of hell that I live in doesn’t do ranked voting and Trump will wreck the planet. A rotting potato powering a computer core running ChatGPT left ignored on the resolute desk for 4 years would be a better alternative to these two fuckwits.

    Seriously, why did they have to run Joe? If they had run someone in their 50’s or 60’s they would win on “well, he isn’t as old as Trump” alone. If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them. The only reason “he’s fucking old” doesn’t stick to Trump is because he behaves like a horny 15 year old jacked up on cocaine and Twitter.

    Just… FML.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
      23·
      4 months ago

      If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them.

      cough

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      This one, and Kai Winn vs Delores Umbridge. I honestly want to see the second scenario more than the first, but that’s just because I’m firmly convinced that Kai Winn would, “My Child,” Umbridge into defeating herself.

  • SleepyPie@lemmy.world
    13·
    4 months ago

    Non-American here, is it too late for him to be the Democrat candidate in the upcoming election?

    • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      Technically no, but it’ll never happen.

      The way the parties nominate candidates for president is an absolute mess, but the nominations aren’t official until the parties hold a closed convention with delegates who vote for candidates to be the nominee. Back in the day these delegates used to actually be the people who decided who got nominated. These days they’re more like a ceremonial role, with a lot of them (I think) being required to vote in line with the way people voted in their state’s primary.

      Anyway, I’d have to look it up to be 100% sure, but I’m pretty sure enough delegates have some kind of autonomy that it’s possible they could nominate someone other than Biden. Who they would end up agreeing on…? Heck if I know.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        10·
        4 months ago

        Yeah. Supreme court ruled that political parties post-2016 are private clubs that can do whatever the fuck they want (Supreme Courts ruling on DNC’s ratfucking of Bernie).

        Afaict from DNC rules , Biden needs to release his delegates for the first rounds of voting; from there it would proceed like any convention prior to 1976.

        Honestly, it would be a great thing for the Democrats to do this. All of a sudden people would really fucking care about the election.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Our Democrats would never let him win, and that’s before you even get to the Republicans. Republican heads might actually explode if we elected a progressive who dared to call themselves a Democratic Socialist.

      Meanwhile, Democrats are also crushed under the thumb of all the money big business pours into bribery lobbying, and they have already made it clear twice that they won’t let him get on the ballot.

      We’ll never get progressive policies or a progressive president unless the progressives infiltrate D to the extent maga has infiltrated R.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    131·
    4 months ago

    I’d give my life savings to see this from Sanders. Of course, then we’d lose him, so it would have to be part of his retirement announcement.

  • linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml
    11·
    4 months ago

    it would be about as democratic but atleast this way the processes would be more honest and transparent