Lord Businessman II: The most "The Democrats!" thing that could possibly happen is Harris getting swapped in and immediately losing

The most "The Democrats!" thing that could possibly happen is Harris getting swapped in and immediately losing

If this happens I’m certain everyone responsible will hold themselves accountable

I can already see the post comparing the NYT post-debate op-ed page and the post-election one full of every single person and group they’re pointing the finger at

tbf in this scenario it’s not like there will be any meaningful future presidential elections for them to opine on

We are not getting away from these wretched people this easily

The worst timeline - no more free elections but still having to listen to these dopes.

That way they can say "At least we Did Something!" Lol. No. They will blame everyone else for waiting too long, or choosing wrong, or failing to hit Trump hard enough, or, or, or. If Biden or Harris loses it will probably be for reasons beyond their control, yet recriminations will *abound*.

"Success has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan" 😃

on the one hand she probably wouldn't have half her own party screaming at her that she's unfit and MUST resign. on the other, her 2010 AG margin

my read of her 2010 performance is more “unusually good year for california republicans with an unusually strong slate of candidates” than “harris is uniquely terrible.” the evidence being her subsequent performance in statewide races.

yeah, I mean I wouldn't say she's uniquely bad, just that it's no guarantee of anything

People are underestimating how different a candidate with no discernible reason to run is from a “candidate who has had history thrust upon them.”

After Biden’s speech last night about respecting the “institution” of the Supreme Court, I’ll take my chances with Harris over the guy who *definitely* is not equal to the moment.

Harris does not make my emoprog heart go pitter-pat, but at least she hit national politics after it was possible Republicans could be “partners” on anything worthwhile

Which is also basically the most recent polling in a nutshell.

Problem is "not uniquely bad" does not exclude "bad". Have you taken the time to watch her in front of a mic? It's uncanny valley shit - if AI is real it's powering this cyborg. That this also describes other bad candidates does not inspire confidence against trump.

honestly hard to tell if she just accidentally takes a second Xanax some days or if that's when the chatbot breaks

I don't think we like any of our Attorney Generals, she was roughly as popular as Xavier Becerra and Rob Bonta.

I don’t know that a 14 year old state election is predictive of much!

an off-year election at that

She was running against the very popular incumbent of the largest and most diverse county in CA, in a GOP year, in a state with a GOP governor, and 2 years after Prop 8. You might as well say gay marriage is threatened in CA in 2024 because of the success of Prop 8 in 2008.

No, you'd have half of the left screaming that she's a cop.

Honestly I wonder if it will actually matter that much either way because so many people will just be voting against Trump.

This would be the New York Times’ primary goal over the next four months.

And then we’ll hear about how we should have picked a Better Candidate but hey it’s not like we didn’t have four years to do this but are now cramming it at the eleventh hour like college students

And who even is this Better Candidate? Do they have one?

I haven’t heard anything other than a list of names of folks who haven’t definitively said “I’ll do it”

Also that, always a list of names.

It is whoever the advocate's favorite candidate from 2016 and 2020 was, we just need a big blender that can hold 30+ people

It would be a classic example of giving voters what they’ve been asking for and getting a “but not like that” in response. I still think she’d have a good shot at winning just by being decades younger than the competition

RFK jr is only in the conversation because he isn’t Biden or Trump. Harris can also not be Biden or Trump and actually be President at the same time!

The amount of infighting and blame will make 2016 look like family feud.

Wait wait wait what about Harris is swapped in at the DNC and picks Joe to be her VP.

Just like "We're gonna win...WITH JOE!!" and everyone just fuckin loses their minds

luigi loses by doing absolutely nothing

Dick Francis calls these things 'a dead cert'.

Or she wins and then just swaps to Republican.

Trust me when I say she'd sooner drink bleach

That’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard today

Come back and drop a link if ya find anything even stupider in yer adventures today... I'd love to check it out.

I very much doubt I will

Not with a defeatist attitude like that!

I think it would be giving the pundits and media exactly what they say they want (all new candidates) and then putting up Mondale numbers.

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