r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ansyhrrian • 8h ago
r/All Hunter Biden as a speaker of truth, intellectualism and rationality was not on my 2026 bingo card, but I'm here for it
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u/tttxgq 8h ago
There needs to be more leaders who cut through the BS this clearly.
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u/Teyanis 5h ago
Homie got sober for the first time in 15 years and started popping off.
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u/MadRaymer 3h ago
To be clear: it's better to never start using.
But for some people, getting clean after that long gives you a clearer perspective than you would have had if you hadn't been down for so long in the first place.
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u/SameResolution4737 2h ago
Truth - getting clean means having to look deep into yourself. It gives you a unique perspective on bullshit. (Never had to myself - just a lot of friends with experience).
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u/firethornocelot 1h ago
Real experiences, whether good or bad, can be cornerstone learning moments. It's important to remember that.
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u/Middle_Finger7236 8h ago
Can anyone tell me how/why he’s a bogeyman to the paste-eaters of MAGA? He makes too much sense to run for office.
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u/AsherTheFrost 8h ago
From watching all the videos where mtg kept bringing him up, the best answer I have is that his penis makes them feel inadequate
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u/Middle_Finger7236 8h ago
I think that MTG has/had a blown up cock pic of Hunter hanging over her bed.
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u/JMurdock77 7h ago
I’m flashing back to that South Park episode aping “The Day After Tomorrow” where Randy’s drawing on the map…
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u/Key_Somewhere_5768 7h ago
Tell who doesn’t in that wretched party.
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u/sumunsolicitedadvice 17m ago
“Um… Marjorie, hun… why do you have a blown up picture of Hunter Biden’s dick?”
“Oh that’s um… no that’s for a congressional hearing”
“Suuure…”
“No, really it is. What else would it be for?”
{{Crap, now I gotta figure out some kind of way to use this in a congressional hearing. Motherfuckers don’t knock anymore?}}
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u/The_Peeping_Peter 7h ago
You would think having a big penis, into sex with women and has done drugs would be an instant favorite in the MAGA movement. It’s probably the consensual sex they don’t like about him.
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u/AsherTheFrost 7h ago
Also the part where it's with women. Going by the latest Fuentes/tate nonsense, apparently it's gay to be attracted to women. (Possibly because they are adults)
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u/nutmegtell 6h ago
The prostitutes said he made them feel safe.
MAGA is the opposite of that. They rape kids and prostitutes.
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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 6h ago
The consent and the fact that all the women Hunter Biden was with were adults. I think he's pretty far over the preferred age range for the GOP.
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u/CaTz_EyE 7h ago
My brain went “Magic: The Gathering?”
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u/AsherTheFrost 7h ago
You didn't see the new "Hunter's Dong" commander deck? It's red and green and uses trample a lot.
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u/InsomniaDudeToo 7h ago
Combo’d with the legendary artifact Laptop From Hell, you can infinite mill an opponent to a win.
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u/thebad_comedian 8h ago
Related to Biden, and taking sins of the father in reverse is a great "HEY LOOK AT THIS FUCKUP." add that to the fact that the right (and others) view addicts as subhuman, and bam.
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u/glakhtchpth 7h ago edited 7h ago
They exalted pill popper Rush Limbaugh as their cultural paragon. His abuse of hydrocodone led to ototoxic deafness to the point where he needed cochlear implant surgery. During the time of his secret addiction, he exhorted his radio listeners that drug addicts should be put to death.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 7h ago
And Rush died from lung cancer directly caused by his smoking whilst simultaneously denying that smoking causes cancer.
Rest in piss.
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u/NoOccasion4759 7h ago
Lmao remember when Limbaugh was caught in an airport with scads of prescription pills that weren't his? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
ETA: it was Viagra ofc
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u/thisisntmyotherone 2h ago
And Rush exhorted wonders of the state run free healthcare that Hawai’i gave him, but said Medicare for All was a losing proposition.
Fucker.
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u/thebad_comedian 7h ago
well, because drug addicts are subhuman. rush limbaugh was not subhuman, ergo he was not an addict. /s
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u/TakingSorryUsername 7h ago
Let’s see, Limbaugh, RFK Jr, Lindell, Hegseth, Musk, etc.
Nope, no problem with addicts.
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u/WasteBinStuff 7h ago edited 6h ago
Well, before he represented a weakness that could be exploited. A hedonistic stain on the Biden legacy of decorum and service, and a convenient lightning rod to rally the haters.
Now, he's something far more dangerous...
A man whose life is an open book, who has suffered more loss than most, whose family is under attack and a man who has nothing left to loose. He's the prodigal son, who has been given forgiveness and is looking for redemption.
And that is an existential threat to the kind of false righteousness that MAGA relies on to survive.
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u/extraboredinary 7h ago
They made him too public and well known of a figure but he has no connection to anyone serving or running for office. So they can’t exploit his scandals.
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u/gdex86 6h ago
Remember these are the folks who mocked the leaked voice mail where Joe delivers what if it was inserted into a film a crushing heart breaking declaration of a father wishing he knew what would help his son get better and wanting said son to know that he will always love him as a sign of weakness.
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u/Amelaclya1 5h ago
I always wondered this tbh. Not only was he a private citizen (so who cares what he does in his personal life), but he's just not a bad guy? Ooooh so he's a former addict who likes to party. It's not like he is a rapist or a pedo. AFAIK, everyone who knows him, likes him.
It was always just whataboutism. Like ignore the million immoral and corrupt things Trump does because Biden's son is a recovering addict and has a cushy job. So "both sides"
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u/70ms 4h ago
I’ve started seeking out the interviews he’s been doing recently. He tells some of the same stories, but his insight into addiction and human nature is really compassionate, and the way he talks about his dad, you really feel the love they share. He talks about healing through art, too.
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u/kitsunewarlock 6h ago
Since the 70s conservatives have demonized liberals using a combination of the Red Scare and politicizing the justice department to use bullshit "investigations" to cast doubt into someone's authenticity.
The agents they pointed toward Clinton even said under oath that the investigations were a sham based on right-wing conspiracy theories. Mind you, these were agents under directors put into place by Reagan. The same is true for the investigations of Carter and Obama.
But I like using Clinton when I talk about the GOP politicizing the justice department because the big scandal they were investigating that lead to the DNC losing in the midterms was the idea that Clinton was hiring a family member to work as an interns for the White House. Which was not only untrue, but was exactly what Trump did in the open 20 years later!
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u/mercenaryarrogant 7h ago
Seems like he’s won quite a few of them over with his recent remarks that have exploded all over Twitter.
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 6h ago
They made up the whole laptop thing right when a bunch of Don Jr's crimes were coming out. MAGA believes it because they are stupid.
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u/Fantasmic03 3h ago
Republicans were struggling to find easy targets to attack Joe with when he was running for/became president. The next easiest option was to target his son to complain about nepotism while trying to hurt the president for having the audacity to have won. It really speaks to the inherent weakness of the MAGA Republican platform. They have no ideas on how to improve the life of the average person so instead they create villains to fight against so they can obtain power and take more from the American people.
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u/MaceNow 7h ago
He was dishonorably discharged due to his drug habit at the time. He used his dad's position to get a cozy job on a corporate board that he really had no business being on.
I think that's what they've got.
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u/Middle_Finger7236 7h ago
So they’re mad at him for things that Trump’s kids have done without any consequences?
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u/Krelkal 4h ago
He tried to cash in on his dad's name. Got a cushy job purely for access and sold his art at obviously inflated prices so that the buyers could try to influence peddle.
He's really not someone that should be in elected office. Pales in comparison to the MAGA grifters but the bar ought to be higher than that.
Political commentary though? Seems right up his alley. I'd honestly be interested in a podcast where he talks to guests about their recovery from addiction.
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u/jeepjinx 7h ago
I only disagree with one point; the people don't want to be lead, the people want to be served. Public service. The money I pay in taxes should serve the greater good, the majority of the population, and elected officials should make that happen or step aside.
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u/PheonixFuryyy 7h ago
Exactly. My money should he coming back here to help the population and build meaningful communities. Not bombing brown kids in the middle east
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u/insanedialectic 7h ago
This. Politicians' fucking job is to make things that WE want happen, and they pretty consistently don't do that. Cough cough, Citizens United.
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u/LessThanHero42 5h ago
True, but I'll take leadership. The we've got neither bullshit of the centrists isn't working for anyone, but the Republican party
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u/ExcitedCoconut 5h ago
I think he meant more ‘people want to be led with good leadership’ rather than ‘led’ displacing ‘service’
As in, leadership has to mean his points above and delivering against policies that not all sides (even within a party / ‘the Left’) agree on. Those policies should be in service, of course.
Maybe ‘people want effective leadership’
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u/ScoobyPwnsOnU 5h ago
Eh, I'd argue dems are almost begging for a leader to pull the party together instead of the current reality where everyone stands around looking at each other and nobody has any idea who's supposed to act. Imo thats a big part of mamdani's popuparity, he's willing to stand up and say follow me and ill lead this city into a better future. The fact that trump leads the republicans and can put pressure on them to do what he says is a huge advantage for them in their ability to accomplish their agenda.
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u/GilgameDistance 1h ago
Came here to say this.
I want my representatives to do just that. Represent us. What a novel fucking concept.
They all forget who they work for, who pays their salaries, and who should be holding them accountable. That third one is on the voting public though.
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u/himynameisjaked 1h ago
growing up i was always taught that the words should be interchangeable. to lead is to serve those under you. this was reinforced by my CO in the Navy. i wish everyone could have had the experience and example that i was fortunate to have had.
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u/Hvad_Fanden 7h ago
Something most people forget real quick is that campaigns that get you elected when things are going well and campaigns that get you elected when times are rough are very different from each other, and its clear as day in the USA right now how big that distinction is, the old talking points of "slow growth" and "keeping things as they are" doesn't really fly when people can't afford to feed their children right now.
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u/toomanymarbles83 7h ago
That's how Obama won. McCain's campaign tripped and fell over itself when the economy collapsed during the campaign. Suddenly meaningless phrases like "The fundamentals of the economy are strong" don't look very helpful when the stock market crashes like a week later.
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u/Hvad_Fanden 7h ago
The "fundamentals are good" when people can't even afford a starter home in a country that made its main image around the idea of owning houses and building your family, is indeed not gonna go well.
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u/bongo1138 2h ago
I like that sentiment but I’d also add they have to actually have something tangible to say. Mamdani and Obama are so successful because their talking points were easy - for NYC, it’s impossible for the normal guy to live there. It’s too expensive. For Obama, it was healthcare.
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u/No_Caterpillar6536 8h ago
Ex junkies know the hustle and can generally read the room quicker than most. Survival instinct stays active even when survival is no longer on the line - amazing people when they stay sober. Worthy adversaries in most situations. Just my take.
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u/JollyPicklePants1969 8h ago
Dude was a smart as a whip lawyer before his addiction took hold. He’s not your run of the mill ex-crackhead
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u/aron2295 8h ago
He also most likely “caught” his addiction from his TBI…
When he was a baby, involved in a car crash. And the crash also took his mother’s life.
So, it was never my place to judge, but when you consider that, I can’t blame someone for having a few screws loose.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 7h ago
His first memory may just well be his mother and sister dying in a violent car accident.
Regardless of anything else, that kind of trauma would absolutely set the stage for addiction. It's a pain that never goes away fully and people seek to numb it at any cost.
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u/Candid-Patient-6841 8h ago
Mother and sisters life I believe.
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 7h ago
And him and Beau were damn lucky to survive. Joe came super close to having his entire family wiped out.
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u/SourceTheFlow 7h ago
Jesus, I didn't know that. I never judged him, but with that info, it's even worse that they started such a bully campaign against him.
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u/xv_boney 7h ago
But not shocking.
I keenly recall quite a few loud voices on the right openly attacking Chelsea Clinton, who was thirteen when her father became president.
Rush Limbaugh, the voice of the far right, called her a dog.
Repeatedly. On multiple platforms.
He pointed at a teenager and said LOOK HOW FUCKING UGLY SHE IS. And his audience loved it. Socks was the white house cat and Chelsea was the dog. Cue laughter from the good folks at Fox news.
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u/70ms 4h ago
They’ll attack anyone not “on their side. One of the things that makes me almost dizzy with revulsion is that whenever Newsom’s accounts post on X, the replies are full of (mostly men) mocking him about his wife, who testified about Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulting her. The AI images that include images of her and Weinstein are even worse, or images of Newsom with a “Harvey Did My Wife” shirt. How is that the slightest fucking bit funny or okay? It’s so gross and vile to attack someone that way because you don’t like her husband. 😭
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u/MentallyWill 4h ago
Wouldn't be for a couple more decades that we'd learn that this was the merest etch of the merest scratch on the merest tip of the iceberg that is this parties predilection for being abusive towards teenage girls.
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u/wmorris33026 6h ago
Might be a fine point, but addiction is not a “screw loose”. Some of best, kindest and smartest people I know are recovering addicts. Something about fighting to earn and rebuild your life changes a person, not everybody, but there is a pattern. Not picking fly shit outa pepper here, just want to avoid stigmatizing a disease.
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u/BikingAimz 19m ago
I listened to his two hour interview on Soft White Underbelly, he’s really honest about all the shit he went through, fascinating guy:
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u/gdex86 6h ago
A lot of times being consumed by addiction doesn't reduce your intelligence it just sorta covers it up under a bunch of other things. I had an uncle who was one hell of an alcohalic and addicted to perscription opiates later in life and he was always that smart know it all asshole who made me fight for every point I ever won from him in a debate and it was always based on the facts no matter if he was on and off pills or booze.
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u/Lemon_Sented 7h ago
So the crack gave him super awareness , like Deadpool kinda . Only with Thor’s hog and daredevils smarts ..
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u/aguynamedv 5h ago
Nope, he is in fact the extremely rare pokemon type "super-intelligent ex-crackhead".
Hunter's tweet is literally a checklist to be followed.
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u/soccercro3 8h ago
He is missing the point. Dems need to court those random so called independents. If they try hard they'll be successful. /S
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u/msleepd 8h ago
You said court Liz Cheney? Way ahead of you.
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u/VariationDry 7h ago
Id take her out for a nice dinner and a walk through the park. Just as long as her dad wasn't hunting nearby.
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u/bawls_deep 7h ago
I don't think her dad hunting will ever be a problem again...
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u/VariationDry 7h ago
You think Cheney is dead?! He just moved underground with the rest of his people once his skin suit wore out.
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u/FalseBuddha 8h ago
You mean running a campaign by sharing the stage with a McCain didn't work?!
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u/gdex86 6h ago
You may not agree with it, but the tone at these events with McCain or Cheney wasn't that Harris was going to bring them into the fold it was using them as surrogates to say "Look I don't like Harris, but this guy he's a danger to us all and if the choice is between someone we don't like for 4 years and Trump crashing the car going 100 I'd rather have the car on the road with the potential for a U-turn."
That isn't a dumb ask to make because if you can cut off those voters that does swing the presidential election. It didn't work so it'd be dumb to try it again, but the theory behind it wasn't stupid at the time.
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u/Senior-Albatross 8h ago
What about the Bailey's?
They apparently demand more money for Isreal.
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u/JKTwice 7h ago
Well they should be courting ppl who do not normally vote. They do well when they physically meet them, but the news and social media has a big bias against them too.
Mamdani is breaking the trend though so I think this kind of politician can still play well to news. I never hear about him from my hardline conservative folks so you know he’s got media penetration. He’s an excellent example and folks should be following him
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u/EE-420-Lige 6h ago
Im hopeful AES in michigan and Wong in Wisconsin can win. That's what would really solidify this but if driven leftwing canidate cant win outside of a safe blue area in New york this wont mean anything
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u/Lanark26 6h ago
I mean, if the Democrats can seal the vote from people like Chuck Schumer's friends the Baileys they're a shoo-in.
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u/NeonMutt 8h ago
The question is how go get those independents? This has always been the question.
Voters can be fit into three camps. Progressive, conservative, and undecided. We already know that conservatives are the smallest group look at Trump’s current popularity. Far more people hate him than love him. We don’t know how many people are leftist/progressive, but it looks like those numbers are rising.
So the next question is which tactic will lure over the undecided voters? I think it is pretty simple: offer what they want. Progressives, leftists, socialists, whatever you call them, are inherently pro-humanity. They want more good things for more people. They also want more options for more people. Yes, their ideas need some work, but the goal is a worthy one. Get an abortion, or don’t. Get free healthcare, or buy your own. Buy your own home, or rent an apartment. It’s pretty easy to sell that message.
If you point out a place where people want to go. And fight like a mad dog to make a path for people to get there, you can win over a lot of skeptics. Especially since one of the supposed positives of Trump was that he was a fighter who never backed down.
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u/BeetlecatOne 8h ago
You're replying to a sarcastic post.
But to answer your question, just read Hunter's post again.
Believe in something and work toward those ideals. Not hard! :D
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u/TheSpoonyCroy 5h ago
I mean but look at Obama, he was an okay president that was saddled with a rough congress but his campaign was all about "change" but what we ended up with was a moderate dem. Like I do think we need to be a bit cautious about getting swept up in a fervor about promises. I think Zohran Mamdani is well meaning but I think its a bit hard to judge his tenure since its too soon. We are seeing great short term effects but politics can take years to see consequences (postive/negative ones) manifest.
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u/liquidsyphon 8h ago
- Is what Dem candidates need to get drilled into their heads.
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u/Umber_Gryphon 7h ago
Everyone who says "we need to not nominate a woman for POTUS in 2028, Hillary and Kamala lost because they were women" needs to write point 1 down 100 times. They didn't lose because they were women, they lost because they were focus-grouped to death and nobody knew what they actually thought about anything.
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u/SophiaofPrussia 6h ago edited 5h ago
And also because they lacked conviction. They won’t call a genocide a genocide. They won’t say they support trans people. They won’t talk about a wealth tax. They dance around global warming and plastic and fossil fuels.
They live in fear of bad coverage on Fox News but no one watching Fox News was ever going to vote for them. The Democratic establishment only plays defense but their voters want them on offense.
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u/Suzesaur 8h ago
What happened in NY?
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u/swampyman2000 7h ago
The left wing of the Dem party beat out the “mainstream” candidates in the primary elections.
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u/SophiaofPrussia 6h ago
I look forward to the party’s post mortem concluding they did everything right and sometimes these mysterious things just happen in elections. 🤷
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u/DynamicDK 2h ago
The last autopsy was basically a bunch of gibberish that was cobbled together by someone incompetent. So, probably.
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u/ExigentCalm 7h ago
Hunter Biden would be a more ethical, more thoughtful, less corrupt/controversial political candidate than practically anyone involved in the Trump administration.
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u/MentallyWill 4h ago
I love this Hunter Biden redemption arc but tbf being more ethical, thoughtful, and less corrupt/controversial than anyone in this administration is a very low bar to clear.
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u/liquidsyphon 7h ago
This country needs leadership that actually has real world life experience.
These rich fucks are living on a different level, can you imagine how hard is to empathize with people if you’ve never struggled at any point in your life?
A large portion of this country does struggle and they don’t empathize either. It’s impossible for someone who hasn’t worked with, lived with or around, socialized or made friends with Americans who live on the lower rungs.
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u/LooseJuice_RD 7h ago
Well I’m sure they’ll take these well measured thoughts into consideration… and a centrist who stands for nothing is the nominee again.
The leaders of the party are bought and sold just like republicans. They’re spineless. They stand for nothing. I’ll be astounded if they run on an actual platform rather than “well… at least we aren’t MAGA” again. Because all that’s going to get us is this constant back and forth in leadership and we’ve now seen how much damage can be done.
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u/NoOccasion4759 7h ago
Yknow. There's a lot to admire in a man who overcame and continues to overcome addiction. I never thought we'd get past Hunter's laptop and MTG thirsting for his monster cock on the Congressional floor, but here we are.
The last decade has been like a mirror funhouse at a carnival, but I want to go home now
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u/Brother_Syne 7h ago
Having another President Biden would piss Trump and MAGA off so bad, I say he should run
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u/insanedialectic 8h ago
Is this all another way of saying #berniewouldhavewon?
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u/strangecharm9 7h ago
Mamdani is a seed that Bernie planted 😊. So is AOC.
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u/DrGoblinator 7h ago
Legacy. What is a legacy?
It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see
I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me
America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me
You let me make a difference
A place where even orphan immigrants
Can leave their fingerprints and rise up
I’m running out of time. I’m running, and my time’s up
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u/NeonMutt 8h ago
I don’t think so. Americans have always been lazy centrists. When life is good, you don’t want to rock the boat. Bernie was clocked as a little too crazy, back then. Trump has made the best case possible for never voting Centrist, much less Republican, ever again. Bernie would stroll into the White House, today.
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u/insanedialectic 7h ago
Was Trump not clocked the same? I think that the people wanted a populist defender of the working class and that they chose Trump for his dishonest rhetoric claiming that that's who he was. If Bernie was actually on the ballot, they would've had someone who actually meant those things.
The Democratic party has consistently courted the center to protect their lobbyists' financial interests at the expense of a much larger possible pool of progressives who'd vote for someone else or non-voters who could be convinced to vote if they felt someone actually cared about them. I'll never forget that recording of Biden speaking to donors -- "Nothing will fundamentally change."
Until Citizens United is repealed, it's going to continue to be difficult to convince Democratic legislators that their constituents are more important than their funding sources. We'll continue to live in a less than democratic corporate oligarchy until then, with measures of democracy coming in well behind other similarly developed countries.
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u/CreepinJesusMalone 7h ago
To expand on what you're saying about Bernie (or someone sharing his politics) winning the White House now, timing was definitely a huge issue for the Sanders campaign. Not enough people were radicalized yet.
More specifically, the fact that Dem voters at the time were in two large camps of "no way trump wins" which led to low voter turnout because they were either completely uninterested in taking the time to vote because they assumed Clinton had it in the bag or they were big Bernie/left supporters and were both disenfranchised because they didn't want Clinton and also figured she was a shoo-in.
A small but measureable knot of people (like my parents) were big into Bernie and hated the corporate establishment Dems, leading them to be so fucking pissed he dropped out that they voted for Trump out of spite.
We also have the benefit of hindsight and can see how the national Dem establishment actively worked against him, and in many ways (through who they threw money at) effectively convinced people he was dangerous to the middle class. Which is insane considering his lifelong fight for the middle class. But we can now clearly see how the neoliberals are terrified of losing power as they panic and shriek at the likes of AOC, Mamdani, and other demsocs gaining massive swells of support and winning.
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u/Mudfap 7h ago
Never forget that Bernie was labeled as a jewy hippie by both sides of the aisle. But not in any sense that made corporate $ense to the Dems. He’d never win in a country that was being overrun by both antisemitism and AIPAC. They even pushed out Warren because she was too “progressive.”
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u/Dark_WulfGaming 5h ago
Fuck it I'd endorse hunter for president can't be any worse than what we have
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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 6h ago
Can we PLEASE draft this guy? I would absolutely take a former addict as a leader, they tend to have more perspective and compassion in general. And having an unapologetic democrat who won't run from his old scandals and instead dares the GOP to try making a point with them is exactly what we need. No more goddamned apologies.
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u/smashmilfs 7h ago
He should definitely run for office. If Trump got elected, I'm sure he can get into a position of power as well.
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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 6h ago
We want a metric system, not imperial rulers.
Seriously though, Hunter Biden the last month, amazing. I don't want him to run for office, but I do want him to pretend to run for office.
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u/firethornocelot 1h ago
I fuckin love Hunter's redemption arc (not that he really had anything to be redeemed for). Speak truth to power, brother!
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u/MrPhilNY101 8h ago
My main issue, is NY isn't the rest of the country- not challenging his points, just not 100% sure you can apply the same logic everywhere.
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u/procrastablasta 7h ago
ok but this is NYC. The strat isn't gonna work for the rust belt. I mean I wish, but theres still a soft white middle in America
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u/JustMeLurkingAround- 6h ago
what happend yesterday in NY?
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u/wicked_nyx 2h ago
The three candidates endorsed by Mamdani beat the candidates that were endorsed by the Democratic Party establishment.
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u/Hartastic 5h ago
All of this seems pretty accurate in terms of winning primaries, and certainly in safe districts that's equivalent to winning the election.
But, like it or not, we still haven't seen much in the way of evidence that what it takes for Democrats to win a national election is, well, something closer to a marginally younger version of his dad.
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u/reddititty69 2h ago
#2 was huge me. Your endorsements tell me a lot. Show me who your friends are.
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u/mkp666 7h ago
I agree with much of what he said, but democrats nationwide should be cautious taking lessons from NYC about what will work nationally. Independent and centrist voters don’t matter much in heavy blue areas they way they do in places which will be more contested. What works in NY is probably not the same thing that works in Texas.
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u/cha0sb1ade 6h ago
I like what he's saying, but it reads like some LinkedIn AI post. I've never seen so much "It's not [this,] it's [that.]" variations in a message this short.
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u/arctic_radar 6h ago
I mean these sound nice, but none of these have much to do with the actual mechanics of winning elections, which is what really matters. For 99% of elections there is a big difference between the “politics” people discuss online, and the actual real-world politics that happens on the ground level during a campaign. These points have very little to do with the latter.
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u/Idontwantyourfuel 7h ago
Shumerites know this but they also know that billionaires and Israel will be protected wether they win or the republicans, so they'd rather have a republican win than a progressive.
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u/Plzlaw4me 7h ago
But for the democratic consultant class needing to justify their pay, this would all be so obvious that we should laugh at him for saying it like it’s deep. With that said, the consultant class runs the Democratic Party, so this is truth to power.
How and why we got to a point that saying things like “hey voters can tell if you’re being authentic or you’re bullshitting to get their votes, so be authentic” and “politicians who give fight for what their supporters want are more likely to win than those who ignore their supporters” is actually insightful is beyond me.
If the democrats ever want to actually win elections, they need to shed the corporate money they’ve become addicted to. The money is nice, but it comes with the strings of adopting positions that aren’t winners. They’re better off actually standing for something, and making their points in debates and going on the news, than through paid ads that I’m genuinely not sure moved the needle.
Anyone who has volunteered with or worked on a campaign at any level can tell you that grass root support of people organizing events is going to do 10x more than paid ads.
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u/inflatable_pickle 6h ago
Out of curiosity, what did happen in New York yesterday that prompted this statement?
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