The democrats haven’t held a legitimate primary since 2008!

In 2008 it was a genuine competition between Obama, Hillary, and a handful of other lesser known politicians. Obama won the general in a landslide.

In 2012 Obama ran unopposed. Obama won the general.

In 2016 the democrats rigged the primary against sanders for Hillary, and to absolutely no one’s surprise who was paying attention, Hillary lost the general. Why? she didn’t genuinely win the primary. Shocking!

In 2020, refusing to learn mistakes from 2016, the democrats once again screwed over bernie and didn’t run a legitimate primary - rigged it so that all the candidates except no-path-to-win Warren exited the race to split the progressive vote away from bernie. Joe biden won by the skin of his teeth, and he would of lost if it weren’t for the country reacting to trumps handling of covid.

In 2024, once again refusing to learn the democrats didn’t even bother with a primary, ran an old demented geezer as a presidential candidate, realized that wasn’t going to work, and then anointed unelected Kamala Harris who didn’t even need to compete in a primary.

And they’re shocked they lost?! These people make way too much money to be this stupid.

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    2 months ago

    And when inevitably the other side wins an election, what are they going to do but continue to pack the court? It’s not a good strategy.

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      2 months ago

      True. But if Obama picked people, at least we would have had enough to offset the loons Trump put on

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          2 months ago

          I’m saying if we had a majority before Trump installed his, then we wouldn’t be where we are. Woe wouldn’t have been overturned either. At least it would have been a big enough stopgap to ensure the 14th amendment would have been correctly followed

          Plus, even if we had 100 justices, then so be it, we have 100 but at least we’d have the majority. It’s worth having a “childish” number of justices to prevent Trump