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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has to be the biggest fumble of all time lmfao

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean short of running ads on football games that literally just said "Joe Biden, our current sitting president who took office after Donald Trump, has stepped down from running for a second term. Kamala Harris, our current VP is now the Democrat nominee"...actually...scratch that, maybe they should have done just that.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think one of the problems with Harris was that she actually believes that the American people are smart, capable, pragmatic folks with a penchant for helping others. That may have been partially true about some subsection of Americans at some point in time in the past, but 40+ straight years of institutional rot and attention attacks from an increasingly shitty and incoherent media ecosystem have taken their toll.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

That's exactly what they should have done.