Kamala sucks but the optics of ousting her are so bad. She's a ghoul like Clintons, Obama, Bootyedge, Newsom which is 90% of why she's there. Dems seem to be hoping some people are won back by making the swap seem like a concession, despite it being a stolen primary for Biden's unpopular VP.
Unpopular doesn't begin to explain who detestable kamala is to anyone without tiktok Even the centrists and neoliberals don't like her
Funny, the polls contradict you.
She's the perfect candidate, a total nothingburger that Democrats can project all of their hopes and dreams on to without any pesky facts getting in the way.
I geniunely can't think of anything she is passionate about other than her race gender and ancestry
Locking up poor people 
Coconuts?
Harris’ quote:
“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you,” which she said at a White House event last year.
Some supporting Harris have referred to her candidacy as “Operation Coconut Tree,” said they’re “coconut-pilled” and have used the coconut emoji in social media posts...
Celebrating the heroes that shot down McCain?
Yeah I think the libs are having a Sarah Palin moment with Kamala, they’re snorting serious hopium on her based off the superficial, but once that new candidate smell wears off in a couple weeks the blatant weaknesses will come roaring back (who’s ready for the return of “student-loan forgiveness plan for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities”?)
(who’s ready for the return of “student-loan forgiveness plan for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities”?)
Am I the only one you noticed that both her and Hillary said the exact thing about that? Who is asking for that? Who benefits from it? It's such a bizarre specific cutout.
Honestly her strategy should be to try and pin the Gaza genocide on Joe and run away from it as fast as she can.
Like don't get me wrong she absolutely helped commit a genocide and IS a Zionist but she'd be smart to saddle Biden with all the blame for this and pick up all the disaffected voters who said they'd not vote for Genocide Joe.
it's kind of a golden moment when you put it that way
it's this generations Hope And Change
i think she has better chances than ol biden.
she can play the 'not trump' card and not be weighted down in public perception by the pesky genocide.
project 2025-like policies are probably happening anyway, so meh.
No don't you see - this is the most democratic option!!!!!!
Seriously though yeah she's an awful ghoul and an extremely untalented one. It's just the transition that's easiest for the system to tolerate.
I think she has a chance at winning but only because of abortion and negative partisanship toward Trump. If she wins it will 100% because of those two things (mostly abortion of the two), and would 100% be in spite of her campaign performance
If she wins then the Democrats will only push this type of ghoul. So I kinda hope she doesn't But then I think of our trans comrades and I feel guilty for wanting her to lose
If she loses the Democrats will keep pushing this kind of ghoul, also
Like HamManBad said, they're already only going to push this kind of ghoul. The Dem party is only this type of ghoul
There certainly is a lot of astroturfing going on, but a lot of the fools I know online who are throwing coconut trees in their handles aren't DNC bots. There is genuine excitement for her. She appears as a clean slate. She's been silent as the grave for the past four years, to such a degree as she isn't seen as Biden's biggest cheerleader. She hasn't voluntarily gone out of her way to publicly eat shit every day the way many confidently wrong Democratic figures and administration spokespeople do.
Any awful shit the Biden administration is responsible for can be conveniently blamed on him, while any good things which came to pass in the past four years can be appropriated. People fill in the blanks (and they are enormous blanks) with whatever they want to believe. It isn't much different from how many of us felt about Bernie in 2016 and 2020.
I'm not saying she's a good candidate either. I agree with pretty much everything @DesertComrade@hexbear.net says here. I just think things have gotten so much more bleak in the past four years. Our standards have been lowered to such a degree, that THIS is what inspires people.
I actually kind of buy this. The temperature was turned up so high on Biden and Trump that there's basically no heat left for her.
All she has to be is Trump's foil, and I can't really think of anyone else that's less of their own character.
my lib wife yesterday looked like she was going to throw up she had so much anxiety
today she sounds excited, complete 180
Even my well off liberal friend doesn't like her. I was kind of surprised, because he's a "vote blue no matter who" type guy. His criticisms were her record, and her lack of experience.
Kamala is a relic of 2020, that high water mark of the contemporary left's resurgence in the US. Biden was always going to be the candidate that year, but if they were going to beat Trump, they needed someone to appeal to those on the progressive to leftist spectrum, especially on the heels of the George Floyd protests which had even pulled in so many liberals that year. That was Kamala. Although she was criticized by those on the hard left for being a cop, the Black/South Asian/female angle was promoted to those who were less ideological, and her sort of crunchy stepdaughter was also paraded around, I guess for the younger/alternative crowd?
But yeah the only reason she was picked was for a bunch of reasons specific to 2020 and that very weird election year. Unfortunately the left-wing wave of the Trump years seems to have rolled back and Kamala just...doesn't really have much to offer? She was one of the weakest candidates of that primary, with little support, and one of the first to drop out. While I think she has a chance of beating Trump (or at least better than Biden) just by virtue of not being a sundowning old man with one foot in the grave, I feel like the DNC might do better to choose some centre-right milquetoast lib to appeal to the bloodthirsty suburbanites and the post-2020 right-wing reaction on which Trump has been coasting. Although this is probably who Kamala is going to pick as her VP.
who in the party though can you prop up as a center right liberal though?
This is the real electoral problem with the DNC, since it skews so old theres really no younger politicians with any contemporary buy in on there political past. Joe Biden was really the last kind of democrat of that type, and he is 80 years old. The DNC is nothing but a bunch of old people and nobodies.
Meanwhile the GOP has a recurring and new cast every election year, mostly because they can retire from politics and get onto a board of directors for random corporations, and secure the bag. There doesnt seem to be a mechanism like that for the DNC, except that when a prominent nobody loses a big election they get funneled into the party structures (e.g. stacy abrams, jaime harrison) or turned into a recurring MSNBC contributor, losers consulting future losers.
I know Joe Manchin is now an independent, but he's been suggesting reregistering as a Democrat now that Biden has dropped out. And I don't know about "centre-right," but many of the "former Democrats turned cautious Trump supporters" in my life were hoping Biden would drop out in favor of Josh Shapiro. I mean they just need someone who will appeal to the swing states and the moderate/right-wing wing of the party that they were losing to Trump due to Biden's decline and incompetence. I mean when New York is in danger of becoming a battleground state, you know you're in trouble. Even the Klobberer would be an okay choice imo. Kamala is a California liberal (from the Bay area no less) who was chosen in 2020 to appeal to progressives. She can probably ensure the solidly blue states stay blue, which Biden was in danger of losing, but I think they'd do better to appeal to the center this time around.
I think she has the best chance of winning but ironically she has the same major liability that Joe Biden had, that is being associated with Joe Biden.
Almost any attack Trump could make against Biden, barring being senile, works for Harris because she was literally in the administration. The portion of the populace that votes to punish the current president for economic downturns will hate her almost as much as Biden.
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projection levels off the charts, you're still the one supporting a genocide because it's a blue genocide
