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[–] lasers4eyes@piefed.zip 31 points 4 days ago (5 children)

screeching that she’s “NOT qualified for office,” that she’s “stupid” and the “dumbest,” while defending his own intelligence by noting he “ACED” a cognitive test doctors use to determine if an elderly person’s dementia has gotten so bad they need to be put in full-time care

God, this guy loves bragging about "acing" his cognitive tests.

[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dr: "Ok, you passed: you have normal, average, cognitive function"

Trump: "Just ACED my cognitive TEST. The DOCTOR SAYS I had the MOST BEAUTIFUL, most TREMENDOUS results in history, ever. He says 'I see people take this test all the time, and your results are the greatest'"

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[–] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Save us aoc your our only hope

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She should run for the senate seat when chuck leaves office after he finally comes to his senses.

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

She should definitely run but also let the people choose from a valid primary.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Simple. I'm voting AOC if her name is on the ballot. Take my vote AOC!

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[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like we try to shoehorn our political heroes into running for president. Why not senator? Why not speaker of the house, even? Speaker of the house is arguable more powerful than President in the democratic party - she has the power to shape the priorities and strategies of the entire party. Nancy Pelosi is probably more influential over the state of the Democratic party than Joe Biden or Barrack Obama were

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[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

I think the only legitimate chance Democrats have is Luigi Mangione. You have to fight fire with fire. He's young, smart, charismatic, from a well to do background, and not even a felon like our current president. Also brave unlike our Republican chickenshit losers. Sanders as running mate.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only good shot Democrats have

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[–] kukui@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He's young

Right, so we need to wait 8 more years for the "only legitimate chance Democrats have" to reach the minimum age to assume office?

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Luigi, allegedly, doesn't let the rules get in the way of doing what's right.

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[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Zohran Mamdani is just the democratic primary if I understand correctly. He's not the mayor of New York yet.

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Look .... not that I have anything against women running for president .... but .... if we haven't learned twice from the shitty decision making of the voter population, 2028 is not the year to test if the US can get its first woman as president AGAIN. I'm going to chalk this up as democrats just can't stand to win and the media needs to stop encouraging that line of thinking. We'll be lucky if there even is a 2028 election. Also, did everyone forget AOC is not in the good graces of kingmaker Pelosi?

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is the realistic take. Racism is bad enough in this country that we just barely squeaked Obama into office as a half-black man. Misogyny is way more widespread. Spend about 5 minutes in an online game chat room and you'll see what I mean. Not to mention the manosphere/blackpilling are actually growing movements rather than shrinking.

I think AOC is great and that she would make a fine administrator, but let's keep her in congress for now where she can still do a lot of good for the progressive cause. There's no need to put someone who the right has spent years building up as the antichrist boogeyman as the frontrunner when we already have a poor track record of prominent female politicians losing the presidential race to the most embarrassingly unqualified candidate in American history.

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