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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 110 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's really a good move. At this point any person under 70 could mop the floor with trump, he's still the worst possible candidate from any position, and the GOP has had zero time to poison whoever gets the nomination.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Yup. Kamala is also not a bad pick because republicans are almost certainly going to start with racism/sexism as their first attacks "Oh, she's DEI". Given trump has been trying to court the black/Latino vote, this will play against him.

Further, Kamala will be able to excellently push him on abortion. Biden really sucked at advocating for women's rights even though that's been a winner pretty much every time it's been the focus of a campaign (there's a reason Rs have backed away from mentioning it).

It'll still be close and there's still a lot of unknowns. However, I for one think this is the right move.

[–] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And now we apply the same logic to Trumps mental decline and very old age!!

Right ..?? Right!?

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's pretty hard to argue against the same reasoning that pushed Biden off the ticket. He IS too old, and clearly struggling, you put someone in their 40s and 50s across from Trump, he will look as badly as Biden did.

[–] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well.. at minimum to anybody who publicly complained about bidens age.

Now is there chance to not be a hypocrite. I hope Americans are calling it hypocrites this week. There will be many.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dosen't matter, if you convince people to say a old candidate who can't speak reasonably well is absolutely a danger to the country, you aren't unconvincing them of that now that Trump is the old confused rambler on stage.

[–] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

You don't have to convince them. You just have to ask them to behave the same way. And if they don't. Then call them a hypocrite. To their face.

Good luck!