Presidents are selected, not elected - FDR

https://lemmy.world/post/42839796

This plan didn’t work with Trump in 2016. Republicans rammed him in where he wasn’t (shouldn’t have been) welcome because they refused to allow any other candidate. In the same election, Democrats let their party officials to ram Hillary through because the party wouldn’t accept Bernie.

Suggest we find someone WE like and do what Republicans did. It doesn’t matter if it’s an “outsider” or not, but I’d appreciate it if we could not pick a child rapist and sex trafficker, kthx!

I genuinely think our candidate hasn’t really made themselves known to be willing to run yet. I don’t think it’s AOC this time, though I think she’s got what it takes to do the job. I don’t think it’s Harris, people still feel burned by 2020. I hope we can do better than Newsom.

Kinda still want to draft Jon Stewart because he genuinely gives a fuck, can communicate like few others, knows how to be damned serious when he needs to be, and if he were on that list today he’d be near the top if not at it, just like that. And when asked, he didn’t say no. We could do far worse and still be okay.

But yeah, I’m waiting to see what happens. I don’t think the candidate I want that I’m sure will win is on the field yet. But I hope AOC is the running mate, whoever that person winds up being.

Jon Stewart admitted he was in the Epstien Files. He was mentioned by Epstein as the type of person they needed to “properly present” one of their stories/ lies.

He didn’t have to admit anything. He just wants to be as honest and transparent with people as he can be.

Some of his recent interviews have given me the tiniest shred of hope that he may run. He isn’t flatly shutting down the idea any more. He isn’t saying he will run, but he used to be vehemently against the idea.

He definitely didn’t say no. And I think he’d be a hell of a candidate if he did. He gets it, he’s bright enough to do the job, and he’s got the connections without the social indebtedness of the average politician. And he’d pick an AOC as a running mate in a heartbeat. Plus, if someone’s worried that white men won’t elect a brown woman, Jon Stewart is about as white as I am (albino).

I don’t count him as “in the running” because he’s not said he’s willing to be in the running. But he’s also not saying no very loudly.