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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Broadcasts from the future:

Wednesday, November 8, 2028: The democrats, running a Mike Pence and Mitt Romney ticket, have just lost to the a copy of Grok 3 trained on the transcripts of all of Donald Trump's, uh, speeches, and its running mate, Eye Fuckskulls, the modern leader of the Aryan Brotherhood. After having a completely fair primary in which their super delegates all reported that they would vote for Pence on day one, and all the other candidates, each having won one or two states, dropped out and pledged their votes to Pence after he won the absolutely critical state of New Hampshire, the democrats were sure of their chances with this centrist ticket. Many democrats expressed befuddlement that they lost ground in every demographic, although some strategists see a glimmer of hope in that they managed to pick up sixteen disaffected Republican voters nationwide. Some voters seemed to think that the democrats didn't make a case for why they should vote for Pence and Romney instead of Grok/Fuckskulls, but democrats disagree. "It's hard to know for sure, but my guess is that it's time to move past unpopular far left policies like only executing 100 detained immigrants a day, annexing only half of Canada, and limiting involuntary Tesla Factory labor to only the poorest Americans" said one democratic strategist.

"Stupid fucking leftists, progressives, and non-voters, Pence/Romney 'Atheist Genocide But We'll Say Sorry While Doing It 2028' was the best chance we had at restoring the republic, the damage that Grok and Fuckskulls will do is immeasurable. I guess they're just going to have to learn to vote blue no matter who in 2032!" Yelled another exasperated democrat on the TrumpNet (tm), America's isolated and heavily censored internet network.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really enjoyed reading this, thank you for the satirical sci-fi of the bullshit we're stuck with of today.

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[–] cybersin@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The democrats were wrong, they fucking lost!

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The Party cannot fail, it can only be failed.

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[–] anas@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As an outsider, I think you’re not on the side of the meme that you think you’re on.

If not voting for Trump wasn’t enough for Harris to win, she sure didn’t act like it. “Nothing to change” from the policies of the guy who was forced to step down wasn't what the people wanted to hear.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago

Well, they sure have change now! Enjoy.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I mean he was asked to step down because of the worry that his mental faculties, not due to his policies. Remember, it was right after his first debate with Trump. The following debate, Kamala roasted Trump.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah, except for the whole genocide thing. But mostly college kids protested that. You can just beat up those.

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What done is done. Democratic voters PUT TRUMP BACK IN OFFICE to send a message. If the party leaders don't get the message, then 4 years of Trump were all for not.

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 72 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Did the DNC's strategy work? No? Then the Democrats were wrong.

It's their job to convince voters to vote for them. And if they won't take responsibility for failing at their job, then they're on course to do the exact same thing in 2028 and get the exact same results.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

Exactly. You know what I would like to see? I would like to see the Democratic Party act like parties due in many countries. The norm internationally is that if you are running a party, and that party loses catastrophically, that it is your moral responsibility to give up the reigns of that party. You had your chance. It didn't work. There are plenty of people out there with good ideas. Your opinions will still be welcome. Or, for a corporate example, if you're a CEO, and you crash the company's stock, you're usually going to lose your job.

Anyone in a top-20 leadership position of Democrats in 2024 should simply be done with running things. They can't run as candidates. They can't serve party leadership roles. They can't serve on party committees. They can only participate as a regular party member.

That's how the party should be run. One strike and you're out. Let the strong survive. We want the party to be a god-damned thunderdome.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] eksb@programming.dev 55 points 1 day ago (12 children)

"Democrats are not doing enough to encourage people to vote for Democrats." is a warning, not a threat.

People who make and post memes like this seem to think that the people complaining about conservative Democrats and pointing out problems in the party are not voting for Democrats. I think they largely wrong about that. We are voting for all Democrats all the time, but warning you that your messaging sucks and you are not going to get the turnout you need. It is not our fault we were correct.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exactly. "Back the blue no matter who" is great and dandy in the months between primaries and the election, but at any other time it's a straight-up nonsense phrase. We're now well into the "Who'll be the new blue?" stage, and the last thing we need is to let some ancient, entitled, dem politician shuffle in and take "their turn" and for democrats to just go with it again. Now's the time to build a movement against the dnc establishment and for the progressive wing.

I also don't really see the point in the meme and ones like it. The election already happened, and whether you personally blame voters or the dnc, either way it's the dnc's problem to fix or they're gonna go extinct.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wrong! ANY criticism of the party means you’re a secret maga Russian plant. The democrats are perfect and don’t need to improve in any way!

/s

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Honestly would still respect them more if they voted 3rd party over not voting.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly spoiling ballots with drawings of cocks is much harder with voting machines.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

The fact that you have voting machines just doesn't seem right to me

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I’ve been voting blue no matter who for 25 years and it didn’t stop this shit

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 13 points 1 day ago

40 years and it's worse.

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[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (43 children)

Even the existence of the phrase "vote blue no matter who" is a dead giveaway as to why the Democrats failed... Again.

You cannot run entirely on simply not being the other party. That is not enough to entice voters on the fence. You might think it is and those people on the fence are too stupid so they should just "vote blue no matter who", but clearly that hasn't been fucking work for the Democrats.

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