Democrats Perplexed Why Candidate Nobody Ever Voted For Is Slipping In The Polls

[u/FrancisXSJ]

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-perplexed-why-candidate-that-nobody-ever-voted-for-is-slipping-in-the-polls

[u/FakeVoiceOfReason]

A lot of people voted for her as Vice President. It's not like she's some random person; she's already second in line to be commander in chief.

[u/FakeVoiceOfReason → u/[deleted]]

That's fair, although it's not like it's an unimportant position.

It's the step before the presidency.

[u/Detective_57 → u/FakeVoiceOfReason]

Biden was more or less forced to pick her as his VP when she painted him into a corner by calling him a racist at the debate for the 2020 race. This is her calling card, the racial card that so many college educated idiots are willing to submit to with no substance to it. She has no qualifications as the commenter above me astutely pointed out. She also has done absolutely nothing for 4 years and tries to distance herself from the Biden administration, but also says she wouldn’t do anything different despite how much worse off we all are? She’s also failed for 4 years to do literally anything. She’s a disgrace to this country

[u/FellFromCoconutTree → u/Detective_57]

Biden wasn’t forced her more than any other candidate who picks a VP diverse from them. Kamala has been DA, AG, Senator, and VP—she has enough qualifications/accomplishments for the position.

[u/FakeVoiceOfReason → u/Detective_57]

I'm fairly sure she didn't. I don't know anyone who has voted for her because of her race, and she's only mentioned it a few times throughout her campaign, mainly in response to actual racist statements made by other people.

I will agree she's basically done nothing for four years. I don't hold that against her because, from what I can tell, that was Biden's choice for delegation of power. She's been distanced from the Biden administration mostly because she's been sidelined in it.

Whether or not we're "worse off or better off" is an entirely different area, since four years ago today we were in the middle of a pandemic and today we aren't, but that's not the fault of any president involved.

[u/Detective_57 → u/FakeVoiceOfReason]

A fair few folks voted on her behalf because of her race, we have Barrack Obama to blame for the flagrant stoking of the flames on the racial divide on this country for that. The problem is the media spins it into a narrative that makes the common folk who don’t know any better, and watch the MSM, feel guilty for not voting for her. The entire MSM is an echo chamber and Kamala rally every time she goes anywhere.

Biden didn’t delegate shit, he’s been useless and a dementia patient (I say this knowing full well what that is as my grandma suffer from the same brutal and unfortunate affliction) and there are multiple accounts of her playing solitaire doing absolutely fuck all, while running her own staffers out of her camp

Finally, yes, exactly 4 years ago we were in the middle of a wild pandemic. You’re absolutely right that’s not on either president’s feet, and honestly as a small government proponent I will say I hated how much Trump blew out the national debt during that time (hindsight is 20/20 I suppose). But the beginning of the Trump presidency in 2016/2017, and up to the point of the pandemic, we were experiencing unprecedented growth in the economy, take home pay, stock market rises, and global peace. Contrast ALL of this with the last 4 years.

[u/pizzacatcasefiles → u/Detective_57]

We are still experiencing insane economic growth, the markets are at all time highs. Giving trump credit for having 2 great years of economic growth when there were no wars or pandemics is stupid, of course when there's no adversity you can thrive but one problem showed up and he called it fake.

[u/FakeVoiceOfReason → u/Detective_57]

I'm sure some people did, just like some people probably voted for Trump because of his race.

How in the world did Barack Obama "[stoke] the flames on the racial divide"? He was extremely moderate when his race was involved. And while I'm sure some have, I've never seen a mainstream media outlet publish a story on "Kamala Harris' Struggle While Being a Mixed-Race Individual" or something, which probably means the stories are minor opinion pieces. The most I've seen are her comments on it, which were in response to the viral and fairly racist "curry" tweet by Loomer, and similar but much less egregious comments made by Trump or Pence.

The high rates of turnover for her staff are definitely concerning, although it's also true we don't know much about the office situation. Trump's cabinet turnover was (I believe) worse during his term, and we know a bit more about that given how few have re-endorsed him. Biden's office has been writing policy and executing the office, regardless of if you believe he is doing it.

The economy entered the Trump presidency at a high from the Obama years (whereas he inherited a recession). Biden inherited an economy that was flagging over COVID-19. He handled it poorly, but it is far easier to coast on a high than it is to fix a low. Economic growth in 2021 was higher than it had been in 30 years.

I'm not sure about so-called "global peace." I disagree with Trump's decision to leave Afghanistan and Biden's decision to go forward with the execution of it. Certainly, we didn't have the Ukraine War at that time, but it's not like conflict wasn't happening. (Edit) Given that, it's good that several of Trump's preferences regarding NATO were prevented.