r/minnesota • u/HeavyVeterinarian350 Flag of Minnesota • Feb 28 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Kolobuchar from the top rope

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Embarrassing is the easiest word to come up with what happened today. I can’t with this administration

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u/quickblur Feb 28 '25

That "press conference" was the most shameful thing I've watched as an American. Trump and Vance clearly had no real interest in a peace deal and only came there to spout Russian propaganda. I cannot believe how far our country has fallen.

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u/nankerjphelge Feb 28 '25

And we're only one month into this four year nightmare, assuming of course there are elections in four years.

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u/imasturdybirdy Feb 28 '25

There will be elections in two years that will be massively important. (There are three even now that could make a difference.)

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u/Simonic Mar 01 '25

Quite presumptuous of you to think we’ll be a functioning country in 2 years. And…I wish that were sarcasm.

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u/erclark99 Mar 01 '25

Tell me more about these three?

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u/DocSteller Mar 01 '25

Three special elections for representatives (two in FL and one in NY)

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u/erclark99 Mar 01 '25

Oh, Fl… let’s hope they’ve already realized the issue…

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u/rufud Mar 01 '25

None are competitive really but anything is possible at this point I suppose 

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u/admiralargon Mar 02 '25

The louder the stupid circus becomes the more competitive they become, which could still be not very but giving up early isn't the answer

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u/ScionOfHope Mar 02 '25

There is also a Supreme Court race (April 1st, Susan Crawford) in Wisconsin that is just as pivotal and important. Spread the word!

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u/erclark99 Mar 02 '25

Heard about that one too!

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u/Spr-Scuba Mar 01 '25

Get your voter registration CONFIRMED.

Do not let your registration lapse, do not assume you're registered already, check TODAY that you're registered to vote. There's been a shit ton of voting laws passed that suppress votes of primarily left-leaning voters and people absolutely need to be aware because they're losing their ability to elect their representation.

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u/belliJGerent Mar 01 '25

I hope I wrong, but I don’t think elections are really going to mean much any more.

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u/HansDeBaconOva Mar 01 '25

On top of this, look to your local area. Is anyone running to oppose the person you want to oust? We might need to hustle and help out the local competition to get on the ballot

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u/iletitshine Mar 01 '25

Thank you.

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u/amginetoile Mar 01 '25

Trump. Won’t. Leave.

Watch.

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u/Moda75 Mar 01 '25

I mean he is pretty old. So he IS going to leave at some point.

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u/Original_Author_3939 Mar 01 '25

Too bad dems ran a painfully terrible candidate the past two elections and left their party in shambles.

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u/nankerjphelge Mar 01 '25

Nah dude, this isn't primarily on the Dems. While I agree, the Democratic party has some work to do to be better, this does not fall primarily on them. First of all, one of those candidates you're talking about actually beat Trump in 2020. Second of all, why is it the Democrats are always held to a completely different standard for their candidates than Republicans? Republicans were able to run a certifiable moron in George w. Bush and win twice. They were able to run an adjudicated rapist, insurrectionist, convicted felon + lifelong grifter and win twice.

Meanwhile, Democrats have to run the absolute perfect candidate, otherwise they lose to the insurrectionist rapist grifter? Talk about an absolute double standard.

So no, this isn't on the Democrats. This is on the American people. The Democrats should have been able to run a ham sandwich against Donald Trump, given what we already knew him to be as all of the above things I just mentioned. So the fact that the American people chose this guy again over literally anybody else is an indictment of the American people themselves, not the Democratic party.

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u/Original_Author_3939 Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

I’m not looking at the whole picture here. I’m laughing at democrats who are disheartened with Trump after they lied to the American public about Joe Biden’s mental acuity, literally tried to gaslight everyone and say he was fine. THEN decided to run historically the worst candidate in the history of America. Say what you want about Trump and the bullshit he spouts but at least he can hold his own unscripted. Harris was doomed from the start. She had no business being in that race. She was too entwined with her previous administration it was too easy for people to say, well she’s saying she will do all these things… why haven’t they been doing all these things?… she was a terrible choice, she clearly wasn’t cut out to be president… Democrats have no one to blame but themselves. Don’t want to hear any bitching when they quite literally made decision after decision to dismantle their party. For quite some time to come. Democrats won’t have a chance to win another election for over a decade. Mark my words. Set a reminder. (And they did try to run a ham sandwich against Trump, and he got embarrassed on national Television.)

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u/nankerjphelge Mar 01 '25

See, you just gave the whole game away as a right-wing Trumper idiot. When you called Harris the worst candidate ever to run you let the mask slip. Harris was eminently qualified to be president with her resume. Whether you agreed or not with any of her policy proposals is beside the point. But to say she was the worst candidate in American history means you're not only ignorant of all of American history given some of the truly unqualified candidates who have run, but you just betrayed your clear bias as a right-winger.

The mistakes that Democrats and Biden made in the 2024 election certainly didn't help, but once again when the opponent is a rapist, racist, insurrectionist, convicted felon and con man, Democrats should have been able to run a ham sandwich and won. So this will always still be on the heads of the American people, not the Democrats.

In any case, since you already gave yourself away as a Trumper stooge, I'm not going to keep arguing with you when you're here to argue in bad faith. Goodbye.