• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    15 hours ago

    Doesn’t matter. There’s 1 Bernie and he’s 84.

    No one else like him exists in American politics.

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        15 hours ago

        You thinking of some obscure politician with no media flow out there just like him? Whoever you’re thinking of would need to get more than .5% of a vote.

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            21 minutes ago

            You misread me. Bernie is cool. But there is no one else. Once he’s gone, that’s it. There’s no group, he’s one man.

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            14 hours ago

            I think the point he’s trying to make is that there’s a certain combination of beliefs and personality that make Bernie so enticing to people, and his “successor” isn’t clear. Which… I half-agree with. AOC is a great contender for filling his shoes, if those coal country people aren’t too racist/sexist.

            Trump is similar on the other side. Decades of name recognition. He has a charisma that attracts people who could fall for a cult. His nonsense way of speaking lets people fill in the blanks in a way that want to see. When he goes, who do you see as being the face of MAGA? Vance has the personality of a raw potato. Desantis has views virtually identical to Trump, but nobody really likes him.

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              12 hours ago

              Yeah, I’ve seen wet blankets with more charisma than those last two. “JD” “Vance” definitely gives off a lot of failson vibes - weirdly, he seems a lot like Uday and Qusay Trump.

              And then DeSantis seems he’s always trying to be this fake alpha dickbag with that “take that mask off” stuff being growled at a goddamned KID and stomping around in those high heels of his, LOL.

              At least with Taco, many dipshits seem to think this fancy-pants Manhattanite that never worked a day in his life and skipped out on service due to “bone spurs” is not in fact a gigantic pussy, but a real Man’s Man. I just don’t see the slack-jawed yokels going for couch fucker in mascara or the height-challenged guy prancing around in high heels.

              But then again, I’ve been wrong before. I thought they’d see right through the guy with a 2 hour hair and makeup routine who was known for decades as a bullshit loud-mouthed con artist…