I’m OK with Harris. Not thrilled, but OK.
It would have been nice to get Warren. Sanders has the same age issue (though is still mentally there in interviews) as Biden, and that window has closed. So many people at the federal level have clung to their positions for so long, it feels like as a country, we wouldn’t be familiar with people in the primes of their life actually running the show.
At 45, I shouldn’t still be waiting for my generation to have any level of power. AARP is coming for me in 10 years.
My dream candidate would be Andrew Yang.
Realistically? I don’t know. The Democrat elite is deathly allergic to genuine progressive economic populism.
In 2020 he would have been great, the recent publicity of him though, idk if he’s still the best candidate.
What recent publicity?
I just looked a bit, couldn’t find anything bad or unusual.He is a very big crypto guy
Kind of. Not in the way you think. His not at all advocating that people should be buying Bitcoin for investment, and Monero to replace cash transactions.
His ideas are around using it as an alternative form of currency that can be given to people for charitable volunteer work. A way for the government to reward people for being good neighbors and helping their community.
That doesn’t really make sense to use multiple currencies like that
It depends on the details of how the program is implemented.
Every hour you spend helping someone load a moving van, cut their grass, represent them in traffic court for free, you get 1 Sameritoken (my word). You can pay for things with it, the seller can then exchange the ST for $. The government can change the value of ST whenever it likes. During the holidays they might be worth 2x. Or the local government might give you an extra Sameritoken if you help at the local food-bank or whatever.
It’s more flexible than regular cash. And doesn’t cost anything for individual people you may help. So even if they have nothing to actually pay you with, they can always give you Sameritokens.
Someone said Mark Kelly and I think he’d have a fantastic chance to win.
Harris is good, Pete B is a fucking fantastic politician. Great personality. Great at talking. Intelligent. Great at his job as transportation secretary. Easy on the eyes and the ears.
He’d almost be a waste as VP, because he’s doing such great stuff right now. He would be a phenomenal president. He has kids right now, so he probably won’t run. But the US and the world would be incredibly lucky to have him as a president someday.
Dude is one of those down to earth people who represents the best and brightest among us:
I caucused for him and he won my state in 2020.
Jon Stewart
I think he’s way too smart to run for president. And he’s covered politics long enough that he also knows better.
I don’t care man. Just kidnap him and throw him on stage at the DNC and say “yo man we need you, say something”
Taylor Swift
younger Bernie
So AOC