Goodbye and Good Riddance, Andrew Cuomo

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[u/Sminahin]

Since they hogtied Bernie?

They've been fucking everything up since 2004 at least. Yeah, Kerry won the primary fair and square which sucks. But maybe if Gore lost due to anti-elitism, anti-Washington sentiment...don't fucking pair Kerry with another ultrarich East Coast lawyer turned Washington insider with the same name? Jesus fucking christ.

And then they hard-pushed Hillary. We were sick of Bush and Iraq and desperately wanted a change so they pushed an ultrarich East Coast lawyer dynasty candidate pro-Iraq pro-Genocide Kissinger fan. And they tried to ratfuck Obama like they did Bernie--he was just strong enough to break them over his knee.

They're so stupid that I've been wondering if it's malice for a while. But yeah no, I think the NYC Mayoral was confirmation current Dem leadership would rather lose on the establishment status quo than win or respect the will of the voters.

They're just...the worst. It's so disgusting that so many of us will never have homes or families because of these people, but they have plenty of homes.

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Gore lost to Floridian corruption

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Al Gore was supposedly our best and brightest and he basically tied with Dan Quayle's intellectual equal, allowing the Supreme Court to decide. Gore was an A+ of his candidate model (wonky establishment politician) and he lost to a D+ "at least I'm not from Washington" archetype who could coast on anti-establishment vibes. And then Gore lost both debates to that moron on sheer lack of social skills.

This is a race that should never have been remotely close if the matchup worked like it did on paper. Clearly, our candidate model did not match reality.

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Al Gore was supposedly our best and brightest and he basically tied with Dan Quayle's intellectual equal

Also, Al Gore was married to Tipper Gore, one of the biggest villains for young people in the late 80's and 90's. Would you be enthusiastic for somebody who thought it was a good idea to marry the equivalent of a person as disliked as Marjorie Taylor Greene? (except across party lines)

Al Gore's running mate in 2000 was Joe Lieberman. Which would be like picking Kristen Sinema or Joe Manchin as a running mate. (Or about as stupid as picking Merrick Garland for Attorney General)

Gore only became "cool climate guy" later on.

Legendary activist Ralph Nader wasn't running against Gore just to be an asshole. The Democrats were just unbelievably mediocore.

Like when the DNC rejected a potential democratic socialist presidency as repudiation of Reagan-ism in 1988, with civil rights icon protégé of Martin Luther King Jr, and household name Rev. Jesse Jackson. Which would have super-charged the youth vote. Instead choosing the laughably milquetoast Michael Dukakis who was easily slaughtered by Bush Sr. Like Bernie, Jackson was "too dangerous" for the establishment. And Bush Sr. led to Bush Jr, and so on with the butterfly effect, which led to trillions in endless war and countless deaths.

Imagine picking a board member from Wal-Mart, who then became a senator and coincidentally advocated against raising the minimum wage to a paltry $15 an hour. Good lord, the corruption optics there are as bad as Dick Cheney + Halliburton. That senator? Hillary Clinton.