Younger men threw their support behind Donald Trump in 2024 after favoring Biden in 2020

The United States is still not ready for a female president after more than a century of unsuccessful campaigns for the White House, according to former First Lady Michelle Obama.

“As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama said earlier this month in a live conversation with actor Tracee Ellis Ross that was published Friday.

“That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying,” she said. “You’re not ready for a woman. You are not. So don’t waste my time.”

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[–] 19 points 11 months ago (7 children)

…Politically untested? The fuck? Where have you been?

Besides, it’s not like the people are being elected are either tested or passed their tests by a reasonable amount anyway. It’s a weak excuse when it only seems to apply sometimes, just like everyone who said Bernie was too old a decade ago but who voted for Trump even though his mind was already fading then and was halfway gone this time around.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Politically untested?

    I'm old enough to remember when MEN running for US president were always famous politicians on the national level before ascending to the presidency. They wrote books, had famous legislation presented and passed in their name, were nationally noisy and nationally well known. AOC is mostly a northeastern US political celebrity. She has not been tested under political pressure that would threaten her safe candidacy.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    God, you’re such a little baby. In the 1980s the US let Ronald Raegan kick the entire country in the crotch and he was just a shit actor with shit for brains. Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected the governor of California over two decades ago and he’s not the worst but he was hardly a politician of any renown. You’re either doing this on purpose or are genuinely this stupid and both are a level of utterly pathetic that I’m surprised you can be remotely happy with yourself for even a single minute of the day.

    Take your worthless, unfounded, hypocritical, and massively sexist opinion and shove it way the hell up your ass.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    The fuck?

    She is a representative from one of the NY district. That's quite a unique situation, most of America isn't like that. AOC is an amazing, smart, young woman politician, with great ideas. This combained with her nationality, means more than half of the country hates her with passion.

    Bernie
    Bernie situation is exactly like that. He is too old, and people who would be voting for him if he was younger, wouldn't. However people who voted for trump would vote for a wet pile of rags if they affirmed their prejudices. That's a fundamental struggle of the american broadly speaking "left", you need to be a platonic ideal of a best person ever to even be eligible, and you will still lose to a platonic ideal of evil seven times out of ten.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That’s seriously your response? That she’s from NY and that means she can’t possibly understand how anything else works? That dogshit country elected Donald Trump, a dude with the opposite of qualifications who also came from New York and who lives in a huge mansion/villa. AOC has actually had a real job. She’s had to work late shifts, she’s had unreliable income. The country might not look like New York City but it’s full of people who she understands and respects.

    Take your goofy opinion and take a hike.

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  • [–] -5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    "Oh yeah? If you think America will not vote for a young smart left leaning woman with credentials, then why did America elected an old stupid right wing white criminal man twice?".
    Buddy, do you, like, have problems with all this "if a then b" stuff? Logic and all?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    You’re trying to say that the reason she won’t be elected is [reason X] and I’m saying that despite [reason X] the US still elected Trump. Your argument is bad because you’ve already been proven wrong, and given the history of US politics you’ve been proven wrong hundreds of times.

    Your low level of literacy is not a problem with me.

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