No One Shows Up for Dean Phillips Event in New Hampshire
No One Shows Up for Dean Phillips Event in New Hampshire
Phillips was holding an event called 'Government Repair Truck Coffee Conversations' in New Hampshire
Who?
110Everyone complains about Biden's age, but this guy actually tries to primary him and it gets a collective yawn from everyone.
I wish Biden weren't super old, but throwing our weight behind anyone but the incumbent just seems like a bad idea to me.
62It's not just his age. I don't like Biden as a candidate or as a president. I want to vote for someone more progressive, and I wish he were a stronger competitor who guaranteed a victory. He is supremely beatable in November.
But hes the incumbent president, and there's no other Democrat who would be a better choice. Unless he dies or is otherwise incapacitated, he will be the nominee, and he's the best chance at keeping Trump, or any conservative, out of office.
This guy in New Hampshire, I've already forgotten his name and it's literally only a short scroll away, he isn't a serious contender. I don't care what he does because it is irrelevant.
28I mean, I don't want biden, but Phillips is basically just biden except young, basically every policy he has the same or worse position as biden.
4Well, at least he tried 😄 second winner 😄
3he's basically a younger version of biden. keep in mind, most democrats are not complaining about his age, rather... literally everything else. though also his age is a concern in the implications. (He's been a senator longer than I've been alive... he's literally partly responsible for how we got into this mess.)
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Glad I'm not the only one, apparently all of new Hampshire as well.
20Exactly
9Uh, not Bill Murray....
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His girlfriend would've been there, but she goes to another school
31In Canada, you don't know her, but he has a pic proving that she is real! :-D
5That chick from Vancouver? I heard she sucks like a Hoover.
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You're thinking of Tim Scott.
Edit: So sorry for the typo Tom!!
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"Government Repair Truck Coffee Conversations"
WTF does that even mean? Maybe that's part of the problem?
16I feel like there's a hyphen missing.
3Conversations over coffee with the driver of the government repair truck.
It’s so convoluted of a way to say I am going to fix the government and would like to hear from you on how
3Look at the picture in the tweet in the article. Should've been, "Government Repair: Trucks and Coffee Conversations." At least "Cars and Coffee" is already a thing that some people would recognize and punctuation matters.
He's sitting on the back of a truck with Dunkin' Donuts' coffee in 22°F weather expecting people to show up. I think it shows a complete lack of awareness, and he's from a state that usually has even worse winters imo!
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It was literally like the first really cold day after the first decent snow storm this winter in New England, and it's a weekday. I wouldn't have gone even if I knew who the hell he is.
The primary candidate has already been chosen for the Democrats. Biden is probably the only candidate that stands a chance against Trump which is pretty fucking sad.
14He's the only one who stands a chance because he's effectively demanding the nomination (not an unusual stance from the party's incumbent). Any prominent Democrat could beat Trump, and probably more reliably than Biden given the polling and his unfavorables, but no one of stature will challenge Biden and risk splitting the party. Biden is not our best chance, but he's the only chance we're going to get.
5Democrats really need better candidates. Andy Beshear hopefully takes the reins in 2028
-6First of all, I love that name and am sad he didn’t finish the third one.
Second of all, Biden only wins if we give up on running someone better.
If the democrats run Biden and lose, we deserve what we get for settling for half measures
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Even more people know who Cenk Uygur is.
13Is he running too?
4He cant.
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Here's his platform if anybody wants to read it. I took a brief look and he doesn't look materially different from Biden. And Biden at least knows to cancel an event when it's 20 degrees and the roads are still being plowed. I hope.
I think the big problem in America is that we don't know what better even looks like anymore. Yeah, I could work and fight and donate and call and text for Dean Philips and I'll get more of the same. Or we might get worse, because Trump can at least draw flies.
The system is broken, and we all feel it.
13outside
amazing planning
8Who?
4They probably all went to Old Hampshire by mistake
2Everyone is shitting on him but I'd like a Democrat alternative to Biden. I don't think Biden does a good job selling his accomplishments over the last few years, and while normally I like that mentality, he has to run against somebody that lies loudly to list his accomplishments.
As long as the primary isn't tearing the other guy down, what's the issue here?
0Reporters showed up. That's the funniest part. They were ready to cover this nobody.
0They were desperate to cover this nobody for their headline to read, "Dems in disarray"
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It's a shame that this guy, who isn't wrong that Biden vs. Trump really shouldn't be our only option is being portrayed as a joke by the media rather than the story being a sad commentary on how disengaged we are as a citizenry.
-8Get off Lemmy, Dean.
But seriously this is utter nonsense. His failure to garner any interest isn’t indicative of the citizenry being disengaged. All it tells us is that nobody on the national stage gives a shit about a guy whose only job experience is inheriting the family distillery before serving one term in the house of reps and deciding to launch a long shot presidential primary challenge to get himself some attention.
Maybe, just maybe, this should be a clue that the answer to Trump isn’t a Democratic Trump.
8I don't know this guy from Adam, I have no idea what his merits or weaknesses are as a candidate.
What's sad is that our options are what they are.
It's a clear vote for Biden over Trump for anyone rational, but it's time we wake up as citizens and fucking vote, every time, every election and always for someone who wants to get money out and get better democratic systems like ranked choice voting in.
We shouldn't be piling on someone who took a shot, pointing and saying "see? only the establishment can mint our candidates." We need new blood.
That's all I have to say.
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I get what you're saying, but the type of commentary similar to "well the election shouldn't be this way but here we are" really gives cause to people to be disengaged.
Even if you really don't like Biden, look to your House and Senate candidates that may be on the ballot. Support in primaries the ones you agree with most. We have Rep. Tlaib, Rep. Cortez, Rep. Sanders who are extremely vocal about issues and that has sway across the whole party and influences the President as well, no matter who. Get new, passionate faces in government and have them make the process accountable to their constituents.
4As if what politicans say actually matters in reality. What matters is whom they serve with the laws the pass. And who they pretend to serve with the laws they pass.
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The fact that nobody showed up means his campaign is a joke, though. And even if he's not wrong about Biden vs Trump, doesn't mean he's entitled to engagement from the citizenry. Nobody showing up doesn't mean we're disengaged, it just means nobody cares about this candidate.
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