• givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    We should be getting someone in their 40s to groom them for their own presidential run.

    But short term Kelly is the smart choice. An astronaut from Arizona is a no brainer.

    I know nothing about his politics, but just from the optics of being an astronaut and his home state, he’s the smart pick.

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      4 months ago

      He also has a twin brother who is also an astronaut, that means double the campaigning and no one will know! /s

      For real though, Kelly would probably be a great choice, if nothing more than because his politics are at least okay, and his career hopefully makes it really really hard for Republicans to criticize him.

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      4 months ago

      I really don’t like that Kelly worked with Joe Manchin to attack the environment - https://web.archive.org/web/20240710182356/https://www.eenews.net/articles/manchin-kelly-urge-biden-to-open-new-gulf-oil-leasing/

      Out of all the likely names I’ve seen, Roy Cooper (well liked governor from a swing state) seems like the one with the fewest turds on his record. He made some rough pro-Israel statements in October, but when progressives in his state complained he met with them and started stressing the need to protect Palestinian civilians after that (who had just gone entirely unmentioned in his first statements).

      e; ftr, either way I’m voting for Harris

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        4 months ago

        Welp, that fucking sucks…

        But hey, if he’s the VP he gets taken out of the Senate and replaced…

        So if anything I’d say that’s more of a reason to make him vp lol.