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Kamala Harris says she doesn’t plan to return to ‘broken’ system of US politics
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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When did she ever claim she intended to fix anything? She openly said she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently from Biden.
And followed it up by promising to appoint a republican to her cabinet.
As the candidate who lost the election, she's literally the only person who had the power to issue a recount.
She failed in that responsibility. Despite the 2016 election interference, and Jan 6th. Trump has never had a fair election, and she chose to ignore that in favor of respect?
Please. Respect is earned. Not given. Especially when the protection of our democracy comes with it.
Any reasonable, spine-having American would have challenged the results immediately rather that talk about how broken shit got because they failed in their ultimate responsibility as an American.
Why would they call for a recount? There was no reason to believe the results were inaccurate. After the election, her own staff admitted it was all a grift, and their internal polling never once showed her polling ahead of Trump.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/big-revelation-by-kamala-harriss-advisers-say-internal-polling-never-showed-the-vp-was-ahead-of-donald-trump/amp_articleshow/115781618.cms
Reason 1: Trumps 2016 election interference Reason 2: Jan 6th Reason 3 - 37: Trumps 34 felonies for election interference
There has never been better reason to call for a recount during a US election. Ever. Any thought otherwise is irrational and dangerous to our democracy.
Especially considering Reagan won 16/18 swing states at the height of his popularity. And Trump just won a statistically impossible 18/18 swing states despite Covid ravaging his voter base?
I don't give a single personal fuck about how Kamala was polling for the election.
I do however, give a massive fuck about her spinelessly ignoring her duty to challenge the outcome of this election. Without that challenge, we now have permantaly compromised presidential elections, and every branch of the government stacked with idiot sycophants unwilling to protect democratic law over Trumpian will.
The very security and trust of our elections are now permanantly shattered because Democrats wanted to protect decorum rather than fucking Democracy.
Reagan won 49 out of 50 states at the hight of his popularity. His opponent Mondale won his home state of Minnesota, making it the only state with a history of continually voting Democrat for presidency back beyond 1988.
It is not hard to believe that trump swept the swing states, politics is much less regional and more national than it was in Reagan's era.
BlueAnon
Democrats really are just the Republicans of ten years ago. So in this case: genocide denying conspiracy theorists.
Sounds like you basically already do vote MAGA. You're even doing the classic MAGA "lefties just like to complain" nonsense.
You Blue MAGA’s are just as unhinged as Red MAGA.
The fact that you can only acknowledge the GOP being openly fascist, as the Democrats declare their support for ICE raids and genocide, is exactly why you’re Blue MAGA.
Genocide apologist
Wow. You really are a genocide supporter. And anti-immigration. You just want the Dems at the helm of it. Psychotic.
No amount of walls of self righteous insults is going to distract people from the fact you're a genocide denier
"The genocide is happening in Poland, not Germany, therefore Hitler is innocent"
Thank you for showing your ass, and proving my point exactly. Completely unhinged.
Genocide denier
"The genocide is happening in Poland, not Germany, last I checked!"