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We didn't need a memoir to tell us what a fuck up she was
Harris adviser says VP ran 'flawless' campaign
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Well, there you have it. Perfect campaign. No notes. Just wish Trump had been willing to debate, because we all know the problem Harris had was getting her face out there.
Time of death:
https://youtu.be/VbQXthtjUPo
This right here is when she lost me for sure.
So this is why you supported Trump (by not voting against him)? Wouldn't it still be so much better than what you have now?
Why did you vote for someone even worse than Trump? If Kamala had won, someone even worse than Trump would have got the Republican nomination in 2028. And they would have easily beat Kamala then. She wouldn't have done anything to alter the conditions that lead to Trump. And now at least Republicans are likely to lose in 2028 (dooming about the end to elections aside.) And more critically, we actually have a shot at getting in Democrats that might actually be able to do something about fighting fascism.
You didn't vote to fight fascism. You just voted for even worse fascism four years down the line.
Votes aren't wishes. The electoral college is a thing. Many states are locked down for one side or the other and it really doesn't matter who any individual votes for. In fact, being from Connecticut, I've voted for a third party for decades because I feel like it's the only way for my vote for president to potentially have an impact. Unless you know this person lives in a swing state you're being really ignorant by throwing out those kinds of accusations.
I begrudgingly voted for her anyway
Because that's the sane thing to do.
If you think Trump is worse than Harris but didn't vote for Harris then you deserve the stupid bed you helped make us all sleep in. 🤷
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Always happy to get the overnight downvotes from the euro brigade. The true experts of US electoral politics. Thanks guys!
I've only seen this phenomenon on Lemmy where it's a hard stance all or nothing about every hot topic. Also, I think many here are privileged people. After all, it's not the Lemmy user's families being abducted at immigration hearings or whose kids are losing their only meal option because Republicans ended school lunches. So they yap all day about the genocide in Gaza, don't bother to vote and the cycle repeats. Because in the end, they personally are not affected
Yep. I've got Hispanic friends (I don't live too far from Chicago) and a friend with a trans daughter who are all trying to move and figure out how to live. But then I log in here and get to hear about how the moral and righteous thing to do is sit on the couch and do jack shit until someone brings "a candidate worth voting for". Those goddam towels are always just a little too far away.
If only our opponent hadn't made a choice detrimental to us!
Yea! See how much better things are! My god! Imagine the absolute HELL we would be in had she had won!
It would be more of exactly the same except liberals would be at brunch, not noticing that it's their party that is chasing down Haitian immigrants on a horseback or deporting immigrants in record numbers or having two back-to-back years of the largest increase of the unhoused. Every time Republicans shift further to the right Democrats are in lockstep right behind them to fill the void just left by Republicans. Did you think that Biden giving ice one of the largest federal increases of funding they have ever seen with the largest expansion of detention centers was going to go unused?
Fucking hilarious. Enjoy your hallucinations.
Hallucinations would be the people doing the same thing over and over and over again and failing every time and always blame other people for their failures
Right? Like…. Not voting and expecting change! Fucking insane, I know!!
We all know you are more upset about not being able to go back to brunch so you don't have to think about politics than you are about our current conditions
Go find your debate elsewhere kiddo.