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Thank you for the absolutely original take. I had not seen anyone put it quite like this in almost 3 minutes.
The DFL is complicit.
Hey shitbird, move on. Stop trying to get non-fascists to fight each other. Do something productive.
Well, the Ds know they need an independent issue or three to win an election, it's in the numbers (Ds and Rs can't win with only their own voters voting, they are about 30% of voters each).
And they virtually ignored this, so of course she lost. She did exactly as she was expected to do, she's not dumb. They ignored fundamental facts and instead pursued the Republican vote for much of her campaign. She fell on the sword, right out in the open, and everyone in politics knows it.
Oh yeah, and the Palestine protest votes because kamela wasn't clear enough about the subject. I'm sure Palestinians are overjoyed with how trump has helped them so far.
It won't be before long that the entire world will be thanking them
Thanks, guys!
As someone who checked the box with her name. The voting for the less of two Israeli and oligarch owned evils is getting pretty old. The denouncing Israel thing was a huge and obvious elephant in the room. That being said we are literally surrounded by brainwashed Nazi’s who worship a pedofile con man so yea this DNC approved corrupt opposition candidate thing has failed and I’m getting really sick of it. She was bragging about Dick Cheney endorsing her for god sake’s. We don’t have healthcare, we don’t have worker protections and ending up on the streets is a literal death sentence in America. Things are rough and people are pissed add the fact that education is a debt trap,and out of reach for most and you get a perfect storm of ignorance. Add the fact that our media runs 24/7 brainwashing propaganda and is now consolidating all of our media into a Nazi propaganda machine you have a dangerous situation for the world. The person that wins the American presidential election is always the person that the wealthiest want in power that’s why we have the crooked electoral college system in the first place.
It's a binary choice. Vote for not-Trump or get Trump. This was an intelligence test that America failed.
You forgot Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq ,Libya so quickly?
You people are fucking pests the world needs to get rid of. You're just in for the violence of your special flavor.
USA has always been conquering fascists regime.
Fuck Kamala, Fuck Trump and Fuck USA!
So you’re admitting that it was Harris’ devotion to an unpopular policy that killed her campaign. Am I getting that right? Why do you hold such disdain for an electorate that took a stand on an important issue, but not the candidate who made such a terrible political decision?
Because the other candidate was worse on every other factor and worse on the same issue.
You made a terrible political decision. Live with it. Or I don't know, take a principaled stand and die storming Mar a Lago. Whatever, just fucking stop defending the worst decision you ever made.
You’re missing my point. Let’s stipulate that things are worse now that trump is president. Got it. Why do you blame the electorate and not the candidate? If she had been more politically savvy, she would not have taken such a politically damaging position? It’s her fault. She is the one you should be heaping scorn on.
Abdicating responsibility for who you voted for - or didn't vote for - won't help you. Why was "Israel is entitled to defend itself" in any way more 'politically damaging' than "Let's recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel"? "Israel needs to just end it"? This is information that was available to you.
If someone's going to shoot a person you care about in the foot or the head, "I don't care" or "I can't support either" is not the correct answer. I hope you understand how your choices have made this a significantly more realistic choice you'll have to actually make some day.
Harris’ advocacy for genocide was more politically damaging than trump’s advocacy for genocide because they were appealing for votes from different constituencies. trump was soliciting votes from emotion-driven sociopaths and bigoted dullards who love to see brown people blowing up. Harris was soliciting votes from more educated, more enlightened, more empathetic people. Harris decided to throw those voters aside, assume their support, and try to siphon off the dullards. That is political malpractice. Republicans keep consolidating power because they are responsive to and deliver to their sociopathic base. Democrats keep doing the opposite. That’s why they lose.
It’s endlessly ironic and frustrating that the party that cares so little about the desires of its members calls itself ‘Democrats’.
the blame can fall equality on both. it's not all or nothing.