She lost to a convicted felon and rapist.
Why would she even try again?
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She lost to a convicted fellow and rapist.
Not only that but a convicted felon, rapist, who was polling at historically low levels going into election day.
Trump was not a hard to beat opponent.
My idea is that they rigged the election, every accusation is ...
Its not necessary to engage this.
We have all the credible evidence we need to demonstrate that Harris ran a losing campaign.
at most, maybe a handful of counties were rigged slightly in favor of trump and even then probably not enough to throw the election.
all the dems have to do to win any election in the country right now is run actual people instead of bred-to-be-leaders reading off scripts, simple as
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Trump was not a hard to beat opponent.
Y'all keep saying that and he keeps winning. Maybe, just maybe, Trump is what America wants.
Biden was the worst candidate in polls against Trump. Harris was the second worst. In polls Trump was shown beating both. However, "unnamed democrat" wiped the floor with Trump. They could have run nearly anyone else... But the DNC decided not to let the voters chose who to vote for.
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Keep keeping your head in the sand regarding Democrats then.
2024 wasn't Trumps success: It was Democrats failure.
Understand the difference.
Perhaps it's both? Democrats certainly failed to get fence sitters to vote, but lots of people actively chose (and are still choosing) Trump. Look at the young male Black and Latino demographics. They didn't just sit out a Democrat vote, they actively chose Trump. The Dems may be reasonably accused of failing to activate the leftist voters who sat it out/voted third party, but Trump is STILL sitting at 35%+ approval. Americans DID choose Trump. Trump is a symptom of the disease, not the cause. They love ICE abducting people. They love tariffs. They love him attempting to bully Canada, Mexico and Europe.
It's easy to lose sight of this on Lemmy which is pretty far left of the current Overton window, but enough normies actively support what's going on. It may be a minority of Americans, but between MAGA core and undecideds, it's very foolish to say America did not choose Trump actively. The leftist no vote/undecided demographic the Dems lost was far smaller than the MAGA and MAGA curious.
People aren't that simple.
Some are. But not 35%.
When people look at their life and the world they're in and see it's all fucked, they want somone to do something about it. Trump points to immigrants, saying it's their fault everything's fucked, and he'll do whatever it takesto fix it. While Harris and the Democrats say most things are fine. In a crisis, people will vote for anyone who promises to do something, when there's nobody else offering a counter proposal.
If the Democrats had a decent candidate who was willing acknowledge how bad things are, and to truly talk about how to fix things for the average person. It would be stunning how small Trumps polling would get.
I'm not going to say Biden was perfect, but many of the "investments" Trump is using as proof of victory came as a direct result of Biden policies like the inflation reduction act, chips act, etc. He inherited inflation directly as a result of Trump abandoning "project lightspeed" and choosing to let COVID run wild, which triggered free money which triggered severe inflation, which is why people were pissed off. By 2024, prices were still elevated but inflation itself was under control. Kamala ran on "we beat inflation, and its all uphill from here" (they did, and their policies are continuing to benefit Americans), and Trump ran on "I'll reduce prices to what they were pre-COVID" (deflation is usually bad). Lina Khan was actually pursuing antitrust suits for the first time in this millennium, and the department of labor was generally siding with unions. I think the reality is that Democratic party PR is absolute shit. The main pressure of inflation was under control late in Biden admin, and Trump sold the voterbase a myth with directly lower prices.
I get what you're saying about people being desperate, but the reality is that real wage growth was higher under Biden than Trump 1 and they chose Trump 2 anyways.
Real wage growth was still negligible under Biden.
People don't notice low single diget percentage changes.
But that's not even important. Biden, Harris, the Democrats generally, were shit at selling to the public all the good things he did. They couldn't point their finger at a real problem and explain how they'd solve it, because the real problem is their donors.
The best thing he did was appoint Lina Khan. And Harris was dogged by the donor class during the campaign to get rid of her. That's the problem.
I agree with most of that but not all. People don't notice single digit, but it's still meaningful when you're talking real wage growth. Wages grew faster than inflation, even if only by single-digit. The reality was overruled by the fact that post COVID inflation had raised prices. The Democrat plan was to maintain positive, compounding real wage growth.
Biden identified falling industrial output and employment and enacted subsidies via CHIPS etc al which resulted in real shovels in real dirt building semiconductor plants in upstate NY, new construction of wind and solar plants, etc. Biden identified high pharmaceutical prices and enacted the first ever group negotiated purchasing rates for 10 drugs with more on the way for his 2nd term. Anticompetitive practices, Lina Khan. Crimes against the state, Jack Smith. Historically low violent crime rates, a successful opioid addiction policy seeing massively falling OD rates...
He and Kamala had two practical failures in Merrick Garland and Palestinian policy. The rest was an optical nightmare, and I'm not sure where the failure was but I'm not sure it was with "the donors". Kamala spent a shitload more money than Trump and somehow all anyone ever heard was "Killer Kamala" and "but she laughs weird". Whatever caused that, I think is the ultimate failure of the party.
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Dems need to give as many options as possible for the upper middle class to avoid paying more in taxes.
The upper middle class already pays too much in taxes. Their the ones paying ~40%.
It's the wealthiest 0.01% who're only paying a tiny fraction of that. They're the ones who need to be taxed more. They're the "Donor Class" who drop $20-100k on political donations each cycle. Which of course is another tax deduction for them to take advantage of.
Uhh where are you where political donations, either to candidates directly, or to PAC/501c(4) are deductible?
They are not. It says so right on the ActBlue page and everywhere else. It's a legal requirement that people be notified that their donations are not tax deductible.
I didn't realise that. I just assumed I guess.
I'd say that I wish they were, particularly as during this cycle I'm stretching my budget to sprinkle some around on good candidates, win or lose.
But, overall I think they should NOT be deductible.
I also agree with your sentiment that people in the ~120k range are firmly "middle class" now for whatever that's worth.
Of course, there are regional variables too
that money in Jackson MS is very different than in Brooklyn NY
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They changed their twitter handle from @headquarters_67 to @headquarters68_. That's it. That's the change.
Damn, not even @headquarters_69?
Needs more "YOLO420BLAZEIT" energy
xX_headquarters_Xx
lol gottem
Why are they still on the nazi pedophile's site?
Solidarity.
She loves nazis
The only change I want to see is the site closing down and her going away.
Go away Kamala. ....
I can't believe we're perpetually dealing with "giant douche vs turd sandwich" except it isn't even Republican and Democrat...
Well maybe people should Pokemon go so something productive
We have just enough misogynists in this country such that running a woman for pres seems to be untenable.
I'm not sure when we hit the proper inflection point, but I don't think Kamala is the one to do it. Probably need a combo of enough angry old dudes to pass away, while avoiding having younger men falling into the same funnel via the algorithm (so many have already been drawn into that red pill horseshit in the past 15 years or so as-is) , and a very compelling candidate that people can get excited about.
ETA: I realize it's not all men that are the misogynists, by the way. Plenty of women hate the idea of women being in office, too. Just have to see the reactions of women to that guy Elon just boosted, who wants to revoke the right for women to vote, revoke birth control, and revoke no fault divorce...
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