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“It was absolute fearmongering at its worst. There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion.'"
'My abortion is different and special'
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You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.
Oh no, a few hours delay while they verified that they weren't going to break Florida's laws and face criminal prosecution. You should celebrate, the law is working as designed!
Fucking gutter scum.
The sooner we rid ourselves of the conservative/regressive cancer killing our society, the sooner our quality of life improves.
Fuck that stupid cunt.
Actually, don't do that, she obviously doesn't understand how anything works.
Republican: Starts a fire
Republican: sticks their hand in the fire and burns themselves
Republican: in their panic, they set their entire house on fire
Republican: "THE EVIL GODLESS DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS, GOD DAMN THOSE WOKE LIBERAL DEVILS!"
"Blame the Democrats" works as a strategy because conservative Democrats will just mirror whatever a more-popular Republican is saying in order to win votes. That's how Al Gore fucked us all in 2000. That's how John Kerry fucked us all in 2004. That's how Hillary Clinton fucked us all in 2016 and Harris fucked us in 2024. Nevermind all the downticket races where some empty suit or partisan hack tries to run to the right by screaming "I hate liberals!" louder than the Republican in the race.
Florida is absolutely flush with "Pro-LIfe" Democrats. It's not uncommon to live in a blue county in a red state, where liberal municipal officials meticulously enforce fascist legislation on the grounds that they're powerless to do otherwise.
The end result is Republicans getting away with this bullshit by insisting "We don't oppose all abortions, just the wrong kind of abortions" and then pointing to the Democrats stuck with the drudgework of enforcing their shitty laws when it comes time to pass blame. Democrats could resist Republican legislation as fiercely as Republicans fight liberal laws in red states and districts. But if they're just the lackeys of reactionary state government, they're easy whipping boys.
I'm not a Harris fan by any means, but what did she do to "fuck us?"
I mean, her stance on Israel and Palestine wasn't great, but it was massively better than Trump.
what did she do to “fuck us?”
Three months campaigning with Liz Cheney, one of the least popular politicians in the country, just for starters.
And shutting down Palestinian voters, saying she'd stick to the Biden plan, not saying no more money, vetos, and weapons for genocide...
Yes, letting the guy who actively supports the genocide win was a much better option. I'm sure she learned her lesson.
I mean... trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach given the way the current voting system works.
If anything, it seems that Biden and the DNC fucked us by not having a primary. Biden should have committed to a one and done. She may have fucked us by accepting the nomination without a primary, but I honestly blame Biden for that far more.
I do agree that Kamala didn't help the situation all that much. But I still don't see how she really fucked us.
trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach
It consistently failed to win elections
It was how Biden won his election, so... it has won elections. It was just a bad strategy for Harris.
It was how Biden won his election
Biden ran to the left of Sanders in 2020
Id honestly appreciate if you could educate me on this. My understanding is that Biden never even supported socialized healthcare. I'm a bit surprised to hear anyone say he was left of Sanders.
I mean… trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach given the way the current voting system works.
How many elections must they fail to win before it finally becomes obvious that, no, it is not a reasonable approach.
And to really drive the point home, how much did Obama go to the right to win? Or how much did he run on actually trying to improve this fucked country?
I'm a bit confused, are you saying Obama was not center left and occasionally right leaning? I would have sworn he relied on market-based solutions for healthcare, supported for free trade agreements, aggressively used executive military power and drone striked the shit out of the middle east, and the maintained many Bush-era tax rates. He even had a beer with a cop who arrested a black man trying to get into his own house as an "apology" for stating the cop acted stupidity (the cop did) during his first term. So, he went to the right during his actually presidency. Am I mis-remembering these things or something?
She ran as a republican
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She should be happy she lived. Some don't.
I'm very much unhappy she lived.
"Misleading messaging" i.e. saying that the law prevents things like this instead of just straight-up shooting a toddler in the face, which is what most Republicans seem to think abortion is. Rot, bitch.
Jesus Christ, what a stupid bitch.
And all the kittycats go "MUNCH! CHEW! NOM!"
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