Me: [makes a joke] Random person: [goes on rant about how I'm not standing in "solidarity" with the freaking vice president] - ThreadSky

parkermolloy.com • 69 days ago

Me: [makes a joke]

Random person: [goes on rant about how I'm not standing in "solidarity" with the freaking vice president]

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morganngicquel.com•69 days ago

C’mon Parker, why are you so mean to *checks notes* what? oh sorry carry on, my bad…

peoriabummer.bsky.social•69 days ago

They’re 2 strong and coming in here 2 silence all jokes!

rackletang.bsky.social•68 days ago

Aaaand three posts before calling Trump fat. That was a good block- er, silencing.

jtramsay.bsky.social•69 days ago

When u r 2 strong 2 silence

alinaisyou.bsky.social•69 days ago

This is so far beyond parody that I actually refuse to believe a genuine person wrote it.

parkermolloy.com•69 days ago

And they wrote the same thing as a quote post because they were really proud of it

alinaisyou.bsky.social•69 days ago

Gotta make sure all 3 of their non bot followers see how clever they are. Otherwise what's the point?

devilishlydo.bsky.social•69 days ago

The next time someone misuses the word solidarity, we need to catechize them harshly.

genwil.bsky.social•69 days ago

Oh, the internet…

oshaseleven.bsky.social•68 days ago

A normal person cannot be in “solidarity” with the vice president of the United States.

deeners.bsky.social•68 days ago

This is pretty much the furthest from shanking her in the back too

snackwrapmafia.bsky.social•67 days ago

"Joke"

parkermolloy.com•69 days ago

Sorry, but I'm not going to pretend like the candidate whose shitty campaign is going to result in a shit-ton of my own rights being rolled back starting next month is anything other than a crappy politician.

eric623.bsky.social•69 days ago

two things: it wasn't her "shitty" campaign that's going to take away your rights, it's Trump's policies. maybe direct your anger at that?

condor.bsky.social•68 days ago

Why dont you fuck off.

edbury.bsky.social•69 days ago

It's okay to want the people who say they're supposed to protect us to do their jobs, Mr. Struggle.

cupric.bsky.social•68 days ago

The most concrete thing she ever said about trans rights was that she’d “follow the law”. The law in more than half the states restricts trans rights in some form with more proposed every year. Yes the GOP are behind those laws (for now), but she tacitly endorsed them and offered no alternative.

cv-danes.com•69 days ago

Who ran the demonstrably worst campaign in modern history, in fact.

ironyisdead.bsky.social•68 days ago

That gun thing was cringy, but irrelevant. Calling her campaign shitty based on it is a silly way to absolve MAGAts, SCOTUS, plutocrats, incompetent MSM, and morally bankrupt American voters. The US is too misogynistic to put a ♀️ in the WH, but a BLACK ♀️ had to save the Biden shipwreck in 3 months.

ironyisdead.bsky.social•68 days ago

And she almost did.

collapsey.bsky.social•68 days ago

When will Dems ever punish their crappy politicians and strategists who lose?

robairone.bsky.social•68 days ago

- She was an outstanding candidate who performed exemplary under the circumstances with the amount of time given — The main reason for the loss is this…

drewc.bsky.social•68 days ago

Did she win?

ethansacks.bsky.social•69 days ago

With respect, I don't think this can be pinned on a shitty campaign, which it wasn't. Particularly since it was lightyears above a clown standing at a podium droning on about golfer's penises and sharks and batteries. It swung due to a mix of misinformation (Elon's X included), bigotry, and apathy.

pinky-girl.bsky.social•69 days ago

It was a good campaign in fact.

mikekeating.bsky.social•68 days ago

it wasnt lightyears above Trump's campaign, because his won. she lost 7 million people that voted for Biden just 4 years ago

massivruss.bsky.social•68 days ago

Joe Biden lost them. Harris couldn’t pull them back in.

mikekeating.bsky.social•68 days ago

fair, but the mistake of not distancing herself more is on her

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

Agree on that point.

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

What do you think he did well in his campaign that led to his win?

massivruss.bsky.social•68 days ago

Nothing. The 2024 incumbent headwinds could easily defeat anyone.

csynthare.bsky.social•68 days ago

Appealed to the evil vote in this country.

mikekeating.bsky.social•68 days ago

gave his base what they wanted, and they turned out. GOP voter enthusiasm took a small dip while dem enthusiasm took a large one. plus of course all his normal shady shit. but the dem campaign lost significant numbers of the base

pramsey342.bsky.social•68 days ago

Propaganda

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

Succinct way of putting it.

A firehose of lies, bigotry, and gibberish for the entire campaign. Not a master campaigner. Not a master strategist. But a master enabler.

ellieprobably.bsky.social•68 days ago

An actually good campaign does not lend to apathy.

Besides, people had plenty of passion. Passion that was not reflected by Harris and top Dems, such as with support for Palestine. You can't just hand wave their problems with "it was misinformation."

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

I'm certainly not talking about Gaza when I talk about misinformation.

I'm talking about how X in particular was used to spread false information about immigrants (Haitians in particular), crime, inflation, vaccines. Which very was a factor in the election.

https://apnews.com/article/x-musk-twitter-misinformation-ccdh-0fa4fec0f703369b93be248461e8005d

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

* very much. I should not type agitated. Sigh.

ellieprobably.bsky.social•68 days ago

I didn't say that was part of the misinformation, I stated it as a difference with D leadership, including Harris, in terms of voter passion they didn't engage with or were even outright hostile towards.

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

Sorry, I thought you were implying that I was gaslighting the carnage in Gaza. I agree Gaza contributed to the apathy for many voters who rejected the party. A major factor, along with disinfo & bigotry. But pragmatists and protestors, all of us, will suffer together under the net result: autocracy.

cupric.bsky.social•68 days ago

An actually good campaign has to meet the opponent where they are at least some times. You can’t just run a “good” one by some rules that are almost a decade out of date by now. He spent $250 million to attack her on an issue she tried so hard to avoid, one that should’ve been easy for her to defend

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

The implication is that Trump ran a better campaign. What exactly did he do "better" other than:

* Going full tilt into transphobia
* Going full tilt into racism (Haitians/cats/dogs)
* Going on Joe Rogan and alt-right YouTube appealing to white-male aggrievement
* Lying about every issue

mikekeating.bsky.social•68 days ago

win

cupric.bsky.social•68 days ago

He clearly energized his base who came out to vote for him. Meanwhile hers did not energize her voters as much. Trump won because less Democrats voted, not because more people voted Republican. Plus she spent so much energy chasing a vanishingly small center that ultimately didn’t swing her way.

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

On that we last point we agree! I'm a progressive in terms of my values. Neither Harris or Biden were my preferred choice if I was running the Democratic Party. But I'll always vote defensively in a binary, two-party system because the stakes are too high.

cupric.bsky.social•68 days ago

Trans rights and reproductive rights are the conservatives’ primary targets in the 2020s. She almost entirely ignored trans rights and failed even softball questions from friendly journalists. And she was not where the reproductive rights movement was at all, treating old half-measures as radical.

ethansacks.bsky.social•68 days ago

With respect, I can't wrap my head around the idea that trans and reproductive rights advocates voted for Trump or sat out in protest, knowing the consequences if the GOP gained all three branches. I'm a cis male, and may have a blind spot, but those stakes were a big factor in my voting Democrat.

cupric.bsky.social•68 days ago

I don’t think we did. Queer people were categorically some of her strongest supporters with 86% of us voting for her. Only Black women as a demo voted stronger. But the Biden/Harris campaign’s lack of response to one of the largest issues of our times underscores other failures to meet this election

parkermolloy.com•69 days ago

If you're upset about people making jokes about politicians, you're a doofus.

devilishlydo.bsky.social•69 days ago

What do you think it's going to take to get people to stop treating politics like team sports? I ask this rhetorically, but I also kind of want to know.

songomahoney.bsky.social•68 days ago

For the last twelve thousand years it has been a large enough percentage of the population dying in short order, due to their feckless leadership. Nothing else seems to work to get people to make fundamental changes in a human society.

devilishlydo.bsky.social•68 days ago

I assume that you're referring to the first time a man who said he talked to gods hatched a plan to get a free goat.

songomahoney.bsky.social•68 days ago

Tbh, they usually wanted sex first, then the goat.

devilishlydo.bsky.social•68 days ago

If you're unclear about my meaning, to treat politics like sports means that you have very strong opinions about politics, but only as a part of your internal identity instead of as a way to preserve life, safety and prosperity.

bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social•69 days ago

Parasocial relationships are a motherfucker

parkermolloy.com•69 days ago

Freaking 2015-era callout post bullshit

suesswassersee.bsky.social•69 days ago

This is the exactly right vibe, OMG

I wonder if it's a 17 year old who missed that era the first time around

suesswassersee.bsky.social•69 days ago

I keep trying to explain to my teens that (whichever) drama was already litigated online in 2013, they didn't have to be mad about it now! They can be free!

parkermolloy.com•69 days ago

It was hell, truly

parkermolloy.com•69 days ago

Also, for weirdos insisting that she only brought it up once https://www.thecut.com/article/kamala-harris-glock-women-gun-owners.html

ouroboredom.bsky.social•69 days ago

She never should've said Glock.

parkermolloy.com•69 days ago

Again, this is straight up 2015 Tumblr-posting

motherearth19309.bsky.social•66 days ago

#men #womensrights #mybodymychoice #roevwade #women #mybodyyourchoice #fucktrump As a woman, past the age of the ability to conceive...it's still inconceivable to me that a government thinks they can impose on my right to autonomy. I'm an adult human, and you've just made me into a pet. FU #resist

docvivileandra.bsky.social•67 days ago

I like how far they're all going out of their way to avoid acknowledging you are trans, because it might spoil the clear-cut "white woman attacking black woman" narrative they're trying to spin

alinaisyou.bsky.social•68 days ago

These are the same morons who say calling them idiots is ableist.

flowstateneworleans.com•69 days ago

This is so dumb. I could understand this screenshot post if it were before the election and you were saying her Glock was preventing you from voting for her. Nothing you say now is going to make Kamala lose worse than her campaign already did.

parkermolloy.com•69 days ago

People in the replies will be like "she ran a perfect campaign! how can you criticize her?!?!" while this was how she talked about the rights of people like me during the campaign: [uncomfortably] "I will follow the law" https://bsky.app/profile/parkermolloy.com/post/3lak5w3i2qa2q

judgesabo.bsky.social•69 days ago

No, you need to stand in solidarity with the vice president of the United States! That's what solidarity means, right? When you cheer for highest ranks of the ruling class?

issuefortyfive.bsky.social•69 days ago

The BlueSky app is hallowed ground upon which we do not allow jokes at politicians’ expense. How dare you.

teegegend.bsky.social•69 days ago

He’s a big solidarity guy…

craighayes.me•69 days ago

There’s always a skeet.

mwdelaney.me•69 days ago

But you, a rando, are being mean to a member of the bourgeoisie. How dare you, Parker. How dare you.

transarchivist.bsky.social•69 days ago

yeah the black woman who has enough money to run for president is the one we should standing with, not like, literally any other working class black women 🙄

laminx.bsky.social•68 days ago

Her campaign was a good one under the circumstances. While you’re feeling sorry for yourself, maybe contemplate how black women have felt for hundreds of years. Perspective, it’s what’s for breakfast. Then place the blame where it belongs.

strkanerve.bsky.social•68 days ago

A little harsh, but I agree with this take.

strkanerve.bsky.social•68 days ago

She shoulda won on all counts and she tried to make peace with the center, maybe that was wrong but it was a choice. Things happen slowly and not in a vacuum. We aren’t going back was a great pitch, it just couldn’t penetrate the idiot wind.

laminx.bsky.social•68 days ago

🙏🤷🏻‍♀️ We’ve been dealing with this shit for forever. And even if we look white and bright, like myself, we have black sons and daughters or nieces and nephews or sisters or dads or moms who are black. They need to whine less and stop with the performative bs. We tried to tell them and got 🦗

huronreworked.bsky.social•68 days ago

I am old enough to remember when Harris couldn't even make it to the first primary in 2020.

niledunn.bsky.social•68 days ago

This pompous attitude is why she lost, not the fact that she said that she owes a gun.

edburmila.bsky.social•69 days ago

Putting candidates and elected officials who fail on pedestals, boy I dunno, is that maybe loser shit

childlessgambino.bsky.social•69 days ago

waffles, pancakes strikes again

kokujinkun.bsky.social•68 days ago

And these goobers wonder why everyone is sick of "identity politics" when it's weaponized in such bad faith manner as this.

thebestvillain.bsky.social•68 days ago

It wasn’t a shitty campaign, she did really well considering she only had a few months. Trump just had bigger turn out

twinarcher.bsky.social•68 days ago

if it wasn’t a shitty campaign, she’d have had a higher turnout

thebestvillain.bsky.social•68 days ago

Losing ≠ shitty campaign

twinarcher.bsky.social•68 days ago

touring with Liz Cheney and losing to Donald Trump = shitty campaign

thebestvillain.bsky.social•68 days ago

Trump has a bigger following than you think

vileevillevi.bsky.social•69 days ago

Stand in solidarity with a woman who jailed mothers of truant black children in CA. She needs our support

erinsiobhan.bsky.social•69 days ago

There's plenty to criticize Harris for and that poster is being goofy, but this never happened.

twinarcher.bsky.social•68 days ago

she absolutely supported the policy that explicitly said parents could be jailed for their child’s excessive truancy

erinsiobhan.bsky.social•68 days ago

I never said she didn't support the policy and very explicitly said there are things that she is worthy of criticism for surrounding the policy, but she did not jail anyone. That isn't true.

twinarcher.bsky.social•68 days ago

okay so you’re being incredibly pedantic to defend Kamala Harris’ record? Deep waste of your time if she isn’t paying for the service

erinsiobhan.bsky.social•68 days ago

I was pretty clear about my position on this, but ok! 👍

vileevillevi.bsky.social•69 days ago

This did happen actually. Sure, according to Kamala’s own mouth no one was imprisoned (charged, yes) but a substantial fine for already impoverished families is just as bad

erinsiobhan.bsky.social•69 days ago

So you agree, no one was jailed under the program. That didn't happen. Glad we're on the same page.

vileevillevi.bsky.social•69 days ago

Someone who has “law” in their bio surely knows the predatory nature of bails…until it’s paid, you’re detained…so yes, people were jailed

erinsiobhan.bsky.social•69 days ago

Look, I acknowledged that there is plenty to criticize Harris over including this program, but there has been a lot written about this topic and it is well established that she did not put any parents of truant children in jail. If you have an example that no news organization has been able...

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