Though in 2024's case, it was the lesser evil to voting for a corrupt, fascist billionaire (although saying a billionaire is corrupt is kind of redundant).
America hates its women. She predicted recession based on Trumpsky's "Delusions of Tariff Mastery." Atlanta Fed projected GDP at -2% for Q1 (down from +4% before inauguration). Predictions for Q2 and Q3 are at -1%. We are well on our way.
That was part of it. The big part is the American people lost faith in the Democratic Party. No one wanted the status quo with Harris just like the didn’t want it with Hillary. Until the Democratic Party recognizes this, they will continue to lose.
You should've just said woman. Although it would be disappointing for democrats to take it just like that, because also the whole campaign process was a disaster.
No, what led to its downfall was capitalism . Elon paid a hefty sum to get trump elected, and the gop disenfranchised upwards of 30 million voters in the same manner they are doing in North carolina right now ! Allowing corporations to buy politicians !
CITIZENS UNITED KILLED THE US!
I think a black guy crushed a couple of elections just prior. But women lost to the worst candidate in history twice.
It’s time to get real. Their Bible tells women to be silent. Americans will not elect a woman president.
She lost because her campaign team ignored all the data about pro-palestine groups. She lost out on SO MANY experienced political volunteers. Without them she was never going to win Michigan and without Michigan she could never mathematically win the election.
But she lost those because of media manipulation, gerrymandering, Facebook/Twitter silencing all not-fascist voices while actively creating false advertising towards those groups
You can cope all you want about how your candidate wasn’t good enough or you can realize YOU did not fight the Nazis
It literally comes down to the math that she needed Michigan and with the DNC's treatment of the pro-palestine group at the convention: she was never going to get it. Who am I to tell someone that they should vote for someone who will use their taxes to bomb their families?
Yeah, if you’re gonna choose between fake made up reasons to be a fascist and just being a fascist I guess you and the rest of the deep-seek couch analysts are going to enjoy the Palestinian bombings and Trump’s & Netanyahu’s plan for Gaza now
Note I said "get out the vote" not literally vote. There's a huge difference between voting and volunteering to get out the vote and that's the difference. When over 100k people vote Uncommitted in a state primary, you can take it seriously or you can lose. Her campaign chose to lose.
I don't think you get it. You can call people stupid a million times, but if you show people that you don't care about them by shutting them out from speaking at the Dem Natl Convention, they will not get out the vote for you. Being less horrible than the other guy doesn't win elections.
Voters can’t think critically and put two and two together when it comes to their own future and the choice between a 34 counts felon, serial rapist, chile molester, fraud, Russian asset or an accomplished prosecutor, AG, they went with the rapist because “muh feelings”
And the worst part of it is that Jewish people get blamed for it when the majority of Zionists in America are right wing "Christians" who just want to trigger the rapture
That's an aspect that concerns me greatly, that those of the Jewish faith will eventually face a backlash. Christian zionist are simply not well. The mental gymnastics they have to go through to justify their greed and insecurities is quite astonishing.
Yes, thank you! She didn't lose because she was a woman of color -- She lost because she took bad campaign advice, vis a vis Palestine, hiding Walz and trotting out the Cheneys, etc. That plus voter suppression (see what Greg Palast has to say about this) is what cost her the election.
If I recall correctly, that black woman supported genocide and paraded around with a war criminal and his daughter. Race 100% played a role but you have to look more critically at what that candidate said and did. The dems shot themselves in the foot for the 1000000th time and it cost all of us
Yes, & conservatives were willing to do the same with a white woman in 2016. 🍊💩was too ignorant & had too many constraints at the time to pull it off. Racism & misogyny is our terminal cancer.
But putting the GOP in charge of Congress means the voters didn't want guardrails either. Ppl voted for GOP Congress in 2016 to offset the expected Clinton presidency. Not this time. We went for full burn it down.
As I recall, everybody suddenly stopped talking about Trump’s fitness for office and started talking about whether Kamala Harris was black, which was of course a way to point out she is black.
That dangerous mid-grade of black that only applies when the weakest, wealthy felon fears that she will prosecute him for sedition, convict, and imprison him.
TWICE this country has refused to accept a woman in the presidency. The first one they spent 30 years lobbing false smears against her & then an old grifter whose never accomplished anything in 40 years in public office
When America choked to death on stupidity and racism, no one was actually that surprised. Everyone just kind of held up their hands and said, "Yeah, no, that tracks. That definitely tracks."
Once they accept lies about Black people, it's only a small step to accepting whatever else the liars want them to believe.
They pretend that pushing lies makes them the good guys in a battle for free speech, but really they're the bad guys in the battle against personal integrity.
I've watched my seemingly smart and ignorant white peers lose their shit in a nanosecond over Obama. One of the greatest presidents of my lifetime. Slit their own throats on purpose.
Indeed however much I adored her it was not the best decision in these times to have her run. By leaving Biden it would’ve been better to have had a snap election to put forth a known moderate white male. With the magas plus young males in the country being insecure the country wasn’t ready for her
2. Let me clarify. SOME of the country wasn’t ready for her. The small victory Trump had speaks volumes of just how close we are becoming to accepting the ability and qualifications, sex & colour aside over the old status quo. What a stellar president she would’ve made. Hilary & her, heartbreaking.
You have to admit. She was the weakest presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter. If we can't be honest about how $hitty some of our candidates are, we will continue to lose
The racism, prejudice, bigotry, and misogyny clearly run rampant in the US as they do in other countries that are still highly indoctrinated by Abrahamic religions.
It's not like the Democrats were not warned. She ran very poorly in the Democratic primaries. As a never Trump republican I was screaming for an open convention. I knew when Biden endorsed her it would be a close election. Diversity is not a good excuse for not winning.
Even better is that this country will never learn from it because it would rather legitimately kill itself than ever just confront its racism. And sexism.
It really gets to the core of our problems pretty effectively. I wish we had allowed Obama to truly be Obama. We missed out on a lot more greatness. But yup this is spot on and i agree 1000%
No it didn’t. That contributed, but Democrats haven’t been listening to us for years! This could have been a landslide election if she had put Walz in charge of platform policy and messaging. Don’t make this about race, that’s only one of the contributing factors.
Keep in mind that Harris was dumped into the race with zero prep time. As you say, had we Dems been more determined to be of and about working people, she would have been a shoo-in.
This isn’t even on her, I thought she did admirably with the framework they were working within, but the framework is broken at the DNC. They’ve forgotten the lessons FDR taught us. They’re listening to billionaires instead of the American people.
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Which is where this whole thing started.
And I'm not referring to only the Obama hate. The Civil War!
however i agree that's not as poetic
https://www.theroot.com/from-warning-to-reality-how-kamala-harris-accurately-p-1851775263
-King Kong paraphrase
CITIZENS UNITED KILLED THE US!
It’s time to get real. Their Bible tells women to be silent. Americans will not elect a woman president.
You can cope all you want about how your candidate wasn’t good enough or you can realize YOU did not fight the Nazis
Imbeciles, all of you
Enjoy the gulags now
Neolibs are not popular
#DonTheConvict
she was white, a resume as long as a man's arm,
She was white, just not a white man.
When America choked to death on stupidity and racism, no one was actually that surprised. Everyone just kind of held up their hands and said, "Yeah, no, that tracks. That definitely tracks."
They pretend that pushing lies makes them the good guys in a battle for free speech, but really they're the bad guys in the battle against personal integrity.
Read the last line in this image and how her book subject is all about what Krasnov has at the center of his policy making
Admit it, it’s her skin color, sex and her ability to fuck up Krasnov that made you vote for the Russian candidate
You MAGA maggots pretending to be something other than a racist piece of shit that you are, are not convincing anyone
Fuck off back to Twitter
Drop the hate, aren't we the party of love and respect?
Hopefully with the rest of your family
If the DoJ had done its job, the violent insurrectionist would have been in his second year of incarceration by now.
Everything else is just an excuse, not a reason.
Please stop spreading excuses.
I safeguarded my assets because I know who Trump is.
MAGA made themselves vulnerable to Trump because they fell for the conman.
Their fear driving all of us into the new dark ages.