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Kamala Harris running a damn near flawless campaign, with just a month 1/2 of campaigning. She’s been holding rallies nonstop with Tim Walz & not making her talking points about her race or gender like Hillary. She’s offering expanded healthcare, reinvestments back into public housing, wants to take on corporate greed, protect reproductive rights and chose a pro labor, pro education running mate.

Yet, she’s either barely leading or ties in most polls with a guy that:


Is a convicted felon.

Liable Sexual Predator.

Gets sentenced in November.

Has several more pending cases.

Increased Drone Strikes by 300%. (Joe Biden dosent use drones anymore).

Illegally killed an Iranian General unprovoked with a missle strike.

Increased tensions in Israel/Palestine with the Abraham Accords.

Wants war with Mexico (his words).

Tried to coup Venezuela.

Will bend the knee for Netanyahu’s potential war with Iran.

Lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% (lowest in history).

Obvious tax cuts for the rich.

Told people to drink bleach during the pandemic.

Is the main driving force for America’s current division.

Constantly attacks marginalized groups.

Tried to steal the 2020 election (Find Me 11,000 votes in GA).

Did Fake Elector Slates to pressure Mike Pence to not certify the 2020 election.

Caused a riot on the capitol that lead to his OWN supporters dying.

Just got washed by Harris in the last debate, was completely unprepared on anything but immigration (“I have concepts of a plan”).

And so much more. So seriously what is it? Is it just the attraction to bigotry/racism? Is it to end “wokeness”. Is it because Kamala is a woman of color? You can’t use the both sides argument like Hilary or Biden, Kamala is the obvious better choice. Could you imagine if Kamala had as much baggage as Trump? The media would lose their minds.

Seriously, how the f*** is this guy still in the race?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

We should all be glad he is still in the race. If he moves over, the republicans will certainly have a better chance to win, and I don't like their agenda at all. But fear of retaliation is what is keeping the republicans in line IMO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I agree in principle, but I feel like I should point out that mindset is very similar to what we all thought back in 2016, and he ended up 'winning' because we underestimated his chances. Unfortunately, we'll just have to let hindsight be the judge

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Lead. Like the metal

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your mistake is to consider an election is a rational competition. It's not. Not anymore, because medias make it impossible to know the truth. So it is more like a football match. People have the team they support, and for most nothing will change their mind because there's too much propaganda. When almost everything is propaganda, you get to choose the reality you "prefer".

So the point of the campaign is more about convincing people to vote in order to defeat the opposing team. Or to persuade the other team to concede.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's interesting to think how this would be if the only info we got about him was in daily newspapers and 6 o'clock news, instead of 24/7.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Greed and jail is keeping him in the race. Followed by narcissism and the drive for power. (The last 2 are a requirements for a politician of any stripe).

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

He's still in it for the fascist coup.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

People have fundamentally different beliefs, values, opinions, and perspectives. They don't all look at the same propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If he doesn't win he goes to prison, possibly for the rest of his life.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He'll never see the inside of a cell

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

America will never put an ex-president in jail.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If not he will spend the rest of his life in court trying to avoid prison.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know if you meant it that way, but my sleepy brain read it like a threat

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because his voters don't believe any of the points you make about him. Trump is able to dismiss any criticism of him as "fake news." You can make any legitimate point about him and they will never believe it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The guy is a convicted felon, and I've seen a shockingly high number of people wearing t-shirts outright acknowledging that fact.

For the upper tier of the socioeconomic scale, they only care about money and power which we had shifted in that direction. For the lower half, he continues to convince them all their problems are because of minorities, immigrants, women, poor, or any other marginalized group

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Trump was elected in 2016 because he got on twitter and was a birther dickhead.

Democrats ran Hillary and that was just a bridge too far for some Americans.

Democrats ran an old white man in 2020 and won.

2024 Democrats are running a black woman. Is that a bridge too far for Middle Amerikkka?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Running Hillary over Bernie was the dumbest thing ever in politics, she was never going to beat Trump. Bernie would have easily won and was/is still more popular

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

alsmot like its all smoke and mirrors and they didn't actually care who won, at the time. Now I think they get it but they did drop the ball, almost did this time trying to push biden.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

No they pushed Hilary because it was "her turn". If they didn't care then Sanders would have been the front runner easily.

Then it was Bidens turn, because he's been a career politician his entire life and a VP. That's how those people think about these things.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Yup corruption straight up really

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Obama won before and he was part black. Why would that be a problem now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because it nurtured the racism in a LOT of people bringing it out in the open...which led to the rise often hat orange turd in the first place, who went from a reality tv star that nobody gave half a fuck about to spewing anti-Obama shit left and right solely based on race and because he got his fee-fees hurt at a WH correspondents dinner. Large parts of the repub base are still reeling in from "black president" 16 years ago that they can't fathom "black woman president". Sadly there are a lot of em, and they vote

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Obama also is half white man. Kamala is not.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nobody thought of Obama as half white.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

But he's not a woman.

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