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I’m am so fucking furious that Harris got 6 million less votes than Biden.
Sure, she was a terrible candidate, but how in the world did Trump not motivate people to vote for her?
Those 6 million people had to be afraid of what was coming, right? I thought Trump motivated people to vote for Biden. I sure as shit didn’t vote for him with any enthusiasm. I was personally terrified that he’d have a mental decline and hand everything back to Trump, and, well, that’s exactly what happened.
It all just blows my mind.
Maybe after the world burns down and the people of the future build the next Rome, they’ll use some examples from all of this.
I doubt it though. They’d get it perfect and some cult would spring up and shoot it to shit again. I swear it’s hard not to be a nihilist when humanity just goes in circles. For every 100 decent people there’s one monster who crushes them all because he never thinks about what other people might go through. He only thinks about himself and everyone else pays for it.
I’m also angry as shit that all of the people who stormed the capitol are just off the hook. A few days before they were pardoned my uncle was saying, “He won’t pardon them all. They’ll look at it case by case.” I said, “ok, when he pardons them all I hope that you hear what I’m saying when I say his ego is bigger than his interest in making our country better. I would bet my balls on the fact that it will be a blanket pardon.”
“We’ll, they’ve got this woman who was talking about looking case by case on Fox the other day…”
“They’re lying. He’ll pardon them all.” I said.
He and I will be working together this week. I bet he justifies it. Maybe not, but it’s too late now anyway. The damage is done, is being done, and will not stand a chance of being undone in my lifetime.
Sorry for this. My brain just hurts. I worry for all of these people who will have their lives ripped apart. It just sucks.
Easy, as you said: she was a terrible candidate
They wanted to get that first woman "status quo" president again. It lost them more votes than it won. I can't believe they didn't even have another round of primaries.
When they shut out bernie they really fucked the party. This timeline is their fault as much as anyone else's.
AOC would have been a better “woman” candidate
The problem was that they needed someone to the right of Biden
Weird, she was old enough at the time of the election
You’re goddamn right about that. I have voted for Bernie every time I could.
In the beginning of the last primary when he had that lead for like a week, I was so happy that I cried every time I heard “front runner Bernie Sanders”.
Dems are controlled opposition and everyone knows it.
I still vote for them, at least until a better alternative comes along. But we have to build better systems because the establishment will not save us.
They keep trying to get the moderate vote for the same reason they are so baffled why people see luigi as a hero. They are clueless.
I feel that in my bones. There's so much backward progress, that it feels like I'll never see any fruit of what I'm fighting for; just trying to regain some ground at this point. I've given up on my own timeline and am simply fighting for future generations. I may never see it, but I'll be damned if I concede
It still hurts though, seeing how much progress is being lost and feeling helpless to stop the backslide. It's mind-numbing to think about, honestly
At the end of the day saying vote for me because the other guy's worse is never going to inspire voters. Elections about getting people to vote for you. It's as simple as that, you have to sell people on you. They have to vote for you. That's an incontrovertible rule of politics that will never be overcome and the Democrats don't fucking understand it.
Barely. The loss in 2016 and the tight race in 2020 wasn't enough to sound the alarms. They still tried to win with Harris because she wasn't Trump, instead of finding a worthy candidate.
Sorry, man. I despised Harris but still preferred her to win, hands down. But Democrats have only themselves to blame. Trying to blame the voters who refused to vote in Harris just because she wasn't Trump in dishonest and anti-democratic. It's the exact posture that will keep enabling Democrats to come forward with these crappy candidates and (unsuccessfully) blackmailing the progressist voters to vote for them.
Thus, the exact posture that allows Trump to win.
Third party voters didn't cost Harris the election. But if it did, you'd better your ass the Democrats would take the next election seriously. And they would win.
We talked today but he didn’t bring it up.
Tuesday we’re supposed be repairing plumbing somewhere so I’ll bring it up if he don’t.
Edit: Came back to update dude only to find he deleted his comment.
I’m sure it will come as a surprise to no one that he changed the subject and talked about all of the great things he’s got done in two weeks. Oh well.
people really do hate women
I do believe that’s part of it, which kind of bums me out that we didn’t have a primary vs Trump.
Oh well.
She could have got those votes if she had shown any kind of backbone on israel. Depite how the media and all of those corrupt people try to spin it. The majority of the silent majority can see that situation for what it really is. She came out the day before election day saying she would put a end to it and it was way too late.
Edit: Where in my statement did I say I didn't vote for her? I voted for her but ignoring why a lot of people didn't won't help. Not acknowledging how badly she handled the situation is kinda stupid.
Yeah, you showed her now! Bravo, well done! Gaza will finally prosper with trump back in power.
/s
She showed backbone relative to the alternative, which helps you make a choice between the two.
First past the post is the worst: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo