It's starting
Good job. Keep going. Overextend to your heart's content, I'm sure the country's law enforcement and courts will be positively impacted and it'll help with your future endeavors.
It is far from a garden variety of corrupt bureaucratic bullshit which it might at first appear to be. Corrupting the fed carries with it a huge amount of invasive control over private individuals' and businesses' money all across the country, which Trump is pretty much guaranteed to start abusing if he's allowed to get away with this.
Indifference of the media to our wretchedly corrupted political system
You're not grasping what I'm saying. I'm more or less agreeing with you that her campaigning was bad. My point is that, also, for things to even get to that point where this election was close whatever she did (even with people crying out for some kind of change to the point that anyone who wasn't a politician looked like a step up to them), a lot of groundwork got laid that had absolutely nothing to do with her.
Some of it was the Democrats betraying the working class for the last 32 years, some of it was media. Some of it was her campaigning, too, sure. It's not an either or thing.
Don't forget the I word, that's a big one too
Without trying to diminish the importance of this specific point about misogyny I would extend that this is true of a lot of statements that people reject or see as wild and out-of-pocket when they hear them.
Most of the time, people are talking sense according to what they've lived, and if it sounds crazy to you then you need to get more of the full story and learn about the context from them and why they think that. It's not always. Sometimes people are just nuts or hateful or w/e. But most of the time, if you dig into that "she's talking nonsense that doesn't make any sense" statement you will find some good sense in it. It might not be the end of the story but it's usually an important part of it. Most of the time.
Oh... huh, yeah, I see your point. I hadn't watched the actual video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwt7hMaNaBQ
You can see how bothered she is by the question and how careful about endorsing him. Yeah, that's kind of bullshit.
If the election was decided on the basis of "which candidate is going to give us what we want," Trump would have gotten about 15% of the vote. Look around at what's happening now, and it hasn't even got really ramped up yet. We've got years and years more of this stuff. And it's going to get worse (not just politically but in terms of economic suffering, the final death of American science and education, stuff we haven't even really had on the radar yet).
I don't disagree that some of her campaign strategy was bad, keeping Biden in that long was bad, all that stuff, but also... if the people are choosing diving into the empty swimming pool instead of the full one, then sure you could say you could spruce up the full one to make it more enticing and make sure the water's not too cold, but that's not the core of the issue.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, so I'll just answer it straight: There is basically nothing that any establishment Democrat could say about Mamdani that would make me think any different about him. It's a little bit relevant for his prospects whether they officially endorse him, because it means money and institutional support and it probably will sway a decent number of establishment-Democrat voters. But mostly I'm speaking about it as a way to test the people doing the endorsing or not endorsing. Harris doing right by endorsing him doesn't really surprise me, because I already thought she was basically okay, but some of the others it would. It wouldn't really make me think positive about them, more than anything I would take it meaning the DNC consultant narrative and awareness of where people are at is catching up to reality which would be a good thing. Does that answer?
She never was the dogshit that people made her out to be, it's not really that surprising in a way it would be for people like Pelosi or Chuck Shumer.
I mean it is the normal thing to endorse your party's person who won the primary, it is only a handful of real pieces of shit that are holding back on it. The problem is that those pieces of shit are highly placed in the Democratic party sadly enough.
Edit: Oof... I hadn't watched the actual video. Yeah, it's at least 30% dogshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwt7hMaNaBQ
Yes but the next and final phase of it is starting now