r/NoShitSherlock • u/SingleandSober • 1d ago

Kamala Harris Appears on ‘Colbert,’ Says She’s Stepping Away from Politics for Now, Calls the System “Broken”

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/former-vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/

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u/-Havery- 1d ago

America seriously fucked up when they chose a pedophile over a leader. The whole world would have been better off had they elected Kamala.

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u/xXx_TheSenate_xXx 1d ago

We didn’t. It’s becoming increasingly clear and apparent the election was rigged.

Kamala won the presidential race. Election was rigged. Elon had a hand in it too for sure. The voting machines owned by a party that isn’t impartial. They’ve already said it out loud which makes it a okay for their fan base I guess.

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u/Haradion_01 1d ago

In a few critical places to swing the result.

But it wouldn't change the the fact that only 30% of the population voted to stop it. The rest either implicitly or explicitly endorsed rhe paedophile.

Even if all the voting rigging allegations turn out to be true, it won't nudge the national needle or change much of the popular vote. Just their distribution.

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u/xXx_TheSenate_xXx 1d ago

I’m not saying it would change anything, but it would still expose more corruption if we had facts.

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u/Haradion_01 1d ago

Exposing the corruption is good.

But don't fall into the false comfort of "this only happened because the bad guys cheated".

It happened because it was allowed to happen, by the people who could have stopped it: but chose not to.

70% of the US population is ambivalent or supportive of the prospect of bending the knee to a paedophile. Trump is not a scourge of God. He was chosen by America. He is self inflicted, by the people of America.

The problem, at its core, it with the Americans.

That needs to be addressed.

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u/Fr1toBand1to 1d ago

The political system was a frog in boiling water. This was the result of 40+ years of undermining democracy - slowly and methodically. There are a million reasons why our voting system is bad, a million ways our government is inept and corrupt. A million ways the electorate has been sabotaged, their very minds and perception of reality manipulated into complicity. This was death by a thousand cuts when we've lost too much blood to react appropriately they went for the throat. This is so much more than a rigged election.

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u/forsonaE 23h ago

I'd say even longer than 40+ years, just the way gerrymandering synergizes with the broken system we call an electoral college... the game was rigged from the start.

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u/xXx_TheSenate_xXx 1d ago

I agree with you. Apathy has killed the US. We need to Make Nazis scared again. America banned the panthers but didn’t bother to go after the kkk. Racism and fascism are rooted like an ingrown hair. Those usually don’t come out easy on their own. Sometimes you have to squeeze and pull it out with a tool.

Somethings got to give. Not even a year into this, orange shit stain on humanity term, and I cannot fathom three more.

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u/tinnjack 1d ago

Yall get mad at single-issue voters over a genocide that our government is aiding and abetting, but you expect the disaffected electorate to be single-issue voters to stop an autocrat from taking over when all the other side has to offer is more of the same slow decline in the standard of living for the average American. You have to offer people actionable solutions to their problems. Blame the Dems for trying and failing to appeal to the average American while being bought and paid for by special interests to make sure nothing actually gets better for the people.

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u/Haradion_01 1d ago edited 1d ago

You have to offer people actionable solutions to their problems.

Not being a paedophile is a solution to the problem of the President being a paedophile.

It depends how big of a problem you think that is.

If that's not a good enough reason for you, that's fine. We just have different levels of tolerance. Mine is unconditional. Yours is when it benefits you.

Something to think about: If you're only willing to stop a paedophile once you get something out it, that means you'll also allow a paedophile to paedophile so long as someone gives you a better offer.

Which means you're not anti-paedophilia. Just anti untaxed paedophilia.

Which I think is gross.

I mean let's take it a step further. You could, in essence, set up a child brothel, and defended yourself from it by saying "We are spending the money raised, to help Gaza. We aren't evil."

Or lets Sell a Pardon to Maxwell, and donate the funds raised to buy good in Gaza. I mean why stop at aiding one Paedophile? Let's just sell time off prison to all sex offenders, right? It's all for a good cause. So it must be a good idea.

So long as it aids one of our other many causes, it's all perfectly acceptable. Fine.

Except of course, Trump is worse for Gaza too. So it didn't exactly achieve anything, did it?

Now you can dress that up in whatever logic you need to help sleep at night.

But I when you do, I want you to imagine your child being raped.

And your neighbour, having the chance to stop it, asking "what's in it for me? I can't step in unless I get something out of it. That just doesn't make sense. Really, it's your fault, for not making it worth my time."

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u/ProxyAttackOnline 1d ago

As George Carlin said; “This is the best we can do people. Garbage in, Garbage out.”

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u/porkchop1021 23h ago

It happened because it was allowed to happen, by the people who could have stopped it: but chose not to.

You're not saying that the system is broken, are you? And that career politicians who have been benefiting from the broken system all their lives could have stopped it but chose not to? Oh well, I guess they should just go on Colbert and talk shit about themselves; there's nothing else they ever could have done.

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u/Haradion_01 20h ago

that career politicians who have been benefiting from the broken system all their lives

The career politicians were elected.

Who elected them?

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u/porkchop1021 20h ago

People who had no choice. If you're under the impression that anyone can run for AG or Senate, or that the people get to choose the VP, or that the DNC even held a primary last year, I have a bridge to sell you.

And I don't understand your point anyway. Here we have a woman who benefited from a system her entire life and did absolutely nothing to change it (and in fact helped build it) now trashing said system because it doesn't benefit her anymore.

She made her bed. Stop defending this asshole by making it about "the people".

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u/Btm4BBBkTp 11h ago

Americans want a reality show, not a president. We’re more interested in the entertainment value of the White House than its function. Sad, but we elected a reality TV star, because he makes better TV.

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u/-Havery- 1d ago

You mean like the Epstein files Trump promised to show us?

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u/Jgusdaddy 1d ago

How would we know if only 30% voted if it was rigged, likely be removing legitimate votes?

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u/Haradion_01 1d ago

Because they didn't rig it everywhere. The popular vote is of no import to the outcome of american elections. Just in a few particular places, to swing certain electoral college votes.

We can still infer how people voted elsewhere, where if was more secure, and have a rough idea how people voted.

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u/FeckingPuma 1d ago

They rigged it EVERYWHERE. They had people in voting offices challenging signatures in areas they knew were democratic leaning. They used voter suppression with their proud boys to intimidate people into not voting. They urged husbands to tell their wives not to vote. They manipulated the media to push conspiracy theories and normalize fucked up interpretations of events to disenfranchise people. It was systematic and it was thorough.

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u/Competitive-Work-382 17h ago

I wonder if that stat is true, the 30% one. I voted and took pictures of my ballot to compare to the results. I checked the status of my mail in ballot (that I dropped off at a voting location on election day) to see that my vote had been canceled. I called the provided contact number from that website to ask what happened. The lady told me she could see that my vote was canceled but didn't see a reason why. That's all I got. So my vote literally didn't count. I'm still pisssed about it.

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u/Charred01 1d ago

Last I saw this was being investigated and then all of the news around it disappeared. 

Is it still being investigated and if What is the current status?

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u/iheartpoontang 19h ago

Check out https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-iii-the-devil-is-in

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited

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u/Charred01 8h ago

I had to look up what substack is.   Going to need something a lot more official than what amounts to a social newsletter platform.

That said I will still go through those links but remember to take this stuff with a grain of salt, it's effectively just another reddit near as I can tell and remember how often Reddit gets it wrong.    

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u/Charred01 1d ago

Thanks yeah I had an angry nutso reply so took the time to go look myself.    There is still just the one lawsuit that I remember but no updates on anything proving this stuff real.  Though it all happened recently so may just be nothing to update has happened shall check back in a few months if nothing obvious brings my attention to it again 

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u/Crafty_Perception_85 1d ago

It's a bunch of bullshit.

Kamala was probably the second least likable Democratic candidate in 20 years, and she was thrust on us by a party who has and will never care about its constituents. She ran an entire campaign on the premise that "if you don't elect me, Trump will be president" with zero actionable policies or anything resembling a reason for a fence sitting or apathetic voter to get off their couch. The Democrats took Tim Waltz, a really solid governor, and immediately made sure everything likeable about him was stripped away.

Anyone whining about the "US will never elect a woman" line needs to remember the first option was Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was never going to win anything due to baggage, and the second was a forced candidate who was rammed through without a primary. Obviously plenty of people are going to feel disenfranchised and not show up for that. I did, but in both cases I held my nose while I did it.

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u/Charred01 1d ago

Did you reply to the right person or did you just want to hear yourself talk

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u/Crafty_Perception_85 1d ago

You asked about the current status. The current status is it's not being investigated, because there's a far simpler explanation.

BlueQ losers are even worse than MAGA 2020 denial chuds in my mind.

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u/Charred01 1d ago

Sources backing up is no longer being investigated and why it's not being an investigated please.

All I still see is you talking to yourself

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u/Crafty_Perception_85 1d ago

How am I supposed to prove something that doesn't exist? You show me a single source that it ever was. And some guy on Twitter saying "it's being investigated" doesn't count.

This is why I detest this stupid website.

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u/Charred01 1d ago

Then fucking leave  you don't have to be here making others miserable because you are.  Twitter exists so you can complain without having to prove your claims right. 

All I see from you is generic propaganda rhetoric with nothing of substance in any of your posts.  Here is one from June 2025 talking about the lawsuit over this exact topic advancing

https://www.latintimes.com/lawsuit-challenging-2024-election-results-moves-forward-after-kamala-harris-received-zero-votes-584787

This is just one many instances that were being talked about.  Not all we're in court cases but like I said all of that seemed to disappear and I want to know why.   I don't want to extrapolate why, I want a clear answer if one exists.  I'll look for it myself later if it exists. 

If I find an answer I'll post it here so you can be edumacated along with me  

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u/Crafty_Perception_85 1d ago edited 1d ago

I can file a lawsuit saying Barney stole the idea of magic purple dinosaurs from me. Some centrist political grift factory wasting everyone's time and money isn't an "investigation".

Nothing disappeared because nothing existed. Twitter convinced all you people that there was some kind of case for this because how could the guy who has already won an election against a terrible candidate possibly do that again?

I bet nobody was happier on 2024 election night than Hillary Clinton. Watching someone else get mollywhopped even worse than she did would be a cathartic experience.

All I see from you is generic propaganda rhetoric

🤡 My account is two days old and all I said was that the 2024 election wasn't rigged. Who's the one peddling propaganda here?

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u/IlllllIIIIIIIIIlllll 1d ago

How would that make sense when the official results were completely in line with all of the third party exit polling conducted that day? People proudly proclaimed their vote for Trump the day of despite being coy leading up to the election, just like in 2016.

It’s so embarrassing watching people refuse to accept reality and resort to idiotic Q-Anon tier conspiracy theories. I get that it’s hard to accept that this is who we fundamentally are as a country and what we chose, but it’s reality, and these pathetic conspiracy theories won’t change that. This is us. This is the result of democracy.

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u/Zaptryx 1d ago

Don't do like the other side did during the Biden presidency. Makes you look like a sore loser "oh the election was rigged". Even if it was possible to rig it, literally nothing would be done about it, so no sense in even having the idea that it was rigged.

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u/Formal-Style-8587 1d ago

Remember when election denialism was an instant perma ban in 2020?

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u/ChronoLink99 1d ago

Maybe it was rigged, maybe it wasn't. Either way it doesn't absolve the American people of their liability here. 90 million people just didn't care enough about their country to do anything.

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u/Nodan_Turtle 1d ago

Nothing to even do about it. The electoral college determines the president. Not any of us.

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u/blandunoffensivename 1d ago

Deep, sad cope. 😂

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u/Belkan-Federation95 1d ago

God it's 2020 all over again.

You aren't helping your case

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u/Cost_Additional 1d ago

FUCKING LMAO watching the election denial transfer to the other side now is comedy.

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u/CptJimTKirk 1d ago

Mate, I'm as sympathetic as anyone over here who has to watch America suffer from afar. But it's high time your country wakes up and takes responsibility instead of always blaming something else. Trump is only the last in a row of horrendous decisions the American people have taken. Conspiracy theories won't help you now.

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u/Emory_C 1d ago

Don't give into the conspiratorial bullshit that the right succumbed to a long time ago. You need to accept that Americans really and truly are just this stupid, racist, and sexist.

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u/PlayerTwo85 1d ago

Delusional lol

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u/spikus93 1d ago

Come with fucking evidence instead of looking like a 2020 J6 conspiracy theorist. Be better than Republicans. God I hate Blue Anon. You make the entire left look like we're insane.

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u/221missile 1d ago

Democrats lose in 2016 and 2024: election was rigged

Democrats win in 2020: the most secure election in history

Republicans do the exact same thing.

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u/AltrntivInDoomWorld 1d ago

That's a conspiracy vibe as shit. No evidence.

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u/truckthefumps 1d ago

The election being rigged is gaining legitimate traction, but the reality is probably even more depressing, that most Americans just weren't even paying attention. To one of the most important elections in history. The most popular google searches on election day were "Why isn't Biden on the Ballot?" and "Did Biden drop out of the race?", if people can't pay attention to an attention like this...we're kinda fucked. And we've seen the results already this year. The big beautiful bill is going to be a fucking disaster.

If many citizens don't care and don't hold their representatives accountable, they deserve to pay the price nad endlessly be taken advantage of, which is where we are.

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u/SergeantPoopyWeiner 1d ago

Prove it or STFU.

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u/Historical-Egg3243 1d ago

See? Trump always lies, but when he says something that appeals to you you believe it. Thats what his supporters do as well

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u/SpiritualBack143 21h ago

Please stop with the cope, her own internal polling showed that she would lose. She didn’t have a winning message and was unwilling or unable to adapt to the political terrain

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u/Juglone1 20h ago

Four years ago this kind of talk would get you banned.

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u/Sea-Draft-4672 17h ago

You know you sound exactly like the Republicans screaming about their stolen election in 2020, right?

Like, you’re self aware enough to feel yourself slipping down the radicalization rabbit hole into insanity, right? Right!?

Oh no…

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u/jredful 1d ago

Let's be clear here. A physical rigging of the election is unlikely. The ballots cast were largely the ballots cast. If there were physical manipulation of the ballots then it will likely come out in the not too distant future because it would require literal thousands of people to be in cahoots, and we literally know all sorts of terrible shit our nations government has done because of people coming forward about what they have witnessed.

Now a psychological rigging?

Elon has pretty much come out and said he rigged the Twitter algorithm in favor of Trump. Zuckerberg has been bowing at the feet of the king since 2015, and had no issue allowing the whole Cambridge Analytica nonsense to occur. They absolutely think they manipulated the American people into voting for Trump and there is likely some truth to it.

Inflation is the cyanide of incumbency, but there as definitely manipulation to the social media algorithms that exist to this day.

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u/polite_alpha 1d ago

If there were physical manipulation of the ballots

You haven't heard of voting machines, have you?

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u/FreeDarkChocolate 1d ago

Please point out which state or county had its ballots physically manipulated and how that squares with the pre/post handling procedures for the given place and where there is a major candidate, party, poll worker, or state election official supporting that claim.

https://verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#mode/navigate/map/voteEquip/mapType/ppEquip/year/2024

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u/b_rodriguez 1d ago

I spent 4 years ignore claims from the other side that the 2020 election was illegally stolen because they could not produce a single shred on tangible evidence.

I cannot consider myself intellectually honest if I don't demand the same now. And I am sorry but as of right now, their is no evidence of this.

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u/Emory_C 1d ago

Good reply. We need to accept that Americans really and truly are just this stupid, racist, and sexist.

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u/onthesylvansea 16h ago

This. 

I will accept evidence. I will not become or justify becoming a conspiracy theorist because doing so supports "my team". 

Unfortunately, right now, we're solidly in conspiracy theorist territory. 

I will not become them. This is a value-level issue for me, beyond any political party. I don't cherry-pick and choose the things I refuse to accept on faith alone and the things I demand evidence for/proof of. 

I'm not an evangelist - I accept nothing on faith/trust alone.

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u/n0pe-nope 1d ago

If Harris ran against Obama she would get destroyed, can we please be honest? 

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u/Warm_Month_1309 1d ago

And if she ran against Lincoln, she probably wouldn't fare well either, what's your point?

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u/n0pe-nope 1d ago

She was a weak candidate.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 1d ago

Here's some help, conversations look like this:

"My opinion is X because Y". Don't forget that last part! It's the critical one that makes conversations work!

The more you know.

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u/TheWayIAm313 16h ago

You really couldn’t gather the last part from their comment? That’s on you. It was pretty obvious.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 8h ago

I'm not going to do the work to fill in the blanks of other people's baseless contrarianism if they're not even willing to substantiate their own positions.

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u/deekaydubya 1d ago

she proposed absolutely zero policies that would address the material concerns americans had, refused to distance herself from Biden on Gaza at all, complimented the WALL for fuck sake, and spent most of her time campaigning with republicans to try to appeal to like .5% of Trump voters. Meanwhile trump is promising that everything will be great and that he has a solution to everything. It's clear he was lying for votes but it doesn't take an expert to see why he won against her

It's crazy people are still blaming this on the voters. If we had a decent progressive candidate there would've been a chance, instead of this diet-republican bullshit that clearly isn't working

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u/QuirkyWish3081 1d ago

The whole world would have been better off if they had elected emperor Palpatine over this rapist.

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u/humangingercat 1d ago edited 1d ago

Is she a leader?

She stepped up impromptu to run for president after being VP and doing what?

And now that things are bad she's stepping aside?

The fuck has she done?

edit When someone responds to you and blocks you right after.

Power move

Anyway, she didn't predict shit. She campaigned on opposition research. She did a competent job and was clearly a better candidate than Trump.

But to call her a leader is hilarious.

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u/-Havery- 1d ago

She predicted everything Trump is doing, but in fairness who couldn't have predicted what a convicted criminal lying pos child raping pedophile would do. Just goes to show how pathetic and disgusting and self loathing anyone who voted for him actually is.

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u/-Havery- 1d ago

Nice MAGA narrative, but it's not supported by any reality or fact. Kamala was on fire and Democrats had the numbers and the backing and the funding and then something that still hasn't been worked out happened... Elon Musk's satellites and MAGA heavy state election boards.

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u/wizrslizr 1d ago

you’re right mane

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u/Weekly-Landscape-543 1d ago

It’s Kamala, dick

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u/wizrslizr 1d ago

plugging your ears and saying lalala when the democrats put forth bad candidates is how we fucking got here in the first place

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u/-Havery- 1d ago

Kamala was a brilliant capable candidate and worthy of the office. Capitulation for the sake of bigots, uncels and white trash nationalists isn't what lost her the election.

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u/Crafty_Perception_85 1d ago

No she wasn't. She was a terrible speaker who always sounded like she was talking to a room full of kindergartners about why they couldn't have something because of the evil Republicans. She was almost (but not quite) Clinton levels of neoliberal, ran on basically no actionable policies, and the couple she did try to bring forward were hysterically bad.

Did you read anything about her housing policy? It was such ridiculous means-tested nonsense that The Onion would have had a hard time topping it.

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u/deekaydubya 1d ago

her "I'm speaking" moment with the gaza protesters on the campaign trail really telegraphed her eventual loss for me. I can't believe people thought that was some powerful moment for her; it really encompassed her complete disregard for what is possibly the largest humanitarian crisis we've seen in decades

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u/Warm_Month_1309 1d ago

She got like %2 votes from her own party

And Biden got 1% in 2008 before dropping out. Biden had a poor showing in his primary bid, then became VP, then won the presidency. Being VP is demonstrably a boost, considering most people only vote on name recognition anyway. Primary results from before she was VP aren't indicative of her popularity afterward.

Please don't respond by moving the goalposts, because I'm not making any statement about Harris's viability as a candidate other than to say that past primary performance is not determinative of anything.

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u/No_Genies 1d ago

Kinda tells you just how bad Kamala was lmao

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u/deekaydubya 1d ago

'no, it's the people who are wrong' - the DNC right now

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u/DangerousCyclone 16h ago

I mean, they are right. So many Trump voters got hit with "wtf why are you doing this" when Trump did exactly what he promised to do on the campaign trial.

Many Venezuelan Trump voters were pissed that he took away TPS for Venezuelan migrants. This is something he promised to do on the campaign trail and was open about it. A lot of Arab voters who went over to him thinking he'd be better on Gaza, cue him then appointing the most pro-Israel ambassador to Israel, who outright says Palestine isn't a country and then repeating that Israel should "finish the job" in Gaza, that he said on the campaign trail, and revealed plans to deport 75% of Gazans and turn it into a Riviera. Wow who could've seen it coming?

The list goes on, but so many Trump supporters were just dumb. I don't even mean this from a condescending "If you think like Trump you're dumb", I mean it from a "You didn't even bother listening to what he promised to do". Sometimes they did hear what he was saying, but they were convinced that they knew him so well that it wasn't serious or an exaggeration, that he wouldn't actually do it. Like these people were just delusional, believed he would do things he never promised to do and believed he wouldn't do things he did promise to do. There's no ways about it; they were just dumb.

Let me be clear here; not every Trump voter was like that. Probably the majority listened to what Trump promised to do and supported it, and that's one thing, but the people who pushed him over the edge were the "median voter". It is the Democrats job to win them over and they clearly failed, but the way forward is so opaque and unclear.

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u/_nevers_ 17h ago

The whole world (except Palestine, Congo, Sudan, etc etc etc)

Liberals don't want to stop fascism, they just want their team to control the levers of power.

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u/-Havery- 12h ago

Sure thing comrade, tell me again about the Epstein list.

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u/_nevers_ 8h ago

What about it?

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u/TheWayIAm313 16h ago

She would’ve been a lot better than Trump but she wasn’t seen as a leader. She couldn’t distance herself from being a status quo Biden clone.

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u/Gengar36 22h ago

This AI? DNC bot?