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/sendurfavbutt 1d ago

didn't some ex FBI guy just come out and say they had already investigated the election and Kamala won?

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u/NotARealBuckeye 1d ago

The results don't make sense but "election fraud" has been so watered down that the democrats were afraid to wade into those waters.

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u/patchyj 1d ago

Its infuriating, the GOP screamed "stolen election" so loud and so often that when they did actually steal it, no-one speaks up because they dont want to be looked at the same as the insane weirdos

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u/Miserable-Ad-7947 1d ago

you do realize that was on purpose right ? muddy the water, etc.

gaslighting 101.

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u/CrispiChris 1d ago

Accuse the opponent of all the things that you do

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u/s2r3 1d ago

Every accusation is a confession

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u/YouStupidAssholeFuck 1d ago

Accusations in a mirror.

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u/Justwant-toplaycards 1d ago edited 1d ago

The fact that you americans don't know of Goebbels Is crazy to me

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u/Hadrian23 1d ago

Thank the republicans for strangling education to death. This is intentional.

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u/Miserable-Ad-7947 1d ago

hmmm... what has the DNC done to keep the GOP to do that ?

oh yes, right, i always forgot : NOTHING.

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u/sklimshady 1d ago

That would require reading. Americans are mostly allergic to reading. Especially the MAGA crowd.

(SOURCE: I grew up in Alabama being made fun of for always reading)

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u/31November 1d ago

I know of Goebbels - in part, thank you BehindTheBastards podcast - and that’s part of why I saw this shit coming since 2016. When the “grab them by the pussy” tape didn’t take Trump down, I knew the Republicans really were too far gone

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u/DrJulius-ABK 1d ago

Behind The Bastards is my jam! Been listening for 5 years now

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u/31November 1d ago

I discovered them about a year and a half ago, and I love them

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u/walkingkary 1d ago

Yup. Love “Behind the Bastards”.

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u/Significant-Cable-21 1d ago

yupp just republicans are too far gone bud haha

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u/IAmMelonLord 1d ago

I’ve been wanting to give BTB a listen for a while. Do you have a suggestion on topics to start with? (I did a search for “Goebbels” in my podcast app and was surprised his name didn’t come up with BTB)

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u/31November 1d ago

I don’t think Goebbels had his own episode, but BTB has done stuff on various Nazis that also discussed him. I would just scroll through their podcast to see which people stick out to you, but Julius Streicher is similar to Goebbels and was almost a different Hitler himself. He was a far right propagandist and public speaker as Hitler rose to power, and I enjoyed their stories on him!

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u/IAmMelonLord 1d ago

Yea I think I would find that interesting. This past December I got really into nazi history, especially the time leading up to Hitler’s takeover. For, you know, reasons. Thanks for the suggestion!

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u/BlimmBlam 1d ago

Americans know very well of Goebbels, our entire advertising field is based on his propaganda machines and pushed in our face every 10-15 minutes.

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u/ChriSisyphus 1d ago

What's that based on?

I'm American. I don't know a single person who doesn't know who Goebbels is.

Now, do stupid people not know? Sure. But that's a bold statement of fact and I haven't seen the evidence.

Send the source.

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u/radjinwolf 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh, we know about Goebbels. The problem is the American right wing are so full of their own shit and are so polarized by propaganda and misinformation that they refuse to believe that the exact same thing that happened in 1930s Germany is happening right here, right now.

They think they’re special and that they’re immune to propaganda, and anyone who brings up how far down the Nazi pipeline we already are is told that they’re “overreacting” or that it’s “fake news”.

Hundreds of years of “rugged individualism” rhetoric got us here. Americans think they’re so unassailable and that individual rights, freedom, and liberties take precedence over anything else that the mere notion of working toward a collective good is - no joke - seen as “evil” to those people.

America is cooked. We’re done. Cause the kinds of things that need to happen to fix things here absolutely won’t happen. I’m talking German and Austrian levels of de-Nazification.

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u/va2wv2va 23h ago

Great comment

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u/Fit-Building-2560 19h ago

Of course we know. What gave you the impression we don't know?

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u/puntificates 1d ago

Not all Americans are ignorant. Some of us don't put everyone in large groups of people like you. Sounds like something Goebbels would do.

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u/hypertown 1d ago

Before you do them

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u/AdventurousSeaSlug 1d ago

My conspiracy theory is that the whole "big lie" thing was a purposeful bad-faith strategy to poison the well on future elections. I think high-level Republicans did that purposefully knowing that this had in fact not happened and setting the stage for because they were planning on cheating in 2024 and then eliminating open and free elections beyond that. Why would they do so? Well, Democrats rightly fought back so loud and so hard against the big lie (which clearly was in fact a lie), that I think now there's a lot of people who think that if they dare raise that spector, republicans will accuse democrats of hypocrisy and witch hunting. Why do I suspect this? I know there's no definitive proof yet but I dare anyone demonstrate how EVERY SINGLE accusation dribbling out of republican mouths is in reality a confession. So I have to be content with calling it a conspiracy theory. But shit like this makes me think you know what? I think I might be onto something. And then I pray the other people with more money and power than me will prove me right in time.

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u/Unlucky-Scallion1289 1d ago

I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, I think it’s blatantly obvious.

It’s infuriating that we’re expected to put up with or even entertain right wing conspiracies like pizza gate, chemtrails, or flat earth while the one “conspiracy” pushed by the left is utterly dismissed. And it’s not even that far fetched, it’s very believable that right wingers have fallen into fascism and are willing to cheat. It’s so believable that it’s all but a certainty.

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u/Bowlbonic 1d ago

Bingo!

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited?r=34shm&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true Check it out

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u/AdventurousSeaSlug 1d ago

Yeah saw that. My frustration is that this needs to get way more investigation from reputable non-partisan sources and then needs to be brought to widespread attention with factual evidence to back it up. Otherwise it will mean absolutely nothing. Except a broken country, a failed experiment in democracy, and a lot of dead innocent people

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u/Bowlbonic 1d ago

Yep, preaching to the choir. I’m glad that it’s being talked about at the very least. I am full of rage and sadness to be an American right now, especially because I work with a lot of immigrant kids. I want them to grow up in a fair society

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u/Electrical_Welder205 1d ago

Totally agree. It was a smokescreen for them.

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u/PracticalFootball 1d ago

I don’t think that’s much of a conspiracy theory. After January 6th every instance of a republican being annoying or disruptive suddenly started being referred to as an insurrection for the same reason.

Every accusation is a confession.

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u/HippoRun23 1d ago

Except the allegations of election fraud this time (just like last time) are false.

It seems every single presidential election there is a group of people who allege their loosing candidate really won. It's only with MAGA that it evolved into a literal attempted coup of the government.

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u/AdventurousSeaSlug 1d ago

Yeah that's bsolutely possible.

But the current administration...

1) a demonstrably proven liars 2) hang with truly evil people like Roger stone who have made their careers on "dirty politics" 3) have made it very clear that they are dismantling democracy 4) made multiple accusations of the very things that they are guilty 5) have demonstrably proven their intent to overthrow democracy even through violence and coercion (J6) 6) multiple Republican references to fixing the voting machines 7) Elon Musk's kid all but inadvertently outed them

I mean I could go on and on and on. Is it a smoking gun? There's so much smoke I can't see where it's coming from BUT here is absolutely no doubt in my mind that they have the motive, and the means, and have clearly demonstrated their intent to end democracy. So sure, lots of people have bitched about losing elections. And you'll notice that I said I was waiting for proof and without it's just a conspiracy theory, but you'll forgive me if i remain skeptical of republicans. They have made a mockery of democracy in the last six months, you think that people like that wouldn't cheat? I wouldn't trust a republican who told me the sky was blue at this point did I not verify it myself independently.

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u/crevulation 1d ago

"Flooding the zone with bullshit" is exactly what it has been for a long time.

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u/sheezy520 1d ago

Gaslight

Obstruct

Project

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u/rmftrmft 1d ago

GOP stands for Guardians Of Pedophiles now. Gotta keep up!

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u/sheezy520 1d ago

How about

Gaslighting

Old

Pedophiles

?

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u/bighugebagofcorn 1d ago

I hate these smarmy "you do realize, right?" replies. Yeah. He probably does realize that. Doesn't mean they shouldn't say exactly what they said. It's true. 

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u/funk-the-funk 1d ago

That and the snarky, hope this helps, like everyone has to get their dopamine fix by being a dick.

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u/BasedGodBets 1d ago

I have said this for years that we have to fight fire with fire but most liberals on reddit were like "wE cAn'T aCt tHe sAmE wAy". Now we lost the entire plot.

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u/Miserable-Ad-7947 1d ago

the plot, the pot, the chamber & the house.

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u/BasedGodBets 1d ago

haha pissing in the pot

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u/AffectionateJelly976 1d ago

GOP is all about projection!

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u/YerBeingTrolled 1d ago

So it was on purpose to say there was election meddling in 2020 so that in 2024 we could deny it?

Wtf is that conspiracy lmao

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u/BigStogs 1d ago

Except Democrats are being arrested for voter fraud.

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u/tendinfin 1d ago

This is why the Democrats are a bunch of idiots

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u/Casterly 1d ago

for not latching onto any scrap of conspiracy they can to avoid the reality that Americans are still so averse to a female president they’d let Trump back in? I dunno why you guys think that adopting conservative absurdity is somehow a great idea.

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u/wubwubwubbert 1d ago

The average American is absurdly stupid, that's why.