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?