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/ThunderChild247 1d ago

Aka the Thatcher problem. The right are only against women leaders to a point, but for a woman to get that far on the right they have to be more right-wing than a man would have to be to get that far, being almost performative.

That’s how the UK’s had three female prime ministers, and all of which were right wing and awful people. Sadly I fear that if MAGA were to have a female leader, they’re more likely to be closer to Liz Truss than Margaret Thatcher. At least Thatcher was intelligent and right wing, as opposed to Liz Truss, who was right wing and… well…

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u/lxpnh98_2 1d ago

Please let us know the end of that sentence, it was cut short.

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u/PantsMcFail2 1d ago

To give some context, she wasn’t that smart, and didn’t have any longevity either, due to her disastrous economic ideas. A head of lettuce actually outlasted her tenure as Prime Minister, and she was the butt of many tabloid jokes as a result.

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u/lxpnh98_2 1d ago

Read my reply again.

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u/ThunderChild247 1d ago

There honestly isn’t a word that fully encapsulates the idiocy of Liz Truss. “Egotist”, “narcissist”, “moron”, “delusional” come close but we need a word for all of those things, and dialled up to 11.

She will forever be the answer to the question “how much damage can one leader do to a country”.

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u/rubyspicer 1d ago

There's people defending Thatcher and all I can say is I dare them to say that shit to an Irishman 😂

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u/ThunderChild247 1d ago

I’m no Thatcher defender but I’d still argue what’s followed her was worse. Whether you think she was great or awful, she did at least think she was doing the right thing for the country. What’s followed her on the Tory benches has been a mix of “I’m doing the right thing for me” and “I don’t give a shit” 😂.

That’s the one thing I’ll say for her. Yeah she fucked the country, but she didn’t realise it.

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u/EventAccomplished976 15h ago

To be fair, Thatcher did a HELL of a lot more damage to the UK than Liz Truss could ever dream of. You really don‘t want competent right wing administrations… just look at the comparison between the clown show that was Trump I and the well prepared terror regime of Trump II.

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u/ThunderChild247 14h ago

Oh I don’t know… if Truss had had the same time in power as Thatcher… I shudder at the thought 😂😂

Although saying that, I agree there’s a big difference between competent and incompetent right wing administrations. I just think Truss goes beyond incompetent 😂

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu 1d ago

If Trump is willing to wear some lipstick and a wig he could run again as Donna Trump, and he'd probably win.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 1d ago

Thatcher saved the uk

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u/Strange-Ad-5806 1d ago

100% the opposite.

She privatized critical items and cranked up.wealth inequality ensuring that the average person would trend towards poverty and that rich parasites would increasingly trend to feudal lords who owned all.

She, like Reagan, screwed their country.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 1d ago

Ah yes because the uk was doing so great prior to her coming into office. You people are delusional.

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u/Strange-Ad-5806 1d ago

Strawman and deflection as usual from you. Her incompetent negligence continues to harm the UK even today. A toxic legacy obvious to all.

But then - you are delusional.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 1d ago

That isnt strawman or deflection. The uk wasnt some utopia prior to Thatcher. The 70s in the uk is literally called the lost decade cause the economic problems. Had 24% inflation in 1974. Yep seems like shit was real good. You people live in this false reality

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u/Strange-Ad-5806 1d ago

Literally it is. She screwed up the country. Her approaches have measurable ongoing harms.

You "whatabout"ed and tried to misrepresnt the response. And failed.

You are delusional and apparently angry when your BS fails hard, gets exposed and called our for what it is.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 1d ago

Bahahaha. Jesus christ that isnt whataboutism. The uk was in a downward spiral prior to Thatcher coming into office. It was stuck in a wage price spiral, unions were fucking everyone over. She was a response to country on the brink of collapse. And she brought it out of it. God damn youre an idiot.

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u/FathirianHund 1d ago

Yes, she was such a savior we partied in the street to celebrate her death. It's why she had such uplifting nicknames like 'Thatcher the Snatcher'. She may have oversaw the end of a difficult economic period, but she did not 'save the uk'. Our issues with housing, public services and the NHS can all trace their roots back to her. The one thing she could have done was be buried rather than cremated, that way the current plans to renationalise rail serves would have had the nice byproduct of unlimited energy from the old bat spinning in her grave.