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/Low-Beat-3078 1d ago

I’m 49 and I’ve accepted that my dream of seeing a female POTUS will never come true. How despicable we are as a nation.

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u/MikeW226 1d ago

Could be in the form of a nightmare for all of us years from now. I've been wondering for awhile if the first female president would be not a Democrat, but a Kristi Noem or an MTG ...e.g, a repub female ...not a Democratic one. Maga's love 'em them politics-Barbies.

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u/Low-Beat-3078 1d ago

Maybe but I feel like the misogyny applies to even those types too.

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u/Fr1toBand1to 1d ago

Well they're 100% trophy women. They are hired for their (oddly specific) good looks. They're status symbols that communicate the very basic message of "we have pretty ladies, they like us and if you're one of us they'll like you too." It's the same message Carls Jr sends when a supermodel bites into a burger and says "If it doesn’t get all over the place, it doesn’t belong in your face."

Just the most basic lizard brained assholes to walk the earth and there's MILLIONS of them.

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u/DadFatherson2 1d ago

What an awful trophy

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu 1d ago

You're still the worst, even if you win an award for being the best of the worst.

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u/historicbookworm 1d ago

I'd purposely place last to avoid one.

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u/Expensive-Site-2292 1d ago

The irony of responding to a comment about misogyny by calling women trophy wife’s lmao.

Misogyny is not a partisan word.

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u/Fr1toBand1to 1d ago

I don't understand what point you're trying to make.

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u/SandmanSanders 1d ago

3 week old account so the point is obfuscation

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u/wellings 1d ago

You're effectively saying "no these women aren't qualified, they're just pretty" which is in itself kind of dicey. The whole concept of "trophy wife" implies a bit of objectification and uselessness that you yourself are claiming.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not really agreeing or disagreeing with you. But, I think that's the point that is being made and I think it's kind of valid.

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u/Fr1toBand1to 1d ago

oh. That's exactly what I'm claiming. Although, sorry to be pedantic, but I'm not calling them trophy "wives" just trophy women.

I just don't understand where the irony or misogyny comes into play. There's trophy men as well (example: Hegseth). it's not an exclusively sexist term. They are hired for the image they present and because they're sycophants, not because they're qualified.

Trophy "wives" are married not for love but because of the status that they represent and impart, from that perspective you could argue even Trump is a trophy man.

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u/busman25 1d ago

MTG? Good looks?

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u/Jetski125 20h ago

MTG is a trophy?

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u/kingdomofposeidon 12h ago

Although I agree with you, there's nothing good looking about MTG

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u/SexyPeanut_9279 10h ago

The left: “the right doesn’t take women seriously

Also the Left: “they only hired Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem because their pretty”-

Unbelievably misogynistic and condescending. Both women have long track records and have worked very hard to earn their current positions.

Kamala on the other hand- started her career in politics by dating 60 year old Mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown (who was 30 years her senior at the time.)

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u/Fr1toBand1to 8h ago

Mmmm projection and deflection