And she's the MOST qualified
SO qualified she lost the easiest election ever.
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And she's the MOST qualified
SO qualified she lost the easiest election ever.
I think in theory it was an easy election but I don't think for her it was. There is a huge well of racism and sexism in america that makes anyone not white male to run for the highest office and harder for each deviation from it. Biden holding past any primaries does take away from promoting democracy.
But her and the dems dropped the ball hard. They shut down the working weird rhetoric. They worked towards the right, a competition they would never win. They failed to create an image of enough change and hope to climb the cliff of bigotry she started at the bottom of.
She was also part of the administration that gave continued, open, full-spectrum support for israel's genocide and sent riot cops to beat down the college kids protesting it. I suspect this also factored into her loss.
And not only was she a part of that administration, she did nothing to distance herself from it.
I’d give a lot more stock to “she was just VP she couldn’t do anything” if she had been campaigning on “Biden fucked us all over, and he’s doing genocide, and if you elect me I won’t be like him.” But instead her message was “I’ll be Biden again but slightly worse”
They said "How could she run against a cabinet she was part of" like this isn't the exact sort of thing poliicians are good at.
"While I am proud of the good that Joe and I were able to achieve while in office (list policies you support and that are popular), we don't see eye to eye on every issue, such as (unpopular policy)."
What's biden gonna do, fire her?
What's biden gonna do, fire her?
honestly if sitting VPs had to resign to run for president that would probably be beneficial for everybody
We are not going back
She would have won if she wasn't pro genocide. The largest non-voting block did so due to genocide.
media continuously downplayed this until recent polls have come out showing most people who would have voted Dem but didn't did it over Palestine. They can't hide it anymore. They lost because they are rabid Zionists
There is a huge well of racism and sexism in america that makes anyone not white male to run for the highest office and harder for each deviation from it.
Obama was the most popular president in decades because he was willing to lie and say "I will do good things". Harris was not willing to lie and say "I will do good things" because her donors would get mad.
Even if she was DaPerfectCandidate, the platform she ran on was the problem. They repeated over and over "we will keep doing the same thing we have been doing and we are proud of ourselves". People hated that. Biden won because he promised things people wanted, and then (unsurprisingly) didn't do. Now this person was saying "yeah we will keep on not doing the thing you voted us to do, oh btw a bit more racist and homophobic cuz that's what the republicans want"
No amount of "weird" rethoric would salvage that.
This situtation mirrors perfectly why Hillary lost. Obama promised cool things, didn't do them, people gave him a second chance, didn't do shit either, and now comes this lady not even promising cool things, people said "Fuck off, I'm not voting for you, maybe not voting at all"
Trump and Covid happened, massive shift in the whole world, now suddenly every fucking disgusting Dem slug was promising good things, people fell for it again because, hey everything is different now, maybe they are different too. But obviously wasn't the case.
They specifically demanded Walz tone down his combative rhetoric to avoid scaring away the nevertrumpers. The "weird" thing was absolutely stuffed by the campaign despite being one of the few bright spots of the campaign.
rhetoric gaining steam
dick cheney
I forgot about Dick Cheney. Even republicans hated that guy! What the hell were they thinking!
the nevertrumpers
You don't win elections with that. You don't win elections being snarky either, you promise people good things, people vote for you.
All she had to do was promise to pull the US out of doing a genocide. Heck, she could have simply shown some pushback to Joe. But nope. She’s a zionist so…
She could have even rationalized it as the "lesser evil" to tell a campaign lie to get elected. Pragmatic. Adults in room stuff. Every electoralism lib would have defended that until they were blue in the face.
But that was too big of an ask. Incredible moment. 99% Hitler couldn't even lie about being 98% Hitler to beat 100% Hitler.
I voted for a woman of color who wasn't pro-genocide
all she had to do was lie about the slightest relaxation of the murder campaign against Palestine but she wasn't willing to piss off the zionists
They wouldn't even allow the most milquetoast of palestinians to speak at the convention -- Which would be the sort of coopt and coverup operation the dems used to be good at.
only person who can run a “i told you so” campaign
WHY WOULD YOU THINK ANYONE WOULD REACT POSITIVELY TO THIS
Theyre all fucking hall monitors.
if i told you so's meant anything marxists would be in charge
our candidate must have the dreamworks face on constantly and be willing to kill a constituent personally for disrespect
The night before the Oklahoma rally I met with my campaign manger, Robby Mook. Robby was in charge of the campaign computers, but he was so smart that in many ways he was like a computer. He had bad news. "Oklahomans see you as an aloof New York intellectual," he explained. "They'll never vote for someone like that. You need an image they can understand and respect."
"What if I ate a big hunk of beef on stage?" I helpfully suggested. "We need to think bigger," said Robby. "I've consulted the Algorithm. It told me that Oklahoma voters love cowboys." I liked where this was going. "It also told me that what they hate most is ... cattle rustlers."
"Robby, you're a genius," I said. We spent that night crafting my new persona, a persona we believed would win me the election. The next day, I sauntered onto an Oklahoma stage wearing a full cowboy outfit, firing a pair of six shooters in the air. "Howdy," I said to the crowd, "I'm Sheriff Hillary," I received the biggest applause of my whole career.
"If there's one thing I hate," I announced, "it's varmints. And the worst varmints of all are cattle rustlers. make me your president and I'll put a bullet between the eyes of every rustler in this state." For emphasis, I bit a chunk out of a hunk of beef.
The crowd roared. They loved it. A chant started: "Death to rustlers! Death to rustlers!" Then a scuffle broke out in the front row. Three men dressed in denim tackled and hogtied a small, weasely-looking fellow. They dragged him up on stage.
"Ms. Clinton," one man said, "this fella here is a rustler. He stole three of my prize cows last spring. If you kill him right now, everyone in this room will vote for you." The crowd began a new chant: "Blood! Blood! Blood!"
The bound man pleaded with me. "Yes, I stole those cows," he said, "but I only did it because my family was starving. Please, spare me. I'll never rustle again." My life and career have been defined by hard choices. This was perhaps the hardest choice of all. My phone buzzed. A text from Robby. It read, "The Algorithm says: the rustler dies." "I'm sorry," I told the man as I raised a pistol. "It's not me. It's the Algorithm."
I squeezed the trigger.
Get yourself someone in your life who won't give up on you like a bluedog won't give up on the party of absolute losers.
what if i want to damage blue party tho
Blue shell the blue party
Blue shells only target the person winning, so that would never work.
Yes, the best chance to win are the people with a record of losing, history means nothing.
Seriously! I feel like losing a presidential general election should disqualify you from running again.
If you had to bet on the odds of Kamala Harris successfully running for president or me successfully running for president, your odds are better with me since I haven’t already proven I can’t do it.
Come on, this has to be rage bait
Right?
WE WILL LEARN NOTHING AND TRY THE SAME THING REPEATEDLY FOREVER AND MAYBE EVENTUALLY IT'LL WORK. WE ARE THE DEMOCRATS
Only person who can run a "I told you so campaign".
Excuse me
straight to the gulag with this fucking rube.
“yeah she lost to him but imagine if this time when she ran she did it while telling everyone ‘i told you so’. surely that would win everyone over who refused to vote for her last time”
“Most qualified “ NOONE CARES
Based on literally what? All the elections she won? Oh wait. All the primaries she's won? Oh wait. The public office she held and did all that good for people? Oh wait...
Losing addict jonesing for another hit
Do libs think of anything else other than perpetual elections with loser candidates?
You mean the same "blue party" that capitulated during the budget? The same "blue party" where 10 of its own members silenced one of their own because they were complaining during the Trump speech? The very same "blue party" voters are getting frustrated at because the "blue party" doesn't have a plan even in this late hour?
That blue party?
They don't want to win, they want to be smug. This person is honest, they want to say I told you so, not govern. Because they know if they were to govern it wouldn't be much better and they'd need to face reality.