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This makes her “strategy” even more baffling than before. How do you know you are down the entire time and do absolutely nothing about policy?

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That makes the decision not to address her supporters on election night even funnier. I could muster up a sliver of understanding if her polls had her ahead and she repeated Hillary's mistake of thinking she could cake walk into the White House, but to act surprised when your own research had you down the whole damn time? What, was she too busy collecting on all the prediction market bets she made against herself?

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She made it so obvious that she straight up hates her supporters yet Liberals keep glazing her even now.

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 74 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How do you know you are down the entire time and do absolutely nothing about policy?

Because she didn't want to win. The dems don't want to make change they want to make money, and Trump and a right wing government will help them make the most money. They can pretend to huff and puff all they want but ultimately their stock portfolios will reap the rewards of this and that's all they cared about from the beginning.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i bet that's why the biden administration won't enact the equal right amendment despite project 2025 looming nearby; they want that pain inflected to help them win next time around and it'll work given how successfully project 2025 worked as a virtue signal for democrats.

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

They have that sweet inside advantage. they can get ahead of anything before it makes the news and the retail market can respond

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[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Washington Generals were never supposed to win

[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

BUT THEY WERE DUE!!!

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A group of billionaires and millionaires donated some minimum amount to get a tax break on profits from their racism factory. They used it to get a bunch of college educated office workers to donate hundreds of millions to the campaign. The campaign proceeds to spend it carting interns and graduate students back and forth to Raytheon Acres Virginia. Those people are just doing for a checkbox on their resume. The insiders knew it was a bust from the start, they're just going through the motions and auditioning for their next private sector job. All the money goes into the insider's consulting agencies and appearance fees and marketing firms. They donors get a nice ROI from the people calling you Hamas on x - the everything app. Then they get more tax breaks anyways because Trump gets in.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

Sipping on a gin and tonic as I castigate my son for wearing long pants before the age of twenty. He asks me when he can see his mother— who is also my cousin— again, and I remind him not to ask about her, because I don't know how to say that my uncle and I had her lobotomized and put in a hospital for crying too much. I send him back to boarding school for another six months as I head to my job as an executive for a large chemical company that my grandfather got me, overseeing South American mining operations. Upon hearing that a newly-elected government wants to levy a tax on our mining profits and institute an eight hour work day, I call up my old Skull and Bones chums who work for Zapata Oil and Air America, ask if there's anything they can do to help, and they promise they'll look into it. I will drink nine more gin and tonics throughout the day before switching to bourbon. Old Money Life.

[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago

Just hugging Biden no matter what, smart strategy!

Also, this is so funny considering that the number one priority of liberals was screaming at everyone pointing out that swing state polls had Kamala tied at best and probably behind in the race. It was all fake polls and GOP pollsters publishing fake polls to somehow (???) suppress the Dem turnout.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why worry about policy when you can have Queen Bey, and Megan, and Oprah sing your praises. That’s all that matters

[–] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand. Queen Latifah never endorses anyone

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[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

brat summer was all a dream

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Used to read New Yorker magazine

Kamala and me all up in the limousine

Hanging ballots on my wall

Swing states, we can lose them all

Someone else can probably do much better than me, but I tried here kitty-birthday-sad

Kinda works as an RATM lyric, if you can imagine Zack screaming it over a guitar riff going BWAM-boom-BWAAAOOOW ICKY ICKY ICKY WAAAOW morello-shred

[–] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Banger username comrade

[–] miz@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago
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[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Her strategy was fake it until you make it, at a presidential level

[–] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it made her senator, why not president?

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

No amount of crypto could have saved her I guess..

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago
[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That byline about never being ahead of Trump isn't in the article, unless I missed it.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

“We were hopeful. I don’t know how optimistic we were, but we thought, OK, this is tied, and if a couple things break our way [we could win],” David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the campaign, said Tuesday on the “Pod Save America” podcast in a joint interview with fellow Harris campaign alums Jen O’Malley Dillon, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter. 

Plouffe said the campaign’s internal polling never had Harris ahead of Trump. 

“We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he said. “I think it surprised people, because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw.”

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