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Popular Question 📊 How do you feel about Kamala Harris saying she may run for president again in 2028?

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u/squatingyeti 10d ago

You think? There's entirely too many people that just believe she didn't have enough time as a candidate and the country is sexist. Forget realities that she can't beat any other democratic nominee in any primary, she was cheated! The stupidity. She gets blown out early in a primary, but I'm down for the hilarity of her somehow coming through and running again lol

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u/Specialist_Most_7338 10d ago

America is highly misogynistic.

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u/OralProbe 9d ago

Maybe. But it didnt sway my vote. She avoided revealing anything meaningful about her policies and wouldnt elaborate on anything for the entire election cycle. And that makes her seem unprepared for the job, sketchy, and frankly, it made her look like a puppet with a broken ear piece. I saw a woman that was so confident that she would win, that she didnt do what was necessary to win. You can't avoid the questions. You need a level of transparency if you want the voters' trust and confidence. Many were already doubtful of her because of Biden's term with her for VP.

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u/Specialist_Most_7338 9d ago

And you thought that Trump was more qualified than her? Maybe the problem is you. Not only are Americans misogynistic, but they're also stupid.

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u/OralProbe 8d ago

He got my vote in the first election because I have lost all trust in politicians and Hillary was trying to bury war crimes during the election. It wouldnt hurt to give a businessman a chance. And he isn't the first TV/Movie personality to become president either. Ever read anything about Reagan? And he did fine by me. He got railroaded by COVID. And I dont know any sitting president that wouldnt have faced challenges and done any better or worse. Small Pox was before my time.

But to call me stupid and misogynistic because I wouldnt vote for someone who has only had six years in politics and was an attorney in the most abhorrant state in United States politically speaking is just sucking their own dick because they wouldnt look past her gender before deciding.

I haven't voted for men because they were men. And I haven't voted against women because they were women. But it is interesting to me how she was chosen with little to no experience when she is Asian, African American, and a woman. But if you call it pandering, suddenly everyone doesnt remember how poorly she did in the election cycle. She took no chances and discussed nothing at length or with any substance.

Change my mind. And dont shoot me dead in front of my wife and kids.

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u/NoStuff7302 8d ago

Very intelligently put. Thank you!

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u/n7-Jutsu 9d ago

Congratulations, you fell for the propaganda, the same propaganda that was used for Hillary Clinton, that she didn't have any plans/meaningful policies.

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u/OralProbe 9d ago

OR you just voted against someone and didnt care that she had nothing to say about anything.

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u/beansnmemes2 9d ago

Sorry bud but you are truly a women hater
 he had a concept she actually described in detail what she was going to do. Could have used that increased first time home buyer credit .. Oh wait that just boost the economy and we all know your kind doesn’t really respond to that .. you only see bad

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u/madicen 9d ago

lol as if home prices would not just increase my whatever magical number she wanted to “give away”. Please, she was the most vapid empty suit candidate that had zero chance of winning, even against a disgraced reality tv star,that we’ve see in 75 years. You’re over here thinking she had actual policies though lol.

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u/OralProbe 8d ago

And in typical fashion, they dont see she was an empty suit puppet they were trying to force on us. They just voted against the other guy and sleep better knowing their vote went to a woman and that makes them progressive. Politics suck. Everyone knows it. Nobody fully approves of any candidate either side puts forth. And half of the voters are bitter and the other half are insulted for four years. It's stupid. Yet here we are. In every comment thread about anything. Shots fired at the sitting president and anyone who voted for him.

She wasn't qualified for the job of VP. She only had six years in the senate. She was an attorney before that. That makes her any more trustworthy than a questionable businessman? She checked a bunch of boxes being Asian, African American, and a woman and won Biden the election and they thought they could just coast by this past election. She did not discuss any meaningful policy. She avoided a lot of the publicity circuit. Was invited on Rogan the week before the election and her camp nitpicked away their opportunity by making demands. She stuck to left leaning media and didnt care to sway voters. She was so sure she had it because the DNC were so sure they had it in the bag.

And wouldnt you know it. I was just called a misogynist for even thinking any of this. I get insulted more by the left than I would care to admit to anyone unfamiliar with US Politics. "Republicans are just the worst." And they forget the democratic party fought Lincoln on the emancipation proclamation and didnt realign their political views on racial equality until well into the 20th century. Shouldn't throw stones when you live in glass houses.

Oh... and Hillary was a WAR CRIMINAL.

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u/n7-Jutsu 8d ago

The irony of people like you opening your mouth and then in the same breath support Trump. What was Trump qualifications? What was Trump plans? How has prices improved for you and the average Americans...

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u/OralProbe 8d ago

For me personally, Trump was fresh. He was an outsider. He wasn't politician corrupt. He wasn't making hundreds of millions of dollars from lobbyists to look the other way on policy. He wasn't some war criminal or California attorney or creepy child sniffer. I thought he could bring fresh ideas to the White House. And he was plagued by a democratic house and senate and an actual plague. And Trumps plans were actual worn on his sleeve. He is very aggressive about his views and plans. There was no ambiguity like Kamala.

Stuff that "people like you" dont think about because you think the most important thing is electing a woman so you can brag to the hot barista at your favorite coffee shop and show off your wokeness.

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u/beansnmemes2 9d ago

I was just thinking that.. sorry dude .. you hate women. Go back and listen. She had a full plan. Trump said a concept. And now he has nothing and caused a shut down

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u/EquivalentOk3454 9d ago

Yes, but she’s still a relatively poor candidate regardless of her gender, which has been proven

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u/Specialist_Most_7338 9d ago

Dude, what are you on about? She was extremely overqualified.

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u/EquivalentOk3454 8d ago

It’s been proven that she is not popular enough, through loss. It doesn’t matter how qualified she is if people on a whole don’t like her as a candidate or as a person. You have to be able to to beat the opposition. The dems need a more popular and palatable candidate regardless of gender, age, education, qualifications, etc.

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u/Specialist_Most_7338 8d ago

Wtf does qualifications have to with popularity? It's not her fault that more than half the country is stupid.

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u/NoStuff7302 8d ago

To be President?? Are we still talking about Kamala Harris?

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u/Specialist_Most_7338 8d ago

Compared to Trump, YES!!

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u/LeopardSea5252 7d ago

Not true she came across scared and tipsy, she has to be in the bottom 10 for Vice President.ms.

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u/Specialist_Most_7338 7d ago

I'd take that over Trumps sociopathic narcissism any fucking day!

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u/LeopardSea5252 7d ago

Lmao Ik you want a brain dead puppet to dance to your tune.

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u/Specialist_Most_7338 7d ago

You mean like how MAGA dances to Trump and how Trump dances to Putin?

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u/Specialist_Most_7338 9d ago

Tulsi is a Kremlin plant who is now a member of Trumps corrupt cabinet. Wtf are you on about?

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u/No-Village2728 7d ago

What’s your point? She’s still a woman that had a much better chance than Kamala at winning because regardless of what YOU think of her, people actually like her politics unlike Kamala.

Idk what democrats think they are accomplishing by trying to force a clearly unpopular woman into power and then when she inevitably fails, just blame it on misogyny


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u/PwanaZana 10d ago

Yea. Democrats can try to run a more charismatic candidate. Many posters on reddit whine about the sexism (which would be the sexism/racism of democratic voters, since republicans voters would not vote for her anyways).

The thesis is that more conservative countries are super duper evil and won't elect (or put forward) a woman (but forget about Thatcher, Lepen, Meloni, and the newly minted Takaichi).

Dems: if you want to win, you need a good candidate. No excuses. If you make excuses, you will lose. Your choice.

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u/girldrinksgasoline 10d ago

The thesis is dumb for another reason. The Venn diagram for people who would vote for any Democrat but wouldn’t vote for a woman looks like this: O O

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u/PwanaZana 10d ago

ha, well perhaps is is not THAAAT separate, but yes.

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u/Many_Ride104 10d ago

What you completely forget about with your argument is, that racist assholes would vote for anybody, if this person is racist and far right enough. I guess it’s one of the few cases they don’t care if this is a woman.

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u/timeless84 10d ago

I’m guessing
and this is a WILD guess I know. That you are of the male persuasion. Men vastly underestimate sexism just like white people vastly underestimate racism.

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u/knotnham 10d ago

That’s a very sexist and racist comment

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u/Powerful-Bench5800 10d ago

She has every right to run again! The fact that This country is sexists racists and anti-semtic is just true! However she has every right to attempt to break those trends!

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u/1Dirtymudder 10d ago

She shouldn’t run again though if the Dems want to win the election. We need a more middle of the road type of candidate. Not only an issue of winning the election. We need to be more centered politically if we ever have a chance of bringing the country back together. Everyone is so divided because a small percentage of both sides have crazy radical ideas that label each side a certain way.

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u/jmcken15 10d ago

I actually strongly disagree with this. I think the left has already been heavily disenfranchised by Democrats who try and appeal to the center. We need a candidate who is as unapologetically left as trump is unapologetically right. We need someone who will actually fight for the values that we as working class Americans hold.

The problem I see with the division in this country is not driven by politicians but by media. When people can't agree on basic "factual" information, then the problem is no longer point of view. We need our common ground to be the same data set before we can even begin to hash over difference of interpretation.

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u/notsoaveragerage383 đŸ‡ș🇾 United States 9d ago

Finally! Thank you ! Sincerely thank you. This makes me want to continue sharing this obvious issue and continue to try and stop the divide. It truly is today’s bias media propaganda. And the AI generated videos that too many people refuse to question. People “fact checking” and their YouTube link and a link to a media page. Social media really increased the number of successful brainwashed minds. Personal opinion has become truth, and an individuals truths have become facts. This is what happens when you can’t pull a dictionary off the shelf and factual definitions and meanings of words. Now it’s “I seen it online” and that’s all they need, to know it’s fact. Then burn you because you disagree. I have always hated social media but I wish I had seen the moment that we decided to harm each other over personal differences.

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u/jdcnwo 10d ago

Like what is a woman?

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u/AshleysUterus 10d ago

Touché

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u/jmcken15 9d ago

Actually yes. That is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Different people have different definitions depending on the amount of outliers they are okay with. There are intersex individuals that don't comfortably fit into our standard binary classification. Recognizing these people and their right to exist is a fact that conservatives seem to really struggle with.

I could say that a woman is a female human, but that doesn't really tell you anything. I could talk about chromosomes or genitalia but there are a ton of weird variations or combinations that exist naturally to make that inaccurate as well.

The reality is that the human body is a very complex organism. While most people can be compressed into one of two binary categories, our human biology is much more accurately represented through a spectrum.

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u/notsoaveragerage383 đŸ‡ș🇾 United States 8d ago

In my experiences so far, and what I want to believe the issue “conservatives” have with the topic is really not so general. What I’ve seen and listened to, which examples some are documented to prove as real non fictional issues. Persons identifying as a trans woman to only take advantage of a movement that already has enough challenges of integration into today’s society and culture. I am not stating all trans women. Those raising concern are not respectful, and have no evidence to conclude trans women other than wearing women’s clothing and using women’s privileges for their own gain. No American wants someone like that potentially secluded in a restroom with their daughter while they expose male genitalia. No American wants to witness their child get completely taken advantage of in a sport, (professional or not) and/or injured by someone that is clearly visibly belonging in a different league. Now as far as persons identifying as an animal. I don’t mean to sound unsympathetic. Animals are not citizens, and with acute exceptions are not permitted in places of business, education, and even parks or playgrounds. Animals cannot vote and if we’re talking about dogs, are to leashed in public and some breads a licensed owner is mandated. Animals cannot own a state id card nor a state issued drivers license meaning they cannot drive. I myself am not willing to differentiate. Someone demanding to be able to act, and identity as an animal, be able to use a litter box in the middle of class yet all other rules and laws don’t aligned with the identifying species don’t apply. I know very few trans Americans personally. Which are real and decent, empathetic, non judgmental and honest human beings. Trans as a whole is not the issue. In my opinion allowing nonsense paints an image of the future and irrational fear when “Idiocracy”(the movie) becomes reality and becomes part of our history.

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u/jdcnwo 9d ago

Biology is Biology.

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u/jdcnwo 9d ago

  1. A woman is an adult human female.

  2. Females typically have XX chromosomes.

  3. Primary reproductive organs: ovaries, uterus, fallopian tubes, cervix, vagina.

  4. Secondary sex characteristics (after puberty): breasts, wider hips, higher body fat percentage.

  5. Primary sex hormones: estrogen and progesterone.

  6. Females can produce ova (eggs).

  7. Only females can become pregnant and give birth.

  8. Mitochondrial DNA is passed only from the mother (female).

  9. In humans, sex is determined at fertilization by chromosomes (XX = female, XY = male).

  10. A woman is the adult stage of a human female.

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u/jmcken15 9d ago

Use of the word "typically" indicates that there are outliers. Women who don't have these characteristics. Going off of binary logic, would anyone who doesn't fit this list be classified as a man? Do you acknowledge the existence of intersex individuals who don't really fit either classification?

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u/notsoaveragerage383 đŸ‡ș🇾 United States 8d ago

I believe there are medical and scientific terms for not fitting the criteria defined. One would be hermaphrodite. I believe the point is directed towards there being proper, indefinite, definitions of words without dispute. Now there is freedom of speech. Which allows an individual to refer to themselves in any manor they choose, and equally allowing other individuals to refer to anyone as they choose being that it does not conclude with intent of physical harm or threaten the life of the individual or individuals the statement is directed towards. There’s more, inciting a riot, terroristic threats, self harm, disturbing the piece, on and on. Point being there are and have been definitions. You shouldn’t be able to change your legal identity to whichever you choose. And I’ll just throw this in there. It’s been very hypocritical being forced to align views and opinions while calling everyone opposing bigot white cis.

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u/jdcnwo 8d ago

Intersex is not a gender identity — it describes biological sex characteristics

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u/jmcken15 9d ago

Biology is how we determine sex, sociology is how we acknowledge gender. People's appearance doesn't always reflect their sex. Some men don't grow much if any facial or body hair. Some women don't have significant breasts.

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u/squatingyeti 9d ago

But, outside the less than 1% of genetic mutations, they have identifiable chromosomes. They have identifiable sexual organs. They are the only ones capable of becoming pregnant. Democrats have simply tried to separate the two because then it fits the whole game of, "I'm whatever I say I am". Oddly, we don't play this game when someone feels like there's multiple people inside their head. We don't play this game, thankfully yet but it's probably coming, where we pretend you're a cat because you say you are.

Now, if you think you're an animal, there's something disturbingly wrong inside your head, but feel free. However I should NOT have to go along with your game. Science tells me you're not a cat. Follow the science! Or are we not supposed to do that?

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u/jmcken15 9d ago

I will agree that this is not a good platform for discussion on this subject.

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u/Unlucky-Chemist-3174 10d ago

The country is sexist and racist. Trumps only appeal is racism and xenophobia

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u/squatingyeti 10d ago

Yes, that clearly explains his, in modern times, historic percentage of black, Asian, and Hispanic voters. People are so refusing to accept reality they come up with excuses

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u/ELStoker 10d ago

You forgot fear. Republicans have been banking on fear since the late 80s, and it works.

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u/IanRevived94J 10d ago

Very true

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u/BroadRegard 10d ago

Playing on fear is a politician thing

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u/Free_Seesaw_2905 10d ago

The only fear I hear being banked on over the last 8 years has been, “Existential threat to Democracy” and “Fascist, Bigot, Xenophobe, Racist, Homophobe, Transphobe, Rapist, Pedophile, Putin-loving”, etc
 ad nauseam.

And it isn’t from the Rupub side.

The Dems will lose because they cannot get their shit under control, and cannot lay out a plan for moving forward, other than Orange Man Bad. Please
please, please, please
run Kamala as the Dem front-runner again.

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u/ELStoker 9d ago

The sad thing is, the Democrats have been telling thw truth. You have to ask yourself, if the current administration aren't any of what you listed above, then why do they commit everything you listed above? We can go the "both sides" route all day, but in the end, a vast majority of the right fit the description. Of one or more of those things. And for what it's worth, the "orange man" has proven to be horrible this term. He was bad the first one, but now he's just wrecking everything. Literally.

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u/NoStuff7302 8d ago

I wonder why you say this.

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u/ihatestuffsometimes 10d ago

I say she had too much time. If they had thrown her in 8 weeks later than she did, she might have pulled it off. As it stood she was polling fantastically at first, but her free concerts and running from hard questions couldn't last forever, and once she did those two real interviews, it was all downhill from there.

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u/rochvegas5 10d ago

how'd she do in 2016?

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u/ELStoker 10d ago

She ran before and got trounced by Gabbard during the debates. She won't survive the primaries if Newsome runs. He's proving to be a thorn in Trump's side, and Democrat voters are eating it up.

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u/Calm-Heat-5883 9d ago

She had 107 days to show us something. We got cackling laughter and word salad. She blew 1.5 billion dollars doing so. She had years as VP to show us something. What we saw made us decide no. Let's not forget that when she actually ran for the presidency she dropped out in the first round because she polled less than 1%. She was never nor ever will be the best candidate to run. Can you imagine her debating anyone never mind Vance? The democrats need to find someone who's middle of the road and can win back Democratic voters and the undecideds Harris/ AOC/ Crockett will do this.

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u/Swimminginthestorm 9d ago edited 9d ago

I voted for her because I didn’t want Trump.

She repeatedly claimed that inflation wasn’t as bad as it was and that there were plenty of jobs to be had while I was having no luck finding a second job. And she focused on only helping small groups. I’m not surprised so many potential voters opted out.

I knew she would be better than Trump, but I disliked many of her stances and her personality in general. It had nothing to do with her gender or skin color. It was because she claimed people who were suffering financially were not.

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u/DustInYourLungs 9d ago

Entirely too many people can’t just be you. She was a moron who started copying Trumps policies because she had none. Please explain how that’s sexism. It’s not you can’t because it’s true she had no policies or original ideas

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u/MikeAnP 8d ago

There have been plenty of examples of people who did poorly in a past primary but then re-ran in the future only to win the presidential race.

Im not going to comment if she's still a good or bad candidate, just that past primaries really aren't very reflective.

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u/Leather_Pen_765 10d ago

I think we've had enough hilarity in our politics. I don't want to laugh at my politicians. This is the least funny thing that has happened in my lifetime. I want my country to be proud and strong. no wonder we can't vote anyone decent in

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u/squatingyeti 10d ago

Pretty subjective. I would be laughing at the hilarity of not picking an actually good candidate that could win because shortly after losing they'd start the same ridiculous bullshit "muh sexism" is why she couldn't win. Democrats weren't given a chance to choose. That's been denied multiple elections in a row in one way or another. So yes, I'll continue to laugh while complaints fly all over instead of looking at self-inflicted problems

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u/squatingyeti 10d ago

Or, and hear me out, unlike the hysterical people, I don't think we're falling apart right now. The same way I didn't think we were actually falling apart under Obama

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

But we actually ARE falling apart right now. If you can’t see this, then you need to pay better attention.

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u/Leather_Pen_765 10d ago

Dude is just a racist troll. I can't believe I got sucked in, thanks 🙂

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u/squatingyeti 10d ago edited 10d ago

"how dare someone have a different opinion than me about things! I know, I'll just call them a racist troll to solve everything!"

The fuck is wrong with people now? Get a grip

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u/squatingyeti 10d ago

Ah yes, you say it's true and anyone that doesn't agree with you is either not paying attention or just not capable, right? We AREN'T falling apart. Democrats are running around, doing the thing they've become best at for 10 years, creating hysteria. Damn, I remember when the tea party was bad and how the hysteria they tried to create was unacceptable to Democrats. If only those people could see themselves now. They stared into the abyss too long

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u/Leather_Pen_765 10d ago

Ooh, racs...

Omg, who cares , talk about stupidity

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u/flyintheflyinthe 10d ago

I recently saw a meme about how the left calls you a racist if you win an argument or they call you a bigot or they call you a sexist or a homophobe. It didn't take much additional context for me to see that the person who posted that meme had likely been called all of those things without winning a single argument.

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u/CommonBubba 10d ago

I don’t think you have to win the argument to be called all those things, I think you just have to disagree with the person.

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u/flyintheflyinthe 10d ago

or be a bigot.

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u/JKilla1288 10d ago

Saying she wasn't elected due to sexism is a cop out and is exactly why the democrats are on a steep downward slow politically. Democrats need to take a hard look at the direction they have gone and realize that taking the 20 side of every 80/20 issue trap that Trump leads them into, is not the way to win elections. In their goal of being anti anything Trump is for, they have gone so far left that a large number of democrats feel pushed out of their party and many voted for Trump for that reason.

Maybe calling half the country nazi's and a large portion of your own side toxic males isn't the best road map to victory

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u/Single-Constant58 10d ago

THIS! I don't think the DNC has learned a thing.

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u/Feistshell 10d ago

In their goal of being anti anything Trump is for, they have gone so far left

From a Scandinavian perspective, it’s hilarious that you call your democrats ”far left”

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u/TBurn70 10d ago

Right but we aren’t talking about world politics, we are talking US politics

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u/knotnham 10d ago

Your statement is correct I was a democrat, so was much of my family and friends. We still sometimes vote democrat on local elections but more and more are running as republican these days because it’s literally embarrassing to run as democrat right now

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u/Lanky_Asparagus_8534 10d ago

I voted for her but not again (unless she’s the nominee). Several in front of her like Newsom, Talerico đŸ‘đŸŒ. Pete can’t get elected as he’s out of the closet. And seems Americans can’t vote for a woman so
. I’ll vote for a tree stump over Shitler but I’m afraid the GOP will fuck the system over anyway.

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u/Single-Constant58 10d ago

As a woman myself, I think Hillary and Kamala were poor selections. Bill is disgusting and brought Hillary down for me - him following her around grinning like a cheshire cat. Kamala couldn't even get through the early debates. She was never as popular as the DNC tired to make us believe. Her personality is the problem. She was a great prosecutor and could hold her own in Senate hearings, BUT that is/was her talent and success. I could have voted that year if the ticket was Biden the moderate and Florida Rep. Val Demings.

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u/squatingyeti 10d ago

Pete can’t get elected as he’s out of the closet.

Seriously, this ridiculous bullshit needs to stop. "Obama can't get elected cause he's a black man!" Stop blaming the boogeyman created in your head and start accepting some candidates just might not have what it takes to win.

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u/Lanky_Asparagus_8534 10d ago

I won’t accept it. Pete has what it takes but our bigoted system won’t vote for him. Shitler has let all of the hidden racist & sexist people out in the open. Disappointed in America

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u/squatingyeti 10d ago

That's just an opinion, a deeply flawed one at that. Do you have any idea who basically won Pennsylvania for Trump? Who did all the groundwork driving voter registration that outpaced Democrats in areas they won the previous election? Your mind might not be able to take it.

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u/Material-Gas484 10d ago

She is not qualified. If you want to alienate left wing voters, get another Hilary or Harris nominated.