This is a good point. We knew Kamala had a hugr fundraising advantage, yet every youtube video I queued for the last few weeks was her begging for money? Why? Just stop at some point. There is no way thwy used everything in the coffers so why is my entertainment product being bombarded with begging for weeks at a time?
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This isnât rocket science. There are people in this country that will never vote for a woman to be President. Itâs really that simple. The geniuses of the Democratic Party deciding to run women against Trump in 2 of his 3 elections is just straight up incompetence.
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I think that account for some small percentage of the shift but totally misses the bigger issues.
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Trump is obviously a master of keeping his finger on the pulse and parroting it back in a way that gets a lot of attention. Heard an interview with some right wing dipshit that worked on Trumpâs first campaign say that Trump knew exactly what he was doing in saying McCain was not a war hero.
Lot of conservative families had members stupidly sent off to Iraq/Afghanistan at McCainâs behest so even in a R primary, lot of them were happy to see a draft dodger gut the core of who McCain was as a person.
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Begging is an interesting choice of word.
I guess if she had spent it at the French Laundry youâd be alright with it.
Yggy, just tell the left you want them to give up, fuck off, and go away, this is taking forever. âThe environment is not a hard limit to obeyâ, gl with that shit.
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To make one last point on this for now, campaigning with the Cheneys was a super braindead move if my theory on general disillusionment with the Dems from their base is accurate. If anything it would signal to the people deciding whether to trust Kamala and vote or distrust the Dems and stay home that they should do the latter. Gleefully parading endorsements from literal neo-con mass murderers was pretty gross. It could have been the final straw for single issue Palestine voters as well.
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I peeked at fb, which I rarely go on anymore. Itâs littered with âshut up about womenâs rights, Trump said he wouldnât ban abortion, and he had 4 years to do it and didnâtâŚâ
You have to do it but also with populist rhetoric and tactics. Like if Biden had just ignored the SCOTUS ruling on student debt forgiveness.
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I get the point, but I think you overestimate how âpopulistâ the student debt issue is wrt young people without a college degree.
Pretty much, also unfortunately itâs pretty popular.
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Climate change just doesnât galvanize people, so thatâs going to have to be done on the down low once Dems take power. Things like the green new deal that are primarily focused on growth, but a growth thatâs amenable to greening the economy seems a viable path
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Large amounts of people support banning trans people from sports because of issues of fairness. I think luckily thatâs as far as the support goes. Positive support for generalized support of trans people aka trans people bathroom issues, marriage licenses, etc.
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Sounds like a knock against progressive DAs. I donât know, he just glosses over the real problems have huge prison population, people staying in jail forever, etc. I get the overall idea that the victims of crime should come first. How to balance those issues though I donât know
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Is fine, as long as it has the âsome people didnât get the same opportunities so weâll help them be on the same playing fieldâ is in there as well.
Yeah, I think I agree with this. Part of the reason the right has broken free was because of Citizens united, I think. Their base has a lot more concentrated wealth to allow people like Ted Cruz to break free of the moderate party power-brokers and run as a professional troll for his hardcore base. Once broken free, the right basically had to go along with the whims of their more extreme constituents. Unfortunately there arebt any magic sources of money that the left can tap into to fund candidates to primary moderates from the left.
Theyâre trying to prevent brown people from taking over their country.
As Iâve said before, there are two completely separate and incompatible ideas of what âAmericaâ means. To you and me, âAmericaâ means representative democracy, checks and balances, all [people] are created equal, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, etc. The other idea of America is that this land belongs to white Christian men, who have the right to subjugate, enslave, kill, ethnically cleanse, and legally relegate to lower class status all others who might threaten their rule. Weâve already fought one war over this, and the white side won, at least post-reconstruction, the right to have their states free from federal interference in their idea of America. There was some upheaval to this in the latter half of the 20th century, culminating in a Black president, and the white side has been hopping mad ever since. Now they have secured total victory.
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Yeah, donât think it was close to dispositive but agree that campaigning with Cheney was dumb. This is why I donât blame W for not endorsing Kamala, pointless at best.
One problem I think Dems have thatâs on the their voting block is they arenât allowed to play both sides.
*Harris was trying to be against the Gaza war without being too against Israel which means sheâs getting protested and losing support when her opponent is using Palestinian as a slur and wants Isreal to finish the job and he apparently won the arab vote.
*Harris has to try and balance compassion for immigrants with the law, while Trump is getting votes from Latinos for saying heâs deporting 20 million, with naturalized citizens being somewhere on that list. Hell, heâs getting illegal immigrants saying theyâd vote for him if they could cause Trump only means the bad ones.
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Pretty much, also unfortunately itâs pretty popular.
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Climate change just doesnât galvanize people, so thatâs going to have to be done on the down low once Dems take power. Things like the green new deal that are primarily focused on growth, but a growth thatâs amenable to greening the economy seems a viable path
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Large amounts of people support banning trans people from sports because of issues of fairness. I think luckily thatâs as far as the support goes. Positive support for generalized support of trans people aka trans people bathroom issues, marriage licenses, etc.
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Sounds like a knock against progressive DAs. I donât know, he just glosses over the real problems have huge prison population, people staying in jail forever, etc. I get the overall idea that the victims of crime should come first. How to balance those issues though I donât know
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Is fine, as long as it has the âsome people didnât get the same opportunities so weâll help them be on the same playing fieldâ is in there as well.
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Needs further explanation. Basically joining the TERFs, but no further explanation given.
What is the point of doing those things if even the people who support them donât realize theyâre happening?
Looking Back: The Biden Administration Has Leveraged Executive Branch Powers To Expand Coverage Access
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Additionally, the White House released a major new maternal health blueprint in June 2022, and has encouraged states to take up the new 12-months postpartum coverage option. States have been rapidly adopting the new option, with 34 states and the District of Columbia moving forward as of this writing.
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Tim Walz was also begging, so was Allred. It was fatiguing for me who supports them. Imagkne how it felt to those on the fence
Did you have a point you want to make or did you just decide snarky bullshit was the order of the day?
Fair enough. Biden actually did some good things. I had totally forgotten that had happened which doesnât say good things for the general electorate knowing any of that happened.
Not enough lolz for Yggyâs list. You donât win these people back by giving into their demands. You win these people back by meeting them where they are: with conspiracy theories in online media. Hear me out: InfoWars, but with lefties, and instead of the Jews being the villains, itâs billionaires. Inflation? Ainât nothin but greedy billionaires jacking up prices and hiding whoâs to blame. Trans women in sports? Plainly a distraction that you, oh enlightened online person, can see through.
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