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  • The problem for the Democrats is that the tent is very big. There are a lot of issues and a lot of people who care about very different things.

    Gaza, unfortunately, was one of those. We had people who grit their teeth and voted Harris even though it was going to hurt them.

    On the other side, Jewish zionists would have absolutely turned on Harris if she fully supported Palestine. Harris made a pragmatic choice to not alienate the zionists in the hopes that her opponent would be so toxic that Palestinians would see the lesser of two evils.

    The really frustrating thing is Republicans don’t have to run this kind of campaign. They can run a campaign on shit, fantasy, and rumor and their base will still show up and vote.


  • John Oliver’s segment on Palestinians really cemented it for me: if your family was killed by a missile sold to them by Biden, it’s really difficult to support his successor.

    Sure you may not want the orange turd either.

    But imagine the heartache of voting for the person related to the one who is responsible for the death of your family.

    I know I can’t. And a part of me feels for them.

    What upset me the most is that Harris used Hilary’s election plan verbatim. No one stopped to tell Harris that Clinton lost.

    Sanders warned her that if she wants a good turn out, she needs to have a plan for the working class.

    Instead she wasted weeks trying to get Republican endorsements instead of trying to shore up her base.






  • Which, again, in a sane world, is really just one choice. This, quite frankly, is the only real bullet in the “both sides are the same” argument.

    I’m not saying Harris isn’t qualified; she clearly is.

    What I’m saying is that the Republicans have had years of making their base into good little soldiers that will vote R simply because they aren’t D.

    These mouth breathers only see the letter after the name. I can’t tell you the number of times that voters came up to me when I was a poll worker and ask me who the “Republicans” were in a local election where the candidates can’t have party affiliations.

    Why yes, these were often elderly voters. What made you guess that?