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am_Unition  ·  30 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On the Democratic Party's Cult of Powerlessness

I don't think Joe ran on it, but Kamala did announce that she would legalize weed veryyyyy late in the campaign, to the point where even if the press would have been willing to make a big deal of it, it wouldn'ta mattered. The campaign was.. it was OK. Almost! It was almost OK. It was certainly not great, but again, clearly Trump has proven that the quality of campaign largely doesn't matter. Like five days ago Walmart was like "oh btw, tariffs would probably be mostly passed on to the customer, simply, yeah", and it was just... no one's job during campaign season to explain that. Nobody's. Same guy we gave "reasonably explain what mass deportations likely entail" to. Again, the press's true failure in this moment cannot be overstated.

But yes, as elsewhere has been mentioned, the dems are definitely a controlled opposition party. There was just a quick wrest within the oligarchy, the south africans struck in the twilight of the campaign multiple times, and with large investments.

Unsolicited, semi-concrete predictions, you say? Great idea. I suspect they'll 25th Amendment Trump, but I don't know when. I don't know when I'd want them to, or if. They're all too socially inept to realize that JD doesn't have the juice, and maybe handing Ozempic Jr. "whatever [donuts] work[s], I guess" after Trump has done god knows what for even one year is gonna be like Peter Theil's suicide, for starters.

No, no we are in no man's land. And one thing, li'l silver lining, is that I don't have to give one flying fuck what the dems do or say anymore, because that's all about to be completely irrelevant.

But thank god, nuclear war averted, Ukraine will be surrendered af and Russia will threaten Moldova and the Finns, and fuck, we might join 'em, maybe bomb Mexico, it's big peace time cunts.

edit: history will probably show that the Israel shit was singularly Biden. Singularly. Yeah I'm real torn up to see him go. This fucking country deserves itself, honestly. It's fine





user-inactivated  ·  29 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Found it! Its not on her main issues page, instead its buried as point three here: https://kamalaharris.com/agenda/

Read that and tell me they're making the media's job easy.

Kamala also has the opposite problem of Trump. We -know- Trump's going to do things so we can assume he'll do our favorite subset but be blocked on the things we think are awful. Like, surely he's not ~really~ going to . . . etc etc

Whereas Kamala can say whatever but we all know she's going to not care about our favorite thing. Maybe she'll do a tiny bit of it? Which tiny bit?

user-inactivated  ·  29 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean sure she could say she will but she's said a lot of things. I don't think anyone believed she would legalize weed. I certainly didn't.

Never heard that part of her campaign before the election fwiw, but someone online showed me where it was hidden: on a four paragraph part of her site where she said what she'd do for black men mainly talking about how much she knows how much they like bitcoin.

I hate NYT as much as the next guy but if her messaging was awful you can only blame the media so much.

Edit: its nowhere to be found here: https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

Nor is anything remotely comprehensible. Its ten thousand words long and carefully written to say nothing. I dare you to find anything interesting there to talk about.