Reading this entire thread tbh has been a sad and worrying re-affirmation of my beliefs that we're all collectively "fucked". We literally can't put aside differences (myself included) and argue on facts and details, and instead resorting to tribalism.
The big reason we're resorting to tribalism, I think, is because of a peculiar element of human nature about wanting to "right" past "wrongs". So if me looking in from the outside, see the other side winning unfairly last time round, I'll support my side's wrongs despite them being objectively wrong (or what I don't even want) because I want to right the wrong of the past. That topped with the fact that the stakes are a whole lot higher each time means that neither side wants to "take one for the team" - because they know that if they did, the other side will just use the opportunity to the detriment of their opponents.
If being an unlikeable idiot spewing word salad nonsensical speeches disqualifies you from being president, then why the fuck is Trump running, and why do you support him, and not only tolerate his racism and misogyny, but actually parrot his nonsensical word salad, word for word?
Except she’s clearly the ultimate DEI hire.
Biden explicitly said he was going to pick a woman, and strongly suggested it would a black woman.
He didn’t say he was going to pick the best legislator or the noblest leader. The only mandatory characteristics were genitalia and melanin.
She was a terrible candidate during the primaries. She all but accused Biden of being a racist during the debates. Never won a single state in a primary election and I don’t think she ever polled above 5%. She is not an effective public speaker, she’s not likeable, she’s not relatable, and she doesn’t even have any kids! How can you truly care about the future if you don’t even have any skin in the game?
Since becoming VP, she has no accomplishments whatsoever. She didn’t “solve any of the root causes at the border”. She had no command or influence with the legislative branch. And she turns off large swathes of Democrats.
The only reason she’s at the top of the ticket is because anything else would make the Democrats look even more foolish.
At some point she’s going to be asked if and when she saw the mental decline in Biden, and why she didn’t speak up. I’m going to invest in Hidden Valley as we’ll need a lot of dressing for that word salad.
> If being an unlikeable idiot spewing word salad nonsensical speeches disqualifies you from being president, then why the fuck is Trump running, and why do you support him, and not only tolerate his racism and misogyny, but actually parrot his nonsensical word salad, word for word?
I think Trump is quite funny and likable, I agree with vast majority of his policies, and I don’t think he’s racist at all. Clearly millions of other people agree with me.
Do you seriously think 75+ million people are racists? I sure don’t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
If she were anywhere near as terrible or unpopular as you dishonestly claim, you'd be celebrating and welcoming her candidacy and an extensive series of debates: Criminal Prosecutor -vs- Prosecuted Criminal.
But no: The fact that you and Trump are so existentially afraid of her and deeply rattled that you react that way, and actually threaten to sue to keep Joe Biden on the ballot, and cowardly chicken out of another debate with her, says so much more about what a perfect candidate Kamala Harris is for this election than anything any of her most ardent supporters could possibly express in words.
So thanks for your full throated endorsement of Kamala Harris for President of the United States, and just keep doing what you're doing: it makes her look GREAT!
>“I was elected Attorney General of the State of California and I was a corporate prosecutor before that, and in those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” she said.
>“Predators who abused women, fraudster who ripped off consumers, and cheaters who broke the rules for their gain.
>“So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”
>“As a young prosecutor, when I was in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office in California, I specialized in cases involving sexual abuse. Donald Trump was found liable by a jury for committing sexual abuse,” Harris said Monday.
>“As attorney general of California, I took on one of our country’s largest for-profit colleges and put it out of business,” she continued. “Donald Trump ran a for-profit college, Trump University, that was forced to pay $25 million to the students it scammed.”
Versus what The Oldest Presidential Nominee In History aimlessly rambles on and on about, telling incoherent nonsensical stories about his own incoherent nonsensical stories -- do you want some Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing with this Word Salad:
>“Now they’ll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. They thought I was rambling. I’m not rambling. …
>“We can’t get the boat to float. The battery is so heavy. So then I start talking about asking questions. You know, I have an, I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT for many years, long, I think the longest tenure ever. Very smart, had three different degrees and, you know, so I have an aptitude for things. You know, there is such a thing as an aptitude.
>“I said, ‘Well, what would happen if this boat is so heavy and started to sink and you’re on the top of the boat. Do you get electrocuted or not?’ In other words, the boat is going down and you’re on the top, will the electric currents flow through the water and wipe you out?
>“And let’s say there’s a shark about 10 yards over there. Would I have to immediately abandon, or could I ride the electric down? And he said, ‘Sir, nobody’s ever asked us that question. But sir, I don’t know.’ I said, ‘Well, I want to know, because I guarantee you one thing, I don’t care what happens. I’m staying with the electric, I’m not getting over with it.’
>“So I tell that story. And the fake news they go, ‘he told this crazy story with electric.’ It’s actually not crazy. It’s sort of a smart story, right? Sort of like, you know, it’s like the snake, it’s a smart when you, you figure what you’re leaving in, right? You’re bringing it in the, you know, the snake, right? The snake and the snake. I tell that and they do the same thing.”
So I'll ask you right now: Why didn't YOU speak up when you saw the mental decline of Trump?
>It'll allow the media machine to paint numerous "oh it's because she's black, isn't it" kind of rhetoric as a smear on the Republicans.
Making unfounded racist attacks like "DEI Hire" and "Colored" is exactly what I'm talking about, and what you're trying to defend. When Republicans say racist shit like that, they totally deserve to be criticized and "smeared" by quoting their own words.
If you don't want to be called racist, then don't say racist shit, or defend racism, then blame it on the media when you're criticized for it. It's as simple as that. And YOU should stop defending racism, or it sounds like YOU'RE the one with a big problem.
"She’s a woman, she's colored": Ex-Trump official Seb Gorka calls Kamala Harris a "DEI hire":
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/10/shes-a-woman-shes-colored-e...
>“She’s a DEI hire, right? She’s a woman. She’s colored, therefore she’s got to be good.” -Sebastian Gorka
‘DEI,’ ‘Colored,’ ‘Jezebel’: MAGA Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Getting Ugly. The right can barely contain its racist, sexist contempt for Biden’s likely 2024 replacement:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maga-rep...
Even Kevin McCarthy thinks attacking Kamala as a "DEI Hire" is petty and racist:
Kevin McCarthy Flames Republicans’ ‘Totally Stupid and Dumb’ Attacks on Kamala Harris: ‘They’re Wrong in Their Own Instincts’:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/kevin-mccarthy-flames-republican...
Now let's discuss the baseless accusation of "word salad". I posted some Kamala quotes and some Trump quotes in the adjacent comment. Which sound like word salad to you, and which of those people sounds like they're too old and incoherent and incompetent to run the country? Are you going to defend Trump's rambling words about sharks and batteries as not being "word salad"?
And JD Vance is MUCH more of a DEI hire for VP than the INFINITELY more experienced and competent and successful Kamala Harris, who's personally prosecuted and locked up many criminals and sexual predators and frauds just like Trump behind bars.
‘He’s Dragging Trump Down’: CNN’s Data Guru Reveals BRUTAL Polling Data for JD Vance:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/hes-dragging-trump-down-cnns-dat...
>“Frankly, I don’t really understand the pick,” Enten told Erin Burnett on Tuesday’s OutFront. “And apparently, neither do the American voters because we take a look at the net favorable rating for JD Vance. That’s the favorable minus unfavorable. It’s in negative net territory. Look at that. Negative six points.”
>Enten says he looked at every election since 1980 and could not find another veep selection with a net negative rating.
>“He is the first guy after, immediately following a convention, a VP pick, who actually had a net negative favorable rating that is underwater,” he went on. “The average since 2000 is plus 19 points, JD Vance, making history in the completely wrong way.”
But I won't apologize ever for calling out actual racism, including DEI and AA itself. If you want to argue that she's not a DEI hire, okay fine, I don't have any info on that and won't talk to that. Every individual I interact with always gets a clean page in my book, color and gender being irrelevant.
If she is indeed the nominee, this is going to be an even greater landslide than it would have been with Biden at the top.