I don’t think Biden and Harris are the same person. I think she was cowardly but I also think she wants to be hip and loved and could have been shamed with sustained pressure. Not a sure thing, and likely to be weak sauce, but a possibility. I don’t see that as likely with either Biden or Trump. And the possibility of stopping something as big as genocide and permanent land grabs is much better than no chance at all.

But I also don’t blame Arabs for voting (or not voting) emotionally for the actions of Biden and the inaction of Harris now. Don’t kill someone’s family and then ask them to think of the bigger picture.

Step 1: Avoid anything related to social justice for the entire campaign and never forcefully counter conservative narratives about vulnerable populations.

Step 2: Blame being too woke for losing.

Whereas the incredibly close elections like 2000 or 2016 could be blamed on basically any one group as pleased the accuser, this one is an across the board loss. That’s not going to stop the moderates from trying to scapegoat minorities though, because otherwise they might need to address that a dedicated dive to the center was an abject failure.

Next up on the list, the trans people, who despite being entirely ignored by the campaign are clearly the people who need to be shoved back in a corner for the convenience of white moderates.

It’s weird that he’s still even a thing in politics. He’s recently just been running some irrelevant conservatism for kids grift. Why would he even be on the list of people to elevate?

There’s been basically no change in the posting about Palestine since the election, but these people (including this two month old account) have a narrative in their head and won’t let reality intervene.

This community is just perpetually disappointing. How the fuck are you someone interested in progressive politics and not know the difference between Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren? Especially on corruption and stocks. She’s one of the main voices leading the effort to ban stock trading by electeds and their families. The is is the most upvoted comment in the entire post!

You could say that about all activists. It’s not like the leftists don’t think Nick Fuentes is a Nazi shitstain. You know it, why are you here posting rather than carrying out the assassination you’re condemning others for not performing?

They didn’t lose the election for Harris. She failed to get voters across the board. And they’re the one group with the most justified reason to vote spitefully and a conveniently “othered” minority to focus on so the people who ran that terrible campaign don’t have to own up for their failures and liberal white America that thought “the Democrats don’t need to do anything for them because they have no other options” can avoid recognizing that that was a bad sentiment with which to build a coalition.

GameStop is a meme company at this point, not an actual company than needs to worry about running a business.

They’re not misogynist, they’re just preemptively implementing what the misogynists want. For practicality you see. That’s entirely different.

That was effectively the whisper campaign against Warren in 2020. Sure, she’s popular, sure, she’s pulling in plenty of money from small-dollar donors, and sure, she’s literally leading in the primary (for a very short period), but every single newspaper and pundit suddenly wanted to JAQ off about whether a woman could win. The answers started off “of course”, but if you ask people that question enough times, they’ll start to think it’s something they should be asking themselves.

Trump may have gained some votes from the working class, but he didn’t steal anything from Bernie. What in that list of things in his message did Trump adopt?

Deeply ironic post by someone who doesn’t know the civics of the VP’s office.

JFC, don’t posture like this when you’re just guessing about how things work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President…

It’s two separate votes. Presidents and vice-presidents running as a combined ticket is custom, but the vote in the electoral college is separate votes and doesn’t need to conform to the wishes of the president, and both the president and vice president are elected positions.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/15407/can-the-vice-president-of-the-united-states-be-fired

And to respond to your edit, you’ll note how that says “outside of those enumerated in the Constitution”. The VP just does senate stuff and succeeds the president if needed, but the president can give them other tasks to perform, just like they can give any random person in their administration. Those are at the discretion of the president, not the vice president’s position.

The news stories seem to just leave out that the Israeli fans stole and burned a Palestinian flag, assaulted a taxi driver and vandalized a taxi, and marched through Amsterdam chanting racist slogans and celebrating dead children in Gaza. Then during the match they disrupted a moment of silence for Spanish flood victims with chant and firecrackers (because Spain acknowledged the genocide and initiated an arms embargo).

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/8/israeli-football-fans-clash-with-protesters-in-amsterdam

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/11/what-happened-amsterdam-israeli-football-fans

But no, instead of a relatively straightforward escalation (still wrong) stemming from foreign racists staging a provocative march and being violent to citizens of the city, we instead just see the news parrot “it was a pogrom on poor Israelis just trying to enjoy some football”.

You’re getting downvoted because your understanding of the government is just made up. The vice president is an elected position, not an employee of Biden and not under some legal obligation to not contradict him. Until the Twelfth Amendment the vice president was just the person who got the second-most votes, often an actual opponent of the president.

which is still and order from her boss

This is complete nonsense. The vice president isn’t duty bound to never contradict the president, especially when running to succeed him. When a boss orders you to do something that’s wrong, you can say no, particularly when you don’t need the job anymore and are already applying for a better one.

Harris didn’t say more on Gaza because she didn’t want to, whether due to personal beliefs or because she for some reason thought it was a better electoral stance, not because of all-powerful orders from Joe Biden.

The Democrats control the Senate. The Republicans don’t have an option to stall until January. It’s all about whether the DINOs want a 7-2 court.

Yeah, I don’t get why people think they’d just YOLO this and find out how Manchinema would vote on the senate floor. If one of them isn’t locked in, then definitely don’t start it, but maybe Sinema, for all her mercenary ways, might think abortion actually did matter and a 7-2 court is just dumb.

They don’t have a say in the matter in the current senate, it’s all about the DINOs.