Her platform was a fuck ton of things including but not limited to increasing the minimum wage to at least 15 bucks an hour, codifying abortion, legalizing weed, introducing a wealth tax and a unrealized gains tax and hire corporate tax, going after companies that engaged in greedflation, being anti monopoly by using the FCC to push for less consolidation, put a cap on rent increases, providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, more investment in infrastructure, providing first time home buyers down payment assistance that would have helped millions upon millions of people buy houses, and pushing for lower cost to more medications by leveraging Medicare having the ability to negotiate prices. There’s more but that’s just off the top of my head.

Did she say those things in her commencement speech? Yup. Arguing for the most lethal military was fucking weird but was likely just her trying to take away that talking point from the right as opposed to anything being mirrored in her actual platform. Still fucking weird though.

The border bill was not a slight variation from what’s currently in place unless you consider billions upon billions of dollars making ice the larger than tons of other departments, then yes those billions upon billions were a slight variation. The actual bipartisan bill included far more funding for actually working towards continuing to crack down on drug smuggling by having detection machines at ports, as opposed to just grabbing randoms off the street or at illegal crossings like the BBB.

AI also isn’t going anywhere so I don’t see why saying she wanted us to lead the field is a bad thing (especially since that would likely come with a lot of regulation under her as opposed to none under Trump and a desire for a full moratorium on passing any AI regulation for 10 year), nor with going to space which likely would have come with actually increasing NASAs budget as opposed to almost eliminating it entirely under Trump. Don’t see how either of those are both inherently pro regime change and pro corporations and monopolies.

Almost nothing you’ve said is talking about embracing Liz Cheney’s platform either, Liz is against regulation, Harris was for it. Liz is against higher taxes for the rich and corporations, Harris was for it. Liz is against abortion, Harris was for it, Liz is against the minimum wage increase, Harris was for it. They only seemed to line up on having a strong military and passing a immigration bill that wasn’t the best but was also all they could do with Republicans in control of Congress and was a compromise and likely would have been renegotiated if she had come into office with a democratic congress. That’s two things of so so many.

Also, to say that Harris was only running on not being Trump is far right propaganda and absolutely BS. She had multiple interviews about her policies, she had a whole policy page on her site, she talked incessantly about policy during the election and what she’d implement, the DNC had a policy platform that she was running on. She had a platform, it was largely positive, to say otherwise is to disregard reality.

If you mean embrace as in campaign with him, that never happened. If you mean tout his endorsement as a way of showing just how crazy trump was, yeah that happened.

She did campaign with Liz Cheney which was dumb but it wasn’t as a “we agree on everything and have the same platform” it was all about how she disagreed on almost everything except how bad trump is. So they campaigned. It was dumb but to say they agreed is dumb when they literally talked about how they didn’t in the handful of campaign stops they did together.

I also don’t know what you mean by embracing his platform? Regime change? Didn’t embrace. Cutting taxes for the rich? Didn’t embrace. Pro corporations and monopolies? Didn’t embrace.

The only argument I could see is immigration and that’s a dumb campaign decision they made to say she would sign the bipartisan agreement made in the senate that Trump killed so he could campaign on the border. She also talked about pathways to citizenship which trump didn’t.

It was insane to campaign with Liz but she didn’t embrace her platform at all.

Is it rehabilitating Cheney just to basically say “look at how bad Trump is, even Dick Cheney thinks you should not vote for him and vote for us.”?

About 25 years late with this article. Roberts betrayed America for George W. Bush when he argued before the supreme court that Bush won despite being behind (or about to be behind as votes were still being counted and gore had the momentum, can’t remember) at the, at the time, current vote total. Bush rewarded him with the position of Chief Justice. Fuck him. He’s a large part of why we are here.

Edit at the top: the seat she is running for is going to be empty so that’s at least one area of criticism she shouldn’t face.

She is running in a seat currently held by a Democratic congresswoman who, to be fair, has been in office for a while. It’s a primary and she’s running against her. Not an open seat unless the current congresswoman has recently announced she won’t be running which would have had to happen in the last couple weeks and I think is unlikely.

The indictment specifically accuses Abughazaleh, among others, of banging aggressively on the windows, hood and other areas of the agent’s car, pushing against it to “hinder and impede its movement” and etching the word “PIG” on the car.

This is so dumb. Oh no! The ICE agent was scared! Almost exactly like how he makes everyone else feel!

Kat is a really good voice to have and this is the dumbest thing you can throw against her. Criticize her about how she’s not running in the district she lives in, how she moved to Illinois from Texas and within a very short time decided to run for congress against a Democratic congresswoman who the community of the district genuinely likes and has been rather progressive ( I have been corrected, the congresswoman is retiring). About how she’s acting like she knows a lot about the district saying she lives right next to a bus line that is a few stops away from that district despite the fact that bus line doesn’t go to that district. Not this horseshit.

I’ll always remember on here when, during the election, I was talking about how bad Project 2025 was and how terrifying it was. I then had several folks say simultaneously that Project 2025 was nothing to be afraid of (was a boogeyman that they wanted me to be afraid of) and that Biden had already actually implemented about 80% of it. Crazy stuff.

Project 2025 was always Trump’s plan and I wish the media, and people like the commenters I mentioned, would have done better at understanding how bad it was and how his supposed distancing was all fucking BS.

Tucker has claimed multiple times at least since last year that Pete is actually straight. All because of his Gay Producer seemingly being the decider of who is and isn’t gay. I wouldn’t be surprised if either the Producer is just pulling it out of his ass, or he heard Pete might have dated women before coming out in 2015 so just assumes that means he couldn’t be gay. Cause obviously there’s no such thing as being in denial. That Producer might be experiencing a real Gold Star Lesbian thought process.

Either way, Tucker only knows anything about sex as a gay person because he’s had sex with that demon (obviously an incubus) that supposedly scratched him last year. They were love scratches.

Tucker is a Demon Fucker. Pass it on.

Good

And they’ll still reelect him next year.

There is no clean way out of it. Split, civil war, fascist dictatorship crackdown, world war against the US, war with Mexico and Canada forcing the US collapse, sending every possible minority to a concentration camp and ruling for decades only to eventually collapse like all fascist dictatorships do. There is only messiness in the future.

Yeah they want one party rule so they can do whatever they want forever. People will get more and more upset with the things they do while in power but won’t be able to stop it so they’ll stop participating which will guarantee even more Republicans win. They want to make the Democrats non existent, they would have already made them illegal if they felt like they could.

The more they push the more I think the US will not last that much longer, maybe a decade, and then it’ll split into multiple countries. People who are liberal and leftist on the west coast can only be so useful if the feds ruin everything they do, so they could split off and make their own thing, as has been talked about more and more recently.

Well if it’s too affordable then we might have those undesirables live and survive comfortably in the city and that’s just not acceptable.

I’m from Ohio, that sounds immensely better.

Makes me more interested in Portland being a possible city to move to when I get out of my red state. If I can get a job there.

Seems very much like concentrating on voters who supported both AOC and Trump. Supposedly fine with progressive policies but just wanting someone “real” who is seemingly willing to fight for them.

Also it’s always so fascinating to see how articles like this frequently talk about these Trump voters who are winnable because they support a ton of progressive policies but many continue to vote for Republicans despite them wanting to work against those very policies they supposedly support. The cognitive dissonance is truly astounding.

What they’re gonna do is redraw all the maps of the states they are in control of, and eliminate ALL Democrat districts. Every single one. They’ll do this and there will be challenges declaring it illegal but by the time it actually comes before a court it’ll be too late to redraw so they’ll just go ahead with the illegal maps and then Democrats won’t just not win the house, they will lose 30+ seats. All because the Republicans are fascists and people refused to vote for democratic candidates last election cycle.

They might, might, leave one or two blue districts per state, but otherwise they will be gone. This is the plan in Ohio and in Florida, it’s happening. It doesn’t matter that it’s BS.

Anyone who helped Trump win, including those who helped Harris lose, will be responsible for the downfall of the American democratic system.

Guess it’s time for some successions.

Yes

That’s fair. People were definitely looking for any excuse.

This is something that really bothered me about the recent election. It was clear that Cheney was only campaigning with Harris because she wanted to stop Trump not because she agreed with the policies of Harris. She was still a believer in “Republican” policies but understood the danger of Trump winning and did what she could to make him lose.

The left then said that because she was being put out there by the Harris campaign as someone who would help get people to vote for her that must have meant she agreed with all of Harris’s policies. Which means Harris must have been a Republican and had all Republican policies despite her having multiple rather progressive policies that the majority of people support.

Instead of having the completely rational thought that if a shitty Republican like Cheney refuses to vote for Trump and says we should all vote against him then that’s a positive and should help convince independents and non voters that this was such an important election, they ignored that and made BS assumptions and accusations about the entire Harris campaign. It fucking sucked.