• turdcollector69@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Kamala is and has always been a shit tier candidate.

    Can we finally admit that her entire campaign amounted to gaslighting people into thinking she’s remotely leftist?

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    All you had to do was say nothing, Kamala.

    Why do liberals not realize that the right will NEVER vote for them no matter how much they pander, and everyone else hates them because they have no moral or ethical compass.

  • 58008@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    She’s still playing that “let’s meet in the middle” charade that didn’t do shit for her during her campaign?

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    Politicians need to learn to not comment.

    Kamala wasn’t involved in national politics at the same time as cheney. When cheney was last in office, Kamala was the district attorney of SF, an local office that only deals with the laws of California. No plausible working relationship between the two. They were not even interacting with the same laws. They worked in entirely different levels of government. There is no need for any statement.

    Regardless of politics, any statement like this will sound disingenuous. If she knows Lynne, Liz, Mary, and the entire family well enough to have them in her thoughts, she could tell them directly. Calling someone to wish them the best in a hard time is a commendable act. Making a public statement telling other people that you care about someone else is just weird.

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    7 days ago

    It’s fascinating to see her keep saying things that reveal the fatal flaw in her campaign. It’s not that she listened to her advisors back then, although they did give her bad advice. Rather, she’s lacking values that resonate with the majority of the American people. We all know that the old man was a terrible human being, and yeah, it is probably sad for his family that he passed away, but most of us would simply not say his name again. He earned no respect as a public figure, and we can treat ourselves with dignity by not bringing him up ever again.

    Of course you also might want a trash talk him, because of all the horrible things he did, and that’s okay too. I think either approach is fine, but the one approach that’s not fine is whitewashing all the horrible things he did in his life.

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    6 days ago

    I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead. Good!

    Moms Mabley

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      7 days ago

      nah, she’s done. any bluster from her henceforth is just gonna be promotion for her books and speeches.

      i’m almost grateful that she ran in lieu of joe, because it finally exposed just how much of an empty shell the party has become.

      you can’t fight oligarchy if your dick is in the sauce.

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        6 days ago

        She will definitely be in the primary, assuming there is one (I just doubt that establishment Dems would dare keep her out), but my hope is that she will get squashed pretty quickly.

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          i don’t think she’ll do that, and i base my assumption solely upon the fact that she hasn’t done a fucking notable thing since losing.

          Come to think of it, NOBODY is doing anything… makes you wonder if the clowns really represent you.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      I can’t wait to see her bomb out even harder than she did in 2020, when she dropped out without getting a single vote.

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    6 days ago

    Stuff like this reminds me why they lose to fascists. When they like to say the proto-fascists are practicing politics correctly it really waters down their message and what is at stake.

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    5 days ago

    …and she’s going to try to run in 28?

    She’ll have better chances running as a republican at this point.

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    Polite words after someone kicks the bucket, whoever they may be, is politics, understandable.

    That said, it does seem like she went out of her way to lay it on thick, didn’t she? With a nasty synthetic aftertaste to it. She chose her words carefully and it looks like her kissing the boot of a fucking goddamned sick soulless monster.

    Here’s my obituary for cheney:
    He shot a man in the face, then abused his tremendous privilege to avoid police questioning for 36 hours, after he’d had time to sober up, even as he got hundreds of thousands of people killed by kicking a hornet’s nest in the Middle East, all for oil profit of his Halliburton and Clearwater buddies.

    Rest not, but wallow in shit and eternal damnation,
    Dick “Why Don’t You Go FUCK YOURSELF?!!” Cheney

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      I think polite words are fine, but when she started praising him, that was simply inappropriate. Either she actually believes what she said or she was lying about the praise. Offering condolences to the family alone would have sufficed.

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        She’s basically an '80s republican so I’d say the praise was genuine. The fact that we were forced to choose between her and the orange fascist wasn’t really a choice. It was literally the lesser of two evils and a lot of people decided not to choose because of it. Which is why we are here.

        As much blane as republicans have for how fucked up things are right now, democrats share a good portion of the blame for shoving this tool down our throats.

        And before you all start in with the “if only you had bothered to vote”. I fucking did vote. It didn’t end up mattering.

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          The “Not Voters” were such an insignificantly small portion of voters (ie, people who usually vote but abstained or voted 3rd party in 2024) that even if every one of them voted for Kamala, she still would have lost. Her failure was instead due to the Democrats fundamental refusal to see that the status quo does not work for regular people.

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      5 days ago

      Polite words after someone kicks the bucket, whoever they may be, is politics, understandable

      What did US politicians say when Gaddafi was murdered? Honest question

      Edit: I looked up what Obama had to say when Gaddafi was murdered:

      "Today, the government of Libya announced the death of Muammar Qaddafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya.

      For four decades, the Qaddafi regime ruled the Libyan people with an iron fist. Basic human rights were denied. Innocent civilians were detained, beaten and killed. And Libya’s wealth was squandered. The enormous potential of the Libyan people was held back, and terror was used as a political weapon"

      Not so “just politics” back then huh?

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    6 days ago

    That’s standard politician that is.

    Something in the world happens that does not involve them, or in any way require a comment from them.

    Them: “oh I got to make a non statement about this”.