LOL its irrational I know. Just my nervous tick. Ive done some work in that space and just got uncomfortable with CCP policies. Belligerent anti-Huawei, belt & road was my gateway drug. Stupid that I prefer MAGA american companies spying on me than China, but got hate in my heart and letting it out.
You won’t even be saving money now that tariffs are coming so double fucked by maga. What a bunch of moronic paste eaters those losers are
I enjoy Anthony Jeselnik. He opens his new special with a trans joke — that imo is actually funny. But just wild how many years this topic has been a staple for some comedians. AJ delivers the joke in a self deprecating way that acknowledges this absurdity. Reminds me that Dave Chappelle got super fucking weird and obsessed and I didn’t enjoy his last two specials.
Not to mention the devastation of mass deportations on agriculture. Literally nothing will go down in cost because we won’t have anyone to do shit.
Going to an aunt and uncle’s house for Thanksgiving. Woke up this morning to a text from my uncle that had me and my dad and another uncle on the thread. Was some link to something about Grand Canyon University for some reason and the an uncle said it was a “great Christian school, Charlie Kirk visited for the post Trump election pool party celebrating the big win!” I was about to laugh at him celebrating a for profit university and him acting like some tiny face bitch that needs shoved in locker is cool but I’m not even under the same roof yet. he’d probably say that actually for profit universities are good because business is the best! (He’s a small business owner, but it’s actually a pyramid scheme for health supplements!)
I would've been like "Don't invite me into group chats just to post this fucking garbage" then immediately left.
I have no idea what a 'conservative education' entails that isnt already delivered in the form of fox news
Truly a bottom 5 human being. Can't believe he's not in prison, let alone still working as an AG Ken Paxton accused the Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center in South Austin of being a “common nuisance” and wants it shut down for a year. Its executive director promises that they’ll keep helping poor folks out. #txlege
A guy who will tell you slavery is in fact a good thing and Hitler was actually a really good thing or Germany.
does it say if some loans have been forgiven will they reissued the loan? I’m debt free I don’t all of a sudden have to owe money.
Was this the interview where they blamed the loss on the short amount of time Kamala had and not their apparently not great strategy?
Yeah she wasn't going to win in retrospect. All the hand wringing over this unimportant things or that one is just rage bait
It’s funny to see this Monday morning quarterbacking when during the campaign just about everyone was saying she was running a great campaign. I had my doubts that she’d win but I did have some hope. I thought she ran as good a campaign as she could. I just believe being a woman of color was too much for America to handle.
it’s very clear from the results of the election that no amount of campaign spending or rallies was going to save the Democratic Party from a giant undercurrent of negative sentiment that has been fostered by our completely failed media ecosystem. Zoomer men have absolutely cooked their brains on TikTok and podcasts.
That didnt help for sure, but it was more than that. Just so many headwinds she couldnt overcome. It did seem like she was running a great campaign considering all the circumstances. But It really did seem too good to be true at times, and it was.
True. And not to depress you further but trumps team was a bunch of goons. They largely won because Elon pushed in cash and Twitter and dems were too old and stupid to realize it was a bigger problems than they thought and weren’t creative enough to find a solution.
I agree with both of you I am just pointing out it’s easy to come out now and say “oh she ran a terrible campaign” when in reality just about everyone was “oh the vibes she is running a great campaign “. It’s revisionist history imo
There were plenty of people hand waving and admonishing criticisms. I may have been one of those people from time to time. Certainly news to everyone that the campaigns internals never had Harris ahead. The most disappointing part is they weren’t taking very big swings the way you might expect a campaign that knows it’s down. I suppose the final margin is still small. Aim small miss small I guess
Go make a fresh instagram account and scroll for an hour. Within that hour you’ll be getting served right wing ragebait. Everything from articles about immigrants murdering citizens to “hr five minutes before engineering layoffs” videos of those Australian girls doing their little corporate cheer TikTok. Meanwhile every swing stay exit poll says Kamala was “too exteme”
the week of the DNC was a shit show with people telling others to shut up and "this is how you win general elections"
The main campaign failures were not going on Rogan and not coddling voters misplaced raged about why burger expensive. Engaging with material reality was never going to be racist scapegoating and crazy promises
IDK that I consider it a bad campaign she ran vs people being absolute paste-eating morons. The lack of critical thinking is difficult to overcome no matter how well-run your campaign is.
The actual mechanics of Kamala’s campaign were very well run. She spent a fortune in swing state ads, she held a huge amount of well attended and well covered rallies, she basically never did a single event that wasn’t in a swing state. She absolutely massacred trump in the debate. I don’t think there’s any way you can improved upon what she did in terms of classical campaign mechanics besides going on Rogan and hot ones. The main critiques are 1: failed to separate herself from Biden who was very unpopular. This one was going to be hard to do because she’s the VP and most of Bidens policies were objectively very good. However, Biden and the very concept of liberal democracy have become electoral poison thanks to our dogshit media ecosystem. 2. Failure to coddle voters voters are complete morons who were demanding change from Bidens economy despite Bidens economy being a fucking miracle compared to the rest of the world. Kamala also got sabotaged here because she actually did have a bunch of policies about how to fix housing and other things, only for the media to never cover them. 3. she did a single 90 minute event with Liz Cheney anyone still harping about this one is brain dead and shouldn’t be engaged with seriously. Kamala spent a billion dollars and 16 hours a day campaigning extremely actively for the “democratic base” only to have that base abandon them for a fascist. There was no magic reserve of 5 million swing state voters who suddenly gave up because she appeared on stage with a republican who encouraged other republicans to vote against trump.
This is why I have no hope for the future. Education isn’t going to improve and Americans crave fascism. They desperately want their boot on the neck and when things get really bad they will just blame some other minority group, ask for them to be killed and beg for more. The the future is gone
Hasan routinely platforms morons (including an actual houthi dipshit) and offers zero pushback of any kind. He does zero in the way of organizing. He’s just a place for chapo deadenders to have their priors confirmed and get a dopamine hit for being smarter than everyone else while losing every election
None of us are actual campaign operatives. There is clearly a fundamental misunderstanding of how to campaign in 2024 by Dems who do it as a job. So anyone could’ve said, wow look at the organizing and volunteers, and that actually didn’t mean all that much.
you’re good people but none of this shit is true. especially the part about “platforming morons” that guy wasnt even a Houthi. He was a fucking kid who lived through a genocide and hasan was working to humanize those folks. He even had major media guys reach out to him to get that kids contact information so you can miss me with that nonsense. Hes done a ton to educate younger voters and has done a ton for helping people understand Palestine and the situation overseas, he’s also raised a bunch of money for movements. Interviewed a bunch of progressive politicians, he markets himself directly to young guys who have been taken by the right wing manosphere. he’s extremely knowledgeable on history and especially the history of the left. If hasan was whatever the fuck you think he is Sam Sedar would not fuck with him and he’s close with all of those people. You should consider consuming more of his content brother
Remember how many times someone was like “wow the Harris media people are responding with quick zingers!” Haha. Like 6 years too late.
she ran a fine campaign. they could have done things better and also could have done things worse. burger was expensive. the good news is by the next election burger will be more expensive
The data suggests that her ground game operation actually did benefit her significantly but that it would have just been an absolute massacre instead of a narrow loss
Local Orlando news “expected to be a record breaking holiday for travel this week” those damn egg prices tho