President Donald Trump said, "I don't know," when asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether he must uphold the Constitution to execute his deportation strategy.
Doesn’t even know the presidential oath he pledged.
But you know why I blame the “progressive” Democrats and “independents” more?
Everybody knew that the MAGA crowd was going to MAGA.
Everybody knew that the strategists were going to stick to the same old playbook.
And you know what else everybody knew?
Everybody knew that in this election, not voting for Harris was a de-facto vote for Trump.
Everybody knew that whatever your position was on any given topic, Trump’s position was an exponentially worse option.
Everybody knew that even under the best of circumstances, this was going to come down to the wire.
These people knew it. They knew how important their vote was, and they stayed home anyway. And they still infect this very community with their constant excuses for blaming everybody else for their own choices because Kamala Harris wasn’t the perfect candidate.
“She wasn’t a supporter of Gaza.” First, let’s remember the fact that the Jewish voters in this country exponentially outnumber Palestinians multiple times over, and if she had spoke out against Israel and it cost her even 10% of the Jewish vote, she’d still have lost even more votes than she would have gained from Gaza supporters. And second, if the people of Gaza are supposed to be your primary concern, how is allowing a man who was openly campaigning on amping up the genocide, annexing the land, and turning it into beachfront property any better for them? Or the university students in this country who are now being deported for supporting them?
“She campaigned with Liz Cheney one time.” So fucking what? Liz Cheney wasn’t running for re-election. None of Liz Cheney’s policies were on any ballots. This was a woman who, much as I disagree with her on 99.99999999% of policy issues, still sacrificed her career to try to hold Trump to account. Conveniently, of all the dozens of Republicans who endorsed and even campaigned with Harris, she is the one everybody gets all up in arms about. Gee, I wonder what separates her from all of the Republican guys that also endorsed Harris? And even without that…everybody gets mad because Harris campaigned with someone who formerly supported Trump. But how in the name of holy fuck does it make sense to retaliate by allowing Trump to return to power? “I’m so fucking mad that a former Trump supporter endorsed her that I’m going to let Trump return to power! That’ll show 'em!”.
“She wasn’t far enough to the left on <whatever issue>”. Ok. Again, so fucking what? How does allowing our government to be controlled by a far-right trifecta that is campaigning on dismantling the very progressive programs you’re supposed to support help that in any way, shape, or form?
The lot of them decided that the remedy to not shooting themselves in the foot was to point the gun at their own head instead.
And I’ve said it before and I still believe it: The people who fall into this category I believe are closeted racists who either low-key support Trump’s immigration policies, didn’t want to vote for a black woman, or both, and are just using one of the above flimsy arguments to justify their choice rather than admit it.
Apologies, but I only skimmed your reply. I don’t disagree with you that non-voters share the blame. I just don’t want to give anybody a free pass here.
I think the Dem strategists who say we need to abandon pronouns cost more votes than they gained. Need more primary challengers and voters to steer the party.
We can blame the MAGA crowd, too. There’s enough blame to go around. We can also blame the strategists who killed the momentum that Harris/Walz had.
But you know why I blame the “progressive” Democrats and “independents” more?
Everybody knew that the MAGA crowd was going to MAGA.
Everybody knew that the strategists were going to stick to the same old playbook.
And you know what else everybody knew?
Everybody knew that in this election, not voting for Harris was a de-facto vote for Trump. Everybody knew that whatever your position was on any given topic, Trump’s position was an exponentially worse option.
Everybody knew that even under the best of circumstances, this was going to come down to the wire.
These people knew it. They knew how important their vote was, and they stayed home anyway. And they still infect this very community with their constant excuses for blaming everybody else for their own choices because Kamala Harris wasn’t the perfect candidate.
“She wasn’t a supporter of Gaza.” First, let’s remember the fact that the Jewish voters in this country exponentially outnumber Palestinians multiple times over, and if she had spoke out against Israel and it cost her even 10% of the Jewish vote, she’d still have lost even more votes than she would have gained from Gaza supporters. And second, if the people of Gaza are supposed to be your primary concern, how is allowing a man who was openly campaigning on amping up the genocide, annexing the land, and turning it into beachfront property any better for them? Or the university students in this country who are now being deported for supporting them?
“She campaigned with Liz Cheney one time.” So fucking what? Liz Cheney wasn’t running for re-election. None of Liz Cheney’s policies were on any ballots. This was a woman who, much as I disagree with her on 99.99999999% of policy issues, still sacrificed her career to try to hold Trump to account. Conveniently, of all the dozens of Republicans who endorsed and even campaigned with Harris, she is the one everybody gets all up in arms about. Gee, I wonder what separates her from all of the Republican guys that also endorsed Harris? And even without that…everybody gets mad because Harris campaigned with someone who formerly supported Trump. But how in the name of holy fuck does it make sense to retaliate by allowing Trump to return to power? “I’m so fucking mad that a former Trump supporter endorsed her that I’m going to let Trump return to power! That’ll show 'em!”.
“She wasn’t far enough to the left on <whatever issue>”. Ok. Again, so fucking what? How does allowing our government to be controlled by a far-right trifecta that is campaigning on dismantling the very progressive programs you’re supposed to support help that in any way, shape, or form?
The lot of them decided that the remedy to not shooting themselves in the foot was to point the gun at their own head instead.
And I’ve said it before and I still believe it: The people who fall into this category I believe are closeted racists who either low-key support Trump’s immigration policies, didn’t want to vote for a black woman, or both, and are just using one of the above flimsy arguments to justify their choice rather than admit it.
Apologies, but I only skimmed your reply. I don’t disagree with you that non-voters share the blame. I just don’t want to give anybody a free pass here.
It’s not the Dems fault that so many people didn’t give a shit about marginalized groups.
I think the Dem strategists who say we need to abandon pronouns cost more votes than they gained. Need more primary challengers and voters to steer the party.