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Not fast enough. Look at what it did to Gaza and realize that it can still do that to anywhere else it wants.
What happened in Gaza is a taste of what the undesirables in America are going to face. Especially Israel’s AI targeting tech.
That’s what democrat supporters don’t understand. We can’t accept genocide anywhere, not just for moral and ethical reasons but because genocide will come for us too.
If you're in the US and voted anything but Democrat, or didn't vote at all, then this is your fucking fault.
Fuck the democrats, fuck Kamala. They suck. But look what your rigid morality has made.
All Harris had to do was stand for Palestine, or even something basic like healthcare for all. She would have won and it wouldnt have even been close. But she didnt. You had an extremely unpopular neoliberal that you thought was going to beat Trump?
Was it worth it to throw the election because of zero progressive policy?
No it was not worth it. Biden should have stuck to one term president, there should have been a primary. Kamala was so embarrassing with her line of "fundamentally, nothing will change" when asked how she would be different from Biden.
I don't care for the Democrats. Kamala's campaign was misguided. Continued unwavering support for fascist apartheid Israel. Democrats always reaching right for more votes while the left is right fucking here if you'll throw us a goddamn bone!
That being said, if you didn't vote for her you have literally caused what is happening now.
Palestine saved! USA destroyed! Mission Accomplished!
Run on healthcare and you win, the dems cant even do that yet you blame the people and not the system, pathetic.
Keep burying your head in the sand and see how much better it will get
bidens no surprise billing was a significant improvement to obama care. they did not run on it as a single issue but its nuts that anyone would not want to keep stuff like that going as opposed to when trump was last in and kicked out one of the legs.
I'm wide awake. I used to travel for work and now I'm staying home so I have my rifle ready.
Everyone knows what Trump is! I feel like I'm screaming into the void. His cult loves what he is, the other oligarchs love what co prez Elon is up to!
"Blue maga, genocide Joe" has disappeared because it was an op. Leaving us with the useful idiots who parroted that shit.
As I've said several times I hate the fucking democrats! They learned absolutely nothing from when the republicans were the opposition. Do nothing, sit on your hands, threaten to shutdown the government. Over and over.
If you voted for anyone but Kamala you knew what Trump was going to be. Got them clean hands. Hope they stay clean of others' blood and don't end up catching your own life spilling through your fingers when the SS shows up.
No we haven't, we're absolutely still here. And no, it was not "an op", you conspiracy theorist.
Genocide apologist
You really think Palestine would have pushed Kamala over?
Most Americans don’t even know what’s going on over there.
TBH I don’t think any policy would’ve mattered, Kamala’s problem was they campaigned like it’s 1950 instead of 2024. Look at any poll exit interview, and you’ll see pretty much everyone has their reality completely warped, and whatever Kamala was proposing did not matter.
Because the alternative stood for Palestine or better healthcare for Muricans, right? Makes sense...
So was it worth it to throw the election to stand with genocide? You were never going to beat Trump with an unpopular neoliberal candidate.
I don't know, was it?
you now get the genocide (even worse actually) and a fascist as president.... good job
Then the dems should run on something, like healthcare. Otherwise it's a dying (dead) party.
I'm sure you taught them a lesson
now read some of this
You just described what the dems did. I'm also sure you taught them a lesson.
No, you were just denying and downplaying the extent of the genocide when it was your team doing it.
Not my team, I'm Canadian
Do you feel virtuous having made the genocide lot worse? Is that a win for you somehow?
If the Dems won the situation in Gaza would have been basically the exact same with the only difference being that Harris wouldn't have been talking about the US personally taking control of Gaza. Biden was 100% in support of the genocide and so was Harris and the rest of the Dem leadership.
I ask again, so this is a win for you?
Was engaging in genocide denial a win for you?
All I'm saying is there was no win for the Palestinians. The genocide isn't "worse" now that Trump's in charge. It was going to be the same either way.
Also if you're under the impression that Trump won because pro-Palestine voters refused to vote for Harris then you're mistaken. The uncommitted movement's objective was not to refuse to vote for Harris for president, they voted "uncommitted" during the primaries. That's where the name comes from.
Harris lost because the liberal order is driving the US to ruin and Trump didn't ignore how bad things were getting, like the Dems do, and he promised to shake up the regular, liberal order of things which doesn't work for a massive amount of Americans. Obviously he was lying, but his rhetoric inspired people. The Dems offered NOTHING except not being Trump. Not very inspirational. Problem is, pro-Trump propaganda was too well funded and too wide-spread and most voters just don't pay very much attention to politics.
The Dems have nobody to blame for their failure but themselves. Fascism isn't bred on its own out of nowhere. The failures of liberal governance created the conditions for far-right extremism to take hold and the Dems refused to meet the moment by offering real solutions for the people of America.
You know Biden offered the exact same plan as Trump of the US taking over Gaza Unless you liberals start to learn the systemic causes of the US's deterioration instead of individual voters, you're going to forever be caught flat-footed as the US continues to get worse and vote in fascism. Even if you're Canadian, this shit is going to start to affect you too, because your country is also pretty capitalist and Neo-liberal.
It's not a lot worse, like I said, you only think it is because you were denying it when it was your team (being Canadian doesn't change that fact, by the way)
Harris got the votes to win. It's just that those votes were suppressed. The 2024 result was not democracy. Here are hard numbers: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
You are hallucinating. Harris is a woman and she's black. The racist misogynist US will not elect a woman as POTUS in the years I've got left. Much less a black woman. I saw an interview with some 2020 Biden voters from Philly. When asked if they were going to vote for Harris, they all said something along the lines of "No, it's too much power to give a woman.". They'd rather have a treasonous felon as POTUS than a competent and comparatively honest woman. It's morally laudable that the Dems will run minority candidates, but in these racist misogynistic United States, it's a guaranteed loss.
Yeah the racism here is beyond fucked, and agree was also another reason she lost. How am I hallucinating? If she stood for anything I said she could have really won. You cant be that unpopular and stand for nothing and expect to win.
OK, you get 4 more years of Biden 2.0, 2028 comes, what's the plan for the elections against Trump 2.0?
Trump will be fucking dead in four years.
Every day, I wake up and hope Trump has died from the most humiliating and painful natural causes imaginable.
Once he's hollowed out the entire country, he will do some random thing and someone will give him an award for it. Once he's done masturbating (imagine someone passing you a blunt), he's going to enact his ultimate dream. He's going to get the SS to pick him up ten big macs and ten filet o fish. He will assemble his ultimate favorite sandwich, eat about half of it, and pass out. Two days later he will die trying to take a shit.
I did specify Trump 2.0. It's not Trump, it's the entire Republican party that's gone mask off
It's everyone, regardless of politics even, with their mask off.
Even my sentence structure is lawless.
Cry about it. It’s the democrats fault that they love sucking Israel’s cock so much that theyre willing to throw an election to a fascist.
THEY DONT CARE ABOUT WINNING THEY CARE ABOUT PROTECTING CAPITALISTS
Not for long. Their economy is gonna tank soon because they are starting trade wars.