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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly, I kinda don't buy the idea Biden controlled Harris. Biden could have in 2008, but not in 2024. We all saw his term. He could be great, but when he slowed and floundered, it hampered his goals.

I'm torn between:

"I don't think an adult woman would instantly bind herself to an old man, she can have bad ideas on her own."

"I don't think she had everything planned out, she took advice from those around her, and the advice was shit but it's hard to get anything from outside this POV without getting even worse feedback."

But either way, I'm kind of glad that parts of the DNC is admitting fault after royally fucking up a second time and giving us Trump again. But I was also told they learned mistakes from 2016, and clearly they didn't, and must have fired everyone who did.

I wish Harris won merely as a stop-gap who is younger and more coherent, maybe could have gotten someone better next primary. Would have been messy and I would prefer anyone else, but not as bad. But it wouldn't have stopped the fascist uprising we're having, just keeping the cyst growing until it popped. If Biden didn't get Trump arrested, I doubt Harris would have, despite her history.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 12 hours ago

we're never going to see an end to the risk of fascism until we end capitalism, and it's as simple as that.

money is power, and if corporations and individuals can hoard wealth infinitely, it's only a matter of time until enough of that wealth is accumulated in few enough hands for those few to use their wealth to take control of the state

[–] Devmapall@lemm.ee 6 points 18 hours ago

I wish she had won too. Didn't really like her but she was miles ahead of trump. I don't think you should be torn between the two, I think it was both. She listened to some very bad advice and believed the information she had at hand.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 45 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

“Didn’t allow her” what does that even mean, in the context of the campaign? What the actual fuck was she doing listening to ANYTHING from Biden at that point? He was a clear looser. He stepped back from the campaign (after he was forced to, but he did nonetheless). That was an incredibly obvious opportunity for Harris to openly and cleanly split from policies she thought were wrongheaded - but nope, can’t have that. Jesus tapdancing christ.

Biden’s hubris put us here, I guess. What an unmitigated fucking tool. He sold us down the river and expects to be remembered fondly by history? Fuck that. The title of his subsection in history books will be “The President who Couldn’t Keep the Republic” (a pointed reference to Ben Franklin’s quip at the original constitutional convention).

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 27 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The pressure the DNC seems to exert over it's canidates is insane. There was probably a lot of pressure on her to toe the line. I heard they reigned in Walz quite a bit too.

Maybe one day the DNC will learn

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I don’t expect the DNC to learn, because I don’t expect the DNC to exist when the next presidential election comes around.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 21 hours ago

It's fucking bizarre that Trump "randomly" ran as a Republican in 2016, and I can recall the fact that the RNC was trying to keep Jeb and Ted Cruz because they thought they would be a better/saner choice, until he had enough votes from the primaries.

He just kinda came from under their noses until they realized "Wait we like this, he is a dipshit we can buy and he does shit on camera for free press! Free advertising for fascism, score!"

I wish I had a portal to look at another timeline to see if someone in the DNC just didn't bother kneecaping Bernie in 2016 and had the general magnetizing force of him looking for all working class people, including those swindled by Republican brainfuckery. Might have been in a better place for America, even for one term.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 45 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I can believe this. She seemed frustrated when she spoke about the Palestine situation, and I picked up a strong subject that she wanted to say more about her objections over Israel's actions than she did.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, but that didnt bode well for her as a president...

She was the candidate, crowned with zero primary weeks before the election, with zero threat of being replaced.

But she stuck line by line to what Bidens team said

Buden's team that was Hillary's team, and before that Bill's team.

Kamala would have been an empty suit for the same neoliberal machine and she would have appointed the DNC chair back to that faction so they could influence the primary in four years.

If Kamala literally had to say exactly what her advisors said when she was literally irreplaceable, she would have been a president in name only.

Don't get me wrong, I held my nose and voted D like always, but I knew she was fucking it up, and long term that might have been for the best.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 30 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Tim Walz came out swinging, and they instantly sidelined him.

That alone was enough to say that the campaign was fucked.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

Quick, hide Tim Walz, he's too popular with voters!

-Neoliberals apparently

I still want Ken Martin to publicly commit to ending the Victory Fund bullshit tho.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago

I don't know if I can buy that when the DNC refused to let anyone with even a hint of background from the middle east get a platform, and when a protest at a speech happened, she said "I am speaking." Not listening, speaking.

[–] Loduz_247@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

Kamala was somewhat of a Zionist, but not enough to justify Israel's bombings. Because she wants a two-state solution, and if she had been president, she would probably criticize Netanyahu for his actions damaging Israel.

A strategy to avoid AIPAC considering you a threat.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I'm calling bullshit on this.

There's no possible way that Biden or any of his people could let or not let Harris do anything. They had no actual control over her campaign.

The only outsiders who had any control over her campaign were the DNC and the party establishment - the same pieces of shit who torpedoed Sanders in 2016 and 2020,.

I'm 100% certain that this narrative is coming from them, trying to dodge the blame they so richly deserve by pinning it on the senile guy.

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 21 points 23 hours ago

This is hilarious, because of Biden's "I'd have won if I was the candidate" bullshit. More like "Harris might have won if I wasn't hamstringing her", but okay, sure, Joe. Let's get you to bed, now.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago

Just another example of how the Democratic party is only slightly less fucked than the Republicans.

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 13 points 23 hours ago

Harris was the candidate, not Biden. Being his VP should have been a boon to her, but instead she turned it into her own biggest obstacle. It was ultimately her decision to follow Biden’s directions on this.

It’s not like the sitting president can order a party’s candidate to take certain policy positions, even if that candidate is the sitting VP. Biden deserves a ton of the blame for our current situation, but Harris was the candidate and she decided to follow Biden’s terrible advice. He’s just the stubborn geriatric who cared more about his legacy than the peoples’ future.

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

horseshit

she had multiple chances like at the DNC convention

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[–] halfempty@fedia.io 11 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Her position regarding Palestine and Israel cost her the election. Many Dems could not vote for her, so they didn't vote.

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