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And the sad thing is they're right.
No they aren't, and with that attitude we will continue to repeat this mistake over and over and over.
The people want change. A lot of change.
You can work 40 hours a week and barely scrape by paycheck to paycheck, and it's been like that for years.
Housing is even more unaffordable.
Nothing has changed for years.
People are angry.
Donald Trump taps into that. That is his whole message. That he is an outsider, he is not the status quo, he is the one who shakes things up. He does not listen to PR people. He says what's on his mind. He is the closest thing to a Bulworth candidate we've had in quite some time.
I personally think he is a liar and a criminal, but not everybody shares that view.
What does Kamala have going for her? She is the vice president, next in line of a succession. There is no radical reform there. It is status quo. And let's not forget that before Biden dropped out and Kamala was crowned successor, she was pulling very low even among Democrats.
The problem is not that America refuses to hand the country over to a woman. The problem is that the DNC keeps putting forward the wrong people as candidates, and expects the whole nation to vote for them simply because they're not Republican. It doesn't work that way.
My point is though, as long as you blame sexism or racism or whatever for Trump's win, you hide the real problem and thus prevent it from being fixed.
It NEEDS to be fixed.
For the good of the country, we (Dems) cannot expect people to just vote for us because we're not Republican. We need to offer them something better. Obama did that. That's why he won. Hope, change, yes we can. That was something better. And so he defeated a real non-crazy Republican.
Whoever is the next Democratic candidate, they need to do that. Offer a real message and a real plan. Not just 'I'm not red'.
No. People wanted Michelle Obama but nobody was given a choice.
You have to want to run for president. I don't think she did.
Who knows? What is she suppose to say? There was never a primary. They just pushed a genocide co-pilot on us when it could have been an easy W. That's their priorities.
I mean she literally said she didn't want to. And that was long before Harris was the nominee.
In fact, she's been saying it repeatedly since 2012.
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-michelle-obama-has-said-about-running-for-president-list-2024-7 (You can put 12ft.io in front of the https to get around the paywall.)
Now you can claim she's been lying since 2012, but I don't think that's desirable in a candidate, do you?
Like ads saying Harris was too hard on Israel and too soft on Israel coming from the exact same org. Anyone with a lick of sense knows they're disingenuous, but most people are fucking stupid.
Enemy must be strong and weak.
Or like kamalacaust saying she's hard on zionism and also supports zionism.
Damn, even the Taliban is clowning on us with this one.
I’d like to thank the Taliban for their valuable feedback. Next, I’ll ask David Duke for his thoughts on race relations.
Dick Cheney, aghast that Americans could allow someone as Islamophobic as Trump to represent them.
I’m deeply confused as to why they have any statement…
And why they think the US is sexist
And why they seem to selectively think sexism is bad while denying women education
And why this is news or worthy of print.
And for gods sakes won’t someone tell me what Ja rule thinks of this?????
And why they seem to selectively think sexism is bad while denying women education
That's not what they're saying. They're mocking American hypocrisy.
Fair. Still isn’t remotely news worthy.
I don't necessarily disagree. But I don't exactly consider Latintimes as mainstream news. They have a decided lean to the left and are publishing a story that points to something they want to say. No different than when a conservative right leaning website with a name like "Patriot Page", or "Freedom Force" or some other creepy MAGA bullshit name does the same thing.
There are main stream outlets, and then there are outlets that we can all tell, mostly from their content, don't bother to hide their bent left or right.
This isn't like CNN or CBS or BBC are broadcasting it. (Cue somebody linking to exactly that...making me look like an idiot.) Heck, AFAIK, even Fox News and MSNBC, the two "main stream media" sources that I would consider least biased in both directions, aren't touching it as a story.
They're trolling the US because why not.
But why publish it? Who cares?
who? you have opened the comment section
Clicks?
Yeah that's fair.
Where is Ja Rule when you need him?
Damnit, I knew I was fucking up the bit
"You're just like us!"
That's the joke.
Ah the old bad guy cliché. You know they feel threatened when they bust out the "We're the same, you and I!" Lol
These are the people that just made it illegal for women to talk to each other, right?
Y’all Queda
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... And neither are they.
I think that’s the point they are making.. US should be better than the Taliban.
they wouldve been even more derisively vitriolic if she had won
Not really the guy to be throwing his thoughts in on the issue.
Honestly probably intentional.
Which to be fair, is pretty fucking funny. I’m mad at how tickled I am by the taliban digging at trump.
Back when Russia invaded Ukraine, they issued a statement about how they're saddened that Europe has descended into violence and are calling for the region to give peace a chance. It was a solid troll.
The Taliban putting their best and brightest in charge of their Department of Trolling.
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