geneva_convenienceAug 1, 2025

Kamala Harris says she doesn’t plan to return to ‘broken’ system of US politics

https://lemmy.ml/post/34013314

Kamala Harris says she doesn’t plan to return to ‘broken’ system of US politics - Lemmy

Kamala Harris has said that she currently has no desire to re-enter “the system” of American politics because it is “broken”. On Thursday night the Democratic party’s defeated presidential nominee, who replaced Joe Biden late in the 2024 campaign after he dropped his re-election bid, gave her first interview since losing the election to Donald Trump, talking to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. After she announced she will not run for the governorship of California just a day earlier, Harris told the TV show that it was about something more “basic” than whether she wanted to run for something else instead – with the subtext being whether she will attempt a White House run again in 2028.

Show threadEightBitBlood

Really curious how she can feel the system is broken, while doing absotuley nothing to ask for a recall to show how broken it is.

Like. You feel the system is broken and want to leave it? Cool. Maybe you could have publically pushed to show how broken it was when you had the power to do so?

Weren’t you the one running on a campaign to fix that brokeness? Was that just PR? Because it’s seems like Democrats are just speedruning what they do best: standing by and doing nothing as evil proliferates.

I’m glad she’s stepping down. But what a hypocritical way to do it. She should have gone out guns blazing, asking for a recount and pushing it to the Supreme court if necessary. We might have had a chance to avoid all this if she actually acted like the system was broken, instead of complaining about it now that she’s leaving it. Perfect opportunity to go out guns blazing, instead she’s on Colbert.

I swear every Democrat has a collapsible string where a spine should be.

Aug 2, 2025 at 7:54pmWeb
Show threadsurph_ninjaAug 2, 2025
When did she ever claim she intended to fix anything? She openly said she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently from Biden.
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 3, 2025

As the candidate who lost the election, she’s literally the only person who had the power to issue a recount.

She failed in that responsibility. Despite the 2016 election interference, and Jan 6th. Trump has never had a fair election, and she chose to ignore that in favor of respect?

Please. Respect is earned. Not given. Especially when the protection of our democracy comes with it.

Any reasonable, spine-having American would have challenged the results immediately rather that talk about how broken shit got because they failed in their ultimate responsibility as an American.

Show threadsurph_ninjaAug 3, 2025

Why would they call for a recount? There was no reason to believe the results were inaccurate. After the election, her own staff admitted it was all a grift, and their internal polling never once showed her polling ahead of Trump.

m.economictimes.com/news/…/115781618.cms

us vice president kamala harris: Big revelation by Kamala Harris's advisers, say internal polling never showed the VP was ahead of Donald Trump - The Economic Times

Recently some senior advisers to Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a pretty huge revelation where it was claimed that the internal polling inside the Democratic Party never ever showed US Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump.

Show threadEightBitBloodAug 3, 2025

Why would they call for a recount?

Reason 1: Trumps 2016 election interference Reason 2: Jan 6th Reason 3 - 37: Trumps 34 felonies for election interference

There has never been better reason to call for a recount during a US election. Ever. Any thought otherwise is irrational and dangerous to our democracy.

Especially considering Reagan won 16/18 swing states at the height of his popularity. And Trump just won a statistically impossible 18/18 swing states despite Covid ravaging his voter base?

I don’t give a single personal fuck about how Kamala was polling for the election.

I do however, give a massive fuck about her spinelessly ignoring her duty to challenge the outcome of this election. Without that challenge, we now have permantaly compromised presidential elections, and every branch of the government stacked with idiot sycophants unwilling to protect democratic law over Trumpian will.

The very security and trust of our elections are now permanantly shattered because Democrats wanted to protect decorum rather than fucking Democracy.

Show threadsurph_ninjaAug 3, 2025
You Blue MAGA’s are just as unhinged as Red MAGA.
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 3, 2025

Lol. I vote Democrat. So I openly chastise the DNC for putting the Trump shotgun in the mouth of America and pulling the trigger. Now twice.

I also don’t consume corporate US media bullshit. So my thoughts are my own. Not some sorry ass talking point I heard elsewhere.

Apologies if you can only fit my words into the MAGA bucket of false dichotomy your perspective has been warped into. I was raised in a free country that encouraged holding those accountable to higher standards. So that’s what I’m doing. I don’t care how you want to categorize it. Shit doesn’t get better by pretending it works. It gets better when you point out how it doesn’t.

Letting an open Facist with 34 felonies steal an election for a third time isn’t going to look good in the future. As it already looks pretty bad now. So I’m not going to pretend that isn’t the case just because I vote Democrat.

Show threadsurph_ninjaAug 3, 2025
The fact that you can only acknowledge the GOP being openly fascist, as the Democrats declare their support for ICE raids and genocide, is exactly why you’re Blue MAGA.
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 4, 2025

Lol. Categorize me anyway it makes you feel comfortable. In reality, there’s only one fascist party in office, and it ain’t the Dems. Sure the Dems put them there, and are literally the cowards I’ve been saying they are - but don’t contribute to malice what can easily be explained by stupid gullibility. Literally what I’ve been saying.

The last Biden term sure as shit looked nothing like this Trump term. Do you live in a fantasy world where that basic logical comparison doesn’t exist?

JFC it’s not like we have more than a 2 party system. So I’m not going to label the Dems fascist just because they are too stupid to recognize what that actually looks like. That’s you.

They’re all 80 and willing believe Microsoft wants their social security number when the caller is clearly from India. So of course some of them think the GOP are still interested in America over Trump. They’re just gullibly old, what’s your excuse?

Show threadBrainInABoxAug 4, 2025
Genocide apologist
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 4, 2025

Go ahead and explain that in a logical way and I’ll believe it. The elections over. Trump is going to bulldoze Gaza. And you want to judge me for not being critical of democrats enough? You are the apologist my dude.

Not me. Go bother an actual fascist if you are done picking on the spineless democrats.

If this was WW2 you’d be calling Americans genocide apologists as Germany performs the holocost.

Hold the genociders accountable, idiot. That’s how you stop the genocide.

But then there wouldn’t be anyone else for you to yell at as an apologist, so you’d have nothing to do.

I’ll keep fighting the actual genociders no matter what names you want to call me. Feel free to keep hating me for it in the meantime as you do nothing.

Show threadsurph_ninjaAug 4, 2025
Wow. You really are a genocide supporter. And anti-immigration. You just want the Dems at the helm of it. Psychotic.
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 4, 2025

Lol. Great non-explanation.

You are literally Red hat MAGA. Because you blame Democrats for Trumps actions. You don’t like ICE. But only blame Dems for not stopping it, rather than MAGA for starting it. Same with genocide. Same with anything because you’re an idiot anti-american biggot.

Prove me wrong by telling me who to vote for in America to not be a genocide apologist. Who?

You’ll ignore this question because you’re a biggot.

Because there’s no right answer for you, just hate towards a group who isn’t actually committing genocide: Americans, rather than the Israelis who actually are.

Why aren’t you angry toward them? I guess you’re a worse apologist than me by your own idiot logic.

At least I’m willing to point that out.

And you’ve likely spent DAYS shitting on Americans who vote for any party, rather than hold any Israelis committing a genocide accountable at all for anything.

So I guess that makes you a genocide sympathizer. I’m sure you’d be all for the genocide of Americans right? Because you crave it. You want it. You love the fact that a genocide happening let’s you freely hate whoever you already don’t like so easily. Otherwise you’d be shitting on the people actually committing the genocide like I have.

So kindly, fuck off with your non-action cowardly performative bullshit. All you’re doing is helping people be angry at Americans, you ain’t doing fuck all to actually prevent Gazans from being killed. You’re just being a MAGA pussy stupidly stirring shit you don’t understand, likely because you ate the same propaganda they have and are too stupid to realize it.

Show threadBrainInABoxAug 4, 2025
No amount of walls of self righteous insults is going to distract people from the fact you’re a genocide denier
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 5, 2025
The genocide is happening in Israel, not America. I’m not denying anything. You’re the one calling Americans names to feel better. Why not the Israelis? Between the two of us - your anger isn’t at all going towards those committing genocide. Mine is.
Show threadBrainInABoxAug 5, 2025
“The genocide is happening in Poland, not Germany, therefore Hitler is innocent”
Show threadsurph_ninjaAug 5, 2025
Thank you for showing your ass, and proving my point exactly. Completely unhinged.
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 5, 2025
The genocide is happening in Israel, not America. Why are you angry at an American if you care so much about holding those responsible?
Show threadBrainInABoxAug 4, 2025
Genocide denier
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 5, 2025
The genocide in Gaza is happening in Israel, not America last I checked.
Show threadBrainInABoxAug 5, 2025

"The genocide is happening in Poland, not Germany, last I checked!"

  • EightBitBlood in 1942
Show threadBrainInABoxAug 4, 2025
BlueAnon
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 4, 2025
Do facts burn that smooth brain of yours so hard you can only see the world in blue and red? Grow up.
Show threadBrainInABoxAug 4, 2025
Democrats really are just the Republicans of ten years ago. So in this case: genocide denying conspiracy theorists.
Show threadEightBitBloodAug 5, 2025
Guess I’ll go vote MAGA since that’s the better choice? Seriously, you just enjoy being mad.
Show threadBrainInABoxAug 5, 2025
Sounds like you basically already do vote MAGA. You’re even doing the classic MAGA “lefties just like to complain” nonsense.
Show threadTriashaAug 7, 2025

Reagan won 49 out of 50 states at the hight of his popularity. His opponent Mondale won his home state of Minnesota, making it the only state with a history of continually voting Democrat for presidency back beyond 1988.

It is not hard to believe that trump swept the swing states, politics is much less regional and more national than it was in Reagan’s era.

Show threadkrunklomAug 16, 2025

I’ve never heard anyone say respect is earned not given that isn’t a narcissist.

Respect SHOULD be given. It should also be taken away when it’s clear it isn’t deserved. To do otherwise is to live in a fucking cesspit of a world.

Show threadEightBitBloodAug 16, 2025

When respect is given over caution, it’s used to manipulate those who would give it so freely. When the question is about choosing to respect our voting process OR protect it, there’s now nothing left to protect. Through naivety, evil prevails. Sorry if that sounds too narcissitic. What is even left in our system to be narcissitic about, let alone respectable?

The Smithsonian? Kennedy Center? PBS? CBS? How about those cuts to Vaccine research? Medicare? Social Security?

How about all the major cabinet positions now being held by TV and podcast personalities making us more of a Kakistocracy than a Democracy?

You want to give that respect? I want it to be fucking worth respecting.

Seeing as it all wasn’t worth protecting in exchange for a basic recall in an election with someone that’s cheated twice before. That’s not respect. That’s naive at best. Stupid at worst.

Show threadEnsign_CrabAug 3, 2025

She openly said she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently from Biden.

And followed it up by promising to appoint a republican to her cabinet.