I literally just saw the thermal footage from Dropsite where the F35 gets slapped silly. Even though it was not destroyed, the entire project relies on whether or not it is invincible to fire and invisible to any tracking systems.

It’s honestly embarrassing as an American to see how much money is funneled into failed projects just to fatten the wallets of multi-billionaires. At this rate, countries that rely on the US for defenses will run to China for assurances (as they should, tbh).

Either way, ANOTHER 10 TRILLION TO THE MIC

“We hear you. We see you. Here’s Liz Cheney as our middle of the road candidate. And her VP? Joe Biden”

Now that I typed this out, there’s a non-zero percent chance it could come to fruition. Sorry

And Vichy Democrats wonder why their approval rating is down in the Mariana Trench. Fuck this damn party

This is a Christian server. We say “Go to H-E-double hockey sticks ICE” around these parts, pal.

The campaign was complete garbage, though. In a Rolling Stone article, it details on how many advisors and Democratic party operatives were begging her campaign to not bring in Liz Cheney because any gains would essentially be eclipsed by other Democratic voters that otherwise stayed home.

A Democratic strategist says they warned key Harris surrogates and top-level officials at the Democratic National Committee that campaigning with Liz Cheney […] was highly unlikely to motivate any new swing voters, and risked dissuading already-despondent, infrequent Democratic voters who had supported Biden in 2020

I also understand that your main points are on how political commentators and news anchors on TV chose not to encourage Harris to tackle issues on the economy, but an Atlantic article essentially tells us that Harris torpedoed her anti-big business rhetoric when she brought in her brother-in-law into the campaign itself.

While Harris was stuck defending the Biden economy, and hobbled by lingering anger over inflation, attacking Big Business allowed her to go on the offense. Then, quite suddenly, this strain of populism disappeared. One Biden aide told me that Harris steered away from such hard-edged messaging at the urging of her brother-in-law, Tony West, Uber’s chief legal officer

Honestly, how big of a role does media have in swaying her campaign into talking about important issues (such as the economy, like you pointed out) if she willingly chose to ignore the easiest slam dunks her campaign had?

To anyone reading Ensign’s comment and downvoting, their claim is essentially an already established fact. Rolling Stone put out an article after the election saying that the Harris campaigned intentionally ignored Democratic party insiders and their advice and polling data against bringing the Cheneys on board.

A Democratic strategist says they warned key Harris surrogates and top-level officials at the Democratic National Committee that campaigning with Liz Cheney — and making the campaign’s closing argument about how many Republicans were supporting Harris — was highly unlikely to motivate any new swing voters, and risked dissuading already-despondent, infrequent Democratic voters who had supported Biden in 2020.

“We were told, basically, to get lost, no thank you,” says the operative.

Article in question

Because Democrats love losing. They use that as an excuse to blast their constituents with texts on how to donate. They did that when Roe was overturned and a few days after Kamala lost. As another commenter pointed out, they’re beholden to their sponsors and their sponsors want a return on investment.

Yeah, as much as people on this site love to love to shit on conservatives for being MAGA-brained, most of the Democratic rank-and-file acolytes mirror the same behavior. History will absolve my, and many others’ comments but it’ll be too late to fix problems that could have been avoided. Ultimately, people in general want to be in their echo chambers and have their opinions supported

Fair enough. I’ll admit that my comment was just a snide remark to those in a community that will jump at the first opportunity to deflect blame onto anyone but refuse to entertain a second of introspection.

Every other Lemmy comment section told me that it was Anti-Genocide college students who cost Kamala the election /s