#biden and harris could

[nokingsonlyfooles]

“She said, ‘Be quiet unless you want to elect Trump.’”

There was nothing else they could do, so they just sat down. Sometimes, that's all you can do.

“Our nation with this election has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past,” Harris said. “A chance to chart a new way forward. Not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans.”

You're right, Ms. Harris. I no longer see any division at all. Well, one of you lies that we'll do fewer atrocities on your watch, and the other lies that we'll do more, but that's it.

Unspoken campaign promises kept -

Obama: "I will tell poor Black Americans to drink lead. I will drop bombs on weddings and birthday parties with drones. I will put children in cages. I will deport more people than Trump's first term in my first term... and maybe the same goes for the second term."

Biden: "I will keep stealing children until the Supreme Court makes me stop, and make sure we pay no compensation for the ones we already stole. I will violate international law to punish asylum seekers and send them away. I will bend over backwards to help pull off a genocide."

Harris: TBA?

I have to mail in my ballot in October to vote for legislation - which exists in print and can't lie to me - to protect the health of pregnant people in Arizona. (I don't think federal legislation is coming. Do you? Really?) She has until then, for me. Maybe a little longer, for Michigan. For Palestine, too, certainly, but they don't get a vote. And since I'm absent, they'll probably call the election before my ballot even gets counted.

Speak up, unless you want to elect Trump.

[mcsquared789]

Just found out the news. All I’m gonna say is that you Americans have been given a Hail Mary, and you better goddamn take it and vote for Kamala at the upcoming election, ok?

No more of this ‘they both suck’ nonsense. There is a clear candidate here, and it’s not the 78 year old beach ball

[littlematchagirlll]

one of my friends (also a leftist) said that because we live in utah, it doesn't matter who he votes for, and there's no way he will vote for a "fucking cop who was complicit in genocide."

he is telling his friends in utah that they have zero say in who is president, so they shouldn't vote for harris.

and, i love him, but i think that line of thinking is really damaging.

if the stakes were lower for this election, then sure! i'm all in favor of third parties, and i do think that should be more normalized. it would be great to get to a point where we have more viable options than just democrats and republicans.

but this election is against trump. if trump wins, we get project 2025.

this isn't your father's republican party that just wanted to lower taxes and have more free trade. we are looking at rights being taken away for several marginalized communities. major changes that will set us back decades. there is too much on the line, and harris needs every single vote she can get.

saying you won't vote for harris because you live in a red state and don't think your vote will count... like a vote for a third party will??

you're really just saying that you don't mind trump winning, or if you do, you aren't willing to actually do what it takes to stop it.

as for being complicit with the genocide, aren't we all? our tax money is going to the genocide. we are complicit, whether we like it or not.

and harris has openly advocated for a ceasefire! also, do you think trump won't be complicit in the genocide? do you not think he would actively support israel? i'd rather have a president that calls for a ceasefire than one who doesn't. i'd rather have a president who is willing to push back on israel than one who be pushed around by israel.

there's more hope for a ceasefire with harris than there is with trump, and that's worth something.

my friend said "when people look back at your history, don't let them see your name next to a war criminal's."

honestly? in this election, i would rather have my name seen next to harris because that shows i understood that the future of our country and the safety of its citizens was more important than my personal moral superiority.

i don't just vote to make a fucking point. i vote because it impacts people's lives.

it seriously feels like some people are okay with watching the country burn, as long as they feel morally superior.

[reasonsforhope]

This is now a Kamala Harris for President blog btw

Obviously I'll keep posting good news as usual! And I'm going to pull up as much good news and reasons for hope about Kamala Harris's campaign as I can.

[chamerionwrites]

Also it brings me zero pleasure to be Cassandra here, but “mass deportation” is a synonym for murder. I need you all to understand this. Even in the absolute best case scenario, it means large numbers of people being warehoused in slapdash facilities where illness spreads quickly and medical care is inadequate. It means government contractors providing food, trying to make a killing, and inevitably cutting corners on costs/quality/safety. It means police violence against people being rounded up. It means US citizen children being removed from their families or deported with them. It means people being returned to countries they fled in fear of their lives, and killed by domestic abusers/gangs/governments. It means bureaucratic mixups (/apathy/malice) that result in people getting dropped off in dangerous cities that they’ve never even visited late at night.

It means all of this and more, and if the government comes for your neighbors you should respond as if you are witnessing an attempted murder.

[lesbianlenas]

hmmmm i wonder what it was that made biden able to beat trump but not clinton or harris……hmmm what could it possibly be i wonder that shifted the votes away from those two qualified candidates but not old man joe…..

[abstractpenny]

Okay, so I've been thinking about it and I don't think we're actually all that cooked with Joe Biden dropping out.

If you don't know, Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election. He is no longer running. BUT Kamala Harris, the current VP, is taking his place as the Democratic candidate for this election.

Looking at this, you may say something like "Oh no, we're done for. We're doomed." But if you think about it, this is actually an unbelievably intelligent and strategic move. In fact, this gives me a lot of hope that I didn't have before.

Obviously, this move is a last resort. They knew if they kept running with Biden they would lose. It means the Democratic party is pulling out a final weapon. But it's honestly a damn good one.

Before this happened, it seemed hopeless. Our two options were two old rich white men, one of which is an awful public speaker and the other is a literal criminal. And, because of that, you got people choosing not to vote or choosing to vote for Trump. Because which of the two evils is more appealing?

Donald Trump is a wonderful public speaker. He is charismatic and charming. He knows how to get people on his side. He's spent his whole life learning how to be a strong public speaker. That's what makes him scary. That's what made it so he won the 2016 election, so he almost won the 2020 election, and why he's still in the conversation today. He knows how to speak in an appealing way.

Joe Biden is honestly an awful public speaker. He struggles with gathering people to be on his side. Whether it's because he has a stutter/speech impediment or because he's dealing with dementia, he's still not good at public speaking. That makes him weak in things like debates and in politics. We saw that with our own eyes during the last debate.

Kamala Harris, while maybe not as strong of a speaker as Donald Trump, is very knowledgeable and self assured. She knows how to debate, she knows how to be a politician. She knows what she's doing. She's strong and confident. She may be our final hope.

A lot of why people aren't going in to vote is because it felt useless to do so, especially to people on the left. Donald Trump is out of the question for a lot of people, but Joe Biden isn't much better to many. They're both old as fuck, about 80 years old. They're both straight white cis men who have higher incomes. They're not aligned at all with what a lot of people on the left view.

Harris is significantly more relatable to a lot of people. She's a woman of colour. A good percentage of the United States population is one of those, either a person of colour or a woman. She's also younger than both Biden and Trump by almost 20 years. Yes, she's still 60 years old, but that's absolutely nothing compared to our other candidates.

Another thing that brings Biden out of favour with the left is how he handled and backed specific foreign wars (Ukraine and Palestine specifically). The Palestine Israel war is a very strong thing on the left, it's very talked about, and a lot of people view Biden as 'om the wrong side' of it. And, although Harris was the VP of the Biden administration, she's not very tied in to the wars from public view.

Harris is a great candidate other than a few minor minor minor things. She's leagues better than our dropped out ex candidate and our currently running candidate. One of the biggest hurdles for her, though, is going to be racism and sexism. It's always there. Oh, and the fact that her opponent had an assassination attempt on him, but that's a whole other can of worms.

Kamala Harris coming into this race may change things completely. We're not as screwed anymore. There's hope.

You. Whoever may read this. Go vote. It's crucial. Vote if you can. If you can't, get people to vote who can. This is the most important election in a long time.

We can win.

[biblicalhorror]

Here's my thing. If you have lost all faith in the democratic party and do not want to vote for their candidate, I get it. I really do. But you have to have some kind of plan. Not voting at all isn't going to make any kind of statement to the people in power. It's not an effective boycott because it's not disrupting anything. It's not making your voice heard, like voting uncommitted was in the primary.

Do you live in a blue state? Great! Which 3rd party candidate are you organizing for? Jill Stein? Cornell West? Claudia De La Cruz? Pick one and start organizing for them. If you can get at least 5% of the country (which means about 807,000 of your fellow like-minded leftists in blue areas) on board with one specific candidate, that candidate receives a boost in federal campaign funding in the next election cycle. Choose someone who is willing to use their platform in the next 10 years to promote ranked-choice voting on the federal level so that we don't keep having this same discussion every fucking election cycle.

Speaking of which, voting in your local and state elections is key to getting those initiatives on the ballot in the first place! Do your research on local candidates. Go to town hall meetings. Volunteer at a phone bank. Start getting people into positions of power who are willing to fight to get your long-term goals met.

I truly do empathize with people who cannot bring themselves to vote for someone who has been complicit in genocide and feel as though their vote does nothing for democrats anyway. But guys, we have to stop being so short-sighted and defeatist about this. Abstaining completely from the electoral system does nothing to bring attention to the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. If you can't vote for Kamala, figure out who you WILL vote for, and start getting other people on board. Because voting third-party also does nothing if they get 0.3% of the vote nationally. We need to start being smart about using the momentum that leftist politics have gained in the younger population in recent years.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

[booasaur]

Sometimes I can compartmentalize how I feel about the US's contribution to Palestine's suffering enough to focus on the urgency of not letting Trump win, but then I see something like this.

What did Palestinians did to deserve this? The world hates them enough to invite polio back in?

Article from a few days ago:

For more than 25 years, the Gaza Strip has been polio free. Then last week polio was detected in six out of seven routine sewage samples.

[the-paris-of-people]

The past couple days online have been... interesting. I consider myself a leftist, think capitalism is corrupt, and think that it needs to be seriously reformed/overthrown. I admit that while I've thrown around phrases and terms like "burn it all down" and "the revolution needs to come" out of frustration without actually thinking about what a revolution entails: excellent organization, unity, and strategy to defeat the United States, the world's largest military superpower which has inflicted political and social destabilization across the majority of countries around the world. There also needs to be superb infrastructure and community to support the disabled, elderly, and poor populations who rely on government assistance and programs, healthcare, and accommodations while this so-called revolution rages on.

All I've received from the far leftist movement are lectures from condescending intellectuals who rattle off academic citations regarding ideological theory rather than practical, tangible steps to advocate for change in our local and regional communities. I have not seen one of them actually discuss conversations they've had with their friends, family, or Americans about what they want to see reflected for the future of the country. I have not seen one of them discussed how destructive, detrimental and traumatic a Trump presidency was for social prejudice and morale in the United States. I understand that for many marginalized groups they've been living in a facist state for centuries so the possibility Project 2025 doesn't galvanize them to see the two parties differently, but I don't think it is fair to white leftists falsely equivocate the election of both parties for the entire American population at all??? Or like at least specify the issues you're referring to in which you view both parties as the same????? Literally one TikTok creator who I used to follow talked about how true leftists are so much better than liberals because they aren't waiting for a presidential candidate to save the world NOW due to the accelerated apocalypse due to climate change but when asked how to change the world they suggest sharing ideas of your future utopia with other leftist groups. How the fuck is sitting around talking about living in a walkable community is great considered "saving the world now"? How are you going to dismantle and restructure American infrastructure to create these communities? How are you going to remove existing racial and social tensions to create a community where everyone lives happily side by side? Do people not consider reality at all?????

And is it not wrong for people to have a fucking sliver of optimism and hope at incremental change that's achieved within the corrupt bipartisan system of American politics, even if they know it's propaganda??? Is it wrong for people to have a singular fucking moment of relief in feeling like their values, beliefs, and lives will be better protected and THEY can advocate for change better??? Is it wrong when there's a couple months until the most pressing election in recent history for people to make the choice they feel will reduce the most amount of harm???

[toughtink]

aoc coming on instagram live to give a no-nonsense description of what’s going on in the democratic party with calls to replace joe biden and all the problems, legally and electorally, with this idea (can’t even call it a plan) is some much needed sanity. as someone who was wishing they’d replaced him a year ago but has made peace with voting for whoever i gotta, i’ve felt like i’m watching some weird tv show unfold with the sudden influx of biden panic. y’all!! it’s too little too late!! but at least this president and administration has managed to get more progressive stuff happening than anyone else in my lifetime! we can win if we stop listening to the weirdos who think they’re in the world’s stupidest legal drama!

[anodymalion]

lmao love the leftist infighting blame machine already kicking into gear trying to get people to point fingers internally rather than use that energy to do literally anything useful.

I have already seen posts here trying to claim that Harris lost because she was too far right; because she was too far left; because she ran a weak campaign; because she ran a too aggressive campaign; because Biden didn't drop out earlier; because Biden didn't stay in the race; because of protest voters; because of <insert minority group here>; etc etc etc. And basically every contradictory variation you can think of.

[whatsthelimitoncharacters]

I’m wondering how many former Harris supporters are going to start spewing racist or misogynistic rhetoric about her after they accept that trump won. I’ve already seen misinformation start to spread and I’m certain that it’s only going to get worse.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Can't wrap my mind around the US lending billions in "aid" to fund Israel's genocide and war crimes while Palestinian men, women, and children are being killed by the thousands...this country and its leaders are truly rotten to the core

[jaythelay]

Ya know the funny thing is, their poor messaging against Khamala for a dude would be funny, but for a woman, you can Feel the Hate seething through it.

tl;dr: With Biden, they had to make up reasons to hate him, they didn't have legitimate reasons to hate him as much as they wanted to propogate hate and give positive messaging to Dump.

With Kamala, that's gone. Now they can only show their true opinions and beliefs, that she's a woman and not white Will Be Their Focus because they legitimately fucking hate Kamala for those reasons.

They didn't hate Biden for being a pedo or his son doing prostitutes and coke, they know Dump does that and don't care, but Kamala represents Everything that Triggers them. So they will resort to Schoolyard Bullying.

Mock them for it, point it out.

I don't think R's hated Biden as much as Kamala. Solely because...wow.

First off, their main bit is she laughs...and like....okay? I get R's don't understand Joy but you lost the normal people at that point. Doesn't help they're making blatant racist comparisons to animals either. Dumbshits.

Secondly...this?

Is so overtly blatant in it's schoolyard bullying I can believe a Republican would try it publically.

They're trying to play up a "she had sex to get here!" angle and like, ya'll got MTG over there and she's far more likely to have done that than Khamala. Even if, I don't care? I really, really don't. I think ya gotta have some deep seeded hatred for women on some level to understand the angle enough to "believe it could happen" whether it did or not.

Regardless, the idea of going after her like this is overwhelmingly telling. They got nothing but Hate and it's abundantly clear they have nothing to really go after her with. All they got is what works for the openly bigotted R's that agree with them, they believe bigotry is the norm thanks to Twitter, but there's nothing good for swing voters, none of dem leaners. It's just racism and sexism, not even covert, it's blatant.

Sure, when Dump was being sexist and racist, it was against a White Guy, now it's Directed Towards Their Targets, the fuck is Dump gonna do?

Of course he backed out of debates, his only choice is to be honest!

It's rather pathetic, and Twitter being pro-nazi essentially makes these voices the only voices of the republican voter to the public. Hilarious that making a concentrated place for Republicans would mean the average person sees their insanity more commonly and blatantly.

Turns out "left leaning" just meant "Reduces bigotry"