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Not me, Sir, I voted for her despite all my complaints.

Literally with that name. 😍

If they'd lost in 2020 the Trump nightmare would be ending in a couple months instead of beginning anew.

Yes you should have voted for Kamala and yes it's the Democrats at fault. Both are true.

Then surely your message has been received.

You don't really have to take my word for it, there have been articles about her courting Republicans for weeks. You are free to disagree, but she very explicitly did do so. The article I linked in the comment you replied to gives specific examples, but your search engine of choice will find numerous articles listing the ways in which she did so, often with video. It's not like it's some tinfoil hat thing, it was her very obvious strategy.

Sorry, I forgot I have to preface every criticism with "I voted for Harris, but"

You’re fucking complicit.

No my dude, I voted for her. I don't agree with the decision from those who didn't vote or voted elsewhere.

But I understand. /ChrisRock

There's plenty of blame to go around. One thing a politician needs to do is effectively sell themselves to the people who will be voting. Harris spent a lot of time selling herself to Republicans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/kamala-harris-progressives-democrats.html

The people who voted for the fascists were always going to vote for the fascists.

I have no need or desire to argue with you about it. There is no end to people smarter and more eloquent than I who are explaining the exact same thing in more detail than I could, from Bernie Sanders to Rolling Stone.

Speaking only for myself - sure - until she abandoned all progressive stances and sprinted for the right, then allowed a Cheney (and other Republicans) to speak at the DNC while also refusing to give even a minute of podium time to anyone with a pro-Palestine viewpoint.

She turned right the moment she announced the candidacy and just kept moving further and further, as if somehow 1) All D votes were in the bag so it didn't matter if they were pissed and also 2) R was going to give any D candidate the time of day.

Didn't work out so well. It turns out that trying to become the watered down version of your opponent doesn't win a lot of good favor among the folks who put you in that position in the first place.

No argument here!

Hey you got what you wanted, and you got to post a lengthy manifesto about it. I don't feel obligated to give you more of my time than I already have.