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I don’t think anyone is saying he’s good. They’re just saying “holy shit, even this this insane guy who is so bad is anti-Trump”
He's evil af but intelligent and informed enough to know that his own personal well-being is better served by perpetuating the current system rather than forcing the nation into some dystopian MAGA authoritarian hell hole.
The thing is it legitimizes them.
This isn't a new or unique problem.
I think Israel's government sucks, I say it a lot. Sometimes a Nazi agrees with me. I don't say "even Nazis hate Israel".
I tell the Nazi to shut the fuck up, and that were not on the same team.
Before Biden dropped out, sometimes I'd criticize him and a trumper would show up and agree with me. I never said "even trump supporters think Biden is a shitty candidate".
I told them to fuck off and we weren't on the same team.
So when Dick Cheney shows up to say Kamala's right and trump is bad...
I expect Kamala to tell Cheney to fuck off at minimum. Ideally she could actually hold him accountable for some of his war crimes.
I dont want to see everyone talk about how things were better when Republicans were like Dick Cheney. Because shit was fucked up even back before Reagan was in office.
Have you actually looked at the polls?
The race is neck and neck.
You don't get to pick and choose at a time like this.
Maybe they should be reaching out to working people and not Cheneys?
Show me where Harris 'reached out' to Dick Cheney.
She didn't change anything to win over GOPs, they came over because they are sick of Trump.
She reaches out to the neocons with every single policy concession. Fracking. Universal healthcare. Student loans. Police reform. The ratchet continues, and all the liberals have to offer is "At least it's not fascism" as we help genocide Palestine and corporate power grows until it's practically the same thing as state power.
And what are you offering?
You really think that all the voters who didn't force the Dems to nominate a true Progressive in 2020 are going to vote for some as yet unnamed candidate in November?
We're in danger of drowning, and your response is to complain that the lifeboat doesn't have WiFi.
Precisely. This crowd loves to talk a good talk about the ratchet or the Overton window, but offers absolutely nothing in terms of practical, realistic solutions.
No, a third party progressive with zero national name recognition and no ballot access in a majority of the country is not going to magically win 270 electoral votes if you write them in. If going viral was that easy everyone would do it. So grow up and offer a practical solution, or shut the fuck up.
I recall a post somewhere from a person saying they can tell when a leftist online is from a blue state or a red state by how they act - I think this whole interaction is very telling where this person is from.
In my state, I'd be happy to have a Democrat of basically any kind over a Republican. Abortion rights are fucked, public education is hobbled, and I expect LGBT rights to be eroded further in the next year or so. Would I like to see leftist policies implemented? Absolutely, but I'll take what I can conceivably get, even if that means things simply don't get worse.
Yes this is very well said. Whenever I see these kinds of comments I can’t help but wonder just how much privilege the author is conveniently disregarding.
I got into words one time with an acquaintance over the idea of protest voting. He really got under my skin because he said something to the effect of “well if trump wins I’ll be fine, and if I’m not I’ll just leave” - it’s like yeah dude, you can do that, plenty of other people can’t.
It's funny, I had thought about mentioning that I'm a straight white dude, so I'm pretty safe from direct problems when it comes to the Republicans targeting women and minorities. Of course, I have both A) friends and family who do not fit that mold, and B) a fucking conscience, so I will likely never vote Republican as long as I live...
Of course, I have to make concessions to those ideals whenever I vote, due to the issues like Gaza...which, while it pains me to say it: I will not willingly let those friends and family members' rights be taken away on account of a bunch of strangers thousands of miles away.
Do I hate genocide? Duh.
Will I vote for "Genocide Joe" or whatever? Absolutely.
For both the reasons stated above and because a protest vote in the US just means letting the people who more broadly oppose your ideals win (and they'd just make the situation worse).
I'm slowly becoming more convinced that any and all so-called leftists online that refuse to vote Dem over Gaza are just intentionally trolling or are bots - the sheer lack of awareness just baffles me.
Back in the day, Ho Chi Minh was happy to work with the American OSS to get the Japanese out of Veit-Nam.
These guys would call him a lackey and a stooge.
you realize trump clicked the ratchet far far faster than any democrat? When republicans win the dems only ever come back more racist in response.
This isn't an election, its a hostage situation and the way to deal with a hostage situation is to appear to negotiate with the hostage takers until you can remove them, its not to immediately attempt to kill all the hostages.
I don't see it as legitimizing anything. MAGA pundits are even now calling Cheney of all people a RINO. Don't interrupt an enemy when they are making a mistake. If this pushes some Republicans to vote for Harris, wonderful. If it discourages some moderates from voting for Trump by not voting (WHY would they still be voting for him as moderate...but that's a different topic), then that still helps. She should just not acknowledge his endorsement, let it fall where it will. Any attention is going to hurt someone's feelings, and there's already the problem of people on the left who can't have their perfect utopia with Harris and somehow think her not winning will help their cause.
Don’t interrupt an enemy when they are making a mistake.
Which would be fine and I wouldn't have made my comment.
That's not what's happening, moderate politicians and mainstream media are celebrating a war criminal's endorsement of Kamala...
So in your hypothetical scenario that's isn't based on reality, we'd agree.
But do you agree with me that in real life, we should be ignore Dick Cheney except to talk about how he still needs to be held accountable for war crimes?
The media follows what will get attention, unfortunately. Probably true of some politicians as well. He should absolutely be held responsibly for all he did, but understandably the news topic is how even diehard Republicans of old are turning on Trump. I note that apparently GWB has decided to not be public about anything, which sort of says he's in the same boat, he just maybe doesn't want or need the publicity.
Are they celebrating, or just pointing at the "betrayal" as more evidence of a collapsing campaign? Maybe if they just have the headline say "Enabler of crimes against humanity also against Trump" to cover all bases.
The mental gymnastics are real, careful you don't hurt yourself.
This is a trash analogy because everyone knows Nazis hate Israel, it's part of their ideology.
A former republican vice president endorsing a democratic president candidate is note worthy because it's goes faint their ideology.
That you choose to reach for Nazis to make your argument is the clearest Godwin Law I've witnessed in a long time.
This is a trash analogy because everyone knows Nazis hate Israel, it's part of their ideology.
They don't though. Nazis love Israel and historically have never opposed the concept, since they agree on the point that Jews should leave Europe.
I expect Kamala to tell Cheney to fuck off at minimum
Are we talking about the same Kamala Harris who defined John McCain a "war hero", a "true patriot" and a "conscience of the Senate"?
You're gonna have to try harder 🤡
So when Dick Cheney shows up to say Kamala’s right and trump is bad…
I expect Kamala to tell Cheney to fuck off at minimum
I wonder if Dems always choke in Presidential races because they have people like you as their chief strategists, where vague concepts of noble virtue and ideological purity supersede pragmatism at the most crucial moment.
I can't possibly imagine being so privileged that I could get an endorsement from a former Republican VP during an incredibly close race and my response to him would be "fuck off".
I wonder if Dems always choke in Presidential races because they have people like you as their chief strategists,
You'd have to be completely and totally ignorant of American politics to think in 2024 this is what the party would do...
What specifically? Choke? Leave it to Democrats to sneak defeat from the jaws of victory. Or do you mean hire an amateur as a political strategist? I agree, but sometimes I wonder.