How Much of the Harris Campaign Was a Scam?
How Much of the Harris Campaign Was a Scam?
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How Much of the Harris Campaign Was a Scam?
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Very little, at least.compared to the opposition.
It was infested with myopic tomfoolery of a scale that can easily be described as "corrupt", but i haven't heard and specific allegations of anyone actually trying to lose.
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Democratic political consultants milked the campaign for a shitload of money and likely led the charge to "pivot conservative so you don't lose!"
It's bullshit to assume it was corrupt by design, however.
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at least.compared to the opposition.
Can we please stop doing this? It just gives Democrats license to be second worst.
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"They're open fascists and genocidal maniacs, so we can be open racists and do corporate lobbying, they're worse so why try to be any better?"
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DNC leadership literally said they would rather loose than tarnish Biden's legacy with critique. That's why Harris wasn't allowed to differentiate herself in any meaningful way.
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It's not accurate to say she wasn't "allowed" - - she was the candidate for POTUS, and essentially literally the party boss.
Harris CHOSE to stand by Biden, warts and all, and in doing so inherited a bunch of his baggage. I presume this is in large part because she agreed with him, but it may be that she instead chose to hide her disagreement on the advice of others.
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Libs mad at this post.
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Very mad, downvotes are now an argument! Being mad at progressives worked so well in 2016 and 2024, right?
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The arguments laid out here are about a campaign that had no time to scale, and therefore didn't have time to properly set up field offices. I doubt they even had the staff or procedures to properly set up requests coming from thousands of field offices. I'd say this was more of a failure of the Biden campaign's initial setup than anything, since that is what the Harris campaign stemmed from.
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Too much. Because Trump was 100%, doesn't mean that we should be anything above 1%.
Like Jesus, all that money spent and losing on such a margin because she refused to listen to her campaign aids.
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This is a bit a of tangent, but I've read some of the author's takes on russia and China (and briefly discussed the articles with him on twitter) and he has no clue what he is talking about. The "articles" are sophomoric takes that clearly show a lack of knowledge or interest in understanding anything.
He might have a better understanding of US internal politics, but his confidently ignorant approach (with respect to russia and China) does not inspire confidence.
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Any articles for example?
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/08/the-irrational-fear-of-russia
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/03/is-russian-brutality-toward-civilians-actually-unique
Fucker doesn't even speak russian or Ukrainian and has almost certainly never lived in russia or Ukraine (I would be surprised if he has even visited). And yet he speaks of "Russo-Orientalism"? Come on...
His magazine also directly parrots russian propaganda:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/10/why-did-russia-launch-this-catastrophic-war
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/05/how-the-war-in-ukraine-can-be-ended
As someone who lives in Ukraine (I am Ukrainian), has lived in russia and the US and speaks the local languages, his takes are horrendous.
I do hope one day, Nathan Robinson, Anatol Lieven and Thomas Moller-Nielsen meet the same fate as "Donbas cowboy" Russell Bentley.
Bentley, 64, was a fixture in the low-level Russian incursion in Ukraine dating back to 2014. Calling himself the Donbas Cowboy, Bentley became a popular figure on Russian propaganda networks for his criticism of the U.S. government.
Bentley, whose military call sign was Texas, went missing in Donetsk in April.
According to the Investigative Committee, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev, and Iordanov tortured Bentley on April 8, and he died shortly afterward.
Vansyatsky and Agaltsev are suspected of blowing up a car with Bentley’s body in it and ordering Bazhin to get rid of what was left of his remains.
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