That doesn’t let someone off the hook for falsely painting Harris as more conservative than a self-proclaimed Libertarian. It’s disingenuous to make that claim and can be rightfully challenged based on her voting record.
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Pot, meet kettle.
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I just hope she’s fucking learned something about the school to prison pipeline since this, at the very least?
And before you jump all over me and tell me I’m getting Trump re-elected, how about we use this kind of shit to push for better policies from a Biden white house? We absolutely need a full record of both of their careers to know where we can hold them accountable and force them to do better.
We have an obligation to not tune out once this election is over, to our fellow citizens, to each other, to the world.
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We agree.
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I’d love to see those lessons-learned on display. Like, a moving That-Little-Girl-Was-Me level speech, but about her talking about the kind of politician she had to be as a minority woman to climb that ladder*, and how that has galvanized her to work doubly hard to undo the wrongs of the past now that she has the power
*I mean, yes, there are counter-examples that would poke holes in this arc, but just spitballing…
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Speaking of this guy, I got a fundraising envelope in the mail from him last week. I let him know that it prompted me to give $100 to Jaime Harrison, and I’m sending it back stuffed into the postage-paid envelope that came with it, sans stamp, along with two fairly heavy washers and about 3/4 of a bottle of glue.
But I’d welcome the BBS’s thoughts on better ways to waste Republican campaigns’ money on those rare occasions when I get contacted by them.
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Meh. I don’t mind her. She’s got a sharp mind. She’s more centrist than me by a long shot, but she’s the right person to run the house given her skills.
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One other potentially helpful thing about Kamala is that she makes it less likely that Trump will dump the toadying sashweight Pence and replace her with the much more dangerous Nikki Haley. His campaign might have concluded that being the first to nominate a woman of color as running mate would be value added. But being #2 wouldn’t sit well with the short-fingered vulgarian–and because of Kamala’s Indian heritage, he couldn’t even suggest Haley is the first Indian-American woman VP nominee.
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Things that as a white guy, I never even considered. “How black is black enough” was not on my radar at all.
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I don’t know if “ramrod” is the right word here, the VP selection has been the prerogative of the nominee for many many cycles, Biden doesn’t have to ramrod anything. He picked someone to his left, but close enough to respect the will of the primary voters, on the reasonable assumption that, based on that vote, that is what D-leaning Americans want. Of course, 40% of the population is in the tank for Trump, so if by “Americans will want a centrist for the Whitehouse (imo, they’re wrong” you mean wrong because you think that Americans want someone to the right of center, that’s possible but I hope you are mistaken.
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“Why does everything have to be about race??” scream the white right-wing commentators who launch into unprompted diatribes negating Harris’ lived experience as a person of color.
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Serious question that’s been bothering me: By picking Kamala the campaign’s chosen to piss off most people to the left of it because of her terrifically bad record on minor things like human rights, prosecution of corrupt bankers, etc. based on the idea that because of those things she’s a “tough on crime” DA who can be a play for all those republicans who say they’re considering voting Democrat for the first time ever.
…To be blunt: she’s a black woman. Those people were totally cool with the GOP in the “Obama is a kenyan muslim here to enact sharia law” tea party years. Do Biden and friends not think that that’s going to turn those voters off, assuming they weren’t lying about considering voting Biden in the first place? That’s a big part of what I mean when I say I fear they’ve thrown the election.
“We can’t afford to alienate the bigots” is a shit election strategy and anyone who would base a campaign around it wouldn’t deserve our votes.
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I agree, but what’s the point of picking Kamala over any of the other black women who were in the running otherwise? That’s what I don’t get.
OH. We should never put a person of color on the ticket, ever, because we should instead do whatever the racists want, being that their real Americans… because we should cater to them, because they are the only people that matter… /s
I’m sick of those people running the narrative. They are the ones with a basic failure of their own humanity and they can go piss up a rope.
I’m on the left, am not particular enthused by either Biden or Harris, but I will vote for them, because they are not fascists who are actively engaging in near genocidal policies around this pandemic. Yes, that might make me a hypocrite for not turning my back on electoral politics when the guy I want doesn’t win the nomination, but at least I won’t be dead. In this case the “lesser of two evils” is the difference between a white supremacists state and something approaching a system we can actually make real, lasting systemic change within.
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Maybe Joe Biden actually agrees with her on the issues and didn’t choose her specifically because she’s a black woman?
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Nah, that’ can’t be true… no Black woman could ever be as smart or as talented as a white brocialist, right? /s
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Also, Kamala Harris’ awfulness as a DA is greatly exaggerated by the left. As usual.
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Yep. Right out of the gate, the first right-wing outrage articles I noted had titles like “Kamala isn’t African American, so why does she identify as such?” and “Kamala is descended from white slave owners.” And now it’s already descended to “Kamala isn’t even really America, she can’t run as VP.”
That’s right, folks. Birtherism is back.
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