Like Hillary Clinton in 2016, Kamala Harris is clear on the fact that she isn’t interested in convincing progressives to vote for her. At this point, it would be rude and invasive for progressives to vote for her anyway.
Don’t Be a Vote Rapist
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Rapist if you DO and
Racist if you DON’T.
Is this any was to treat a constituency?
Do the 80+/- million who will vote for a Dem candidate have a femtogram of self-respect among them?
PS re “Like Hillary Clinton in 2016 … ” and SHE then blamed “Russian interference,” and Jill Stein, for her loss to TRUMP.
On a related note, did anyone notice that, in an apparent, unavoidable urge of political self-destruction, Harris campaigned in Michigan*** with Liz Cheney, spawn of arch-neocon Dick (torturer & mass murderer of a few hundred thousand West Asia inhabitants) to assure Harris NO support from the 200,000 voters of Arab origin – who haven’t yet been poisoned by the local water supply.
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*** “Michigan has the highest amount of Arab-Americans in the United States, many of whom were sympathetic to Palestinians … ” See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncommitted_National_Movement
I dunno, the transgender surgery for prisoners that my TV tells me she loves seems pretty progressive? Don’t discount that!
also calling her “Comrade Kamala” actually makes her *more* electable with a good chunk of her base…
If only…
Is it OK if I imagine voting for her without her permission?
Frankly, I’m just done with it all. Almost every word out of her mouth is a smooth blend of Hillary 2.0, unadulterated bullshit, and glib nonsense. It seems like the dnc has intentionally put forth the least capable candidate they could find. There’s a scene in Doctor Who where the Master and Missy are on a rooftop, shooting down Mondasian Cybermen. “They’re not difficult, they’re Cybermen!” yells the Master in frustration because there are so many of them that the roof’s about to be overrun.
Beating Donald Trump should be easy. Get someone who simply speaks honestly. No PR gobbledygook, just simple sentences. No pretending about how tough you are with a Glock or how you worked at McDonald’s when you can’t bring the receipts for either.
Trump refused to support the Ukraine, while Kamala says she will make sure that the Ukraine has a complete victory over Russia.
Both say they’ll fully support Israel, so Fox, New York Post, and WSJ say Kamala will not support Israel enough, while all the other news media say Trump can’t be counted on to fully support Israel, plus he’s Putin’s puppet.
And Trump is now saying that the three assassination attempts on him were all by Iran, so it looks like Trump will destroy Iran if elected, while Kamala has promised she’ll destroy Russia.
So one must choose: is it more important to totally destroy Russia or Iran?
Third choice: don’t destroy any other country is not allowed on any US ballot, since it would seriously hurt the profits of the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media complex.
Perhaps the “November surprise” will be how many people vote for Jill Stein, the only pro-peace, no-bullshit candidate in the race.
What if neither the D’s nor the R’s win a majority of the popular vote? It’s unfortunate that not voting at all doesn’t register as a vote for “neither of the above,” as abstainers have been the clear plurality in most US elections. In 2020, “Biden” actually managed to beat “abstain,” but the abstentions still beat Trump, in spite of him getting millions more votes than he did in 2016.