“I support the Democrat in the race,” Talk about a backhanded compliment.
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It's about damn time.
I love how what would have been mundane and not news worthy with any other candidates (democratic politicians endorsing a democratic candidate for mayoral office) now makes headlines with Mamdani. And by love I mean hate.
It’s going to be wild when he gets in and starts making decisions that are actually quite popular and seeing mainstream dems fall all over each other to claim that they were with him all along.
Please don't. Just go away
Kamala Harris finally sees which way the wind is blowing.
so did HOCHUL, after she deriding madami, so i think they are doing it to save face.
Watch the whole interview, its so bad. She has terrible instincts.
Her "endorsement": I support the democrat, but there are other stars too, like <insert 2 names I literally never heard of> from other mayoral races. Just pissing on the most popular candidate in the country and taking 2 random mayors down with her, instead of "Mandami is great, and I'm really hopeful about these other guys"
She complains that "titans of industry" didn't step in to stop Trump. Her goal isn't to help the american people, but to "restore the guardrails of our institutions". Isn't her dad supposed to be a Marxist? Have they never been in a room for 5 minutes?
Turns out Newsom is as petty as you would expect, while Pelosi and Obama were so ideologically westwing-brained they were more concerned about Biden "having his moment" than actually winning.
Close friend of Trump and Epstein, Bill Clinton, seemed eager to support anyone who had a better shot than post-shitting-himself-debate Biden.
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I'm a actually not that cynical of it. In her book she was critical of who the establishment in the Biden administration treated her.
Worse case is she's endorsing him to make her self look good. But honestly I think it's great she did endorse him. It will go a long way with causal/centrist democrats and centerist independents.
It's kinda how I feel about corporations supporting good things. People will point out that they're only doing it for money or whatever, but I don't care. If they all start supporting and normalizing good things, I don't care that it started for dumb reasons.
I studied environmental sciences in school, so the metaphor I think of is that of indicator species, which provide information about the state of an ecosystem. For example, the presence of mayflies indicates good water quality, since poor water quality disrupts part of their lifecycle. Similarly, corporations supporting good things indicates that they feel it is profitable to do so. It indicates the state of public sentiment, and I don't see how that's anything but good news.
Same with Harris (indirectly) endorsing Mamdani: Maybe she's just bending with the wind, but it's good news because of the way the wind is blowing.
good business just backs both sides, hence why media like Time will release editions with "conservative"/democrat leaning cover-arts, for specific parts of the country.
anything and everything to keep people inside their bubbles
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shes probably still looking for political career somewhere in the future, just not now.
I'm taking the broad position that last-minute endorsements of Mamdani are just saving face for the establishment. That window closes in mid-October or so.
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she has to, since most of the DNC sides with jefferies/schumer with israel and also the billionaires.
Pretty tepid endorsement but somehow still better than many of her peers
She tried to pivot to others in the party...
No wonder she lost.
It's still fucked considering she was better in every way compared to the other option. That said, yes she has zero charisma and authenticity. Her entire platform is consultancy-crafted buzzwords and ambiguity.
It was exceedingly obvious 2024 was a populist election, and she let Trump take that mantle and run with it. Bernie would have mopped the floor with these corporatists. This is why Mamdani is ascendant.
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"Please donate to Harris, it's the only way to win."
That's the only message I got from her. Lots of talk around other messages but the one they hammered home in all their canvassing, sms and such was MONEY.
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Yeah, those few citizens not buying their bullshit can make all the difference.
It's why we should focus all of our efforts on making sure people like her never become the nominee, because that's essentially handing the presidency to the republicans.
Nominating hillary fucking clinton in 2016 over Bernie Sanders was bonkers. I don't think the nation will ever recover from that blunder, and we still don't put the blame where it belongs.
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Just the worst possible instincts.
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Isn't there overwhelming polling saying he is likely to win? Harris hitches herself to whoever is likely to win. That is her entire career.
Alternately, her endorsement is another way the Democratic establishment is trying to make him lose. 😉
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We all see right through you Kamala.
I'm sure it was based on her deep beliefs, and not a decision made by strategists for her. We are so fucked...
Why would she care. She could likely apply for political asylum in say France and leave the country and never have to work another day in her life. She's 60, she doesn't owe anyone anything. She won't run for president, and I doubt she wants to enter another 4 years of VP from 64-68 years old.
In the most unenthusiastic way possible. But it's better than an outright rejection.
People who have lost to donald trump need to be permanently benched.
The DNC:✍️Women✍️and✍️POC✍️need✍️to✍️be✍️permanently✍️benched✍️
Just because someone is a woman or minority does not mean that women or minorities will support them. Frankly it is rather insulting that you think it would.
That's not what I am saying at all. I am saying instead of looking at the deeply unpopular messaging and policy of "secure the border", "most lethal military" and "part of a down-payment for first-generation homebuyers who have gone 5 years without a late rent payment and submit whole positive values for X, Y, and Z where X/(Y+Z)+Y/(X+Z)+Z/(X+Y) is equal to your SSN" that lost the election, the DNC will conclude the problem was Kamala's gender and race, and then proceed to ratfuck progressives under the delusion that republican-lite is more electable than improving the material conditions of the people who you want to vote for you.
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