Dem Post Mortem

[Derec]

Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because they glued their balls to their thigh.

That was a good one!

The D's must play hardball. For example, Biden once said "That's for the Senate Parliamentarian to decide; it's not for Joe Biden to decide."
What the F**king F**k! No wonder the country is lost.

Was that when the fauxgressives wanted to use reconciliation to pass stuff that had nothing to do with the budget?

 

[Derec]

Another huge albatross, if not even a millstone, around Kami's back was the whole crime/defund police thing.

Starting in 2019 when she lied (yes, lied, she is a prosecutor and knew better) about St. Michael Brown of the Blessed Swisher Sweets having been "murdered".

Even left-of-center Vox recognized that she and Fauxachontas were wrong.
Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris’s controversial Michael Brown tweets, explained

Then came 2020 and the riots and Kamala flirted with the idea of defunding police. And despite her poor primary performance she got selected for Veep because Biden backed himself into the corner - he pledged that he would not even consider anybody with a Y chromosome, and the 2020 race riots pushed him to not consider anybody white.

In 2024 election, not only did Kamala Harris lose, so did lefty George Gascon in LA. The Alameda County DA Pamela Price, another fauxgressive prosecutor, was recalled. California overwhelmingly (> 2/3 support) passed Prop 36 which repealed an earlier prop that reduced sentences for theft.

 

[Politesse]

Let us repeat: Trump didn't win the popular vote by a huge margin.

Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.

www.thenation.com

Cue the inane conspiracy theories and post-hoc confirmation bias laden speculation.

But some of our international "friends" think it's fair to throw us all under the bus because we voted for him... For fuck's sake, I don't so much as know anyone who did, nor do I particularly care to.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Dems really need to stop nominating people because "it's their turn" or because "they would make history".

for this election it was too late to do much else and have a good chance. But for the next they really do need a robust primary.

 

[thebeave]

Let us repeat: Trump didn't win the popular vote by a huge margin.

Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.

www.thenation.com

Cue the inane conspiracy theories and post-hoc confirmation bias laden speculation.

Phew! Trump didn't win the popular vote by a huge margin. Finally some good news about the election. I guess you take your victories wherever you can find them.

 

[thebeave]

Let us repeat: Trump didn't win the popular vote by a huge margin.

So what? He still got more votes than her, for what it's worth, even if it wasn't quite 50%.

Also, this is a Dem Post Mortem thread. Not yet another Trump thread. That shitty AI "art" Elixir inflicted on us was especially off topic.

To wrangle this thread back on topic, here's a thought.

Harris reportedly has a $20M debt, despite raising record amounts of money.
Harris campaign’s spending comes under scrutiny
I wonder how much of that money was spent on celebrities like Beyonce.

Being bad with money echoes Kami's 2019 campaign, where she enjoyed an early fundraising advantage, but had spent it all before 2020 even began.
April 2019: Kamala Harris takes early lead in the big-money race
December 2019: Kamala Harris ends White House bid, citing lack of funding

Dems really need to stop nominating people because "it's their turn" or because "they would make history".

Kamala should make a girl math Tik Tok video explaining how she spent over 1 billion in a matter of a few months, and still came out $20 million in debt. Throw in some of that cackle she's famous for. A little levity like that might help soften the rage coming from donors who dropped the big (and even small) bucks on her campaign. Seriously, there had to be some major grift going on with some of these consultants and celebrities. And one of her platforms for the campaign was going after the "price gagers" (aka "price gougers")! A high level campaign staffer for the DNC, Lindy Li, is hitting the media circuit talking about the billion dollar spendapalooza: