Shaken? that nasty ghoul has no feelings
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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You unconditionally support a genocide for just two years and suddenly you're a "war criminal." So much for the tolerant left.
Just two years? How long has she been in politics? It's much longer than that.
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It's crazy to think this all could have been avoided if Biden just kept his word and let us have an actual primary where Kamala predicably would have lost early on.
Instead we got a half assed bait and switch for the worst polling candidate possible. I swear she was picked because she was the cheapest corpo money could buy.
The DNC needs to be dissolved because they keep picking loser corporate stooges that nobody likes in the belief that they can just AstroTurf and gaslight their way to popularity.
Everyone seems to conveniently forget the fact that the only one that was legally entitled to any of the money raised for Biden’s campaign, over like 3 years of fundraising, was Kamala because she was on the ticket.
Restarting the fundraising process from scratch, after even just a 14-21 day primary process that would somehow also be built out of nowhere, would have meant whoever secured any nomination would have easily been outspent by a mile. They would have had no funds to even campaign on. It probably would have locked all the money that was already donated up too, considering that it would take quite some time to refund all of that money; figure out who was owed what exactly based on what hadnt been spent yet, etc…
Like what the fuck else did anyone expect to reasonably happen? It was stupid for Biden to ever say they could even have had a primary. The real promise he should have stuck to was when he claimed he would only be a one term president years beforehand
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And she still probably have won if she'd stuck with the campaign she was running at the start, rather than ditching it to pivot right
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Where exactly is she shaken?
I only see her standing up for a splitsecond and then a smirk at the end.
I know this is very very old news / old man yells at clouds but,
Couldn't you just slap "visibly shaken" onto fucking anything? Headlines suck
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That smirk makes me unreasonably angry. That protester was 100% correct, and there's zero self-reflection. She's out there flogging her books when she should be mounting an opposition.
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The VP has basically no power other than try to persuade the POTUS behind the scenes, which from what I've read, she did to some degree, but to no effect.
Where she blew it was when she said she wouldn't do anything different than Biden. That was the end for her campaign. (regardless of whether anyone thinks it should have been that way or not, IMO that was the death blow)
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WE HAVE ACTUAL RIGHT WING WAR CRIMINALS DOING WAR CRIMES RIGHT NOW, BUT YES, PLEASE YELL AT THE ONE PERSON WHO HAS ABSOLUTELY FUCKALL TO DO WITH IT AFTER ALL OF YOU TOLD HER THE CURRENT WAR CRIMINALS WILL DO A BETTER JOB.
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"We have four years of Trump!"
I guess it's good to see that someone is still an optimist.
Good for that protestor. Look at that dumb smug bribe-taking loser smiling on stage. What a waste.
Good.
I always thought AIPAC bribes were kinda cheap, but then when you compare it to other lobbying groups and even bribes for spies, that's just an excellent deal on Israel's part.
They can literally buy almost any politician, and they'll defend Israel to the death even after the stakes have dropped to zero. She's not running for 2028, has practically nothing to lose except money, but still defends probably one of the worst Democratic campaigns for decades.
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Apparently is so funny for Kamala that Hind Rajab was shot
First off, I want to be clear that I’m not making excuses for Kamala. This is more of a tangent, but people should know that even though it seems weird, smiling is a natural stress response for some folks.
The instance that is seared into my memory is when I got the phone call that there was an earthquake in the country where my sibling was staying and we hadn’t yet heard from her (she ended up being ok). No matter how tried to fight it, my face couldn’t help but twist into a grin. It kinda fucked me up. Like: “What is my body trying to tell me?” “Do I subconsciously want them to die?” It was only years later that I found out that this is normal. Looking back, I think it especially sucks for kids who can’t help it, can’t explain it, and get the “Do you think this is funny!” treatment.
Anyway, if you find yourself or someone else in a similar situation, please don’t judge too harshly.
No, this is definitely the smile of i do not take you seriously. Kamala is paid by aipac and promised to continue giving billions to maintain settler colonialism
All her jobs required stress management you can't convince me that she is stressed for a random perdon screaming at her. This is definitely not similar to someone panicing because of an earthquake
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i mean you lay down with dick cheney you get up with war crimes knowwhatimean?
People like Biden and Harris and Obama and the Clintons are leading us down the road of complacence to the fundamental problems that are destroying us. They deserve nothing but derision and scorn. This is the test of our time. The future is with, in so much as it can be “with” politics, people like Mamdani and Platner. If you are against these policy proposals and against the culture of these campaigns, you are against progressive politics and you are against rational governance.
If you’re against these campaigns you can go fuck yourself right to hell, and you will be written into history accordingly.
There is absolutely no reason to cast out Trump, Vance, Johnson, and Miller if we don't also cast out Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and Jeffries. The old Democratic guard is committed to just leading us right back to where we are now.
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One error. It wont be "four years of trump", because either he dies earlier or he lives long enough to start his third term.
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What an incredible disappointment of generational proportion she was.
The smug look on her face just makes me want her to die.
Part of why she lost.
She didn't and as far as I know hasn't called it a genocide yet.
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