• Davel23@fedia.io
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    It’s true! Trump hasn’t sent the army after anyone! Just ICE, CBP, and the National Guard!

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    Yeah but she loved the genoside, that’s why we have to have utter incompetent apocalypse every goddamned day for three more years.

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      Purists couldn’t vote for the lesser of two evils. The choice was: vote for genocide or vote for genocide+even more horrible shit. Somehow genocide+even more horrible shit seemed more appealing.

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    Why did she spend so much time courting Republicans? It’s a mystery

    Was it was the billion dollars she “raised” in a few months? Trump raised about 900 million in four years, she raised a billion in months. Unprecedented.

    Standard US political wisdom reveals that neither D (30%) or Rs (30%) can win an election without Independent voters (40% of voters). So, you need to have an independent issue or three to get enough votes to win.

    Kamala only spent a few months, and she spent a lot of it on Republicans (various articles about this before election, Politico, Hill). The math doesn’t work, that’s not how you win elections. That’s not how anyone wins elections. It would have been unprecedented for her to win, also.

    I think she took a knee, if you can come up with another reason I would love to hear it, for real. This is very disturbing to me and I wish I had never come to this conclusion, but can think of no other reason.

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      Why did she spend so much time courting Republicans? It’s a mystery

      Not a mystery. That’s what the overpriced consultants the DNC hired told them to do. They said to stop using the slogan never back and told Tim Walz to stop calling Trump and Vance weird.

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      Dems should be courting the “non voters”. They are 30% of the electorate, and you’re not going to change a Trump supporter’s mind.

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    Kamala: “If you don’t vote for me, Trump will send in the military.”

    Also Kamala: “I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.

    In his 2022 National Defense Strategy, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin laid out five key traits of America’s “future force.” The first among them: “Lethal.”

    In 2017, then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said his “Modernization Priorities for the United States Army” had “one simple focus: make Soldiers and units more lethal.”

    In discussing the 2024 Pentagon budget request, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks said the funding would deliver “combat-credible joint forces that are the most lethal, resilient, survivable, agile and responsive in the world.”

    Well… y’all got what you voted for, I guess.

    • [deleted]@piefed.world
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      Funding the military to fight outside the US is literally the same thing as using the military to round of civilians!

      Great contribution to the discussion.

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      Modernizing the military to be more lethal and potentially more efficient isn’t the same as starting a civil war sending the military into American cities.