The Blame Game
I wish I could say I am amazed, or even surprised , by the flood of people now blaming the Democrats for the fact Trump will return to power. In many cases that is more convenient than looking in the mirror.
After all, most Americans dont know a damn thing about the findings of the Jan 6th committee, which prove almost beyond dispute that Trump is a traitor. Or they know and dont care because eggs cost 4 dollars a dozen.
This is ethical rot .
So lets blame the Democrats that 70 million people voted for the worst human being ever to run for president , on a major party ticket, in the United States. The poor deluded souls were forced to. Rather than say they dont like Harris but we will deal with that through divided government, they chose to go with the "fun" candidate Trump. That is , fun if you like buffoonery, bigotry, unhinged anger, and straight up hate of the other.
Right wing media has conquered the hearts and minds of a lot of people that only superficially follow the news. Or, are devoted to conspiracy thinking (there are a lot more of those than anyone wants to admit. )
The Europeans , aghast, know us better than we know ourselves.
Its not Kamala Harris' fault Americans want an authoritarian, its really not.
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The media is in a virtual frenzy to blame the Democrats. Clearly they want to avoid retribution.
whose fault is it? She had double the money to spend, a media cheering her on and giving her billions worth of free promotion, and an opponent with low approval rating who she could call a convicted felon.
The Kamala ran a flawless campaign argument is almost impossible to believe is not satire. Just amazing how immune to reality the sunny hostins of the world are.
i just saw Kamala spent 100,000 dollars to build a set for a single interview. Just insanely prolifigate spending Asthey ignore bill Clinton telling them the Kamala is for they/them, trump is for you commercials were really hurting her,
What does any of that have to do with people voting for a traitor?
You act like Trump is a reasonable default choice if the other candidate seems in any way deficient. That stance is way beyond absurd.
What's beyond absurd is democrats can't figure out what gets a president elected. they got fucked by Obama and haven't figured out to unfuck themselves yet.
the brilliance of your analysis is underwhelming to say the least
It will takes months to complete the data mining and real analysis if one truly wants to know the multiple factors that led to this vote.
Or........we can figure out the simple thing that gets people elected.
Fear, Hatred, and blaming people who have nothing specifically to do with the problem.
Her campaign was 107 days, trump had 8 years.
20 years wouldn't have made her anymore likeable.
She blew through one Billion dollars in 107 days, spent more than twice as much as Trump, and got billions more in .help from the legacy media, and spent was the sitting Vice President while Trump was fighting in court rooms. Her problem was she had too long to campaign. The more voters saw of her, the less they liked her. She'd have been in better shape if Biden dropped out on October 1.
It doesn't get much easier for a candidate than it was for Harris. All she had to to was be normal and answer simple questions.
Mr. Frost, to me it is clear, the electorate simply does not want a female president right now (and I don't know when it will). Because Donald Trump broke every rule known to polite and political societies (he basically/figuratively patted his butt in the camera at whim), and prior democrats even broke to him. At this point, it is what it is. Next time, run a man, up to the task, harsh character even, in order to counteract what republicans will definitely see as a winning style - knock down-dragging-case of hardass-ness and at the least it may stimulate the democratic base to get off its collectively butt and fight "like hell" politically.
Oh yeah, Donald Trump is a hustler. Oddly enough that old man out-hustled or matched Kamala's hustle stride for stride. It is what he does apparently. And it won. We have to do better/more/same. . . next time.
Did I say something that wasn't true?
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Please show us your math.
Exactly, Biden did her no favors from day 1.
Truth - the other 5% are deluded and agnorant
Well, let's get real: Trump is not losing with the 'stuff' he is using. There I said it. Now what are "we' going to do about it. (Donald Trump, the businessman has 'ate' the political class whole twice. . . and is sitting for 'dessert.' We have to ask ourselves a question: What the hell 'drove' Musk, the richest man in the world, to support the biggest liar in the world. . .what was distasteful about democrats. . .and is it anything we can do about it (or not)?
We can't keep this two steps forward; three steps back, 'forever.' It's not good for the psyche. And yes, we have to find out how to be free without igniting the opposing sides culture war manipulation tactics. That is, it is bout time for democrats to start putting out some of the smothering/lingering fires inside our marches to freedom in order to reach, sustain, and be on the right track more times than on the wrong track at election times. (Another opportunity comes in two years. Start doing something to be ready for it NOW!)
Democrats, 1.3% of them have hemorrhoids the other 98.7% are perfect assholes.
I am not sure how true that is. I know many people (myself included) that are ready for a female, just not that female. I would have voted for Rice several years ago
You and me to not equate to "the electorate."
Which is the 'body' of voters.
Projection.
I didn't say all, I said 95%, that's not a sweeping generalization.
What is sad, really sad, here to me is. . . twice 2 women have lost to Donald Trump. This has given us evidence that women can't win (three times the charm?) against some conservatives—they will just split the ticket "items" when they vote to get their way. That is their option, nevertheless.
Additionally, a larger percentage of minorities voted for Donald Trump (so I guess that makes it okay), so they have 'nobody' to complain to (including me) if/when sh-t hits the proverbial fan squarely and splatters on us all. Oh, a larger percentage of women are included (don't complain-won't listen:deaf ears).
Can over 70 million voters all be wrong or deluded or led by the evil right-wing media? Of course not. It's stupid to think otherwise.
The greater electorate knows better than a few confused left-wing radicals. The present democrat party is completely out of touch with mainstream Americans. Until and unless the democrats clean house and reorganize, they will never regain any political power
Maybe some are good people
maybe
Of course they can be.
Hitler, Germany, 1938.
And that's not the US, which explains why Harris got kicked to the curb
It is easier to blame the election on ignorance of the electorate than to look internally as to why the election was lost.
You mean rigged.
No, I said what I meant and I meant what I said
How exactly was it "rigged"? Your comment makes no sense
I never said it was rigged
The democratic party does need to get its collective sh-t together any way. All change ain't good. Especially when there is an imbalance in the public over understandings. For instance, I have long felt that the Democrats promised to fix DACA . . .and never, ever, did. Indeed, at some point they simply stopped talking about it. As if the 'recipients' of the program could forget or ignore there real-world desperation. So not having fixed DACA. . .came off as a manipulation at the end of the day. But, that is why consultants and politicians get paid the big bucks and the high-ranking jobs!
So now the (legal) Latinos, men and women, have joined to help fix (push out) their own kindred folks rightly or wrongly. Since government could not make up its damn mind across multiple administrations - they flipped from democrats helping to legalize to republicans throwing "them" out. It's weird. But, in a way its poetry.
That is weird.
The fact is. The Democratic Party has holes in its game and they damn well better fix them by next go around. Just assume that republicans are going to take an opposite position on whatever position democrats support—no matter how ineffable it is to believe the former GOP can run on it. They will divide the public, for sure.
That said, the public is feckless in what it wants at any given moment anyway.
“The Democratic Party has holes in its game and they damn well better fix them by next go around.”
Mark Kelly.
? Mark Kelly said that too? I know nothing about him saying that. Like minds on the point I guess.
That's heresy to a lot of progressives.
Of course Kelly represents a state that Trump won almost as easily as Harris won a deep blue state like Illinois, so he's probably more tuned into reality than a lot of his fellow travellers.
How can an incumbent VP separate themselves from the incumbent President they're trying to succeed? The leadership of the Democratic Party handed Kamala Harris an impossible task. Forcing Joe Biden to give up his reelection bid didn't remove the Biden agenda and legacy from the ballot.
The ultimate insider of an incumbent VP, positioned to receive the most benefit from the sitting administration, could not run as a change candidate. The leadership of the Democratic Party forced a 'stay the course' campaign onto Kamala Harris. The leadership of the Democratic Party gambled that the electorate disliked Joe Biden, as a person, but liked Biden's agenda. The leadership of the Democratic Party wanted Democrat leaning voters to look beyond Biden and endorse Democrat priorities, promises, and vision for the future.
The reality is that voters looked past Trump's flaws and endorsed Trump's MAGA priorities, promises, and vision for the future. More voters overlooked Trump's flaws than overlooked Biden's/Harris' flaws. More voters chose Trump's vision of the future than chose the Biden/Harris vision of the future. More voters chose Republican priorities than Democrat priorities.
So, it really does look like voters were making choices on the issues. Democracy really did work the way Joe Biden and Kamala Harris told us it was supposed to work. Voters did for Trump what the Democratic leadership hoped voters would do for Harris.
I like it when a lot of the comments prove my articles accurate. People cannot stop blaming the Democrats.
The media atmosphere in America these days encourages this. How can it be the Trump voters fault when he is perfectly normal?
They lost despite every possible advantage. Why wouldn't they?
The Bears lost in embarrassing fashion on sunday. The Bears coach isn't blaming the Cardinals for running too smart of plays, or not missing tackles like the Bears hoped. He's certainly not blaming them for not giving up and just admitting defeat because the Bears are "obviously" better.
Only a fool doesn't try and figure out why they lost and what they can do to avoid having it happen in the future.
Trump is not normal. But the public has chosen to normalize him, nevertheless. Just look at the numbers. This was not a mass 'protest' vote against Trump! It was asked to be-and the public said no to it.
We now have democratic voters voting republican over money matters and ignoring the fact that SCOTUS and the courts will be entirely dedicated to conservative points of view - only choosing to go with liberals on menial points of law while they covet major points of law.
I can blame the democrats because I saw some of the 'holes' in their game/plan, but far be it for me to tell consultants what they have data points to display and analyze (I don't) - I just have my wits.
Pelosi blames Biden:
Of course, if the Democrats, including Pelosi hadn't spent years conspiring to keep Biden's decline from the american public, maybe he would have dropped out sooner. Instead their lie got exposed on national tv during a live debate and the compressed timeframe apparently kept them from nominating a suitable candidate.
“Of course, if the Democrats, including Pelosi hadn't spent years conspiring to keep Biden's decline from the american public, maybe he would have dropped out sooner. Instead their lie got exposed on national tv during a live debate and the compressed timeframe apparently kept them from nominating a suitable candidate.”
That hits the nail squarely on the head.
The American voters, including those who voted for Biden in 2020 heard 'everything' Donald had to say and did during his campaign and they liked it enough to vote for him. We have to give him is success-like it or lump it. Let's speak truth to power and to ourselves, wherever it brings us. That will give us clarity! It's something we need now at the outset.
What is needed to start is practical and intelligent resistance, not blind resistance. We got skunked, for all the wrong reasons, but after all is said and done not enough people cared about the malformed character traits of Donald Trump, the former president or the man! On to policy resistance when it is implemented.
To be clear, I still charge Donald Trump with everything that is wrong with him in character, but it's time to move on to four years of seeing what this man intends and will do to 'us' and arguing for or against that. Since it will matter next time in 2026-28.
Well, 'they' elected him. So of course, the boasters will boast. The winners will proceed. Elections have consequences. Let's hold someone's collective 'butts' because its coming. All we can do is hold the line as best we can.
Guess who is sending them?
If someone really wanted to look into these tweets, they would probably find that they are being sent by some butt hurt leftist group.
The projection.
It is obviously racist far right cockkkroaches who are doing this.
You?
The cotton fields don't operate like they used to, in my opinion. So there is that. And Beyoncé and Oprah would look whether out of place there. /s (Despite what "The Color Purple" brings to mind.)
So Jussie Smollet has got a side gig?
Who?
Its a real thing and they cost $ 500
did any of the morons receive the first batch?
Democrats: We want someone we can support!
DNC: You'll get who we say you will get.
Democrats: But we want to choose.
DNC: Fuck you peons, we have decided that you want Kamala!
Democrats: But we don't like her, she got zero votes last time for a reason.
DNC: Fuck you racist nazis!
Democrats: that's not how you get people to support you.
DNC: Fuck you, we know what best and you racist nazis better get in line.
Democrats: How do you like President trump assholes?
DNC: it's Lizzo, Bidens, the medias' fault.
One of the main reasons Harris lost, to quote James Carville "It's the economy, stupid"
100%
And a NYT commenter of all places made an excellent point.
“The very best thing that the Democrats can do for themselves is not ideological. It is to make the deep Blue cities and states where they have a supermajority into American paradises. Los Angeles, New York, California, Baltimore, Chicago, etc. Show us that you can govern effectively. Low crime, great schools, moderate taxes, excellent mass transit, etc. Then the rest of the country will come to believe that your way is the right way. Because it is not what we have seen.”
That's the long term issue that get ignored. People see what happens when Democrats govern and implement their chosen policies and they want no part of it.
I doubt if there has been a large city in the history of the world that has been a paradise.
Of course large cities are where things get done that benefit everyone else. This is a rendering of the new Google regional headquarters across from city hall in Chicago.
It funny how you try to give credit to a city for a private for profit corporations design and accomplishment, Chicago doesn't get credit for that, Google does.
Well how about the deep Red cities and states
The shitholes?
Most of them are better off to start with and improvement there would help the Republican party,
This was about Democrats turning their strongholds into better places to improve their election results
Bullshit.
I know, its just horrible.
Trump is inheriting a great economy, get the fuck off the right wing sites once in a while.
When he fucks it up, he'll blame the Democrats, of course.
I'm just excited I won't have to pay taxes anymore like Trump is proposing. The mass consumers, the people who have families and need to pay for things like cars, TVs, clothes, shoes, etc., will carry the burden under Trump economics, and people who have resources, or already have what they need, or don't have large families to maintain, won't be affected by maybe having to pay more for food. Sounds great, doesn't it?
It sounds like the libertarians of old - I got mine - fuck you.