• CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Holy shit, if the Dems lose, they have no one to blame except themselves. This should be the easiest election ever, but they constantly squander it.

    • Vernon_Tennessee [null/void, he/him]
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      1 day ago

      I've been saying to people since biden dropped out that a lot of his terrible campaign staff was directly transferred to her. Not to underestimate their ability to fuck this up.

      If she literally even supported conditioning aid to Israel and focused on abortion this would be a slam dunk.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        This should be even easier than 2016 was, because back then, Trump was still new. Now, he's already been president, he's incredibly unpopular, he had a fucking felony conviction, and there's MUCH less enthusiasm for him from the Republican base.

      • Meh [comrade/them]
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        1 day ago

        It's even worse because a lot of the Labour campaign staff hopped across the pond to do a shit job for the Dems as well

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 day ago

    Note that she admits obama-sad was the one who started it. Then Trump wanted to ramp it up. Now she wants to look non confrontstional in building more and basically puts some meritocracy bs to immigration "you have to earn it."

    No discussions of the consequences of our foreign actions and that directly leading to these waves of refugees.

    I really want a reporter to ask why we don't melt the Statue of Liberty if that is what they truly believe and want wrt to immigration now. Obviously the give us your tired, your poor, yearning to be free banter is not what the parties stand for any more. It'd be political suicide suggesting the destruction of a national icon, but I kind of want them to fall on their own sword with this.

    • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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      14 hours ago

      Reminder that America's initial love for immigration came from the need to populate the empire with loyal white soldiers who could hold it against blacks and the indigenous, the same way Israel loves immigration (only if it is white jews).

    • miz [any, any]
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      1 day ago

      if we melted it down we would have enough metal to make a whole lot of child cages

      • BobDole [none/use name]
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        1 day ago

        Ripping the copper walls off the statue of liberty along with the rest of the wiring. Real 2024 capitalism hours.

    • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      Bill Clinton started it under Operation Gatekeeper.

      There were iterations of walls for decades. They all just kept it going.

  • Yor [she/her]
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    1 day ago

    you're telling me the candidate that couldn't even lead the primary in the state that elected her is doing poorly? anya-heh

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 day ago

    bazinga (wrong Cooper, deal with it) "You don't think it's stupid anymore?"

    contextphobic "He's stupid for not accomplishing anything on the project, which is stupid, that I fully support and will do better than him!"

    torment wowee explosion

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      It would be funny if we started using Sheldok Cooper to refer to Anderson Cooper whenever he comes up.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 day ago

        That's effectively what she said. When Anderson Cooper tried to get her to clarify if she meant she wanted to build a wall, she replied "We need a stronger border"

          • quarrk [he/him]
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            16 hours ago

            She definitely wanted to say that building the wall is a good idea. She didn't want to get clipped saying “Trump’s wall was a good idea” because that would be horrible for her campaign. Thus you get this yes-without-saying-yes bs.

      • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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        1 day ago

        Not as a direct quote (it is way closer than it should be..). More of a poetic license to highlight the absurdity of ~1:30 onward from the video

  • spectre [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    I truly believed "anyone but Hillary" could rout trump on an election without too much trouble, but this is extreme loser energy, I can't believe how over it is. any swing state hog that they imagine who they were trying to triangulate with this is just gonna be like "wow that's smug as hell, I'll just vote for trump so I don't have to listen to that crap".

    Once again, it's to be expected when you bring a bunch of loser clinton advisors on to your campaign. Where tf are Obama's people? At least he won?? Just lie like he did it's not hard hooolllly shit. Everything they do is to try and grab Republicans and they sieck so so bad at it.

  • Andrzej3K [none/use name]
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    1 day ago

    Omg we're genuinely going with "hahaha do you remember how funny Trump was eight years ago hahahaha"

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    1 day ago

    That is incredibly surprising of Vanderbilt child and former CIA intern, Anderson Cooper to call her out. It's a shame the pressure didn't lead to her head doing something that took them both out. wowee

    • somename [she/her]
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      1 day ago

      To be honest, I imagine there's a segment of the deep state/bourgeois that are pretty opposed to overdoing the immigrant panic thing. If politicians go too far, it could blow back by harming their undocumented work force. There's that golden mean of keeping them disenfranchised and distrusted, so they're isolated and desperate, but also that their position in aggregate is stable enough to keep business steady.

      Or it's also possible he just saw blood in the water and decided to pounce.

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        23 hours ago

        Possible there's far more rumbling out there about it than they're comfortable carrying water for it, as well. CNN does have a brand to worry about and they have to maintain some level of legitimacy to manufacture the consent for the important stuff.

  • culpritus [any]
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    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Build The Wall trump-kubrick-stare
    Strengthen Our Border jokermala

    same-picture both-sides

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 day ago

    I wish she would start to imitate Trump's way of speaking. She should be saying that the problem with Trump's border wall is that many people are saying that it was a bad wall. Many, many people. And they know - they are wonderful people - they know he had an awful, terrible plan for that wall. The worst.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    1 day ago

    holy fuck that was worse than I could have imagined.

    She is definitely gonna eat shit lmao.

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Remember AC is a Vanderbilt.

    But phew she's squirming. Imagine how much imposter syndrome you feel when you genuinely are a complete fool asked to do something very public and complex like run for president.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      It can't be that hard:

      "So, WDYMP, you have been a vocal supporter of communism."

      "Yep"

      "And part of that involves breaking up big tech companies"

      "For sure. Fuck those guys."

      "How do you propose to do that? Do you have a plan?"

      "Unions, Anderson. I'd get like 5 unions out of Google to talk to already existing unions."

      "So you would just have the people working there... take over the-"

      "Yeah, the means of production, Anderson."

      Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Getting Fact Checked Real Hahahaha Comrade Just Believe In Something Real Like Comrade Just Get Counseling From The Union Haha

  • catonkatonk [none/use name]
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    1 day ago

    On the plus side, if they've now adopted "build the wall", we might only be eight years away from "lock her up" being official dem policy.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      They are on a fast track to rehabilitating Trump before the election is even over. If Trump wins they'll be all civility and bi partisan. They are locking themselves into helping him with anything he wants rather than be you know..an opposition party for 2 years and then lame ducking him for the last 2 after 2026.