A video clip of projected vice president-elect Kamala Harris fist-bumping Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has enraged both sides of the US political aisle, given that the pair are supposedly ideological opponents.

There goes that ruling class/wealthy solidarity again. The US really is a one-party system imo, where the party is the bourgeoisie.

  • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    One of my favorite things to watch the reaction to a little after the 2016 election that not many remember is this party that was thrown in the Hamptons, where a bunch of people who spent a year telling everyone how the opposing party was going to kill everyone was just hanging out together:

    Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner partied with billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, who rubbed shoulders with billionaire GOP donor David Koch.

    Chuck Schumer and Kellyanne Conway were there. So were Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Ronald Lauder, Carl Icahn, Joel Klein, Cathie Black, reporters Steve Clemons and Maria Bartiromo, columnists Richard Cohen and Margaret Carlson, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, Ray Kelly, Bill Bratton and Steven Spielberg.

    Oh, and Lally’s uncle, former Gov. and Sen. Bob Graham, and cousin Gwen Graham, who’s currently running for her dad’s old job as Florida’s governor.

    Weymouth’s party is the latest reminder that for all the bruising rhetoric, the constant polls showing a deeply divided America and the most polarizing president in history, our battle isn’t red vs. blue, right vs. left: It’s about the 1% vs. the rest of us. They laugh as we take their political theater for real.

    Great story to bookmark as an example of "The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.”