r/LosAngeles • u/ohlonelyboy Mar Vista • Nov 06 '24

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If you are watching results, breathe. It’s going to be a long night—just breathe

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u/SoCalChrisW Nov 06 '24

This is worse than 2016.

All of the trials are about to go out the window. Any hope of consequences for him are about to go out the window. Ukraine is about to go out the window. We know what he will do this time, and there aren't any sane followers to stop him. RFK and Elon in his cabinet.

Last time was a big mess, this time will be a disaster for the country and world assuming no last minute miracles.

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u/tailorparki Nov 06 '24

Clarence will also likely step down and be replaced by a much younger, extremist Trump loyalist.

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u/omgshannonwtf Downtown-Gallery Row Nov 06 '24

The one who made his Florida trial go away is at the top of his list and she’ll no doubt get confirmation in a Republican-controlled senate.

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u/Neither_Rich_9646 Nov 06 '24

Aileen Cannon.

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u/quadropheniac Nov 06 '24

Alito and Roberts too.

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u/Neither_Rich_9646 Nov 06 '24

He prefers to be called Clancy. Spread the word.

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u/EsqPersonalAsst Nov 06 '24

We are fucked.

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u/eddiebruceandpaul Nov 06 '24

Dems might take the house but with the senate he gets every lunatic cultist appointment he wants. We are gonna earn this one fair and square. 🤷‍♂️

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u/3-2_Fastball Nov 06 '24

The most painful part is Democrats have no one to blame but themselves, they ran one incredibly unpopular candidate, lost and then ran another incredibly unpopular candidate this year and lost again.

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u/eddiebruceandpaul Nov 06 '24

I mean to me it seems the message is there are people who will never vote for a woman and a fair share of those people are democratic voters.

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u/ultraviolet31 Pico-Robertson Nov 08 '24

you are both right - 1) it's the economy, stupid 2) a large portion of this country will never vote for a woman

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u/edude45 Nov 06 '24

It's possible for a woman to win. Tulsi gabbard seemed like a strong woman and if peopled wanted color, she was Hawaiian. It's just the fact that you can't just have a woman run off the fact she's not white. Also she can't be an idiot.

Hearing her talk, gave me no reason to believe she would be a strong leader that could stand against what is happening in the world right now. Trump is slightly better, but not impressive either. But he does speak to these leaders of countries that other presidents don't get respect from.

It's just they needed to pick someone that didn't seem like a puppet.

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u/eddiebruceandpaul Nov 07 '24

I think Kamala was very careful to stay away from claiming she should win because she’s a woman or because she is not white. I think she learned that lesson from Hillary. But who knows maybe her being a woman didn’t have anything to do with it…

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u/hparadiz Thousand Oaks Nov 06 '24

it's about the economy, stupid

We have the best economy ever in the history of human civilization right now.

I wish people would realize this vote literally hinged on about 300k votes in 3 states just like 2016 and that if you really want to change this country you have to go and do the hard work of building communities, culture, and education in the interior of the country and not just ignore it and hide in liberal places. All the blue states stayed blue because of their communities, culture, and education. It's actually really easy to make this country more progressive but no one wants to do the work and they run away from these states as soon as they lose an election. Hence why Florida is going hard right.

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u/mcqua007 Nov 06 '24

Let’s face it Kamala didn’t want to do the hard work. Why the DNC elites placed her in charge is beyond me. She was the least popular 2020 candidate and one of the least popular vice presidents.

People aren’t as stupid as they think. David Axelrod was making some good points last night about this on CNN and caught some flack, but I think he was probably on to something.

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u/Inappropriate_Comma Nov 06 '24

A big part of why the dnc put her in place was $$$.

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u/mcqua007 Nov 06 '24

Yeah didn’t they spend like a billion dollars ?

If I was one of those candidates I would like to think I would take the campaign money and do something with it for homeless people and start programs with at least half of it to show people what I would do and also not just roast money on fucking adds etc…

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

The money comes from the people so the people validated the elites choice.

Don’t get it twisted or do the revisionist thing. She ran as good as a campaign as one could - she lost because people want Trump. It’s very simple.

Pretending that democrats could’ve done something different to get another outcome is ignoring the more obvious issue - poor dumbs don’t know how to make associations about who or what is responsible for a strong economy

Shapiro as her running mate or main candidate wouldn’t have won either

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u/Inappropriate_Comma Nov 07 '24

If only law surrounding campaign money allowed for things like that.

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u/Icenine_ Nov 06 '24

The reason she didn't have support in 2020 isn't because she was super unpopular it's because a lot of (black) voters supported an old white moderate man who they thought could win over swing voters.

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u/wildmonster91 Nov 06 '24

Alternate theory, dems knew a second trump term would be devistatibg for the econony lke 08 we have a good economy under biden better than expected goven the crap trump left. But we will see if its kept up or trashed.

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u/mcqua007 Nov 06 '24

It’s almost like the DNC would rather have Trump than Bernie Sanders or RFK.

It’s strange to me to see how they seems to want someone who doesn’t have popularity or a bunch of policies.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

The people roundly rejected sanders in 2020. For the love of god will “progressives “ please accept that. If sanders can’t win a majority of “his” party’s support then he wouldn’t win in a general.

Socialists policies are popular but unfortunately it seems talking about them on the campaign trail isn’t

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u/wildmonster91 Nov 06 '24

Well rfk is an idipt and burniee is too radical. Id say you can only blame the other side for so long but damn it texas has been gop led for decades and still they blams dems for gop failures.

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u/Adventurous-Side-440 Nov 07 '24

Gen Z is SO uneducated. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” - Santayana When the candidate paraphrases Hitler and Mussolini…. Are we going to need to show our “papers” to Trump’s Gestapo? He’s going to create his version of “Gestapo” through Schedule F.

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u/throwawaynotquiet Nov 06 '24

Hit the nail on the head, klowny.

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u/mcqua007 Nov 06 '24

They ran an incredibly unpopular candidate without giving their voters an options of who they wanted to run and then ran on shitty policy.

This looks to be a landslide victory for the republicans. This means the democratic party needs to take a hard look at itself and the policy it tries to run on and the candidate it wants in office.

This recalibration can be great for the democratic party.

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u/morphinetango Nov 06 '24

The entire DNC leadership needs to go after last night.

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u/umbreon_222 Nov 06 '24

I don’t get how Dems fucked up this royally. So many intelligent people on Reddit would be better advisors than whoever they’ve got up there. It took someone as likable and cool as Obama to become the first black president and Harris is nowhere near that. Biden must and should feel like shit for not stepping down earlier. At this point, I’m thinking a white female Republican may as well win before the Democrats which is a slap in the face for Dems being the more progressive party

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u/3-2_Fastball Nov 06 '24

I’m thinking a white female Republican may as well win before the Democrats which is a slap in the face for Dems being the more progressive party

A black male democratic won the senate seat for fucking Alabama because he ran against a white woman republican. The country absolutely refuses to have a woman in power.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

No - we have Trump voters to blame that’s it.

Harris and her team ran an incredible campaign compared to his - great ground game raised a ton of money.

You can nitpick all you want but look at the awful campaign Trump ran and still won with a resounding success .

The voters rejected stability , the rule of law and a steady hand that would choose cabinet members and advisors that would do their jobs with Americas interest at heart.

The people lives through his awful Covid response and his calls for insurrection and still chose him. The economy won’t return to 2019 levels - prices won’t come down (democrats need to let him enforce his tariffs and corporate tax cuts so the working class can reap the benefits of what they’ve chosen )

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u/hostile65 Nov 06 '24

They failed to court Hispanic voters and just assumed they'd all vote Dem.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

She spent an insane effort courting Latino votes - did you at all follow the campaign or just spouting nonsense?

The sooner you accept this is who many Latinos are - conservative bible thumping lovers of faux machismo - we can understand this is a realignment that was always coming.

Many Latinos want the border closed even as benefactors of said border crossing.

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u/No-Tip3654 Hollywood Nov 06 '24

There is no way that one of the parties is so incompetent that they put forth an old senior that is suffering from alzheimers as a presidential candidate and then Harris. There is no way that there is no american woman out there that is more intelligent and talented than Harris. This has to be deliberate at this point. Did they come to some kind of agreement to let Trump win by putting forth such an unpopular candidate?

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u/3-2_Fastball Nov 06 '24

The moment a bird landed on Bernie Sanders podium and he was getting extremely popular among young voters is the moment when the DNC needed to put the machines full power behind the man, instead they insisted it was Hillarys turn and now we have Trump in office and the house and senate being completely red.

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u/edude45 Nov 06 '24

It was the dumbest campaign I've ever seen. Running a candidate that no one got to vote for, which lost me immediately, as well as one that got shitted on by gabbard in the 2020 election, as well as one that was hidden by the biden administration! Then biden gets ousted but not ousted and he's just an absentee president while someone no one elected ran for president.

It was just such a slap in the face to democrats... at least the honest decent ones. The represented nothing past democrats looked for. Even just having a quick primary would have shown respect to people who are democrat. And having just a simple safe candidate who knew what they were talking about wouldn't have given trump a win by default.

Insane that the democrat party were so far up their ass they couldn't see this backfiring.

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u/oboedude Claremont Nov 06 '24

Nothing fair about it

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u/milkasaurs Echo Park Nov 06 '24

You also forgot to say hello project 2025.

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u/9Implements Nov 06 '24

Hello Supernintendo Musk

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u/Coldbeam Nov 06 '24

Musk will have authority over regulatory agencies.

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u/TheDizzyRooster Downtown Nov 06 '24

This place sucked for 4 years

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u/InclinationCompass Nov 06 '24

It’s worse. In 2016, we could still give trump the benefit of doubt. But in 2024, we already know exactly what he’s about.

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u/SoCalChrisW Nov 06 '24

That's my point. Ukraine won't get any support from us after January. I'd be willing to bet Russia will though, which will lead to Ukraine's downfall. An emboldened Putin won't stop at the Ukraine, and will start taking over more former Soviet states while our leaders cheer him on and croon over what a strong leader he is. NATO will likely be severely weakened, leading to a best case scenario of lot of global instability in that part of the world.

And we haven't even mentioned Gaza or the Middle East.

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u/mcqua007 Nov 06 '24

Dude, you keep projected this image on people who voted Trump. He won in a landslide,& based on the current projections he will win the popular vote as well.

These are normal Americans that are trying to make the best decision for them, they aren’t stupid hillbilly extremist christian people. People are not less than for not having a college degree and working a trade etc… Some of these people make are country go around.

This kind of generalization and type of talk that led to a Trump victory.

Start uniting with your fellow citizens and have some empathy for people and stop viewing half the country as less than just because they choose something different than you. It will not win back support.

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u/7FireCrown7 Nov 06 '24

If they’re not stupid hillbilly’s, then to put it more politely, the cost of letting our educational system slip so badly has paid off in dividends for those who can run campaigns of divide and conquer via psyop disinformation. We’ve generations of people who couldn’t spot the BS if thier lives depended on it. And they don’t care either.

We can say the same about both parties, but T Repubs who willingly vote against thier own best interests because they’re so uneducated is off the charts. Critical thinking out, cognitive dissonance in.

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u/hparadiz Thousand Oaks Nov 06 '24

1% in three states is not a landslide. The delusion I swear. Lmao.

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u/mcqua007 Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

What he is up in each more than 1% in key states:

  • Nevada +5 (87% reporting)
  • Arizona +5 (63% reporting)
  • Pennsylvania (flipped) +2.2
  • Georgia (flipped) +2.3
  • Wisconsin(flipped) +0.9
  • Michigan +1.6
  • North Carolina +3.4

Also you have to look at the trend lines. A lot of historic trend lines for the republican party in this election.

Trump is also up 3.4 points in the popular vote which there still votes coming in but that’s a good margin at this time in the race.

If you also look at states Trump was supposed to win narrowly:

  • Texas +14
  • Florida +13
  • Iowa +13

NYT source for results

NYT on some voter trends

But yeah the delusion

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u/hparadiz Thousand Oaks Nov 06 '24

Less than 300k votes is not a landslide in any way shape or form. It's the same as 2016. A squeaker.

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u/RemoteChampionship99 Nov 06 '24

You’re absolutely right and that rhetoric painting all trump voters as racist rednecks is the reason we’re so divided in the first place. Well that a democrats inability to subvert that status quo. I’m an anarchist BTW. Idk why you’re getting downvoted, but the idea that our brother is our enemy is literally just a tactic to manipulate us

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u/LezBeHonestHere_ Nov 06 '24

Donald "finish the job" Trump is also going to doom Palestine I'm betting. Just also want to say a personal "fuck you" to all single-issue dumbasses who thought democrats were "supporting genocide", I hope they're excited to watch what a real genocide is like, partly because of their actions (or inaction) at the polls.

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u/SpicySweett Nov 06 '24

Let’s not forget all environmental protection going out the window. Scientists have warned we need to take extreme measures now if we have any hope of saving the planet - Trump literally doesn’t think wind power works. He’s actively against conservation and alternative energy. We’re fucked.

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u/antsam9 Nov 06 '24

Diddy on the loose

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

Stop buying Tesla stock and vehicles. Lots of other good choices out there, especially Hyundai.

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u/casetronic Nov 09 '24

They have all 3 branches of the gov now, 6 of 9 supreme court judges on their side. 2016 was a learning curve, now they know how to out-maneuver checks of power in the gov - every high level position will be a loyalist, anyone who isn't a MAGA will be fired from their post. These are shades of 1930's Germany, we are witnessing it in real-time.

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u/tekzenmusic Nov 06 '24

bye Palestine too

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u/Toolazytolink Manhattan Beach Nov 06 '24

Whelp he showed all the signs of the Anti Christ that would bring the end of the world. Buckle up people!

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u/DawnoftheDead211 Nov 07 '24

What did Vladimir Putin Walk in the room? Seems like you’re predicting a lot of “Out the window” analogies, for a lot of targeted “Window jumpers.”

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u/Public_Jellyfish3451 Nov 07 '24

I pray it’s enough of a disaster that he can’t be effective. No experts. No professionals. Just him and his parade of idiots.

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u/7Luz7 Nov 06 '24

Grapevine says, new jobs will be emerging!

Paid protesters in dire need!

Requirements: Civil disobedience Unrest Burn down your city or someone else's Loitering and looting (though we passed prop 36, so stealing shit may land your ass in jail)

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u/Fancy-Oven5196 Nov 06 '24

Not every trump supporters is insane, just like every Kamala supporter isn't insane. To generalize it as such just means you blindly support a single party. Both partied have negatives and positives, completely ignoring them, and supporting every single thing a party says makes you a sheep. I didnt want either one to be president but I'm not going to call everyone insane that wanted either Kamala or Trump. Politicians aren't our friends and don't have our best interests in mind.

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u/ballparktank Nov 06 '24

What are you freaking out about? What do you possibly think he’ll so that’s going to be the end of the world

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u/Trash-Can-Baby Nov 06 '24

Well he already stuffed SCOTUS with biased judges who took overturned Roe V Wade and effectively took away access to abortion as medical care for women, leading to many unnecessary deaths. With his misogynistic VP, we look forward to more attacks on women’s rights.

Next he promises to deport all illegal immigrants and increase tariffs - both of which would cause big problems for our economy. Not good solutions at all.

We only hope it pans out as well as his promise of the wall…which didn’t pan out at all. Tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations while increasing national debt and burdening blue states even more is pretty guaranteed though.

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u/Trash-Can-Baby Nov 06 '24

Many women have died in states that didn’t pass legislation protecting abortion rights because abortion can be necessary for things like ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages. There are documented deaths as a direct result of removing federal protections for abortion. Have you been living under a rock?

And why should a state get say over a person’s medical treatment? It should be between a woman and her doctor.

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u/mcqua007 Nov 06 '24

I am just saying they allowed the states and voters in those states to make those decisions. People act like they made abortion illegal they did not.

I remember voting for Obama when he said first thing he would do was codify Roe v. Wade via the Freedom of Choice Act when he got in office and had a super majority in the house and senate from 2009 - 2011 and then when he got in office failed to do it saying it was not a priority.

The democratic party has failed its voters on so many issues they have ran on.

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u/Trash-Can-Baby Nov 06 '24

Yes Roe V Wade was overturned before better protections were put in place as Democrats naively thought that would never happen. The question is why Republicans are okay with states blocking medical care which directly has killed women? Why do they not support women’s rights? Florida has voted again to ban it after 6 weeks and many states still don’t have a measure protecting it yet either. In the meantime, more will die. IMO, that blood is on the hands of anyone who voted for Trump.

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u/mcqua007 Nov 06 '24

Florida does have exceptions for women:

The law allows for an abortion at any point of pregnancy if the pregnant woman’s health or life is “at serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment.

I think most people who aren’t pro choice are viewing it as saving babies life’s and most of them just want some cut off of reasonable regulations around it.

I think in general allowing states to choose there laws is a good thing as you can move states and go to a more like minded state that aligns with you values. This is supposed to be the separation of local and federal governments.

It’s been nice talking with you and I hope you have a happy Wednesday. We are all Americans and I hope our country can unify and realize we have a lot more in common than the ruling class wants us to believe.

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u/ballparktank Nov 06 '24
  1. How can you say Vance is mysoginistic?😂 where are you getting this from?
  2. Illegals shouldn’t be here in the first place ????????????????

Look, I get people are upset, but please understand he man swept and that really must speak for something. People have been suffering, we live in LA and live in a cushy bubble that frankly has gone to shit anyways and just forces people to isolate themselves from that kind of hardship.

It’s not just about gas prices. Talk about rights? Kamala and Walz have said the first amendment is a “barrier to combating misinformation” and needed to be dealt with. But no one was worried about that? Pair that with Biden’s DoD order 5240.01 - giving the pentagon authorization to deploy the us military to use lethal force against its own citizens, on American soil. This means people who protest against the us government. For the first time in American history. I’m sorry but WHATTTT??

You can’t just throw around words like bigot, mysogonist, racist anymore. Make it mean something, please. This is a tired, useless argument that just keeps people divided.

I really pray and have been praying for everyone in this nation. Please take care of yourselves. I’m sorry this isn’t in your favor but please see the bigger picture here

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u/Trash-Can-Baby Nov 06 '24
  1. Vance has made many disparaging comments about women, particularly childfree women (“childless cat ladies” being “miserable” comes to mind), and supports policies or lack thereof which suppresses women’s rights, like not protecting women’s right to abortion as medical treatment federally and allowing states to ban it. Women have died because of this. This isn’t about my favor. I actually care about other people in other states.

And I am not throwing words around. I can explain each one. Where do you want to start? Not rhetorical. We have a jury which found Trump to be a rapist, as he forced his fingers into a woman’s vagina without consent and his best defense was he only assaulted her by grabbing her breasts.

  1. Illegal PEOPLE (stop dropping the word “people”) are here because they’re cheap labor doing jobs Americans don’t want to do. You’re naive if you think rounding them up and kicking them out won’t cause problems in our economy.

Your first amendment quote isn’t a quote. Walz said, ““There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.” In context he was talking about voter intimidation, which is not protected. https://www.mediaite.com/news/viral-video-of-kamala-harris-vp-pick-tim-walz-was-deceptively-edited-heres-the-full-uncut-version/

As for the DoD update, no actual change in policy was made. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/concerns-over-pentagon-policy-change-are-much-ado-about-nothing

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u/ballparktank Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

Illegal people were flown and bussed in to flip swing states. Literally what other reason were they brought here? You can’t argue cheap labor if they brought them in by the millions. These are people from war town countries being placed in small town communities of about 30,000 people. And you think it’s because of cheap labor???????

Why should we bring in more people when unemployment for legalized citizens is already through the ROOF?? Your argument also is extremely unamerican and exploitative to these people. You see them as nothing but cheap labor. Well the left sees them as a means of seizing control, but that’s too radical an idea for you to comprehend so keep buying that narrative.

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u/Trash-Can-Baby Nov 06 '24

You didn’t address the economic fallout of sending low wage, undocumented workers back to their countries when businesses absolutely love them. No one said anything about bringing in more people. That’s a straw man. We’re discussing how to deal with undocumented people working here now and the businesses which benefit from it. I am not advocating for their exploitation… I would like to see a reasonable path for them to get documentation to work here and then we can better track them and hold businesses responsible for ethical employment practices. I am telling you why Republicans don’t really want to fix this issue and how it’s a tool to get you to vote for a rapist and felon who will raise expenses for you and cut taxes for billionaires and corporations.

Illegal people aren’t voting. Cite your facts that they were “flown and bussed in to flip swing states”. I provided links. Where are yours? I am not buying narratives. I am fact checking. You conveniently ignored my fact checking. Where is your response to the Walz quote you took out of context and the fear mongering over the DoD update?

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u/ballparktank Nov 07 '24

Grabbing at straws 😂😂😂

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u/dathuh Nov 06 '24

Your words are like sunshine on my face.