A Very Good Sign: Kamala Harris Is Going Right at Corporate Greed

If she's serious she'll be a historically great president. But if it's PR. Not so much.

We'll see when the DNC starts. They can script all they want. But that will tell us the story. Who they invite. What they talk about. It's all theater of course. But it'll act as a barometer of where the politics are.

The DNC is first and foremost a corp. And I don't trust corps. Don't trust them any further than I trust Blackrock or Vanguard.

They can't collect donations if everyone is broke. They need people to have disposable income. And shit has got so bad now. They have to be feeling it.

They can collect donations just fine. It was big, huge donors saying "I won't give the democrats one red nickel if Biden doesn't step down" that helped get Biden to concede his candidacy.
- It was a combination of things. It was also the lack of voter enthusiasm risking down ballot races.
The announced speakers including both Clintons doesn't have me hopeful
- That'd be expected even if it were Bernie Sanders.
- Kinzinger, too. Plus with Bernie, Jayapal, and others attending a progressive side show I'm getting the sense progressives (or anyone staunchly anti-corporate) aren't going to get much time on the podium.
  If they don't have significant local progressives like Chuy Garcia or Delia Ramirez up there, and their "local" speaker is Pritzker, I'm going to have a real hard time buying this campaign promise.
I gotta say, if it's all a PR act, it's dumb as fuck. it might work for this election but it will then disillusion millions of young voters permanently if she can't follow though on these promises, leading to a huge loss (or worse, migration) of young Democrat voters.
- She literally can't, even if she was actually 105% committed to it people seem to forget that overall the president actually has very little power. Without the cooperation of the house and Congress nothing in that vein will ever get done and no matter who gets elected our house in Congress have been split divided and useless for quite a while now
- Wouldn't be the first time.
  I firmly believe the DNC would rather lose and fundraise off the fear of what the Repubs do.

Lmao the Democratic and Republican party are both bought and paid for by corporate money. I wholeheartedly and unabashedly support Harris/Walz but you can fuck right off with this stupid shit that Harris somehow is immune to the reality of our political financing structure (namely, megadonors, corporates, and PACs)

I'm holding a hope that Walz hasn't succumbed to the greed yet. Though I expect Harris has to some degree. Like it or not, there is enough money in politics that most of us could probably be bought eventually, to lesser and greater extents.
The real question is "when?''.
“You can fuck right off with x” is a turn of phrase I can’t wait to see fade out of common use
- I’m sorry, but I’ma keep calling it twitter. You can fuck right off with x

"This is communist; this is Marxist; this is fascist.”

— Donald Trump, quoted by the New York Times, describing Kamala Harris’ economic agenda

So she's far-left, extreme-left, and extreme-right all at the same time?

Trump doesn't really know or care about what words mean. He cares about how words feel.
Unfortunately, many people are the same way.
Don't Think. Just Trump.

lol. Words are not deeds.

You got that right. Talk is cheap. Presidential candidates are basically used car salesman.
- Since it's cheap, why not the other candidate say the same thing?

Yeah just like how Biden's gonna seal the deal witch Israel tomorrow.

I'm kind of annoyed more people aren't offed by the fact that the DNC didn't run a primary because we had at least 3-4 better candidates lined up, and Kamala wouldn't have even reached close just like last time.

I think I'm just gonna start labeling this articles "hopium"

3-4 better candidates
Who are these people and why do you say better? Kamala Harris polled better than literally any other person including Bernie Sanders, Gavin Newsome, etc etc all the people who are usually presented as other options.
- Kamala Harris polled better than literally any other person including Bernie Sanders, Gavin Newsome, etc etc all the people who are usually presented as other options.
  What poll bruh, there was no primary. That's literally why they ran a "roll call" to gg easy their chosen candidate.
They keep telling us this is the democracy they need to save. A presidential candidate that's never won a single primary, electoral vote, and came in last in her own state is suddenly the nominee?
- I don't love how it played out either but it was the delegates we voted for that elected kamala as our nominee. It was our representative democracy at play in a less than ideal situation when biden dropped out at an awkward time. And kind of the point of a vice president.
  Its this or the guy that said he'd be dictator on day one and that no one would ever have to vote again if he is elected. You decide what you want to vote for.
- The parties are private entities and can set whatever rules they like for selecting a nominee. That said, this was technically still the same representative democratic process. Voters selected the delegates (which are bound on the first round voting only), but Biden dropped out and released his delegates to vote whichever way they wanted.
  Certainly I would've preferred for Biden to drop out last year and have had a full primary. But you can't make someone accept the nomination when they don't want it, and there are rules and a process for the already selected delegates to vote for someone else.

yay now our below living wages will go a micro bit further

let us celebrate the Democrats who do everything they can to fight against the Republicans

If you got the 2% micro growth, you're actually not in the starvation wages bracket. If you're in the 13% growth bracket and you're upset that it's not more (which, I get), you gotta talk to the people who set up the 7% inflation in 2021 and 2022 that ate up all your wage gains from Biden's policies the last few years - not blame the people who got you 32% higher wages that then got eaten up by the Covid inflation.
Source
- So groceries go up 150-200% and wages go up by 15% and somehow that's a win?
  ETA not to mention inflation being something like 2.5% per year at least
- And they're pulling those numbers out of their ass as if raising a minimum wage to something that is still an unlivable wage is progress.
- That 13% is $10k in the bottom 10% median individual income they were earning $8,801 in 2022. Which is $1,199 https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-individual-income-percentiles/
  90% median individual income is $135,605 in 2023. In 2022 it was 132,676. Which is 2% ...but they got $2,929 Same source
  98% and 99% saw the largest nominal amount increase. 98% got 13,901 more money between 2022 and 2023 99% got $5,878 more money between 2022 and 2023 Same source.
  Obviously $1k for someone making $10k is significant than someone getting $2k making $130k
The role of the Democrats has never been to fight Republicans. It is to prevent leftist movements and organizations from ever gaining any political influence or power in the country.
- You gotta talk to the post-1968 activist left about how well it worked out for them pursuing that vision. That’s how we got Reagan; that’s how the “single income family with one guy with a high school diploma supporting a house and good middle-class life that’s unrecognizable to most people today” went all the fuck away.
  Again, if you want to go further than the fuckin Democrats that sounds great. If letting the Republicans defeat the Democrats is a key element of that strategy, you’re gonna have to break down the details to me because to me it doesn’t make a single bit of fucking sense.

Politician before the election promises stuff.

No, sure this time is different.

Kamela is good

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