Kamala Harris' Book Tour Launch Interrupted by Gaza Protesters: 'I'm Not President Right Now'
Kamala Harris' Book Tour Launch Interrupted by Gaza Protesters: 'I'm Not President Right Now' | Video
Palestine voters, you are a bunch of fucking morons
One candidate (Kamala) was willing to listen to you
The other candidate wants to level Gaza and turn into a resort
And you went with the candidtate that wants to turn Gaza into a resort.
I personally never gave a fuck about the people of Palestine. I still don't give a fuck about them, I just have too much on my plate to care about them. But I did vote for Kamala and I did hope she'd help Palestine, but she lost...so eh I geuss Palestine gets fucked.
One candidate (Kamala) was willing to listen to you
"I'm speaking now."
"Palestine voters"
They didn't vote, and that's the problem
People blaming Kamala because her policies in some issues were not perfect, and thats why they dont vote for her. Now because of that you have the Superfragilenazipotusshit as President, he is surely doing much better than Kamala... Also, probably you are not having any more fair elections, now it's gonna be all Russian style elections, unless there is some kind of uprising.
I hope I'm wrong on that, but I think I'm not.
Ugh. Go away
Yeah, we know. Those folks are just reminding you, why.
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Read the room Harris and stop justofying your mistakes
Kamala Harris being a corrupt, genocidal moron is why Trump won in 2024. Trump didn't win, the Democratic elites gifted the election to Trump by nominating such an evil person.
What has Kamala said or done in the last 9 months to fight the fascist regime? Has she called for people to get on the streets and protest or called for a general strike? No, shes done fuck all except write a book full of excuses for losing from her Bel Air mansion. And you're over here defending it, its pathetic.
Kamala Harris ran on a pro-genocide platform and was very supportive of Israel. This was one of the reasons why she lost.
What, specifically, was the "pro genocide platform"? Because I remember that election pretty well, and I don't recall any advocacy of genocide, at least not from Harris.
Let's be honest for one second. Here's how American politics on Israel actually breaks down:
Democrats: often criticize Netanyahu but never actually cut off aid. However, several Democrats already opposed continuing aid to Israel and the rest of the party conceivably could listen to growing opposition to Israel's war.
Republicans: actively hate all poor brown people and want Israel to kill them all. They will also use deportations and any other means available to silence anyone voicing opposition to said killing of all poor brown people.
I get that neither choice is perfect, but I really can't see why it's a struggle.
She did not distance herself from Biden on the subject. As the democratic nominee; heir to the Biden campaign; and then current VP in the Biden administration, this meant that her platform on Gaza defaulted to being the Biden policy.
I agree that I would rather be fighting a Harris administration over Gaza policy instead of a Trump administration. But running as a less bad version of the opposing party is not effective politics.
In that same vein, protesting a former VP from a party that is out of power is also not an effective form of activism.
You’re so caught up in left vs right that you fail to see that they are two sides of the same coin. Democrat waffling paves the way for Republican atrocities. The two parties act in concert to enact the interests of the ruling class. The only way we are getting out of this is if we abandon the framework they have indoctrinated us in, and start seeing the world clearly, as a struggle between those who have against those who have not.
This thought process makes no fucking sense though because the other guy did too...
Kamala was very obviously the "better" choice for Palestine.
Yes, she's still a shit choice for Palestine.
But I don't understand this logic, this person is going to let a genocide happen if we elect them, the other guy is going to let a genocide and a fascism happen.
Someone make it make sense
Makes a whole bunch of sense when you consider a lot of America still just can't accept the idea of a woman as president, and they'll use any excuse they can to make themselves feel better about the misogyny.
Some people don't like being taken advantage of as much as you do. There's your answer. They don't like being given no meaningful choice, and that's what harris represented.
Put yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't support genocide if you can imagine it. You don't get a primary, and the candidate you get is as pro-genocide as the one you would have voted against in the primary. You've been railroaded. You knew the guy the party wanted wasn't gonna win. You know this one isn't gonna win. You know that smug genocide supporters are gonna blame you no matter how you vote, even though they're the ones that refuse to listen to the people. After all, they would rather you have no choice. They made that clear when they robbed you of it.
If you want to win elections, then you have to listen to the voters. If you push an unpopular genocial candidate like Kamala Harris on the voters, "the other guy is much worse" argument is not going to save you.
A whole lot of people wont vote for war criminals of any party, its that simple. If Harris had half a brain she would have read the polls and known she had no route to victory in supporting Israel.
If you want to now cry and point fingers, go ahead. You got maneuvered into supporting war crimes and now you want to pretend to be better than other people. You're down in the mud with the rest of us. You're no better or worse, but you are being a smug jerk with nothing to be smug about. Thats pathetic.
Trump is doing a fantastic job supporting Israel in her place
If you want to win elections, then you have to listen to the voters. If you push an unpopular genocial candidate like Kamala Harris on the voters, "the other guy is much worse" argument is not going to save you.
How's that working out? 🙈
Kamala lost because she was terrible at everything
Kamala lost because she was running on a Campaign of Joy™️
The only way to win a campaign is to garner more rage than your opponent. Nixon's campaign manager put it well- "The secret to politics is to know who hates who". That's how they flipped the then deep blue south into a Republican stronghold for 60 years.
Frankly I think this is why we are doomed to civil war, candidates that try to calm things down will always lose to candidates who fan the flames.
I absolutely despise trump. With that said, I hope we never see her as president. She's insanely out of of touch with the common folk. I'd much rather see AOC or that Texas democrat dude with the ears
There’s this whole slew of Americans who want ranked choice voting and just can’t articulate or perhaps even fathom that that’s what they want.
Rep Tallarico?
I will take any functioning adult who I can not easily visualize mentally as a 1940's German officer.
Ditto. She would have made a terrible president. My mind was made when she didn’t ask for a recount. I hope we don’t see her in 2028. I hope we make it to 2028..
Yes, I would love to see Beto or AOC!
She could have been if she didn't fuck up the Gaza situation...
Not surprising after she banned Gazan supporters and a local Democrat legislator at her own DNC rally.
Absolute garbage mound of a candidate and campaign that completely deserves to be thrashed by the very constituency she refused to acknowledge.
Bunch of you failure shills in this comments still thinking this was a progressive candidate need to look at literally any of her responses to questions about public policy. Nothing but a 1:1 copy of Biden's equally shit tier response to major internal and external issues, and very obviously way more right leaning than Obama.
I still remember some of you outright denying the existence of Gaza protestors at DNC events, as if any news outlet reporting it was a Russian compromised asset, and any user on lemmy.world supporting such action was a lemmy.ml Chinese spam bot in disguise.
Quite frankly anybody that's still defending the Democratic Party and the AIPAC-driven Harris 2024 campaign sounds more like a bot than any of the real people I talk about politics with every day who absolutely despise both Trump and the feckless, centrist Dems.
Right wingers love projection, that's why they say the ones who speak truth are the bots, and the ones funded by think-tanks and SuperPACs are the real options to save the country.
Ah yeah, good thing we got all that but way worse with how people voted.
Domestically, yeah he's worse, he's literally an authoritarian fascist dictator.
For Gaza? Biden was literally worse. He was way more outspoken in his support for Israel, he never showed compassion for Palestinians, and he called himself a proud Zionist constantly. Not to mention he spent WAY MORE of your tax dollars on military support to them.
Like it's not even close, $28 billion vs Trump's $16. And you're still repeating the same bullshit...
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un are “laughing at us right now.”
And they're loving the goons continuing their antidemocratic work of perpetually attacking Harris. Crisis averted: a black woman didn't get in the hot seat where she could have actually moved the needle toward progress. True progressives understand why Rosa Parks was picked even though she wasn't first. The purity test bullshit on the left is a successful bait campaign by the right.
Absolute horse shit. If you really believe that Harris would have helped the Palestinians i would like to hear why think that is. Condemning what Israel is doing is such a no-brainer, but it does not present any actions, does it? And thats what the Palestinians needed and still need. She was the god damn Vice-President of the United States of America, a country without which the massacre on Gaza would not be possible in the first place. So the god damn least she could have done was to speak out while in a position of Power. You blind yourself if you really think that the head of democratic leadership will accept any sort of real action AGAINST the interest of their big donors. Remember what happened to Bernie.
You are completely proving their point. Do you really think the level of support Israel receives from Trump is the same as what it would have been with Kamala? Do you think Bibi would be in her office telling her how great their relationship is and give her a golden pager?
Do you think Israel would have acted just as brazenly in its escalations and direct attacks on Iran?
There is no question she wouldn't have done enough to stop Israeli crimes, but no way in hell would it be equal to or worse than Trump. Even considering them on the same level makes you sound like a psyop.
Unironic use of "purity test" means "I have no standards and expect you to abandon yours."
Same people attacking any suggestion that their inaction let the orange monkey back into the WH. But hey, 'it wasn't me who voted him in', right?
people made it clear that supporting genocide was a line they wouldn't cross, this was apparent even without the polls. how are we still blaming voters when the dems still refused to adjust position? they chose Israel over winning, that's completely on them.
So, they refused to support genocide (a position, to be clear, that I agree with) by taking an action (voting third party) or inaction (not voting) that would clearly, and obviously, give a candidate who supported genocide a higher probability of not just winning, but being supported by others with the same opinion?
Voters were put in an invidious position and there were no good options, but there was one option that was clearly worse in every way, and they either directly or indirectly chose to support him.
Yeah it’s bullshit. I voted third party because dems decided Israel is worth supporting. But let’s be mathematically accurate here.
Even if all the people who DID vote that did not vote republican had voted for the democrat, there would not have been enough electoral college influence to affect the outcome.
You would have needed more non-voters to vote. But a non-voter then was probably a never-voter. There are people that exist who simply don’t care one way or the other who is in charge and you can’t convince those people to go vote. Sure you can try, but in the end it’s the people who did vote who get what they voted for.
Regardless of all of that I find the “you should have voted democrat” argument to be exceptionally stupid. The democrat party is backing a government that I find to be morally reprehensible, as do most Americans, what should have happened is those who were saying “yeah it’s bad but I’m still gonna vote dem” should have just voted for a third party. Why vote against your interests?
Goddamn these fucking protesters are such inauthentic losers. So "brave" yet terrified to protest the Trump administration.
Fucking phonies. They don't even remotely give a shit about Palestinians.
The pro-Palestine movement is protesting against the Trump administration almost every day. Just because Democrats are one degree better doesn't mean they get a pass for supporting the modern-day Holocaust for 16 months and handing the country on a silver platter to Trump.
Every Democrat who played a part in propping up the inanimate corpse of Biden and supported the genocide in 2024 need to be run out of politics and reminded of their miserable fucking FAILURE to stop fascism for the rest of their lives.
He said from his spinning office chair in his air conditioned room.
Then he went downtown to punch a homeless kid in the face and grab a coffee from that new place.
Ah yes, the Trump whataboutism. Liberals greatest weapon that totally didnt cost them the election… How many times do we gotta teach you guys this lesson??
Yes it indeed is. When Biden left office a large portion of Gaza had already been destroyed. Trump "empowered" Israel to show how bad they want to genocide the Palestinians for real and people wake up.
Before the political powers of the U.S. help the Palestinians hell will freeze over. At best the U.S. has been a force of status quo (Apartheid and Opression). At worst they have fed the ethnical cleansing.
The politicians are NOT our allies. The people on the streets need to put pressure on them until they are willing to enact change AGAINST their own interest because there simply is no out.
It is long overdue to get your asses up from the screen and into the real world like these protesters do. You simply have not grasp on the situation that you think you have, maybe even talk to an activist. Just maybe.
If you want to win elections, then you have to listen to the voters. If you push an unpopular genocial candidate like Kamala Harris on the voters, "the other guy is much worse" argument is not going to save you.
Yeah but you didn't condemn Isreal when you should have. You get your just desserts. Never gonna vote for you. Buh-bye.
yeah fuck this pig. she shouldn't feel safe anywhere she goes. no politician should.
Why is she so stupid.
I thought she promised us she was leaving politics. Why is she speaking at all. She should be in Nevada selling insurance.
She's selling a book, not being "in politics". She told the truth.
More honest than these phony protesters that are too cowardly to protest Trump, the man they preferred to be president.
She is giving political advice on why she lost.
And by political advice I mean refusing to take responsibility and blaming everything on the left.
What makes you think these protestors are not also protesting Trump?
I dunno man I think talking about politics constantly despite not being in office counts as "being in politics", even if it's not technically correct
This is exactly why the US ended up with trump. 0 critical thinking.
If this lady can't even commit to stopping a genocide, then what makes you all think she would have saved democracy? Whenever I see her speak I think of the scene from Breaking Bad: you are not the guy!
She wasn’t advocating for authoritarianism so that should be the first hint.
What is wrong about what she said?
Normally you imagine positive change behind protesting, and you probably assumed that when you read "protesters", but not every occurrence of "making a scene" is constructive.
She isn't the president. She's yet to map out the road ahead.
People are used to being helpless and pathetic so they don't even consider anything other than "protesting." But what about building policy and bringing it to her? Why not start a dialogue? Why not map out bits of that road ahead? Why not consider experts who could help the next Democratic admin? Why not study policy yourself? Why not go form connections with humanitarian groups? Or join them?? Why not go talk to people and bring that wealth of data to her?
Why not HELP and CONTRIBUTE? If you just want to YELL then go yell at the people in charge.
She blamed anti genocide protesters for her loss and is trying to make money off it.
Remember, Kamala is the reason Trump won.
People not voting in their best interests is why Trump won
Why did they not select the candidate they wanted in the Democrat primaries? Oh right DNC blocked that.
It is astounding how hard Democrats are willing to defend the Kamala when she is literally responsible for Trump winning. A wet sack of potatoes would have beaten Trump.
France have been mobilising for the lesser evil candidate for several elections. Are they better? At least Lepen didn't get elected.
I think Democrats have been manipulated into abstaining from voting by the right.
They should be ashamed.
French liberals (Macron) literally staged a coup to prevent the left from winning and promoted the far right. What the hell are you talking about.
More people didn't vote at all than who voted for Harris. The vice president isn't in charge of policy. Biden is the reason trump won.
I mean I agree, 4 years of Biden was a disastrous failure that Kamala should have made a hard break from as soon as he dropped out, but didn't. Ridiculous, its like they were intentionally trying to lose.
She explicity said she would run on the exact same policies as Biden.