People forget because Biden made his one term promise in an extremely dishonest and slimy way. He never actually explicitly promised to be a one term president. Instead, his campaign organized a large series of representatives to go out and imply that he would be a one term president. He got a bunch of Democratic big wigs to go around telling people that he would only run for one term. His campaign organized all of this messaging, but he himself never made the promise with his own lips.

It wasn't just a mistake, it was a deliberate deception. He lied to the American people. He just crafted his lie carefully to provide plausible deniability later. Sure, there were tons of people, on his orders, saying that he would be a one term president. But he never actually promised to drop out after one term!

He's a slime ball.

"What the fuck?" has been my reaction to pretty much everything since about 2016.

Your straw man is falling over in the wind there friend.

Nah this ain't it, you need to workshop that one more.

It should have been that, but Harris was campaigning heavily to the center and the center leaning right.

Fuck, they basically muzzled Tim Walz during the campaign. Did you notice how he was no longer allowed to call MAGA weird? I sure did.

Then there was the fact that Harris had to run on Biden's full platform. I know that she personally disagreed with parts, the unpopular parts. She was never really allowed to say it during the campaign.

But really, I mostly blame that little shit Crooks, you either get it right, or you don't do it at all. Trump used that survival to galvanize his base, and that's what an election needs to be in this divided world. Don't worry about the other side. We live in different realities and, they don't often intersect. You have to focus completely on your own base as much as possible. They're the one who will actually vote, if you can get them to care enough to do so.

Harris didn't do that. And that's why she lost.

Yup, and they literally still fucked it up lol

It's not scapegoating to state the simple fact that when people make a choice, they are responsible for it.

Like letting off your war criminals and putting them on pedestals? Seems like an snowball effect to allow your presidents to do anything they please?

Seems like you're more responsible than you think for the state of things.

Try to make your presidents liable for their actions next time so you don't have to whine about it on the internet when you don't get your way?

We're sick and tired of it too.

I feel like people blaming Harris, and those blaming the voters are talking past each other, and it isn't at all productive. Just like China and the USA can both be bad, it isn't an either/or situation.

I understand the frustration from both sides, and I'm also angry at all the dipshits who advocated for non-voting or voting third party in the face of obvious fascism, but I'm sick of seeing this same damn slap fight in every post. We should be focusing on the future, not bickering about the past. If we're going to build a coalition to defeat fascism—which is desperately needed—we can't spend our energy relitigating electoral failures, and castigating the disaffected.

Yes, Harris was a flawed candidate, running a misguided campaign. Yes, the people who didn't vote for her are responsible for our current situation. We have to move on to what we're going to do now.

Why do you punch down instead of punching up?

I won't pat someone on the back who willingly covered themselves in filth and drove everyone away.

How hard is it to just tell Israel to fuck off. They couldn't even pretend for a few months. Not to mention everything else (billionaires, healthcare, etc). Their whole campaign was basically a shrug with a trite "well what else are you going to do, we are all you have suckers".

This is some serious fuck the /s commentary. Anyone who can see the sarcasm dripping from this comment needs to do some serious self reflection.

So you'd rather pave the way for the beacon or purity that is... Trump?

Eh, you're obviously not capable of nuance. Just do yourself a favor and tell yourself Kamala lost due to racism or sexism. That way at least you won't hurt your head thinking too hard.

Definitely not but not condemning hard enough and actively getting a boner while thinking about all the nice real estate that is gonna be freed up after killing and displacing everyone is still different. I would just like to identify the lesser evil, choose the lesser evil, get the lesser evil and then criticize it and fight it until we can get an even lesser evil. Do that a few times and u might eventually arrive at something worth being called good.