But she never stood a chance with, what, a three month campaign

That was half her strength. Trump’s entire team was geared around shitting on Joe Biden. And then Joe Biden stops being on the ballot, sending oodles of oppo-research and Hunter Biden smears and god even knows what kind of October Surprise they had cooking down the toilet.

Biden dropping out and throwing up Harris in his place meant she was free to pummel Trump with negative ads while he had to fully reconfigure his campaign to attack someone who’d spent four years as a backbencher. And - early on at least - Harris capitalized on this well. She came in with a moderate Dem - Tim Walz - who defused some of the Zionist image built up around Joe. She spewed negative ads at Trump and Vance, leaning on the “they’re just weird” talking point that got plenty of mileage both on and off-line. She was a prodigious fundraiser, unlocking a ton of cash that Biden had left on the sidelines because he was too senile to call the mega-donors and ask for it.

And, as a tabula rosa, she (initially) ditched all of Biden’s first term baggage - his failure to secure student loan relief, his endless efforts at compromising with far-right Republicans, his pull-out of Afghanistan and dive into Ukraine, his just being a gross old fart who couldn’t talk good.

But then Harris had to take on a bunch of Hillarycrat advisers and tack to the right. She ditched Walz for Liz Cheney and Cindy McCain. She sucked up to the Silicon Valley Techbros as they lined up to knife her in the back. She repeatedly defended Joe Biden’s least popular policies. She undid everything that Biden dropping out was intended to accomplish.

If anything, it speaks poorly of her leadership potential that she was willing to be saddled with that mess of a non-campaign.

She never really had a choice. But that’s been the hallmark of her entire political career. Harris always just kinda blew where the wind took her. She shouldn’t have been VP to begin with, taking the job only because Biden confusedly promised a black woman VP when he was asked about his plans for a next SCOTUS pick.

But then she surrounded herself with some of the most abysmal neocon reject advisors $1.5B could buy. And she tanked her chances at becoming the First Woman President by running the Clinton Playbook that had cost her predecessor so two prior electoral defeats.

Harris adviser says VP ran ‘flawless’ campaign

“I would posit she ran a pretty flawless campaign, and she did all the steps that [were] required to be successful,” she added. “And I think – obviously, we did not win, but I do think we hit all the marks.”

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Nix, Harris’ campaign manager, also attributed Trump’s decision not to participate in any debate following the ABC News presidential debate on Sept. 10 as detrimental to the Harris campaign’s strategy of presenting the choice between Trump and Harris clearly to voters several times.

“I think that was hard for us to then get the attention that we would have liked to,” Nix said.

Well, there you have it. Perfect campaign. No notes. Just wish Trump had been willing to debate, because we all know the problem Harris had was getting her face out there.

There are examples of non states working

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Also, Marx may have fucked his wife.

Conservatives, Liberals, Communists

Conservatives: “I want a state that exists to brutalize the third world on my behalf and cycle me through anxiety/relief of foreigners/BIPOCs on TV”

Liberals: “I want a state that will subtly extract value from the proletariat so I can gamble on it in the market and kill anyone who resists in an overseas black site.”

Communists: “I want a state that will coordinate labor between sectors and preserve the civil rights of citizens under a well-organized and easily navigate-able proletarianized bureacracy.”

Lemmy: “I hate these fucking Tankies.”

We didn’t use to.

Come on, dude. Do you think Simeon II - the former Bulgarian Tsar - was elected to the Prime Ministership five years after returning from exile because he was just an incredibly popular guy? Do you think its a coincidence that his government’s policies of sweeping privatization had anything to do with his habit of stuffing his minister roles with the same kind of Chicago School ghouls that helped Augusta Pinochet and Juan Orlando Hernández and Dilma Rousseff loot Latin America?

Nevermind Orban on Hungary or Lech Kaczyński in Poland or… hell… Boris Yeltsin in Russia. Nothing says “we’re above board” like firing artillery rounds at your Parliament until you get your way.

There was some run-of-the-mill corruption but most perpetrators kept a low profile or got caught.

There was a pogrom against opposition leadership that capped off the Cold War with a bloodbath of mafia violence orchestrated by foreign intelligence services. And then a few of the more naked fascists - your Milosevics and Mikheil Saakashvilis - got pulled down to prove the post-Soviet “Rules Based International Order” wasn’t total bullshit.

But the collapse of the old Soviet system unleashed all the worst excesses of capitalism on an utterly unprepared public. We’re seeing a fascist backlash in eastern europe as a direct response to the public revulsion at EU era over-exploitation.

I feel like I’m looking at a scene from The Reanimator.

Oh sure. Hillary and Sarkozy suckered him into it. But that’s half the problem with Obama. Whether its Larry Summers or Joe Biden or Rick Warren or Elon Musk, there’s always some rich white asshole by his side, dangling a million dollar speaking tour over his head and leading him like a rented mule.

She’s got a lot of dead bodies to stack up before she reaches the Obama tier. But if the confrontation along Venezuela’s cost goes hot, she could get there quick.

I mean, I want to laugh, but I’ve seen so many people who genuinely believe its just a matter of better messaging. We’re all InfoWarriors in the end.

I mean, you still see so-called centrists and alleged leftists going hysterical over the term deplorables.

Do I? That’s not the critique of the campaign I’ve seen leftists fixate on. Meanwhile, centrists still venerate and emulate her. Hell, the Harris campaign poached heavily from Hillary’s 2016 team and adopted much of her “bring on board as many ‘moderate Republicans’ as you can” strategy.

I grew up around a metric shit-ton of deplorables.

There’s this idea that people who disagree with you politically are sub-human. And then there’s this consequential idea that “we need to win the sub-human voters” whenever you’re down in the polls. The end result of these combined theories of politics is a liberal party that constantly flirts with fascism under the table, while denouncing it from the front-page.

Consequently, you have people in your party viewing you as a corrupt and compromised candidate while people in the opposition party see you as a huckster and your base as suckers you’ve gulled into support. This is, incidentally, how Republicans saw their own liberal candidates in 2016. And its a fact Hillary leveraged to spoil Bush and Kasich via media back channels.

What she didn’t consider was the appeal of open and honest fascism when stacked up against two-faced neoliberal pandering. It cost her the race in 2016. And it cost her heir apparent the race eight years later.

the bothsidering bullshit artists

Hillary: “I’m going to dig my own grave. Get ready for me to fumble the bag so hard it plunges the country into a new Dark Age.”

Liberal Democrats: “Yas Queen.”

Kissinger won in '73, right after the bombing of Cambodia. Obama in '09 as he was gassing up the jets to level Libya and butcher Afghans for another eight years. Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzakh Rabin - three avowed terrorists - all got the prize in 1994 shortly before they fell back into their low-grade civil war. Kofi Annan and the UN won in 2001, seven years into running the phenomenally corrupt “Oil for Food” program used to loot Iraq.

It’s a bad award for bad people.

In a few more months, she’ll be taking the title of President off Juan Guaidó.

The “Peace Prize” winner has been trying to violently overthrow the Venezuelan government since the Bush Era failed coup in 2002.

No no no. You don’t understand. People simply don’t understand that Donald Trump was a friend of Jeffery Epstein and a frequent flier on the Lolita Express. They don’t understand that he’s a filanderer and a creep who routinely sexually assaults women. They don’t understand that he’s involved in criminal misconduct and has broken the law.

It’s not that Trump is somehow immune from prosecution, under both D and R administrations going back decades. It’s just that we haven’t seen the files yet. Once the files are released, everything changes. You just wait. As soon as Robert Mueller gets his hands on those documents…

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You have to understand that the only thing keeping Trump from being arrested is for a document labeled “Evidence Against Trump” to be released to the public. As soon as people realize that Trump has committed crimes, its game over.

Hillary was right.

Inside Team Clinton’s year-long struggle to find a strategy against the opponent they were most eager to face.

So to take Bush down, Clinton’s team drew up a plan to pump Trump up. Shortly after her kickoff, top aides organized a strategy call, whose agenda included a memo to the Democratic National Committee: “This memo is intended to outline the strategy and goals a potential Hillary Clinton presidential campaign would have regarding the 2016 Republican presidential field,” it read.

“The variety of candidates is a positive here, and many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more ‘Pied Piper’ candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party,” read the memo.

Yeah, she was a real one-woman brain trust.

Post Soviet Eastern European states are all like this.