NoneOfUrBusiness

They live in the Emirates so life must be very restricted for her.

As a Middle Eastern guy with stereotype-level knowledge about the Emirates, I don’t think so. Even if Islam demanded women be restricted in their lives (it doesn’t) Emirates is very famous as an “only Muslim on the cover” country. Now we can’t really guess anything about her life, but whatever she wants to do, it won’t be the country stopping her.

And wages might be growing, but are lagging far behind inflation.

To be very fair real wages grew during Biden’s administration, but probably not enough and definitely not for everyone.

I mean to be fair it probably wasn’t necessary until last Tuesday.

Only those who visit Lake Como can want to buy our souvenir; memories are not bought but lived.

Amazing.

I mean he would love to be a front seat driver but the DNC won’t let him.

The Dems will control the House and after the midterms will control the Senate.

Will they? Pretty sure Republicans are winning the House this election. Won’t deny the possibility of a midtern Democrat victory but it’s not guaranteed either.

someone was just tellin me that pamela lost because she did not stand behind lina khan enough.

I mean that’s definitely part of it. Lina Khan was one of the best parts of the Biden administration, so if Harris won’t even promise that then she wasn’t just a status quo candidate; she was a status quo but worse candidate.

When you’re losing at least 3 groups of single issue voters (and literally everyone else) it’s your party platform that’s wrong.

Trump won this fair and square, as much as it sucks to admit. I sincerely doubt there were enough stolen votes to matter anywhere; he just ran a competent campaign and Harris didn’t.

Only if you don’t understand the nuance of the word “jailed” here.

I guess it’s “nice” to confirm that they’re still killing Palestinians at random.

Oh it’s the Magic The Gathering woman. It was a pleasant time forgetting she existed.

Do you meant that’s not the middle?

Oh yeah.

That’s what I thought for a long time. But when I look back at 2016 and I look at this one, I think he appealed to the center voter with promises of jobs and income.

I mean everyone, no matter their political views, cares about jobs and income. Being left or right wing is more about the way you believe that should be achieved (and how much you hate minorities). Trump didn’t appeal to center voters with promises of jobs and income; he appealed to right wing voters with their version of jobs and income and other policies right wing voters support. Obama promised left wing voters their version of jobs and income. Hillary and Harris promised nobody’s version of jobs and income.

Nope. As a Middle Eastern guy it was and still is literally unthinkable.

That would have led to a landslide victory for the Dems.

Honestly, probably not really. It’d have likely led to a closer election by winning them Michigan, but the Democrats had a more fundamental problem than very unpopular foreign policy.

Lmao good catch.

No Middle Eastern team, self-respecting or not, would play against an Israeli team.

The short of it is that “things are going fine” messaging doesn’t work when things decidedly aren’t going fine. When asked about the economy she said she wouldn’t do much different from Biden. And yet she wouldn’t even confirm or deny when asked whether she would keep Lina Khan. The DNC’s messaging screamed "we’re dishonest corporate stooges who won’t give straight answers ", because they are and also incompetent. In the dismal state of the American economy today do you think that would get votes?

I mean Obama’s term had like a third of the great recession and the brunt of its effects. According to Wikipedia,

While the recession technically lasted from December 2007 – June 2009 (the nominal GDP trough), many important economic variables did not regain pre-recession (November or Q4 2007) levels until 2011–2016. For example, real GDP fell $650 billion (4.3%) and did not recover its $15 trillion pre-recession level until Q3 2011.[95] Household net worth, which reflects the value of both stock markets and housing prices, fell $11.5 trillion (17.3%) and did not regain its pre-recession level of $66.4 trillion until Q3 2012.

It’s a miracle he even kept the presidency in these conditions. See also: Biden’s unpopularity even though he was by all means a generally decent (if genocidal) president.

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do. Our mistake was to see the joy, the extraordinary balance between idealism and pragmatism, the energy, the generosity, the coalition-building of the Kamala Harris campaign and think that it must triumph over the politics of lies and resentment

Holy fuck the refusal to self-reflect. Was this guy even living in the same reality?