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[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 365 points 5 days ago (28 children)

If Harris was a leader she would be out there touring like AOC. Shes not a leader. She had her shot to prove otherwise and didn't.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 105 points 5 days ago (9 children)

I mean, if I were her I’d feel drained and devastated. Everything that happened during the election and people still picked Trump over her…

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 182 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I have a hard time feeling sorry for her after leaving the left hanging and going after conservative votes. She made an incredibly poor strategic choice and it cost all of us.

Obviously she's not the only one to blame here, conservatives deserving the majority of blame followed by people that stayed home, but she doesn't deserve pity.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

… not to mention she didn’t ask for a recount. That one was a red flag for me.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A recount requires a vote to be close, it wasn’t. Trump won every swing state. And with the margins he won by, every recount in the world would not overcome the 86 EVs she trailed by.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

The election results were very close - and it was a big election, some ballots were rejected, there were bomb threats and there were also statistical anomalies. She should have asked for a recount.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Pity maybe not, but understanding definitely. If that were me ya'll picked Trump over I'd tell all ya'll to fuck right off while I prep a boat to Europe. Then all the people saying I should stay out of it would be bitching that I'm not participating anymore.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Exactly. If I were her, I'd fuck off to Europe and send a big fat middle finger to everyone asking for help.

Is that in the best interests of the American people? No. Is it an entirely understandable reaction? Yes.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

If I were her, I’d fuck off to Europe and send a big fat middle finger to everyone asking for help.

Sending a big fat middle finger to everyone asking for help was basically her campaign.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 52 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I have a lot of problems with Kamala The Cop. But she lost what might be the final election in American History. That takes a lot out of you

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago

Not as much as it’s taking out of the rest of us, not even close.

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 days ago

If I were her, I would have had a plan B knowing what the right wingers were up to, and it should have looked a lot like what Bernie and AOC are doing. Instead she showed up then fucked off to somewhere else after hanging out with Dick Cheney for a few months.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago

Exactly why she's not a leader. A leader understand that you don't have time to lick you wounds when the enemy is at your door. She should be fighting harder now, not sulking.

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 5 days ago

Drained and devastated but willing to lose again? Spray this turd down the drain of your empathy and out of a leadership roll.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

You feel sorry for that god awful campaign?

[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 9 points 5 days ago

So she should be all recovered by '28 then? /s

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If she's still drained and devastated months after losing, she's not emotionally mature enough to be president. What's going to happen the first time a soldier gets killed in combat? At least Hillary has some cajones, Harris never gave me that impression.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

At least Hillary has some cajones, Harris never gave me that impression.

Hillary had years of experience on the federal level. Senator and then Head of State. She was used to making choices that had a big impact.

I will always remember Harris for her DNC nomination debate performance. She personally called out Biden's racist policies and how it impacted her. Showing that out of touch white men have lasting impacts on generations children. It was her highest moment. If you check articles they'll say that was one of the highlights of the event.

And then became Biden's VP. Just willing to ignore how he personally wrote a racist bill that harmed you because it's a position of power? Alright. That's sure a message about your morals.

And when asked about why by Steven Colbert: "It was a debate!"

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

They cheated, and we ALL know it. If she's upset about anything, it's that she was cheated out of her historic legacy, and the spineless Democratic party backed HitlerPig over her.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

If she were out there touring people would tell her to shut up and sit down. She had her shot, twice, nobody wants what she's selling.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 19 points 5 days ago

Is she even considering running at all?

Like when she was up there giving her chatgpt, "make me sound inspirational" concession speech rather than just being mad as hell like the rest of us. She's plays leader but she will sit in the manager cubical while the rest of us eat the company provided cold turkey in the break room the day before Thanksgiving.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Completely agree. It would have demonstrated that she would have been a good president and it would have sealed the deal for her (if there are legit elections). She didn’t step up. AOC did. Says a lot about each of them.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I can't imagine thinking about "serving people" when majority of them turned out to be hateful idiots that frankly deserve getting their faces eaten by a leopard. Let her catch a break maybe?

[–] piefood@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm not giving her a break. She handed the elction to Trump on a silver platter. It should have been a slam dunk election, but she chose genocide, money, and the Cheney's over winning.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ah the good ol american responsibility deflection strategy

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

a bad carpenter blames their tools.

[–] piefood@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

How is accurately describing what happened "deflection"?

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

The Dipshit didn't even get the majority of people who did vote, let alone the country as a whole

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