Latest Posts by ghostsarecool98 - Page 5
So far, one of the main things Trumpers have been trying to insult Harris with is her laugh. Seriously, her laugh, which is by all reasonable metrics a perfectly nice laugh. I guess it sorta makes sense that they'd do this, though; Trump built his platform on being a mean asshole, while Harris's laugh sounds warm and friendly. It's like they're trying to insult her for not being mean and nasty.
With Kamala/Walz going up DAILY, I've seen more people talking about voting third party/Jill Stein (EW) and I believe the above screencaps from @three--rings can explain WHY Third Party votes NEVER work NOR is this the election to screw around in.
Everyone....like she says above.....PLEASE LEARN FROM HISTORY!!!
(Because if Trump gets in, he's NEVER LEAVING).
As someone who lost their father to cancer I feel this is very important to share. Please vote in 2024, and vote for those who care more about the people rather than bullshit politics.
(I don’t typically talk politics or world affairs but this hit me hard.)
MAGA/GOP is the problem.
You will NEVER solve an issue with GOP policies or rhetoric. They are structural bad faith.
“I’ve never been sexually assaulted in a drag show, but I have been in church. Twice.” — local Tennessee mom Jessee Graham GOES OFF on far-right extremists banning books & targeting LGBTQ+ human beings. God is not pleased.
She's a great ally.
Jesus Christ please vote idc if Biden is in hospice care we cannot let Trump become president again
One take I’m glad I’m seeing less and less of with the growing rise of Kamala Harris’ popularity and something I’ve wondered since I’ve heard it for the last year….
If Trump gets in and we lose our rights with that Project 2025 bullshit because we didn’t vote as a protest vote, how can we Palestine if we’re scrambling after losing our own rights?
I ask this because I’ve never gotten a concrete answer.
Thankfully I see these people are just a vocal minority.
before we get an official announcement on who is replacing biden as the nominee, im just going to put this out there: do not mess this up. i don't care how little you like politics. i don't care if this new nominee isn't your first choice.
our alternative is trump. third party splits the votes, and abstaining is just going to fuck the entire united states over. your vote (AND support) matters, and i better see anyone who doesn't want trump to be elected and the United States to become a fascist, authoritarian regime throwing their full support behind this new nominee.
we have three months to go. we're in crunch time. if you don't want to lose your rights, support this new nominee with everything you've got.
edit: just in case this somehow wasn't obvious, this is NOT the post to be a pessimist on. don't say we're fucked. say TRUMP is fucked. we can't go back and change the nomination timeline, but we can absolutely support our new nominee and ensure they get elected.
VOTE BLUE!
EDIT: This post is gaining traction, so I think it's important to show you this:
ELON IS INTERFERING WITH THE ELECTION. PLEASE CHECK YOUR VOTER'S REGISTRATION IN PERSON AND TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS.
"so you think supporting genocide is okay if it keeps your country from facing genocide?"
So you think supporting genocide is okay if it means keeping another country from facing genocide?
This isn't a sentiment I actually carry, it's an example of how incredibly easily your own stupidity can be flipped around to make the exact same point in the opposite direction, it's a wild goose chase of a sentiment that does nothing but keep us fighting with each other instead of focusing on ways to actually fix the problem.
Genocide isn't fucking okay regardless of who is facing it, but being aware of the reality of the situation is what gets us closer to ending it, not abandoning any hope or sense we have to let more fucking genocide happen as some sort of Gotcha to politicians who won't be effected by the slash of millions of people's human rights and safety.
Here is the reality of the situation, we live under a two party system, no third party presidential candidate has won an electoral vote in since 1968 and no third party presidential candidate has won an election At All since the founding of the Republican party in 1854. You are meant to campaign for candidates you want to see in office, months or years before the primaries, for the best chance at getting someone you agree with completely, and NONE of you fucking did that, you did what you always do, and got pissy a few months before the election and started pushing for your candidate way too late. Consider campaigning for their election in 2028, but that's not relevant right now.
Our options right now, are:
Trump, who has promised further aid to Israel, cutting aid to Palestine and Ukraine completely, pulling out of NATO, the criminalization of LGBTQ+ existence, deportation of anyone he deems un-American (this includes natural born citizens in immigrant families, people he doesn't agree with, and more) sending the military to deal with Any protests as violently as they can, raising taxes on the lower and middle class and cutting taxes for the rich, slashing Medicaid, medicare, and social security benefits, cutting our infrastructure budget, and enforcing the death penalty for sex crimes against children which again, he considers drag and trans existence in public a sex crime against children, that's not a good thing. You can look up his statements, agenda 47, and project 2025 yourself, this isn't a joke and none of it is an exaggeration.
Or Harris, who DOES support Israel as a long time US ally, and HAS condemned pro-hamas sentiment protests, but ALSO HAS already attempted to halt bomb shipments to Israel, pushes for larger amounts of Palestinian humanitarian aid, criticizes Netanyahu's ignoring of international law, stands for the recognition of Palestine as a state, helped draft a permanent ceasefire proposal which she continues to push at Netanyahu, boycotted Netanyahu's congressional address, altered title IX and title X to include protections against discrimination for gender identity, wants to pass bills to cap rent and raise taxes on wealthy real estate conglomerates, refused to seek the death penalty for any crimes she held court over as a prosecutor, created an anti-human-trafficking task force with a focus on specifically sex crimes under that umbrella, wants the repeal of roe v. wade undone and it codified, wants term limits added to currently unlimited positions, mainly the supreme court, (I'll add here that the next president will potentially get to place 2 supreme court judge replacements,) helped alter labor laws to better fight union busting tactics, and was a part of getting the infrastructure act thats currently starting to plan for America's first high speed rail system in place. Many of these things happened under the Biden administration, of which she's a key player as vice president, but unsurprisingly you don't hear about them from media outlets that make their money on outrage rather than hope.
By all accounts and purposes, Harris is a god damn saint in comparison to Trump. She's not perfect and her bullshit with supporting Israel is infuriating, but it's not the only thing you should be focused on, and you need to keep in mind that voting isn't your main source of resistance, it's what AMPLIFIES YOUR OTHER ACTIONS OF RESISTANCE. If you don't vote, you're screaming wildly into the wind for change, if you vote, your standing right in front of the candidate with a megaphone, screaming directly in their face, got it???
You want change? You need to actually elect the person who advocates for any of that change, not throw a fucking fit that she's not advocating for all of it right now, and let the mother fucker advocating for literally none of it win. Y'all are going to get us killed and get nothing done in the process.
You guys realize this means we ALL have to vote now. No "don't wanna vote biden" excuses now- if we don't vote our rights are going to be taken away.
Wow. Trump HATED this…
How it's going:
People are feeling hope for the first time in ages now that Kamala Harris is running for president.
People - everyday, ordinary people - are donating millions of dollars to her campaign.
Huge numbers of young people are registering to vote for her.
Donald J. Trump is scared shitless.
And it's only been three days since Joe Biden dropped out!
She’s right, and we should take it to heart.
(Not one person—including Ashley—is confused about how misogynistic and racist our society is. But she’s correct. We just have put in the work and get people to the polls.)
If Trump wins in November, it won't be because of this weekend. It will be because his people will show up. They will not lose focus. They will vote.
I'm so tired of the defeatist talk. The anti-Trumpers outnumber the Trumpers by a lot. We could win in a landslide if people just showed at the polls and voted for Biden. The problem is that so many people let themselves decide that their vote won't matter or decide to divide the vote for short-sighted reasons. I can already imagine the sheer amount of people who see the events of this weekend, decide that Trump won, and decide that there's no point in voting. NO. Fucking VOTE.
Specifically, vote for Biden. Do not let psyops or idiots convince you to vote for a third party. Third parties do NOT win presidential elections. That is how Democrats have REPEATEDLY lost presidential elections. No, this time will not be different. You need to vote, and you need to vote for Biden. Otherwise, we get Trump in office and you can kiss your rights good bye.
This weekend didn't decide anything. All that matters is who shows up and votes. By the numbers, if people actually vote, the Democratic party will win. That simple.
Lol, it's true.
There was just a White Women for Kamala Zoom call with 150,000 women and it kept on crashing because it was the largest Zoom call in history.
Meanwhile, this is Vance:
He called Harris a childless cat lady despite her being married with two stepkids, pissing off people who don't have children, couldn't have children, or like cats.
Everyone hates him:
The analysts are going back to previously deeply unpopular VP picks and marveling at how bad Vance's numbers are even compared to them.
When protesters marched in Washington after the killing of George Floyd, Donald Trump asked General Milley why the troops couldn’t just shoot them, suggesting maybe just “in the leg.”
Milley replied that he could not, because that would be illegal.
The Supreme Court has now ruled that it no longer will be, at least certainly not for the President to order it. And he can pardon the general that carries it out, and fire the ones that refuse.
If that doesn’t scare you, then I guess you can keep talking about stupid things like taking Biden off the ballot. If it does, then maybe focus on making sure it doesn’t happen, pressuring for Supreme Court reform, and saving this fucking country.
DONT TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THIS FUCKER
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/politics/trump-votes-christians.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/27/trump-christians-wont-have-to-vote-again/74570307007/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/27/politics/video/trump-christian-vote-vinjamuri-nr-digvid
"But Harris --"
I know.
"When Harris --"
Yeah, I know.
"DID YOU KNOW THAT, ONE TIME, HARRIS VOTED --"
YEAH.
I KNOW.
WE ALL KNOW.
We knew her history when she got put on the ticket in 2020 (and even before).
And, yes, you bet your sweet bippy we're gonna still organize and lean into community care and hold her tf accountable the moment she takes office.
But we have to vote her in.
She's picking Supreme Court Judges.
She's organizing a cabinet that will certainly have consequences on *my* field of work.
She's not going to decimate the lives of queer people and people of color and not establish a fucking Christian nationalist government.
Hold your nose, get her into office, and we move forward.
Where is America's outrage
