• zephorah
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    2 months ago

    It was a lackluster interview. No she’s definitely nowhere as near to the bad that trump is. No weird shit. No ego shit. No I hate abortion and am glad I got it banned and I love abortion and will defend it, in the same damn breath, but not great like their honeymoon period.

    Normal, disappointing political sideways speak, vapid, including repetition on what’s already been said which always makes the bullshit sensors tingle due to the utter avoidance factor involved. On fucking repeat.

    Dead moderate, definite overlap with pre-Trump Republican stuff.

    Like no fracking ban. Specified in the interview. Granted, she needs all of Pennsylvania to win this, and it’s a fracking industry state. (I know, not a topic people have had room for in their brains lately but there it is popping up once again.)

    Israel. The they should be able to defend themselves but we need to establish a ceasefire stance. Bernie talks about it better, in a Hassan Minaj interview. (Essentially, B says the current govt is heavily influenced by its own far right faction which is pushing for genocide). K repeats over and over that they can continue to defend themselves with our support but we need to establish a ceasefire, which isn’t elaborated on further. (We are steeped in colonialism over here, as was recently pointed out, so is it any surprise we are here now with Israel’s colonialism? Would any of us be all that surprised if there’s suddenly Palestinian reservations over there as the “two state” solution? But I digress.)

    Walz sidestepped his drunk driving charge and shook his head over splitting hairs on which fertility treatment was received. And repeated the bit on how he’d never question another man’s military service. But it was mostly Harris talking.

    Essentially, it was like a bullet list of all the things people were questioning on the Harris Walz campaign, in a bullet list format by the interviewer. Like homework almost, homework grudgingly completed at a C+ level.

    Still voting for them, but it’s not great. It’s a gender war, this election, so for my own future and that of my spawn I have to vote Harris.