I’m excited to give her a chance to put her money where her mouth is, considering she’s offered about the most substantial criticism of Israel’s genocide that we’ve seen from this administration.

Not only am I able to get my medication at all because of Democrats, I get it for free because of Democrats. If Trump were in office? I’m not even sure if federal regulations would allow me to even access estrogen or hormone blockers at all. Even if my own state ignored federal legislation (which I would frankly expect in that situation), I also have to worry about wherever it is that my medication is produced and the pharmaceutical companies that I get it from still being willing to provide it.

I have never once heard a Republican talking about substantially raising the minimum wage. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders literally ran in a Democratic primary with the campaign promise of a $15/hr federal minimum wage.

Do you think we’re going to get an increase in the federal minimum wage if Trump gets in? It seems more likely to me that he might just straight up eliminate it.

Democrats got us loan forgiveness. Democrats got us ACA. Democrats got us subsidized cell phones. Democrats offer real solutions to homelessness, like, you know, fucking homes, instead of proposing to burn tent cities and make everything harder for the homeless.

Are the Democrats perfect? No. Not remotely. There’s a ton of problems with the party’s establishment, mostly that they hug the center and are, as you say, still susceptible to corporate influence.

But when you consider the alternative? Are you kidding me?

It’s like saying that there isn’t enough water to put out all the fire around us when we’re considering whether to pour some on a blanket and shield ourselves with it. Meanwhile there’s a cheetoh in a diaper with a fucking gas can that’s about to douse the blanket if we let him.

Don’t let him.

What does that even mean?

Neither of these choices are going to do anything meaningful? Harris is going to protect my access to my medications, she’s going to protect the environment, she’s going to protect our ability to actually elect another president after her! Because those are all things Trump is threatening!

You think when corporations are even less regulated they’re not going to be squeezing you from both ends?

I really, really do not understand this thinking.

Good! We need to get the energy up and keep it up!

Gloom! Doom! Oh no!

Harris is going to save us from Trump. Are you really going to complain that a hot house tomato doesn’t taste like anything when choosing to put either it or a literal chunk of human shit in your mouth?

We need to get excited about this BLT whether it ends up being a little watery or not if we want to actually eat.

McCain was such a strange thing. For years he had a comparatively good reputation on the left. Like, he seemed like the reasonable Republican. Then he goes to try to get elected president, picks up a Tea Party running mate, and pushes hard to the right. It was a bit disorienting.

Yeah it’s pretty clearly just getting people to manually train self-driving cars for a while now.

It doesn’t have to be. Literally every other sport is more impressive.

If you want to avoid Trump, avoid the gloom and doom. I said it for Biden, I’ll say it for Harris. The things we say matter. The campaign needs our energy, not our griping.

Yes We Can, Rock the Vote, etc etc etc.

Energy wins elections. Griping does not.

I think the danger is more related to one of their other tactics: turning the left into useful idiots. I really hope we’re collectively motivated enough to avoid it

Good. Snubbing Netanyahu is about as much as this administration has managed to muster in opposition to Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide. Hopefully there’s more to come. The US needs to stop providing bombs to drop on civilians.

Crazy how honesty, compassion, and bravery actually work.

Which is why we need to spend our energy this election on motivating voters who are already on side but think voting is pointless, rather than bothering to convince fence sitters who aren’t already convinced by a Trump’s behavior.

Get your friends in swing states to vote! Get them to get their friends to vote! Harris has this, especially if we can motivate even like 5-10% of non-voters!

I thought that finger was a carrot for like 4 days.

Why is this called ‘forced labor’ and not slavery?

Honestly? I think she’s got this. I was really against the idea of derailing energy from the Biden campaign, but now that we’re here? I’m on board 100%. I have a good feeling.

She’s not Hilary. A sitting vice president probably has a better shot than a felon.

Agree to fully disagree.

But I’m also not a bruh. Suh? Idk.

Notice how what this person is saying and what they’re doing are completely at odds?

This is their playbook. Know it. Learn it. Memorize it.

Inoculate yourself.

And yet you’re still spending your limited time on Earth seemingly doing everything you can to maintain that narrative! Weird!