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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

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I just say shit until something smart pops out. Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Probably eating carbs. gothamgirlblue.com: has it all

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—whispers into the ether— Affirm the ERA…

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What? Are you saying the shirts at Trump rallies with “Tree, Rope, Journalist — some assembly required” weren’t being worn ironically? Or the times he incited his crowds to harass them as “enemies” wasn’t performance art?! Wild inferences there, friend

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We have a framework for her and our expectations, and most white people don’t. I got blasted for not acting like I “should” so much as a Black girl that I can see how it’s happening to her for failing to be what they want

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She didn’t run a good race. There are plenty of candidates who don’t have great campaigns who are nonetheless excellent in the job.

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The jokes about her personality really bother me. She has rich auntie energy and we love that for her. And she loves being herself; you can tell. There’s not much room to be inauthentic with the tightrope she’s on.

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Harris grew up when educating children like her was a national debate. She had to get through school on her own; she wasn’t born to a wealthy family. Like most Black women she was told she wasn’t enough and never would be. Maybe she’s tougher than many people assume.

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It’s better than a bad debate performance, but it doesn’t mean much

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That is one of the reasons she didn’t get to the primaries…but at the same time she’s had four years next to the beating heart of the federal government, so maybe she’s learned and adapted? I just don’t think people are static.

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First Black/South Asian Senator from California, first Black/South Asian AG of California, only the fifth Black person elected to the Senate since Reconstruction—and she did all of it as a woman Sometimes I wonder if y’all have even the slightest idea how hard that is

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It might be true that she didn’t have the greatest showing in 2019/2020, but it is almost certainly true that many of the people trying to ignore or diminish Kamala Harris never gave her a fair look

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It gets even more frustrating when they point out we’re in a highly polarized environment and yet insist that there are a large group of non-ideological voters making rational choices that we can convince with a thoughtful message These people are unhinged

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Spent the last seven years trying to stop the inevitable since I saw where we were going and it’s gone about as well as every other person who tried across history

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The nonchalant vibes are reminiscent of the first Civil War and that is categorically Not Good

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We also have to consider that the financial interests of owners and highly paid columnists are not aligned at all with democracy (they think), and none of them travel outside of their bubbles to understand why

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Would be a nightmare for the states that have signed onto the popular vote compact, but we could just pretend we don’t know what that is

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To be fair, my parents had it on and touching the television would have gotten me punted into the sun

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I used to be so bored as a kid during the McLaughlin Group on Sunday mornings that I wanted to fall back asleep and now I would give anything for politics to be that dull again Exciting politics is an adrenaline response to survival instincts; getting functional policy is meant to be boring

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The best case scenario if he even gets the nomination (lol) is that he loses and Trump uses JP Morgan Chase as a personal piggybank. Worst case is dying in Gitmo.

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I keep coming back to the passage of Washington's Farewell Address in which Roberts cloaked his bid for authoritarianism. Roberts took a passage warning against corruption, foreign influence, insurrection, and authoritarianism, & said, "sign me up!"

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I could make this about any liberal project, any right or social equity, and it would read the same. We need affirmative politics, not the defensive justification that what previous generations did was enough

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Suspend habeas corpus for them as they’re arrested and claim it’s to suppress known insurrectionists

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Desegregation is being unraveled. Separate but “equal” is being reestablished. We can be defensive, or we can step up and ask for more than the preservation of the status quo.

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Oregon’s has been that high for at least five presidential cycles; it’s not just the mail-in balloting. And Minnesota is neck and neck with them!

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Toni Morrison accurately stated that racism and prejudice are largely time-wasting initiatives. It’s never about proof, but diverting your energy to provide it instead of what you should be doing

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Well…McCarthy was also a dipshit. Let’s not give him too much credit.

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Following up that I mentioned 3 big political projects for the next 3 cycles (including this year)

2024: the ERA
2026: End the Electoral College
2028: Expand the House

I’m ok with compressing them, if we can do it. But we need to pitch it, or it won’t work. www.patreon.com/posts/104795...

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The Confederacy already claimed the rights to “Second Revolutionary War” so we should call these charlatans the third revolution just to make clear how that went

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More than that, all of this needs to be affirmative, not defensive. Oregon and Minnesota are around 70% turnout for presidential elections. If you don’t get to that number in every county, the county is put under pre-clearance until it maintains it for 3 POTUS cycles. Also expand the House.

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This wasn’t hindsight either. A lot of us argued at the time that they should be expelled. Then Joe Biden didn’t even mention it in his inaugural speech two weeks later. Not expulsion. Not the coup attempt itself. Just…nothing.

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Mad that this argument against the Constitution is absolutely valid because John Roberts is a cowardly little fartknocker

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Holy crap. While I was in a much needed temporary coma, y'all boosted this so hard there's only $367 of this ask left. This journey's been rough. I frequently feel like I'm hustling backwards. Thank you for helping me make my tiny corner of healthcare less brittle, less racist, and less punitive.

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Happy Disability Pride Month.

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I wrote this before the Imperial Court issued its diktats, but I could see what was coming. If we want January 6th recognized for the crime it is, if we want to punish the perpetrator of that crime, we need our best to make the case against him. www.damemagazine.com/2024/05/07/t...

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Not a reason, but an excuse. It’s what they want to do anyway, but they know they can’t defend it.

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"As [Harris] breaks down the weak defenses of the January 6th Insurrection, she can build upon her boss’s restraint, discipline, deference, and adherence to the rule of law—and, tacitly, her own."

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I’m so touched by this, honestly 😭

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🥹🥹🥹

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Almost completely true, but it also means a lot of progressive policy wouldn’t have made it into the platform. It would have been a battle on more conservative grounds.

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Thank you! I really appreciate that! And I’m glad I could give you something to be enthusiastic about. I’m firmly anti-doomer about politics.

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The only way to do it is to create an affirmative platform that is larger than the candidate so that she becomes an agent of a mission and not the foundation for an era of politics. Fuck, I'm gonna need to write a whole post for this, huh?

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This party is the entire rational spectrum of politics, and it's unsustainable. The cracks are finally showing up in public.

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Tired: Biden promising a resignation to calm concerns about his age Wired: Biden promising a resignation at the end of his term to stave off impeachment hearings over lying to Congress about his constant disregard of human rights law

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I see white men are letting down the Democratic coalition today...like they do everyday

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Jamaican! And that's a crossover our stomachs desperately deserve

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If it happens, I will be rooting for the first Black/South Asian woman to ever be a major party nominee to be the best version of herself. I don't know about the rest of y'all. (They should keep the drama going until closer to the convention)

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It's only so he can give them orders to assassinate his political opponents, as an official action, no biggie

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IANAL!!!! I'm just a weirdo with too much time on my hands!

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If democracy is on the ballot, it's not enough to tell us so and wait for us to react; someone has to make the case! She's well-equipped to do so if she knows what the goal is.

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