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Kaitlin Has Had Enough@gothamgirlblue.com |
This is a rant I have had for a while, but the first First Lady with a postgraduate degree, Watergate lawyer, children’s rights activist, US Senator and Secretary of State was not a weak fucking candidate. She was more progressive than Biden in every conceivable way. She got fucked over.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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And, as much as I hate Joe Biden (and I do!), the man is a six term US Senator, a former VP who actually did something, and an extremely capable administrator. If we were focused on the job of president and not the spectacle of it then this would be obvious, but we keep getting caught in the circus
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BlepBork
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People say it’s not she’s a woman it’s her personality but they didn’t like Warren either for equally nebulous reasons.
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Rosemary Joyce
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And she got more actual people’s votes. (And won the debates not that making sense and knowing things apparently matters.) I literally advocated against her policies in Latin America as Secretary of State but never denied her qualifications.
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@keithy.bsky.social
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She did get fucked over, and the hate for her was irrational. But her "weakness" was just that so many people already hated her, or were suspicious of her to the extent that the email thing could seem like a big deal to them. She was qualified and capable. And came with a lot of (unfair) baggage.
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Bill Stewart
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Hillary wasn't weak; she was a strong enough candidate that the Republicans had spent 25 years bashing her and scaring their base into hating her. But she was vulnerable to that. If Obama hadn't beaten her in the 2008 primary, she'd've probably won then anyway.
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ordinary jo
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Hmmm. Obama beat her in 2008 because of a huge voter sign-up drive. Trump beat her in 2016 because she wasn't going to make that mistake again. I know what you're saying but she fucked it from the start and then called the voters she needed unreliable witnesses to their own lives.
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Son of Herby
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The GOP and even mainstream Dems have been after her since her husband was elected. The Washington Post jumped all over her when she said she wasn't going to be the kind of first lady to host tea parties in the rose garden.
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CMK
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I agree that she was not weak, but I’ll respectfully suggest that her history as Bill’s aide-de-camp and involvement with Wal-Mart showed her to be less progressive on labor issues than Biden.
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Multiple Mental Illnesses In A Trenchcoat 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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I think the lady who bragged about turning Libya into an open air slave market and who's department fought Haiti's minimum wage because her foundation needed the cheap labor was actually a bad candidate despite having a bunch of establishment gold stars
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manes
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Yes. I find Hobbes wrong so rarely that this one sticks out.
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e.e. yikes
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YUUUP. I love Warren and I like Harris too, but every time anyone says “We should run [woman]”, I feel a pang of sorrow and terror. 2016 taught me *just how much* this country hates women. As much as I want a woman president, I don’t want to learn that lesson again.
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