The article was posted on the 5th prior to the election being called.

Actually you do :) that’s sometimes what life is like, getting better bit by bit, and not getting everything you want. Now we’re in trouble, and the blame is on those who didn’t vote to avoid this outcome.

Maybe Democrats should run a DJ for president next election to hype people up since policy isn’t a motivating factor when comparing the two candidates.

And this is a situation I blame voters for. I was personally enthused to defend my country against a fascist authoritarian.

I did my part.

Thank you for agreeing with my premise, that Harris and Trump policies were not compared against each other when votes were cast. I seem to very succinctly understand the issue, and you have validated what I’ve said.

Harris wins on policy when compared to Trump. Harris loses on policy when compared to ideals. And when posed with a decision between the two, I just wish voters realized this.

I do not, in any way, blame Harris for being better than Trump by orders of magnitude.

I think these voters, wherever they land on the Democratic spectrum, need to be hurt before they realize that life is about compromise (I’m not advocating for violence). And they will be hurt, along with others, directly by their actions because an unhinged Trump is going to bring it. My only hope is that by some grace of the universe (and incapability of Republicans to function) they can’t enact every policy they outline in project 2025 before Democrats get a chance at the midterms, and provide some sort of guard rail against this insanity.

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist…”

All of this proves that Harris was better on policy by every metric compared to Trump. In a policy vs policy showdown, Harris wins, and thank you for confirming that with the short list you provided.

Listing policies that a Harris admin would perform better on compared to whatever lies Trump peddled does not further the idea that Harris was lacking in policy. It reinforces my points that they are not compared against each other. To say she was unpopular for her stance on the economy or Israel or whatever does not compare her to Trump, he would do worse. It compares her to ideals. Like I’ve been saying.

And what part of Trump’s policies, in comparison to Harris’, made him the better candidate?

Remember, this has to be phrased in a way that purports to weigh Trump against Harris directly, not in a way that shows how people weren’t jazzed enough to vote for Harris, otherwise my points stand.

“I’ve got concepts of a plan…”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-celebrate-project-2025-trump-win-1235155322/

Once again proving my point that this is not a competition between Harris and Trump. Nothing I said had been proven wrong.

Inflation reduction act… Chips…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election

The election saw the highest voter turnout by percentage since 1900. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election.

Just lies… Barely squeaked by…

But don’t you see how Democrats were taught a lesson for not putting forth a candidate better than Trump? /s

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/politics/2020-2016-exit-polls-2024-dg/

In 2020, about half of Americans said abortion should be legal in all or most cases. In 2024, it’s about two-thirds of Americans who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But they didn’t necessarily tie that support to their vote for president. Nearly half of people who say abortion should be legal in most cases supported Trump.

The median voter is a tangled mess of contradictions.

I never said leftist. I’m not engaging further. The anatomy of a straw man…

And talk about proving my point… I guess “diet republican” (by whomever’s fantastical standards) is worse than trump.

Edit: not engaging. Have a good day!

I happily voted for Harris because it was a better outcome for everyone. If Democratic voters were even slightly receptive to the fact that we swapped our candidate with about 3 months to spare so that age wasn’t a concern, I think things would have gone differently. Evidently age was not the problem.

Biden was primaried along with Harris. Harris was the only choice after that, because picking any other candidate would be cramming someone forth that even fewer people agreed to support.

There is no excuse for this kind of behavior from Democratic voters. The above argument suggests Harris is not competing against Trump, but competing against the ideals of the Democratic voters. If this was really a matter of candidate vs candidate, on the issues, Trump would have lost. But this time Democratic voters fucked themselves because everything on their list wasn’t met. And now nothing on their list is met.

There’s quite literally nothing more Democrats could have done to differentiate themselves from a 34 count felon who tried to overthrow the election. It’s an unfortunate double standard. Whatever the reason someone gives, like not knowing who Harris is to her stance on the economy, there was no reason to vote for Trump, and every reason not to let him back in office.

I reject any argument that tries to blame Democrats for not reaching some set of ideals, which led to us getting trump, thus leading to none of our ideals getting met. Something about perfection being the enemy of the good…

Voters were presented with a choice between a baloney sandwich and a literal pile of human shit, and enough people whined that the sandwich didn’t have mayo.

Edit: I will not be engaging with you, as I’ve said before.

It was the headline that loaded when I put the URL in, if I can change the headline to what it currently says I will.

Done.

I Camembert the tragic loss.

I too was wondering at first, “jeez that sounds conspicuous, what kind of silenced forklifts did they use?”

K, with all that, the article still disagrees.

Apnews is a Zionist outlet?

This is objective misinformation.

K, the article disagrees.

Regional experts suggested that Israel’s relatively limited target list was intentionally calibrated to make it easier for Iran to back away from escalation.

As Yoel Guzansky, who formerly worked for Israel’s National Security Council and is now a researcher at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, put it: Israel’s decision to focus on purely military targets allows Iran “to save face.”

Israel giving them the out.