Not to defend “them”, but I really do believe that very little of this has anything to do with the fact that she’s a woman. It’s a red versus blue thing, democracy versus fascism. At this point, it doesn’t really matter who runs for president, wrt gender or even race. Trump has attacked her race far more than mentioning anything about her gender. Nonetheless, Trump just sees the dems as “the enemy“, and has convinced all of his cultists to view things in the same terms.
Any other Republican of this current generation would probably attack her on her gender as much as her race, but for some reason, Trump only attacks things he doesn’t understand such as biraciality (biracialness? Biracitude?).
They've attacked the fact she's a childless woman plenty. Like if it mattered for her policies. I doubt they'll straight up attack her for just being a woman much because they still want the conservative woman vote but they'll sure as shit attack her for woman things.
Hey, that lady hasn't had kids. I haven't had kids, but that's ok because I'm a man. Fuck that bitch, she doesn't have kids, she can't be an american. /s
Trump and his reich frequently attack her for being a step mother, accuse her of using sex for professional gain, and call her a cat lady. What the fuck are you talking about?
While I agree that at its heart it's a red vs blue issue, I've seen more than enough explicitly sexist commentary from Trump supporters, most commonly suggesting that Kamala has attained her status via sexual favors rather than years of public service.
Trump supporters
Ahem…
I’ve heard people openly talking about this election being “whether a woman gets to be president or not”.
I'm sure it has much nuance, but all things being equal. If she were a 45 year old white man, I believe it would be a lot less close.
I believe that a lot of it has to do with her being a non-white woman.
Obviously, something like 30-40% of people had already picked a side and were going to vote either Trump or whoever was not Trump on the other ticket. But, there are still plenty of people in the middle. Given how extreme the US is, the "middle" isn't reasonable, thoughtful people. They're all voting for the democrats. It's racists who don't think abortion should be banned. It's sexists who are concerned with corruption. It's people who are in the alt-right bubble and think that George Soros and Bill Gates are using mosquitoes to infect people with 5G... but who think Trump is a Freemason, so you can't vote for him.
👍 in my country I'm in the middle, but by US-American standards I'm far left (or more left than the democrats at least).
Pretty much, I used to think Hillary was just THAT unpopular, and that Trump could never win a fair election with someone competent, capable, and without baggage.
I really hope I wasn't wrong...
They are new to politics, and are using the only model they find applicable:
Sports spectating, ala pro-wrestling or college football.
To add to that, calling them sexist further entrenches them. A big part of that movement is a reaction to being called sexist, racist, etc... All you're doing is playing into their own propaganda. That's why the "weird" moniker was so much more effective.
Obama had to be polite, intelligent, and well-spoke, or else he'd be considered too "hood" for the White House, Trump has had no such requirement.
If Obama or Harris had shown up with their five kids from three different marriages, it would be the ultimate proof that the "Lessers are breeding like crazy!" and they would be condemned by the bigots on Right and the "I'm not racist, but..." on the Left|
When Trump did it, he was just seen as a family man.
-Hosts dinner
-Cold shitty McDonald's
I would've ordered some pizza and left that bullshit
At the level orangie is polling, sexist would be generous. A flaming dumpster fire probably more accurate.
Yeah! How dare you! /s
Chalk it up to Citizens United and corporate media - the partnership to end democracy.
bold of you to assume they don't love him because he attempted a coup on live tv
I just want universal healthcare FOR FUCKS SAKE
Was he actually convicted of that though?
It wasn't a criminal proceeding, but he was found at fault or whatever the civil court equivalent is
The civil court equivalent is being adjudged liable.
My experience whit those folks is that you can't extrapolate observations to make conclusions about the past.
So basically they throw away any inductive reasoning that would be detrimental to their pet belief.
Only a civil case, not a criminal conviction.
It means a judge found that enough evidence existed to conclude he more likely than not raped as opposed to beyond a shadow of a doubt same standard of proof as If I did it OJ
She's doing better than the old white man who's been politically powerful for half a century...
The thing is we could have ran AOC and shed have pissed off exactly as many conservatives, but gotten a whole lot more moderate support and taken votes from Stein
The biggest problems with Kamala Harris are her policies
The biggest problems with Kamala Harris are her policies
She's getting my vote in 2024, but I'm not buying the "hold your nose to save democracy" line again in 2028. This sprint to the right she's pulled in recent months better be to get in the door.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/kamala-harris-progressives-democrats.html
As Vice President Kamala Harris makes a broad play to the political center, some Democrats worry that she is going too far in her bid to win over moderates who are skeptical of former President Donald J. Trump. In private — and increasingly in public as Election Day fast approaches — they say she risks chilling Democratic enthusiasm by alienating progressives and working-class voters.
Damn right she risks it.
From the same article:
She has centered her economic platform on middle-class issues like small businesses and entrepreneurship rather than raising the minimum wage, a deeply held goal of many Democrats that polls well across the board. She has taken a harder-line stance on the border than has any member of her party in a generation and has talked more prominently about owning a Glock than about combating climate change. She has not broken from President Biden on the war Israel is waging in Gaza.
Edit - wow that's a good article. It says everything that needs to be said.
“The tent is big enough for a guy who got us into a war with Iraq, and then the tent is not big enough for a Palestinian to speak for two minutes on the D.N.C. stage,” said Ms. Joshi, contrasting the endorsement of Ms. Harris by Ms. Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, with the Democratic Party’s decision not to invite a Palestinian American to speak at its national convention.
She is not competent at all.
She passed the bar exam which is known for being an incredibly difficult exam. And defended victims (including sexual assault) by herself in courts for years.
The Don on the other hand boasted you need to be quite smart to win golf championships and didn't realize you can't inject the same stuff you disinfect with to cure COVID (which is common sense).
His own ex staff calls him dangerous and stupid including Mike Pence. Kamala has the support of her staff and a huge amount of Donald's too.
The only one calling Kamala stupid is Trump..
Wouldn't you want someone who has comprehensive knowledge of the law running the country, instead of a rapist who is leaking classified documents to everyone he can?
Well she's not a competent con artist, but that's not what it's supposed to be about.
You say that as if you would claim that Mr Trump is competent, despite his (presumably age related) mental problems and his complete lack of ability in doing politics
Less how sexist ð country as a whole is and more how sexist ð battleground states are.
If it was even just FPTP popular vote, Hariss would be projected for a landslide right now.
The deck is stacked. But when you talk about leveling the playing field - with DC statehood or repel of felony disenfranchisement or just prosecuting a cunt like Elon when he's caught buying votes in an election - liberals just shrug and insist there's nothing they can do.
Pure controlled opposition. You begin to question whether they even want to win.
I don’t know why you’re being down voted. Democrat opposition being weak and ineffective is such a recognized fact that it has a name: the ratchet system.
So libs are really just dropping all lip service to criminal justice reform now.
Well hello there 1 month old obvious hexbear alt
Yeah cuz hexbear is the only place on the internet where you'll find this opinion /s
Hur dur RaGeBaiT iS fUn
I believe very strongly that there is a criminal who needs to be reformed by the justice system.
Strangely, he's allowed to run for president anyway.
Most competent and qualified genocider #girlboss 💕. Her form of genocide is much more elegant than her opponent's.
Cool so I assume you're voting for Harris then? She obviously is the candidate who would cause less harm to the people of Gaza and Palestinians in general.
So it'd be pretty dumb to say something like that and then not try to do what you can as an individual to help (by voting for Harris).
You assume correctly! Like you, I am simp-pathetic to upholding the genocidal status quo.
It'd be pretty dumb not to blame anyone except those that nominated Harris, the best and only possible candidate to beat Trump.
It would be outright dimwitted to believe any other course of action exists besides voting to show one's undying loyalty to career politicians who uphold the beautiful and completely non-toxic American status quo.
Strange how you only complain about her regarding this issue, when drump would 1000 time worse for the Palestinians.
Clearly, you'd prefer someone who would attack his own nation's people. Because obviously, that's preferable. /s
Attacking friendlies is bad, except when Israel does it?
reported Israeli military attacks against US military and UN peacekeepers:
October 11, 2024: Israeli military fired on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two Sri Lankan soldiers and one Indonesian soldier. The Israeli military acknowledged responsibility for the incident. October 10, 2024: Israeli military fired on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two members of the peacekeeping force. The UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) reported that Israeli tanks had deliberately fired at and disabled monitoring cameras prior to the attack. October 11, 2024: Israeli military struck a UN peacekeeper position in southern Lebanon, wounding two peacekeepers. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack, calling it a “grave violation of international humanitarian law.” October 13, 2024: Israeli tanks forced entry into a UNIFIL position in southern Lebanon, according to the UN. The UNIFIL reported that Israeli forces had destroyed the position’s main gate and forcibly entered the position. October 14, 2024: Israeli military attacked a Christian town in northern Lebanon, killing at least 21 people, including civilians and UN peacekeepers. The UN Secretary-General condemned the attack, calling it a “grave violation of international humanitarian law.”
It is not a scandal but SF ... the place she left with no scandals ... is a husk of its former self with billionaires calling for "grey shirts" to murder the homeless because the police don't do it enough.
That is the long term social reality of what Harris and the CA governor did in SF.
FYI
She left the office of SF DA in 2011.
She left the office of CA AG in 2017.
Explain to me how she caused the problems the city is facing today. There are significant levels of crime, poverty, homeless and substance abuse going on in all major US cities, including red states. Do you also blame TX governor Greg Abbott and TX AG Ken Paxton for the elevated levels of crime, substance abuse, and homelessness Austin TX has been facing in recent years?
Yeah, that's like blaming Obama for the country's rise in more visible and more obvious racism. Just because something happened when someone was in charge doesn't mean that they caused it.
This screams of someone from a small town who went to SF on vacation and saw some icky homeless people and went home aghast and needed someone to blame it on.
No, the douchebag techbros would have done all that anyway.
I went to SF looking for hippies and found the world's largest open-plan office. It's so gross.
People pretending Kamala is competent is almost as funny as people pretending Trump is Christian.
This is going to be Hilary all over again. Absolutely the same clueless "why won't you vote for me?! I have such good referrals!!" energy.
She's not even president yet, she passed the bar exam, and yet you've figured her out
Have you got your bar licence? Maybe it makes sense to have someone in charge of the US who has comprehensive knowledge of the law.... Just a thought
Whereas you posted 8500 comments in the past year alone averaging 15 comments per day since joining last year.. Which suggests you're possibly not even employed...
Also the implication that a subset of Americans are sexist because they won't vote for a woman who has expressed unwavering support in continuing a genocide.
More 👏 female 👏 genocide 👏 perpetrators 👏
Netanjahu is openly cheering for trump, knowing that he will have no more breaks on his plan to completely level Gaza and expand on the settler program.
Trump is the one that basically told the Palestinian people that they'll never have Jerusalem as a capital by moving the embassy there
It's so obvious how much this is just a bad-faith attempt to discourage people from voting for the clearly better choice if you care about Palestine...
You do realize that if trump wins, there is a very real possibility he'll nuke Gaza himself? Because I need to know you understand that. Kamala might not be as harsh on bibi as you'd like, but she'll work towards a ceasefire. Trump has threatened to nuke foreign countries before but was stopped by his staff like his former chief of staff, john kelly, and his former secretary of defense mark milley (both of whom have recently come out and described trump as a fascist btw). And that staff won't be around this time to stop him. He's surrounding himself with sycophants who will blindly do his bidding.
No scandals other than the genocide thing.
Because Trump is so Pro-Palestine. /s
what a moronic and inhumane reply.
or maybe there isn’t anything sensible to defend this. biden, trump, harris all need to be jailed for life. but because there are all part of same scheme we are left with this scam. i won’t be surprised if biden like kissinger gets noble peace prize for murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians and children.
She's not president. What is she single-handedly supposed to do? Hilarious that people blame her, not Biden.
Like, we have a felon, racist, con-artist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, asshat who is running and has actively embodied wanting to be the next Hitler, disparages fallen soldiers, taken obvious bribes, lied to citizens faces, started an attempt to overthrow our government, put children in cages, taken money from corrupt countries, will actively attempt to bring back concentration camps, ban women from having bodily autonomy, ban schools from talking about slavery or risk losing funding, make it illegal to be gay/trans, and laugh in your damn face about it all.
But no, the Black lady said some mean things and so therefore she's not qualified and so I'll just not do anything so the white guy wins.
I understand that we are stuck with these 2 candidates. But is it not still valid to complain that we have to pick between full throttle genocide and a slightly more palatable "restrained" genocide?
I'm not advocating for people not to vote for Harris. But to boil everything down to "said some mean things" is completely reductive. And you're correct that she is not the president yet. But the only indication of what her actions will be when and if she is elected, are the things that she is saying now. And right now we are not seeing much if any pushback against what Israel is doing. She keeps saying that Israel has a right to defend itself. But what Israel is doing right now is going far above and beyond simple self defense. It is a genocide.
One way that people have the power to convince her to change her policy is by being vocal about their dissatisfaction. Presidents need to have personal convictions. They can't just be completely wishy washy. But their role is to be an advocate and representative of the people's interests. This is why they get elected. Because people feel that the candidate they are voting for is in line with their beliefs, and policies and changes they wish to see. So when people are vocal about their dissatisfaction with the policies she is putting forth, it gives her an indication that it is time to take a second look at what people are criticizing her about. To actually listen to what people are saying and potentially change her views. Especially if she wants their votes.
The people that are criticizing Harris on these issues in particular are by and large people who very obviously would not vote for / do not support Trump. A criticism of Harris is not supporting Trump. It is hoping to convince Harris to become a candidate that they can fully support. Someone they truly believe in and want to become president. Not just somebody they vote for because "well at least it's not Trump".
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