and you know who helped Kamala and Dem leadership to not even bother to consider running that kind of actually anti-genocide populist campaign?
Online pseudo-radical YouTubers and Twitch streamers who instead of calling out what the campaign actually was, a genocidal neo-con neoliberal Cheney fan-fest, came up with epic coconut palm tree memes and said she was brat and said those fake bullshit "Palestinians are human too, I guess" lines were a massive major huge shift never said before even though it was an exact verbatim copy of Genocide Joe's script and even George Bush had more radical rhetoric on Israel calling it an occupation:
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These vile scum all provided pseudo-radical covering for Kamala and Democrats to continue with their campaign as was, and shift ever further to the right and lean ever more into the Cheney fandom.
And why did these pseudo-radicals do that? Because they wanted to keep their AOC and Bernie interviews. They wanted to keep their Democratic Convention invites. They wanted to keep getting glowing NYT and Atlantic mag profiles about how epic and based they are and are "combatting the alt-right pipeline online".
In short, they wanted to keep the flow of donations and money from "progressive soc-dem" pseudo-radicals going, and explicitly calling out the Kamala campaign for what it was, and calling on their followers to never vote for it or support it, would have immediately ended all that.
There is one rule in online liberal-left media: You can say whatever the fuck you want about being an epic communist, anti-capitalist, socialist, whatever, no one gives a fuck. But when election times comes around, you better shut the fuck up and fall in line and let your audience know that they should vote for Democrats. If you don't, and you instead call on them to abstain and not vote, or vote for a third party, you're done. You will never got those profiles, never got those AOC gaming streams. It's over.
So that's what they all did, aside from a very select few who are of course always smeared as "tankies" and "fringe purists" even though if they had been listened to, if we had been listened to, you would not a second Trump term right now.
That's a fact.
if right after picking Tim Walz as her VP Kamala had explicitly vowed to end the ongoing Gaza genocide by saying she would withhold all arms and funding supplies and diplomatic cover if it did not stop, and then also unveiled an economic package of free college, medicare for all, and a 15 or higher minimum wage, she would have easily won the election. That's just a fact, as all of this would have energized the Dem base and also poll very well among independents and even some Republicans.
Instead she ran on being the new version of Liz and Dick Cheney, vowing to endlessly continue the ongoing mass killing and rape of Palestinians and regurgitating genocidal atrocity propaganda hoaxes constantly, saying Iran is the greatest threat to the US and must be destroyed, having Mark Cuban as her main economic guru vowing to deregulate and cut taxes and "be good to Wall Street", and saying actually the Genocide Joe economy is wonderful and great and if you disagree you're too stupid to be able to properly read charts per Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, Will Stancil and David Shor.
She ran a campaign by and for neo-con neoliberals, David Frum, Jeffrey Goldberg, Yglesias, Shor, and ate shit for it. She was humiliated so badly by a candidate, Trump, who said the most insane deranged shit constantly about Haitians eating dogs and cats, about how she's not really black, not having a plan for doing anything at all.
And you know why she and Democratic leadership did that? Because they didn't care if they lost. Losing is nothing to them. They keep their donor money. The Dem political PR strategist media class keeps its jobs. In fact, they get even more money because they'll switch to being epic based "resistance heroes" again and fleece their base of even more cash.
Kamala Harris and Democratic leadership intentionally threw the election instead of actually running a campaign that could win, because Israel is Uber Alles for them, Zionism sacrosanct, as are their other corporate overlords.
That's what happend in the 2024 election.
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