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Centrist Democrats like Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom seem to think the best way to disparage Donald Trump is to highlight his departures from free-market orthodoxy. Good luck with that.

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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago

in my opinion, It's the same bullshit she pulled during the election. She's trying to appeal to the other side by using one of their buzzwords instead of backing up the people that actually want to support her. It's literally yelling at a brick wall at this point.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Maybe I'm missing it in the article, but I'm not seeing that Harris ever said Trump is a communist. She said he's a tyrant and that we used to compare our leaders to communist leaders, but I didn't see her ever actually call him or really even insinuate that he's a communist. I could have missed the quote or maybe the quote was not included.

[-] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 12 points 11 months ago

We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up!

English is not my first language, but according to this quote, she seems to call him a „communist dictator“

[-] EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

The thing she's doing is comparing him to dictators, Communist is kind of a passing flag. The huge stupidity of the statement is expectations that the "titans of industry"would speak up. They always do, through her, the DNC, as well as the entirety of the GOP. Titans of industry always play both sides & let us wallow in the division & chaos.

If she hadn't sold out, she could have checked the votes & found she had won (were it not for Elon's "handling"of swing states'votes).

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Also, note that this was in her book. It wasn't an off the cuff remark. This was carefully thought out and edited. She could have very easily just used a different word.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

I'm only being pedantic because the media is just running with this story that Harris says trump is a commie, and it's not quite true. I'd argue she's more comparing our government under Trump to that under a communist dictator. It's not a big difference, but I think the weight of her statement is that Trump is a dictator not that he's a communist. I don't think that use of the word "communism" was an accident because it does stir some emotions in Americans because for 70+ years we've been ingrained with the idea that communism == dictatorship.

Trump is a piece of shit, waste of oxygen, dictator wannabe and Putin puppet, but he's not a communist, and I think that this narrative takes the current situation and dilutes it a little bit. Idk if I articulated that well, but at the end of the day, fuck Trump, and fuck conservatives. They're all a bunch of cunty fuck faces.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Who cares what a cop thinks her political career is dead she should just go away already.

[-] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

She'll be like Hillary and keep popping up at random times to mind us that we hate her

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