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      Rest assured that The New York Times has called everyone into the office until they figure out how this is bad for the Harris campaign.

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    No voters are changing their minds in regards to candidates right now and haven’t for literally months. Both campaigns are in a race against the couch, but only the Trump campaign seems to know it.

    All of this goes to nothing if Trump wins, and for his voters, it’s all fake news anyways. If Harris doesn’t return to the Undecided/uncommitted voters she abandoned at the convention, there simply aren’t the votes to get her over the finish line. It’s shocking to realize that she campaigned like any cohort of democratic voters were disposable, but I guess that’s consistent with the administrations (and the US writ large) view on Muslims and middle easterners

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      It’s amazing how you find all this time to consistently complain about kamala and Democrats but not trump or Republicans.

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        Who needs to complain about Trump on a lefist platform?

        How many of his supporters do you actually expect to find on Lemmy?

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      It’s almost like this isn’t about the election; it’s about justice

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        If you lose the election, this evaporates. The administration could have started this within hours after taking office. Instead they waited literally years to pursue a case. And perhaps now it’s too late to make a difference.

        So if it’s about justice, why didn’t the administration pursue the issue from day one? If it’s about justice, why didn’t they go after Trump for treason for instigating a violent insurrection to overturn the will of the people on J6? Where was ‘justice’ then? The administration pursued the least of Trump’s crimes and only once an election cycle began. Miss me with this feigned sense of justice.

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          The administration could have started this within hours after taking office. Instead they waited literally years to pursue a case.

          You mean DoJ, which is well at arms length from the administration (for now). Plenty of people have for a long time rightly criticized Merrick Garland of being overly cautious with all of this. Still, there is something to be said for being overly cautious when, for the first time in US history, considering charging a former president with federal crimes. Even if “pursuing a case” had started with more haste, it would still have taken years to come to charges, because you don’t lay those charges in this situation without having an airtight case. That requires a very lengthy investigative process.

          I’ll give you a pass for not knowing how the US justice system works, since I’m sure you don’t live here.

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            If Trump wins, any long term case against him is gone. Time is the most essential factor in prosecuting him.

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      You post this in every thread about the election. It’s not true, and you can’t will it into reality by spamming it everywhere.

      Your goal is transparently awful, and your methods are pathetic.

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          It’s absolutely not true. It’s your opinion- as a good portion of what you’re saying isn’t something you could possibly ever know. It’s not even causing her to lose this election as this election hasn’t even happened yet.

          And whatever polls you’re getting your OPINION from…. Yeah. They don’t know either.

          Stop with the misinformation.

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            Unless the polls are wildly wrong this year, then what I am saying is the objective truth. Kamala is losing this election. The polls could be wrong; but they are probably not. That being unsettling to you doesn’t make it false.

            And what we do know is that just about the time that Kamala started to shift to the right, this coincides with her loss in momentum and subsequent stalling out, and then backsliding in the polls.

            And I’ve got to keep repeating it because a cult-like mentality of denying reality has gripped many people. Its sad and uncomfortable that she isn’t doing better. But we have to live in a fact based world, even if we don’t want to hear it.

            Reality: Kamala’s polling numbers have gone to shit.

            Reality: She was doing really well up until the convention. On the final day of the convention, she refused to platform a Gazan and instead platformed several Republicans.

            Reality: She then accepted Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney’s endorsements, both neoconservatives, and started pitching herself as a “bi-partisian” good for business candidate, going so far as to hit the campaign trail with Liz Cheney.

            Reality: These shifts in policy, rhetoric, and how she was campaigning correlate almost exactly with when she stalled out and began to slide in polling.

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              Unless the polls…

              Gonna stop ya there champ. This is where you made a mistake.

              Pols aren’t facts.

              Didn’t bother reading the rest. You’re stating an opinion based on polling. You have no idea what you’re talking about here.

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                Pols aren’t facts.

                I mean for you, it seems like facts aren’t facts. You are literally refusing to participate in a shared reality.

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                  I don’t participate in bullshit predictions by people who have zero credentials to accurately make predictions.

                  Fee free to continue stating opinions as fact, and I’ll continue to call you out for it as I’ve done here.

                  I’m not entering a back and forth with you on this.