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samsingh

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7. We lost to a convicted felon that may destroy Democracy.

Reply to PunkinPi (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 10:14 AM

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it's vital to understand how, we the good side, did not do everything imaginable to stop the election going to the republicans. We lost every branch of government in what was argued, rightly i believe, as the most crucial election of the century.

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Kamala Harris' book pinpoints one of Democrats' biggest problems [View all] PunkinPi Yesterday OP

I continue to think that Harris did the best she could under the circumstances, but that she was just never a very good tritsofme Yesterday #1

I think that it was mostly because of circumstances that were not her fault. everyonematters Yesterday #2

Aka blackmail, propaganda, etc Hornedfrog2000 Yesterday #3

I don't think that is an excuse for not giving ourselves the best chance to win an election. everyonematters Yesterday #6

Biden/Harris was the primary ticket. A vote for Biden in the primary was also a vote for his VP in the primary. nt PunkinPi Yesterday #4

Biden declining to run for reelection with enough time for a real primary tritsofme Yesterday #5

We lost to a convicted felon that may destroy Democracy. samsingh Yesterday #7

Another expose (accent acute over the e) book is not going to help. usonian Yesterday #8