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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamD7RueuvA

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On the Border, the choice is simple.
Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of border patrol agents.
Donald Trump blocked a bill to increase the number of border patrol agents.
Kamala Harris supports investing in new technology to block fentanyl from entering the country.
Donald Trump blocked funding for technology to block fentanyl from entering the country.
Kamala Harris supports spending more money to stop human traffickers.
Donald Trump blocked money to stop human traffickers.
Kamala Harris prosecuted transnational gang members and got them sentenced to prison.
Trump is trying to avoid being sentenced to prison
There's two choices in this election:
The one who will fix our broken immigration system and the one who's trying to stop her.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (3 children)

lmao, the party to prevent fascism, everyone! amerikkka-clap

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'member 4 years ago when they were talking about the 'kids in cages' and Trump's deranged spending on ICE and Border Patrol?

yea

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Who built the cages Joe?"

effectively destroyed that talking point. If we need to have Trump, I wish we had that Trump back

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

‘Oh yeah? Bro my cops will shoot black people on the spot no ifs or buts, but go ahead vote for Trump’

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Antifascism is apparently when overtaking fascists from the right

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She shored up "the left" so quickly she's immediately started advertising how right wing she is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

maybe-later-honey Nonononono you don’t understand she’s not giving our colony weaponry right now so you don’t have any excuse to not vote for the Lesser Of Two Evils

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of border patrol agents? Ew, why is she so weird.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i'm so borderpilled and drone surveillance maxxxing right now kamala-coconut-tree

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

It's build the wall brat summer

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These democrats today, are just a little strange, you know? Like, they say they're part of the "left" but then do this appeal to the right. It's just a little weird, you know? Like what is it, are we a country of immigrants, or do we just want to rack up cops on the border to shoot them all dead?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

are we a country of immigrants, or do we just want to rack up cops on the border to shoot them all dead?

Ask the indigenous people of America. I think we all know the answer.

skeleton-guns-akimbo

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

Truly this is Vice President Trump.

cheeto-man

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

This is just like in 2020 when Biden and trump were both competing on how tough they were going to be on China.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

She had to take up the mantle from Biden of 99% Hitler to Trump's 100%.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most braindead, easiest two term president ever (and maybe even repeal the amendment capping terms... who knows):

Openly tell Joe to force Bibi to sign a ceasefire agreement. In the meantime, start openly speaking with the UN to figure out how to enforce some sort of international peacekeeping thing in Palestine broadly speaking (including Israel if unclear)

Promise to name and shame senators and representatives and personally pressure them using all means possible to get a medicare for all bill done. Throw Manchin under the bus as an appetizer and throw Biden under the bus for being a pussy.

Promise to name and shame and use all pressures possible including arrests to force through a nationalization of fossil fuels and immediate drawn down of their production with a simultaneous build up of solar and other non-fossil fuels.

Promise to day one immediately begin negotiations with all the nations that have US bases in them currently to begin the process of pulling troops from the countries and handing the bases back. Set a hard goal of 50% of all overseas bases fully evacuated of US troops within the first term

All of this stuff directly benefits normal, working Americans and only harms the capitalist and political class. But if you betray the capitalists well you basically set yourself up to be a god in your own time or get your head blown off. And honestly, just in my opinion, if you aren't aiming for one of those goals as the leader of a bourgeois democracy... I don't want you leading it. The right wingers love Trump in part because he LIES about half of this shit. Imagine if someone from the left (obv not gonna be Kamala, although she had and is squandering a chance at being revered forever in the US) got in and actually did that shit that basically all Americans are on board with or would be on board with once it was done.

Well maybe if I keep dreaming about it I'll get to live it... in the moments immediately preceding my death, right before my asshole finally gives out and poo fills my shorts, I can live in a sane country.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

yeah any of this stuff is a one way ticket to a head explodey from some "deranged lone wolf"

lol i finished typing that and somehow didn't see you posted the same thing

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Promise to day one immediately begin negotiations with all the nations that have US bases in them currently to begin the process of pulling troops from the countries and handing the bases back. Set a hard goal of 50% of all overseas bases fully evacuated of US troops within the first term

You'd have a week at most after promising this one. Probably just a day or two.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, you don’t understand so many Dems out there. There’s some wild Democrats who think the party is already far too left for them, that think that Palestinians are the ones who want genocide against Israelis, that the poors are getting too uppity. Way too many ‘moderate Dems’ out there to break the party should they push to left.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the party is well to the right of the electorate, what are you on

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

harm reduction candidate

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Man it was such a good idea to concede to republican rhetoric for the thousandth time because you were scared you’d look weak (they’re always gonna call you weak no matter what you do i-love-not-thinking) amerikkka-clap

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

trump had better win and destroy america faster

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

"harm reduction"

Oh look it's the competent fascist who would follow trump. : |

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

they keep doing this psycho shit , bragging about brutalizing immigrants to try to get Pennsylvania, and all it's doing is pissing off their base in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Who would have thought the cop would do cop things?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

KKKopmala HarriSS back at it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not as important as everything else, but . . . who narrates this, and can we punch him in the face?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Here, I found him nerd

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

:Copmala-HarriSS:

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Dems: "We are further right on all these policies than the guy we've been calling hitler for years"

Liberals: "YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE HARM REDUCTION CANDIDATE"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

RACE TO THE BOTTOM

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Yet still I overheard someone saying she supported open borders today. Brother trust me, I support open borders and she very much does not lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In 2032 the Dem candidate is going to be bragging about how they supported automatic turret emplacements all along the wall and a train that automatically refills them (Factorio style) and the Republican incumbent will be promising that the highway to allow trucks to carry ammunition to the automatic turrets is the greatest highway ever built (it will be a functionless pile of concrete in the desert) and Tesla will have the contracts for both the ammo-loading train and the ammo-loading trucks (they will be vaporware, the actual reloading will be done by undocumented immigrants working for a contracting company).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Big Oil will lobby to replace the whole system with flame turrets that conveniently tap into its nearby pipeline.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Trump, the harm reduction candidate.

~~this is purely a joke~~

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

oooooh dear...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR 99% HITLER TO STOP THE IMMIGRANTS

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

KKKamala HarriSS

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

This could just be any republican campaign ad minus the trump stuff.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

new technology to block fentanyl from entering the country

puzzled are they gonna invent a fentanyl detector that you walk through in addition to the metal detector or what?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yes, it's a room full of cops, and if they start shaking and crying and shidding and farding, that means you set it off and the hysterical cops have to search you

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

This shit makes me want to fucking die

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

You.. yo.u....all don't get it, if trump is in office there will be no rights or democracy. Imagine what trump wud do huh. Are you really throwing all the poc folk, lgbtq folk under the bus by supporting trump. big-cool

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I fucking hate it, but if you're a dem shitheel that your entire base will still vote for you blue no matter who, this is probably a decent triangulation effort to peel off "moderate Republicans." If you stand for nothing and intend to improve nothing if elected and only care about improving your odds in swing states, why wouldn't you do some bullshit like this? A bunch of the American left that exists beyond being "gettable" for the Dems were never going to vote for them anyway regardless, and the ones who could will enivatably rationalize it as harm reduction somehow. The main Dem base never really gave a shit to begin with and were perfectly happy boosting a senile fossil supporting a genocide, and now they're ecstatic about getting to vote for a candidate that's not clinically demented that's a mixed race woman of color with functionally identical politics to the guy that eulogized Strom Thurmond. In conclusion, amerikkka

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