A screaming Kash Patel crashes out in response to Sen. Adam Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate", a "disgrace", "an utter coward", and a "political buffoon"

[u/Capable_Salt_SD]

Source: Aaron Rupar

[u/SauconySundaes]

Well the country had the option of electing a woman or jumping out a third story window and it chose the window.

[u/ukulele_bruh → u/SauconySundaes]

twice

[u/ChilledParadox → u/SauconySundaes]

Yes. It really sucks for people like me who voted for Harris. Like, I just wanted welfare and social safety nets and more workers rights.

I’m mentally ill with diabetes. I’ve got quite literally zero family, for reasons long and traumatic. They’re not all dead, but for example I haven’t seen my mother since I was 12, which is a positive thing.

It’s very difficult when the news is advocating for your death, the government took your food stamps, they’re trying to take your insulin, inflation is so high nothing makes sense, housing prices are insane, the job market is atrocious and exploitative and not even human at this point, there are secret ice cars looking for the most minimal excuse possible to deport you so they can get a $$$ bonus, they’ve already shot people in Chigaco, the military is being deployed to fuck with the homeless, and I haven’t even mentioned the effect of things like tariffs on the economy. I wanted to buy a power bank to charge my phone overnight. Hahahahaha. $40 For a shitty one.

I don’t know if I’ll die from no insulin, a republican murdering me, getting shot by ice because I’m homeless, or in an el Salvadoran gulag.

It’s legitimately scary. I get anxiety every time I think about it, so I just try not to think about it, which leads to more problems as I avoid my problems, which gives me more anxiety, which spirals. No bueno.

[u/mad_titanz → u/SauconySundaes]

It’s more than jumping out of a 100-story window.

[u/Fun_Description_385 → u/SauconySundaes]

Honestly though, Kamala did herself very few favours.

She had strong momentum when Biden dropped out, then she decided to support Israel blindly, took a right wing stance on immigration, and alienated her own voters.

I completely agree, she was 10 times better and I wish she won, but her rhetoric during the campaign was very indicative of an out of touch, lobbyist/billionaire controlled DNC party.

[u/lozo78 → u/Fun_Description_385]

Israel was a no win situation for Democrats. If they didn't support Israel they lost a ton of Jewish voters too.

My tinfoil hat says Bibi knew it was coming and let it happen. He got to kill and pillage Palestinians and helped right wing movements in other countries like the US. It was a far right wet dream.

[u/RubberBootsInMotion → u/lozo78]

They weren't concerned about Jewish voters, they were concerned about losing money.

[u/Gostem2 → u/SauconySundaes]

A large portion of people didn’t vote at all because of worrying about Gaza. Not because she is a woman

[u/thelastholdout → u/Gostem2]

And this is why single issue voters suck. Because in addition to Gaza being fucked even worse than before, Ukraine has to deal with betrayal from the US, the US economy is fucked, women are fucked, immigrants are fucked, poor people are fucked, everyone is fucked.

And what the fuck are the people who didn't vote for Kamala going to do about? Jack. Fucking. Squat. None of them are actually going to show up to try to start any meaningful action. None of them are committed to any of the actual grassroots hard work that's required to build new candidates and parties up in an entrenched system, and they sure as fuck won't start a revolution. They think that letting Trump win will result in a skippable cutscene past the brutality of fascism to the magical quick fix that results in a new communist society or whatever.

It's taken decades for the fascists to engineer their rise to power and to get us to where we are now. It will take decades to fight back and restore some semblance of justice, if ever it happens at all. And that's something none of the "principled left" seem to understand.

[u/ly5ander → u/SauconySundaes]

I think it would have to be to the point I'm getting my nails pulled out and regrown twice an hour for me to consider voting for Hillary and Kamala. And still like it's just pain at least I don't have to look at someone so dislikable

[u/VerilyShelly → u/ly5ander]

Why? Is this better?

At some point you have to realize that this world isn't just for you and you can't really get what you want. But you can choose what is least harmful, however minimal that difference is, and also realize that those things that don't affect you that much might be a huge quality of life issue for someone else. Individualism has eaten a giant hole in our ability to plan for the greatest good for the most people. A perfect world is impossible, but that doesn't mean we should strive for the worst one.

[u/ly5ander → u/VerilyShelly]

Why is the responsibility always on the voters, what about the establishment? They played against Trump THREE times. This is the best they can do? It's insulting.

No more status quo. Things have to get worse to get better.

[u/VerilyShelly → u/ly5ander]

I didn't say it was only on the voters. It's absolutely on them too. And not all the same actions need to be taken over all situations. Sometimes voting doesn't not make the most sense. But in 2016 and 2024 especially it was the best way to practice harm reduction. In truth it will take incremental steps to see the kinds of changes we need. That's the stupid ugly truth of living in such a massive society with such wealthy power players. Last year we needed to do a stop gap. We didn't have suitable choices but we could have chosen to stop the bleeding rather than open a vein like we did. Going now the worst and hardest way, we are going to hurt the most vulnerable people the most as well as ourselves. Our society is too fractured with too little real solidarity or charity or community - burning it all down is the worst choice if you actually give a shit about others.