Thats nice. Maybe you should reread the article since its clear that not what the mayor said.

And your point? Just because they found an idiot they could quote doesnt make it a wide spread viewpoint. Also if she had won she would have had a lot more clout in the remaining months on policy.

she was running for president, and they were asking for her to commit if she won. no one expected her to do anything as VP.

you should have been done months ago. you know whats bad faith? telling people they friends and family must die because you suddenly might be in the same situation they’ve been in for the last year. your friends and families lives may now be on the line.

This is your lesson to learn. you don’t throw a group under the bus just for your own convenience.

sigh this conversation was never worth the time. oh well. at least we’re past the ‘blahblah dont understand economics nonsense’ I’ll toss some final notes and then ignore you. =)

1. my original point in this whole conversation is that the billionaire tax wasnt going to win votes. its a fine policy, I said that multiple times. but it wasnt going to win votes.
2. no I didnt contradict myself, this is your reasoning/reading comprehension issue again. Harris lost because of her poor communication and poor policies. I didn’t say which policies were explicitly poor outside of pointing out the ones that explicitly didn’t address the main points I was making which is that voters care more about putting food on the table than taxing billionaires.

Harris both failed to communicate effectively that she wasn’t a fucking inhumane monster over gaza, and that she actually understood americans needs economically. and as a result it doesn’t matter which of her actual policies were actually useful since she already lost people on all 3 of the base motivators: food, shelter, safety. if you fail those 3 issues you will have a hard time making a case for why people should vote for you.

And if you don’t understand why harris absolutely needed to distance herself from bidenomics well frankly there is no hope for you at this point since it just goes back to food, shelter, safety.

Np. As for the campaign finance laws im also fairly certain those excuses were a load of bunk too. I dont believe anything prevented biden campaign from returning them to the donors and letting them reallocate.

yeah back when the internet was good and idiots hadnt congregated on it yet.

You inserted yourself into a conversation

yup its called a public forum welcome. didn’t want people calling out your nonsense should have done it privately.

a comment proving you don’t understand how taxes affect disposable income.

I absolutely understand how they effect disposable income. do you realize her tax policy would only fractionally mitigated the loss of spending power americans have lost over the last 4 years? first off 1 part of her policy is a child tax credit. many americans don’t have children. so this would not impact them. The 2nd part was a tax credit. which means people won’t get it anything from either idea until the they file for tax returns. that doesn’t fucking help them pay for food/shelter the rest of the year. If you made 60k a year the child tax credit would barely touch 10%. Americans lost 22% of their purchasing power due to inflation.

She couldn’t run ads remotely similar because the brunt of the inflation was experienced under Biden’s term and the majority of Americans didn’t understand the causes so they just believe the ads.

she absolutely could have. she could absolute on day one said ‘yeah we didn’t get what we needed done economically, I’m going to push for things that actually increases americans income.’ but she didn’t remotely go anywhere close to this.

so in summary: harris had a shit policy and shit ads if her goal was to convince americans she was going to make them financially more secure. trump didn’t (ad wise, policy wise hes far worse). she lost.

its not a voter problem when you don’t have good policies or good communication skills. though I suspect given your constant nonsense about me not understanding economics because I called out the nonsense of a 1%er tax not actually addressing the immediate needs of the populace, not to mention she doesn’t even have a proposed tax for them just she wont raise taxes for those making <400k, as absolutely bollocks not communicating well is pretty much your forte.

yes, and did harris run any ads remotely similar? no. she ran ads about ‘danger! danger! trump’ ‘the economy is banger!’ vs ‘the economy sucks and I’ll fix it’ trump ads. so stop thinking people dont understand economics because your reading comprehension and reasoning abilities suck.

seriously. try telling people the ‘economy is doing great! and im going to tax billionaires to fix your problems’ while they’re stuggling to get food/shelter/safety and see what they tell you. it’ll likely be ‘fuck off dumbass’ just like the voters did to harris. They. dont. care. about. taxing. billionaires. if. they. can’t. afford. food. econ 101.

leftists very much believed trump could win a second term primarily because neoliberals would drop the ball during the election. we were warning liberals all year.

LOL. many of us practice and own guns, we just don’t make it our entire personality.

welcome welcome.

😂 child i have two degrees, one masters (cs), and two bachelor’s (cs, biology specifically a medical degree for my humanitarian work). My college required economics courses. Ive forgotten more math than you’ve probably been introduced to.

congrats acing your economics courses. I remember acing them too while sleeping through them. Clearly they didnt teach you how to think unfortunately but not unsurprising.

Demonstrated by the fact I literally told you i agree with you on taxing billionaires, just that it wasn’t relevant to voters who are struggling. They dont care if billionaires are taxed or not when they can’t put food on the table, a roof over their head, or are unsafe. If you want to win an election telling people we’ll tax billionaires when they want food security and their friends and family to stop being murdered is asinine.

So please either revisit your economics courses or at the very least learn how to comprehend what you’re reading.

You dont realize how the majority of money was raised after he dropped out and that trump managed to win with half of the money is relevant to the discussion of ‘only harris could access biden’s campaign funds.’ nonsense reasoning the dnc and media gave for why we absolutely must go with harris as the candidate?

no it doesn’t harris raised almost a billion in 3 days. that billion was not committed to biden. not even 200 million of it was before he dropped out. trump won on 400 million.

have you bought their vpn service? ;)

All good friend.

I dont need the economics courses but you might. The three basic things i listed are the three things people put before any other priorities. Please revisit your economy studies if you didnt recognize this. Your points about taxing billionaires dont matter until those three things are met for the voting population. And atm people are struggling with food (inflation), roofs (inflation, housing crisis), and fucking safety (muslims friends and family are literally being murdered by us).

So kindly before you think about lecturing people on economic policy of taxing billionaires make sure you understand wtf people are dealing with.

Because news flash: im all about taxing them and probably understand the 2nd/3rd order impacts of doing so better than you. But i also understand that such a policy wouldnt have shifted voters struggling with the first three issues.

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