Fox News did not air a second of the speeches from alienated GOP leaders and former Trump officials who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris at this week’s Democratic National Convention.
It’s OK! Republicans are KNOWN for doing their Own Research and will SURELY find these Clips on their Own!
The sad part is this is how people in the DNC must actually think to give these assholes speaking time at their convention when the only commendable thing they ever did was admit to making a mistake most Americans were smart enough to not make in the first place
This is not a great take. This isn’t about reaching out to MAGA voters, it’s about reaching out to independents. Fox exposure would not have been great anyway.
Go off on sticking to your principles and ridiculing anyone that took longer than you to see the light (you are so smart you probably always had the political views you have), but I am keen to win this election and preserve democracy, which means a big tent with no minimal gatekeeping.
Former GOP leaders and Trump officials? Cool and good.
Palestinian-Americans? Now let’s not be crazy!
No but don’t you understand kiddo? Genocides perpetrated by republicans are unconscionable, but genocides perpetrated by democrats are just savvy politicking.
“If we don’t commit genocide the other party will commit worse genocide!”
I’ll never understand why you MAGA propagandists want the guy who bombed the shit out of Yemen to help Israel “finish the job” before turning against Ukraine and then domestically. But I think genocide is bad, so that’s the difference, I suppose.
If we stop supporting Israel in an election year trump wins. Is that hard to understand?
This is an indictment, not something to be proud of
Maybe i’m in the minority here, but inviting republicans from the bush years to speak at the DNC isn’t actually that reassuring to me if I care about stopping genocide, or think that the US foreign policy as a whole is bad and wrong.
Hell I’d go so far as to say if you invite a ghoul like Mike Pence to speak at your convention, you obviously don’t give a shit about LBG issues at all, and are only using them as a shied so that no one can criticize your absolute inaction over the past 50 years on all social issues.
The point being made with their appearance is that Trump is so toxic and repulsive that defectors are actively coming out of the woodwork to endorse Harris. It’s meant to appeal to independents and Republicans who see modern Trump and are increasingly off-put by him.
Now, they are all aggressively repulsive pieces of shit, sure. But I think we all agree that Trump is an even more aggressive piece of shit in comparison.
Appealing to right wing voters by adopting their policies never works.
These ex-Republicans are not reaching other Republicans at the DNC. They are speaking to Democrats and selling them on their policies.
But I think we all agree that Trump is an even more aggressive piece of shit in comparison.
How the hell is trump worse than bush era republicans or Mike fucking pence?
Bush era republicans and mike pence still believe in voting.
Trump wants to be a dictator.
Participating in oppressor Olympics means you don’t actually hold any values.
Refusing to participate in anything and just letting bad things happen means you don’t actually hold any values.
Not the correct attitude. This is an all-hands on deck fight against the fourth reich. Even people who suck for the reasons you correctly list are willing to point out that trump sucks. I don’t care if they were republican traitors yesterday if they figured their shit out and are getting the water out of the boat alongside us now.
If the boat gets repaired and stable again, then we can afford to only have less dangerous allies.
This is an all-hands on deck fight against the fourth reich
Agreed, which is why you must oppose genocide.
I agree with you that the Gaza genocide needs to be addressed immediately and with decisive action, and its deeply disheartening that it might not come unil November, but I do believe it is coming. This kind of human suffering cant be so easily ignored, I find it hard to believe that a Harris presidency would stand idle.
This is an all-hands on deck fight against the fourth reich.
Yes, we should all work to destroy the American empire.
Even people who suck for the reasons you correctly list are willing to point out that trump sucks.
… what? You mean, the “fourth reich” is not the empire which keeps bombing and genociding and looting its way round the world, but is just … some guy? Who can be defeated by saying he sucks?
getting the water out of the boat alongside us now.
The Democrats (and republicans) are the water in the boat.
Imagine getting paid to write articles like “right wing TV network hosts content favorable to right wing party candidates and not content unfavorable to them”.
And then discovering that masses of people are both surprised and engaged.
