In the end, The Hill lied and Harris was right.

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/

I voted for Gore, but a bunch of my moron friends voted for Nader in that election. And Nader an ego was so big he could never admit fault for fucking up the next 2 decades of our country.

Now it looks like we fucked for the rest of this century.

I don't think Kamala could even tell you what policies Kamala ran on.

Gotta love the freaks over here complaining about a prosecutor with a doctorate in law while a felon rapist traitor descends fascism upon our nation and sends the military to assault Americans.

Pull your head out of your ass.

You're not wrong, but it's important to call it out. And to CONSTANTLY call out the message to our troops that it is incumbent upon them to refuse to follow illegal orders.

Yeah, but this time it's Very illegal, and Very not cool!

Smells like AI, but that doesn’t mean it’s just slop. You can look up each of the cited laws—they’re not long or particularly difficult reads. They are all arguably accurate citations.

1. Iffy "explicitly authorized" is a loaded phrase for this use case. He controls enough DoD leadership to make it happen legally without much resistance.
2. Legit.
3. It depends on the framing. If rocks were being thrown at ICE, the argument likely wouldn’t hold up.
4. Likely legit.
5. Legit, but remember that this simply means the military can be held accountable for their actions. If they assault or kill someone, they can face legal consequences. It's just precedence. Essentially, this is the point in law where you can't say you were just following orders.
6. Legit.

However, within this framework, prosecution depends on willingness—someone has to actively push for it, and the government has to be stable enough to recognize these violations as valid. For the most part, these are pardonable offenses.

TL;DR: Until there’s a regime change, none of this will carry much weight.

I was a supporter of my local NPR station for decades. It's crazy how far right the coverage has gone. Slowly over the years, then really hard in recent months. It's like they're desperately trying to show that they aren't left leaning, by going way the other way. I've heard long interviews with wackos from things like The Heritage Foundation all the time, with little to no pushback on the BS. I watched a magat congressman interviewed on PBS the other night with zero pushback to his bullshit magat talking points. The list goes on. I stopped watching/listening to them, but I've been kind of at a loss as to where to check up on news. AP or Reuters is about it, I guess.

Well if people were going to say stuff, it's awesome that she didn't do anything! Close call. \s

This is the same flawed logic as the folks saying that violent resistance will give the other side a "justification", they're gonna make one up anyway so there's absolutely no point in abstaining from any given course of action for the sake of not giving them one. Even if it hadn't worked it would have demonstrated some commitment to actually stopping Trump, but corporate dems don't actually give a shit what happens as long as they're still getting paid.

Fuck that, the situation wasn't the same and EVERYONE knows it. The solution isn't to avoid the whole thing so the accusation isn't made, the solution is to do the right thing, and when the accusation is made, you slap them down HARD!

But we also may not have midterms at this point.

I suspect we will continue to have elections, but they will strategically select specific races throughout the country to tamper with in favor of the GOP, and they'll increase the number of rigged races with each election until our entire electoral process has been captured and we end up with something akin to Russia or Venezuela. We'll hold elections, but they'll be a complete sham. We'll (officially) be a one-party state with one other party of controlled opposition to give people the illusion of choice.

That's not what they said.

I posted a post-deep-dive take on what gave Trump the presidency here, but I will say that misogyny did did no small amount of heavy lifting.

What we need to figure out before the GOP finds its next cult leader is how to neutralize the massive far-right propaganda machine that is churning out false information and disinforming the public.

We've decided before that ethically we can't trust human beings to make sound decisions in some conditions. Gambling, for example. Sometimes humans get addicted to just giving the house their money when it's coached in a probability game. But then we've just invented loopholes (and lootboxes) to circumvent regulation. So I don't know how we're going to deprogram massive viewerships of media that promotes hate, including misogyny.

If we fail then the ice zombie army climate crisis (and running out of water for agriculture) is going to drive us to extinction.

All? No, not all. But it is very evident that most Americans seem to hate women. The right hates on women, the left hates on women, the men and the women hate on women. If you doubt me, look how news articles disparage male senators compared to female ones.

Edit: All you four people who downvote without responding only give me more validation. The people hate the truth.

There were a lot of issues with it being anyone else. Since she was already the VP and already "on the ticket", switching to anyone other than her would have brought with it a whole lot of complications and probably would have tied up all the money the Biden campaign had raised. The whole process of deciding on anyone other than her posed huge risks, especially given the time constraints. Harris was effectively the default option so they took the path that appeared to be easiest and guaranteed that the campaign kept its funding.

Maybe the gender or color didn't really matter to people who had a chance of voting Democrat anyway

Harris would have won if the Dem leadership let her run the campaign she wanted to. Instead they enforced civility politics and forced her to be the same as Biden.

Biden made hay about selecting a Black Woman as vise President. That is declaring her heir apparent.

I have NO idea why the democrats chose Harris as the nominee.

Well, that's the thing: they didn't. She didn't win the primary, Biden did; and Biden won because there was no opposition. My ballot had two choices: "Joe Biden" and "Uncommitted". I voted Uncommitted.

No.

Latinos have been taught historically to bet against themselves

Saying this as a Latino myself, the misogyny is extremely deep rooted and colorism also has a yoke on the community. I really hope this opens their eyes but don’t hold your breath

Our media has been completely complicit in the fascist coup because our news has been entirely captured by corporations hell-bent on profit maximization.

Hey now, they blacklisted Katie Halper for talking about Palestine.

Never say The Hill doesn't have standards.

That's entirely up to them. I sure wish they wouldn't, but capitalism is what it is. And if the mass of metaphorical Beakers hangs their hat on each and every controversial word regardless of bias, then they're going to do that. If platforming chucklefucks keeps the lights on... So there it is.

There should be standards. Agreed. I have literally no say in that and my opinion means literally nothing on this. However, that doesn't mean calling meaningless shit like this out doesn't hurt the rest of us. I'm as sympathetic as the next person. It sucks. But if we are going to cry wolf and alligator tears every single time an already trash organization does a thing you - without a shadow of a doubt - expect them to do, then you are doing their work for them. Stop hitting yourself.

Take it on the chin, ignore them, and move on. I work in one of the most remote places on the planet with about 1000 conservatives, and these aren't the GOP "gays are cool now" conservatives, these are the "gays are pedophiles and we should exterminate them all" conservatives. These are InfoWarriors and flat earthers. Deep state theory is assumedly foundational and antiestablishmentarianism is the MO. I pointed out, a single time, that even Alex Jones said Trump was "mobbed up with the russians" and I have been known as "the liberal" since then. These proverbial tweakers are drawn to plausible deniability like a catalytic converter. Sure, they are the lowest common denominator when it comes to human prototypes, but they are also the low tide and they know it. If they can sanitize bigotry then the cool GOPers will be able to use them to justify it. So we (the opposition to authoritarianism) need to sterilize easily defensible shit like this.

Look at the replies I've received... All I did was point out the plot hole in the assertion implied by OP exposed by the reality that one could say that "the hill" did not say it themselves and furthermore that the hill has a giant warning at the top of the article that literally states they DO NOT hang their hat on opinion pieces (and btw, fuck the hill but they do). All I'm pointing out is to not say the hill explicitly called Harris a liar, because based on the facts, they didn't. Several replies still allude to the culpability of the hill... Which is best case scenario semantic when totally generalized, but more likely consolatory and akin to someone splitting hairs over "travelling" in street basketball.

"The right" could say that "the left" would polish brass on the titanic. And we could know that they'd said it too. But here we are, God forbid we pass a single piece of brass without giving it a mirror shine and then gasp Pikachu faces when the right says "see?".

How did we lose the election? Shit like this. We need to be better than this. This is teaching a pig to sing.

Sensationalism is their game. Leave to play it amongst themselves.

This is where I challenge you to find a single opinion article published by the hill from a reputable person about a worthy opinion. And when you say "that doesn't exist" I'm going to respond "no shit sherlock, that's what an opinion piece is, a disreputable person seeking your unearned attention." Good thing we gave it to them...

🤣 Trump really is playing 5D chess. You can't nail him down. He's like a bar of soap, that is also a pedophile.

And he's painting them as anti-American traitors to this day as he makes Nazi poses around the WH.

Never? They'll shift which group it refers to, but it'll always refer to a minority group of people. Whether that includes "you" depends on luck, I suppose.

Missed the whole point of what I said. The election is over, move on. Take this energy and prepare for the very real chance of civil war. Clearly, there is an administration in place that is pushing hard for this outcome.

"better than trump" evidently doesnt get people to the voting booths. Who knew? (everyone)

BETTER THAN TRUMP!

Talk about understatement...

And lied because no facts.

it is in the United States and has been for at least a decade.

It may not be jounalism, but how do we know it's Bad Faith