Kamala Harris' Book Tour Launch Interrupted by Gaza Protesters: 'I'm Not President Right Now'
Kamala Harris' Book Tour Launch Interrupted by Gaza Protesters: 'I'm Not President Right Now' | Video
I absolutely despise trump. With that said, I hope we never see her as president. She's insanely out of of touch with the common folk. I'd much rather see AOC or that Texas democrat dude with the ears
Ditto. She would have made a terrible president. My mind was made when she didn’t ask for a recount. I hope we don’t see her in 2028. I hope we make it to 2028..
There’s this whole slew of Americans who want ranked choice voting and just can’t articulate or perhaps even fathom that that’s what they want.
Yes, I would love to see Beto or AOC!
Rep Tallarico?
Read the room Harris and stop justofying your mistakes
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Because the current regime is worse does not make her stance better. They have not done anything that Biden did not or would not do, and she promised to continue what he was doing.
Genocide is, or at least should be, a very clear moral issue. Either you are against it, or for it. There is no middle ground. There are more people on the liberal side who are willing to hold to their morals. They did not try to garner their base, they tried to garner the billionaires and republicans who were not fully on board with trump. Any idiot could have told them that those republicans would vote republican in the end any way. In addition, the dems rigged three primaries in a row dating back to Bernie in 2016. Biden got elected because Trump absolutely fucked covid. No one was voting for him because they thought he was a great candidate. He promised to be a one term president. That was his main line in 2020.
2024 would have been a great time for him to step aside. He didnt. The dems did not ask for any vote to replace him in the run in, they just said here's your choice. She did nothing but say she would continue doing everything he had done. The dems sold out themselves and the country to the billionaire class. People were mad about that. All they did was say they would keep doing it.
Even now, they do nothing but say "oh my gosh how can we stop this"
They enabled this to happen, and are now trying to say look we told you so, even when their own policies have shifted far to the right.
There is no liberal or left wing party in the US. In most civilized countries, the Republicans would be considered far right extremists, and democrats would be considered right wing.
But again, if genocide is not a place you draw the line, it is very unlikely that you will draw the line at democracy.
What has Kamala said or done in the last 9 months to fight the fascist regime? Has she called for people to get on the streets and protest or called for a general strike? No, shes done fuck all except write a book full of excuses for losing from her Bel Air mansion. And you're over here defending it, its pathetic.
Kamala Harris being a corrupt, genocidal moron is why Trump won in 2024. Trump didn't win, the Democratic elites gifted the election to Trump by nominating such an evil person.
Not surprising after she banned Gazan supporters and a local Democrat legislator at her own DNC rally.
Absolute garbage mound of a candidate and campaign that completely deserves to be thrashed by the very constituency she refused to acknowledge.
Bunch of you failure shills in this comments still thinking this was a progressive candidate need to look at literally any of her responses to questions about public policy. Nothing but a 1:1 copy of Biden's equally shit tier response to major internal and external issues, and very obviously way more right leaning than Obama.
I still remember some of you outright denying the existence of Gaza protestors at DNC events, as if any news outlet reporting it was a Russian compromised asset, and any user on lemmy.world supporting such action was a lemmy.ml Chinese spam bot in disguise.
Ah yeah, good thing we got all that but way worse with how people voted.
Domestically, yeah he's worse, he's literally an authoritarian fascist dictator.
For Gaza? Biden was literally worse. He was way more outspoken in his support for Israel, he never showed compassion for Palestinians, and he called himself a proud Zionist constantly. Not to mention he spent WAY MORE of your tax dollars on military support to them.
Like it's not even close, $28 billion vs Trump's $16. And you're still repeating the same bullshit...
Quite frankly anybody that's still defending the Democratic Party and the AIPAC-driven Harris 2024 campaign sounds more like a bot than any of the real people I talk about politics with every day who absolutely despise both Trump and the feckless, centrist Dems.
Right wingers love projection, that's why they say the ones who speak truth are the bots, and the ones funded by think-tanks and SuperPACs are the real options to save the country.
Same people attacking any suggestion that their inaction let the orange monkey back into the WH. But hey, 'it wasn't me who voted him in', right?
people made it clear that supporting genocide was a line they wouldn't cross, this was apparent even without the polls. how are we still blaming voters when the dems still refused to adjust position? they chose Israel over winning, that's completely on them.
Yeah it’s bullshit. I voted third party because dems decided Israel is worth supporting. But let’s be mathematically accurate here.
Even if all the people who DID vote that did not vote republican had voted for the democrat, there would not have been enough electoral college influence to affect the outcome.
You would have needed more non-voters to vote. But a non-voter then was probably a never-voter. There are people that exist who simply don’t care one way or the other who is in charge and you can’t convince those people to go vote. Sure you can try, but in the end it’s the people who did vote who get what they voted for.
Regardless of all of that I find the “you should have voted democrat” argument to be exceptionally stupid. The democrat party is backing a government that I find to be morally reprehensible, as do most Americans, what should have happened is those who were saying “yeah it’s bad but I’m still gonna vote dem” should have just voted for a third party. Why vote against your interests?
So, they refused to support genocide (a position, to be clear, that I agree with) by taking an action (voting third party) or inaction (not voting) that would clearly, and obviously, give a candidate who supported genocide a higher probability of not just winning, but being supported by others with the same opinion?
Voters were put in an invidious position and there were no good options, but there was one option that was clearly worse in every way, and they either directly or indirectly chose to support him.
Whoosh.
She could have been if she didn't fuck up the Gaza situation...
Anyone who didn't vote out of protest did far more to "fuck up the Gaza situation" than she did.
This is just patently false but way to pin the blame for her actions on random individuals with no power to change anything.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
While I think "protest not voting" is bad (considering the alternatives), so is giving even more weapons to a genocidal state.
You can't win electrons by running on a pro-genocide platform. You have to listen to your voters to win elections.
Fuk it. Lets watch the world burn
If people rejected the least-worse option for Gaza because she was only the least-worse option for Gaza, then blame rests in the hands of a bunch of people who lack the reasoning power god gave a gnat.
(Edit -- so many downvoters against harm reduction. Hockey helmets and seat belts are a good thing)
Do you ever wrestle with the moral implications of this?
If the "least-worse" option that your system produces is aiding and abetting a genocide, then the only moral option is to destroy the system.
If this is truly the reality of the American system, that genocide is unavoidable, then almost everything is justified. If the Greatest Generation were alive today there would be fascist blood in the streets.
Kamala Harris could have been the president today if she had not run on a pro-genocide platform. She miscalculated, and lost the election as a result.
There was no least worse. Both parties are giving billions to israel to continue the war of extermination and lied about the cease fire talks
Why argue that she still deserved everyone's votes because she's "the least worse?" Why not make an argument for why you think she made the right decision supporting a genocide? You're framing this as if she were forced into this position and we should have accepted that, which is completely ludicrous.
Who has the video when she was doing a rally for her campaign and protester said free Palestine and she shut them down ?
sigh looking back, we saw all the signs... https://youtu.be/FTIFTsrx0fI
I remember in that same time and day the whole leftist internet were retweeing her clip and hashtagging #ImSpeaking celebrating how powerful she was shutting down a crowd asking their VP and presidential nominee to do something about the genocide, in that same day, 500 people were massacred by Israel. It was too disgusting, and has aged like rotten milk
If I wanna trump to win say that
The audacity of that
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un are “laughing at us right now.”
And they're loving the goons continuing their antidemocratic work of perpetually attacking Harris. Crisis averted: a black woman didn't get in the hot seat where she could have actually moved the needle toward progress. True progressives understand why Rosa Parks was picked even though she wasn't first. The purity test bullshit on the left is a successful bait campaign by the right.
Unironic use of "purity test" means "I have no standards and expect you to abandon yours."
Absolute horse shit. If you really believe that Harris would have helped the Palestinians i would like to hear why think that is. Condemning what Israel is doing is such a no-brainer, but it does not present any actions, does it? And thats what the Palestinians needed and still need. She was the god damn Vice-President of the United States of America, a country without which the massacre on Gaza would not be possible in the first place. So the god damn least she could have done was to speak out while in a position of Power. You blind yourself if you really think that the head of democratic leadership will accept any sort of real action AGAINST the interest of their big donors. Remember what happened to Bernie.
You are completely proving their point. Do you really think the level of support Israel receives from Trump is the same as what it would have been with Kamala? Do you think Bibi would be in her office telling her how great their relationship is and give her a golden pager?
Do you think Israel would have acted just as brazenly in its escalations and direct attacks on Iran?
There is no question she wouldn't have done enough to stop Israeli crimes, but no way in hell would it be equal to or worse than Trump. Even considering them on the same level makes you sound like a psyop.
Kamala Harris ran on a pro-genocide platform and was very supportive of Israel. This was one of the reasons why she lost.
Here we go again with the “we hate Israel so we won’t vote for Kamala and allow Trump to win so he can supply Israel with more bombs” crowd. Brother the entire ticket was pro Israel. Stop blaming this one issue as the reason she lost.
The person said "one of the reasons", as in one reason out of many. Sorry to be flippant, but jeez, people really need to learn to read.
If you want to win elections, you need to give the voters what they want. You should not complain if you lose after running against what your voters want.
Here's how it works, and you can lay this to rest.
I am an activist. I am or knocking doors for candidates. That means I'm volunteering my own time and money.
If she isn't willing to come my way on Palestine, why should I spend time and money on her?
That's why she lost. We all voted, but she had no grass support.
Whats even the point of democracy if politicians aren't running to give people what they actually want and just point at the greater evil and say "I won't do anything to improve your lives, but the other guy is really scary and bad!". Can you even name a single Harris 2024 policy proposal off the top of your head?
The ones that allowed Trump to win are all of you who insisted on voting for a nonviable genocidal candidate despite everyone telling you "we're not voting for her".
You trusted media polls instead of your own eyes and ears, and you explicitly voted for genocide, and now you're blaming those with a moral compass for refusing to vote for it.
Biden was way more pro Israel than Trump, most of Gaza was destroyed under Biden, Trump has supplied less bombs than Biden, and you're convinced Kamala would have been better than Trump? She campaigned on most lethal military in the face of genocide protests.
You just wanted her because it's better for America, not for Palestine. Stop making the Trump is worse argument, because Biden was way worse. Take ownership of your moral failure so that you don't repeat it again by campaigning for genocidal Newsom instead of revolting.
And don't give me any bullshit about having the chance to do something under Kamala, you didn't do anything under Biden and you're not doing anything now, yet you're still blaming those who had tried to do something.
You wanted status quo, you wanted comfort, you wanted Kamala to finish the genocide quietly while denying it, you wanted to get back to pretending like you have a functional democracy. And you'll deserve everything in Trump until you find your moral compass and join those who refuse to support the "lesser evil" and revolt.
Your empire is collapsing, and your dictator is not going away without force, and your crowd are obsessed with the next election. You need to stop working, you need to stop labor, you need to revolt.
It's uncomfortable, I know. You've had two years to prepare yourself, how much longer do you need?
What, specifically, was the "pro genocide platform"? Because I remember that election pretty well, and I don't recall any advocacy of genocide, at least not from Harris.
Let's be honest for one second. Here's how American politics on Israel actually breaks down:
Democrats: often criticize Netanyahu but never actually cut off aid. However, several Democrats already opposed continuing aid to Israel and the rest of the party conceivably could listen to growing opposition to Israel's war.
Republicans: actively hate all poor brown people and want Israel to kill them all. They will also use deportations and any other means available to silence anyone voicing opposition to said killing of all poor brown people.
I get that neither choice is perfect, but I really can't see why it's a struggle.
She did not distance herself from Biden on the subject. As the democratic nominee; heir to the Biden campaign; and then current VP in the Biden administration, this meant that her platform on Gaza defaulted to being the Biden policy.
I agree that I would rather be fighting a Harris administration over Gaza policy instead of a Trump administration. But running as a less bad version of the opposing party is not effective politics.
In that same vein, protesting a former VP from a party that is out of power is also not an effective form of activism.
You’re so caught up in left vs right that you fail to see that they are two sides of the same coin. Democrat waffling paves the way for Republican atrocities. The two parties act in concert to enact the interests of the ruling class. The only way we are getting out of this is if we abandon the framework they have indoctrinated us in, and start seeing the world clearly, as a struggle between those who have against those who have not.
Trump is doing a fantastic job supporting Israel in her place
If you want to win elections, then you have to listen to the voters. If you push an unpopular genocial candidate like Kamala Harris on the voters, "the other guy is much worse" argument is not going to save you.
This thought process makes no fucking sense though because the other guy did too...
Kamala was very obviously the "better" choice for Palestine.
Yes, she's still a shit choice for Palestine.
But I don't understand this logic, this person is going to let a genocide happen if we elect them, the other guy is going to let a genocide and a fascism happen.
Someone make it make sense
Some people don't like being taken advantage of as much as you do. There's your answer. They don't like being given no meaningful choice, and that's what harris represented.
Put yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't support genocide if you can imagine it. You don't get a primary, and the candidate you get is as pro-genocide as the one you would have voted against in the primary. You've been railroaded. You knew the guy the party wanted wasn't gonna win. You know this one isn't gonna win. You know that smug genocide supporters are gonna blame you no matter how you vote, even though they're the ones that refuse to listen to the people. After all, they would rather you have no choice. They made that clear when they robbed you of it.
Makes a whole bunch of sense when you consider a lot of America still just can't accept the idea of a woman as president, and they'll use any excuse they can to make themselves feel better about the misogyny.
If you want to win elections, then you have to listen to the voters. If you push an unpopular genocial candidate like Kamala Harris on the voters, "the other guy is much worse" argument is not going to save you.
A whole lot of people wont vote for war criminals of any party, its that simple. If Harris had half a brain she would have read the polls and known she had no route to victory in supporting Israel.
If you want to now cry and point fingers, go ahead. You got maneuvered into supporting war crimes and now you want to pretend to be better than other people. You're down in the mud with the rest of us. You're no better or worse, but you are being a smug jerk with nothing to be smug about. Thats pathetic.
How's that working out? 🙈
Kamala lost because she was terrible at everything
Kamala lost because she was running on a Campaign of Joy™️
The only way to win a campaign is to garner more rage than your opponent. Nixon's campaign manager put it well- "The secret to politics is to know who hates who". That's how they flipped the then deep blue south into a Republican stronghold for 60 years.
Frankly I think this is why we are doomed to civil war, candidates that try to calm things down will always lose to candidates who fan the flames.
If you want to win elections, then you have to listen to the voters. If you push an unpopular genocial candidate like Kamala Harris on the voters, "the other guy is much worse" argument is not going to save you.
Yes it indeed is. When Biden left office a large portion of Gaza had already been destroyed. Trump "empowered" Israel to show how bad they want to genocide the Palestinians for real and people wake up.
Before the political powers of the U.S. help the Palestinians hell will freeze over. At best the U.S. has been a force of status quo (Apartheid and Opression). At worst they have fed the ethnical cleansing.
The politicians are NOT our allies. The people on the streets need to put pressure on them until they are willing to enact change AGAINST their own interest because there simply is no out.
It is long overdue to get your asses up from the screen and into the real world like these protesters do. You simply have not grasp on the situation that you think you have, maybe even talk to an activist. Just maybe.
Ah yes, the Trump whataboutism. Liberals greatest weapon that totally didnt cost them the election… How many times do we gotta teach you guys this lesson??
Goddamn these fucking protesters are such inauthentic losers. So "brave" yet terrified to protest the Trump administration.
Fucking phonies. They don't even remotely give a shit about Palestinians.
The pro-Palestine movement is protesting against the Trump administration almost every day. Just because Democrats are one degree better doesn't mean they get a pass for supporting the modern-day Holocaust for 16 months and handing the country on a silver platter to Trump.
Every Democrat who played a part in propping up the inanimate corpse of Biden and supported the genocide in 2024 need to be run out of politics and reminded of their miserable fucking FAILURE to stop fascism for the rest of their lives.
He said from his spinning office chair in his air conditioned room.
Then he went downtown to punch a homeless kid in the face and grab a coffee from that new place.
You are what you are. A person who lost because they wouldn't get off the fence.
She blamed anti genocide protesters for her loss and is trying to make money off it.
Remember, Kamala is the reason Trump won.
People not voting in their best interests is why Trump won
Lol no, the people who stayed home thinking their no protest vote was going to do anything are just as guilty for what's going on right now as if they were maga voters.
Fk off with that bs.
Palestine protest voters had a choice and chose the absolute worst option by staying home
France have been mobilising for the lesser evil candidate for several elections. Are they better? At least Lepen didn't get elected.
I think Democrats have been manipulated into abstaining from voting by the right.
They should be ashamed.
French liberals (Macron) literally staged a coup to prevent the left from winning and promoted the far right. What the hell are you talking about.
More people didn't vote at all than who voted for Harris. The vice president isn't in charge of policy. Biden is the reason trump won.
I mean I agree, 4 years of Biden was a disastrous failure that Kamala should have made a hard break from as soon as he dropped out, but didn't. Ridiculous, its like they were intentionally trying to lose.
She explicity said she would run on the exact same policies as Biden.
Yeah but you didn't condemn Isreal when you should have. You get your just desserts. Never gonna vote for you. Buh-bye.
Palestine voters, you are a bunch of fucking morons
One candidate (Kamala) was willing to listen to you
The other candidate wants to level Gaza and turn into a resort
And you went with the candidtate that wants to turn Gaza into a resort.
I personally never gave a fuck about the people of Palestine. I still don't give a fuck about them, I just have too much on my plate to care about them. But I did vote for Kamala and I did hope she'd help Palestine, but she lost...so eh I geuss Palestine gets fucked.
One candidate (Kamala) was willing to listen to you
"I'm speaking now."
"Palestine voters"
They didn't vote, and that's the problem
People blaming Kamala because her policies in some issues were not perfect, and thats why they dont vote for her. Now because of that you have the Superfragilenazipotusshit as President, he is surely doing much better than Kamala... Also, probably you are not having any more fair elections, now it's gonna be all Russian style elections, unless there is some kind of uprising.
I hope I'm wrong on that, but I think I'm not.
If you stayed home, you are a Trump voter. No difference in my eyes
Those clowns didn't even vote because their fee fees, so they allowed the clown who is actually ok with gaza being wiped off the face of the earth in as president.
People who sat out the election are just as guilty for everything happening as is MAGA voters. I know it's a hard pill for them to swallow but it's 100% the truth
Ugh. Go away
Why is she so stupid.
If this lady can't even commit to stopping a genocide, then what makes you all think she would have saved democracy? Whenever I see her speak I think of the scene from Breaking Bad: you are not the guy!
She wasn’t advocating for authoritarianism so that should be the first hint.
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yeah fuck this pig. she shouldn't feel safe anywhere she goes. no politician should.
What is wrong about what she said?
Normally you imagine positive change behind protesting, and you probably assumed that when you read "protesters", but not every occurrence of "making a scene" is constructive.
She isn't the president. She's yet to map out the road ahead.
People are used to being helpless and pathetic so they don't even consider anything other than "protesting." But what about building policy and bringing it to her? Why not start a dialogue? Why not map out bits of that road ahead? Why not consider experts who could help the next Democratic admin? Why not study policy yourself? Why not go form connections with humanitarian groups? Or join them?? Why not go talk to people and bring that wealth of data to her?
Why not HELP and CONTRIBUTE? If you just want to YELL then go yell at the people in charge.
I thought she promised us she was leaving politics. Why is she speaking at all. She should be in Nevada selling insurance.
She's selling a book, not being "in politics". She told the truth.
More honest than these phony protesters that are too cowardly to protest Trump, the man they preferred to be president.
What makes you think these protestors are not also protesting Trump?
She is giving political advice on why she lost.
And by political advice I mean refusing to take responsibility and blaming everything on the left.
I dunno man I think talking about politics constantly despite not being in office counts as "being in politics", even if it's not technically correct
This is exactly why the US ended up with trump. 0 critical thinking.
Yeah, we know. Those folks are just reminding you, why.
And wow, Trump is so much better than Harris would have been for Gaza!
Gaza was a stupid cause to get hung up on, I am not saying it isn't important, it is extremely important, but letting the cheeto win just to spite Harris for not supporting Gaza enough was stupid
Oh, I am with you, friend. Unfortunately, being on the same side as him, just "not as bad", definitely didn't do her campaign any favors. Especially among low information voters, who are really just taking everyone at their word. While Trump was boldly asserting himself as anti-war, Harris was just giving vague, wishy-washy answers, that relied on far too much nuance. American voters don't like to think that hard.
They should invent some kind of an intermediary layer between the voters and the elections to ensure that demagoguery and sensationalism cannot prevail. That would fix everything.
/s for the kids who skipped civics
If you truly believe "Gaza was a stupid cause to get hung up on" then what's your justification for her continued support of the genocide occurring there?
You act like people are stupid for making a big deal about it, while failing to give a reason why she felt it was a big enough deal to support even if it meant letting Trump win the presidency yet again.
Genocide is NOT a stupid cause to get hung up on. It is literally the worst crime that can be committed.
More than 90% of Democrats believe that there's a genocide happening, and they want it to stop.
Politicians are supposed to LEAD their constituents, not follow. Kamala has no North Star, so she was doomed from the start.
The best thing she could have done was take Walz's lead, but the donor class swiftly shut that shit down.
You tell me if we have a functioning democracy
What makes you think she would be any different from Trump on Palestine? Everything Trump is doing right now is a continuation of the Biden-Harris policy of letting Israel commit genocide with absolutely no pushback.
When will you bootlickers understand that SHE let him win? Her job was to represent her constituents, instead she decided to represent Israel. She decided to support genocide instead of us ffs.
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