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Dems Shoot Themselves in the Face (with the help of Dick Cheney)

Dems Shoot Themselves in the Face (with the help of Dick Cheney)

Corporate media manages to blame every possible demographic...except Democrats

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In the wake of a crushing defeat for Democrats in the 2024 election, corporate media rushes to scapegoat every possible group for Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump. Every possible group… except for Dems themselves.

Of course it wasn’t because of the months of gaslighting voters into believing that Harris was suddenly a serious candidate after three years of being a punchline. Of course it wasn’t because of the canceled primary that didn’t give the base a choice. And it certainly couldn’t have been the Dems funding genocide, ditching universal healthcare, promoting fracking, not codifying Roe v Wade, or increasing the number of kids in cages at the border. It wasn’t any of those things.

Kamala Harris lost because of:

• Black and Latino men

• Jill Stein

• Those meddling Russians

• Anti-genocide progressives

• And, of course, Palestinians

So we go through every excruciating clip, watching pundits squirm their way out of any possible introspection, never wondering once if they could have been the problem. And their final takeaway: Kamala Harris didn’t campaign with the Cheneys enough.

It’s our election Thursday Throwdown – watch with Katie and Aaron so you can laugh instead of cry at it all. Thanks for supporting independent media, subscribe to watch the full episode here:

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