What Happens if Kamala Harris became president?

[ISO]

Nothing. Maybe some racist bigots will be mad and she’ll make history and be lauded for being the first woman. She’ll continue the agenda of the Democratic Party.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

 

[boogers]

Why? I don't think a woman candidate has a chance against Trump or any white man in this climate of America right now.

i genuinely think its this. trump is a pig and has no respect for women. his base loved watching him shyt on hillary and kamala. they should've never ran a woman against him. im open to a woman president but they needed someone who can fukk trump up. i hate newsom but can you imagine the fukkery of a trump newsom debate? shyt would be prime time tv.

 

[skokiaan]

politics shouldnt be entertaining/full of fukkery....them people should be governing not trying to.go viral.

 

[FAH1223]

If Kamala was POTUS, we….

Would not have started a stupid war with Iran

Would not have a bloated ICE and CBP budget coming via tax cuts for the rich and cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP

Would not have had DOGE killing 300,000 government jobs, gutting agencies, along with many grants and contracts

Would not have across the board tariffs

Would have green energy projects from the Inflation Reduction Act continue with no disruptions

Would have the $1 trillion infrastructure bill continue with minimal disruptions

 

[N711oir]

Just a sidebar on this hypothetical, and "blk" presidents...
I find it interesting there have been so many attempts on President Trump's life! All by white individuals mind you,
All up until even recent they guy going to one of his homes with a firearm etc..
And yet there were hardly any made on Obama's life? As racist as this country his? Hmmm I find that fascinating.... puzzling??
And with the recent Jessie Jackson passing away, keep in mind he was "supposedly" right there on that balcony when MLK got shot..
So a racist cac with a full clip sees 2 black leaders on a balcony and just decides to "pop" one and bounce....

 

[Sauce Mane]

Things would DEFINITELY be better than they are now

 

[IIVI]

If Kamala was POTUS, we….

Would not have started a stupid war with Iran

Would not have a bloated ICE and CBP budget coming via tax cuts for the rich and cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP

Would not have had DOGE killing 300,000 government jobs, gutting agencies, along with many grants and contracts

Would not have across the board tariffs

Would have green energy projects from the Inflation Reduction Act continue with no disruptions

Would have the $1 trillion infrastructure bill continue with minimal disruptions

It’s such a sad swing.

Could have been up 10 points but now we’re down 50 because the dummy coach put in the special ed player in and kept him there for most of the game.

I say that with no insult to the special ed kid. That’s the best metaphor.

 

[At30wecashout]

I love the way he worded this. I’ve been doing soul searching on the system for years and trying to figure out how we get unstuck and chip sway at some of the barriers. The answer to that is being politically active AND participate in running for office as well as faithfully voting in primaries.

Real talk, a lot of the discourse even on this website boiled down to some dumb notion that ceding the presidency would somehow be of benefit to us. While there was not a primary, there were absolutely opportunities on the local and national level to vote in primaries for other seats that matter. We can absolutely put in a harm reduction candidate at the top while making sure we can secure local power. Any other notion of a strategy, such as not voting is a direct cessation of any say in the system.

I hate to get on the “Nobody else does XXX“ that a lot of folks like to engage in when critiquing something, but everyone else who expects a seat at the table, actually engage to make sure they are inside of the room in the first place. When your schools and parks and community investment is lacking, that’s an issue that could be addressed in your city and in your state if the plan is to wait for Superman, Lex Luthor wins. If we have to get bum ass Jimmy Olsen in just to hold the line against Lex, it behooves us to do so while we also do other work.

I have a feeling that has not been proven wrong yet that everyone is waiting for the perfect person or group to come around that they can get behind without doing any of the work to build a group that can link with other groups so that we can actually make meaningful changes. No one likes incrementalism, but if you work incrementally and consistently for 10 years, it’s no longer incremental if you give up every time, someone falls short of what you view as your preference, you run the risk of the next person coming along and undoing what little you have had Black people are already see sewing in terms of our living conditions in this country, and we should not aid our enemies in making it worse.

I say all of this to say that the people who say that about the very top of the ticket ,the presidency , are likely not voting locally or doing any sort of advocacy work. It’s all airing grievances and Internet slackivism.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I love the way he worded this. I’ve been doing soul searching on the system for years and trying to figure out how we get unstuck and chip sway at some of the barriers. The answer to that is being politically active AND participate in running for office as well as faithfully voting in primaries.

Real talk, a lot of the discourse even on this website boiled down to some dumb notion that ceding the presidency would somehow be of benefit to us. While there was not a primary, there were absolutely opportunities on the local and national level to vote in primaries for other seats that matter. We can absolutely put in a harm reduction candidate at the top while making sure we can secure local power. Any other notion of a strategy, such as not voting is a direct cessation of any say in the system.

I hate to get on the “Nobody else does XXX“ that a lot of folks like to engage in when critiquing something, but everyone else who expects a seat at the table, actually engage to make sure they are inside of the room in the first place. When your schools and parks and community investment is lacking, that’s an issue that could be addressed in your city and in your state if the plan is to wait for Superman, Lex Luthor wins. If we have to get bum ass Jimmy Olsen in just to hold the line against Lex, it behooves us to do so while we also do other work.

I have a feeling that has not been proven wrong yet that everyone is waiting for the perfect person or group to come around that they can get behind without doing any of the work to build a group that can link with other groups so that we can actually make meaningful changes. No one likes incrementalism, but if you work incrementally and consistently for 10 years, it’s no longer incremental if you give up every time, someone falls short of what you view as your preference, you run the risk of the next person coming along and undoing what little you have had Black people are already see sewing in terms of our living conditions in this country, and we should not aid our enemies in making it worse.

I say all of this to say that the people who say that about the very top of the ticket ,the presidency , are likely not voting locally or doing any sort of advocacy work. It’s all airing grievances and Internet slackivism.

Exactly my point

And he definitely worded it better than anything I could’ve said. I’m not politically savvy or a wordsmith and hate politics.

But you can’t sit here and say “bothsides” as you do nothing, whether locally or nationally.

These rules are different for black people out here, our ancestors understood that. You take what you can work with. We could’ve worked with Kamala no matter how people felt personally about her. Idgaf about these people’s personal life, I care about them being able to make competent and fair decisions. If they can make progress with their being so few black people (FBA) in general.

I see what people say about democrats too. Same coin of AIPAC influence. But not voting or voting Republican isn’t going to make Dems beg for a black vote.

Like you said, progress is incremental. Not immediate. The opposition knew this

 

[Strapped]

Who knows she never gave the people any vision

 

[Tetris v2.0]

It had to get worse before it could better. MAGA woulda just swept up again in the following election if she had won.

The seeds were planted and the culture war was extreme coming out of COVID and her winning would have just delayed, and potentially ramped up, the inevitable

There was no getting around that growing sentiment. We have to go through it. IMO only then can ppl see that shyt for what it really is

 

[King Poetic]

Things would be as if Biden was in office which Biden was cleaning up Trump last mess but we would be doing better overall and no war because Israel said so..

I realized 10 years ago democrats won’t do shyt for black people as a whole but we wouldn’t have even worse problems like we have with trump in office

 

[Strapped]

It had to get worse before it could better. MAGA woulda just swept up again in the following election if she had won.

The seeds were planted and the culture war was extreme coming out of COVID and her winning would have just delayed, and potentially ramped up, the inevitable

There was no getting around that growing sentiment. We have to go through it. IMO only then can ppl see that shyt for what it really is

Teabaggers showed up around 2006 or 7 to take their country back

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Who knows she never gave the people any vision

Wouldn’t need to if people had just basic common sense.

And no vision? At least she had A PLAN..