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Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris (www.thedailybeast.com)

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In an emotional monologue, John Oliver urged undecided and reluctant voters to support Kamala Harris, emphasizing her policies on Medicare, reproductive rights, and poverty reduction.

Addressing frustrations over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy, he acknowledged the struggle for many voters yet cited voices like Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who supports Harris despite reservations.

Oliver warned of the lasting consequences of a second Trump term, including potential Supreme Court shifts.

Oliver said voting for Harris would mean the world could laugh at this past week’s photo of an orange, gaping-mouthed Trump in a fluorescent vest and allow Americans to carry on with life without worrying about what he might do next.

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Great.Fucking.Speech.

I expect sales of that shirt to go through the roof now.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

There needs to be a proper primary system. This choosing the candidate months in advance of the convention by some sort of fiat, no discussion of policies that candidate endorses, then having an eleven month campaign is fucking ridiculous.

If nominees have to get up, espouse their willingness or not to commit genocide in the name of middle east oil interests, and then maybe pay a price for that by not being nominated, might have brought all this to a different end. The DNC's certainty that they know what's right for the people that support the Democrats is the reason Trump even got a first term, let alone why this race is a nailbiter.

Their fucking arrogance and complete lack of awareness outside the oligarchic bubble they inhabit needs to have some consequences if Harris doesn't pull their pickles out of the garbage disposal and then perhaps lay back on the brown-child-murder-endorsement thing.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Passions are too high right now; say the same thing after Harris wins and maybe people will hear you. It's like how everyone was on board with freedoms lost during the Bush-era (after 9/11). Years later we wonder wtf happened.

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