https://xcancel.com/VP/status/1816490945501708660
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JULY 25, 2024
Statement by Vice President Kamala Harris
Yesterday, at Union Station in Washington, D.C. we saw despicable acts by unpatriotic protestors and dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric.
I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the State of Israel and kill Jews. Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric is abhorrent and we must not tolerate it in our nation.
I condemn the burning of the American flag. That flag is a symbol of our highest ideals as a nation and represents the promise of America. It should never be desecrated in that way.
I support the right to peacefully protest, but let’s be clear: Antisemitism, hate and violence of any kind have no place in our nation.
Remember folks, you can write anyone in you want!
Fuxk the two party regime, vote third party, deny them legitimacy
Enjoy your Trump presidency
we already had him once. it was about as shiti as the rest of them lol
democrats should learn how to run a campaign if they want the vote. not trump is not a platform.
All you have is Strawmen
I’m sure they’ll be really upset about the few dozen morons who do that.
Calling People exercising their Constitutional rights as moron because they didn’t vote for your “team”
🤡🤡
Y’all really working on OT campaigning for Kamala here haha
Burning the flag is protected speech. Dont want to see it burned? Make the country less shitty
She cars more about US flagg being burned than Palestinians being killed.
🤡🤡🤡
I’m finna burn me a flag tomorrow. Hell, they’re cheap enough I could probs burn one a day all the way up to the election
It’s true. Condemning burning the American flag is a just another form of covering your eyes or ears because you don’t like what people are saying. We should both strive to improve our country, listen to protestors, and live up to the American ideals of freedom.
The country that also is still trying to eliminate its indigenous peoples has no “ideals” to live up to.
I highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - an indigenous people’s history of the US.
Wdym? Aren’t we living up to our nation’s ideals of genocide? /s
Another point: Don’t want it burned? Make a better looking flag
If it’s already charred looking, no one can even tell it’s been burned!
Omfg
She’s going for that undecided vote. She figures everyone that fears Trump will vote for her regardless (not an outrageous idea) so she needs to secure all the right-leaning individuals that know trump is a psychopath.
Politicians gonna politics.
There is no undecided vote, Kamala is competing with leftists who are abstaining or voting third party. Nobody on Trump’s camp would vote for Kamala ever anyways, so if she pulled left she would get more voters, not lose them.
The DNC is fine with losing, though, so she won’t.
She’s not chasing voters at all, she’s chasing donors. She’s also apparently whispering sweet nothings to Wall Street about firing Lina Kahn.
Fuck you, Kamala.
I feel as those most of the comments here are trying to push support away from Harris I.E republican fronts/bots.
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nowhere does she condemn Palestine, ability to protest, freedom of speech.
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she does condem violence, a terrorist organization (hamas) and willful damage.
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nowhere does she actually support Israeli actions.
This is actually how comments from politicans and the police should be acting - you can protest, but it doesn’t allow willfull damage, violence or racism. America has been in a cold civil war for soo long you assume everything is an attack on your ideals.
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Standard presidential strategy (pre-trump) is to “run to the center” once the primaries are over. Yes this is disappointing, but I’ll judge her by her actions. She also didn’t attend Netanyahu’s speech, but that could just as easily have been travel logistics or it could have been a snub to Netanyahu who is courting Trump and the R’s.
She’s not my favorite candidate, but she’s miles better than Biden, and Biden’s a light-year better than Trump.
Her husband is Jewish… Genocide will continue as scheduled.
Also, they would never allow her to replace biden unless AIPAC approved. Biden would never endorse her without AIPAC approval
What’s being opposed is not Judaism, but Zionism; and a not insignificant number of Jews are staunch anti-Zionists that oppose this genocide.
Also Kamala Harris’ (or any political figure’s) husband’s religion is irrelevant, what matters is her zionist policies, and her staunch decades-long support for AIPAC.
Bernie Sanders is Jewish and he opposes the genocide. Jews are not a monolith and Harris is not her husband
pinky promise?
Those are facts. I’m not making any promises at all
so we just gonna trust you that Kamala gonna do better when she won’t come out and say so?
she already showed more care for the american flag than Palestinians with her statement few days back.
y’all really don’t understand how tone deaf that and this campaign “maybe she won’t support genocide, please vote to find out” that DNC komissars are currently pushing.
get a fucking clue, clowns.
Just continue talking to yourself. None of that has anything to do with what I said.
God damnit stop supporting genocide too. Don’t be antisemitic but also genocide is bad too
How is calling out violence protests supporting genocide?
She’s not pushing down Palestine or pushing Israel up.
I am as confused as you are by this comment section. She’s also given statements that are anti-genocide as well. You can be opposed to multiple shitty things.
that sucks; i guess i’m not voting for kamala either.
Geez, people here really need to learn what the downvote button is for. I can’t see any reason why this statement would deserve a downvote
lemmy.world if full of shitlibs and; since they’re the biggest instance in this marxist/leninist social media network; downvotes should be expected.
Frankly it’s past time for the leftist instances to defederate from .world. They’ve made it clear what they support over there.
i like it the way it is now; we can see the them, but they can’t see us.
It’s okay. You weren’t planning on voting for a Democrat anyways. Don’t kid yourself bro.
You and your two braincells can go pound sand.
for 4 days tried to trick myself into being a clueless voter like you so i can vote for kamala; but it turns out suffering at the hands of democrats and republics for 5 decades won’t let me.
Who are you voting for?
i haven’t figured that out yet.
kamala if she comes more strongly against the genocide; west or stein if she doesn’t.
Things will be certifiably worse if you don’t.
all of our presidents have been enacting almost 75% project 2025 recommendations since 1980 and they will continue to do so whether or not it’s kamala doing so.
lol there goes my support
Fooled me with missing that speech ngl
The person, a leading presidential candidate and current vice president, skipping the meeting says a lot more than a statement put out by her staff.
It says she’s a coward lol
No, she planned to meet with him privately. she wasn’t skipping the speech out of moral principal, she just had a prior obligation
Well I guess I’ll take yours and Jewishinsider.com’s word for it.
Well I’ll be Martha, the Russian shill is not going to vote a democrat for president!?
What is this world coming to?
She planned to meet with him privately. she wasn’t skipping the speech out of moral principal, she just had a prior obligation
Before? Who knows what she was going to say privately!
But now this public statement is enough to tell us exactly what she’s going to say.
Please don’t post pictures of screenshots. Copy and paste the text.
Sorry, I’ll edit the body with it.
I support the right to peacefully protest
She wants to change our profile picture or whatever empty performative gesturing fits her agenda, doesn’t she?
If we’re actually taking about pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric, this is not an unreasonable statement. I didn’t see the protests myself, but it is possible that what she’s trying to say was that a portion of the protestors went beyond support for Palestine to actively support Hamas. If that’s the case, denouncing sympathizers of a terrorist organization, as distinct from sympathizers of Palestinians as a whole, is a valid position.
If she’s just broadly painting all anti-genocide protesters as pro-Hamas, that’s fucked. And if she’s not, she could have been a bit more explicit about it.
But the first interpretation is certainly plausible, so I won’t jump to conclusions just yet. Would definitely like to see some clarification from her.
FUCK
Condemning a country for carrying out a genocide ≠ antisemitism. God I’m tired of doublespeak always winning.
