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Writing a book where you carp about your former boss and then make excuses for your own poor judgement probably not the *best* way to convince us you're a good leader
I’m somewhat sympathetic to an extent the situation she was put in, but also I really don’t understand why she makes it sound like she literally wasn’t allowed to say anything bad about Biden during the campaign, he might have been upset but he literally couldn’t stop her, what
IDK what the consensus is on this book but saying this stuff now, in this moment, feels totally misguided, which is emblematic of how she generally does PR for herself.
She’s not built that way. I think she would have put pressure on Israel once she got into office because of this aspect of her nature.
Of course it’s right. Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer. Had Obama sucked up every ounce of pride he had, there would be no Trump presidency.
Which means she’s not smart or full of shit. Sounds like a perfect candidate to try and shove down people’s throats without their ability to choose.
Hindsight is 20/20.
I have zero faith that she held these views back then. She is more than likely cherry-picking issues which cast her in a favorable light.
She has no credibility and deserves none.
At the end of the day, Harris is still a low-IQ DEI hire who allegedly sucked and fucked her way to the top. So what are you getting at, exactly?
Why do you keep asking Dems to reach out to Elon? He’s incredibly unpopular. It breaks the first rule of popularism (do popular things).
What’s wild is that Musk has admitted that this snub pushed him towards the right.
You gotta save something for the book. You can't just give every anecdote away.
I don't know to what extent the Musk claim is a fake retrospective - but if true, it really shows how lacking Harris was in any courage. Talking positively about Musk would have gotten her shouted at, and she may still have lost at the end of the day, but risk was worth taking!
A mature and responsible president would tell her to throw him under the bus as she sees fit
It's easy to say this now, but I think military/diplomatic people concerned about Musk's influence through Starlink/SpaceX would have tried to keep him at bay or stage-manage him. He would never accept a Harris Administration DOGE putting boundaries on him, for example.
Feels like she was caught between a rock and a hard place as every time she tried to distance herself from Biden a little Bidenworld started leaking critical quotes; they were ready to get the knives out if they felt disrespected.
Which partly exculpates Harris but damns Biden.
Failing to distance yourself from an incumbent whom you serve but want to replace is understandable but often fails.
Pete again had the better answer.. the event was about tail pipe emissions.
Tesla's do not have tail pipes.
He said yesterday, ya sure I guess he should've been invited, if anything to inspire other automakers.
I'm starting to think that this might be a pretty constructive read for would-be national candidates going forward.
From what I understand of the book, she admits that she was slow to react because she didn’t fully appreciate just how much people hated Biden.
wasn't expecting KH to go nuclear
“Joe then rattled on about his own former debate performances. ‘I beat him the other time; I wasn’t feeling well in that last one.’ He continued to insist that his debate performance hadn’t hurt him much w/the electorate. I was barely listening.”
She knew exactly why Musk wasn’t invited. His company wasn’t unionized and that was a big deal for the Biden admin. Of course, Biden was too pro-union which hindered progress, but she’s being a bit disingenuous here.
Exactly what I thought when I read the Atlantic excerpt. Too little, too late
Not sure inviting that weird dickhead to the White House would have moved the needle
But I always do that! I always think “oh I should have said that then!”
Harris couldn’t fight FOX. The outrage over Obama’s tan suit, for example, clearly revealed the truth. With FOX there is no civil policy discourse, only character assassination. Talk of what Harris could or should have done are fruitless. It wouldn’t have mattered. ”
Pleasing billionaire donors is top priority. Winning elections is a very distant secondary priority.
Who cares atp. The Democratic Party will be fine, most of the ppl that voted for her will be fine. It’s those who weren’t convinced that will suffer the most. Let’s all sit back and have a nice laugh and then see if a lesson was learned in the future.
Lack of courage and imagination appears to permeate the Democratic Party establishment .
Her political instincts are genuinely 0. They are null. They do not exist.
She was still held captive to the "no daylight kid". In a normal election where she ingratiated herself to the voters rather than had Biden step down, she would have been in a better position to separate herself. 107 days posed a unique challenge.
C’mon man - read between the lines
He was heavily pressuring her - “no daylight”. He called her just before the fucking debate to question her loyalty.
If you want to blame anyone for this, Biden and his team are the ones to look at. She was put into an impossible position.
They were too focused on the Unions. They ostracized businesses. Kamala Harris even as VP promoted Public/Private partnership - her trip to Africa, Root Causes of Migration, CDFI's etc. Ordinary Americans work at these businesses. We don't want our jobs jeopardized.
its likely a big part of the problem was that she wasnt just a presidential candidate, she was also the current vice president
The real mistake was not forcing Biden to quit as President. She was clearly on a hiding to nothing running whilst he was still President, especially when he was so sensitive.
Dunno. If she’s burning her own party clearly she’s NOT running. She should shoot for Governor of Ca next, and President after that a la Reagan,
