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Kamala "the greatest adversary of the US is Iran" Harris? That Kamala?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/8/kamala-harris-says-...

I kick myself every time I fail to place bets on Polymarket. When I heard her say that, I said to myself:

* "Not Russia, which has nuclear parity and now a massively-experienced (if preoccupied) conventional army? Not China, which dwarfs our production capacity and clearly intends to push us out of the West Pacific? Iran, really? So.....we are definitely going to war with Iran after the election. Kamala will lose the election but it won't matter. She has no independent thoughts in her head....which means The Decision-Makers have already decided what needs to happen, and gave her talking points to that effect." *

I coulda made a fortune. -_-

Iran has been on the agenda ever since Bush made it part of the Axis of Evil, but I doubt a Harris administration would be doing what Trump is doing right now. Probably not going to war with Iran outright, and at the very least not doing so as recklessly and haphazardly.

I understand the de riguer thought terminating cliche in American political discourse is that both parties and all politicians are the same, equally corrupt, incompetent malicious, mere puppets bought by corporations and controlled by Israel, and therefore elections don't matter.

I'm not denying the Biden administration's complicity in aiding and abetting Israel's genocide or Harris's unwillingness to distance herself from it, both are disgusting, and the Democrats have no one but themselves to blame for their losses. But Donald Trump really has been qualitatively worse in what should be every conceivably relevant metric than everyone else in the field, including other Republicans.

I actually completely agree on all points. #47/DJT2 is uniquely disastrous for the American Empire. I think Kamala is a narcissistic sociopath but DJT is that PLUS a bully with a fragile ego and the most ridiculously overconfident pathological liar I've ever seen in high office.

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