Will Kamala ever recover from this?

Lobbying / lecture circuit / memoirs. She will cake off her time in the limelight for a few years and be set for life. As far as federal government, she is persona non grata and that probably won’t ever change.

In retrospect I think she knew she was going to lose. Like I think with the internals she realized it was a very strong possibility, that’s why she decided to have her election night at Howard University. Plus sometimes her eyes appeared sad behind the smile. I’m only talking the last 2 weeks leading up to Election Day.

She will definitely recover. Hollywood is going to love her, the political and elite college circuit will love her. I hope she stays as a pop culture presence. I like her.

There’s a whole thread on this here somewhere

Outlandish idea/ rumor floated -

Justice Sotomayor will retire quickly. Biden will put Harris name into nomination. Schumer will push it through.

That's very improbable but I just saw it floated on the internet in a headline.

She is going to make millions, buy a second home in Hawaii or Santa Barbara, vacation in Europe, become Governor of CA in 2026 if she wants it, go the private sector route if she wants that. She will prosper. It's the men making 45K who think Trump is going to abolish income tax, deport 20 million people, stop all wars and make gas $1 that are going to suffer. In their minds Ms Harris is 'owned'. If only they knew.

She'll write a memoir

[quote] That's very improbable but I just saw it floated on the internet in a headline.

Thanks for sharing.

She is not going to spend the rest of her life stuck on a horrible SC where she is in the minority. She will be out of DC asap , away from all the stress and BS and home with Doug. I don't blame her. Making her marriage low distance (again), living in a DC apartment alone much of the time (again), and fighting an unwinnable fight (again) is more like punishment.

If not a Supreme Court spot, maybe the head of something at the UN, or executive director of the ACLU, or president of the NAACP . . . I know the VP is "second in command" but it isn't a great gig. Lots of other things would be better.

R5 That would be so awesome. But the Dems would never EVAH be so unconventional. Like ever. That’s one things that’s hurting them too.

WTF are you guys talking about? Trump is not going to appoint her to SCOTUS.

I have no doubt that she's still in a lot of pain right now. But look at this photo taken but her niece yesterday. Does does look like a woman who is going to stick around DC and deal with all the fake people that threw her under the bus? She's going back to CA and you mothafuckers can enjoy your cheaper eggs with a side of fascism!

R12, some loon is using AI to generate a bunch of responses in answer to OP's question. And OP is probably the same loon who's writing the responses.

Trump doesn't become the POTUS until January 20th, 2025, r12.

If the power was on the other foot, Mitch Mcconnell would have no hesitation pushing it through.

[quote]She's going back to CA and you mothafuckers can enjoy your cheaper eggs with a side of fascism!

Is that message intended for the people who worked for her, supported her and worked for her as well? Charming.

She got to that point with a lot of people behind her, helping her. I don't think she's that callous, but some democrats are really getting off on this scenario, and it's kind of disturbing to say the least.

Harris and Hillary Clinton are reported to be close.

It makes sense. There is only one other human being that knows what Harris is going through. That's got to be invaluable to Harris right now.

R13 Eggs gon get more expensive though.

Chile, please. Kamala is at home sipping’ wine, laughing and playing board games with her nieces. She said, “Y’all made your choice. Now let me finish off these last weeks as VP in peace while all of you who voted for that marinate in it.”

She is going to hide for a while, write a memoir in 2025 or 2026, and retire/be a celebrity in wine country, California. Retired Vice Presidents generally leave a quiet but interesting life:

Spiro Agnew lived in exile until his death in 1996.

Nelson Rockefeller collected art and died while having sex with his mistress.

Walter Mondale traveled the world as a quasi-diplomat.

Dan Quayle moved to Arizona for the weather and golf.

Al Gore focuses on the environment.

Mike Pence went back to lusting after farm boys in Indiana.

Only Humbert Humphrey go back into politics. He died after one term in the Senate.

r18 Oh please jesus tell me you are not teafake.

[quote] Is that message intended for the people who worked for her, supported her and worked for her as well? Charming.

Of course not but who do you think she would be trying to help if she stayed in DC to take on the jobs suggested? Not her supporters but the very people who voted for Trump.

[quote] Eggs gon get more expensive though.

Absolutely, so expecting her to stay in DC, at great sacrifice to her family and marriage, to fight for the people who would not vote for her is asking too much imo.

If she wants to be the resistance then CA Governor would be the best option in 2026.

She's gonna get her own sitcom.

R21 Ok I’ll tell you I’m not Teacake.

No, she's toast. $1B couldn't get her elected and now the Dems are $18-20M in debt.

are you trumpsworstnightmare?

I hope she has a trusted aide who will screen her texts and email and delete the horrible, vile slurs, insults, and threats that will be written to her.

I cannot even imagine the psychotic revenge that Trump and his cronies will try to do to her.

I'm sick of the "poor Kamala" narrative. She put her hand up when there were other candidates who had a better chance of succeeding, ran an ok campaign but made some strategic blunders, and now will live a very comfortable life and make millions more. She's going to be fine.

She's gonna be back out there on the streets. Girlfriend

It was Bakari Sellers on CNN who floated the idea of Sotomayor retiring and Harris's name be put in nomination to replace her.

R27 Why those cunts troll her, she will be staking her paper and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders.

Not that it's seriously going to happen but if Sotomayor were to retire and Biden was inclined to nominate Harris, I doubt Harris would want a SC seat.

She'd have to forego writing a personal memoir.

R32 while those cunts*

One things for sure the presidency ain’t shit no more. After these 2 fuckboys. Biden did do a good job on the economy though but the presidency was always a big deal because you seemed like the most powerful person in the world. Now all this global influence, billionaire oligarchs involved, the presidency has been diminished. America will be alright and will survive this Trump era.

Talk about a flop. Harris’s career has been a joke, and it is now definitively dead with a capital D. She’s basically the Beyoncé of politics.

R36 Please tell us what you do in life, cunt.

Racist elder gays are so boring, yawn. I hope Trump deports you for being old.

[quote] Harris’s career has been a joke

Who are you, CEO of NVIDIA? Because I'd fucking kill to be DA, AG, Senator and VP.

She should put out a flop country album 😹

Wow that anti Beyonce troll is really thirsty tonight. Sad.

[quote ] Trump doesn't become the POTUS until January 20th, 2025, [R12]. If the power was on the other foot, Mitch Mcconnell would have no hesitation pushing it through.

It ain't happening. (Kamala will not be appointed to SCOTUS.)

[quote] She'd have to forego writing a personal memoir.

Another best seller.

california she will be great. she was very very popular there even boxer she ran

You know, seriously r43, I'll give it a sincere reading if you answer this.

Harris just experienced a personal and professional loss that was witnessed by the whole world. True, politics is a tough business, it comes with the territory, but every human experiences mental and emotional pain.

Trump, I dare say, felt that when he lost to Biden. And anger. So much that he publicly denied he lost but privately admitted it.

Plus, she's out. Vanquished. We wanna gossip about her here.

What is it about Harris that brings out the "kick her while she's down" attitude from you?

I think she’ll teach, too.

R45 He won’t answer you but we all know it’s because she’s a beautiful, smart, ambitious black woman who reached heights that most men will never reach. Seeing her knocked down gives losers like R43 a sick satisfaction because they couldn’t stand to see her so far above them. It’s the crab effect. Drag her down beyond their level to feel better.

She dun sho nuff shown her ass 👏🏾👏🏾

Issa bye Felitia for me dawg. I’m finna tell MCI ta cut da phone cord.

R48 Bruh if you gon be sad and pathetic, at least be current. MCI?

[quote]Chile, please. Kamala is at home sipping’ wine, laughing and playing board games with her nieces. She said, “Y’all made your choice. Now let me finish off these last weeks as VP in peace while all of you who voted for that marinate in it.”

Hopefully that's not her attitude. She and Biden helped create this scenario by leaving the border opened for over three years. The border crisis was one of the main issues Trump ran on in 2016, and he won. Biden rolled back effective policies "on day one" of his administration and provided incentives for people to come here, and when they did, in droves, he and Harris did pretty much nothing about it...for years. Everyone saw this and nobody wanted it, especially during an economically devastating (to many) pandemic. Harris, who Biden had put in charge of the border years before, finally decided to deal with it six months before the election, way too late. So, here we are, stuck with Trump again. Not a laughing matter.

[quote] Biden rolled back effective policies "on day one" of his administration……he and Harris did pretty much nothing about it...for years.

This is why the VP job sucks. You’re right to say that “Biden” did it and “he and Harris” have to own it as a unit but she didn’t do it. Biden’s inner circle of men who have been around him for decades would not let Kamala override any of his decisions. She often went weeks without seeing him as she was overseas or around the country on her own assigned causes. Reading the 2022 article about her in The Atlantic is fascinating now because it lays out her frustration with the role, the limitations, how little face time she had with Biden, how siloed her team was from his team. How his team wasn’t able to name one piece of advice Biden has taken from her when The Atlantic pressed them.

This is why Shapiro didn’t want the VP job. He’d have no power. Kamala could do some action while he’s in El Paso cutting ribbon on a new bridge but come 2032 it would be the “Harris/Shapiro” action and he’d be pummelled for it even though it wasn’t him and he may not agree.

Who cares?

This is The Atlantic article if anyone wants to see what the role actually was and compare it to how she had to own it on the trail for better or worse.

Wow...

[quote]Inside Harris’s crumbled campaign, some feel that they were misled about her chances, and led to believe it would be a margin-of-error race. In reality, Trump blew apart Harris’s play for the blue wall states and beat her by more than four million votes.

[quote]“People are depressed and frustrated about the overconfident leadership of the campaign,” one staffer told Axios.

[quote]One Biden staffer put it more simply: “How did you spend $1 billion and not win? What the fuck?”

[quote]Harris’s campaign budget was closely guarded by campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon, so it’s unclear exactly how funds were allocated. An official for the DNC said that the majority of campaign spending was toward major events, paid media, and Harris’s supposedly expansive ground game—one that ultimately didn’t drum up that many votes at all.

[quote]What’s clear is that Harris ran a very expensive campaign, one that dwarfed Donald Trump’s efforts. The campaign spent an average of $7.5 million a day in August, in comparison to the $2.7 million that Trump spent. In September, the Harris campaign spent $152 million on advertising, more than double the $63 million that Trump shelled out.

[quote]Unfortunately for Harris, dollars didn’t seem to translate into votes. And even after Harris lost, her campaign is still sending out slates of fundraising requests.

[quote] She'll write a memoir

Zendaya will be aged-up to play her in the feature film adaptation.

She is going to remain in politics. She is not Al Gore.

I can't with all the "how did she spend $1 billion and not win?!" Trump is a celebrity who has received decades of free publicity, reaching a fever pitch in the last 10 years where media coverage has been obsessive. Harris needed a 4 year campaign and $5 billion to even approach the level of recognition of Trump. Including all the free press he received from every media and news outlet.

It appears that it really was “the economy, stupid”. Dems could have run Jesus Christ himself and still would have faced an uphill battle. The incumbent Democratic president became the public face of inflation for an electorate who don’t know any better, and his approval rating was in the toilet for most of his term. The Senate overseeing this inflationary period has been controlled by democrats. There is a global anti-incumbent sentiment and lurch towards authoritarianism. There is a vast right-wing propaganda infrastructure funded by nefarious billionaires seeking personal gain and by foreign adversaries seeking to sow Western instability. Voters want change and a majority seem to think a lawless ghoul like Trump can bring it to pass. For his base, his cruelty and buffoonery are just gravy.

That’s how she spent a billion and lost.

One Biden staffer put it more simply: “How did you spend $1 billion and not win? What the fuck?”

Because the stupid ass motherfucking president put on a motherfucking MAGA hat in August and bit babies on Halloween.

He either has dementia or is a sociopath. Which one is it.