The former Trump official joins a group of Republicans who have referred to the vice president as a diversity hire
Newsmax personality and former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka described Vice President Kamala Harris a “DEI hire” and “colored” in an interview on Tuesday.
In the segment, Gorka, himself accused of inflating his credentials as a terrorism expert, predicted that Biden will be forced to withdraw from the presidential race if major Democratic donors “pull the plug.”
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They’ve watered it down to the point of meaninglessness. She’s not a hire. She’s elected. You can’t even call it DEI unless you poll every American about why they voted for her.
Spoiler: because she was attached to the ticket.
She’s not a hire.
She was chosen by Joe Biden to be his running mate, after Biden had already cinched the Democrat nomination.
Thank you for elaborating without contradicting.
I mean, it’s a pretty key difference that she was only elected in that she was attached to the ticket that people were actually voting for.
she was only elected in that she was attached to the ticket that people were actually voting for.
¿¡ they came as a pair. if either one were so completely distasteful, neither one would have elected. the “ticket” included everyone on it.
Right… and no matter who the other guy picks they will still vote for him.
The very existence of Sarah Palin might give that theory a run for it’s money. She almost single-handedly tanked McCain’s election chances back when people doing bizarre and outrageous shit would actually convince voters that they were *checks notes* unqualified for the position.
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He looks more and more like a Dick Tracy villain every time I see a picture of him.
Gorka is a fucking Nazi whose words don’t belong in anyone’s ears.
Considering nobody likes her I don’t think he’s wrong. She’s like Biden only even more right wing and pro-police.
I hate that lemmy has become reddit. Downvoted for stating facts. You can easily Google “Kamala Harris favorability” and her political positions.
Of course she was a DEI hire, just like KJP, or is there anybody that thinks she was really the best person for the job? And Kamala was put in charge of the border early on. Look how that turned out.
Biden himself gives the impression that Harris is a diversity hire when he repeatedly sidelines her and refuses to step aside and let her take over.
Wow, it’s like an NYT Pitchbot headline: “Trump supporters are unapologetic, mask-off bigots. Here’s why that reflects poorly on Biden.”
My point is, are the Republicans wrong? Is she not a diversity hire? Biden chose her, and he certainly acts like she’s a diversity hire.
If Biden didn’t pick her as a diversity hire, he should act like it.
Edit: Also, the fact that Democrats aren’t all rallying around Harris suggests that Democrats see her as a diversity hire.
They want Buttigieg. They want Newsome. They want Whitmer. They want everyone but Harris.
?? Because he won’t step down, the VP is a DEI hire?!
So if the VP was an old white man, and Biden wouldn’t step down, still a DEI hire? Ok.
You’re argument that Biden isn’t racist is to invent a hypothetical scenario in which Biden isn’t racist??
I know that Biden is racist because I’ve seen the way he doesn’t give a shit about the Palestinians.
If Harris ever challenged him for the presidency, he’d probably drone strike her.
I hope she gets the candidacy, not because I’m particularly enthusiastic about her politics (beggers can’t be choosers these days), but if for no other reason than to watch the right’s wall-eyed, impotent rage.
Not a good reason. I’m of the opinion that half the reason we got Trump in 2016 was because the right’s wall-eyed rage against Hillary turned out to be not so impotent after all. Everyone thought Trump would lose, but the right hated Hillary so much, it gave even those who were unmotivated by Trump a reason to go out just to vote against her. Anything that motivates the right to get up and go vote is a bad thing.
Nah, she also has better polling than Biden. I’d rather have a chance to win than definitely lose, Harris is the most realistic option.
The rage from the right has reached its saturation point, there simply aren’t enough bigots left to boost Trump’s numbers. Only way Dems lose is they fail to produce turn out, Biden simply has too much toxic baggage.
We got a small taste of that during the Obama years… just imagine what happens when you multiply African-American with South Asian and female! I think we’ll see those whose masks have been slowly cracking through the ‘45’ years go absolutely balls-to-the-wall mask off. It will be an interesting four years to say the least!
Honestly, a part of me wants the Dump to be completely disqualified from running; Biden to step aside; and Nikki Haley to come back from the grave so that there’s a contest between two South Asian women for president. The voting public’s mind would EXPLODE.
The right is entirely consolidated though, there is no room for a burst of silent bigots. Trump only garners around a quarter of the electorate, probably even less at this point, he is easily beatable it just needs to be someone who’s not Biden.
Also, Obama won both terms, so I’m not sure what you mean. Dems ran a really bad candidate in 2016, depressing turn out of their own potential voters. Harris doesn’t have the baggage Clinton has.
Conceding to misogynists and bigots from the get go is a non-starter as far as I’m concerned.
