Summary

In an emotional monologue, John Oliver urged undecided and reluctant voters to support Kamala Harris, emphasizing her policies on Medicare, reproductive rights, and poverty reduction.

Addressing frustrations over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy, he acknowledged the struggle for many voters yet cited voices like Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who supports Harris despite reservations.

Oliver warned of the lasting consequences of a second Trump term, including potential Supreme Court shifts.

Oliver said voting for Harris would mean the world could laugh at this past week’s photo of an orange, gaping-mouthed Trump in a fluorescent vest and allow Americans to carry on with life without worrying about what he might do next.

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    17 days ago

    i live in a solidy blue state and voting third party so my vote could never support trump in any way thanks to the same electoral college that’s helping trump to win; i’m using the system against itself as you should too whenever you have the chance.

    i’m also sure that my ancestors would agree with me that being party to re-legitimizing genocide as acceptable political collateral damage and at the hands of the same system & people that genocided them out of existence in this country is a bad idea.

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      17 days ago

      What are you trying to accomplish by posting this stuff? What are you actually accomplishing by posting this stuff?

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        17 days ago

        experience has taught me that you can’t change people’s minds on anything and i don’t think you can accomplish anything in this system unless you have enough money or sufficient collectivism to affect change.

        i’m old enough and am member to enough vulnerable minority groups to have experienced a few forms of enshitification and i’m sharing my experience because i can see it happening to both the lemmyverse and this country; if there’s anything that can be accomplished by my efforts it would be the this.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      My my, the display of privilege and ignorance. Especially predictable from an ML domain.

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      17 days ago

      Then you should find someone in a swing state to vote swap with to get Harris a vote where it matters and keep Trump out.

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        17 days ago

        i saw that and i’m wondering how i can leverage it; it’s a FANTASTIC idea!