111 Republican former officials endorse Harris because of Trump's disloyalty to America and unfitness to serve

www.cnbc.com 111 Republican former officials endorse Harris, say Trump is 'unfit to serve'

Kamala Harris' campaign has netted Republican endorsements from numerous Trump administration officials as well as from figures such as Dick Cheney.

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Let's point out the obvious.
Harris hasn't shifted position or gone looking for them; they decided that they had to put the country ahead of the Party.
- This is the correct takeaway. Harris is by no means a fringe leftie (or Marxist lol) but the only courting she's doing is having people who already sided with her speak on her behalf (like at DNC).
  Otherwise, most of her shifts are towards the battleground state, like fracking. No idea why that wins over Pennsylvania (gotta love the toxic water!) but until we fix our elections that's just gonna happen.
  
  My favorite idea for improving democracy comes from Robert Heinlein's novel 'Double Star.'
  His idea was that people could choose their 'state' based on their own interests. Instead of being a New Yorker or a Virginian people could pick to be 'soccer mom' or 'IT professional' or 'anarchist' or 'teacher.' The book is light on details, though.

I mean the guy literally shits his pants every day. Also he’s clinically insane. Also he works for Putin.
- He's just your every day american, that's why he's popular

Former officials.
How many current officials have decided to put country before party? I can almost hear those miserable bastards from here:
The political party that I work at is putting the country at risk, but hey:
1) I don't know, I just work here,
2) I'm NOT going to risk my "I don't know, I just work here" job.

'former officials'
... it isn't courageous and won't mean anything until CURRENT officials do the same, en masse. They're mostly too scared of losing their cushy positions. Cowards.
- It’s gotta start somewhere.
  
  True. I hope it bubbles up to those who have 'more to lose' and they put country over career and party.
- Liz Cheney was the 3rd ranking House Republican when she starting warning about Treason Trump.
  
  Fair point -- she had the courage and 100% deserves credit for that! I wish more had her strength.

Fuck a cop.

The modern democratic party has adopted the positions of 2005 republicans. They might as well adopt the personnel of 2005 republicans too.
- They're against gay marriage and gearing up for a gigantic tax cut for the wealthy?
  
  They're against IVF and school lunches for children?
  
  Democrats have kept the Trump tax cut scheme where the wealthy pay less, and the working class tax cuts expire. This is the ratchet effect, where republicans move the country right, then democrats normalize the rightward shift instead of pushing back.
  Kamala has lowered her desired capital gains tax rate to a pathetic 28%.
- They are advocating for defunding public education and setting up private religious charter schools?
  
  Well this is a bit outside of our scope, since most of the education defunding was done pre-2005 under Reagan and Clinton.
  But yea, democrats have failed to re-fund public education. Our schools look like prisons and our teachers are paid like slaves, and you can see it in our failing test scores.
- They're against healthcare reform and pre-existing conditions?
  
  Yeah, look at what they did to Bernie and Medicare for All. They are explicitly against healthcare reform.
  edit: or if Bernie is too polarizing of an example, look at how candidate Biden's #1 policy proposal was the public option, and once elected he completely dropped it.
- They are against public infrastructure and housing reform?
  
  Yes the infrastructure package passed by Biden is barely enough funds to handle the backlog of maintenance issues in our failing infrastructure.
  We are the richest country on earth, we should be building high speed rail like china. We should be investing and making the infrastructure of the future. Instead we can hardly keep our 80 year old rails running without our trains exploding.
- They are against increasing child tax credits for parents?
  
  For almost a year, we nearly eliminated child hunger and child poverty in this country. This was under the child tax credits under Trump's covid policies.
  I think we can both agree that Trump is the worse evil, so what does it say about Democrats that they increased child poverty compared to Trump? Why didn't they push to make the Trump child tax credits permanent?
- They're against environmental regulation and climate change policy?
  
  Holy shit you are absolutely relentless. I dunno how I feel about it, but damn.
  Stop, stop! He's already dead!
  
  Yes, under the Biden administration we set a new record for fossil fuel extraction. Biden is giving out so many drilling permits, there are thousands that are unfilled.
  We are on pace to make earth uninhabitable.
  
  Kamala literally bragged about increasing gas production to an all time high, yes.
- They are against alleviating student loans?
  
  "Alleviating" doing a lot of work here. They forgave PPP loans (which went mostly to the wealthy) but didn't forgive student loans like they said they would. Biden also helped create the problem in the first place by arbitrarily making making such loans ineligible for bankruptcy forgiveness
  
  Yes they let a procedural hurdle (the senate parliamentarian) stop them lmao.
  When the republicans get stopped by the parliamentarian, they just replace the parliamentarian. When democrats get stopped by the parliamentarian, they cry and give up.
- They are against abortion?
  
  When they campaign, they say they will codify abortion rights.
  After they are elected, they dont even try.
  For them, it is better if abortion rights are not secured, because it is such a great issue to motivate voters.

…well when you keep sliding to the right
- Why is this vomit catchphrase repeated so incessantly? It's like y'all got the memo and repeat the same buzzwords talking points non stop like an army of bots.
  Donald Trump is not popular within his party. The Lincoln Project has been operating since Trump was elected.
  Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
  
  Trump is popular within the GQP, it's just many of them are catching on to the fact that Trump wants the pie all for himself and his pals and that they will probably not only get shrinking portions but become the next targets as well if they ever treat him anything other than a cult idol.

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