Everything under the coconut tree is in utter chaos, you know, the thing, is excellent
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the old malarkey is dying, and the new context struggles to be born, now is the time of coconuts
lmao pure cope.
There is no way Kamala boosts down ballot candidates and she will also eat shit to Trump.
I'm just over here laffin at the turn of phrase "coconut pilled" making it into a CNN article
Dem staffers are so fucking online lol
Most of them are on here
I'm not voting for dems, i hate all of them, and this election is bullshit. So I'm speaking strictly from a horse race perspective here, since i do not care about the process or outcome.
I totally agree Kamala won't boost down ballot at all. The down ballot is already boosted (as boosted as possible anyway) from people voting because of abortion. Kamala is awful at politics. The more she's in the spotlight, probably the less people will like her (assuming anyone likes her now). But at least she can say the word abortion. Honestly, i think thats the only thing a Democratic canidate needs to do this election to perform competitively.
Kamala is not a strong candidate, but i don't know how much it matters. Dems entire strategy is abortion and negative partisanship against Trump. Biden is fucking both parts of that up by not being able to say, let alone speak about abortion, and by obviously being mentally unfit to an extent they can't hide. Almost anyone but Hilary could replace him and be competitive in this race.
Trump isn't the same as he was 4 years ago, let alone 8. He has a record that most people hate, and most people do not want a national abortion ban. Even as shitty of a candidate as Kamala is, i wouldn't say for sure she'd lose at this point. I think anyone but Biden (or Clinton) has a shot because of abortion.
it's abortion that'll be energizing the down ballot. Just today at work there were like 3 heavy ads about how horrible abortion rights being revoked during the hour and a half of news that was playing. They were very clearly new ads since they were talking about Vance now. It's nigh impossible to look at some of the stories just from the ads that were playing and ignore just how awful things are unless you're already just so deeply into the sauce that you'll never be convinced otherwise.
Remember when we used to say Hillary Clinton was uniquely qualified to lose to Trump? Because Trump is historically unpopular? I know its been 8 years, but personally the only change I make to that statement personally is adding Biden to that and thats only because he's dying in front of us. I don't think Kamala eats shit. If she loses itll be barely. Like idk when the narrative changed but I disagree with the change. I still think almost anyone can beat Trump. Theres already polls showing her either winning or performing better than Biden in the swing states and thats before she's selected and had time to actually build herself.
She has less rizz than a paper towel tube with googly eyes on it and she will face racism and sexism. Expecting her to eat shit is pretty reasonable IMO.
I think this perception of Kamala is a kind of Hexbear-bound phenomenon lol. She has a sort of charm to her because of her wine auntyness like I said elsewhere. She's not a total vacuum saltine like Pete or whatever.
she will face racism and sexism
Obama won two terms as president and Hillary won the popular vote lol. And the second of those two people is actually as unlikeable as Hexbear thinks she is (though even she had people who were charmed by her particular awkwardness). Idk why people here like play into the "a black woman can never be president" shit as if that itself isnt racist???? Like thats the shit the "Im KHive but i dont actually want Kamala to be president" shit are saying.
She didn't do well in the 2020 primary. Now of course this isn't exactly the same situation as back then, but I don't see her as a strong enough candidate to safely beat Trump. Winning the popular vote isn't enough, as you yourself said.
Desantis polled great too before he opened his mouth. The same thing would likely happen for Kamala. Hate to say it, but Gavin Newsom has a much better shot
Gruesome Newsom is a sleazy piece of shit, but you can tell he has some savvy political instincts of how and where to position himself. Immediately after the debate he smelled blood in the water and was trying to thread the needle of positioning himself as a potential replacement while also playing coy about whether he'd call on Biden to resign. You can tell he has a lot of barely concealed contempt for Kamala's ability to be almost as shitty and incoherent as Biden but managing to fail upwards and end up being VP even though she was polling sixth in the primaries in California before she dropped out and never even made it to the Iowa primary too. If he had an opening and thought he had a shot at winning a general election against Trump, he'd 100% jump at the opportunity to fuck over Harris.
I think you'd be surprised at how much "she reminds me of my mom/wine aunt" appeal Kamala has but ok. I dont think she's like DeSantis at all.
I think Trump has some stuff going for him as far as popularity.
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The entire Republican party is behind him. There are some irrelevant people who still have something they think of as principles, but they're few and far between and they fold easily. On the other hand, the democratic party can't decide what the fuck it wants. You've got 99% of the republican party saying "Trump is the greatest thing ever" and more like half the democratic party agreeing on any one thing.
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He's already been president and the entire country didn't explode so he's already theoretically got more credibility than anyone in the running except Biden.
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"Someone literally shot me and not only did I not shit my pants I was barely even hurt" is pretty much the biggest vibes-based victory you can get
I don't think it takes someone especially good to beat Trump, but I think that unlike in 2016 you actually have to be trying.
Theres already polls showing her either winning or performing better than Biden in the swing states and thats before she's selected and had time to actually build herself.
Personally I think her odds will go down the more we see her, not up. I think if they really want Kamala to be president they have to have her pull a Sleepy Joe and literally hide from the public as much as possible.
I think anybody with a D next to their name and more charisma than a cave moss could beat Trump, but the short list of candidates the DNC is likely to consider (Hillary, Kamala, Pete, Joe) all fail to reach that bar.
more charisma than a cave moss
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That reminds me...
That I need to look up what a bolus is.
more charisma than a cave moss
I agree that Pete fails to meet this bar (I guess) but I think Kamala has at least that much lol.
she's a weirdo but i give her better odds than the lich.
But
If you didn't fall out of a coconut tree, how can you be coconut pilled??
the meme has been decoupled from its original context, just as a coconut detaches from its tree
:baudrillard-shining:
Kamala vs Donnie would be the funnier timeline, so I guess that’s what is coming.
Very powerful pharmaceutical cocktails on both sides
i had to actually read the transcript to understand the coconut thing because googling it is useless. there are a bunch of sites that claim to explain it but never do. Also helps explain the weird poll they did recently asking if voters agree that they live in the context of all that is and came before lol.
I thought that was just a meme? She actually remembered and talked about her mother explaining materialism to her? 
https://youtu.be/5fawsxyibfk?si=xr8y_NQbrzFja8Zf&t=26
It isn't, and she did
Wait, color me coconut-pilled, always thought it was some verbal goof but no, that's straight-up Dialectical Materialism
Kamala's father is a Marxist
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
They said the thing 
Okay, while the "fell out of a coconut tree" tree line is fine, referring to a brown skinned person as a "coconut" is indeed problematic. "Brown on the outside, white on the inside". Even if it's kinda true in her case
The coconut tree meme exists in the context of all that is and all that came before it
turns out not even coconuts fell out of a coconut tree, when will this end
the coconuts did not fall from the tree, they were knocked out of the tree!
The context is not a coconut that falls from the tree when it is burdened by what has been
when a mf says something so contextphobic you gotta hit em with the coconut tree stare
Isn't that more of a UK thing? Never really heard that term used in America. There's a cookie-based slur that I think is more the US equivalent to the UK one.
Yes the correct term should be kopmala maxxing
People still doing that weird ass pill shit? It's been run into the ground so much it's just annoying now