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Why Kamala Lost Has Nothing to Do with Some Secret GOP Conspiracy, Election Rigging Plot.🧵

1/14 Look, if you’re imagining the Republicans managed to rig an election with a Democratic president in office, I have a bridge to sell you. Pulling that off would take a conspiracy the size of, well… an entire election system. This isn’t a bad action movie. It’s real life.

2/14 Rigging this election would take thousands of shadowy operatives working flawlessly across dozens of states, all sworn to secrecy, moving ballots around like CIA-trained ninjas in red hats. You think one of these geniuses wouldn’t leak it to get a Netflix deal? C’mon, folks.

3/14 I get it. I understand the cognitive dissonance. The thought that people actually voted against their own best interests, by any logical analysis, and voted for a man who has already fucked the job once, instead of a capable woman...that's hard. It's easier to conjure up shadowy schemes than face the cold, hard reality that this is who America is. That's an awful thought. It's even an illogical one. But it's also the truth.

4/14 And it comes down to Occam’s Razor. What’s simpler? A nationwide rigging operation or… voters making choices you don’t agree with? Voters making a racist, woman-hating choice. Whether they admit it or not.

5/14 Conspiracy theories are like hot tubs: warm, bubbling, slightly made up of your own pee. They feel good. But at some point, you have to get out and face the world. And the truth? Most people aren’t scheming masterminds. But most markets are irrational. Most markets are emotional. Most markets do dumb things. Like panic dumping the Dems because women make you uncomfortable.

6/14 Instead of wasting time on espionage fantasies, we have to face facts.

The popular vote wanted this.

No matter how fucked up that is.

Nobody forced people to do this.

7/14 Believing the system’s rigged makes democracy harder to protect. It’s tough to champion “free and fair” if you only like it when you win. If we want to keep this whole thing from collapsing, we gotta accept the losses too and double down for the next round.

8/14 Now, let’s talk about the elephant in the voting booth. Kamala’s loss? Yeah, it’s not rigging. But it is biased. A Black woman running for high office hits some folks in a soft spot they don’t even like to admit exists. The discomfort? It’s real, it's gross and it shows up at the polls.

9/14 America has a long, ugly history of brushing off women and people of color as “unfit.” When Kamala gets grilled harder than her peers, it’s not necessarily about policy—it’s about folks clutching their pearls because she doesn’t look like the presidents on their dollar bills.

10/14 For a chunk of voters, Kamala doesn’t fit the mental picture they have of a “leader.” So their ballot isn’t about healthcare or climate or even their own interests—it’s a knee-jerk reaction to protect that image of power they’re comfortable with.

11/14 And let’s get real, polls back it up: women of color in politics face lower favorability no matter what they do. Kamala could hand out free puppies and someone would say, “I don’t trust her with that leash.” It’s not policy; it’s prejudice.

12/14 Instead of crying rigged election, maybe it’s time to admit that biases are still alive and kicking. It’s easier to blame secret plots than face the fact that a lot of people have too much hate and misogynoir in their hearts to vote for a Black woman to have power.

13/14 Ignoring this reality doesn’t make it go away. There is a pressing need to talk about these biases and fight like hell to change them. Kamala running isn’t just politics—it’s a battle against deeply rooted ideas of who deserves to lead.

14/14 Kamala’s loss is a reminder: progress is uncomfortable. It’s slow, and it forces us to look in the mirror. But if we keep pushing, one day people won’t need elaborate excuses to explain why a Black woman should’ve won. They’ll just vote for her.