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Monday, February 23, 2026

Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election catastrophe concluded that Kamala Harris lost because of the Biden administration's support for Israel during the IDF onslaught which would kill 73,188 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and wounding or maiming another 175,000 people.

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"The Democratic National Committee's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided last year to hide it from the public, a reflection of how explosively it could resonate within the party and beyond.

During her brief 107-day campaign Kamala Harris sought to strike a balance, showing strong support for Israel while calling for a ceasefire and expressing sympathy for Palestinians under attack in Gaza as well as the hostages being held by resistance fighters.

Harris wrote her in book that President Biden's unpopularity, which she argued was partly because of "his perceived blank check" to ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, harmed her in 2024. Harris wrote that she privately "pleaded" with Biden, who was getting called "Genocide Joe" by Dummkopf Trumpf and others, to show more empathy for civilians in Gaza. But during her campaign, the VPOTUS declined to publicly break with him over Israel."

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In Nov 2024, a guest writer for the NYT immediately analyzed why the Democrats lost on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, providing an autopsy report for free to the DNC. The Democrats lost for the same reason on Tuesday 5 Nov 1968:; ignoring the massive antiwar bloc, a movement as old as the American Revolution itself. Between the winning 2020 and losing 2024 elections, Democrats lost 6,265,888 votes: NYT

AIPAC surrogates' mean-spirited scapegoating of the tiny Arab-American community for the Democratic Party catastrophe fell flat on its face: Failed Deflection Attempt

Democrat Kamala Harris is not entirely blameless in this American disaster: AIPAC Support


International arrest warrants for crimes against humanity issued by the ICC remain active for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former IDF General Yoav Gallant. In addition, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 30 other suspected Israeli war criminals. Indictments are merely allegations. To ensure a fair trial, Messrs Netanyahu and Gallant must both be presumed innocent until they are proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt at an international tribunal to be held for them in the Hague at future dates.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-23 02:19 AM | Reply

Sure

#2 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-02-23 05:23 AM | Reply

You could start to tell $#!+ was fcnked by Spring 2024

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-23 05:37 AM | Reply

Just like with Clinton, it probably wasn't just one thing, but a cumulation of poor, wishy-washy decisions. Saying she wouldn't do anything different from Biden pretty much tied her to the incumbent at a time when an anti-incumbency wave was sweeping the world. Stupid stunts like that skit where her VP talked about "White Guy Tacos" and having marketing like "White Dudes for Harris" were also horribly judged unforced errors. Then when she appeared on SNL before the election she came across as desperate and literally pleading for votes rather than confident.

As for the people and who refused to vote for anyone who doesn't chant "Death To Israel", screw them.

#4 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-02-23 09:26 AM | Reply

You could start to tell $#!+ was fcnked by Spring 2024

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-23 05:37 AM | Reply | Flag: Indeed. A Likudnik maniac said to drop a nuke on the Palestinians in Gaza

In the summer of 2024 , I calculated with pen and paper the IDF would kill 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza before 1 Jan 2025.

I was pretty close, but a little off. Then I added the +3,000 Arabs killed in Lebanon and I reached ~50,000.

Basically the Middle East has become Arab Killing Zones (AKZ) for the IDF: AKZ-Gaza, AKZ-West Bank, AKZ-Lebanon, AKZ-Syria, AKZ-Iran (Persian), AKZ-Yemen, AKZ-Somalia (Schwarzers).

And Dummkopf Trumpf has been continually bombing the Somalis. Each Hellfire missile or Reaper drone is expensive, so the hardworking American taxpayer continues enriching the oligarchs in the US Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) while making America enemies in the Middle East.

Worse, the USG has plenty of money for Murder-Death-Kill in USCENTCOM AOR, but not for our healthcare.

Americans don't have universal healthcare as enjoyed by the residents of Germany, Israel, Greenland, Canada, Denmark, Taiwan, the UK, or tiny Albania


#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-23 04:58 PM | Reply

I have been saying this all along.

The Harris campaign was completely tone deaf about Palestine. They wouldn't even allow ONE Palestinian Speaker at her anointment er,Nomination gathering.

She was as dismissive as Biden was in public whatever she says now.

Trump. Is Worse by any measure,but Kamala wasn't great in her messaging.

She didn't take people's concerns about the Palestinians seriously enough for sure.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-02-24 08:05 AM | Reply

Naw. She lost because she was black and a woman.

She was also not a good candidate, better than Benedict Donald but that's not saying much.

#7 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-02-24 08:39 AM | Reply

VPOTUS Hubert Humphrey and Senator Ed Muskie (D-ME) were both white Protestant males and they lost in 1968 to Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew because of the Democratic Party support for the unpopular Vietnam War: historicimages.com

LBJ himself opted out from re-election in March 1968.

The same thing happened to VPOTUS Kamala Harris (D) and Governor Ken Walz (D-MN) in 2024.

Their support for Israel cost the Democratic Party 6,265,888 supporters they had in 2020.

To say progressives didn't vote for Kamala Harris because she's a black woman makes no sense.

Progressives didn't vote for Dummkopf Trumpf in 2024 nor did they waste their vote with Jill Stein who won 620,000 votes.

Kamala Harris wrote her in book that President Biden's unpopularity was partly because of "his perceived blank check" for Benjamin Netanyahu.

Her mistake was not publicly breaking with him over Benjamin Netanyahu and the Gaza genocide.

No one has to believe me. Read the article. Ask the DNC to release the autopsy.

Here's their contact info: democrats.org

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-24 10:14 AM | Reply

We'll see if the millions of antiwar Samaritans vote for AIPAC-supported Democrats over the next three election days:

List:

About Face (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War)
America First Committee " opposed American entry into the Second World War
American League Against War and Fascism
American Peace Mobilization
American Peace Society
American Writers Against the Vietnam War
A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
Another Mother For Peace[9]
Anti-War Committee
Antiwar.com
Buffalo Nine
Campus Antiwar Network
Committee for Non-Violent Action (later merged with the War Resisters League)
Committee for Nonviolent Revolution
Center on Conscience & War (formerly known as NISBCO)
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
Council for a Livable World
Council for the National Interest
Code Pink: Women for Peace
Common Dreams
Direct Action to Stop the War
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Gay Liberation Network
GI Rights Network
Gold Star Families for Peace
Grandmothers for Peace
Iraq Peace Action Coalition
LewRockwell.com
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Military Families Speak Out opposed to war in Iraq
Mennonite Central Committee
Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
New York Peace Society " first peace society in U.S., opposed 19th and 20th century wars
No Conscription League
Not in Our Name
Orange County Student Alliance
Peace Action
Peace Alliance
Peace and Freedom Party
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice
People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace " anti-World War I group
Port Militarization Resistance
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
RESIST
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity[10]
Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice[9]
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)
The World Can't Wait
Troops Out Now Coalition
United for Peace and Justice
Veterans for Peace
Vietnam Day Committee
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
War Resisters League
Win Without War
Women's Peace Party[9]
Women's Peace Society[9]
Women's Peace Union[9]
Writers Against the War on Gaza
Youth International Party (Yippies)

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-24 10:15 AM | Reply

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