• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    • Degree in PolSci and Econ
    • Head of econ soc, debate team, AKA sorority
    • Doctorate of Jurisprudence
    • president of NLBSA
    • Passed the bar
    • Immediately made Deputy DA
    • chief of Career Criminal Division
    • elected to SF DA as the underdog of 3 candidates, ran unopposed for second term
    • First woman, African American and South Asian American Attorney General
    • Won a legal challenge against a coalition of the five largest mortgage lenders for better rates
    • Brokered privacy policy with FAANG+HP+Blackberry
    • Elected to Senate, committees on Budget, Homeland Security, Fed Spending, Emergency Management, Intelligence, Judiciary, Constitutional Rights, Privacy in Tech
    • Chosen as VP pick
    • Co authored withdrawal from Afghanistan
    • Negotiations with France over nuclear submarines
    • Thurgood Marshall Award
    • Newsweeks 20 most powerful women in 2005
    • Time100 three times, twice before becoming VP
    • bipartisan justice award
    • Two honorary doctorates
    • two books + a children’s book

    • not as smart as Trump

    Hmm, yeah, sure.

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      I know that wasn’t necessarily meant for me but I didn’t know all that, so thanks for putting the list together!

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        She’s also from a very gifted family in general. Both her parents had PhDs, her mother was a researcher who’s credited with making significant advancements in understanding breast cancer, her father was a professor of economics at Stanford and her sister is a lawyer and political analyst.

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        If a university beleives you have contributed a significant level of research / furthered a field of study to a certain point, then they can offer an honorary doctorate. Its like saying you’ve done the equivalent of a PhD thesis but didn’t do the PhD student part.

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      I never said anything about trump intelligence, but I dont see her at particularly smart. Smart people would be someone like Vivek or Elizebeth Warren, Harris is not in their league so she doesnt have that advantage.

      And many of those this are not really brags…

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          Yeah that’s a troll there. Mr Ramaswamy is many things, but he’s about as smart as he is the pride of Columbus, and most of us don’t even realize he’s from here. Hell he didn’t even manage to be the shame of the city.

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            I really detest him. As an Indian guy I hate seeing conservatives extol him as a genius, when he’s actually just a billionaire grifter pandering to conservatives.

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          The one that is uncontroversially an abysmal failure would be “Co authored withdrawal from Afghanistan”. That is incredible someone would even want to mention it.

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              Of course I could do better, give a map to a toddler and they could have done better. Think about it this way, which would you chose to try to defend, an airport in a city of 4.5 million (semi-hostile) people, or at an AFB that they put billions of dollars into 1 hour north surrounded by desert?

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                I mean this response is indicative of a lack of critical thinking about what it means to head up the entire US army

                Not that I have a hard on for Harris, the military industrial complex or neoliberalism, but I do recognize that overly simplistic solutions like this are extremely ill-considered at best.

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                  I am confused is it hard to realize how bad of an idea it was to exit in the middle of a huge city?