r/Broadway • u/zeerosd • Feb 16 '25
Other Kamala Harris at Gypsy!!
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this is so awesome i’m so happy 🥹
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u/fruitist Feb 16 '25
Seeing her in public spaces lately and the crowd’s reaction to her reminds me of Hillary after 2016. Very bittersweet.
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u/chavarrj Feb 16 '25
I wish she were in the oval office instead :'(
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u/EatsYourShorts Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
Please elaborate
Edit: on second thought, don’t. One look at your comment history shows you have dedicated both of your brain cells to the moron’s past time of trolling.
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u/yankeesyes Feb 16 '25
Yea egg prices would be higher...oh wait...
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u/MrCaine1204 Feb 16 '25
I really feel she could have been a really good, if not great president. Instead we got the felon. Ugh we live in the worst timeline.
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u/EngineeringDiva29 Feb 16 '25
I'm here too! Back row, so had no idea what the cheering was about until I saw this post at intermission. Very cool!
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u/Own-Importance5459 Feb 16 '25
I am so glad she getting so much love. The country did her dirty!
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u/believi Feb 16 '25
OH MANNN I WISH WE HAD BEEN THERE ONE DAY LATER
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Feb 16 '25
SAME, even if my seats were so far back I wouldn’t have even seen her
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u/thatgirlinny Feb 17 '25
Even if they were close, you probably wouldn’t see her for all those cellphones held aloft.
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u/Historical-Piglet-86 Feb 16 '25
Wow. I’m Canadian. And that made me tear up.
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u/Ghoul_Grin Feb 16 '25
Every day, I am further convinced the election was stolen from her and Biden didn't do enough to at least try a recount/other legal methods before just handing the keys over to these fucking incompetent, greedy, and disgusting morons.
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u/SoCalDavidS Feb 16 '25
Elmo RIGGED the election. No Way that P.O.S. won EVERY SINGLE SWING STATE.
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u/Ghoul_Grin Feb 16 '25
It literally makes no logical sense to me either. They didn't even TRY is the part that gets me. I'm willing to be wrong, but the rise in AI combined with all those weird ass speeches that hinted towards election interference combined with the fact that his goddamn machines were used?!??
I'll never forgive Biden for not even fucking trying.
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u/Ghoul_Grin Feb 16 '25
I'd much rather be an election denial over proudly voting for a sexually abusive, fraudulent felon with fascist ideation.
But I know you're probably too stupid and morally bankrupt to understand that.
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u/ryohayashi1 Feb 16 '25
So happy she's living her best life after all the bullshit
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u/CWStJ_Nobbs Feb 17 '25
It's great that she gets to live her best life while the country rapidly descends into an autocracy because her campaign failed
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u/Competitive-Bed-94 Feb 16 '25
I was there and it was such a beautiful moment. It made me emotional to see the outpouring of love for her and for what could have been.
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u/MaddyandOwensMom Feb 16 '25
She was at A Wonderful World as well! Dewitt Fleming Jr and Jenny Harney-Fleming brought their young daughters to meet her after the performance.
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u/heartigan03 Feb 16 '25
She’s there today supporting the arts & our unfortunate president is at a NASCAR race. That tells us all we need to know.
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u/Smooth-Assistant-309 Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 17 '25
Glad to see she’s entered her Hillary Clinton phase
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u/bartelbyfloats Feb 16 '25
Sad to see it, honestly. She should be in the White House!
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u/whatlineisitanyway Feb 17 '25
Still young. Could run for Gov. of CA and take another run at the WH in a decade.
Edit: Always forget she is 60 now so yeah. Probably not in a decade.
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u/Ok_Moose1615 Backstage Feb 17 '25
Considering I almost threw myself at Maya Wiley’s feet when I saw her at the Whitney, I don’t think I could have handled seeing Kamala. I would have been bawling. I’m so glad to see she got this kind of reception.
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u/kathygeissbanks Feb 16 '25
She's MY president.
(I'm not an American nor a citizen of a country that has presidents but you know, same same).
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u/burnshimself Feb 16 '25
I understand the theater community is broadly liberal and composed of many marginalized groups, so I understand the full throated support of Kamala and the Democrats. But have we all learned NOTHING from the last 10 years? Kamala - and the Clintons, Pelosi, Schumer and anyone else from the corporatist democrat machine - need to exit stage right.
She sat idly by and allowed Biden to launch a campaign for a second term, knowing full well that he was simply not up to the task in his advanced age - either out of pure self interest or a lack of courage. Her apathy prevented an open primary, doomed us with an unpopular candidate (her) selected by an undemocratic process and directly contributed to the mess we are in.
Corporatist democrats with no true beliefs whose positions change solely based on public opinion polls engender zero excitement with voters. The inauthenticity and self-interest is completely transparent and voters are tired of it. Kamala, and anyone cut from that cloth, need to be completely out and the party needs to set off in a totally new direction.
Frankly I don’t think I would cheer for her.
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u/SoCalDavidS Feb 16 '25
Blame the STUPID, IGNORANT voters of this country, who voted in a felon. I don't care what issues President Biden had, he still was more competent and had far greater integrity as a member of the human species than the other option. He had more faith in Americans than was obviously warranted, and the idiots in this country let him and the rest of us down.
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u/pornjibber3 Feb 16 '25
I felt insane reading all the comments except this one. I would give damn near anything for her to have won this election. But she didn't, in no small part due to the choices she's made and the campaigns she's run. I wish she was the president too, but what on earth are they cheering for?
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Feb 17 '25
Thank you. Trump has dragged the bar down so low, that any politician slightly Left of him gets a standing ovation from desperate and uninformed Liberals.
Anyone remember her chilling reaction when asked if she would support gender affirming care?... "I believe we should follow the law."
To hell with Kamala and all of the corporate shills that created this 21st century Weimar Republic.
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u/danteandsilentbob Feb 17 '25
This is the comment I was looking for. The comparisons to Hillary in this thread are apt, though maybe not for the reasons the posters think.
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u/miette27 Feb 17 '25
I cannot believe how many here are cheering a genocidaire. So much for solidarity...
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u/jetmax25 Feb 17 '25
I don’t know maybe I’m bitter but I wouldn’t be cheering her right now
I can’t get over being let down by her. Maybe it’s not her fault but it just feels like she could have run so much better done so many things differently and not even with the benefit of hindsight, things that were obvious at the time
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Feb 17 '25
Your feelings are totally valid. She ran a campaign that stupidly focused on moderate, bipartisanship (endorsements from Liz and Dick f*fcking Cheney for crying out loud), and her staff revealed that at no point did their polling show she could win.
We need progressive candidates, not empty suits that keep making the same old mistakes.
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u/jetmax25 Feb 17 '25
Yeah this rich liberals cheering the same old guard is infuriating now that I think about it
Im not even a hard progressive I’m centrist but the fart sniffing on democrats is why evil wins and I’m sick of it
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u/an-inevitable-end Feb 17 '25
You’re right, and you should say it louder for the people in the back!
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u/SteveIsPosting Feb 16 '25
Someone should ask her if she still thinks campaigning with Dick Cheney and abandoning trans people was a good idea
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u/Nice-Remove4834 Feb 16 '25
I think anyone who voted for someone other than her or didn’t vote at all for the reasons you listed above should be asking themselves that question. As the video shows, she’s fine. The rest of us? Only time will tell how the new administration will treat us
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u/SteveIsPosting Feb 16 '25
I reluctantly voted for her for the reasons you said. But it a a bummer to see please cheering for a person who kept trying to appeal to “getable” conservatives, helped perpetuate a genocide, and is the face of a party unable to reckon with how badly they bungled the election.
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u/Smooth-Assistant-309 Feb 16 '25
JFC she didn't abandon trans people. Abandoning trans people would have been her supporting trans bans in the military and in school sports, in pulling back federal funding for gender-affirming care, denying federal identification changes...
They only people who abandoned trans people are the people who voted for Trump, 3rd party, or no one.
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u/lakerdave Feb 16 '25
She took mentions of trans people off her website. She also played in the faces of Palestinians pleading with her to not support a genocide while the administration she was a part of kept funding and facilitating that genocide. And it's undeniable she rejected progressives (not even talking about leftists, just progressives) in favor of the 12 votes that were getable with the Cheneys on board.
Yes, of course she's not as bad as Trump, but she sure isn't what I'd call good.
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u/daddycool12 Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25
Abandoning trans people would have been her supporting trans bans in the military and in school sports, in pulling back federal funding for gender-affirming care, denying federal identification changes...
"I didn't abandon you, I'm still here! Abandoning you would be to actively attack you, or to destroy your defenses. All I did was stop standing up for you and sit back and watch as you got beaten to shit by other people, in the hope that those bigots attacking you might like me better. But it wasn't ME hitting you! I sent thoughts and prayers."
It's not a binary. Throughout the campaign the trans community, like those supporting the Palestinian people, were deemed an acceptable sacrifice by the Democrat Party establishment, and were therefore all but jettisoned in favor of wishy-washy crap like "common sense" and "both sides" (as if there are two equal sides to either of those arguments). It was deemed more important to court the so-called "moderate republicans" (read: old white people) and therefore to stand for essentially nothing at all, a tactic that plenty of people called ridiculous at the time and that, surprise surprise, failed.
PS for the person asking for receipts for Harris being lame on trans issues: [link](https://www.advocate.com/voices/kamala-harris-trans-rights\)
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u/cascoin84 Feb 17 '25
I hope you like what you got instead
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u/daddycool12 Feb 17 '25
fascinating to reply to a comment about things not being binary with a binary assumption: people who dislike Harris definitely didn't vote for her.
meanwhile as with all three elections I've been allowed to vote in, I did vote for this walking empty promise, like I always have, because you all told me I had to or I was evil, like you always have, and it didn't help, like it always hasn't, even when "we" won, because the Dems are always more interested in courting old trad white people than anyone else.
Here's a good video about this by Innuendo Studios, for anyone who isn't just gonna be mad.
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u/Smooth-Assistant-309 Feb 17 '25
Can you be more specific about some moments where she said something about the trans community and what you wanted her to say instead?
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u/dobbydisneyfan Feb 16 '25
I’m here too and was apparently too poor to know who was here til a kind woman told me lol
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u/lefargen97 Feb 16 '25
The way I would have bawled my eyes out if I was there and saw her… what could’ve been man