Politics The Kamala Harris Thread

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  1. crandc

    crandc Well-Known Member

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    DeSantis said Harris is not qualified because she has no biological children.
    Neither did George Washington.
     
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    U.S. inflation rate for 2022 was 8.00%, a 3.3% increase from 2021.
    U.S. inflation rate for 2021 was 4.70%, a 3.46% increase from 2020.
    U.S. inflation rate for 2020 was 1.23%, a 0.58% decline from 2019.
    U.S. inflation rate for 2019 was 1.81%, a 0.63% decline from 2018.
     
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    Trump called Harris "garbage" and rejected any new tone.
     
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    Yes - Inflation increased as the pandemic caused major interruptions in the supply chain. This was world wide but has been slowly improving since 2022 along with a continuing expansion of the economy.
    As the economy continued to expand from April through June, inflation resumed a downward trend and seems to be on track to slowing further toward the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.

    America’s economy is about to stick what’s called a “soft landing,” which is when inflation returns to the Fed’s target without a recession — a feat that’s only happened once, during the 1990s, according to some economists.

    The latest GDP report showed that a key gauge of consumer demand picked up in the second quarter to an annual rate of 2.9%, matching the rate in the fourth quarter of 2023 for the strongest pace in two years. A measure of business investment also strengthened in the April-through-June period.
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    "Bleacher Report," lol...


    Wait...
     
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    I hoped it was Martell Webster.
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    She ran out of money and dropped out before the primaries, IIRC.

    To be fair, I thought she took Biden over her red-checkered apron at the debate, back when I believed that she believed his accusers.
     
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    “78-Year-Old Criminal”: Kamala Savagely Roasts Trump’s Newest Meltdown
    Kamala Harris has issued the world’s most brutal press release in response to Donald Trump.

    After Donald Trump’s bizarre attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris in a phone interview on Fox News Thursday morning, her campaign fired back with a blistering response of its own.

    The Harris campaign sent out an email minutes later with the subject line “Statement on a 78-year-old criminal’s Fox News appearance,” wondering “is Donald Trump ok?” They called out Trump for “lying and making threats,” praising abortion bans while criticizing mail-in-voting, and being “old and quite weird.”

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    The email also notes, “If anyone wants an alternative, Kamala Harris is offering one.”

    It’s a quick and snarky response that is sure to land well with Democrats and younger voters. Harris already scored points against Trump when she kicked off her campaign Monday, highlighting her history as a prosecutor against Trump’s legally questionable record. These biting criticisms of Trump seem to have set off his meltdown Thursday.

    In the Fox News appearance the email referred to, Trump was not happy about Harris’s Monday speech, calling it “disgusting.”

    “They say, ‘Sir, be nice. You just got hit with a bullet. Maybe he’s changed. Be nice,’ and I’d love to be nice, but I’m dealing against real garbage when you hear that,” Trump said. He went on to connect Harris’s criticism to the many legal cases against him.

    “When you hear that they’ve weaponized the justice system against me, they’ve indicted me four times. They’ve pushed other lawsuits on. To me, it’s never happened in this country,” Trump ranted. “This is like a third-world country, what they’ve done, a banana republic. Every single court case that I have is pushed on by them.”

    If this is how Trump will respond to future attacks from the Harris campaign, it probably won’t do anything beyond the MAGA base. Trump’s complaints about the cases against him didn’t land earlier this year, and they probably won’t pick up steam by including Harris.

    The Trump campaign has already resorted to making racist attacks against Harris by calling her a “DEI candidate” and claiming she was soft on crime as a prosecutor. Meanwhile, he keeps making things worse for himself. At a rally Wednesday, he confused Harris with his old opponent Nikki Haley. If Harris can keep landing attacks like this, and Trump keeps making bizarre gaffes, the Democrats could go into Election Day with all of the momentum.

    https://newrepublic.com/post/184249/78-year-old-criminal-kamala-harris-roasts-trump-press-release
     
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    That's extreme? Sure. Try to convince young voters to vote against her because she supports legalizing pot.
     
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    Boomers gotta let marijuana being a banned drug go. They watched too much Reefer Madness growing up.

     
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    The humanity
     
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    FYI - I lot of us "Boomers" were for things like legalized pot and alternative energy back in the 70's.
     
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    Of course. But generally, that's by far the largest group I hear complaining about it today.
     
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    Dude, we boomers thought we invented smoking pot.
     
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    I can not speak for other boomers. But from my experience. Smoking pot back in the 70s was probably the dumbest desicion I ever made.

    Anyone that tells you smoking pot is safe, is full of shit. I had health issues from smoking pot. Pot has more toxic chemicals than cigs.
     
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    Point made. Alcohol and cigarettes are bad. Should we ban those?
     
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    And I'm not sure what changed?
     
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    Should, but never could happen in our hedonistic society.

    Our selfish pursuit of pleasures have no limits. We destroy anything that limits our pleasures, even ourselves.

    Heck, we even kill unborn children that are healthy, and growing normally in a healthy woman. Because the responsibility of taking care of that child would limit future pleasures.
     
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