The Real timschochet

You are correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot–Hawley_Tariff_Act

How about this- she makes one statement: “As President, I won’t impose a 10-20% tariff on all imports that come into this country.” Please explain why this isn’t preferable, all by itself, to your guy.

Trump’s economic plans: make tariffs even larger. Suddenly 10% on all countries isn’t enough, now it’s 10-20%. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/14/trump-rally-speech-north-carolina-economy-jd-vance/ I want to know how any conservative can defend this.

No. You completely misunderstand what’s going on. As usual. You need to read up on the campaigns of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and Barack Obama in 2008, which were both quite similar to Kamala’s approach. The key to these three campaigns is made up of 3 parts: 1. You spread optimism. 2. You create a GENERAL image of goodwill without many specifics which allows voters to create their own image of you that they prefer. 3. You create a sense of inevitability. Any thing that detracts from these three goals, which a personal interview or press conference would certainly do, becomes unnecessary. Thats what Reagan did, what Obama did, and what Harris is now doing. I’m not saying I particularly admire this strategy or that it’s good for the country. I would prefer if the old days of Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas seriously laying out their views before the nation would return. But they won’t. In our age of mass media what Kamala is doing is a proven winning strategy so long as you have the charisma to pull it off. She does.

Are you really comparing… Never mind. What a doofus.

Not good enough for who? Personally I think she should give lots of press conferences and interviews. But if her team has calculated that she can win without doing so then more power to them. She’s running against a guy who has broken every rule of politics and said things that would destroy any other candidate. Only today he endorsed Mark Robinson, a Holocaust denier, advocate of murder who would deny women the right to vote. This sort of crap doesn’t seem to hurt Trump at all. So why shouldn’t Kamala try to get away with the relatively minor sin of giving as few interviews as possible? Maybe if you guys ran as her opposition a guy who wasn’t a totally incompetent a$$hole it might make a difference, but you didn’t…

Not to mention denying the Holocaust. @Cdub100 might like him.

Poverty isn’t something you solve by locking out anyone who you think might contribute to its numbers.

It’s almost too early. I would have preferred this in October. It’s like when your team comes back from 3 touchdowns but there’s still 10 minutes left in the game.

Most of you won’t like her answers anyhow.

The poverty level is unacceptable. 38 million is way too high a figure. But if you look at 10 years, and even more so 20 years, it’s slightly better than it’s been. We had a really good run in the early aughts. But other than that it’s hovered in the same 11% level. The 08 collapse led to some bad years but we recovered during Obama’s second term. Still unacceptable though.

Bronn vs the dragon. When he rescues Jaime.

A lot of people won’t be impressed by the inflation news, it’s true. Perceptions are locked in. But I do think the rate cuts will make a difference.

My daughters are at her concert right now.

So you’re saying Taylor won’t bring Travis?

I sense some desperation here.

Yeah but Rod Stewart isn’t on the ballot last I checked.

9 point lead in Wisconsin for Harris: https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-nine-point-lead-donald-trump-wisconsin-poll-presidential-election-1938361

Why don’t you start the thread, buddy? I don’t need to. Your post here is your usual rant. It’s boring at this point. If you want to know my views on nuclear energy or any other subject feel free to ask. I will answer you if I care to. Elon Musk may indeed know more than me about nuclear energy but he certainly didn’t demonstrate that last night. Nonetheless he is a genius, and I am not, so I certainly wouldn’t put it past him. But despite his genius he appears to be an idiot as far as climate change is concerned, I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that Donald Trump does not know more than me about nuclear energy.

No they thought he couldn’t get re-elected and they convinced him of it. They never thought he can’t handle being President now. And again, please address how a mentally incompetent President gets those hostages home? All reports are that he was behind the entire thing, with hours spent on careful and delicate diplomacy. Please explain to me how he did this because apparently I’m too irrational to figure it out. You and those who agree with you are suffering from an extreme case of cognitive dissonance. And you have the nerve to call me irrational.

Because they dismiss climate change. I’m all for nuclear energy as you know, but Trump and Musk come across like morons.

Not as stupid as you claiming that Biden can’t handle running the country while at the same time preferring Trump.

What you call “the full context” is even more embarrassing than what they showed.

Why don’t you ask the people just released from Russia whether or not Biden can handle it?

Love when Trump complimented Musk for firing striking employees. Man of the people! That oughtta win him votes.