Kamala Harris for President thread

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2 hours ago, Cdub100 said:

The process has played out... Grassroots? 

WTF is he talking about? What process? What is the grassroots effort?

Can one of the mentally ill people explain this to me? Because you have to be retarded to believe a single word out of his Jew mouth.

 

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3 hours ago, Fireballer said:

The excitement is “off the charts” as Tim says.

 

Jeb! flashbacks

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2 hours ago, Cdub100 said:

The process has played out... Grassroots? 

WTF is he talking about? What process? What is the grassroots effort?

Can one of the mentally ill people explain this to me? Because you have to be retarded to believe a single word out of his Jew mouth.

 

They'd wanted a speed dating primary but -whoopsie- everybody that could have done so backed out rather than take on the Certainly Not A DEI princess. Alright, there goes that idea. I guess we'll just rally around Kamala then.

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3 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

To be fair, Tim and a few others are acting like teenage girls at a Justin Bieber concert.  They're totally hysterical and not really thinking straight.  I'm guessing Tim and his cronies probably threw their panties at the TV as an orgasmic response when Harris showed up on it.

You can't take them seriously.  Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

This is awesome. Really enjoying this. 

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9 hours ago, nobody said:

The only thing tangible in there is an infrastructure bill being passed.

Inflation was addressed.  How?  What specifically did the administration do?  I know the Fed raised rates in order to stem inflation that was caused by irresponsible spending by this administration.  But the Fed by definition is independent from the administration.

Gas prices were addressed?  How?  What specifically did the administration do?  I know prices are still quite high, and they magically came down for election season, but of course they're going right back up after the election.

Illegal immigration was addressed?  You can't be serious.  The southern border is a sieve.  What did they do?

Strengthened ties with our allies?  That's a meaningless statement.  How do you even measure how strong our ties are with our allies?  And does it mean our allies are going to actually pull their weight?  

Kept tyranny in check?  That's even more meaningless.  We're supposed to give the administration credit for what?  Not becoming tyrants?  

 

Inflation: It's called the Inflation Reduction Act.

Gas prices: Releases from the strategic reserves. 

Immigration: Are you denying that illegal border crossings are down? Look at the recent stats.

Ties with allies: NATO is stronger thanks to Biden and his policies. 

Keeping tyranny in check: That being supporting Ukraine in its fight .

Of course, simple supply-and-demand economics impacted inflation and gas prices, but Trumpers continue to blame the administrations about gas prices that spiked more than two years ago and have come down to reasonable levels.

As much of a liberal as I am, I like my gas-guzzling pickup truck just fine and have no plans in the near future to switch to some sissy-ass electric vehicle.

I'm not seeing all this alleged governmental horror of the past four years. My family is way better off, and I look forward to eight great years of Kamala Harris being president.

Kisses!

 

 

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This reminds me of where I work.

Screw everything up.  Waste a bunch of time and money "fixing" it and people give you flowers.  Good times.  Good times.

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1 hour ago, The Real timschochet said:

This is awesome. Really enjoying this. 

Can't blame you. Your party's chances of winning the election just went from 0 to somewhere in play... my own estimate is maybe 25%. For my part, I sure wanted Joe to stay in the race.

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20 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Can't blame you. Your party's chances of winning the election just went from 0 to somewhere in play... my own estimate is maybe 25%. For my part, I sure wanted Joe to stay in the race.

Well I’m excited about that for sure- and of course I think the number is much higher than you do. But what I was referring to in that post was the conspiracy theories I’ve been reading in this thread about how Harris has been put up there to lose so they don’t have to deal with her in 2028. It’s so laughable. 

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1 minute ago, The Real timschochet said:

Well I’m excited about that for sure- and of course I think the number is much higher than you do. But what I was referring to in that post was the conspiracy theories I’ve been reading in this thread about how Harris has been put up there to lose so they don’t have to deal with her in 2028. It’s so laughable. 

I don't know how what she brings to the table appeals to midwest voters. "Scranton Joe" was a fake but at least he knew the words and tune.

That 2028 deal is another thing. I'd rather Joe lose 2024, saving Kamala be either the 2028 winner, or the jilted and vengeful DEI set-aside candidate, because seeing the 'the only reason to not get in line behind her is racism and sexism' card played on the Dems themselves would be sweet deserts, richly deserved, for what they've put the country through with their constant and incessant race baiting.

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https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1816126196658135321

According to the Harris campaign, as of Tuesday evening, Team Harris has raised $126 million since President Biden's endorsement.

Over 1.4 million grassroots donors made donations since Sunday afternoon, 64% of whom made their first contribution of the 2024 cycle.

Since Sunday afternoon, Team Harris has added 74,000 new recurring donors, with two-thirds of these recurring donors signing up for weekly donation.

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14 minutes ago, squistion said:

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1816126196658135321

According to the Harris campaign, as of Tuesday evening, Team Harris has raised $126 million since President Biden's endorsement.

Over 1.4 million grassroots donors made donations since Sunday afternoon, 64% of whom made their first contribution of the 2024 cycle.

Since Sunday afternoon, Team Harris has added 74,000 new recurring donors, with two-thirds of these recurring donors signing up for weekly donation.

Do those people know they donated?

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2 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

Do those people know they donated?

This is not the Trump campaign, so I'm sure they do. 

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2 minutes ago, squistion said:

This is not the Trump campaign, so I'm sure they do. 

Oh right the same people who told us Biden was sharp as a tack. All of a sudden a hugely unpopular VP has a ground swelling of support.

You guys literally believe everything you are told.

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2 minutes ago, Strike said:

 

She’s right about so much of that. And compared to Trump’s positions she’s positively brilliant. 

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Just now, The Real timschochet said:

She’s right about so much of that. And compared to Trump’s positions she’s positively brilliant. 

You're not monty williams and you can't progress her political career so she's not going to fock you dude. You can stop simping.

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1 minute ago, The Real timschochet said:

She’s right about so much of that. And compared to Trump’s positions she’s positively brilliant. 

Sure pal.  I noticed you've ignored my posts showing Kameltoe being rated as the most radical leftist in the Senate when she was there.  But let's see if she pushes these policies during the campaign if they're such winning policies.  Glad you think convicted terrorists should be allowed to vote. 

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Just now, Strike said:

Sure pal.  I noticed you've ignored my posts showing Kameltoe being rated as the most radical leftist in the Senate when she was there.  But let's see if she pushes these policies during the campaign if they're such winning policies.  Glad you think convicted terrorists should be allowed to vote. 

She’s liberal on social issues. She’s nowhere near radical on anything and particularly not on economic issues. 
 

I especially love her statement about giving health access to all people here. She’s dead right about that. You guys want to deny undocumented immigrants out of spite which will cost us billions more in public health crises. So stupid and cruel. 

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Unions rally round Harris as Trump makes populist appeal to workers

Labor unions who back Harris are keen to see continuation of Biden administration’s strong record of union support

Michael Sainato

Tue 23 Jul 2024 07.00 EDT

US unions have begun to rally round Vice-President Kamala Harris as Democrats and Republicans gear up for a fight over the labor vote in November.

The unions who have rallied to Harris so far are keen to see a continuation of the Biden administration’s strong record of union support. Biden has been touted as the most pro-union president ever, and became the first sitting president to walk a picket line during the United Auto Workers strike last year.

Harris, too, has been a vocal union supporter and is already racking up endorsements.

The 1.9 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was among the first to endorse Harris. Harris has close ties to the union and announced new safe staffing standards for nursing home workers with the union earlier this year.

The vice-president has also secured the backing of other unions, including Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical, the American Federation of Teachers, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the United Farm Workers, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, and the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

Other major unions have yet to make an endorsement of Harris after endorsing Biden, including the National Education Association and United Auto Workers.

“For years,Vice-President Harris has shown a real willingness to listen to our members and working people everywhere about the issues that matter most to them,” said United Food and Commercial Workers international president Marc Perrone.

“As a US senator, she was a vocal supporterfor essential worker protections during the pandemic. During her tenure as vice president, she was critical in the fight to lower prescription drugs and cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021, safeguarding the retirements of over 350,000 union workers.”

In contrast, Donald Trump has only receivedthe endorsement of the International Union of Police Association and the Florida Police Benevolent Association.

Union activists drove large numbers of members to the polls for Biden in 2020 and in the 2022 midterms. Having won in 2016 backed by voters in union strongholds in the midwest, Trump has once again positioned himself as the voice for workers and the working class.

Trump’s campaign to win over working-class and union member voters was much in evidence at the Republican convention last week. His vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, has been highly critical of Wall Street and also supported last year’s auto strike.

“We need a leader who’s not in the pocket of big business, but answers to the working man, union and nonunion alike,” Vance told the convention.

The first night of the convention ended with a speech from the Teamsters’ president, a first for the union. Sean O’Brien thanked Trump “for opening the RNC’s doors” to the union.

The Teamsters have yet to make an endorsement but O’Brien’s appearance has been criticized by some members and labor leaders over the stark differences between Trump and the Biden administration on labor rights.

For all of Trump’s blue-collar rhetoric, his policy record is more in line with pro-business, anti-union Republican orthodoxy.

Over 60 billionaires have backed his most recent campaign as he intends to make substantial tax cuts for the wealthy permanent if re-elected; net tax cuts of $325,000 annually for households in the 0.1% of most wealthy households, while increasing taxes on average of $1,600 per middle class household annually if the tax cuts are extended.

During the strikes led by the United Auto Workers, Trump consistently criticized the union’s leaders and held his own rally with attendees who held signs claiming they were union members in support of Trump. They were later outed as non-union members and non-auto workers.

In Wisconsin, Trump touted in 2017 that the FoxConn factory would be “the eighth wonder of the world” and create 13,000 jobs in the state, though the project never panned out.

“It was a failure,” said Kent Miller, president and business manager of the Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council.

Biden administration legislation, including the Inflation Reduction Act and the infrastructure bill, directly benefited members in Wisconsin, said Miller. He also cited the Biden administration’s improvement of union pensions.

“That was brought up to President Trump when he was in office, and the only thing that got accomplished was the trillion dollar tax break. He did not fix pensions, he did not create infrastructure bills,” said Miller.

“The policy speaks for itself and it’s very clear.”

Trump “made it harder for individuals to form a union, and put union-busting people in positions at the NLRB [National Labor Relations Board].”

Throughout his administration, Trump made several policy changes that attacked labor unions and favored employers over workers.

Under Trump, the NLRB allowed employers to halt union dues collections once a union contract expires, and overturned an Obama-era rule that allowed workers working as contractors or for franchises to unionize.

He also consistently proposed slashing the funding of the NLRB.

An analysis conducted by the Center for American Progress found the NLRB ordered corporations to reinstate more fired workers in Biden’s first year in office than the agency had in all four years of Trump’s presidency.

Republicans have also stymied efforts to pass the Pro Act, legislation aimed at modernizing current labor laws in the US and strengthening workers’ rights to unionize. Trump threatened to veto the legislation if it passed the House and Senate.

Trump’s nominations to the US supreme court paved the way for the 5-4 decision in the 2018 Janus case, which ruled that public sector workers who are represented by a union can not be required to pay union dues.

In 2018, the Trump administration proposed an overhaul of the United States Postal Service, including stripping workers of the right to collectively bargain wages.

In 2015 during his first presidential campaign, Trump said he would prefer to construct buildings without unions when asked on the subject. He has a history of using non-union workers for construction projects for his businesses, but using union labor for construction work at Mar-a-Lago and his own homes and he had a reputation, according to the IBEW, for deceiving workers on pay for the work they completed.

Future clashes between Trump and Harris over who supports workers are also likely to center on Project 2025, a conservative manifesto developed by dozens of former Trump administration officials. Project 2025 includes plans to further attack labor rights, including banning unions for public service workers and letting companies stop paying overtime.

Harris has touted the Biden administration’s strong record on labor rights. “President Biden and I are proud to lead the most pro-union administration in our nation’s history,” she said during an SEIU convention in May, before listing the Biden White House’s efforts to make workplaces safe, ban non-compete agreements, and make it easier for service workers to organize.

Some union leaders had publicly come out for Biden’s withdrawal. Harris may not have secured the nomination yer, but she seems well positioned to take over Biden’s legacy as a pro-union leader.

J’nee DeLancey, a UFCW member who is a grocery store worker at Town & Country Market, in Seattle, said: “As a union that is majority women, that has a diverse membership of many people of color, and of immigrants, we are very excited to have such a community-rooted and worker-driven candidate to support.”
 

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https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1816146341434687610

Vote.org just announced a nearly 700% increase in daily voter registrations — more than 38,500 new registrations — in the 48-hour period following President Biden's announcement.

This figure marks the single largest number of voter registrations over a 48-hour period during the 2024 cycle.

Younger voters between 18 and 34 accounted for 83% of new registrations.

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2 minutes ago, squistion said:

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1816146341434687610

Vote.org just announced a nearly 700% increase in daily voter registrations — more than 38,500 new registrations — in the 48-hour period following President Biden's announcement.

This figure marks the single largest number of voter registrations over a 48-hour period during the 2024 cycle.

Younger voters between 18 and 34 accounted for 83% of new registrations.

You're a lame lmao

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On 7/22/2024 at 1:38 AM, The Real timschochet said:

She’s a woman of color, a child of immigrants, married to a Jew. Something tells me you may not be a fan…

Nope. 

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A “colored” sorority…yikes!

 

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9 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

A “colored” sorority…yikes!

 

 Yes and I imagine he also probably refers to black folks as "Negroes" 

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2 minutes ago, squistion said:

 Yes and I imagine he also probably refers to black folks as "Negroes" 

Old times there are not ...forgotten.

[thegeneral 3,121]

Brian Kilmeade never been confused for the brightest bulb…but “colored”

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22 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

A “colored” sorority…yikes!

 

You , squissy etc have to stop seeing racism everywhere. Kilmeade said college  

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8 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

You , squissy etc have to stop seeing racism everywhere. Kilmeade said college  

I don’t see racism everywhere. I don’t think I have really commented on this subject at all TBH.

Making a little fun of dimwit Kilmeade and this Fox and Friends dreck is good though,

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Just now, thegeneral said:

I don’t see racism every where. I don’t think I have really commented on this subject at all TBH.

Making a little fun of dimwit Kilmeade and this Fox and Friends dreck is good though,

I’m sorry for lumping you in with tim and the squistion. I’m not a fan of F&F

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[lod001 1,344]

Are people seriously going to vote for this fuckin retard?

https://x.com/ericmmatheny/status/1816196264935166412

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On 7/23/2024 at 6:25 PM, Cdub100 said:

I actually think it's both. They know they screwed up, but realize she can be another figurehead. Nobody likes her. Not even her own party, but she can be president if she does what she's told. So they screwed up, but intend to cheat again. 

Or

Let Trump be president and  try and win a majority in the house and Senate through cheating. While he's bringing world peace for a second time, crash the US economy and blame it all on him. He's a lame-duck president. He won't be able to get anything done and the Dems can say SEE what a terrible president he is.

They definitely are looking at taking the house & senate and stopping Trump from doing anything.

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Just now, lod001 said:

Are people seriously going to vote for this fuckin retard?

https://x.com/ericmmatheny/status/1816196264935166412

Oh, that's what @The Real timschochet was referring to as an all time great speech by Kamala. 

[Cdub100 3,887]

14 minutes ago, lod001 said:

Are people seriously going to vote for this fuckin retard?

https://x.com/ericmmatheny/status/1816196264935166412

Tim thinks this is stunning and brave.

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17 minutes ago, lod001 said:

Are people seriously going to vote for this fuckin retard?

https://x.com/ericmmatheny/status/1816196264935166412

People voted for Trump in 16...and 20...and presumably 24.....so yeah, the country is up for voting for a retard.  

[JuneJuly 193]

On 7/22/2024 at 8:04 PM, Patented Phil said:

That’s just flat out wrong.  I’ve seen credible rankings of her as the most Liberal Senator.

No you didn't!

 

 

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She got the MAGA Machine scrambling right now...full court press.

 

The fact that a coalition of Swifties, people of color and Beta males are going to beat Trump this time is just awesome. The Gravy Seals and Sigmas who love Trump are going to be on TILT for the next 4 years over Belly Shirt Bros, First Time Voters and Black Women beating Trump...again.  

After Kamala beats him here...it actually would be great if he tries to run again in 2028.