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Anonymous
Kamala Harris is also notably not Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton was a divisive figure for almost 30 years in America politics. There are people who really, really hate her and who have felt that way for decades. Those people would have crawled through broken glass to vote against her. Since then we've had several women competitively run for President, and we've had a female VP - a first. We are in a different place with having a woman as President than we were in 2016. |
Anonymous
Young white males should be scared sh#tless of being on the hook for monthly $1200 child support payments for 18 years when Trump actually invokes the Comstock Act and bans abortion nationwide. |
Anonymous
Do you really think they'd go through with that? The whole point seems to be the birth of the child, not their life. |
Anonymous
And this is why everyone hates male feminists..we all know their real motive is to get NSA sex and abortions on demand. Sick |
Anonymous
*yaaaaaaawn* Anything else? |
Anonymous
States enforce child support laws. They will garnish wages directly from employers. |
Anonymous
Which is another reason men kill women. Who wants to be on the hook for child support for 18 years? Fun fact: your chances of being murdered are never higher, than when you are pregnant! And guess who be doing the killing? |
Anonymous
Agree with this and will also note that Harris has also treated her gender and the historic nature of her candidacy and possible win very differently than Clinton did. Harris is running as though her gender is a non-issue. Also while she talks about women's issues regularly she does not talk about her own experience as a woman almost at all. Perhaps counterintuitively I think this works in her favor because it makes her campaign feel less like it's about her and the history she would make and more like it's about voters and issues. I think sometimes when women talk about their experience of being women men can kind of shut off mentally. Like "oh this isn't relevant to me -- I'll tune out." Men are not taught to view the world through a woman's perspective whereas women DO learn to see the world through a male perspective because it's the dominant one. It's the same reason why men are more reluctant to read novels or see movies that are about women's experiences while women consume stories about men's experiences all the time. It's just a byproduct of misogyny. But by not really discussing her own experience much and instead just talking about issues or Trump or what she plans to do as president I think she sidesteps this issue. I don't even think it's tactical -- I think she just doesn't really love talking about herself that much. Which is part of why she's not as good of a retail politician as someone like Obama or Buttigieg who weaves their own story into their pitch to voters so that voters feel like they "know" them. And that's a drawback for Harris but I also think as a female candidate it has a hidden benefit. Since male voters are less likely to relate to her story anyway she can avoid putting them off. And due to Trump and the abortion issue women are giving her the benefit of the doubt anyway. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| My brother in law runs a large factory in a swing state inner city. He said his black and Hispanic male employees openly mock Kamala and said they're voting for Trump. They like Trump's unapologetic machismo. And Black men apparently believe Kamala is Indian and pretending to be black. |
Anonymous
No one likes Hillary and guess what? They like Kamala a lot less than Hillary. That's going to be a real problem for her. She's losing the male vote (she just got caught on a hot microphone saying this) and shes losing the black vote. It doesn't look good for her. |
Anonymous
The issue for Harris going back to her disastrous primary run in 2019 is that people seem to like the idea of her more than they actually like her. And it’s possible to tell because her polling in both contests declined over time as more people got exposed to her. And this cannot be labeled as a race and sexism issue, because it was Democratic primary voters then who responded to her the same way that national voters are responding to her now. If she had to run against Trump for an entire year like a normal candidate I am sure that it would be a Mondale scale blow out. |
Anonymous
Trump’s been shot, sued, convicted, impeached, called every bad word in the book, you name it. Still standing there larger than life. Surely you can understand his appeal. |
Anonymous
Saying economists generally hate tariffs makes zero sense... You are clearly the target audience for misleading article headlines. Read a book or two. 
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All I know is that the mounting consumer debt is very worrisome. I don't think we're out of the woods for a recession, and as a federal employee with a secure job it's a selfish thing to say, but a downturn would at least break the inflation even more. But that's selfish because I know it's happening due to lots of people without guaranteed jobs falling on very hard times and having to spend far less. It's going to be a bitter pill to swallow. Anecdotally, I'm already seeing it when I walk around and check prices on luxury goods and hobby purchases like RVs, hot tubs, high-end barbeque grills, wristwatches, etc. That's the first thing to go. Then people working in those industries get laid off. Then it trickles down to hospitality and restaurant workers, and it just snowballs from there.