Kamala Harris for President

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Anonymous wrote:Good grief, with all the campaigning she’s doing, I wonder why she sounds so desperate? Literally shoving money at voters so they will vote for her. SMH.

So Trump's taking a billion dollars from the oil industry to rail on renewable energy and taking billions from others is ok, but using government to tave people a little money and lesson the impact of rising costs is bad.

Ok.

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Anonymous wrote:Good grief, with all the campaigning she’s doing, I wonder why she sounds so desperate? Literally shoving money at voters so they will vote for her. SMH.

So personally I’d rather she “shoved money” at people on government benefits— you know people who need it— than at the oil industry.

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He also rambled about supply chain issues. How long has it been since we’ve had difficulties getting what we want due to disruptions in the supply chain? I remember that in the summer of 2022.

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Anonymous wrote:RINO

You know what? I am a RINO. I'm a Reagan Republican and I'm sick of what has happened to the GOP. So, I'm voting Harris/Walz because I want the GOP to come back to sanity and to get rid of the "basket of deplorables" and return to the reasonable Republicans. MAGA has consumed the party and forced the real Republicans out. The only way to get the MAGA out of control is for them to lose elections and to show that they no longer have the ability to win elections. We need real Republicans to defeat MAGA in primaries. We need to elect real Republicans and not elect MAGA. The only way for the MAGA republicans to lose control is if they lose elections and no longer have the ability to win general elections.

So, I will vote for real Republicans in primaries and general elections, but I will always show up to vote against a MAGA candidate. Country (and state/county/local) before Party. Party before Candidate. I vote to save the Republican Party from MAGA.

I always find this a bit ironic since Reagan was the one who originally coined the slogan “Make America Great Again,” and the dystopian novelist Octavia Butler knew it had staying power because the president of the dystopian America in her novel The Parable of the Sower re-used it as well. A highly recommended read.

So, to some of us, Trump is an expected and natural outgrowth of Reagan’s Republican Party, to the point where at least one person predicted the rise of a Reagan/Trump hybrid thirty years ago!

Maybe on advertising and slogans, but not in reality.

Reagan would never have created an umbrella for the extreme fringe groups of society and included them and given nods to their dysfunctional causes. Reagan would never have associated with the Q-anon sect who believe that the Clintons were the head of a Satanic ring of pedophiles, or committed and supported election fraud, or pandered to Christian fundamentalists who want to put women into indentured servitude as baby incubators, or pander to right-wing militant militia groups that want to bring down the federal government.

I will give you that Reagan was somewhat antisemitic and did effectively say there were good people on both sides of the issue (his visits to German cemetaries vs concentration camps and his comment about victims on both sides was quite similar to Trump's good people on both sides in Charlottesville). And he was a product of his generation and times on race issues.

But Despite being 40 earlier than Trump, he was far more enlightened than Trump. Trump is trying to set us back more than 60-70 years beyond even the standards of the Reagan era.

+1 Also Reagan was relentlessly positive about the country while Trump acts like it’s a dystopia.

Reagan wasn’t positive. His large infamous claim to fame was welfare queen and making government the boogey man to get it “out of our lives”.

It was a way for the rich to fool poor people into gutting taxes and government pensions top down (teacher, cop, firefighter, construction worker ), pay and pensions and gutting unions generally. We are still paying the price for Reagan.


He destroyed California with illegal immigration, releasing mentally Ill people out of asylums, and increasing price of state college tuition.

I wish he remained an actor and never ran for office.

Yep- my neighborhood in Chicago is still suffering from the mental asylum debacle.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG 😂

Conservatives have reached the points where they think sounding happy means you are drunk or high.

Weird.

+1 They’re together announcing an incredibly successful and popular policy achievement, lowering the costs of prescription drugs, which no other administration had even tried. She’s not drunk or high, she’s proud and happy. FFS.

Republicans no longer remember what it’s like to be proud or joyful. They know only shame and anger since they sold their collective souls to this malignant snake oil salesman.

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Actually JFK was responsible for the mentally ill being released from hospitals into the streets. It was one of the last bills he signed:

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2019.3b29

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Anonymous wrote:Actually JFK was responsible for the mentally ill being released from hospitals into the streets. It was one of the last bills he signed:

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2019.3b29

“Perhaps the most dramatic shift in the use of psychiatric hospitals, and the most misunderstood, is “deinstitutionalization.” First, deinstitutionalization was not a thought-out policy shift, not a movement, and not even labeled until considerably after the relocation of psychiatric patients from hospitals to settings outside of hospitals had begun. The depopulation of America’s public hospitals occurred due to a confluence of factors including exposés and reports by conscientious objectors working in these hospitals in lieu of combat in World War II, the introduction of chlorpromazine (1954), a new breed of activist attor neys, and the naissance of the disability rights movement.
On October 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed what would turn out to be his last major bill, the Community Mental Health Centers Act. While Kennedy was extolled for this legislation, the bill turned out to be not much more than a hiccup, and Kennedy actually had little interest in it.”

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Nope...Reagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980

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Anonymous wrote:I have a $10 bottle of salad dressing that was $5 less than a year ago.

Now what? What will a Harris administration do to fix that?

What will Trump do? She's going after price gouging. Can't do anything about the past -- which, as you know, affected every other country as well and with a worse recovery than the U.S.

"She's going after..."

What does that even mean?

Supporting the House and Senate to pass anti-price-gouging bills.

The Dems offered one up post COVID and the GOP voted it down.

So, try again but this time, hopefully with a majority in both the House and Senate.

Uh, it's a product or service. Purchase it or don't.

There's no such thing as price gouging. No one is forcing you to buy anything.

This is really f'n basic stuff.

“There’s no such thing as price gouging.” Except that’s exactly what’s been happening. From March:

“Large grocery store chains exploited product shortages during the pandemic by raising prices significantly more than needed to cover their added costs and they continue to reap excessive profits, according to a Federal Trade Commission report.

The grocery giants also used their marketing power and leverage to widen their advantage over smaller competitors, according to the report, titled “Feeding America in a Time of Crisis.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/21/ftc-report-grocery-chains-gouge/73059901007/

https://www.ftc.gov/reports/feeding-america-time-crisis-ftc-staff-report-united-states-grocery-supply-chain-covid-19-pandemic

It is true. I was a pricing director at a top CPG company and this was my job- take advantage of any opportunity to keep taking prices up or product out (a "weight-out") until you hit a tipping point when sales fall. Disposable income during lock down was an opportunity to increase prices. Also food companies that supply restaurants, cafeterias, concerts were losing business in those areas so they needed to make up the losses by raising prices on sales to grocery stores. Record bonuses in CPG companies the past 3 years. Demand is falling off now, they won't be able to grow year over year which is what shareholders want so now they will fire employees to make up the losses in net sales.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG 😂

Conservatives have reached the points where they think sounding happy means you are drunk or high.

Weird.

No she sounds like she is drunk. Maybe she took something to ease her nerves.

I strongly disagree. I also think these Twitter posts that insist that Kamala sounds stupid or whatever are pathetic and self-defeating. It's giving... very desperate. Go look at your own candidates if you want to see slurred speech and stupid statements.

Oh but calling Vance weird and making up stories about dolphins and couches isn't pathetic and desperate? There is a reason Harris has not done an interview yet and is avoiding speaking publicly without a teleprompter. She sounds like an idiot with her repetitive phrases and word salads and her ridiculous over the top cackling.

Again: LOOK AT YOUR OWN slurring, lisping, repetitive, confused candidate. Look at his creepy weird running mate that everybody hates.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz don't need to be the most brilliant people alive. They don't need to be the most inspiring orators. They don't even need to be THAT likable!

They JUST have to be better than Donald Trump. Let's not pretend that's hard. And let's not kid ourselves, ok, friend? They're KILLING IT.

The Republicans didn't have to be in this pathetic situation. They could have thrown Trump out of their party on January 7, 2021 like true patriots. But they didn't. And the chickens are coming home to roost and it's... delicious.

For a minute today, I almost felt bad for the republicans. Just a minute then the memories of all the old men who initially rebuked Trump and then turned around and worshipped him weeks later and couldn't stop sucking the Trump tit for years came flooding back.

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The first 2 offset each other. 25k to first time homebuyers will increase competition and make the 3 million new homes obsolete. We’ll be back to a 2020 seller’s market or worse with those measures.

Zero economic instincts with Kamala but what can we expect from the woman who gave a billion dollars to fight climate change to Central American govts because she thought that was the reason for migration and the woman who fought for the Inflation reduction bill that didn’t work and failed?

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Anonymous wrote:Now she wants to fix prices. What a moron.

Even Bernie didn’t go that far.

She should fix her policies.

We aren’t a free market anymore if the government can fix prices

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The first 2 offset each other. 25k to first time homebuyers will increase competition and make the 3 million new homes obsolete. We’ll be back to a 2020 seller’s market or worse with those measures.

Zero economic instincts with Kamala but what can we expect from the woman who gave a billion dollars to fight climate change to Central American govts because she thought that was the reason for migration and the woman who fought for the Inflation reduction bill that didn’t work and failed?

Is a house “obsolete” if someone gets to live in it? Your post only gets more nonsensical from there.

Some of you think you sound soooo smart and know so much about economics but it’s 100% Dunning Kruger at work.🤣😂

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The first 2 offset each other. 25k to first time homebuyers will increase competition and make the 3 million new homes obsolete. We’ll be back to a 2020 seller’s market or worse with those measures.

Zero economic instincts with Kamala but what can we expect from the woman who gave a billion dollars to fight climate change to Central American govts because she thought that was the reason for migration and the woman who fought for the Inflation reduction bill that didn’t work and failed?

Is a house “obsolete” if someone gets to live in it? Your post only gets more nonsensical from there.

Some of you think you sound soooo smart and know so much about economics but it’s 100% Dunning Kruger at work.🤣😂

You don’t get it.
The actual physical structure of a house is not obsolete. The construction of new homes with the intent to fix low supply and high demand is what’s obsolete. 25,000 to first time homeowners will increase demand making the 3m new homes obsolete. Everyone will be scrambling to purchase and buyers will start overbidding to compete. The market won’t get affordable for homebuyers if more homebuyers are in the market.

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I was behind a car on Rockville Pike today that was COVERED in bumper stickers saying "f$@ck Kamala!" and "Kamala is a piece of SH$&T!". I just cannot believe someone would post this for all to see. The anger and hatred of MAGA is breaking my heart😢