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.

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?

"VP Harris will announce plans Friday for federal ban on corporate price-gouging in food and grocery industries"

OK, let's play this out. How will that work?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to take a short walk down memory lane.....
There have been many more like these in the past year. Amazing how the lemmings have fallen into line......

Sept., 2023
Columnists call for Biden to drop Harris, pick new running mate

Several columnists have an idea on how to make President Joe Biden more electable in 2024: Drop Vice President Kamala Harris and pick a new running mate.

Yes, voters think Biden may be too old to serve another four years, according to recent polls, but three columnists believe that a stronger running mate will gain traction in the country or even in the party.

In a piece urging Biden not to run again, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius suggested as a backup plan that Biden could replace Harris with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass or Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Ignatius says voters are sensibly focusing on Harris because of Biden’s age, while noting that Harris is less popular than Biden, with a 39.5 percent approval rating, according to the polling website FiveThirtyEight.

“Biden could encourage a more open vice-presidential selection process that could produce a stronger running mate,” Ignatius writes.

Biden himself has committed to Harris as his running mate for 2024. He said last year, “She’s going to be my running mate, No. 1. And No. 2, I did put her in charge. I think she’s doing a good job.”

In a New York Magazine Intelligencer column, Eric Levitz floats several options to replace Harris including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.).

“To be sure, replacing Harris with another running mate is not a great option,” Levitz writes. “It’s just that Democrats have no good ones. It is risky to switch out the first Black and female vice-president for someone else. But it is also risky to saddle an 81-year-old nominee with an exceptionally unpopular running mate who — if all goes well — will be all but guaranteed the party’s nomination in 2028.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/columnists-biden-harris-new-running-mate-00115559


Jan., 2024
Biden Owes the Country a New Vice President

This brings me to the matter of Biden’s vice-presidential choice. Kamala Harris, the current holder of the post, shares with Henry Wallace progressive values and a proclivity to verbal infelicities. There are no indications that she would be soft on Russia or otherwise swerve—as Donald Trump has—from mainstream American foreign-policy tenets. But neither are there indications that she has developed, over her three years in the White House, any strong, recognizable convictions on America’s role in the world, or how Washington should exercise global leadership. Equally importantly, she has struggled mightily to move the public on any aspect of policy, even those policies—such as civil rights and immigration—on which she has taken an active interest or prominent role. While Republicans, most notably Donald Trump, have leveled, and will continue to level, ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated charges against Harris, they will be amply justified in making her presence on the ticket a major campaign issue.
https://time.com/6589518/joe-biden-owes-the-country-new-vice-president/

Feb., 2024
Roosevelt fixed his serious VP mistake. Will Biden?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/23/franklin-roosevelt-changed-running-mates/

Fascinating how Harris supporters have yet to respond with anything substantive.

Just because you don't agree with what has been said in response, doesn't mean that there isn't anything substantive in the responses.

I have said it before, I was not a Harris fan. I didn't think she was a good VP choice, and I would not have supported her candidacy for president, not because I thought there was anything wrong with her, but because I didn't think this country was ready to elect a woman president, never mind a woman of color. At this point in time, beating Trump is pretty much THE top priority, and I didn't want us to lose on a technicality - misogyny.

I am happy to report that so far, everything that has transpired has VASTLY exceeded my expectations. I didn't think Biden would step down, and that if he did, the ensuing infighting would absolutely sink not only the presidential ticket, but pretty much any close election downstream, handing the White House, the senate, and the house to Republicans. More than that, it would 100% solidify the MAGA wing's stranglehold on the GOP, and there is no recovering from that. So imagine my shock when the party that likes to shoot itself in the foot more often than not, showed incredible discipline by coalescing behind VP Harris, and even more incredibly, that the Harris team has run an extremely disciplined campaign, unmarred by missteps. I'm sure those will come at some future point in time, but for now, I'm really happy that the choices aren't between REALLY OLD Guy 1 and REALLY OLD Guy 2 who tried to end our Republic.

Republicans are such sour grapes about having Trump and Vance as their two off putting, weirdo candidates. Lashing out is all the GOP has.

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No bias here. LOL

As has been explained: the GOP’s “no tax on tips” treats bankers’ commissions as “tips.”

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Anonymous wrote:Another reminder that in just one year this border czar had two different stories

Maybe 4 years on the job has evolved her thinking?

More likely polling has shown that her positions are not palatable to the voters so she is taking a total 180 as she campaigns.
Hard to tell what she would actually do if she assumes office because the positions she had when she ran in 2020 seemed pretty important to her then.
She spoke pretty damn passionately during her 2020 run about free healthcare for illegal aliens, eliminating ICE, single payer healthcare and eliminating private insurance, and banning fracking.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kamala: "When I am president, it will be a day one priority to bring down prices."

Kamala has been Vice President for 1,301 days.

Prices are up 20.2% while real average weekly wages are down 3.9%.

If Kamala has a plan to bring down prices, why isn't she doing it right now?

her plan includes:

-continue to bring drug prices down as Biden has already started
-continue to bring housing prices down by providing block grants to states for housing projects, as Biden has already started
-continue to invest in green energy and current record level oil production levels, as Biden has
-pass price gouging legislation so consumers aren't killed by the few huge food producers in the country
-strengthen consumer protection laws that have been weakened by the GOP

What is the GOP plan?

Damn, I am good!

She is trying to deflect from her role in the rise of inflation......

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Anonymous wrote:
Old people singing on a porch is "cringey?" Wow, that's a pretty weird take.

If that exact same commercial had been a bunch of old people singing on a porch for Trump, you'd be hyperventilating with disgust.

Right?? They're full of respect for "our elders" when they're fat, gray haired hippies but couldn't be more hate-filled toward old conservatives, even when they're their own parents and relatives.

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Anonymous wrote:He's right.....

I dislike Vance but if he talks like this during a TV debate, Walz will be in big troubles. Vance had a great press interview in WI as well. Vance makes every sentence count, while Walz rambles on like old fashion labor union activist.

What a tool.

I am very interested to hear about what job he has ever done successfully. Maybe back a successful company or even initiate a good piece of legislation that passed, or barely win an election without being propped up by a billionaire?

Anything .. .

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's right.....

I dislike Vance but if he talks like this during a TV debate, Walz will be in big troubles. Vance had a great press interview in WI as well. Vance makes every sentence count, while Walz rambles on like old fashion labor union activist.

+1
He is right.

LOL! He’s talking about things nobody cares about. And he is the last person on earth who’d know anything about joy. Hell, he can’t even talk about what brings him joy, just about how pissed off he is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to take a short walk down memory lane.....
There have been many more like these in the past year. Amazing how the lemmings have fallen into line......

Sept., 2023
Columnists call for Biden to drop Harris, pick new running mate

Several columnists have an idea on how to make President Joe Biden more electable in 2024: Drop Vice President Kamala Harris and pick a new running mate.

Yes, voters think Biden may be too old to serve another four years, according to recent polls, but three columnists believe that a stronger running mate will gain traction in the country or even in the party.

In a piece urging Biden not to run again, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius suggested as a backup plan that Biden could replace Harris with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass or Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Ignatius says voters are sensibly focusing on Harris because of Biden’s age, while noting that Harris is less popular than Biden, with a 39.5 percent approval rating, according to the polling website FiveThirtyEight.

“Biden could encourage a more open vice-presidential selection process that could produce a stronger running mate,” Ignatius writes.

Biden himself has committed to Harris as his running mate for 2024. He said last year, “She’s going to be my running mate, No. 1. And No. 2, I did put her in charge. I think she’s doing a good job.”

In a New York Magazine Intelligencer column, Eric Levitz floats several options to replace Harris including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.).

“To be sure, replacing Harris with another running mate is not a great option,” Levitz writes. “It’s just that Democrats have no good ones. It is risky to switch out the first Black and female vice-president for someone else. But it is also risky to saddle an 81-year-old nominee with an exceptionally unpopular running mate who — if all goes well — will be all but guaranteed the party’s nomination in 2028.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/columnists-biden-harris-new-running-mate-00115559


Jan., 2024
Biden Owes the Country a New Vice President

This brings me to the matter of Biden’s vice-presidential choice. Kamala Harris, the current holder of the post, shares with Henry Wallace progressive values and a proclivity to verbal infelicities. There are no indications that she would be soft on Russia or otherwise swerve—as Donald Trump has—from mainstream American foreign-policy tenets. But neither are there indications that she has developed, over her three years in the White House, any strong, recognizable convictions on America’s role in the world, or how Washington should exercise global leadership. Equally importantly, she has struggled mightily to move the public on any aspect of policy, even those policies—such as civil rights and immigration—on which she has taken an active interest or prominent role. While Republicans, most notably Donald Trump, have leveled, and will continue to level, ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated charges against Harris, they will be amply justified in making her presence on the ticket a major campaign issue.
https://time.com/6589518/joe-biden-owes-the-country-new-vice-president/

Feb., 2024
Roosevelt fixed his serious VP mistake. Will Biden?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/23/franklin-roosevelt-changed-running-mates/

Fascinating how Harris supporters have yet to respond with anything substantive.

+1
The media has participated in a complete memory-holing of Democrats' loathing of Kamala Harris, right up until Biden withdrew. It's really quite something, this campaign to erase any prior low opinions of her and make sure everyone gets on board with the correct talking points.

Yes, when Biden was the candidate, Harris was deemed to be too weak to shore up Biden's limitation of just being too old. And people were talking about other running makes that would make him look better. That was in trying to make Biden look stronger than Trump.

But when it comes to Harris vs Trump, it may not have been the candidate that we wanted, but she is still a stronger candidate than her opponent. Trump is old, he is a pathological liar. He says anything that will appease the current crowd and forgets it by the time he leaves the stage. He has no intention of fulfilling anything he promises. Frankly, he can't remember what he promised from day to day. He is physically and mentally deteriorating. He is completely amoral. He isn't moral in business. He's bankrupted multiple businesses. He lies and cheats on business documentation and has been convicted as a felon because of that. He routinely steals from the government. He has so many violations of the Hatch Act that they might as well call it the Trump Act as a list of all the things he's violated. He owns businesses like Trump hotels and benefits by having guests and Secret Service stay and charging them far more than the government allows and then profiting from it. He routinely uses services and venues and will not pay for them. There are venues all over the country that he owes money to for rallies and other events and he hasn't paid. He couldn't land in Bozeman, Montana last week because if he did, the authorities would confiscate his plane, so he had to land in Billings and get driven to Bozeman. He still owes the White House for venue rental when he ran for office in 2020 and he never paid. He owes so much money that venues want to make him pay before events because they know if they don't, he won't pay. He has cheated so many lawyers out of legal fees that many of them will not work for him anymore. He's gone through more lawyers in four years than some corporations go through in decades. He has assaulted multiple women, cheated on all of his wives, and proclaims that he can grab them by the private parts and get away with it.

Trump is completely immoral and has absolutely no integrity.

So, it is a matter of comparison. Biden > Harris > Trump.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't look like George Will to me:

Embedded in many top Democrats’ thinking as Biden appears headed toward a reelection campaign announcement, according to CNN’s conversations with three dozen leading Democrats, is fear that years of Harris negativity could now prove a political problem.

“Right now, she seems to be an albatross,” fretted one state Democratic Party chair who is concerned about Harris’ poll numbers and about Biden’s reelection chances. “She’s either going to be a liability or a help. And you better embrace her because it’s not like she’s going to be off the ticket.”

While Warren may not have meant to express doubts, the Zoom call organized by a onetime Biden Senate speechwriter and attended by Hollywood donors, executives and actors, including Helen Hunt, Ron Livingston and “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Gabrielle Carteris, was full of them.

Harris is a huge liability, they complained to former California Sen. Barbara Boxer, according to two people on the call. She would hurt Biden’s chances, because people will focus on her, given his age. How, one asked Boxer, do they get Biden to replace her?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/politics/kamala-harris-democratic-party/index.html

You guys complain about the media creating a narrative and then you have nothing else to talk about besides media created narratives.

It’s giving desperate.

Interviewing Democrats who did NOT want Kamala Harris on the ticket (and no doubt, still feel the same way), is the "media creating a narrative"? No, the narrative is that KH is the best candidate EVER! and so is Tim Walz!!! And don't you dare imply that just a few weeks ago, no one in their right mind thought that!

Again, this idea that Kamala Harris was this disliked figure is... a narrative the media made up. Most people didn't really think about her that hard. I'm pretty tuned into politics and I barely registered her at all. Now she is the candidate, and when you put her next to Trump, she seems vibrant, positive, youthful, and NORMAL. This is all most people want- NORMALCY. We are all tired of WEIRD SHIT, as George W. Bush said ALL THOSE MANY YEARS AGO. The man had Trump's number from the start!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kamala: "When I am president, it will be a day one priority to bring down prices."

Kamala has been Vice President for 1,301 days.

Prices are up 20.2% while real average weekly wages are down 3.9%.

If Kamala has a plan to bring down prices, why isn't she doing it right now?

her plan includes:

-continue to bring drug prices down as Biden has already started
-continue to bring housing prices down by providing block grants to states for housing projects, as Biden has already started
-continue to invest in green energy and current record level oil production levels, as Biden has
-pass price gouging legislation so consumers aren't killed by the few huge food producers in the country
-strengthen consumer protection laws that have been weakened by the GOP

What is the GOP plan?

Damn, I am good!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's right.....

I dislike Vance but if he talks like this during a TV debate, Walz will be in big troubles. Vance had a great press interview in WI as well. Vance makes every sentence count, while Walz rambles on like old fashion labor union activist.

+1
He is right.