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Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,570 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    She changed a small packet for a big packet with a different flavour.

    How did Hipster Jesus knock 8+ minutes out of that?

    Fúcking weird.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭crusd


    Campaign films campaign piece shocker. Meanwhile on the orange side…..



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    I hope you "bleached your hard drives" after going to that..

    But christ , the level of pathetic is neverending from these people.

    Even if it was a bit "staged" is buying Doritos supposed to be worse than filling a café with paid operatives so that they can kick off an "impromptu" round of applause for the futon botherer when he walks in?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    I assume this is up there with the tan suit scandal.

    Post edited by eightieschewbaccy on


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,487 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    One candidate is a rapist who wants to establish a dictatorship and the other didn't purchase Doritos the right way. Is that the current state of play?

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    don’t forget the rapist thinks you need an ID to buy groceries and sent USSS on his McDonald’s runs. Real man of the people there



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,487 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I find the race much less interesting now that Harris is the nominee. Walz is an interesting character and the pair seem to have quite a lot of appeal. The rapist seems to be embracing both disinformation on a new scale and grievance politics. He's not even pretending to want to govern for the people.

    Doritos though. Was not expecting that to be the topic.

    Saw a while back that they were making AI images of Harris as a sex worker as well. Conservatives over there really are just depraved, sick individuals.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,570 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    I find the race much less interesting now that Harris is the nominee

    Seriously?

    I think the race now with Harris and Walz is pretty much box office.

    And to be fair to Vance he is definitely adding to entertainment value of the whole thing.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,487 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    It's not entertainment, it's serious business. People need to stop treating politics like it's supposed to be entertaining.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,407 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    He may still win but I think it's important to sit back sometimes and think about what a truly terrible candidate Donald Trump is. A self absorbed, delusional convicted criminal and court-confirmed sex pest rambling on and on about how "massive" his rally crowds are, how he's better looking than Harris and how the entire country is going down the toilet, when he could be talking about actual policy points that could hurt the Democrats. Genuine Republicans out there must be tearing their hair out.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,570 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    It is deadly serious, with extreme consequences. Not just for America.

    But I don't have a vote, so I don't really know how I can make it more serious. I could frown harder or I could embrace the absolute cluster fúck that is American politics and at least try and enjoy it at some level.

    The alternative you found more interesting was probably a Trump landslide.

    Either way, being less interested in not going to make it less serious, that is for sure.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,513 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    The last 6 weeks has been probably the most fascinating, riveting period I’ve ever known in US politics. Almost impossible to keep up with it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    For someone without a vote, it's incredibly entertaining. One side is trying to be political, the other is a clown show.

    Keeping Trump out however, is very serious business.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,570 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Exactly. Who would have thought 6 weeks ago after someone tried to blow Trumps head off that he would be reduced to posting fake Taylor Swift endorsements.

    It's an absolute fúcking roller coaster. But more terrifying. But still entertaining.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I know that there are a few posters on here that are pro-republican and hopefully they can answer this: given his many obvious flaws, do they believe that Trump best represents the future for all Americans or would the Rep party have been better off choosing a different candidate especially since Harris took over the Dem nomination?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    Ya it's very interesting one can't buy doritos and the other is a victim of gun violence.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,980 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    The Republicans made their bed: they had the choice of a perfectly presentable mainstream candidate in Nikki Hailey and Trump blew her away in the primaries



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,355 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Maybe Hailey is happy enough to hold off until 2028 when one way or the other Trump will be out of the way and she will have a good chance of being the Republican candidate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,809 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Not a fan of Trump's and therefore cannot answer the question directly, but I do believe he has completely reinvented the party into being the 'Trump Party' and one that doesn't have much in common with Ronald Reagan's one and the two Bushes. It's slightly surprising that so many Republican voters are on board, given that it is not the same party as even ten years ago.



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All the way back to the Bush Snr era the Republican party were courting extremist Fascist elements in the country and Bush was famously caught out employing extremist groups to do canvasing for him. Its simply wrong to claim that this has not been the direction they were travelling in from way back then.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,570 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    There may not be much left of the Republican Party in 2028.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,513 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    I can’t help but notice the irony that the behaviour that empowered Trump in 15/16 - the often deeply nasty personal attacks, the bigotry, the lies, the hypocrisy…these are the things that seem to be stalling him now.

    Trumps base bragged that one of his biggest strengths as a candidate was that he “wasn’t a typical politician”.

    Well ain’t that the truth. So much so that he can’t even read off a teleprompter coherent policy based talking points that would actually undermine his opponent. He can’t actually do it. He’s just not interested in ‘the economy’. He’d rather talk about immigrant rapists and then spend over an hour aimlessly and ponderously blathering on in the same old boring way he has done for almost 10 years.

    He could win in November but it feels like the chickens have come home to roost. The act is stale. He's stayed on the stage too long.



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I personally am glad that Trump is in the driving seat as it has likely doomed the Republicans to defeat. i guarantee that with a more "moderate" candidate the Project 2025 would be a done deal and there would go America.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Derkaiser93


    I commented on another thread a couple of weeks ago that I was super optimistic for Kamalas chances but I am starting to flip on that.

    I think the issue on here is so many think because Trump is talking so much crap and sounding insane that it's hindering his chances. But he's always talked crap, he's said and done some incredibly deranged and incriminating things since 2016 and is a convicted felon yet he remains relatively popular. What he's saying about Kamala Walz being communists is obviously nonsense but it hits home in America. Just because most on here are sensible enough doesn't mean most in America are and I genuinely believe the population at large there lack critical thinking or proper education.

    The polls are looking decent for her but the economy is what most vote on there. Most People vote with how their pocket feels. And regardless of the stats with strong employment and economic growth under Biden, most Americans feel worse off due to inflation and I think they'll vote emotionally off that and towards Trump. I hope I am wrong though



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,980 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    strong unemployment and economic growth under Biden

    That's the kind of thing Biden would've been boasting about towards the end alright…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭Derkaiser93




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,315 ✭✭✭✭briany


    I suppose the question is how the Republican party gets back to the party of old, and the stark answer is that it probably can't, because it is no small part the neo-liberal economics of both parties, really, which has laid the foundation of anger upon which MAGA has been built. The anger was there, but instead of it being squarely directed at the moneyed interests which gutted the rust belt, grifters stepped in and outlayed a smorgasbord of bizarre conspiracies which were tailored to the deeply held prejudices and bigotries of those same people. The grifters do implicate the moneyed interests as part of the problem, but they also implicated a whole host of others, meaning the moneyed interests get sort of lost in the shuffle, protected behind a whole host of culture war targets that maybe represent more of a dopamine hit to attack but really just amount to a distraction.

    Responsible Democrats and Republicans should work together to address the economic factors which have given the anger some tangible basis as ever a first step. If this is a fire that's decades in the making, it's going to take some time to truly put out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    The polls were wrong in 2016, but his rally's were rammed back then.

    That's what I'm holding out hope for.

    Saying that though, I will relax a bit if Harris can open up over a 5% lead in the polls, and over 10% in the swing states.

    But, if he was to win, I've learned through watching him in '16, and the unexpected Brexit win, to sit back and enjoy the whole thing, before the fat lady sings. So I am.

    I am being very, very entertained right now. It's quite nice seeing hope in my friends eyes in the states. It's been a while. It is very reminiscent of Obama in '08.

    They're aware that Trump could still win, but they're shutting it out, getting people registered, knocking on doors etc, etc. Theyre doing their level best and theyre all behind Harris, unlike 2016 where none of them were enthused by Clinton.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    One other thing. Let's see what proper A list celebrities the Dems get at the conference, compared to Kid Rock, Dana White, Hulk Hogan, Russel Brand & Tucker Carlson....

    That should give them another bump as the tiktoks and Instagram posts roll out.

    I would not be surprised at all to see something huge like a Beyoncé/Taylor Swift duet.

    The conventions are show business, and I think the Dems have the edge over the Reps because most creative people are a diverse crowd.



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  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Clinton was a huge mistake and shows that the Democrats are just as capable of demogoge capture.



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