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Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,058 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Dont forget about getting rid of the IRS cus taxes = bad and if you nuke social security, the DoE etc who needs taxes anyway…..



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


    Maybe Trumps dream is to utter the line, "Roads?! Where we're going, we don't need roads"

    And then hop into a golf cart on his way to the next hole.



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


    basically ways which you turn America into a sweatshop for the billionaire class



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,019 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    More like the baby Sinclair in Dinosaurs.....

    RDT_20240827_1243452746950347992956230.jpg

    And I'll never miss an opportunity to post this clip of the current vice president grilling him on exactly what you pointed out above



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


    the newest weird MAGA trope is to insinuate they don’t know what Harris’ policies are when just last week we had the ‘centerists’ complaining about the very specific corporate tax rates she’s proposed and about her anti price gouging plan, nevermind the banger speech she just gave at the ratings buster DNC about codifying roe and building 3 million affordable homes in her first term, among other things.

    https://www.mediaite.com/tv/free-kamala-kellyanne-conway-claims-sexists-in-campaign-staff-dont-trust-harris-to-talk-policy/

    expect a rash of “new” users pretending they’ve never heard of these policies because they have their orders.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,768 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Cory Booker trying to not bust out laughing at Barr is epic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    Anyone who posts to this thread, or even just reads it, is more informed about American politics than a significant portion of American voters. The ignorance of some Americans about their own government is staggering. I saw on CNN or MSNBC that one voter blames Biden for the overturning of Roe v Wade because as president he should have done something to stop the Supreme Court. A lot of Americans think that the president has direct control over the inflation rate and he could set the rate to whatever figure he wants. There was a guest on the Pod Save America podcast recently who wrote a new politics book. He said he once asked his sister who she is voting for governor, and her reply was "what's a governor".

    I don't know if swing voters generally have a better understanding of politics but I would hope so.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    There's a whole bunch of underlying issues in there.

    The whole "The president caused inflation" and things like that is partly due to the fact that they are told that the US is awesome and rules the world , so at a fundamental level a large swathe of Americans struggle to understand how the US could possibly be influenced by global issues and also can't grasp that the President cant fix these global issues simply by clicking their fingers.

    And that's before you get into their complete misunderstanding of how their system of Governance works.



  • Posts: 224 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You can easily do the very same thing for Kamala Harris. Fact is in this country those who usually do no vote have little interest in all things political. The first question in these type of polls should be "Do you vote?"



  • Posts: 224 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All the GOP controlled states simply want our elections to be fair and legal. I've never met someone who wanted to vote not being able to. Each party will provide free transportation to people who want to vote but are unable to get transportation (which is extremely rare). Next you'll be telling us people don't have phones? Our elections have been running well for hundreds of years but now suddenly democrats have a problem with the system and feel they need to rig it?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    Just on American exceptionalism and how they view their place in the world, I was thinking recently about when Saoirse Ronan was on Stephen Colbert and they were talking about accents. Colbert said he thinks he doesn't have an accent. Not taking a dig at Colbert but it is an example of how some Americans view America that they assume that the general American accent is the default accent of the whole world.



  • Posts: 224 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Doesn't change the fact that a president can and does cause great harm to our nation with the click of his fingers as has been shown with Biden opening up the border to tens of millions of illegal aliens.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,503 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Not sure if that's how I'd interpret it… I've seen "don't have an accent" used to mean doesn't have a strong accent of that region \ country as opposed to any accent at all.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Interesting to see that Kamala Harris has dramatically shifted the perception of her in recent weeks

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    Now at a net unfavourability of +1.6 , having been out at +16.8 at the end of June.

    Trump has been pretty steady at roughly +10 net unfavourable over the last 6/8 months with very little change.

    Biden is ou tat +18 Net unfavourable so Harris doesn't seem to be taking a hit from that at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,708 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    It’s why Trump does what Trump does- he knows his audience inside and out - he’s not talking to us- his talking to a very specific audience with a very specific mindset. I’d say we give certain Americans a lot more credit than they really deserve



  • Posts: 224 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Her popularity contest campaign with no substance will only last for so long.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,708 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Interesting thanks for posting.
    I guess if Trump keeps doing what he’s doing he’s going to get those same results again and again - looks promising for the election, unless you’re a Trump voter of course 😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    You are kidding right….

    This thread is home to THE MOST ill informed posters on this topic.

    Go back to when the thread was discussing "cheap fakes" the week before the debacle that was the Biden debate performance…which was unusually scheduled for June, with no audience and no media and see for yourself how deluded posters are…

    Or look what happened to the poster who suggested Biden would be replaced a few months back.

    This thread is a complete echo chamber where anyone with an alternate opinion is ostracized.

    I love reading this thread for that reason, every now and again someone will pop on here and suggest that maybe Biden isn't up to the job given the state of his health, or maybe Harris's popularity is a media construct (using unrelenting positive media spin and supportive polls, backed up by an army of so called fact checkers), and they usually get abused by the rabid cultists on here who have been posting on this topic for nearly 8 years…they believe everything they are told by a clearly partizan media infrastructure that in the last two months alone have buried the assassination attempt and amplified Harris's apparent likability (from one of the most unpopular VPs, in an unpopular administration).

    Posters on here suggested a month ago Trump would pull out of the election and no one challenged them.

    IF this thread is evidence of anything it is evidence of how completely clueless Irish people are when it comes to US politics….looking down on people who don't agree with us is an Irish past time, you should understand that about us…we can get very nasty toward people who do not run with the herd.

    It's worth remembering, Ireland is the only place, including America, where Joe Biden received any visible positive public affection in large numbers, he was getting abused everywhere he went in the US….no wonder he loved it here…



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


    Go back to when the thread was discussing "cheap fakes" the week before the debacle that was the Biden debate performance…

    Are you lost this thread was created July 21st.

    I don't think Harris has been in the race for 8 years

    Biden hasn't even been racing against Trump for 8 years.

    I think you're lost. But tell us how you really feel about how well informed and clueless others are. No sense of irony there.

    looking down on people who don't agree with us is an Irish past time, you should understand that about us…we can get very nasty toward people who do not run with the herd.

    Or sense of irony here, reading your post back to yourself.



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


    Maybe his MAGA cap slipped down and blinded him?

    "Rabid cultists" indeed.



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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,790 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Harris has been largely unknown for the last four years - gave very few speeches or interviews (and wasn't allowed to by the Democrats). Being centre stage has really helped her.



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


    and wasn't allowed to by the Democrats

    Where do you asspull that from?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    Presidential would be the exact opposite to how trump acted before during and after his tenure, the areas I mentioned that Harris has to shine would be those that show if she is presidential or not. Still have a section of the population that would be dems or independent that need serious convincing to vote for a female potus.



  • Posts: 224 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can Kamala even be more unpresidential. So at the last minute Harris wants to change the debate rules she originally set for ABC. Trump has reported on the rule negotiations that she wants to have open mics, she wants to sit at a desk, she wants to have opening statements, and she wants to be able to have notes to help her out. What a diva… Next we’ll be hearing she wants her Emotional Support Governor, Tim Walz, on stage with her.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,087 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    So RFK supposedly cut off a whale's head with a chainsaw and drove it home on the roof of his car years back according to his daughter.

    And Trump is to reportedly name RFK in his transition team.

    Totally not weird at all.



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


    We're about 2 weeks away from finding out environmentalist RFK is not dolphin-safe, yikes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    Rfk and Tulsi endorsements within days is a huge boost for Trump

    The anger in the media demonstrates that, great to see



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,503 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Sadly the whale is the more intelligent one in this scenario.

    I think people who fell for RFK's environmentalist charade need to reflect on where they get their ideas from.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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


    The "huge boost,"

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    No no I'm sure that brainworm roadkill guy and 'im not a republican but i wanna be Trump's VP' tulsi both had significant bases of support that wouldn't have supported Trump anyway without their selling out to him this week, just you wait… any day now we're gonna see the boost, just buckle up your cowboy boots…

    The problem is neither person endorsing Trump, 'officially' or not this week, comes as a surprise to anyone. Gabbard has been fawning over Trump for months/years, going as far this summer as to preen herself as a potential VP pick of his. RFK Jr, much the same thing, seen in leaked footage in strategy calls with Trump weeks ago, and it's been indicated for a long time that RFK's stunt election run essentially played a similar role for Trump's campaign that Kanye was meant to in 2020 (which also flopped).

    There is not likely to be any more 'boost' left to give to the race from either of the 2 chancers.



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