Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

@Snake Plisken

I would link the great speech she gave but that seems to get posters banned these days.

These days??

When did they bring this in??

Just for posting a link??

Link dumping is posting loads of links, not one or a couple, so I fail to see how posting a link to Gabbard's speech would get anyone banned.

Try it. Post one link and see what happens.

First, she blocked exculpatory evidence from being introduced in an appeals trial that would have exonerated a man who had been sitting for several years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. What kind of person does that? Even more troubling, what kind of people like and defend someone who does that? And the evidence was indeed exculpatory because after Harris stepped down as attorney general, her successor allowed the evidence to be submitted, and the man was released.

Even if this were true, how is it a 'power grab?'

It doesn't appear to be true given that, the person from Death Row named in the fact checks about this, is still on death row. So, I'm not sure who you're implying was released - article dated 2023:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-13/independent-investigators-reject-innocence-claim-from-inmate-kevin-cooper

Second, she implemented a policy whereby parents of truant children were arrested.

How is this a power grab?

And how is laughing a power grab?

Finally, in an interview with Stephen Colbert (Flashback: Kamala Harris Tells Stephen Colbert 'It Was a Debate!' When Asked About Swipes Against Biden), Harris was asked by Colbert how she went from harsh critic to his running mate. In Colbert’s words, “how do you go from being such a passionate opponent on such bedrock principles for you, and now you guys seem to be pals?” Harris’ response should give anyone pause (taken from the linked article): “It was a debate,” Harris said, deploying the laugh she often uses to deflect during television interviews. 

Again, the obsession with her laugh. It's a juvenile thing to obsess with. Nobody has ever done anything worse than be jovial on a late night talk show program. /s

That article is a piece of hack pulp, it doesn't even quote her response in full. It just cites the first part when she's being jovial and announces "that makes no sense" - well of course you only report half the exchange. The websites own About, happily, identifies itself as a staunch conservative outfit.

Here's the actual exchange:

"In all seriousness, I've known Joe a long time, and I care about him deeply and as you all know we all have family members or friends with whom we have disagreements - that doesn't overcome or overshadow the commonality between us or the connections between us."

Need i talk about her performance on the border or precisely lack of performance?

What do you expect her to do, as Vice President, exactly? She was ready and prepared to be the tie breaking vote to pass the Bipartisan Border Bill. But remember what Republicans did to the bill?

She’s a cruel, duplicitous person entirely lacking in any moral principles or scruples.

This is complete horse sh*t. But you've already admitting to wanting to do things just to get a rise out of people so I assume your arguments are made generally in bad faith, duplicitous and entirely lacking in any moral principles or scruples. Every accusation is a confession.

Color me cynical but the ballot is so broad it almost seems like an attempt in itself to stifle voter turnout by means of making each vote take longer to cast, frustrating the length of lines at polling places.

A bit like the midterms which were supposed to be a white wash for Republicans. They really cannot be complacent this time with what they read in the newspapers and see in polls and they need to get off their backsides and get out and vote.

The poster I was replying to was citing intimdation of Harris supporters in predominantly Republican areas to support a 'shy Harris voter' thesis; I was questioning whether this would extent to opinion polls to any significant extent. You're talking about factors that might skew opinion polls in either direction, which is fair enough…

An example of what political support and donation can mean for those elderly or suffering impairment.

The complete draining of one's life savings and the accrual of overdraft debt as both WinRed (GOP) & ActBlue (Dems) seek to pile pressure upon small dollar donors to donate more & more.

The breakdown of complaints about this practice in the report is approx 7 to 1 with Reps grifting far more.

The article itself is well worth reading and illustrates the sharp practice that political campaigns engage in stateside. In particular, pre populated auto-donate and bank account access fields.

The fragmented and very desperate money grabbing nature of US politics means that many candidates don't see their small dollar donors as political supporters, rather they see them as marks.

The amounts of cash being expropriated from vulnerable people by both parties is utterly disgusting. The nature of American political funding in the wake of Citizens Utd, needs to be addressed and overhauled both to prevent oligarchy and to protect small dollar donors.

Some examples of the folk being bilked dry below:

One 82-year-old woman, who wore pajamas with holes in them because she didn’t want to spend money on new ones, didn’t realize she had given Republicans more than $350,000 while living in a 1,000 square-foot Baltimore condo since 2020.

And a 78-year-old, a widow who limited showers to save on her water bill and canceled her long-term care insurance, didn’t understand why the retirement savings her husband had left her was dwindling so quickly. After CNN reached out to her family, they learned that the woman gave more than $200,000 in donations to Democratic political groups and candidates.

Both parties are guilty of this practice but the Dem's are actively ending their use of methods that lead to issues like the above.

What must be noted, and then screamed at some folk tho? Is that the biggest single beneficiary of small dollar donations and of "oversights" that have bankrupted such folk? The billionaire, Donald J Trump and the man's organisation know exactly what they're doing with messages like the ones sent to this guy.

Richard Benjamin, an 81-year-old from Arizona, believed he had been in personal communication with former president Trump through all the messages he was receiving.

Later, he told his son how angry he was that Donald Trump Jr. wouldn't call him back even though the former president’s son had sent Benjamin so many nice messages.

Absolute scumbag behaviour and exploitation of those least able to protect themselves.

you must have missed Blacks for Trump, Latinos for Trump, etc. with that pigeonholing you're doing there.

Just the other week the candidate who demanded his generals be like Hitlers generals told a group of Jewish voters he was specifically targeting for his campaign that it would be their fault (Jews) if he loses the election.

Pull another.

"Harris for Latino's, Harris for Blacks and campaigning constantly targeting specific ethnic groups."

You don't know what racism is, do you?

Seems like you don't understand how political campaigning works. This has been going on for decades and all sides do it.

But thank Jesus and his Blessed Mother, we avoided Sean Gallagher.

Being a Contrarian is actually a thing.

There's no shortage of them, in the real world, or on here.

Incredibly frustrating to deal with. I managed one in the work environment for a number of years. They were a constant negative influence.