Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Harris Pays Tributes to Unions on Labor Day; Trump Golfs

Vice President Kamala Harris paid tribute Monday to labor unions, saying they had helped "build America" and deserve credit for an array of protections that benefit all workers. Former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), have no advertised events on Monday.

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Kamala Harris told the crowd that they'd "better thank a union member" for the worker protections won for the American labor force since 1926 - the five-day work week, sick leave, paid leave and vacation time, she said.

"The way we celebrate Labor Day is we know that hard work is good work. We know that when we organize, when we bring everyone together, it's a joyful moment where we are committed to doing the hard work of lifting up America's families," she said.

Harris later added that "on Labor Day, and every day, we celebrate the dignity of work ... We celebrate unions because unions helped build America and unions help build America's middle class."

Harris campaign spokesperson Joseph Costello said in a statement that Trump "is ditching workers on Labor Day because he is an anti-worker, anti-union extremist who will sell out working families for his billionaire donors if he takes power."

What a perfect metaphor today's contrast between campaigns presents. One campaign rolls up its sleeves and goes to work - facing energetic crowds in multiple states - praising the virtues of hard work and fair pay. While the other campaign head sits in a golf cart at the country club he owns, launching vicious, lying posts on his failing social media site, in between likely cheating against his golfing partners as
he's been thoroughly documented as doing.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-02 03:40 PM

Dotard pays tribute to Putin and MBS.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-03 08:18 AM

#2 | Posted by organ_bank

Your butt-buddy Trump is running for high office, an office where he can order good men and women in uniform to their death.

He can skip golf for one day.

You can stop being an ------- for one day.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-03 09:11 AM

To respect the holiday is to take the holiday.

Tell that to all the businesses, factories, plants, and service providers where 10s of millions of Americans worked yesterday.

What an idiotic statement! There is never an hour of any day out of 365 where all American workers have the same time off.

Only a non-American moron would make such an malinformed misstatement of how politicians should honor American workers on the holiday created to note their importance to this nation's progress and wellbeing.

It is an American tradition for public celebrations on Labor Day, held to honor those who labor year round as well as those still working at that moment, making such celebrations safe and possible. It's also tradition for those seeking elected office to attend such celebrations, thanking workers and asking for their support.

Virtue signaling, my ass. You know nothing of how labor is respected, frankly, because you know nothing of American traditions outside of using right wing tropes and lies for denigration purposes.

#5 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-03 10:43 AM

Biden has spent nearly 40% of presidency on vacation.

Yet again, more creative fiction from the halls of Fox News. Doesn't a $783M payout for lying prove to you not to believe anything they tell you?

Guess you're not that smart.

Fox News' accounting includes weekends in their definition of "vacation". And yet, in normal colloquial American English, no one uses the word "vacation" to describe a normal two-day weekend.

The dictionary too defines "vacation" as an extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in traveling (because he only went to his homes in Delaware).

Thus, Fox News' claim would be false even if Biden did not work for a single minute during those weekends when he is away from the White House and not traveling on official business.

If you count the average American's 11 days annual vacation, 12 public holidays and 104 weekend days, that's almost 35%. It is only 19 days short of Biden's 40%.

skeptics.stackexchange.com

#7 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-03 03:06 PM

" promising what she'll 'do' if elected, while she's not doing it now while she's 'elected'."

Wow.

You'd almost imagine there's a difference between President versus being Vice-President.

Time to bring back Civics class.

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-09-03 04:03 PM

"Biden has spent nearly 40% of presidency on vacation."

As usual you got nothing. Except much ado about nothing. Signifying nothing.

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-03 04:14 PM

Time to bring back Civics class.

#8 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

If the Russians taught American Civics to the bots in their troll farms maybe we would get a better class of trolls here.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-03 04:16 PM

wait I thought it wasn't?

It is if you stupidly confuse "vacation" with regular weekends and stat holidays.

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-09-03 11:39 PM

I consider their campaigning and begging for money to be outside the job duties too.

It's a free country... you can consider whatever you like.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-09-03 11:48 PM

OMG The projection is through the roof!

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-09-04 12:12 AM

You're sucking Felon's dick.

---- you.

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-04 01:43 AM

Time to bring back Civics class.

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-09-03 04:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

In Texas, your senior HS year you have civics equivalent for half the school year and economics the other half. Two semesters of college level govt are required by the Texas state constitution for all bachelor degrees.

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-04 07:36 AM

Contrast Kamala's fake accent in MI vs PA.

#19 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-09-04 04:23 PM

When Trump goes golfing there's usually a lawsuit and NDA involved.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-09-04 04:26 PM

Check out dotard's lisp while being interviewed by Elmo..

#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-04 04:28 PM

Contrast Kamala's fake accent in MI vs PA.
#19 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Yea! Why doesn't she talk like Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon?

I want people talking to fit the stereotypes I have for them in my head!

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-09-04 04:28 PM

Contrast Kamala's fake accent in MI vs PA.

#19 | Posted by visitor_

Contrast Trump's fake caring about the working class everywhere he goes.

#23 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-04 04:31 PM

Trump doesn't pretend to have an accent. Just how fake does Kamala have to be to do that?

#24 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-09-04 09:08 PM

@#24 ... Trump doesn't pretend to have an accent. Just how fake does Kamala have to be to do that? ...

Yet another unsubstantiated assertion.

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-04 09:16 PM

@#23 ... Contrast Trump's fake caring about the working class everywhere he goes. ...

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#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-04 09:25 PM

@#24 ... Trump doesn't pretend to have an accent. Just how fake does Kamala have to be to do that? ...

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#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-04 10:30 PM

#24

Go suck Tim Pool's ass.

#28 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-05 12:16 AM

She gives a speech in Pittsburgh with her Montreal/Berkeley accent and the same speech five hours later in Detroit and she's Kamala from the hood. Weird.

#29 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-09-05 11:31 AM

What's weird is how she's found rent-free space inside your pinnish noggin. Lol.

#30 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-05 11:51 AM

Why would I mention Kamala? Kamala's only running for President and the subject of this blog post. So weird right?

#31 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-09-05 12:18 PM

Trump doesn't pretend to have an accent. Just how fake does Kamala have to be to do that?

#24 | Posted by visitor_

No he just pretends to have hair, have a tan, be taller, and weigh 215 lbs.

But you're ok with all of that fakeness. He's so masculine.

#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-05 01:10 PM

But he doesn't change his hair and skin tone to pretend he's black, now does he?

#33 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-09-05 01:40 PM

But he doesn't change his hair and skin tone to pretend he's black, now does he?

#33 | Posted by visitor_

Spotting the lying racist is sometimes so easy on this site.

#34 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-09-05 02:00 PM

But he (Trump) doesn't change his hair and skin tone to pretend he's black, now does he?

#33 | POSTED BY VISITOR

Well, then what do you think the man is pretending to be? Because he goes to a lot of ridiculous extremes to prete3nd to something.

#35 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-05 02:01 PM

But he doesn't change his hair and skin tone to pretend he's black, now does he?

#33 | Posted by visitor_

No he does it to pretend he's young and healthy, when he's old, fat, bald, pale, not that tall.

#36 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-05 02:13 PM

I'm not casting shade on Harris for dyeing her hair, tummy flattening panty hose, or wearing makeup and high heels. I'm pointing out that she was faking her Kamala from the hood speech style.

#37 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-09-05 03:18 PM

I'm not casting shade on Harris for dyeing her hair, tummy flattening panty hose, or wearing makeup and high heels. I'm pointing out that she was faking her Kamala from the hood speech style.

#37 | Posted by visitor_

The first rule of what to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Put down the shovel.

#38 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-09-05 03:21 PM

At least Kamala didn't pull a bottle of hot sauce out of her purse.

#39 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-09-05 03:43 PM

I'm not casting shade on Harris for dyeing her hair, tummy flattening panty hose, or wearing makeup and high heels. I'm pointing out that she was faking her Kamala from the hood speech style.

#37 | Posted by visitor_

Those are all normal things for a woman to do.

Having fake hair while wearing makeup, a girdle, a diaper, high heels, and lying about your weight is an abnormal thing for a man to do, unless that man is a transvestite. Strange choices for a man who is head of a cult that is obsessed with masculinity.

#40 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-05 04:41 PM

Is it normal to make up a fake accent?

#41 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-09-05 04:58 PM

Is it normal to make up a fake accent?
#41 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

All accents are fake.

#42 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-09-05 05:04 PM

Is it normal to make up a fake accent?
#41 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

All accents are fake.

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-09-05 05:04 PM

Double post.

Double pleasure.

#44 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-09-05 05:04 PM

Is it normal to make up a fake accent?

#41 | Posted by visitor_

It's normal to speak differently depending on who you're speaking to.

You've done it too.

Just like trump speaks differently to rooms full of rich donors than he speaks to the broke morons at his rallies.

And harris' accent being your best attack against her is delicious proof that she's going to wipe the floor with trump, so get your excuses ready for why the election was fraudulent.

#45 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-05 05:06 PM

Ya'll... Visitor is trying his best to make a serious choice between a convicted criminal/traitor and the current VP's purported accent!

Cut him some slack.

#46 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-05 05:09 PM

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