An open discussion.

Harris: What's that?

"You're so desperate to hear her speak. Why is that? Be specific.

#20 | POSTED BY RSTYBEACH11 AT 2024-08-13 04:45 PM | FLAG: "

Are you serious?

Okay, let's see.....

Through anonymous campaign surrogates, she has done a 180 on the following:

Defund the police
Decriminalize illegal entry
Ban fracking
Ban off-shore drilling
Ban private health insurance
Abolish ICE and start over
Federal jobs guarantee program....this is an incomplete list

I can see evolving on an issue or maybe two but her campaign has essentially gutted everything she ran on in 2020 and it's incumbent on her to go in front of the public and explain WHY. And it needs to be done via a presser (or 3) and at least one interview with someone who isn't one of her countless cheerleaders - Brett Baier, perhaps.

Also, she needs to articulate her policy planks. All I've seen so far is her plagiarizing Trump's no tax on service tips.

Voters DESERVE nothing less and actually deserve a lot more. It blows my mind that you appear to think that my belief that she should be doing some interviews and pressers and be forced to be asked tough questions with follow-ups that pin her down is off-the-wall or radical or unfair or whatever it is you are taking umbrage with on this.

"You want some sauce? Google some shht, JEFFY. Your BS doesn't pass the smell test.

#30 | POSTED BY RSTYBEACH11 AT 2024-08-14 12:41 AM | REPLY | FLAG:"

Harris has NOT personally come out and articulated ANYTHING you just spouted off. It's been done through anonymous campaign surrogates and has been just vague enough that her campaign seems to think she can pretend to be all things to everyone. Given our Pravda media, her campaign has every reason to believe so.

I want to hear it from HER. I want KAMALA HARRIS - not anonymous staffers through leaks and letters to friendly outlets - to articulate her policy planks and to do so in an environment where clarifying questions and tough questions are asked. She's not running for king of the lemonade stand.

If she's so awesome, why are she and her VP choice being kept hidden from any kind of meaningful scrutiny.

And, I'm going to throw this back in your face - why in the eff are you seemingly defending this stealth campaign?

BTW - I don't watch campaign rallies. I don't watch Trump's. I don't watch Harris's.

#34 That word salad made no sense.

If you want to make a point, do so and spare all of us the cryptic nonsense.

No. Not from California. I'm speaking to a basic principle - a presidential candidate should face scrutiny, tough questions, policy articulation, clarifying questions....

It blows my mind that I'm getting pushback on something this basic and fundamental to our system of government.

"Why won't Lewzer go on ABC? Because he doesn't want that? Or is Lewzer and Elon slobbering all over each other for a reported 250,000 man-years of internet time what you call that?

#39 | POSTED BY REDIAL"

Ah! But Trump!!!!!

Well, let's see, he DID go on the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Harris was also offered an invitation and she declined. Trump recently held a press conference that lasted over an hour. Vance has answered all sorts of questions and went on 3 Sunday shows just a couple of days ago. ALL of these venues were openly hostile.

On top of all of that, Trump does an unscripted, hours-long talk with Musk and that's somehow a bad thing?

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Harris took just over 70 seconds on a tarmac engaging the press. Walz....complete crickets. That's it.

Your rebuttal was so ridiculous....OMG. That was SO lame.

" I don't watch Trump's. I don't watch Harris's."

Too many precious talking points to lose?

#40 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-08-14 02:06 AM | REPLY | "

Rallies are nothing but talking points.

How about an actual interview? Or an actual press conference?

Oh, that's right. Democrats can't be expected to actually be held up to any kind of actual scrutiny. It's all about emotions and a Pravda press.

"Is he going to actually do the debate now?

#43 | POSTED BY REDIAL"

Not sure. He has made the 9/10 debate conditional upon 2 others.

His first debate with Biden was 100% on terms set by Biden's team.

From your POV should the terms of the debate be 100% set by one campaign team or is it a negotiation?

I do give you credit for moving the goalposts, Redial. We weren't discussing debates. We were discussing candidates doing unscripted pressers and interviews in hostile waters.

"Spoken like someone ignorant of the Philadelphia rally.

You're afraid to witness it was much more.

#45 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-08-14 02:39 AM"

Should I mail you some pom poms?

I haven't seen any reporting on specific policy proposals set forth by Harris outside of her adopting Trump's proposal regarding not taxing tips.

I am not going to make the time to sit through an hour+ long rally for policy planks. It's a rah-rah venue with zero pushback, questioning, clarifications, etc. Further, this is supposedly why we have the 4th estate. These people take the time to sit through all of it. They take notes and then factually report what they witnessed and maybe even question members of the crowd regarding their takeaways. Not so much any more, but it's how the press used to operate.

"" His first debate with Biden was 100% on terms set by Biden's team."

And 100% agree to by Trump's team.

Are you whining because Team Trump doesn't know how to negotiate?!?

#47 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-08-14 02:42 AM | FLAG: "

Not at all. I am calling out Dem/Harris/Biden sycophants for feeling so entitled that they seem to believe that they should be able to dictate 100% of the terms of all future debates in perpetuity and anything less that genuflecting to this is pure "cowardice" by any GOP opponent.

It's patently stupid and retarded, but here we are.