"I have posted articles on what she accomplished as VP in the past, which I don't have time to do right now."

Here are two I posted before:

#73 Agreed.

#70 | Posted by jpw TY for your response. I appreciate it. Helps me to get a feel for your political preferences.

Y'all went instadumb in order act like the polished turd is actually good.
#68 | Posted by jpw

Nope. I've always liked Kamala, and so have many other people. I was suprised to discover how many Democratic governors, Senators and Senate candidates knew her from her days as CA AG and who think highly of her based on those interactions. Everyone from Elizabeth Warren to Josh Shapiro, Roy Cooper, Angela Alsobrooks and more.

Anyway, bottom line, Kamala did have a base of support in 2020. She got overshadowed in a crowded Democratic field by progressives like Bernie and Warren. Also, she was a prosecutor running in a Defund the Police era, which was not a good fit. Ultiimately, I think she was viewed as being too inexperienced to run against Trump back then, which, in retrospect, I think she was. Fast forward 4 years, 4 years she spent as VP. I have posted articles on what she accomplished as VP in the past, which I don't have time to do right now. Suffice it to say, she didn't spend those 4 years sitting in front of her bedroom mirror in the Naval Observatory, admiring herself. She got to work doing the kinds of things VPs can do. She travelled the country and the world, giving speeches to women's groups and on college campuses as well as meeting with world leaders around the globe. And during that time, she came into her own. She is a better speaker now. She has more confidence and seems to be more comfortable in her own skin. Don't get me wrong, I liked her before and saw her potential in those Senate hearings, but she is a stronger candidate today than she was back then. I have compared her growth to that of Nikki Haley, who also grew during that 4 year period when she was UN ambassador.

Debate double standard: Media 'sane-washing' Trump means Harris must be 'twice as good'

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by author and Vanderbilt University Distinguished Professor Michael Eric Dyson to discuss the double standard Vice President Kamala Harris is facing heading into her debate with Donald Trump.

Lawrence O'Donnell: First D.C. Republican to fear Harris saw Trump's train wreck' debate coming

In 2010, Karl Rove, helped fund a negative advertising campaign against Kamala Harris. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell explains that Rove was so worried about her, he attempted to prevent her from winning statewide in California's attorney general race. Because she won that race, Lawrence says, she is where she is today--polling ahead of Donald Trump in important Electoral College states.

The Dems put a highly polished turd in front of you, told you you couldn't say no and y'all are just like "wooooowwwww...that's the best turd ever...amaaazzzzing!"

Oh, so she is ----, just not as big a piece of ---- as Trump. Got it. I'll ask you again: Which presidents or presidential candidates have you liked in the past and/or would you like to see in the future? I'm just trying to get a feel for who you could enthusiastically support.

"and all that was noteworthy to the professional spinners and writers was her ethnicity and vagina."

The irony is she isn't running on that, but, hey, you do you.

The idea that people only like Harris because she is a Democrat and because Trump sucks worse is a fallacy. The fact that Harris has done so well in terms of grassroots fundraising, in part through a plethora of zoom calls which jumpstarted the process, is because she actually began building a a base of support back in 2020:

Kamala Harris is the Democrats' 2020 social media phenomenon

Sen. Kamala Harris of California is leading the field of Democratic presidential candidates in capturing the public's attention during the opening wave of the 2020 campaign.

Why it matters: That puts Harris in a strong position to help set the Democratic primary agenda, much as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing for the House Democratic agenda.

The numbers from the past three months (Nov. 12"Feb. 12) say it all:

A critical thought might be that the alternative to her is criminal traitor, so supporting her rather than ragging on her along with the Trumpers is the rational choice.
#45 | POSTED BY CORKY

JPW seems to think critical thinking means thinking that is critical of someone/thing.

She's awful. She only has a shot because Trump is much worse.
We're settling for garbage to avoid settling for ----.
#48 | Posted by jpw

What makes her so awful, in your opinion, and garbage rather than ----? Which presidents or presidential candidates have you liked in the past and/or would you like to see in the future?

IOW, using racism to obtain your political ends is not a bug but a feaure in the Republican party. Interstingly, the far-right's racism playbook is not unique to the US:

From 30 July to 5 August 2024, far-right, anti-immigration protests and riots occurred in England and Northern Ireland, within the United Kingdom. This followed a mass stabbing in Southport on 29 July in which three children were killed. The riots were fuelled by false claims circulated by far-right groups that the perpetrator of the attack was a Muslim and an asylum seeker, in addition to broader Islamophobic, racist, and anti-immigrant sentiments that had grown leading up to the protests. The disorder included racist attacks, arson, and looting and was the largest incident of social unrest in England since 2011.

Following the stabbing, there was incorrect speculation online about the name of the suspected attacker. Misinformation and disinformation, including false claims about the suspect's identity, nationality, religion and immigration status, were circulated on social media by high-profile far-right accounts. . . The false claim that the perpetrator was named "Ali Al-Shakati" is believed to have originated from the X (formerly Twitter) account of an anti-lockdown campaigner and gained a greater audience when repeated by the website Channel3Now, a website known for spreading fake news. Russia was accused of being behind a deliberate disinformation campaign, and as of 5 August, the National Crime Agency and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are investigating such claims.

Why is it so important to Republicans to control the Senate? Heather Cox Richardson continues:

Controlling the country through the courts was the plan behind stacking the courts with Republican nominees and weaponizing the filibuster to stop Democrats from passing legislation. In March 2024, in Slate, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that McConnell "realized you don't need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don't need to change hearts and minds. You don't need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people. All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts with far-right partisan activists ... [a]nd they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process. And those policies will be bulletproof, because they will be called law.'"

So, yeah, maybe some Republican politicians, espeically on a local level, are afraid of bomb threats, but I really don't think that is what is motivating the JD Vances and Ted Cruzes of the world. The ends justify the means, so stoking and using racism to achieve your political ends is well worth the cost someone else will have to pay.

*the Republican party to maintain power

This is the leader of a national party.
Where are the republicans to condemn this violence?
#6 | Posted by truthhurts

Republican politiicans will not condemn this, because for them this is campaign strategy about the Senate and the Supreme Court, stupid:

On September 10, Vance told his people to "keep the cat memes flowing," even though--or perhaps because--the rumors were putting people in his own state in danger.

Trump repeated the lie at the presidential debate that night, claiming, "In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there."

. . .The widespread ridicule of Trump's statement has obscured that this attack on Ohio's immigrants is part of an attempt to regain control of the Senate. Convincing Ohio voters that the immigrants in their midst are subhuman could help Republicans defeat popular Democratic incumbent senator Sherrod Brown, who has held his seat since 2007. Brown and Montana's Jon Tester, both Democrats in states that supported Trump in 2020, are key to controlling the Senate.

Two Republican super PACs, one of which is linked to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), have booked more than $82 million of ad space in Ohio between Labor Day and the election and are focusing on immigration.

Taking control of the Senate would enable Republicans not only to block all popular Democratic legislation, as they did with gun reform after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, but to continue to establish control of America's judicial system. So long as their judges are in place to make law from the bench, what the majority of Americans want doesn't matter.

FTA:

The Ohio Division of Wildlife tells TMZ the real deal behind the viral pic -- the guy was actually picking up 2 geese that were hit in a Columbus car accident. And by the way, that's 45 minutes from Springfield, where Trump's wild claims supposedly took place.

Also, we're told there's no evidence the man is an immigrant, or Haitian, or had plans to eat the geese. They make it clear the whole story's being blown out of proportion thanks to Trump's comments this week and his fans amplifying the narrative online.

Newsom responded on X that Trump was revealing who he was.

"Every voter should be made aware of this. @realDonaldTrump just admitted he will block emergency disaster funds to settle political vendettas," Newsom wrote. "Today it's California's wildfires. Tomorrow it could be hurricane funding for North Carolina or flooding assistance for homeowners in Pennsylvania. Donald Trump doesn't care about America--he only cares about himself."

"He said to today that if the elections were fair he'd win California. CALIFORNIA."

Someone asked earlier today why Trump was in California:

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Trump's 'Press Conference' today is a tourism ad for his golf course.

Acyn
@Acyn
Trump: This course is one of the best courses anywhere in the world It is a major property, as you can imagine. Also, lots of weddings and lots of events. And the ballroom right behind you, people get married literally on a nightly basis..

FYI: Biden never, not once, ever agreed to a September 4 debate on Fox News either.

"I had two incidents the past couple of months where Trumpers told me that January 20th they're coming for me. I've also had friends that I've known for many years but support Trump tell me they're going to protect me and take me in when the Civil war starts - even though I'm not one of them."

Wow.

If Trump regains power what we are probably going to get is some combination of Orban's Hungary and Putin's Russia with Trump in the role of dictator and head oligarch. There will be fake elections, state run media and political prisoners. The SC's ruling on presidential immunity has green lit all of these undemocratic actions because if the president does them it won't be against the law.

But he seems to be quite OK with projecting his own (I'll be kind) isolated and misguided view upon the Country?
The backlash was amazing.
Posted by LampLighter

Mr. McEntee was smugly living within the confines of his own political bubble until he arrogantly made the mistake of asking a question he thought he knew the answer to.

Sorry, the quote got cut off, but that's all the site would let me copy & paste, but you can go there and read for yourself.

Yeah, isn't America going to be so much better when the Republicans take over and kill off woke culture?

FTA:

Almost everyone wants to talk about 2016 and how they'd been waiting for someone like Trump to come along with the guts to say what they were thinking but they weren't "allowed" to say out loud. "Is he an -------? Sure. But he's our -------," one man emphatically told me, and those around him nodded in agreement. They love that Trump created a space to speak their minds, which, in many cases, means being able to spout racist, sexist, hate speech that was all but forbidden in public life just a decade ago.

These individuals fully embrace the former president's crass, offensive, disrespectful way of speaking, and imitate it, too. The mainstream media does not show the obscenity and profanity of these rallies, but it is everywhere and, for me, a defining characteristic of these events.

"---- BIDEN" flags are still for sale from most vendors (even though Joe Biden dropped out of the race weeks ago) and appear on cars across the parking lots near the venues. Families wear matching T-shirts reading, "The Hoe is worse than Joe." Kids wander around in "No more --------" visors with fake Trump hair attached, and browse bumper stickers that read, "I like big ----- and small government," or show a naked woman's torso with pistols resting on her hard ------- and the slogan "I

#14 | Posted by rcade TY for posting this RCade. I tried to research the economic background of Springfield, and found one article I couldn't read, which left me frustrated:

Springfield seeks to be immigrant friendly city
But political action committee says the move won't reverse population declines.
By Michael Cooper
July 27, 2014