I think it would be good if she proposed similiar plans for the working class in Appalachia, who are mostly white, for example, and not just for black entrepeneurs. Most of them would probably be too suspicious to take the money though, especially if the program it came from had Harris' name attached to it (think Obamacare vs the ACA or people in the mountains of WNC when it comes to accepting help from FEMA under Biden's presidency).

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such a drama queen. I agree with all of that but you're being naive about how it works. Those issues are fine to hammer Trump with but why serve up this stupid issue to be hammered by the opposition?
in exchange for what? votes from a demographic you'll get 95% of that demographic?
dumb.
#36 | Posted by eberly

I assume she is offering up these proposals because they will help members in the black community, who might not otherwise be able to do so, start a small business and begin to establish intergenerational wealth in the process.

You are such a shill. You can't see a pile of dog ---- when it's put right under your nose.
What about hispanics, or gays, or gay hispanics or gay hispanic women or muslims, etc.??
Blacks?
This is so stupid. It is a slow pitch beach ball to be clobbered by the opposition.
#33 | Posted by eberly

Trump wants to cut taxes for billionaires again, ballooning the deficit yet again in the process, while also doubling down on tariffs, after having spent $28 billion of taxpayer money during his previous adminstration to compensate farmers hurt by his earlier tariffs, and you are bitching about 1 million $20,000 forgivable loans to help black entreperneurs? Got it.

-You are conflating the two different proposals.
You mean the voters are conflating the two different proposals.
Which is why this is so stupid.
Posted by eberly

Voters are conflating the two, or some of you are conflating the two? It looks like the latter to me.

Here is what the article says about the proposals:

The plan outlined Monday would provide 1 million fully forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. The loans would be financed through partnerships between "mission-driven lenders," community oriented banks and the Small Business Administration, the campaign said.

The agenda also includes training and mentorship programs to help Black men get jobs in high-demand industries, and greater investments in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to recruit and retain Black male teachers.

The PSLF program provides student loan forgiveness after 10 years to borrowers who work in certain nonprofit and government jobs. Black men make up less than 2% of public school teachers in the U.S., according to the findings of the National Teacher and Principal Survey for the 2020-21 school year.

Harris also promised she would support federal-level marijuana legalization, a major step beyond the Biden administration's current stance on cannabis, which includes pardoning people convicted of marijuana possession and exploring a potential reclassification of marijuana on the drug schedule.

Harris "will break down unjust legal barriers that hold Black men and other Americans back by legalizing marijuana nationally, working with Congress to ensure that the safe cultivation, distribution, and possession of recreational marijuana is the law of the land," according to a Harris campaign statement.

"She will also fight to ensure that as the national cannabis industry takes shape, Black men " who have, for years, been over policed for marijuana use " are able to access wealth and jobs in this new market," the campaign said.

Harris' new plan also contains a few lines about digital assets, another area where she appears poised to break ranks with the Biden administration.

According to her campaign, Harris "knows that more than 20% of Black Americans own or have owned cryptocurrency assets, which is why her plans will make sure owners of and investors in digital assets benefit from a regulatory framework so that Black men and others who participate in this market are protected."

It was not clear Monday what that framework would look like, but a fierce battle over cryptocurrency regulation is well underway in Washington.

The plan includes a list of different proposals. One proposal is the 1 million forgivable loans to black entrepereneurs. Another proposal is to make sure black men get to participate in the canabis industry. You are conflating the two different proposals.

Read the article, Eberly. The 1 million forgivable loans are not for Black entrepreneurs to open pot shops.

"JFC, if you dumbfuqs think the optics of giving free money to people to open pot shops...then keep stumping for it. You're crazy."

Where does it say that is in thed plan?

Lefty starts a thread and he has posted 7 times, and BW has posted 5 times out of 15 posts. That's trolling.

In The Belly Of The Beast: Kamala Harris Fights To Get A Word In During Inimical Inaugural Fox News Interview

Jumping into the belly of the beast at the conservative cable newser for the first time in her long career, Harris found herself being pilloried by Baier, especially over illegal immigration and border security. At the same time, having been roasted online by the MAGA base in anticipation of softball questions, "real journalist" (as the VP called him at one point) Baier barely let the VP get a word in during the opening part of the sit-down.

It wasn't a good look for Fox, and a gift to Harris who got to play tough in Trump's media backyard and lean into her rival's mental decline. Raising her voice several times, the VP once again went hard on her default position that Trump is fundamentally "unstable" and dangerous to have back in the Oval Office.

Looking at Lefty & BW trolling away:

Bakari Sellers
@Bakari_Sellers
Y'all out here critiquing Kamala like your guy didn't just stand on stage and sway to elevator music for 30 mins.

I posted earlier on how Trump's tariffs in the past cost the US taxpayer $28 billion dollars so he could compensate farmers for the finanical damage his tariffs while presidient did to them. Well, now data is coming out on how his propsed tariffs will hurt farmers if he gets re-elected:

Pennsylvania farmers could lose $111 million in soy exports, $50 million in corn exports, $22 million in beef exports and $20 million in wheat exports, according to the analysis from the University of Illinois Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics.

"These new studies literally show that Trump's tariffs will put Pennsylvania farmers out of business," Chris Gibbs, an Ohio corn and soybean farmer and president of Rural Voices USA, said in a statement Tuesday. "Exports are vital for Pennsylvania farmers and they cannot absorb the sharp fall in exports and prices these studies foreshadow."

Uh-oh, someone better contact the FCC:

"Fox News did not disclose that the female audience it selected for the event was packed with local Republican supporters"

From the above link:

Table 1: Taxpayer Cost of Trade-Related Aid to Farmers and Other Federal Programs

PROGRAM TAXPAYER COST

Trump Aid to Farmers $28 Billion
Department of State $26.3 Billion
Navy Ship Building (annual avg.) $22 Billion
Nuclear Forces $21.8 Billion
NASA $19.8 Billion
Children's Health Insurance $17.3 Billion
TANF $16.7 Billion
Department of Commerce $8.6 Billion
EPA $8.1 Billion
Judicial Branch $7.8 Billion
National Science Foundation $7.2 Billion
Legislative Branch $4.7 Billion
Food Safety and Inspection Service $1.3 Billion
Agricultural Research Service $1.1 Billion
Forest Service $0.4 Billion

Trump repeatedly benefits from the ignorance, stupidity and tendency to short term memory of the American people. Trump's tariffs hurt American farmers so badly he was forced to give them billions of dollars to compensate them and to buy their votes in 2020:

Claire McCaskill
@clairecmc
Hoping farmers that were screaming at me about Trump's tariffs last time remember what happened. And the "fiscal conservatives" remember his very expensive taxpayer bailout for their tariff losses.

Tariff Aid To Farmers Cost More Than Nuclear Forces

The Trump administration gave more taxpayer dollars to farmers harmed by the administration's trade policies than the federal government spends each year building ships for the Navy or maintaining America's nuclear arsenal, according to a new report. A National Foundation for American Policy analysis concluded the spending on farmers was also higher than the annual budgets of several government agencies. "The amount of money raises questions about the strategy of imposing tariffs and permitting the use of taxpayer money to shield policymakers from the consequences of their actions," according to the analysis.

After a series of tariff increases on Chinese imports, the government of China retaliated against U.S. exporters, as predicted by trade analysts outside of the administration. As a result, U.S. exports, particularly of agricultural goods, dropped significantly. "Losing the world's most populous country as an export market has been a major blow to the [U.S.] agriculture industry," reported the New York Times in August 2019. "Total American agricultural exports to China were $24 billion in 2014 and fell to $9.1 billion last year, according to the American Farm Bureau." In 2018, U.S. farmers' soybean exports to China declined by 75%, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.

To shore up political support from farmers, Donald Trump approved increasing amounts of government aid to farmers harmed by the trade policies that the Trump administration itself initiated. Trump was open about the purpose of the payments. "I sometimes see where these horrible dishonest reporters will say that oh jeez, the farmers are upset,'" he told attendees of an Illinois farmer show in August 2019. "Well, they can't be too upset, because I gave them $12 billion and I gave them $16 billion this year. . . . I hope you like me even better than you did in '16."

New Nasal Vaccines Offer Better Protection from COVID and Flu"No Needle Needed

Gentle nasal spray vaccines against COVID, the flu and RSV are coming. They may work better than shots in the arm

Vaccines delivered through the nose are now being tested for several diseases. In the U.S., early clinical trials are showing success. Two of these vaccines have generated multiple immune system responses against the COVID-causing virus in people who received them through a puff up the nose; earlier this year their makers received nearly $20 million from Project NextGen, the Biden-Harris administration's COVID medical initiative. Researchers are optimistic that a nasal spray delivering a COVID vaccine could be ready for the U.S. as soon as 2027. Although recent efforts have focused on inoculations against SARS-CoV-2, nasal vaccines could also protect us against the flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and more.

"I think it's ironic that she was notorious for maximum sentences for weed possession by black men"

That's not what my research shows:

Harris' Record Proves She Is a Champion of Effective Drug Policies and Marijuana Reform

The majority of marijuana cases prosecuted under Harris occurred during her role as the district attorney for San Francisco from 2004 to 2010. While her office prosecuted slightly more than 1,900 marijuana convictions during this time, most were downgraded to misdemeanor charges, if even charged at all, and very few were actually sent to state prison. In fact, as district attorney, Harris championed a policy that people should not serve jail time for a marijuana conviction, and her office often embraced alternative measures such as drug treatment programs for individuals with low-level convictions. Harris even launched the Back on Track reentry court program in 2005, which "aimed [to reduce] recidivism among low-level drug-trafficking defendants" and ultimately became a national model for other prosecutors. The program saw a less than 10 percent recidivism rate among its participants within a two-year period"a significant improvement over the general 53 percent recidivism rate among all individuals in California convicted of a drug offense during this same period.

In her role as California's attorney general from 2011 to 2017, Harris focused her resources on prosecuting more serious transnational and interstate drug trafficking organizations and was not responsible for prosecuting low-level marijuana offenses across the state, contrary to what Gabbard and others have claimed.

God forbid some of you read the article:

The plan outlined Monday would provide 1 million fully forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. The loans would be financed through partnerships between "mission-driven lenders," community oriented banks and the Small Business Administration, the campaign said.

The agenda also includes training and mentorship programs to help Black men get jobs in high-demand industries, and greater investments in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to recruit and retain Black male teachers....

The PSLF program provides student loan forgiveness after 10 years to borrowers who work in certain nonprofit and government jobs. Black men make up less than 2% of public school teachers in the U.S., according to the findings of the National Teacher and Principal Survey for the 2020-21 school year.

Harris also promised she would support federal-level marijuana legalization, a major step beyond the Biden administration's current stance on cannabis, which includes pardoning people convicted of marijuana possession and exploring a potential reclassification of marijuana on the drug schedule.

Harris "will break down unjust legal barriers that hold Black men and other Americans back by legalizing marijuana nationally, working with Congress to ensure that the safe cultivation, distribution, and possession of recreational marijuana is the law of the land," according to a Harris campaign statement.

Rufus Wainwright
@rufuswainwright

The song Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen has become an anthem dedicated to peace, love and acceptance of the truth. I've been supremely honored over the years to be connected with this ode to tolerance. Witnessing Trump and his supporters commune with this music last night was the height of blasphemy. Of course, I in no way condone this and was mortified, but the good in me hopes that perhaps in inhabiting and really listening to the lyrics of Cohen's masterpiece, Donald Trump just might experience a hint of remorse over what he's caused. I'm not holding my breath.

And needless to say: I am all in for Kamala!

Here's one example:

George
@BehizyTweets
How am I just finding out that Trump went out of his way to send his plane to pick up Nelson Mandela after he was released from prison?

Mandela wanted to come to the US but had no way of flying, so Trump stepped up and provided him with one of his planes.

"After feverish and failed negotiations with everyone from the U.S. government to private charter operators, the unlikely benefactor has turned out to be none other than Donald Trump."

You probably have heard of Stevens without realizing it.

Stuart Stevens is an American author and political consultant. He was the cofounder of Washington, D.C.-based political media consultancy Stevens & Schriefer Group (with Russell Schriefer). In 2013, he became a founding partner in Strategic Partners & Media. He served as a top strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in addition to several other significant presidential campaigns over the course of his career. He later joined The Lincoln Project, a Republican Never Trump group for the 2020 United States presidential election. In 2023, he published an analysis of political changes moving toward autocracy.

Why must you always resort to strawman arguments and avoid the actual argument being made? It this genetic? Diet/hormonal related or what?
#56 | Posted by deadman

PS You seem to like asking quesitons well enough. Good for the goose and gander and all that.

Why must you always resort to strawman arguments and avoid the actual argument being made? It this genetic? Diet/hormonal related or what?
#56 | Posted by deadman

You tell me since you are the one projecting.

"Twitter is completely transparent in how it measures engagement"

I'll say the same thing I said to BR earlier. X is completely transparent? Please.

"(hint: actual usage)."

And how many of those are actual people? As opposed to bots from Russia, etc?