Trump could be announced dead and the Republican Party would still keep him as the presidential nominee and he wouldn't lose a vote.

which of her policy proposals that she detailed had you the most excited?

The one about keeping a 34 times convicted felon, tax cheat, charity fraudster, indicted classified document thief and insurrectionist, now promising to use the Justice Department, National Guard and active military go after citizens who don't agree with him out of the White House where he doesn't belong.

How about you?

This is the biggest story in the news right now and almost no one is paying attention.

Some of us are, that's why it's here. But isn't it curious who's completely absent from this thread - particularly posters who've unrepentantly forwarded some of the aforementioned Russian propaganda right here on this blog?

They really don't recognize the hard work and talent some one like Kamala has demonstrated her whole life. They think that they all just fall backassword into success like their heroes.

I've tried my level best to post factual information going back to the earliest part of her career, showing people that her 2019 campaign was a self-abort that actually propelled her to where she now is. And the fact she rightly pulled the ripcord when she had no money nor constituency from which to challenge the more popular and better funded Democrats only confirms she's a pragmatic - if not fortunate - politician, not an ego-driven selfish one.

And of course, the ignoranti who only looked at 2019, had no clue as they claimed she was nothing more than a DEI hire and had slept her way to success because she dated Willie Brown in the past. Even if Harris should lose, based on where she started to where her campaign lies today is a remarkable journey of success considering the unprecedented circumstances and political realities she's navigating in real time that no other modern politician has ever traveled before her.

Her besting and spanking Trump during the debate was not fluke. It came from her psychological studies on how to deal with charming sociopathic defendants in criminal courts, where the jury tends to like them. The prosecutors have to use the defendant's own ego and need to dominate others against them without upsetting jurors who otherwise might think the prosecutor is being too personal and harsh.

Trump never saw it coming, or if he did he had no effective counter maneuver, which is why he stood there like a stump when Harris called him things no other person on planet Earth ever had to his face before. And that's why he refuses to share another stage with her again. He knows the same dynamic will again emerge, showing him to be weak and defenseless against a woman who's spent a career incarcerating men just like Trump.

What does this Kamala Harris' video for the Catholic Al Smith dinner look Iike you Tony?

It looks like Kamala understood the purpose of the Al Smith dinner - levity and humor - unlike donOld Trump who droned on and on about his campaign grievances without any witticism in sight.

Since you know so little about America, let me explain to you what the Al Smith dinner is about. The dinner is supposed to be a political DMZ in the middle of a heated campaign that allows candidates to show humility, self deprecation, and the ability to laugh at the circumstances the American electoral experience forces candidate into.

It's so rich for the same people who've continually and repeatedly gaslit about Kamala lacking intelligence, lacking the ability to respond off-the-cuff, lacking the ability to articulate a message see all of that get blown up right before their very eyes when all they had to do was look accurately back at the past. Yes, Kamala's time was not 2020. Same for every other Democrat not named Joe Biden, but I don't see anyone claiming that Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Bennett, or any of the other candidates that Biden defeated are instantly non-viable in the future because they weren't successful then. Only Kamala - who went on to become Vice President and now the party's standard bearer for President, when none of those others threw their hats into the ring - as they could have - when Biden stepped down.

Kamala is 7-0 in elected politics, yet yabobs like Onenut can't recognize political talent when it smacks them in the face. When all is said and done, the political instincts and abilities Kamala has honed over her 3 decades of public service will show that Karl Rove in 2010 knew exactly what she was to become.

Nice article from 2019.

Not surprising, Trumpers live in the past because they're so frightened by a future where white privilege is no longer a thing.

It's basically a corollary to Dr. Martin Luther King's greatest speech: They're absolutely apoplectic when they're accurately judged by the "content of their character" since they repeatedly - and often with oblivious pride - continually show that they don't have any of depth by projecting their own hegemony as the targeted goal of those they fear will eventually succeed them.

Russia is the most active foreign threat to the 2024 election, according to U.S. officials. A pair of indictments unsealed in September alleged an expansion of Russia's influence operation: from crude, fake social media posts and bot networks in 2016 to more ambitious and successful recent campaigns. That includes laundering propaganda through seemingly independent U.S. actors, according to one of the indictments.

Experts fear Storm-1516 and similar groups have the potential to sway public opinion by undermining the credibility of democratic institutions, influencing U.S. policy and diminishing people's ability to distinguish fact from fiction.

Russia is increasingly leaning on an advancing technology landscape -- including artificial intelligence and more sophisticated bot networks -- to spread its falsehoods. But Storm-1516's most valuable quality is persistence, according to Clint Watts, the general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.

"The danger comes with just the sheer volume of claims that they make, and it only takes one person, one influencer with outsized influence, to grab onto a video and amplify it in the United States," Watts said. "They may miss 99 times, but the 100th time they may get it just right."

The Storm-1516 campaigns rely on faked primary sources -- audio, video, photos, documents -- presented as evidence of the claims' veracity. They are then laundered through international news sources and influencers to reach their ultimate target: a mainstream Western audience.

At least 50 false narratives have been launched this way since last fall, according to a count NBC News assembled with researchers. The narratives aim to diminish Western support for military aid in Ukraine following Russia's invasion, a contentious issue in Congress. The videos also back the re-election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to halt military aid to Ukraine, while painting the former president as a victim of a "deep state." And they attack Vice President Kamala Harris.

In one fake video, a Ukrainian troll farm operative reveals the machinations behind a CIA plot to defeat Trump.

In another piece of propaganda, a woman says she was paralyzed as a child -- by Harris in a hit-and-run accident.

In a third, a "whistleblower" falsely claims Ukraine's leaders spent U.S. aid money on yachts.

The claims peddled by the actors and false primary sources in these videos fall apart upon basic inspection. Experts quickly identified Olesya, the Ukrainian troll, as an AI-generated fake. The 2011 hit-and-run never happened, according to San Francisco police, and KBSF-TV, the local news station behind the claims, does not exist.

And the companies that own the yachts told reporters they hadn't been sold. But the story spread anyway, and this time, far -- from small-time right-wing influencers to members of Congress, including Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, now the Republican vice presidential nominee.

Makes one wonder what job Brett is auditioning for should his preferred candidate win.

Baier's not leaving Fox News making 8 figures to go work in a Trump Administration for $200-300K. Bret was trying to please Fox viewers and in concert please Donald Trump by basically tailoring his questions to the issues Trump and Vance are prosecuting against Harris.

Don't forget, abortion was never mentioned and it's a personal issue with a little over half the electorate with the potential to affect millions of men, husbands and fathers should they live in a ban state.

Transcript from video clip above.

CHARLAMAGNE: I think a lot of your press hits get criticized. Folks say you come off very scripted. They say you like to stick to your talking points -

KAMALA HARRIS: That would be called discipline.

CHARLAMAGNE: -- and some people say you have an inability to fearlessly say who you are and what you believe. I know that's not true, but what do you say to that criticism? And is it fair for SNL to make fun of it?

KAMALA HARRIS: Hasn't Maya Rudolph been wonderful? I have nothing but admiration for the comedy, and I think it's important to be able to laugh at yourself and each other in the spirit of comedy, obviously, and not belittling people as my opponent would do.

CHARLAMAGNE: But what do you say to people who say you stay on the talking points?

KAMALA HARRIS: I would say, you're welcome! I mean, listen, here's the thing: I love having conversations, which is why I'm so happy to be with you this afternoon. The reality is that there are certain things that must be repeated to ensure that everyone knows what I stand for and the issues that I think are at stake in this election. And so it requires repetition.

You know, some people say that until someone has heard the same thing at least three times, it just doesn't stay with them. So repetition is important. And for that reason, yes, at my rallies, I say the same thing when I go to Detroit as I do in Philly, or wherever I am, to make sure that people hear and receive what I think are some of the most critical issues at stake in this election.

Even from those who've criticised her for their past interactions as subordinates, not a single person has ever said that Harris isn't disciplined nor that she doesn't demand the same from those around her. As Trump floats from one verbalized thought cloud to the next - like a child blowing dandelion seeds into the wind - Harris maintains the message discipline that's served her well in her prosecutorial career and now as the head of the Democratic ticket.

Those who call her repetitions as 'talking points' are absolutely correct. But talking points only become definitive memories if they are heard multiple times by those hearing them. This fact is confirmed by the study and application of human psychology. And it takes discipline to make repetition effective.

As The Washington Post and several other news outlets have reported, McConnell has repeatedly - and privately - derided Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 assault, denouncing him for his role in fomenting the attack. Yet after the House impeached Trump on a charge of "incitement of insurrection" and a Senate trial in February 2021, McConnell made no effort to rally Republicans to convict Trump and voted to acquit the former president.

At the time McConnell made the comments, Trump and his allies were working to overturn the results of the election, falsely claiming that the election had been fraudulent in key states including Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia. McConnell reportedly said - before the Georgia runoff races - that Trump is "stupid" and "ill-tempered." Trump, he added, "can't even figure out where his own best interests lie."

"For a narcissist like him ... that's been really hard to take," McConnell said. "And so his behavior since the election has been even worse, by far, than it was before, because he has no filter now at all."

According to the book, some of McConnell's staffers barricaded themselves in their office as rioters stormed the building on Jan. 6. After the attack, McConnell sobbed softly as he spoke to his office staff, thanking them for their actions that day.

"You are my family, and I hate the fact that you had to go through this," he told them, Tackett writes.

But I shed no tears for McConnell protecting Trump and leaving this nation where we are today when all he had to do was release his caucus to vote their conscious during Trump's 2nd impeachment trial.

America's morons re elected him AFTER he lied us into a war of aggression.

But John Kerry's stolen valor was simply a bridge too far for America.

They voted for the AWOL Texas National Guard member instead.

Has she released the playlist yet?

Another viewpoint:

Another view from a billionaire:

Mr. Baier's aggressive demeanor was consistent with the kind of tough coverage of Ms. Harris that blankets Fox News's daily programming. Lots of viewers were surely eager to hear how she would respond when confronted head-on.

Frequently, however, Mr. Baier did not give viewers that chance. Instead, looking frustrated, he cut off several of Ms. Harris's answers after a few seconds. His first interruption came within the first half-minute of their exchange.

"May I please finish responding?" Ms. Harris asked at one point. "I'm in the middle of responding to the point you're making, and I'd like to finish."

A veteran interviewer, and the face of Fox News's relatively nonpartisan 6 p.m. newscast, Mr. Baier was eager to shake Ms. Harris off her usual talking points, including playing a Trump campaign ad and asking her to respond.

Still, in his eagerness to prevent a filibuster, Mr. Baier's follow-up questions sometimes resembled rebuttals.

"We feel like we definitely achieved what we set out to achieve, in the sense that she was able to reach an audience that has probably been not exposed to the arguments she's been making on the trail," Brian Fallon, Ms. Harris's campaign communications director, told reporters on Air Force Two. "She also got to show her toughness in standing tall against a hostile interviewer."

Mr. Trump has refused to participate in another debate with Ms. Harris - even on Fox News ... For now, Mr. Baier's grilling on Wednesday evening may have to stand in.

Gotta go......it's now safe for the little trolls to enter and personally attack me.

No reason to attack you. I presented documented evidence of what the 3 Trump donors want from him, but you've offered no such details with Harris' Democratic donors, only claiming by inference that they're not unwanting either.

I never denied that. I have seen where some of her donors want the FTC commissioner gone and I've disagreed based on the little I know now. But one thing I doubt is that all 79 want the exact same things from Harris and most of them will go disappointed. We've seen Trump's transactional nature and it's documented by pardons, communtations, along with specific governmental actions and policies that assist both individuals and their corporations.

I'm not privy to anything similar from Harris or Biden to the degree we saw and are seeing from Trump. If you have the goods, please deliver them, but don't expect me to be critical of things that aren't presented as factual evidence of questionable returns given to major donors because of their large donations.

What others are saying about the Harris - Fox News interview:

Ebs, go ahead and ascribe anything you like to me words because you haven't for a second understood why I mentioned that Harris took over from Biden on the fly and amassed over $1 billion in donations.

The post was in response to Democrats being sorry that Harris has replaced Biden. They haven't been, and the donations were only ONE of the points I made in that regards.

Isn't it possible for a handful of the billionaires contributing heavily to Harris to be giving sums similar to what those 3 are giving to Trump?

I just showed you that it's impossible. $200 small donors alone have given Harris close to $400 million, so even at the max, 79 billionaires contributing the other $600 million breaks down to $7.5 million per, one tenth of what Trump received from just 3 in 3 months.

And with Harris we're talking about donations from the very beginning going back to 2023, not just the last 3 months.

I'm not declaring anyone's money good or bad, I'm simply pointing out what we publicly know about the expectations and goals of Trump's 3 billionaire funders, two who he shares campaign stages with.

How many of Harris' have you seen on stage or expressing what they personally expect from a Harris presidency in the transactional way Trump equates every single thing in his life?

Yeah, yeah, I know. Reuters cannot be trusted.

Reuters can be trusted, but the interview aired at 6pm EDT on Fox News. Most undecideds don't watch Fox News at 6pm EDT in our country with 5 different time zones, each one earlier than EDT.

I have no issue with the snap polling. I have issue that the voters being polled were every actually unbiased undecideds, and what was the methodology used to determine that they were - you know, the underlying metrics that polls have to disclose.

A total of 79 billionaires (or more) are backing Harris.

Wonderful. And if every 3 billionaires on Harris' list contributed the average that Uihlein, Musk and Adelson did in the 3rd quarter ALONE Harris would have $5.793 BILLION in donations from her billionaires. IN ONE QUARTER.

See where one isn't remotely like the other?

you know what's in the hearts and minds of every billionaire.

For those 3 billionaires we do because each one has been public - or the records for the funds they've given reveal - exactly what they expect from their donations. Adelson wants casinos in Texas - for one thing among many, and got the US Embassy in Israel moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. She also received the Presidential Medal of Honor simply for funding Trump to the extent she and her late husband did. There's actual videotape of Trump's remarks when he gave her the award.

Musk tells us on Xitter everyday what he wants and believes, allowing the platform he owns to dispense lies and distortions against Harris with no effective counter fact checking.

And Uihlein not only funds Trump to the extent he does, he is the largest funder of groups dispensing disinformation and malinformation.

Just because you don't know something doesn't mean that others don't have factual information you're unaware of.

Why talk about Harris when the real news is about Trump's 'owners' - three billionaires.

#26

The information is from Open Secrets and only goes thru 9/20. That's what the article lists and that's what I noted.