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She is facing a complete wipe out
@Ramakant-P posted:What do you think? Her campaign already collected $27.5 M
Barack Obama has yet to formally endorse Harris. I think she can win.
Biden's health was a distraction from the lies Trump told during the debate.
Kamala Harris launched her campaign for president on Sunday after Biden stepped aside, and it has reportedly led to the biggest fundraising day for Democrats all year.
Can convicts vote?
Trump's debate lies.
America not ready for a woman yet, and especially a black woman.
@Amral posted:America not ready for a woman yet, and especially a black woman.
President Joe Biden stepped aside and endorsed her, setting up a push that could make her the first Black woman and first Asian American to lead the ticket of a major political party.
@Amral posted:America not ready for a woman yet, and especially a black woman.
Beware the People Who Claim βAmerica Isnβt Ready for a Black Woman Presidentβ
Even as Kamala Harris consolidates the entire Democratic Party behind her campaign, there will be people telling her she canβt win because sheβs a woman of color.
Vice President Kamala Harris stands in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 20, 2024.
(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)The Democratic Party is about to run a Black, South Asian woman against a white supremacist former president. Itβs about to run a person whose parents were immigrants against a xenophobe who supports mass deportations. Itβs about to run a woman who prosecuted sexual predators against a sexual predator who has been judged to be a rapist. And itβs about to run a fierce defender of reproductive rights against a person who proudly claims responsibility for overturning Roe v. Wade.
Add it all up, and what you get is that the Democrats are about to run the walking embodiment of what America is against the avenging specter of what America was.
The contrast between Vice President Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump could not be more clear, and that contrast should benefit Harris in every conceivable way. Harris is a person who wouldnβt be allowed to finish her sentences in Trumpβs America, much less hold political and legal power. The distinction is now between a youthful, vibrant, and tolerant vision of the country, versus an aging, aggrieved, and absolutist version of America.
Democrats should be thrilled with the opportunity to run Donald Trumpβs worst nightmare against Donald Trump. And the base is. ActBlue, the small-dollar donations aggregator, smashed fundraising records on the first day of Harrisβs presidential campaign. Elder party poohbas and young rising Democratic stars all quickly endorsed Harris for president. βWin With Black Women,β a network of Black women grassroots organizers, had a call last night that broke Zoom, and ended up with over 40,000 participants who raised over a million dollars for Harris.
The contrast Harris provides to Trump is her greatest electoral asset, a thing that is energizing the very people Trump would harm the mostβbut we, as a nation, are about to endure weeks and months of people telling us that it is her greatest weakness. The question βIs America ready for a Black, female president?β will be posed again and again by people who will claim that they already know the answer is βno.β Even as Harris consolidates the entire Democratic Party around her and her campaign, there will be people telling her she canβt win because America wonβt elect a woman of color.
And those naysayers will always be given a platform in The New York Times and other media outlets claiming theyβre simply reporting the facts. The Times wonβt cover Harris fairly even for a day, just to see what it would feel like, and theyβve already started down the road of making her seem unelectable because of her race and gender. For the first of what will be many hit pieces over the next few months, they used other Black people to make their point. A tortured Monday headline blared: βSome Black Voters Say They Wonder if a Black Woman Can Win.β
Before I dive into the article, I want you to step back and just marvel at the sheer meaninglessness of that headline. I, for instance, am a Black voter, and I wonder about a great many things. I wonder if aliens exist; I wonder if God is an *******; I wonder how many abortions Donald Trump has paid for. But the Times wouldnβt run a story that stated βSome Black Voters Say They Wonder How Many Active Klu Klux Klan Members Attended the Republican National Conventionββeven though I promise you that more Black voters wonder about that than Harrisβs electability. What the Times is doing here isnβt journalism but confirmation bias: They wanted to run that kind of story and went out and found some people to say what they wanted them to say.
And what those allegedly contemplative Black voters said was an all-too-standard refrain.
βItβs kind of sad, but I donβt think Harris will do well nationwide,β said Kristy Smith, 42, who is from Atlanta and works in sales.
As a Black woman herself, Smith said she thinks Ms. Harris is entering the race with two strikes against her. βAmerica is just not ready for a woman president especially not a Black woman president,β she said.
In fairness to Smith, she is merely repeating what this country has told Black people, and especially Black women, her whole life: America hates you. Every Black or brown person, and every woman, has direct evidence from their lived experience of just how deeply America hates them. Itβs palpable. We see the disdain this country holds for people of color whenever we turn on the news. We feel the antipathy this country holds for women every time we go to work, or read an opinion from the Supreme Court. Harris has been subjected to the worst press coverage of any vice president in my lifetime, and sheβs about to be subjected to the worst coverage of any presidential candidate in American historyβ¦ save perhaps Hillary Clinton, who was the last woman who made it within striking distance of the presidency.
This is part of the very serious work of white male supremacy. Itβs not enough for white men to be in control of all the levers of power; theyβand those who do their biddingβalso have to make everybody else feel like they donβt deserve power and wonβt be able to have any even if they try. The white guys who are determined to keep running this joint need the rest of us to believe that asking for equal opportunity and a fair shake is asking for too much, and that demanding equality now is perpetually too soon. Maybe someday a person like Kamala Harris could be president, but not today, never today; America is just not ready for all that right now.
Trump's 'escalation' of lies torn down by brutal fact-check from ex-Treasury official
This comes after The Times analyzed the reaction of undecided voters to the speech, many of whom found it bizarre and unsettling.
Trump, wrote Rattner, "used the opportunity, as well as his June debate with President Biden, to repeat favorite false claims and exaggerations. That Mr. Trump has a proclivity for saying untrue things is well known. But in his latest campaign for the White House, Iβve been struck by what appears to be an escalation in both the frequency of Mr. Trumpβs lies and the outrageousness of his distortions."
Among the most egregious lies that Rattner highlighted are: Biden only created "bounce-back" jobs from the COVID-19 pandemic (his job creation has consistently exceeded Trump's even excluding COVID-19 recovery); that the cost of food has "doubled or tripled" (it's up 21 percent); that Trump passed the "largest tax cut in history" (Presidents Reagan, Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Obama, and Harding all passed larger ones); that Trump had America on track to be "paying down debt" (he increased the federal deficit); that his tariff plan will not raise prices (it will); that the U.S. has spent $100 million more on Ukraine defense than all of Europe combined (it's the opposite); that Americans are being "squeezed out of the labor force" by immigrants (there's a shortage of American workers); and that crime is going up (it's gone down every year Biden's been in office).
Perhaps one of the silliest claims, Rattner said, is Trump's insistence Biden is "the worst president ... in the history of our country." While this is to some extent a matter of opinion, he noted, "A recent survey of more than 150 current and former members of the presidents and executive politics section of the American Political Science Association put Mr. Trump dead last, behind James Buchanan (tarred with allowing the Civil War to begin) and Andrew Johnson (impeached, like Mr. Trump, and nearly convicted). Mr. Biden was ranked 14th greatest, just above Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan."
All of these falsehoods just scratch the surface. Other fact-checkers have also torn Trump's speech to shreds, among other things for claiming with no evidence that Central American countries are sending insane asylum patients to the U.S., that Biden plans to quadruple the tax rate, and that the 2020 election was rigged.
@Amral posted:America not ready for a woman yet, and especially a black woman.
Well they're sure not ready for another term by a lying, sleaze bag, that's for sure. I hope she gets in by a landslide.
Biden is ready for long term care.
@Ali Khan Azad posted:Biden is ready for long term care.
George Conway has launched a new anti-Trump political action committee, named the Anti-Psychopath PAC, on the final day of the Republican National Convention (RNC). David Shuster breaks it down on Rebel HQ.
HOW CAN A CONVICTED FELON BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY?
@Ali Khan Azad posted:Biden is ready for long term care.
And how about you?
Donald Trump holds an outrageous and deranged rally where he glitches badly, confuses Kamala Harris and Nikki Haley, and struggles to speak.
@Mitwah posted:George Conway has launched a new anti-Trump political action committee, named the Anti-Psychopath PAC, on the final day of the Republican National Convention (RNC). David Shuster breaks it down on Rebel HQ.
HOW CAN A CONVICTED FELON BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY?
I like Conway, he socks it to trump, I saw a bit of the ad and think it packs a punch.
Let's watch trump say he won't run against Kamala, she is no challenge, she could be beaten by anyone and now that Biden is out he will step down. Now imagine the GOP infighting, that party would be in shambles.
I expect her to trounce him in a debate especially if it is run as the last, shut down the mic when the time is met.
Give us your thoughts Rama.
@Mitwah posted:And how about you?
I will not be joining you in the nut house Mitwah anytime soon because I am in the hunt for the Rev.
@Mitwah posted:Barack Obama has yet to formally endorse Harris. I think she can win.
Biden's health was a distraction from the lies Trump told during the debate.
Kamala Harris launched her campaign for president on Sunday after Biden stepped aside, and it has reportedly led to the biggest fundraising day for Democrats all year.
Can convicts vote?
Dec 1, 2023 Β· In the US, almost all people with felony convictions lose their voting rights for a certain period. States set rules about how a felony conviction affects a residentβs ability to vote.
@Amral posted:America not ready for a woman yet, and especially a black woman.
The woman is ready for America. She is a woman of color, not a black woman. Obama endorsed her. Obama is a colored person.
@Ramakant-P posted:What do you think? Her campaign already collected $27.5 M
She collected over $125 million as of yesterday.
Rama can't pee is back
@Ramakant-P posted:
Trump puts Debate on hold as Kamala Harris Surges | Vantage with Palki Sharma
TOP Republicans JUST TURNED on Trump... Then BURIED HIM!
@Amral posted:America not ready for a woman yet, and especially a black woman.
Kamala is not a black woman. Why do you think America is not ready for a woman?
American are prejudice, many of them
@Mitwah posted:Kamala is not a black woman. Why do you think America is not ready for a woman?
She identifies as black n Indianβ¦
manu blacks consider her black..
her dad is black n mom indian
dougla then
Amost all dougla i know ID themselves as black or mixed but never indo
@Lynn posted:She identifies as black n Indianβ¦
manu blacks consider her black..
her dad is black n mom indian
dougla then
Amost all dougla i know ID themselves as black or mixed but never indo
The racist attacks are backfiring on the republicans.
Vance doesn't help much, wart
Watch him get tossed aside by trump as he usually does.