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[375 Ruger Fan]

An attempt at real journalism. But my reply is, "Yeah, right."

‘No Concern About Flip-Flopping?’ CNN’s Dana Bash Presses Senate Democrat About Harris Pivots on Border, Defund the Police

CNN's Dana Bash noted Harris had drastically shifted her positions on issues from police funding, to border security, to fracking.

www.mediaite.com

 

[Hunt anything]

Is she out campaigning today or is she with the president and his handlers trying to figure out our response to the possible actions against Israel?

 

[Red Leg]

Is she out campaigning today or is she with the president and his handlers trying to figure out our response to the possible actions against Israel?

The latter.

 

[Lone Star Bluegrass]

An attempt at real journalism. But my reply is, "Yeah, right."

‘No Concern About Flip-Flopping?’ CNN’s Dana Bash Presses Senate Democrat About Harris Pivots on Border, Defund the Police

CNN's Dana Bash noted Harris had drastically shifted her positions on issues from police funding, to border security, to fracking.

www.mediaite.com

This will be the greatest switch of the media’s narrative on someone since Comey was fired.

 

[wesheltonj]

First let me say I was wrong about Newsome being the replacement for the past 2 1/2 years, but was right about Biden not being the D nominee.

The race comes down to 4% of voters. Always has up till now. 48/48. Trump will have to try to move that 4% to him. In the end that 4% has seen what a shitty job Biden/Harris has done. However some of that 4 will vote for Harris because (1) she is a women (even though Harris can’t define one) and (2) because she’s a black woman, there is nothing Trump can do to get those votes. They are lost, the question is what percentage of the 4% will that be. Too high and Trump is done.

If the D population gets to a firm 49%, there will never be another R president again, unless the D is a complete F up.

 

[Hunt anything]

First let me say I was wrong about Newsome being the replacement for the past 2 1/2 years, but was right about Biden not being the D nominee.

The race comes down to 4% of voters. Always has up till now. 48/48. Trump will have to try to move that 4% to him. In the end that 4% has seen what a shitty job Biden/Harris has done. However some of that 4 will vote for Harris because (1) she is a women (even though Harris can’t define one) and (2) because she’s a black woman, there is nothing Trump can do to get those votes. They are lost, the question is what percentage of the 4% will that be. Too high and Trump is done.

To your point #2, I saw an on the street interview of a black man and he went down the list of why you shouldn’t vote for Harris and then when asked who he was voting for he said Harris because she was black.

 

[Hunt anything]

The latter.

That is where she should be but isn’t much comfort.

 

[sgt_zim]

To your point #2, I saw an on the street interview of a black man and he went down the list of why you shouldn’t vote for Harris and then when asked who he was voting for he said Harris because she was black.

I've been seeing a lot of YT videos of black people finally having had enough.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating:

If the ratio for black voters falls from say 19:1 to perhaps 3:1 (or even 4:1) and the Latino vote falls from 3:1 to 3:2, the dems are finished, at least in their current iteration.

Nationwide, white voters prefer the GOP at about 5:4, but there is a caveat to that as well.

In 2020 (or perhaps 2022, don't remember off the top of my head now), breakdown by marital status was as follows, expressed as GOP : Dem

married men - 3:2
single men - 5:4
married women - 5:4
single women - 3:7

 

[Hunt anything]

An attempt at real journalism. But my reply is, "Yeah, right."

‘No Concern About Flip-Flopping?’ CNN’s Dana Bash Presses Senate Democrat About Harris Pivots on Border, Defund the Police

CNN's Dana Bash noted Harris had drastically shifted her positions on issues from police funding, to border security, to fracking.

www.mediaite.com

She can flip flop on every major issue that concerns Americans but Vance flipping on his opinion of Trump can’t be tolerated.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

I wish I could convince myself that Trump had the mental maturity to be president. There are jobs where one no longer has the luxury to like or dislike anyone. With respect to the presidency, all that matters is the welfare of the American people and their allies. But Trump is incapable of that sort of behaviour - even common sense.

Now that the race has tightened, Trump has no realistic path to the presidency without Georgia. On the Truth platform and during his rally in Atlanta on Saturday, Trump decided that the best thing he could do to further his candidacy in the state was to attack its highly successful republican governor, Brian Kemp - a governor with a job approval rating of 63 percent! Moreover, Kemp is particularly liked among the educated urban voters that Trump desperately needs to keep from turning to Harris.

But no. Because Kemp would not lie for him or disrupt Georgia's electoral process during the 2020 election, Trump decided it was more important to attack Kemp, and by extension his republican supporters, than to focus on unity of the party against Harris.

Some of his comments included, Kemp is “a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy and he’s a very average governor.” He added that on Kemp’s watch, Georgia has “gone to hell.”

If this sort of idiotic, juvenile, politically self-destructive behaviour continues (assuming it isn't already too late). Trump will have no one to blame for his defeat but himself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/03/donald-trump-brian-kemp-rally-atlanta/

Trump Attacks on Gov. Brian Kemp at ATL Rally Enrage GOP

New reports from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Politico quote many Republicans as being equal parts angry and confused by Trump's attacks on Gov. Kemp.

www.mediaite.com

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/03/trump-brian-kemp-georgia-00172564

So now the choice is Trump or Harris. That's it. As a senator, Harris was the most liberal of all 100. She made a big issue of welcoming illegal immigrants. As California AG she argued to downsize police departments, and not prosecute certain criminals. As VP, she was assigned the task of dealing with the border invasion. She never even went to see what was happening. She has consistently worked against the best interest of the United States citizens. Her record on illegal immigration, firearms ownership, crime and other issues is well documented. You worry if Trump has the "maturity level" to be president? Should Trump stop acting like a petty ass? Sure. Now the American people have to ask themselves if things are more likely to get better under Harris or Trump.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Now the American people have to ask themselves if things are more likely to get better under Harris or Trump.

The American people don't have to ask any particular question, much less what you or I would say they have to ask.

Many voters will start off with thinking that things are okay as is. In spite of the market route taking place the last couple of days, many will think the economy is fine. Many will not care, especially younger voters what is happening in Israel or the Ukraine. Deluded as that may be, that is the reality.

It is up to Trump to communicate that things could be and would be better if he were POTUS. He won in part in 2016 IMO because Hillary was such a lousy candidate and because Trump effectively communicated it was time for someone from the outside to be in office. He earned the votes back then while Hillary failed to.

When he focuses on anything but Harris' past performance and/or her race, attacking those 'enemies' out of some sense of being a victim, continuing to act like an ass, he is failing to communicate with those voters he needs and failing like Hillary did. Trump is the one asking for the job, it is his responsibility to win it.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

I haven't seen the Georgia speech but I can believe Trump said things he shouldn't have.

However I did watch the Black Journalist interview. My take was a lot different than the two of you made it out to be. I thought Trump was holding them responsible for how they treated him and o gave him a win on that whole thing overall.

I do think most reasoning people understand that we the People are being presented with stark differences in Policy. Barring some major surprise at the Democrat Convention, we have a clear choice between a Socialist agenda and continuation of the current policies... And a Conservative agenda bringing this Country back towards the place it was just prior to the pandemic.

All the bickering back and forth about hurt feelings and she might change or he should have not said this or that does not matter. We have a clear choice between two completely different policy directions.

Really well said, Action Bob!

 

[ActionBob]

I've been seeing a lot of YT videos of black people finally having had enough.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating:

If the ratio for black voters falls from say 19:1 to perhaps 3:1 (or even 4:1) and the Latino vote falls from 3:1 to 3:2, the dems are finished, at least in their current iteration.

Nationwide, white voters prefer the GOP at about 5:4, but there is a caveat to that as well.

In 2020 (or perhaps 2022, don't remember off the top of my head now), breakdown by marital status was as follows, expressed as GOP : Dem

married men - 3:2
single men - 5:4
married women - 5:4
single women - 3:7

Well that at least explains why a large portion of those women are single

 

[sgt_zim]

Yeah, I'd guess their hair color is a similar warning to the coloration warnings for monarch butterflies, coral snakes, and poison dart frogs.

 

[sgt_zim]

The American people don't have to ask any particular question, much less what you or I would say they have to ask.

Many voters will start off with thinking that things are okay as is. In spite of the market route taking place the last couple of days, many will think the economy is fine. Many will not care, especially younger voters what is happening in Israel or the Ukraine. Deluded as that may be, that is the reality.

It is up to Trump to communicate that things could be and would be better if he were POTUS. He won in part in 2016 IMO because Hillary was such a lousy candidate and because Trump effectively communicated it was time for someone from the outside to be in office. He earned the votes back then while Hillary failed to.

When he focuses on anything but Harris' past performance and/or her race, attacking those 'enemies' out of some sense of being a victim, continuing to act like an ass, he is failing to communicate with those voters he needs and failing like Hillary did. Trump is the one asking for the job, it is his responsibility to win it.

All the more reason to repeal the 19th and restrict the franchise to property owners and veterans.

A guy can dream, can't he?

 

[Red Leg]

All the more reason to repeal the 19th and restrict the franchise to property owners and veterans.

A guy can dream, can't he?

Robert Heinlein has always been one of my heroes.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

All the more reason to repeal the 19th and restrict the franchise to property owners and veterans.

A guy can dream, can't he?

A bit feudal.....a bit. (must say this in Monty Python old English accent, think Holy Grail).

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

All the more reason to repeal the 19th and restrict the franchise to property owners and veterans.

A guy can dream, can't he?

Restrict the franchise............spoken like Cecil Rhodes!

 

[sgt_zim]

A bit feudal.....a bit. (must say this in Monty Python old English accent, think Holy Grail).

Serfs were barred from owning property. As a matter of western history, common men having the franchise at all is a recent development.

There is no perfect guarantee of ensuring there is never electoral folly, but there's a huge guarantee there will always be a lot of it if many of the voters don't have their finances or blood at risk in making terrible electoral choices.

As to females - only veterans, unless we want to change selective service law.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Sgt Zim
I’m concerned if the left gets control the house, Senate and presidency

They will bring back the days of the 1% paying nearly 100% of what the government takes in taxes.
As many remember
Reagan’s Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 among other things, cut the highest personal income tax rate from 70% to 50% and the lowest from 14% to 11% and decreased the highest capital gains tax rate from 28% to 20%

The left has said they want it back to 80%

I think they want corporate taxes at 50% or higher. And as you alluded to, if they have no stake in the game, they will be all for it.