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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #465 - Aug 4^th, 2024 at 7:59pm

SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 7:23pm:

It would be the ultimate accountability for the man who has always been able to dodge it.

you really think Trump is not scrutinised sufficiently??? Grin

Kamala Bravely Fields Hard-Hitting Questions From Reporters About Where She Got That Adorable Blouse

WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Kamala Harris stood strong under extraordinary pressure from the mainstream media in a recent press conference where she was peppered with hard-hitting questions such as "Ms. Harris, where did you get that adorable blouse?"

Sources say that Harris displayed incredible resilience in the face of overwhelmingly hostile questioning from press members who grilled her on where she had possibly managed to find that fabulous pantsuit.

"Ms. Harris," one reporter growled, an interrogatory gleam in his eyes. "The fact is, you have not yet been forthcoming on a few key issues. The American people deserve to know…how do you keep your skin looking so incredibly smooth? And where on earth did you get that GORGEOUS blouse?"

Harris blushed coyly, took a deep breath, and summoned her courage. "Well, blouses are like dress shirts for women," Harris answered demurely. "This is my blouse, because I'm wearing it. Blouse begins with B. B is the second letter of the alphabet. HAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Harris continued to hold up admirably under intense scrutiny throughout the rest of the half-hour conference as reporters asked her mean-spirited questions like "What is your hair care regimen?"

At publishing time, Kamala Harris had been spotted drowning a a bunch of puppies, forcing the press to ask, "Why is Trump so racist and evil?"

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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #466 - Aug 4^th, 2024 at 8:39pm

Frank wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 7:59pm:

SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 7:23pm:

It would be the ultimate accountability for the man who has always been able to dodge it.

you really think Trump is not scrutinised sufficiently??? Grin

Sure, but even when he's found guilty, he escapes accountability for his actions.

He is the most unworthy of that practice because it only encourages him to go a step further.

I wouldn't be surprised if he has his supporters scaring off voters who look like they'd vote for Harris at the polling locations.

He didn't face any punishment for getting them to storm the capitol...

It's the next logical step.

Edit: I hope it's just bluster because that's an extreme attack on democracy, even for Trump.

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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #467 - Aug 4^th, 2024 at 9:59pm

Laughable that debate on US politics in a politics forum focusses on US polling and the candidates.

Three major themes determine how Americans will vote in any given election:

1 The perceived unity, strength and integrity of the incumbent party,
2. The perceived strength of the US economy attributable to the incumbent party, and
3. The perceived strength and success of the US military and fotrign policy attributable to the incumbent party.

A minor theme is the tendency to grant two terms to any party in power.

The jousting between candidates, and media scuttlebutt is all just theatrics for public entertainment.

This has been proved in every election since 1860.

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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #468 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 2:16am

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 9:59pm:

Laughable that debate on US politics in a politics forum focusses on US polling and the candidates.

Three major themes determine how Americans will vote in any given election:

1 The perceived unity, strength and integrity of the incumbent party,
2. The perceived strength of the US economy attributable to the incumbent party, and
3. The perceived strength and success of the US military and foreign policy attributable to the incumbent party.

A minor theme is the tendency to grant two terms to any party in power.

The jousting between candidates, and media scuttlebutt is all just theatrics for public entertainment.

This has been proved in every election since 1860.

That sounds reasonable to me.
There is no weight given to future direction, which suits americans extrinsic nature

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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #469 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 7:56am

Something that most people don't seem to get...

Every democratic leader, and even most autocrats and dictators, is not the sole power source in any regime.

Famously, in US politics, the likes of Eisenhower, JFK and even Obama raged against political and bureaucratic forces that cumulatively had as much power as the president; Eisenhower defined this as the 'industrial-military complex' and would have said the 'industrial-military-congressional complex', but was warned-off the latter as a step too far. With JFK it was the CIA; Obama went further than Eisenhower's theme - the 'industrial-military-congressional-bureaucratic complex'.

Now it's called the 'deep state' as if it's a new concept. It's not only not new, it's a feature of every governance system in human history, without which the system itself could not exist.

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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #470 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 8:00am

SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 8:39pm:

Frank wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 7:59pm:

SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 7:23pm:

It would be the ultimate accountability for the man who has always been able to dodge it.

you really think Trump is not scrutinised sufficiently??? Grin

Sure, but even when he's found guilty, he escapes accountability for his actions.

How does he do that, 'escape'???

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Reply #471 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 8:07am

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 9:59pm:

Laughable that debate on US politics in a politics forum focusses on US polling and the candidates.

Three major themes determine how Americans will vote in any given election:

1 The perceived unity, strength and integrity of the incumbent party,
2. The perceived strength of the US economy attributable to the incumbent party, and
3. The perceived strength and success of the US military and fotrign policy attributable to the incumbent party.

A minor theme is the tendency to grant two terms to any party in power.

The jousting between candidates, and media scuttlebutt is all just theatrics for public entertainment.

This has been proved in every election since 1860.

And illegal immigration/invasion. (This is also a huge issue in Britain and Western Europe)
And progressive madness around race and gender and woke policies in general - see Kackela, more Bernie than Bernie plus her faux minority posturing.

These are new bifurcations that were not present to the current extent in previous times when there was no difference between the main parties on these points. Now there is and they impact lives daily.

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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #472 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 8:21am

Every election, Allan Lichtman is bombarded with warnings by no-nothing bedwetters that he must change his keys.

"We've never had an old guy before (Reagan!)', 'We've never had a woman run before', 'We've never had a black guy before... so...'

He's never changed his keys and he's never been wrong.

The issue of illegal immigration has been a feature of society since the creation of the nation-state, as has seismic social change, such as slavery, the abolition of slavery, the draft, and giving women the vote.

Lichtman's keys have held up through all of it.

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Reply #473 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 8:30am

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 5^th, 2024 at 8:21am:

Every election, Allan Lichtman is bombarded with warnings by no-nothing bedwetters that he must change his keys.

"We've never had an old guy before (Reagan!)', 'We've never had a woman run before', 'We've never had a black guy before... so...'

He's never changed his keys and he's never been wrong.

The issue of illegal immigration has been a feature of society since the creation of the nation-state, as has seismic social change, such as slavery, the abolition of slavery, the draft, and giving women the vote.

Lichtman's keys have held up through all of it.

These are inconsequential next to an illegal immigrant invasion and race and gender wokeness where "woman" is an undefinable word.

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Reply #474 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 9:01am

The know-nothing commentary on illegal immigration will continue until the Democrat's currently-predicted win.

Lichtnan's assessment of illegal immigration as being a social unrest key-turner is that it is not the issue that the Trump campaign is making of it. It is, however, all that Trump has left.

Lichtman's keys are retroactively predictive even when considering slavery, its abolition, Jim Crow, universal suffrage, world wars, the Cold War, Vietnam...

The Republican party is bracing for a rout that will collapse the party, post-election, in its current form. The last time this occurred was after the FDR/Truman record 5 consecutive Democratic administrations.

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Reply #475 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 9:13am

Lichyman tells the story of his being consulted by Reagan's brilliant dirty-tricks campaign adviser, Lee Atwater

In 1982, Atwater was rattled by polls indicating that Reagan was too old to be electable and was considering recommending that Reagan not contest the 1984 election in favour of George H W Bush.

Lichtman convinced Atwater that, according to his keys, Reagan was almost certain to win and Bush would be almost certain to lose.

Atwater took Lichtman's advice and Reagan won in a landslide.

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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #476 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 10:50am

Frank wrote on Aug 5^th, 2024 at 8:00am:

SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 8:39pm:

Frank wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 7:59pm:

SadKangaroo wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 7:23pm:

It would be the ultimate accountability for the man who has always been able to dodge it.

you really think Trump is not scrutinised sufficiently??? Grin

Sure, but even when he's found guilty, he escapes accountability for his actions.

How does he do that, 'escape'???

It's the reason why he's running, Presidential Immunity.

And his faithful think he's running to help them or the country.

Fu

cking

lol...

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Re: Kamala Harris
Reply #477 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 10:52am

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 5^th, 2024 at 8:21am:

Every election, Allan Lichtman is bombarded with warnings by no-nothing bedwetters that he must change his keys.

"We've never had an old guy before (Reagan!)', 'We've never had a woman run before', 'We've never had a black guy before... so...'

He's never changed his keys and he's never been wrong.

The issue of illegal immigration has been a feature of society since the creation of the nation-state, as has seismic social change, such as slavery, the abolition of slavery, the draft, and giving women the vote.

Lichtman's keys have held up through all of it.

Yep.

Some people just don't get it.

"But what about ..." Roll Eyes

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Reply #478 - Aug 5^th, 2024 at 11:31am

aquascoot wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 1:33pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 1:16pm:

aquascoot wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 1:03pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 4^th, 2024 at 10:28am:

The question is not - will Harris win, but will Harris win in every state?

The Republicans are all set to suffer a rout.

i backed her at $12
i backed her at $4.75

but you are now declaring her odds on.
i think thats wrong
i think its going to be very close
and with so many illegals having entered the country and being signed up, i think if trump loses there will be violence
i also think there will be another attempt on his life

all in all, america has descended into a lot of low vibration energy

morons like marla say they will be celebrating if he is killed
this is not condusive to a cohesive society.

as a people the americans arent going to get the leader they want they are going to manifest a person with their characteristics

in trumps case, an enormous tantrum

but we only have to look to the left in 2016 to see that they are also child like and want to throw the toys out of their cot.

add to this the fact that many lefties actively hate their own country and you could manifest social breakdown

karmala harris bringing in the army to squash the insurgency

it is possible and the result of people (mainly the left) losing sight of the constitution.

I explained it all to you: mainstream 'scarcity' economics, in a world of plenty.

Trump today is talking about the likely coming recession - or depression (exaggerating as usual) - why is the US teetering on the edge of a recession?

Trump's solution: lower taxes on the wealthy, and a trade war.

Won't end well.

you are wrong to think trump or harris can fix that.

That's true: in 1944 Keynes knew - post war - all nations and people will sink or swim together, and presented his ICU and Bankor concepts at the Bretton Woods Conference. (google).

But Keynes' policies to end trade wars (and hot wars) were rejected by the victorious US.

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we now have a world where "insider knowledge" is king

Actually private money lenders protected under the auspices of the IMF and World Bank - both US stooges.

Why are immigrants flooding to the First World?

Keynes knew why.

Starmer is blaming 'far right thugs' for the current anti-immigration riots in the UK, but as you said, neither Trump nor Harris - or Starmer - can fix it.

Even though Keynes showed how to fix it (through effective international institutions overseeing economic co-operation between nations).

Chaos in the US if Trump doesn't win?

The CCP will be pleased, at least.....

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