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Clearly, Gabbard had done her homework, and she absolutely dragged Harris for her abysmal record as California attorney general. During her time in office, Harris took draconian stances on issues of criminal justice, enforcing such merciless policies and displaying such ruthless ambition that “Kamala the cop” has become a common criticism of the candidate.
Gabbard attacked Harris for having locked up thousands of people for mere marijuana possession and laughing about it when asked whether she had smoked pot herself.The congresswoman piled onto Harris, adding on a reference to her office’s shameful move to keep people locked up to preserve “cheap labor for the state of California.”
This is all true, and here are the receipts. But Gabbard didn’t stop there.
The Hawaii congresswoman also called out Harris for the fact that while attorney general, she fought to keep people incarcerated despite exonerating evidence and fought to preserve the unfair system of cash bail.
Gregory had an eye-opening experience in Kamala Harris’ office that none of us expected. For his sake, the month could not pass quickly enough.
Yet there is no question that California voters were deceived. Ten years later, the state is looking to roll back Proposition 47. //
Harris’s most consequential act in California leadership was her contribution to passing of Proposition 47 in 2014. The law is widely credited with the social collapse of once lovely cities like San Francisco.
Passed with nearly 60% voter support, the initiative reclassified many felonies as misdemeanors, such as, most notoriously, theft of under $950, including repeat offenses. This shift created the now familiar spectacle of thieves leisurely walking into stores and picking up $949 of merchandise — and then doing it again and again, in the plain view of bored security guards.
Proposition 47 decriminalized drug possession, taking away the instrument that allowed law enforcement to pressure addicts to enter rehabs. //
The measure required resentencing of prisoners previously convicted of felonies if under Prop 47 those felonies were reclassified as misdemeanors. What followed was the early release of many so-called justice-involved individuals.
That trend was picked up in 2016 by Proposition 57 that emptied out California prisons further via early parole. The two propositions created the notorious prison to homelessness pipeline of the former inmates, poorly prepared for challenges of everyday life, pouring into the homeless encampments. //
Although it goes without saying that not all of the unhoused are former inmates, California’s homeless population is growing. As reported in 2023, half of the nation’s homeless now live here.
Welker asked Vance: "How do you respond to that charge that Trump's tariffs would hurt the middle class?"
JD was ready with an answer — and more than eager to respond:
If you sit back a little bit, Kristen, there's this whole thing that Kamala Harris did at the convention where she made a bunch of claims about what would happen, and not enough ... reflection on what already happened, because Donald Trump already was president; he used tariffs to bring manufacturing jobs back to our country and I' think he'll do it again. He did it while keeping prices extremely low.
[I]f you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump's presidency, inflation never really ticked above two percent during his entire administration ... and was about one-have percent, most of the time. So when Kamala Harris says, 'If we do the thing that Trump already did, it's gonna be way worse than it was last time.' I just don't think that makes a lot of sense.
OK, that's a lot of text, but the writers raise an interesting point. If they are correct in how this is done, there's potential here that billions - billions of dollars may have been funneled to Democrat candidates, supporters, and donors. And here's the catch; that 1977 change in the law means it may actually be legal.
GBenton
3 hours ago
We don't know if their scams to fake support for Kamala/Walz will work yet, but I don't think they would need to do this nonsense if she were actually leading or they were confident in her potential to win.
So far, her whole campaign has been fake, defensive, manufactured, and insecure. //
Chuck in TX GBenton
3 hours ago
If they were leading or there was a real chance she'd win, Beyonce would have showed up.
You knew it was likely to be bad when they had to pull a "bait and switch" to keep people in the seats to hear her, saying there was going to be a special guest appearing, with CNN and others suggesting it was Beyoncé. But then the special guest turned out to be Harris herself. What a letdown. But you know that they don't think much of what they have to present when they have to play games and gaslight people like that.
Bottom line? They're lying because they know what they really think/believe would never go over with the American people. //
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“It is an insult to have an entire convention and not have any policy... Instead, all we get is ‘for the people’ and we're supposed to take that on faith. ”
@BUngarSargon reviews Kamala's DNC speech tonight on The Free Press #LIVE.
12:16 AM · Aug 23, 2024 //
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Kamala says that she stood up "for seniors facing elder abuse."
That's ironic!
10:50 PM · Aug 22, 2024
Isn't this the same lady who helped to cover up Joe Biden's cognitive decline, who wasn't straight with the American people about it? //
myop2
a few seconds ago
How dare you talk about elder abuse. You and jb have cut medicare ( after accusing trump and republicans of doing the same thing) and reduced our Medicare advantage plans, causing doctors to refuse to accept these plans. You, Kamala are the worst liar, cheat, and thief, and abuser.
On Thursday night, following an evening that was cringier than a Zoom call with Jeffrey Toobin, Vice President Kamala Harris came on stage and actually spoke to a crowd of people. OK, they were friendly people who would never dream of fact-checking anything she says, no matter how ludicrous.
But former President Donald Trump harbors no such reservations. While Harris was speaking, so was Trump, calling out her claims, point by point, on his Truth Social media platform.
Here are some of the highlights.
The former president asked one great question right away:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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WHERE’S HUNTER?
In this question, I would caution Pres. Trump against asking questions to which you really don't want to know the answer.
This set the tone, with the former president answering the current vice president, not live on video, but via social media posts. The replies came, if you will, fast and furious. //
The upshot? As always: Kamala Harris can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie. That's what it all boils down to. Donald Trump can think on his feet. He can react and answer unscripted questions, and react to unscripted talking points, quickly, smoothly, and accurately. Kamala Harris can do none of those things.
However, for a legacy media that has been overly committed of late to the polishing and reinvention of every aspect of Kamala Harris' history, they continue to steer clear of the paterfamilias. Professor Donald Harris has a long history of scholarship at Stanford University and presently consults on economics. Why has no one asked Harris the daughter about her father and his work? //
Seven years later, one marriage, and being elected vice president hasn't even rendered a statement from him about how proud he is of his very accomplished daughter? It's a bit suspicious, particularly in their drive to paint her as the second coming. //
One fully understands wanting to avoid the media spotlight and to steer clear of the circus of politics. But the fact that Donald Harris is never mentioned and hasn't even made an appearance (even via video) at the DNC is troubling. It's as offensive as that Molech Mobile outside of the DNC. It's as if Kamala Harris wants to abort her own father from her history. Single mothers appear to be the ultimate GOOD with the Democrats. Practically every speaker has led with being the product of a single-mother home. Single motherhood is lauded above traditional marriage, and if there are any couples on the stage, it's couples who wanted abortions or who claim they were barred from IVF. //
But a father who was marginalized from his children's lives due to divorce? YAWN. Not worthy of Democrat's focus, and definitely not something the top Democrat nominee wants as part of her story.
This also gives insight into Harris complicated relationship with Black men, from WiIlie Brown, to Montel Williams, to the thousands she capriciously imprisoned when she was San Francisco's District Attorney and California's Attorney General. An Economist article probably came closest to hitting the nail on the head. Papa Harris is a proud Marxist economist and his philosophy is a window into Kamala's own socialist leanings. Donald Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders would be sympatico on most everything, including being property owners while the rest of the world has to give their fair share. //
Mr Harris, for his part, retired from academia in 1998 to focus on policy work, including advising the Jamaican government. For all his earlier radicalism, he has recommended fiscal discipline and crime reduction, as well as export-led growth and industrial strategy. In the end, however, perhaps his greatest economic legacy will be his daughter. //
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Kamala is Obama. Educated, but not intelligent. Vapid, spoiled, narcissistic and all around void of the ability to lead. Both are are followers.
The editors of the Free Press write in a new editorial:
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-long-harris-avoid-press
Her speeches have been heavy on the rhetoric and light on the substance. Most notable of all is that she has yet to give either a press conference or an interview—not even for a hagiographic profile in Time magazine.
What is Kamala Harris afraid of? //
The reasons for Harris’s evasion of the press are her own, but we think she has two chief motivations. First, she understands that without having to answer tough questions, she never has to worry about straying from her message. The second is that Harris doesn’t want to answer direct questions about her record—and her plans for the future—because both are lacking.
Both of those are true, there can be little doubt of that. But there's another reason, and it's one that, even more than the others, should remove Kamala Harris from any serious consideration for any elected office: She's incompetent. //
The Harris/Walz campaign has not posted one policy position on its campaign website. Kamala Harris has made one speech outlining an economic policy that could have been lifted from the pages of "Das Kapital." And if Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the legacy media have their way, that's how it will stay. Kamala Harris is poorly informed, arrogant, and not very bright - and the legacy media are running cover.
According to the Media Research Center, the media is skewing favorable coverage to Harris by a huge amount. This isn't necessarily a new thing. The corporate media sector has always slanted so far to the left that it's fallen over. However, the lengths they're going to do it is pretty incredible:
Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative). //
As always, our calculation of spin omits so-called “horse race” assessments (see methodology statement below), but a separate count shows those statements have also favored Harris by a whopping margin (94% positive, vs. just 43% positive for Trump). At the same time, the network coverage has virtually eliminated any discussion of the strident left-wing positions Harris took as Senator or during her 2020 presidential campaign. And while Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance and his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, have received nearly equal amounts of airtime, the networks have celebrated Walz (62% positive press) and punished Vance (92% negative). //
To give you an idea of how in the pocket they are for Harris, the fact that she hasn't even talked to them has only received 57 seconds of air time over the past four weeks.
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Since http://KamalaHarris.com still has no policies posted on it, the Trump campaign has created http://Kamala2024Policies.com to lay out her platform for voters.
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Trump campaign trolls Harris, releases policy website for her after weeks of silence https://trib.al/MeSjFWz
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"Kamala Harris has yet to tell voters what her policies are, so we thought we’d help them out. Kamala Harris wants to open the borders, raise taxes, and free criminals," a Trump campaign national press secretary told Fox News Digital about the website.
The site, kamala2024policies.com, launched Wednesday morning on the third day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and takes viewers to a website declaring, "Kamala Harris' dangerous policies are nothing to laugh about."
"The gap that I see in all these speeches -- as good as they were -- [Kamala Harris] is in the White House right now. Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years, and for all of the talk about division and the problems in the country, and people are hurting, Democrats have mostly controlled this country.
Trump had it for four, the Obama's and Biden had it for the rest of the time, and somehow, it’s still all Trump’s fault, and somehow, she hasn’t been at the center of it. To me, that is the glaring hole in this campaign that hasn’t yet been solved at the convention. How do you explain all of the problems that will be solved by the person who is currently in there for the last three and a half years, and who is supposed to be already working on solving it?"
"Friendly" is an understatement. From Walz' teaching days in Nebraska until now, the Minnesota governor has all the leanings of a Manchurian Candidate. In this 2016 interview with Agri-Pulse, Walz calmly admits that he traveled to China over 30 times. Listen to how he speaks about America forging a non-adversarial relationship with the People's Republic. This interview was given while he was a sitting member of Congress and part of the House Agriculture Committee. //
Walz first traveled to China on a year-long teaching fellowship in 1989, months after the Chinese Communist Party slaughtered thousands of pro-democracy activists and student protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Despite the country's turmoil, Walz—a 25-year-old National Guardsman at the time—wrote in a letter to one of his former college professors that he was "being treated like a king" in China.
In China, Walz said he received a salary that was double the pay of Chinese teachers, was given a decorated apartment with a color TV, and had the only air-conditioned residence on campus. He said he was also thrown parties on his birthday and Christmas. //
This makes Walz' Stolen Valor even worse. Walz was literally being paid by a foreign country while supposedly serving and being paid by the United States military. This is highly questionable, and if he failed to be debriefed, could portend something even worse.
Walz' choice of the date of his marriage to his wife Gwen is also cringe-inducing.
Walz and his wife Gwen held their wedding on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—with Gwen Walz saying her husband "wanted to have a date he'll always remember." The Walzes spent their honeymoon in China. They also founded a travel company, Educational Travel Adventures Inc., which specialized in trips to China. //
Now, a former student who says he joined Walz on a 1995 trip to China is speaking to Alpha News about the experience. That student, Shad, asked that we not use his last name.
For several weeks, Walz and his group of students explored China together in the summer of 1995, Shad said. They saw Tiananmen Square, walked along the Great Wall of China, and traversed the country. However, the former student says he was struck by Walz’s adoration for China and its communist ideology.
The 2024 Democratic Party platform has been released, and it's basically what you'd expect. Marked by a laundry list of far-left priorities, it mentions Donald Trump over one hundred times.
As RedState reported, it's also full of misleading nonsense, such as claiming that Democrats are "rebuilding" America's broadband network despite their $42 billion allocation not producing anything thus far. Naturally, the "very fine people" hoax got a mention too.
In their haste to proclaim how bad the orange man is, though, the writers of the document missed something. Guess who is mentioned as the nominee multiple times? //
you'd think someone could have read over the Democratic Party's own platform before pushing it out with Biden still in the lead position. Well, you'd think that until you remember these are the same people who have run the federal government into the ground. Competency isn't exactly their strong suit.
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White House Comms Director Ben LaBolt: "Vice President Harris has been the governing partner for every key decision that the president has made in his term in office."
In case you were still wondering if Kamala owns the broken economy, broken border, and broken world.
9:24 AM · Aug 19, 2024
Not to mention the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal debacle. Remember, she was allegedly the "last person in the room" on the withdrawal discussions though one senior military official suggested, "She never gave a sense for where she was on it."
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WATCH: Joe Rogan Plays Shocking Old Footage of Donald Trump on The View
You won't believe how well they treated him.
JOE ROGAN: “Watch this...This is literally bonkers.”
BARBARA WALTERS: “Please welcome my friend, Donald Trump.”
ADAM RAY: “My friend?”
JOE ROGAN: “Watch this.… Show more
3:47 PM · Aug 14, 2024
Joe Rogan playing a flashback to Trump's appearance on "The View" when he was considering running for president back in 2011. //
Rogan talks about the "180" this was from "the machine's" effort to go after him now. They loved him until he got in the way of their power and control.
It's an astonishing change and, quite frankly, frightening evidence of the power of the machine and how it can flip the thoughts of people who fall for the propaganda. Just as they turned Trump into Hitler for people who never thought that before, they are now trying to turn Kamala Harris, who is part of a failed administration with no achievements, into some kind of inspirational candidate and ignore all the negatives. //
Atticus62
7 hours ago
Twenty years ago, Donald Trump ran through New Your City with the Olympic Torch and was praised by all. In 1986 Donald Trump, along with Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali was given the "Ellis Island Award" in NYC for patriotism, tolerance and brotherhood. The leftist elite and legacy media all turned on Donald Trump when he came out as a Conservative and ran for President of the United States.
anon-vujo
7 hours ago
He was beloved by many people. Rappers would name-drop him in songs, politicians on both sides lined up to beg him for money. Then he decides to run for president as a Republican and they all turned him into Hitler overnight. He didn’t change, they all did.
anon-cdoc
6 hours ago
I am well old enough to remember Donald Trump saying this same stuff back in the early 80's. He warned the government! He's never changed. The democrat party changed - they're no longer the party of my mother or even of my youth.
The Harris-Walz campaign team likes to term JD Vance "weird." But that says everything about how out of touch they are with the American people.
Vance was born into meager circumstances with a mother who was an addict, and he was raised by his grandmother. He worked his way up from that to join the Marines, finish college in two years, go to Yale Law School, become an editor of the Yale Law Journal, write a famous book Hillbilly Elegy, clerk for a federal judge, get into the tech industry and investing, then become a senator. He is walking, talking evidence of the American Dream. I want someone who understands how to get to the American Dream, not someone who has been fighting to drive the country to the far left and would destroy that dream.
On Friday in North Carolina, what Harris was proposing was $1.7 trillion in giveaways/spending which would cause more inflation, as well as price controls which would further destroy the economy. She doesn't understand (or care) what she did wrong the first time and she's promising to do it again (make it even worse). Are we supposed to believe that corporations suddenly decided to be more greedy under her and Biden more than Trump? //
All Harris cares about is making promises to get elected, damn the consequences of those promises.
A 2019 video of a Kamala Harris campaign event made the rounds on the internet Friday night after the Democrat presidential hopeful unveiled some of her economic proposals, including her apparent desire for Soviet-style price controls on groceries.
During her ill-fated run for president, the now vice president said she could lower prices on drugs simply by having the government seize patents from pharmaceutical companies and “take over.” That’s not how a free-market economy is supposed to work, but the giddy Harris didn’t care: