This is the most pathetic joke of an article I’ve ever read. Everything you just blabbed is why this country is in such peril and being destroyed right in front of our very eyes! A country with open borders is not a country and our federal government took an oath to office to protect our borders and citizens as that alone is the number 1 role of government to protect its citizens! Democrats have proven over and over again that they care more for criminals and illegals & funding overseas wars & protecting other countries borders is their priority! You’d have to be absolutely brainless & hate this country to vote for more of the same! What has Harris done since VP except break the tie breaking votes on policies crippling the middle class! You should be ashamed as you are clearly anti American & anti freedom!
Either you didn't read the article or you made a false assumption because I'm clearly not a democrat, I make that very clear... I'm also very critical of Harris, that's sort of the whole point. Believe it or not, politics are bigger than red vs blue, the establishment wants you to think it isn't so you don't realize your class interests.
I don't even know how to engage with this comment like everything you're saying here is a lie or a Fox-News-ism. This reads like a very angry comment, like it is possible to discuss things reasonably.
You have zero credible evidence to support that Harris is "intellectually challenged" or "got where she is by spreading her legs" which is probably the worst internalized misogyny I've ever heard. Gross men have been saying that to successful women for decades, it's really sad you would perpetuate that.
So then you refer to the false 'gang member' story... the true story was that a greedy apartment owner didn't want to make improvements to benefit his residents so he paid a firm to run a publicity that his tenants were part of a gang. They weren't.
That was a demonstrably untrue story that uninformed people believed because it exploited people's fear response. Again, this bs where other countries are 'dumping people' into our country (people who you call sub-human, totally not racist) which you can't provide evidence for. I have to say though, this 'Chinese militant' is a conspiracy I haven't heard yet so I guess your gish gallop worked. I haven't heard this nuclear base thing either but that one on its face makes no sense- you're telling me the military that gets trillions of dollars a year would somehow lose access to their nuclear bases? And how is that not a bigger story? Let me guess because the media covered it up... lol. Not to assume but you probably get your news from Fox or Libs of Tiktok and that just isn't healthy.
Happy to engage with an actual argument though, you're kind of just making wild claims that have nothing to do with me or the article.
Harris is a jezebel, morally & politically. She is an intellectually bland, morally corrupt, personally mean, PUPPET of an un-Godly group of behind-the-curtain unAmerican evil-doers.
You are, a democrat, it comes screaming out of your writing! At best you suffer from TDS and gorge on misinformation spread by legacy media, propagated by manipulated clips and false claims. You have no credibility, sir.
On January 20 one of three people will be president. If you think it doesn't matter - not just to you but to millions who are less privileged than you - the don't vote. But if you are clever enough to discern a difference, if one or the other might shift the prior associated with things you care about, then maybe try to get that one elected. Save the breathless sketches of how much reality departs from your utopia for the sophomore seminar.
YES!!!! This is basically how I've felt about Kamala. As I saw someone say (smartly) on Twitter, the presidential election is basically the IRL version of "choosing your fighter" in a video game. We aren't at a place where we can escape the game quite yet, unfortunately, so for now it'd be wise to choose the opponent we have a better chance of pushing against. And, since I and my friends (we are college aged) are focusing on Gaza this election, I think her policies are gonna be VERY different than Biden's. I feel hopeful for the first time in a very long time!!!!
Yes definitely, it's worth spending your time organizing to push back on the status quo- whether that be Harris or Trump, electoral politics will ultimately not save us. We can be honest about the small gains Harris will give us- ie taking the climate crisis seriously, but we have to also be honest that Harris wont move on the Gaza issue unless we protest.
The fear mongering about a Trump presidency is irrational in my opinion. Have you been watching what is happening in Britain? Radical left policies are leading America into the same situation. Douglas Murray, Peter Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and many others have been warning for years where things were headed in Europe. People didn't want to believe it, but here it is, playing out in real time. History has taught us enough to know better. And the far left has the same tendency as the far right to dissolve into Tyranny. Surveillance, the loss of free speech, arrests and jail for opinions, Orwellian methods of control playing out RIGHT NOW in Britain and carried out by the Left. This will turn on everybody in the end. Leftist are not safer. You will lose your freedom too. Radical liberal policies are dangerous and need to be halted. I am not a Republican, I don't adhere to a party. I like common sense.
It was the right-wing who started the war on terror and the centrist liberals who continued it under Obama. The answer is not- give into reactionary rhetoric. The 'immigration crisis' you are referring to is utterly fabricated based on the same reactionary politics which kept Bush in power despite spending trillions on a war which devastated East Asia and killed/injured how many American soldiers. Harris is a liberal, not a leftist. Big difference.
Just like the Black LIVES MATTER movement was FABRICATED and only intended to cause further divide between our country. Right?? Lol!! Harris is a liberal, not a leftist??? Omg wake the F up!! Harris is a great ACTRESS who is PLAYING A ROLE STRAIGHT FROM THE SCRIPT SHE WAS HANDED to trap us all and finalize what the deep state has been planning on and working towards for the last 65 years now!! They destroyed our beautiful country, broke our spirits, and are getting ready to dump our dead rotting flesh into any place they can so they can enforce their population control and leave only themselves alive so they can have it all without our dirty red blooded hearts polluting the devils playground.
So all of those times when police murdered innocent people was fabricated? Statistics that clearly show that people of color are traffic stopped more often than white people, are killed by cops at higher rates than white people, are convicted more often for the same crime and are given longer sentances for the same crime are all fabricated? Weird. Who needs to wake up?
Do you hear yourself when you're foaming at the mouth incoherently rambling about the deep state? Our country was never beautiful in the first place, maybe now its easier to realize how ugly it is and that's why you need a scapegoat aka immigrants.
The immigration crisis is utterly FABRICATED? So letting in MORE convicted criminals, murderers/rapists/gang members, than the ENTIRE POPULATION of both Wyoming or Vermont isn't a crisis? 🙄 Not to mention the amount on the terrorist watch list, the numbers revealed today were staggering! They ALSO proved that once AGAIN, Trump was right!
There is no excuse, let alone case, for Kamala. FIRST you tell us your version of proper jobs for govt. and limit of GDP govt. allowed to take for those job.
Until then, you are just another grabby totalitarian who hates any curbs on his power.
Here is why electoral college sucks: links Mr.Beat’s (lol) video
Then proceeds to bash somebody for “not making an arguments”
Since when have arguments devolved into linking some random guys YouTube video - especially an openly partisan one like Mr. Beat
The electoral college is awesome - it’s stops our massive and fast country to have its elections decided by a handful of cities.
To consider it as “the rule of the minority” is just silly. The popular vote has only lost 5 times in the history of our country.
Should the senate cease to exist? Is it fair to California they have as many seats as Rhode Island? No - their obviously is a balance which is why we have the house of reps PLUS the senate in congress
This is a great allegory for the electoral college.
Linking a video to someone who can explain nuance that I don't have the patience to type out? And Mr. Beat is an educational channel he's about as non-partisan as it gets.
So your points are the same tired ones that are already addressed in the video- thats why I linked it
It's not "just a handful of cities" that is where the majority of the country's population is- if you think a person in the city is inherently deserves less of a vote because of their physical location, you are simply wrong. There is no backward mental gymnastics you can do to justify that a person in Wyoming should have 3 times the voting power as a person in California.
The fact that a minority candidate can win in the first place is a gaping flaw in the electoral college, let alone the fact the election comes down to 5 swing states every year.
I don't have an ultimate solution to the Senate problem but- it clearly needs major reform, not only is it grossly inefficient because of the filibuster but it is again, by definition- minority rule. States with less people get the same representation as those with multitudes more. The constitution starts with "we the people" not "we the land".
The popular vote is not the best system- ranked choice is better but is still not perfect. European parliamentary systems are also better, but nowhere near perfect.
Our system is notoriously undemocratic and has some massive flaws in every branch. Mostly thanks to corporate power that help keeps it in place. The less the government can do to make itself democratic, the less it can take power from corporations and give it back to the people.
Thank you for reading and engaging respectfully :)
You want to be rid of the Electoral College, without making a case.
Mr. Beat is wrong. We always had majority rule. But with minority rights. Electoral College is one of the bulwarks protecting the minority. So is Senate, which is next on the block. The protection of states appointing senators is already lost!
In fact, the only case AGAINST bulwarks is more direct passion, even faster!
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I put government in context -- identify the jobs and cost of that limited service.
I then offered to discuss first principles. You declined, rudely.
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You need not prove anything. But to be credible you must have substantive reasons to remove constraints which protect us from metastasis of government.
Give it a rest Vinnie and re-read the The Constitution. Until then, your blathering is just… dumb. Undo the Electoral College??? Open Borders??? 🤣 You’re a European Liberal. 🤢 P.U.
Eloquently laid out everything I’ve been thinking and feeling. It’s frustrates me how many people pretend dem and con are equally horrible. And pretend we haven’t shifted the democrats left at all or that it’s impossible to do, just in the last 15 years we’ve successfully shifted narratives and discourse. if you look at the state level a lot of more progressive policies have and continue coming to fruition. Plus you are right, it’s definitely favorable to try and bargain/push legislation with a liberal who can actually articulate our points, rather than a conservative or far right administration. I see a lot of leftists try and negate this and clearly fall into accelerationism and it’s alittle bewildering.
At the time of writing this, I was suggesting that Harris "could" change from the status quo but we will never be able to know until she's in office. I just think she will be similar to Obama on foreign conflicts. Dick Cheney is only supporting her because he doesn't like Trump since he literally called for Liz to be tried for treason after she spoke out against Jan 6th. I think it's pretty clear now that she will continue NATO, she will continue the war in Ukraine, she will continue the genocide in Gaza but *may* start to oppose Netanyahu. I guess we'll never know until it happens, thanks for reading!
The guy who signed ndaa for indefinite detention for Anerican citizens ?
The guy who knocked the richest nation per capital into stone ages & turned into breeding ground for ISIS...
No thx...
I'll stick with the guy who gave us 0 new conflicts & defeated isis in short order...
I'll stick with the guy who believes in securing border...
I'll stick with the guy not infringing on my 2A....
I'll stick with the guy who gave us a choice over the party who gave us draconian mandates...
Ironic how all the my body my choice ppl all fell in line when they were forced to injecti experimental jabs into their body or lose their livelihoods & social lives...
Trump was literally pro-vaccine until 2021 when Biden was in office when he flipped on the issue so your comment is entirely incoherent. I never approved of Obama's foreign policy I suggested that Harris' would look similar. Please carefully read before commenting next time :)
I know critical thinking is difficult for anti-vaxers.
Who said Trump was an anti vaxxer? He's not but the difference is that he would never have pushed the mandates or the disgusting rhetoric that Biden did.
He has avoided coming out as explicitly anti-vax but it'd be ridiculous to think he isn't courting the anti-vax bloc especially as he recruited RFK Jr. and promoted the ivermectin as a treatment myth. You were never mandated to get the vaccine by the government so you are completely off base on that. Companies were however allowed to enforce periodic testing for unvaccinated employees which is NOT the same thing as a vaccine mandate. Since when are conservatives the ones who want the big government to come intervene with business activity?
When Trump was office in 2020 he touted the vaccine as the solution to the pandemic, and he's right to say that. It wasn't until he wanted to prematurely reopen the country in late 2020 which led to public spats with Fauci over that where he began opposing vaccination, he then used it to attack Biden in 2021.
So basically what you're saying is that Harris really IS blatantly lying, by pretending that she's abandoned the FAR LEFT policies that she espoused as a candidate in 2020? Those policies literally made her become the very FIRST candidate to drop out of the primary, without receiving a SINGLE vote! It's logical to conclude then that the very policies that were so unpopular they appealed to virtually NOBODY, are now the ones that would make her a shoe in in 2028? What kind of logic are you using, that's right FAR Leftist logic! 🙄
I'm saying that Harris could run on her progressive platform like in 2020. Since writing this article it's pretty clear she has moved to run as a centrist candidate like Biden. In no way is she secretly going to be a progressive when in office thats fairytale thinking. Her policies were no "far-left" I don't think you even know that means. She was on the left-ish side of the 2020 primary but was by no means the most left candidate.
But be serious bro.... Bernie Sanders was literally on the verge of winning the 2020 primary what are you talking about the left policies were unpopular. Left policies are overwhelmingly popular everywhere else in the world that isn't poisoned by capital interest.
What kind of logic are you using? Fox news said it and now it's a fact?
"It's logical to conclude then that the very policies that were so unpopular" What like single payer? So we don't have to spend billions more per year in medical costs when compared with every other developed nation? Like free college? So that more people can contribute to society and have better jobs without crippling debt? Like a federal jobs guarantee? So no one has to be without work and right-wingers can stop bitching about people on welfare? Be real man.
Hilarious, "Be real" you say? Again the REALITY of the situation is that the result of Americans seeing her true self, the FAR LEFT policies that she openly supported in the 2020 primary, netted her exactly ZERO votes as she was the very first of a large group of candidates to drop out! You think that "Free college" is a popular policy? Maybe you don't understand the incredibly simple fact that NOTHING is actually free and the taxpayers weren't even happy with the loans forgiven during the Biden/Harris Administration. Let's be clear I'm NOT a Republican but Harris is an absolute moron, and incredibly unpopular according to just about everybody she interacted with during the last 4 years which makes one thing very clear. If she "wins" she will be another Democrat PUPPET, guaranteed another 4 years of the same Administration during Obamas and Biden's terms and that would be utterly destructive. The ones controlling her would be the same warmongers that have pushed Russia closer to WW3 than at ANY other point in history and "that's not hyperbole" as Joe would say- only when Biden says that it's guaranteed to be followed by a whopper of a lie, check out the Doomsday Clock and you'll see the horrific truth that nobody's talked about!
Pushing back on the status quo, the young schooler so beautifully laid out. Then continued on, while having what I can only describe as young adult vapor lock of all higher brain functions. As I read the Salad before me. The dressing tasted somewhat familiar, then it hit me, they are stupid enough to understand her gibberish. Is that a strength or a growing pain?
How can you vote for a candidate that bypassed the primary election? That is a threat to democracy. Democrats should be angry a better candidate did not get to run. Harris is a mess and the American Democrats did not choose her.
I explain in the article that around 80% of registered democrats including every democrat member of congress who endorsed her wanted Harris after Biden dropped out. She was obviously the candidate that the party wanted.
I'm voting third party so this doesn't apply to me.
Actually, no, I have not voted for Trump and I did not watch Fox News. I was a lifelong Democrat until June when I changed my affiliation to independent. And I have looked at Ms. Harris’s record in fair amount of detail from her time as an Alameda DA, SF District Attorney, California senator and her current role as vice president. If you are more of an expert, I would welcome any enlightenment as to her strengths as a presidential candidate because I simply don’t see them.
While she has won elections for public office in California, I am looking for what she has accomplished on behalf of the people of California. I’m sure she has great interpersonal skills that enabled her to convince powerful people to back her campaigns. These interpersonal skills are not coming across in her interviews, where she seems tongue-tied and unable to articulate her policies, let alone her achievements. We don’t know if she believes she was “tough on crime” or progressive as a prosecutor but she does not have an extraordinary record either in the courtroom or as a reformer. As a senator she co-sponsored the Green new deal and proposed the climate equity act with AOC. Neither of these passed, and her own administration does not even support them today. She is known for browbeating Brett Kavanaugh in his Senate confirmation. I guess this is how she obtained Biden‘s notice for the VP slot, following in his footsteps as a vicious, partisan attack dog. I personally dislike these spectacles of personal attacks, especially given its tendency to undermine the institution of the Court. Given Harris’s own husband’s current set of accusations, I wonder if she would want him to be treated the way she treated Kavanaugh.
Her ill-fated 2019 primary run highlighted that she wasn’t able to decide whether she should run as a tough on crime prosecutor or a permissive progressive. This identity confusion plagues her current campaign where she seems unable to explain her evolution on any issues. No one has any idea what she stands for what she would do. We don’t even know who advises her or who she would choose for her administration.
Moreover, I’ve heard nothing these past two months of her campaign that explains what role she had in this administration, but she certainly didn’t seem to use the time to prepare herself to assume the presidency.
Maybe you don’t care about immigration, inflation, escalating threats of war, increasing crime, the vast expansion of government bureaucracy, the unholy capture of government agencies by big corporations, the menacing discussions by politicians of censorship and not needing the constitution or the first amendment anymore, the overtaking of city streets and elite campuses by people who seem to support terrorist groups. These are issues that very much concern me. And most of all I do not want my son to be drafted in a war. I don’t think we can afford for more years of a Biden administration, let alone an even more uncertain future with Harris.
There is no case for VP Harris. She has ZERO accomplishments other than grabbing power within her party, which, as we all have seen has abandoned democratic principles itself. Now the Democratic Party recommends abandoning the US constitution. Both of these tendencies are the true threat to our democratic Republic. The constitution exists to constrain the government not to constrain the people. But back to Ms. Harris, she’s had four years to prepare for this election cycle, knowing that her boss was very sick and likely unable to continue as president. Did she accomplish anything? Did she take the reins on any issue? Did she prepare herself to speak cogently about any policy? Remember getting power is not the accomplishment it’s what you do with it and she has nothing to say. She doesn’t do the work. She doesn’t read the briefings and she can’t articulate herself about any single policy or issue to the American people. And what that augurs is another presidency beset by the dark and corrupt actions of a fascistic bureaucracy led by unelected and unaccountable figures. We will have another four years of rising crime, chaos, corruption, inflation, war, terrorism and censorship. No thank you.
Pretty much everything you say in that comment is false. Vague statements that she "has zero accomplishments" and "isn't prepared" are copy/paste Fox News talking points. Not really sure where the "Democratic Party recommends abandoning the constitution" comes from especially when Trump himself proclaimed he would be dictator 'only for one day.' All the criticisms you made for Harris can be said twice as much about Trump who I assume you're a fan of. Thanks for stopping by though!
More open borders, more women being raped by the Mexican cartels and more children sold into trafficking. More war in Ukraine. More money sent to Iran to fund terrorism, and probably a civil war with MAGA.
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RFK Jr is another strong voice who they have tried to assassinate in every way except for pulling the trigger. The democrat sausage grinder has orchestrated the game so that single issue, head-in-the-weeds voters can feel good about protecting their pet virtue signal like good little sheep while trading away every single liberty to ruthless power hungry tyrants....All shredding the constitution and rule of law while using gaslighting and projection to convince the cave dwellers that "orange man bad" as they are lead to slaughter.
I stopped at "Trump/fascist". "...I seek to discuss this in a balanced manner;...", "...that her win will prevent Trump’s fascist⁺ takeover." You call that "balanced"? I'm not even going to bother reading the rest of this trash! This post took too much of my life already! What's been going on in this country under the Dems is fascist! EVERYTHING they say Trump is, they ARE! She shouldn't be in politics. Ever!! Her running in 2028 is a delusion! She has NOTHING to offer the American people.
She is an idiot! Laughing at nothing, cackling really, and offering no answers or solutions to anything. There's a reason progressive/liberal Democrats have the label "Libertards". Because you MUST be retarded to believe anything about the modern day Democratic party. All they have done are find ways to subjugate us while enriching themselves in every way possible. Leaving everyone else with little to nothing! Look at San Francisco! Look at any Democrat run city! They're a disaster!
Now they say the gov. needs to "moderate", aka "censor" these "big corporate" social media platforms! A clear infringement on free speech which YouTube does with impunity. De-monetizing anyone who says the "wrong" thing according to the God of YouTube! And even more so, the Dems are getting to the point of saying the First Amendment is "tie-ing their hands" and is a stumbling block for them. They lie and say they don't want to take people's guns, but that EXACTLY what they want to do!! Benignly start a registry to then systematically disarm the public. Shut us up, pull our teeth, then rule with umpunity! The modern day Democratic party needs 2 things. The corrupted and elitists need prison and their followers need the asylums!!
Trump is a fascist, if you're diluting that fact you are ignoring reality. If you click on the ⁺ it will show you footnotes which explains more. Apparently you didn't read this because I'm clearly very critical of the democratic party. The rest of your comment is literal nonsense, I seriously don't think you know anything about politics.
This is the most pathetic joke of an article I’ve ever read. Everything you just blabbed is why this country is in such peril and being destroyed right in front of our very eyes! A country with open borders is not a country and our federal government took an oath to office to protect our borders and citizens as that alone is the number 1 role of government to protect its citizens! Democrats have proven over and over again that they care more for criminals and illegals & funding overseas wars & protecting other countries borders is their priority! You’d have to be absolutely brainless & hate this country to vote for more of the same! What has Harris done since VP except break the tie breaking votes on policies crippling the middle class! You should be ashamed as you are clearly anti American & anti freedom!
It says liberation... lol
Either you didn't read the article or you made a false assumption because I'm clearly not a democrat, I make that very clear... I'm also very critical of Harris, that's sort of the whole point. Believe it or not, politics are bigger than red vs blue, the establishment wants you to think it isn't so you don't realize your class interests.
I don't even know how to engage with this comment like everything you're saying here is a lie or a Fox-News-ism. This reads like a very angry comment, like it is possible to discuss things reasonably.
You have zero credible evidence to support that Harris is "intellectually challenged" or "got where she is by spreading her legs" which is probably the worst internalized misogyny I've ever heard. Gross men have been saying that to successful women for decades, it's really sad you would perpetuate that.
So then you refer to the false 'gang member' story... the true story was that a greedy apartment owner didn't want to make improvements to benefit his residents so he paid a firm to run a publicity that his tenants were part of a gang. They weren't.
https://newrepublic.com/post/185593/donald-trump-gangs-apartment-complex-truth
That was a demonstrably untrue story that uninformed people believed because it exploited people's fear response. Again, this bs where other countries are 'dumping people' into our country (people who you call sub-human, totally not racist) which you can't provide evidence for. I have to say though, this 'Chinese militant' is a conspiracy I haven't heard yet so I guess your gish gallop worked. I haven't heard this nuclear base thing either but that one on its face makes no sense- you're telling me the military that gets trillions of dollars a year would somehow lose access to their nuclear bases? And how is that not a bigger story? Let me guess because the media covered it up... lol. Not to assume but you probably get your news from Fox or Libs of Tiktok and that just isn't healthy.
Happy to engage with an actual argument though, you're kind of just making wild claims that have nothing to do with me or the article.
Harris is a jezebel, morally & politically. She is an intellectually bland, morally corrupt, personally mean, PUPPET of an un-Godly group of behind-the-curtain unAmerican evil-doers.
You are, a democrat, it comes screaming out of your writing! At best you suffer from TDS and gorge on misinformation spread by legacy media, propagated by manipulated clips and false claims. You have no credibility, sir.
On January 20 one of three people will be president. If you think it doesn't matter - not just to you but to millions who are less privileged than you - the don't vote. But if you are clever enough to discern a difference, if one or the other might shift the prior associated with things you care about, then maybe try to get that one elected. Save the breathless sketches of how much reality departs from your utopia for the sophomore seminar.
Huh?
YES!!!! This is basically how I've felt about Kamala. As I saw someone say (smartly) on Twitter, the presidential election is basically the IRL version of "choosing your fighter" in a video game. We aren't at a place where we can escape the game quite yet, unfortunately, so for now it'd be wise to choose the opponent we have a better chance of pushing against. And, since I and my friends (we are college aged) are focusing on Gaza this election, I think her policies are gonna be VERY different than Biden's. I feel hopeful for the first time in a very long time!!!!
Yes definitely, it's worth spending your time organizing to push back on the status quo- whether that be Harris or Trump, electoral politics will ultimately not save us. We can be honest about the small gains Harris will give us- ie taking the climate crisis seriously, but we have to also be honest that Harris wont move on the Gaza issue unless we protest.
The fear mongering about a Trump presidency is irrational in my opinion. Have you been watching what is happening in Britain? Radical left policies are leading America into the same situation. Douglas Murray, Peter Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and many others have been warning for years where things were headed in Europe. People didn't want to believe it, but here it is, playing out in real time. History has taught us enough to know better. And the far left has the same tendency as the far right to dissolve into Tyranny. Surveillance, the loss of free speech, arrests and jail for opinions, Orwellian methods of control playing out RIGHT NOW in Britain and carried out by the Left. This will turn on everybody in the end. Leftist are not safer. You will lose your freedom too. Radical liberal policies are dangerous and need to be halted. I am not a Republican, I don't adhere to a party. I like common sense.
It was the right-wing who started the war on terror and the centrist liberals who continued it under Obama. The answer is not- give into reactionary rhetoric. The 'immigration crisis' you are referring to is utterly fabricated based on the same reactionary politics which kept Bush in power despite spending trillions on a war which devastated East Asia and killed/injured how many American soldiers. Harris is a liberal, not a leftist. Big difference.
Just like the Black LIVES MATTER movement was FABRICATED and only intended to cause further divide between our country. Right?? Lol!! Harris is a liberal, not a leftist??? Omg wake the F up!! Harris is a great ACTRESS who is PLAYING A ROLE STRAIGHT FROM THE SCRIPT SHE WAS HANDED to trap us all and finalize what the deep state has been planning on and working towards for the last 65 years now!! They destroyed our beautiful country, broke our spirits, and are getting ready to dump our dead rotting flesh into any place they can so they can enforce their population control and leave only themselves alive so they can have it all without our dirty red blooded hearts polluting the devils playground.
So all of those times when police murdered innocent people was fabricated? Statistics that clearly show that people of color are traffic stopped more often than white people, are killed by cops at higher rates than white people, are convicted more often for the same crime and are given longer sentances for the same crime are all fabricated? Weird. Who needs to wake up?
Do you hear yourself when you're foaming at the mouth incoherently rambling about the deep state? Our country was never beautiful in the first place, maybe now its easier to realize how ugly it is and that's why you need a scapegoat aka immigrants.
The immigration crisis is utterly FABRICATED? So letting in MORE convicted criminals, murderers/rapists/gang members, than the ENTIRE POPULATION of both Wyoming or Vermont isn't a crisis? 🙄 Not to mention the amount on the terrorist watch list, the numbers revealed today were staggering! They ALSO proved that once AGAIN, Trump was right!
I addressed the immigration crisis myth in my recent article, feel free to learn more about it: https://theliberationproject.substack.com/p/americas-immigration-crisis-myth
I hope this helps!
There is no excuse, let alone case, for Kamala. FIRST you tell us your version of proper jobs for govt. and limit of GDP govt. allowed to take for those job.
Until then, you are just another grabby totalitarian who hates any curbs on his power.
The Electoral College is what stops tyranny.
What are you talking about?
You dislike the Electoral College. That institution stops everweening, unelected bureaucracy.
If you would like to be educated about the problems with an electoral college system I suggest you watch this really comprehensive video:
https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k?si=_yBvHq3XVhaQ7mn1
Hope that helps!
Here is why electoral college sucks: links Mr.Beat’s (lol) video
Then proceeds to bash somebody for “not making an arguments”
Since when have arguments devolved into linking some random guys YouTube video - especially an openly partisan one like Mr. Beat
The electoral college is awesome - it’s stops our massive and fast country to have its elections decided by a handful of cities.
To consider it as “the rule of the minority” is just silly. The popular vote has only lost 5 times in the history of our country.
Should the senate cease to exist? Is it fair to California they have as many seats as Rhode Island? No - their obviously is a balance which is why we have the house of reps PLUS the senate in congress
This is a great allegory for the electoral college.
Linking a video to someone who can explain nuance that I don't have the patience to type out? And Mr. Beat is an educational channel he's about as non-partisan as it gets.
So your points are the same tired ones that are already addressed in the video- thats why I linked it
It's not "just a handful of cities" that is where the majority of the country's population is- if you think a person in the city is inherently deserves less of a vote because of their physical location, you are simply wrong. There is no backward mental gymnastics you can do to justify that a person in Wyoming should have 3 times the voting power as a person in California.
The fact that a minority candidate can win in the first place is a gaping flaw in the electoral college, let alone the fact the election comes down to 5 swing states every year.
I don't have an ultimate solution to the Senate problem but- it clearly needs major reform, not only is it grossly inefficient because of the filibuster but it is again, by definition- minority rule. States with less people get the same representation as those with multitudes more. The constitution starts with "we the people" not "we the land".
The popular vote is not the best system- ranked choice is better but is still not perfect. European parliamentary systems are also better, but nowhere near perfect.
Our system is notoriously undemocratic and has some massive flaws in every branch. Mostly thanks to corporate power that help keeps it in place. The less the government can do to make itself democratic, the less it can take power from corporations and give it back to the people.
Thank you for reading and engaging respectfully :)
Also - sorry for any typos I just stamped this post out on my phone
Degree in physics, actuarial credentials, published work in statistics. I understand preference bundles and non-transitive choice theory.
Show me you grasp the ideas of (1) proper jobs of govt and (2) limits on govt take for those specific jobs.
Sincerely glad to engage here or off line on those topics, as you prefer.
Weren't we discussing the electoral college?
Take it from someone who teaches history and government (with a degree):
https://youtu.be/6kWF2Rhxx-c?si=26m_y6vQ3NOCyfMb
Frankly, I don't have prove to shit to you and I don't care what your credentials are, you haven't even made an argument yet
Let's review.
You want to be rid of the Electoral College, without making a case.
Mr. Beat is wrong. We always had majority rule. But with minority rights. Electoral College is one of the bulwarks protecting the minority. So is Senate, which is next on the block. The protection of states appointing senators is already lost!
In fact, the only case AGAINST bulwarks is more direct passion, even faster!
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I put government in context -- identify the jobs and cost of that limited service.
I then offered to discuss first principles. You declined, rudely.
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You need not prove anything. But to be credible you must have substantive reasons to remove constraints which protect us from metastasis of government.
Ball's in your court to hit. Or miss.
Give it a rest Vinnie and re-read the The Constitution. Until then, your blathering is just… dumb. Undo the Electoral College??? Open Borders??? 🤣 You’re a European Liberal. 🤢 P.U.
Eloquently laid out everything I’ve been thinking and feeling. It’s frustrates me how many people pretend dem and con are equally horrible. And pretend we haven’t shifted the democrats left at all or that it’s impossible to do, just in the last 15 years we’ve successfully shifted narratives and discourse. if you look at the state level a lot of more progressive policies have and continue coming to fruition. Plus you are right, it’s definitely favorable to try and bargain/push legislation with a liberal who can actually articulate our points, rather than a conservative or far right administration. I see a lot of leftists try and negate this and clearly fall into accelerationism and it’s alittle bewildering.
I beg to differ—she is “hawkish” as hell. She supports the proxy wars. That’s why Darth Cheney likes her.
At the time of writing this, I was suggesting that Harris "could" change from the status quo but we will never be able to know until she's in office. I just think she will be similar to Obama on foreign conflicts. Dick Cheney is only supporting her because he doesn't like Trump since he literally called for Liz to be tried for treason after she spoke out against Jan 6th. I think it's pretty clear now that she will continue NATO, she will continue the war in Ukraine, she will continue the genocide in Gaza but *may* start to oppose Netanyahu. I guess we'll never know until it happens, thanks for reading!
Same as Obama is acceptable to you ?
The guy who dropped more bombs than bush/Cheney ?
The guy who signed ndaa for indefinite detention for Anerican citizens ?
The guy who knocked the richest nation per capital into stone ages & turned into breeding ground for ISIS...
No thx...
I'll stick with the guy who gave us 0 new conflicts & defeated isis in short order...
I'll stick with the guy who believes in securing border...
I'll stick with the guy not infringing on my 2A....
I'll stick with the guy who gave us a choice over the party who gave us draconian mandates...
Ironic how all the my body my choice ppl all fell in line when they were forced to injecti experimental jabs into their body or lose their livelihoods & social lives...
Good luck to you & God bless...💪🏽💪🏽
Trump was literally pro-vaccine until 2021 when Biden was in office when he flipped on the issue so your comment is entirely incoherent. I never approved of Obama's foreign policy I suggested that Harris' would look similar. Please carefully read before commenting next time :)
I know critical thinking is difficult for anti-vaxers.
Who said Trump was an anti vaxxer? He's not but the difference is that he would never have pushed the mandates or the disgusting rhetoric that Biden did.
He has avoided coming out as explicitly anti-vax but it'd be ridiculous to think he isn't courting the anti-vax bloc especially as he recruited RFK Jr. and promoted the ivermectin as a treatment myth. You were never mandated to get the vaccine by the government so you are completely off base on that. Companies were however allowed to enforce periodic testing for unvaccinated employees which is NOT the same thing as a vaccine mandate. Since when are conservatives the ones who want the big government to come intervene with business activity?
You are incorrect...
Trump used to talk about someone close to him being injured from Vax long before he got into PoliTRICKZ...
He was always skeptical of them...
He also didn't mandate them like Biden & Kamala...
Those are the facts my friend...
God bless...
When Trump was office in 2020 he touted the vaccine as the solution to the pandemic, and he's right to say that. It wasn't until he wanted to prematurely reopen the country in late 2020 which led to public spats with Fauci over that where he began opposing vaccination, he then used it to attack Biden in 2021.
Ha! Vinnie exposed !! 🤣 He’s pro-Vaxx !! You go boyyy… 💉💉💉💀
Ok weirdo
Keep gettin’ the clot-shot dip$hit.
I am sick to death disinformation and misinformation on candidates and policies just left of the far right.
https://open.substack.com/pub/amyms/p/can-kamala-harris-beat-donald-trump?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3zhazl
So basically what you're saying is that Harris really IS blatantly lying, by pretending that she's abandoned the FAR LEFT policies that she espoused as a candidate in 2020? Those policies literally made her become the very FIRST candidate to drop out of the primary, without receiving a SINGLE vote! It's logical to conclude then that the very policies that were so unpopular they appealed to virtually NOBODY, are now the ones that would make her a shoe in in 2028? What kind of logic are you using, that's right FAR Leftist logic! 🙄
I'm saying that Harris could run on her progressive platform like in 2020. Since writing this article it's pretty clear she has moved to run as a centrist candidate like Biden. In no way is she secretly going to be a progressive when in office thats fairytale thinking. Her policies were no "far-left" I don't think you even know that means. She was on the left-ish side of the 2020 primary but was by no means the most left candidate.
But be serious bro.... Bernie Sanders was literally on the verge of winning the 2020 primary what are you talking about the left policies were unpopular. Left policies are overwhelmingly popular everywhere else in the world that isn't poisoned by capital interest.
What kind of logic are you using? Fox news said it and now it's a fact?
"It's logical to conclude then that the very policies that were so unpopular" What like single payer? So we don't have to spend billions more per year in medical costs when compared with every other developed nation? Like free college? So that more people can contribute to society and have better jobs without crippling debt? Like a federal jobs guarantee? So no one has to be without work and right-wingers can stop bitching about people on welfare? Be real man.
European Communist 🫵🏼 You.
? I'm from New York
Hilarious, "Be real" you say? Again the REALITY of the situation is that the result of Americans seeing her true self, the FAR LEFT policies that she openly supported in the 2020 primary, netted her exactly ZERO votes as she was the very first of a large group of candidates to drop out! You think that "Free college" is a popular policy? Maybe you don't understand the incredibly simple fact that NOTHING is actually free and the taxpayers weren't even happy with the loans forgiven during the Biden/Harris Administration. Let's be clear I'm NOT a Republican but Harris is an absolute moron, and incredibly unpopular according to just about everybody she interacted with during the last 4 years which makes one thing very clear. If she "wins" she will be another Democrat PUPPET, guaranteed another 4 years of the same Administration during Obamas and Biden's terms and that would be utterly destructive. The ones controlling her would be the same warmongers that have pushed Russia closer to WW3 than at ANY other point in history and "that's not hyperbole" as Joe would say- only when Biden says that it's guaranteed to be followed by a whopper of a lie, check out the Doomsday Clock and you'll see the horrific truth that nobody's talked about!
Pushing back on the status quo, the young schooler so beautifully laid out. Then continued on, while having what I can only describe as young adult vapor lock of all higher brain functions. As I read the Salad before me. The dressing tasted somewhat familiar, then it hit me, they are stupid enough to understand her gibberish. Is that a strength or a growing pain?
Thanks for the poem, have a great day! ✨💫
A total pile of equine excrement!!!
How can you vote for a candidate that bypassed the primary election? That is a threat to democracy. Democrats should be angry a better candidate did not get to run. Harris is a mess and the American Democrats did not choose her.
I explain in the article that around 80% of registered democrats including every democrat member of congress who endorsed her wanted Harris after Biden dropped out. She was obviously the candidate that the party wanted.
I'm voting third party so this doesn't apply to me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13947367/kamala-harris-performance-review-san-francisco-lawyer.html
Actually, no, I have not voted for Trump and I did not watch Fox News. I was a lifelong Democrat until June when I changed my affiliation to independent. And I have looked at Ms. Harris’s record in fair amount of detail from her time as an Alameda DA, SF District Attorney, California senator and her current role as vice president. If you are more of an expert, I would welcome any enlightenment as to her strengths as a presidential candidate because I simply don’t see them.
While she has won elections for public office in California, I am looking for what she has accomplished on behalf of the people of California. I’m sure she has great interpersonal skills that enabled her to convince powerful people to back her campaigns. These interpersonal skills are not coming across in her interviews, where she seems tongue-tied and unable to articulate her policies, let alone her achievements. We don’t know if she believes she was “tough on crime” or progressive as a prosecutor but she does not have an extraordinary record either in the courtroom or as a reformer. As a senator she co-sponsored the Green new deal and proposed the climate equity act with AOC. Neither of these passed, and her own administration does not even support them today. She is known for browbeating Brett Kavanaugh in his Senate confirmation. I guess this is how she obtained Biden‘s notice for the VP slot, following in his footsteps as a vicious, partisan attack dog. I personally dislike these spectacles of personal attacks, especially given its tendency to undermine the institution of the Court. Given Harris’s own husband’s current set of accusations, I wonder if she would want him to be treated the way she treated Kavanaugh.
Her ill-fated 2019 primary run highlighted that she wasn’t able to decide whether she should run as a tough on crime prosecutor or a permissive progressive. This identity confusion plagues her current campaign where she seems unable to explain her evolution on any issues. No one has any idea what she stands for what she would do. We don’t even know who advises her or who she would choose for her administration.
Moreover, I’ve heard nothing these past two months of her campaign that explains what role she had in this administration, but she certainly didn’t seem to use the time to prepare herself to assume the presidency.
Maybe you don’t care about immigration, inflation, escalating threats of war, increasing crime, the vast expansion of government bureaucracy, the unholy capture of government agencies by big corporations, the menacing discussions by politicians of censorship and not needing the constitution or the first amendment anymore, the overtaking of city streets and elite campuses by people who seem to support terrorist groups. These are issues that very much concern me. And most of all I do not want my son to be drafted in a war. I don’t think we can afford for more years of a Biden administration, let alone an even more uncertain future with Harris.
There is no case for VP Harris. She has ZERO accomplishments other than grabbing power within her party, which, as we all have seen has abandoned democratic principles itself. Now the Democratic Party recommends abandoning the US constitution. Both of these tendencies are the true threat to our democratic Republic. The constitution exists to constrain the government not to constrain the people. But back to Ms. Harris, she’s had four years to prepare for this election cycle, knowing that her boss was very sick and likely unable to continue as president. Did she accomplish anything? Did she take the reins on any issue? Did she prepare herself to speak cogently about any policy? Remember getting power is not the accomplishment it’s what you do with it and she has nothing to say. She doesn’t do the work. She doesn’t read the briefings and she can’t articulate herself about any single policy or issue to the American people. And what that augurs is another presidency beset by the dark and corrupt actions of a fascistic bureaucracy led by unelected and unaccountable figures. We will have another four years of rising crime, chaos, corruption, inflation, war, terrorism and censorship. No thank you.
Pretty much everything you say in that comment is false. Vague statements that she "has zero accomplishments" and "isn't prepared" are copy/paste Fox News talking points. Not really sure where the "Democratic Party recommends abandoning the constitution" comes from especially when Trump himself proclaimed he would be dictator 'only for one day.' All the criticisms you made for Harris can be said twice as much about Trump who I assume you're a fan of. Thanks for stopping by though!
More open borders, more women being raped by the Mexican cartels and more children sold into trafficking. More war in Ukraine. More money sent to Iran to fund terrorism, and probably a civil war with MAGA.
Kennedy24 🇺🇸💪🏼✅ Heal the Divide. Make America Decent Again.
RFK is for Trump voters who don't want the social stigma of voting for him, everything you just mentioned is what Trump says
RFK Jr is another strong voice who they have tried to assassinate in every way except for pulling the trigger. The democrat sausage grinder has orchestrated the game so that single issue, head-in-the-weeds voters can feel good about protecting their pet virtue signal like good little sheep while trading away every single liberty to ruthless power hungry tyrants....All shredding the constitution and rule of law while using gaslighting and projection to convince the cave dwellers that "orange man bad" as they are lead to slaughter.
I stopped at "Trump/fascist". "...I seek to discuss this in a balanced manner;...", "...that her win will prevent Trump’s fascist⁺ takeover." You call that "balanced"? I'm not even going to bother reading the rest of this trash! This post took too much of my life already! What's been going on in this country under the Dems is fascist! EVERYTHING they say Trump is, they ARE! She shouldn't be in politics. Ever!! Her running in 2028 is a delusion! She has NOTHING to offer the American people.
She is an idiot! Laughing at nothing, cackling really, and offering no answers or solutions to anything. There's a reason progressive/liberal Democrats have the label "Libertards". Because you MUST be retarded to believe anything about the modern day Democratic party. All they have done are find ways to subjugate us while enriching themselves in every way possible. Leaving everyone else with little to nothing! Look at San Francisco! Look at any Democrat run city! They're a disaster!
Now they say the gov. needs to "moderate", aka "censor" these "big corporate" social media platforms! A clear infringement on free speech which YouTube does with impunity. De-monetizing anyone who says the "wrong" thing according to the God of YouTube! And even more so, the Dems are getting to the point of saying the First Amendment is "tie-ing their hands" and is a stumbling block for them. They lie and say they don't want to take people's guns, but that EXACTLY what they want to do!! Benignly start a registry to then systematically disarm the public. Shut us up, pull our teeth, then rule with umpunity! The modern day Democratic party needs 2 things. The corrupted and elitists need prison and their followers need the asylums!!
Trump is a fascist, if you're diluting that fact you are ignoring reality. If you click on the ⁺ it will show you footnotes which explains more. Apparently you didn't read this because I'm clearly very critical of the democratic party. The rest of your comment is literal nonsense, I seriously don't think you know anything about politics.