Well its about fucking time. Reuters/ Ipsos results will be in next week.
Lets see if MI/ WI get back on the table and if MN is still a toss up. Its good strong rhetoric but the US has been on the wrong side of this issue for 9 months. One speech doesn’t change that and there is damage to be fixed, but its always a first step. We froze Russian assets to fund the rebuilding of Ukraine. Should we freeze Israelli assets to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza? Lets hear some policy proposals.
Man if we could close the gap in Georgia or North Carolina that would be great. We’d have a much higher chance then.
I’m way, way, way less worried about those states than I am MI, and WI.
MI and WI should lnt even be competitive for Trump. The speech was a good start, we’re gonna need actual action to bring Muslim voters back into the fold.
The black community has rallied around Harris in a way not seen since 2008. I’ve got too much day job work rn, but my first pass on some data says “fuck it, shoot for Florida too”. Obama won Florida twice and Trump really only won it in the margins.
But without WI and MI, it’s all for naught.
There’s not much policy action she could take. Other than the words, she’s probably going to meet with community leaders, but there’s really not much more she can do on that front.
She’s still part of an administration that can do policy. The job of president is a purely rhetorical position. Her job is and will be to move people to policy positions.
If she can move Joe Biden to a better policy on Gaze/Israel, she wins this election.
That’s not how that works. Biden has very real power, not just rhetorical. For example he can deploy the military wherever he wants for 60 days. He can direct an agency to only do half of it’s job. (Trump famously removed all the furniture from the office meant to help people find immigration detainees) If you’re not American then think of him as a prime minister/CEO. The Vice President gets a portfolio from the president. Without that their only job is to break ties in the Senate and stay alive.
Some administrations have had a division of labor for whipping votes, but that is primarily the job of the party whip and leader for each chamber.
Agree to disagree on the power she has, and I know very, very well how all this works.
I think you are failing to appreciate the role of rhetoric in leadership and politics and how things actually work. The job is ENTIRELY rhetorical and the job of the President is to move public opinions in specific ways toward policy positions they want them to take.
Everything after the rheotoric is an afterthought.
I listened to it. It was an OK speech, but it willfully ignored the agency of Israel in the destruction of the Palestinian people. She called Hamas terrorists, but what about Israel? What do you call an administration and a nation’s army that’s committing genocide? She gave no scoldings to Israel, which to me is weak sauce.
She can’t even say more than 3 words without looking down at her teleprompter. It’s quite astonishing watching it.
Man, your entire post history is just hot garbage opinions.
Not true. I’ve some takes that people have agreed with. You may not agree with things I say and that’s fine. I’ll keep continuing though.
What’s the next thing you’re gonna try when this one doesn’t stick?
Something about her being a criminal herself considering she prosecuted 1300 people for weed then years later laughed about it and admitted she smoked weed and definitely inhaled as well.
You just admitted that you’re just spamming agitprop until something sticks.
Wtf are you talking about. Two threads is spam? Relax. Breathe. And stop doing what you are accusing me of doing. I’m voicing my concerns as I’m free to do and I don’t care if the leopards don’t like it.
Here’s a fact check that goes over her history as a prosecutor. Hint: it doesn’t fit well into a single reductive sentence.
And what about it???
Hint:
she was conscious of the role of race when prosecuting. However, because of the lack of data, it is still hard to come to a conclusion as to whether or not her prosecutions disproportionately harmed people of color.
The NAACP and DPA Report also found that from 2004 to 2008, while Black people in San Francisco made up approximately 7.5% of the city’s population, they made up approximately 37% of marijuana arrests.
This fact check almost does the work for you, as much as they try not to.
I’m sure everyone has done some decent acts in their life no matter how much of a POS they ended up as. Good luck to her and God bless our troops.
marijuana arrests
Arrests are done by the police, not the DA, so that issue lies with the police. And as much of the rest of the article pointed out, the number of people who saw the inside of a prison cell for marijuana possession was small.
The article did not say the number of people she prosecuted who saw the inside of a cell was small it was vague in saying a small number went to state prison and some went to county jail or other conseques. Anyways how convenient. The number prosecuted remains hidden.
And that has nothing to do with anything. You don’t have to see the inside of a cell to have your life de-railed and ruined due to a conviction. Once it’s on your record. It’s there and will affect certain opportunities you may have otherwise had. And that will follow you a long time. So that’s long term. Then there was also the short term immediate perils you may have went through going through the conviction process. Arrests are done by police sure but that’s also
What is the purpose of this comment?
Are you saying that because she uses a teleprompter too much she isn’t going to be a good president?
Are you saying this because you are equating her use of a teleprompter to her intelligence?
Are you saying this with the intention of getting people to not vote for her because she isn’t perfect ?
Or are you just making a random statement about her?
I’m saying she didn’t write that speech nor even partake in it’s writing nor did she read over the damn thing once or twice. And it’s obvious she did not.
I’m saying how was that performance any better than Biden and him say accidently calling someone the wrong name and immediately correcting himself. At least the guy can get out complete sentences before pausing to read.
Any other candidate beside trump will dog walk her if she continues to read from that thing like that. That’s what I’m saying here.
