That's the top-rated comment on "Harris’s policies have shifted and are still taking shape" (WaPo).
And I think it explains a lot about what we're seeing in the polls and in the behavior of the candidate (evading any substantive questioning).
From the article:
Since Harris catapulted to the top of the Democratic ticket less than a month ago, she has been forced to reiterate that she rejects a wide array of positions she embraced five years ago.... Republicans have not waited for Harris to issue new policy proposals before seizing on her past statements to attack her as dangerously liberal.... While Harris’s foreign policy platform is still somewhat embryonic, she is expected to largely continue Biden’s efforts on Russia’s war in Ukraine and on countering China. Less clear, and of great interest to many Democrats, is whether she will craft her own policy on Israel....
Harris — still somewhat embryonic....
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She is a good apparatchik and will do as she is told.
"to make the lives of ALL Americans better"
Except those wrecking and hoarding workers who want reasonable wages and affordable housing! Nothing we can do for them, they need a good dose of competition for jobs and housing so that they can learn their place, and be our sin eaters, the ones who pay the price for our decades of overspending by tightening their belts, and lowering their expectations.
These illegals we are flooding the country with don't ask questions of their employers, and are happy with whatever housing they can find! That's the way our workers should be.
So she is good enough for the ignorant. Got it. They are good little slaves, aren't they??
She needs more time to run. Should be ready for 2028.
Guess she hasn’t been to the grocery store or gas pump the past four years.
So did the blog hostess delete my comment, or did the "spam filter"?
Make everybody's life better except for perverse consequences, the very reason that rule by women doesn't work.
This is a pivot in tone because the Trump/Musk happy dance video just broke the joy vote a/k/a vibe vote WIDE OPEN.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823742501884453312/mediaviewer
Mine was eaten too
If it's true that Obama's people are in charge of her campaign, I expect her to become a demure Obama-mini-me.
"So did the blog hostess delete my comment, or did the "spam filter"?"
I have to periodically release things from the spam filter. You get caught a lot. I'm not deleting you.
Harris has policies?
She's been taught by Barack. The Blank Slate Method.
Say nothing much definite. Smile broadly. Allow people to put their hopes and wishes onto you. Allow them to attach what they see as the best of things onto you, without you having to claim any of it.
And you can win. Just keep smiling broadly.
This.
If they thought she had the goods, they'd have put her in office now and she'd have a few months to prove her leadership. She's never lead a large organization, she will be a figurehead and like Biden, will let the agencies run themselves.
Then it reappeared.
"Not like, in writing, but (wink wink) we know she's our kind of person," she means. Only the Right has to wonder if the person they are voting for will follow Republican policies. Not a concern for the Left. Ever. They are always reliably in lockstep. Even when they do something to horrify leftists, usually at election time, they are quickly forgiven because abortion and leftism. It's literally a no brainer if you are left of center.
How does an open border make Americans lives better? How does the lack of a serious energy policy make our lives better? Same for progressive DAs, lawfare, controlling media propaganda, censoring free speech, men competing in women’s sports, etc? What exactly does “democratic norms” mean?
For heaven’s sake, can we please stop pretending a legitimate election is going to occur?! Harris is going to be made President. Let’s move on to dealing with that reality in whatever way each of us can.
Nailed it.
you can guarantee that she will uphold democratic norms and try and govern to make the lives of ALL Americans better
LOL! Does the person that made this comment (and those that up voted it) have ANY clue as to how her behavior and past actions have affected the lives of those she affected? She will govern like a far leftist liberal that uses the Constitution to wipe her *ss. She was selected, not elected, anointed, and appointed. Voters were against her long before the press was for her. She is pro criminal, against the police and against law and order, she is for open borders, against Israel, is for wars that enhance the deep state, is for a bad/crap economy for the middle class, and will cut and run when our allies and citizens need us while leaving billions of dollars of equipment behind.
That is what her clueless supporters are ALL for. This is turning out to be another lefty "historic" election of a DIE hire that will check all the requisite intersectional boxes while the entire country turns into a Dem run third-world hell hole just like the cities that have been run by Dems for decades, are total sh*t holes but the residents keep voting for the same politicians and policies that turned thriving cities into landfills all because they "know" (R)s are hitler cause the media tells them so.
Shes a Commie and thats good enough for me translated
Please try harder. Too many of his comments are still getting through.
Policy doesn't matter this election, only making enought of a reasonable show of a campaign to cover up the vast mail in ballot harvesting efforts of the Dems versus the Republicans.
she will uphold democratic norms
by which, she Obviously means democrat party norms
JRoj
..stop pretending a legitimate election is going to occur?! Harris is going to be made President.
as The Most Famous Democrat in History Famously Said..
It's NOT who votes that counts.. It's WHO COUNTS THE VOTES
She’s a Democrat. It’s all you need to know.
Oh good grief what absolute bovine scatology. She's a typical democrat, i.e. a fascist tyrant terrorist wannabe. And ,should she prevail, will govern accordingly. Work to destroy everything that made this country great. She will do what joey bidet has been doing, what the kenyan did, and what the hildabeast wanted to do. As in punish the productive, fill the citizenry with useless and wasteful leeches, and destroy the rule of law and the constitution. Reagan talked about the evil empire, today that evil empire is the democrat party.
Progressive liberalism (i.e. monotonic divergence). With the dysfunctional convergence accelerating... Forward! All's fair in lust and abortion.
Not a DJT fan, but will vote for him as TX might be close this year. I think Ron/Kim would have a nice lead over Kamala, but the "coalition of the ascendant) is hard to beat. Demographics Determine Destiny.
"She is a Democrat and will govern like a Democrat and that is good enough for me."
Democratic politicians ain't what they used to be, ever since the radical leftists began to co-opt the Party. Democratic policies to reduce inflation are likely to involve price controls (Biden's proposal to cap rents is a precursor to that). Argentina tried that for the last several decades, and even under Milei, it continues. At least Milei isn't sending out the Price Police to enforce compliance, as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner did....yet.
I have a theory that the "spam filter" does "viewpoint" suppression. Not that hard with AI to do it.
She will campaign as a Republican - and Govern like a puppet leftist.
"Since Harris catapulted to the top of the Democratic ticket less than a month ago,". Catapulted? She climbed over the still-breathing, demented husk that was formerly the President, before he was instructed to step down by Obama, and the chief enforcer, the capo de capo tutti, Pelosi. There was no catapult involved - just Obama's pointing finger.
As for those that would vote Party now, Party forever, no matter what the candidate, what the policy record - the so-called 'vibe' vote: Their redemption will beckon when they face an empty plate, as they always inevitably do.
I think Kamala's appointment was planned all along.
That was a cute video.
When 52% of the electorate will not vote for your opponent under any circumstances you don’t have to be that good.
It took dementia for voters to turn away from Biden and even then they just turned away from him - they did not turn to Trump. In the Harris surge Trump’s support really hasn’t changed p, it is just that voters that turned away from Biden have come back.
Biden was the only Democrat that Trump could beat and Trump is the only Republican that Harris can beat.
I have to periodically release things from the spam filter. You get caught a lot. I'm not deleting you.
Like hair in the shower drain, so are the comments of our lives.
… she will uphold democratic norms and try and govern to make the lives of ALL Americans better
I assume he writer of that comment has a different definition of “ALL” than one would find in a dictionary. It apparently escapes that individual that the rise of Donald Trump is precisely because of the damage done to the middle class and even more to the working poor by “democratic norms.”
I find it hilarious that Marxists rave about “the workers,” but people who really work for a living don’t want the Marxists — they want Trump. Also their gasoline-powered cars, gas hot water heaters, gas stoves, air conditioning, guns, and religion. And they don’t want to find out their minor child has been conned into taking puberty blockers and having his penis and testicles removed.
Kamala is a democrat is the same rationale for why I will not vote for her. And what American uses the term “whilst”? Top rated comment from the UK maybe?
Sounds about right for a WP commenter. They're sheep, and they're happy being sheep.
Since Harris catapulted to the top of the Democratic ticket less than a month ago, she has been forced to reiterate that she rejects a wide array of positions she embraced five years ago....
This only means Harris has no ideas and no principles. Trump has been saying the same thing for 30 years. Whoever believes Harris is going to strengthen the border, improve this horseshit economy, or bring peace to the Middle East and Russia / Ukraine is and idiot.
I am fully, emotionally prepared for things to remain on it's current trajectory and get a whole lot worse.
Generation Z is fucked, and the liberal education establishment has made them too stupid to understand it. White women living is nice suburbs (like Inga) don't have anything to worry about or adjust. They take comfort in pretending they care.
Trump beat Hillary in 2016, and beat Biden in 2020, but was removed from office via absentee voter fraud. We are headed in the same direction in 2024. To deny that reality is either 1) stupidity 2) willful ignorance or 3) support of such efforts. It's delusional to think the same wouldn't be done to DeSantis or any other GOP nominee. Remember how they vilified milquetoast Romney and "maverick" McCain? Those two douchebags were basically today's Democrats
This is perhaps the best summation of the thought process of every liberal I have ever known. It's so perfect that it might even have come from the lips of our very own Ms. Igna.
For most voters, Harris has the only qualifications that matter:
1. She does not have dementia
2. She is not Donald Trump
If the election were about policies then Trump would be ahead by several points but that is not the case.
It has been evident since 2018 that most voters reject Trump. Why is anyone surprised by this?
For most voters, Harris has the only qualifications that matter:
1. She does not have dementia
2. She is not Donald Trump
If the election were about policies then Trump would be ahead by several points but that is not the case.
It has been evident since 2018 that most voters reject Trump. Why is anyone surprised by this?
Aggie said...
I think Kamala's appointment was planned all along.
Barry called Joe a F*CK UP from the git-go, and the way Hunter's DOJ fortunes have shifted, I agree. Since the 'transition' left Soetoro's cabal in place I have been waiting for Joe's dust off. It's how they do it now.
Watching white women reach near orgasm over Harris/Walz tells you how little they actually give a shit about those suffering in our deteriorating cities. They don't care about the upward generational transfer of wealth burying Gen Z. Supporting a nominee that wasn't actually nominated via votes, tells you they don't give a shit about "democracy." November is the line. I'm 55. Harris get's in via propaganda and fraud, it'll be time to hunker down and accept the ship is going to sink. I feel horrible for young people, but affluent white women have a great deal of influence over them. They will follow their maternal Pied Pipers over the cliff.
Kick ass. Then America deserves to sink by the weight of its own insulated stupidity. ABORTIONS AND GENTIAL REMOVAL FOR ALL!!!
A vote for Harris-Walz is a willful vote for catastrophic economic and societal failure.
She didn't "catapult" into anything. She slid right in, like the sleazebag she is.
What is the difference between having dementia (Biden) and being a dingbat (Harris)? Harris is just a polished turd.
She is a Democrat and will govern like a (modern) Democrat - and that's BAD enough for me.
Too true, mikeski 😆!
"try and govern to make the lives of ALL Americans better"
Sure, like the family of Laken Riley.
"whilst behaving with the decency becoming of the office"
Sure, like Joe and his minions, decently corrupt and hiding his senility.
Anyway, as the yellow-dog Dem implies, what difference, at this point, does it make? Even the minor rationalizations are too obviously feeble. We're a country of yellow dogs.
Cool Beans...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzQSQUAPUXs
Donald and Elon dancing in my last post
So the female candidate for the president is nothing special. Just a Democrat like any other Democrat. One without their own ideas or policies.
Interesting take
Who is telling her how to behave? She is choosing to support the candidate who--she believes--will govern according to the precepts and principles that accord with hers.
She did not "catapult" in the sense of move with sudden speed like "The horse catapulted through the gate". It appeared Kamala herself did little in her selection. She was 'catapulted' in that Pelosi, et al, flung or hurled her into the slot. Of course, when something is catapulted, it often flies high in the ballistic arc before descending. Will Kamala drop into the Presidency or will she fall short? She's been catapulted and now we must only wait to see her trajectory in the buffeting political winds.
"Vote for me, Generic Democrat. Fill in the blank."
The brutal truth for the Republican Party is this- the Democrats have a pretty solid lock on 51-52% of the two-party vote- this is the current position of a trend that started after the 1988 election. It has allowed the Democrats to create a lock on the Electoral College absent Trump. Trump is sui generis as a candidate- absent Trump on the ballot states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania aren't even competitive any longer.
Had Ron DeSantis won the nomination (or Nikki Haley) both would reclaim Arizona and Georgia into the GOP column but would have to fight to hang onto Ohio and would likely lose Iowa (Haley would have had to fight to win Florida). Additionally, both would lose those first three states I mentioned in the first paragraph by 5 or more percent. The GOP needs to stop pretending that Trump is the problem here- the problem is the demographic change of country the last 40 years- Trump is the last hope before the GOP becomes a rump party in permanent minority.
Well, I didn't vote for Obama--too much like a moderate republican, and willing to continue the illegal Bush-Cheney wars--but better an "Obama-mini-me" than any real or imitation Donald Trump.
Harris would consider allowing death row inmates to vote
Harris supported the elimination of private health insurance
Harris promoted a fund to bail out violent protesters during the 2020 riots.
Harris supported abolishing ICE
Harris was named the most progressive far left US Senator is 2019
Harris said it should not be considered a crime to enter the US illegally.
Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal.
Harris never visited a conflict zone on the board as Border Czar
Harris supported cutting funding for the police
Harris supported reparations payment to atone for slaver in the US.
No one gives a shit what people who comment at the NYT think.
This idea that only Trump can win? Doubtful. Trump needs to up his game. It looks as if he no longer cares.
So. In other words, Robert, a moron.
See my coment, above, Robert. Trump is a moderate. Prove me wrong.
I think maybe each party has maybe 30 to 40% lock-in votes, even if they are bad candidates. So it's no surprise that a lot of people don't really care about specific proposals. One of the ways to win is to pick up the 20% to 40% who are undecided and not very political. These people vote for personalities and intangibles as much as any political issue.
Trump strongly captured the Republican base. So now he just has to get them voting in big numbers. And he can still pick up undecided people by attacking Kamala and showing them her bad side.
Harris skipped the whole primary process. I think it's an open question whether the Democrat base loves her or not. She has a weak attachment there, just based on criteria (Democrat) or identity politics (woman, black, Asian). Still, I would think she's got a certain number of locked in voters, regardless of how bad she appears.
I think there's a significant enthusiasm gap between the huge Trump rallies and the internet love that Kamala gets from the media. Trump is grass roots support while Harris is astroturf all the way.
That link didn't work for me but this one did!
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823742501884453312
awesome, Mike, that's so funny
"staying alive, staying alive"
mocking the would-be assassins!
"Trump beat Hillary in 2016, and beat Biden in 2020, but was removed from office via absentee voter fraud." Trump beat Hillary via Electoral votes, which is how our system is designed and words, but Hillary did receive more actual votes than Trump. Which is to say, Trump certainly was not a distinctive preference. Trump DID NOT beat Biden in 2020. Those who continue to insist on "voter fraud" simply reveal themselves as childish fools. As yet, there has been no evidence or proof presented of the vast "absentee voter fraud" the losers insist placed Biden in office. If Harris wins in November, it is certain Trump and his abject worshipers will erupt with doubled or quadrupled moans and shouting and gnashing of teeth.
Totalitarian people want totalitarian candidates.
People may question how releasing people from prisons is totilitarian - indeed, isn't it the opposite? Well, once you release a plague on the people, you will be in a position to implement policies to 'deal' with the plague by restricting and policing the proletariat.
"So. In other words, Robert, a moron." No, that would be those who vote for Trump. (See how easy that is? Takes no thought or any actual discourse.)
wage and price controls making a comeback!
Harris to propose “federal ban on corporate price-gouging” on groceries and “impose stiff penalties in the food industry,” campaign announces.
AMDG said...
When 52% of the electorate will not vote for your opponent under any circumstances you don’t have to be that good.
*No* Republican candidate has cleared 51% of the popular vote since GHWB in 1988. W came the closest at 50.7% in 2004 but even he only managed 47.9% in 2000.
"Harris — still somewhat embryonic.... ".
Sounds pretty scary for someone in the Pro Choice party.
The Democrat party is just a pocket lining party.
Back when Bill Owens was our governor - Massive road projects were complete on-time and under budget. I just drove over Floyd Hill in the rain - and it is still under construction under Democxrat rule. It's a hot mess. I doubt it will be complete in 3-4 years. As it has already been sitting there for eons in a shit-state.
All Big blue cities are spending MILLIONS of tax payer dollars housing illegal immigrants... giving illegals work programs, giving illegals free, tax payer funded food and free, tax payer funded cell phones etc..
TRUMP and his campaign should be hammering this. The left's open border- cheap labor importation program will bankrupt us. It will bankrupt Social Security.
8/15/24, 10:08 AM
From the Post "Republicans have not waited for Harris to issue new policy proposals before seizing on her past statements to attack her as dangerously liberal." Well, that's nice and objective. How dare those dastardly Republicans repeat the only public statements she has made about the issues. rather than waiting patiently for her to formulate new positions on the subject. It's interesting to me that they seem to think that past statements of the Democratic candidate for president are of no interest or value. Did that standard ever apply to a Republican? I seem to remember DJT's old comments about women and celebrities being of the utmost importance to the Post. Shouldn't they have waited until he released a new statement on the subject before seizing on it?
More... Colorado's roads and highways are a complete mess. Last night was a joke driving in the dark, in the rain - no-lights on a major freeway. (I-70) No reflectors on the ground dashed lane-lines. Concrete barriers so close to the edge - they are accidents waiting to happen. One area was so filled with signs - no way a driver could read all of them. A total Leftist blue-cluster*uck.
RS
"Watch for It: Trump Will Be Sentenced to Prison on Sept. 18. “The whole idea is just to give the Harris campaign a powerful talking point when it’s crunch time. ‘The New York prosecution of Trump,’ McCarthy points out, ‘was politics, not justice. That’s why we call it ‘lawfare.’ The prosecutors and judge are not concerned about whether convictions ultimately get thrown out on appeal.’ It’s all just a stunt, put on from start to finish for political purposes.”"
Brace yourself citizens! We are going to get more of the same old same old and we';re going to get it good and hard. We had one brief respite during 2016-2020, and now Obozo's fourth term is upon us.
Harris is running as a generic Democrat. That guarantees her 38% of the popular vote. Not having dementia and not being Trump takes that up to 45-47% or even higher. Joe Biden would be struggling now if he were still the candidate. With all the election "fortifying" and enhancing going on, Harris is doing quite well.
Republicans made much of the early left-wing opinions and connections (both real and only rumored) of Obama and the Clintons, but it didn't make a dent in their vote share. Nothing in Harris's record will influence Democrats to vote against her or stay home, and very little in her record will get through to the low information voters.
BIG Zer0 strikes again!
It’s closer to 45% die hards for each party and maybe 10% up for grabs. About 30% of eligible voters don’t vote. So if either party can get some of those people to vote it helps.
She’s running (and has to run) as a Generic Democrat. The moment she holds a presser or states a list of policies (except what she stolen from Trump) - she’s finished.
They pushed Sleepy Joe as a Generic Democrat, from the basement.
That’s what they’ll do with her, but at least Joe was a bullshitter and she’s not.
True. But it’s still amusing to watch Dems scream and cry when you point out Kamala flunked the bar and fucked an old man to get ahead. She’s a moron and a whore.
That's the top-rated comment on... Are upvotes on NYT and WP legit?
I made a positive comment on Reddit Bernie Sanders. Immediately got over 2,000 upvotes, on a post with only a couple hundred views.
My mildly negative second comment days later got me immediately banned.
Learning experience about "bots"
The question is who will tell her what to do. I fear most of them are of Cook's persuasion and that would be fatal.
Kamala is the puppet that ensures continued employment for the same group of leftists that have been running the country for the last four years. She will do as told in return for being “positioned for success”. This will be the model of governance for the Democrat party moving forward. The party elites love the approach and the party rubes seem more than willing to go along for the ride.
For Robert: https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1823454674894381510
I’m sure we can all agree we vote for our candidate for all the right reasons and they vote for their candidate for all the wrong reasons.
Robert, as I read Mary Beth's comment, the "she" that is being referred to, is Harris, "a good apparatchik" and is not the person voting for Harris because Harris is a Democrat.
Mary Beth can correct me if I'm mistaken.
Hillary's vote total was higher than Trump because of California. The illegals voted for Democrats as expected.
Exactly. How many hoaxes do you have to witness before you accept that it's all dumbshow for the ignorant?
Looks like the policies that destroyed Democrat cities.
This is what I worry about. How confident they are will influence this decision.
For the Democrats, the usual voters don't know what the policies will be and don't care. The Republicans, before Trump, voted and hoped the politicians kept their promises. They didn't with a few exceptions.
As yet, there has been no evidence or proof presented of the vast "absentee voter fraud" the losers insist placed Biden in office.
My objection to mass absentee balloting is the impossibility of audit. Election security and transparency cannot be verified under the conditions set up - in some important cases, unconstitutionally under state constitutions - during COVID (and, as in Washington State, conditions that have pertained for years - but according to my progressive Seattle friends, have never caused any issues. Of course not, for them). I commend to everyone's attention, again, the Eastman article in the Gatestone Institute, "'The Most Secure Election in American History.'" (Single quotes inside double quotes from the original. I'll provide a link if asked - this comment format is driving me nuts.)
But as for the 2020 election - what say you, Robert Cook, about the Facebook and Twitter files? Any comments on those big fat thumbs on the scale, to say nothing of Google's and the ordinary media's massive in-kind contributions to the basement Biden campaign? Surely you've seen the polls indicating what percentage of voters say they would have changed their vote if they'd heard about the Laptop.
Sounds rather tribal.
Here's how this plays out: Meat packers - dominated by four companies, making less than 5% margin, and actually lost money last year - get hit with a freeze. They, in turn, freeze their pricing for cattle, chickens, and pigs. The farmers and ranchers, with nobody to pass on the freeze to, cull the size of their herds - fewer head to feed, manage costs and hope to weather the storm. This is the most important part - it includes reducing the size of the breeding stock. Shortages quickly ensue. City folk hardest hit. They, of course, blame those awful corporations some more, with some bile thrown in against the growers. Eventually, the screaming gets loud enough that the "anti-gouging" measures are eased or lifted, but supply doesn't catch up anywhere near as quickly as it cratered. Why? You can butcher a hog a lot faster than you can raise one to sexual maturity - which they'll have to do in order to replenish the supply.
It's an absolutely moronic suggestion, worse by far than Trump's universal tarriff policy.
Robert Cook said...
"Well, I didn't vote for Obama--too much like a moderate republican, and willing to continue the illegal Bush-Cheney wars--but better an "Obama-mini-me" than any real or imitation Donald Trump."
The proper term from the era for a "moderate Republican" is "RINO". Today, LLRs and GOPe would be acceptable terms as well. You know, the people that the left was saying that the "other" Republicans should be more like. The people that would mouth goals that the conservatives wanted to move towards, but once elected would take actions much further left. Obama fit right in with the people decidedly harder left.
And it's funny that you would denigrate the "Bush-Cheney" wars as a key voting point, yet still choose the War Monger(*) that continued those wars over the one guy in the last quarter century who did not start any new ones.
(*) No major US war has been started under a Republican president not named Bush.
Without Trump, Hillary would be in the final months of her 2nd term in office and Tim Kaine would be in Harris' spot running with a 90% chance of winning without cheating. All of the data from the last 4 elections show WI, MI, and PA lean at least 2-7% Democrat- the only time they haven't is when Trump ran in 2016 and 2020. Any other Republican would have to win the popular vote by at least 2% to even have a prayer of taking just one of those states.
I have written it til I am blue in the face- the 2012 election is the model you must use to assess the power of the two parties in the Presidential election- Obama easily won reelection with 7+% unemployment. Romney, despite all his faults, made it as close as a standard GOP candidate possibly could- ran better in red states than Trump but worse in blue ones and closely divided ones. A GOP candidate cannot win the Electoral College without at least WI- that is the minimum. That is how far behind the 8 ball the GOP is.
I guess we just need to let America hit rock bottom with the Progressives before we can force people to see what they are doing to us.
Robert Reich on X:
@RBReich
https://x.com/RBReich/status/1823796988908871783?t=wT06i50bm6_xS_iOVwdVpQ&s=19
"Cost of extending the expiring Trump tax cuts: $4.6 trillion.
Cost of proposed additional corporate tax breaks: $1 trillion
This is why Trump and the GOP are obsessed with cutting Social Security and Medicare.
So they can justify another round of giveaways to corporate donors."
Response:
@epiphnanies "FlorenceForPresident"
https://x.com/ephipnanies/status/1824100950061019497?t=JCkkO-2btL2MDcwsCf-wRQ&s=19
"Key Facts:
In fiscal year 2022, federal tax revenues reached a record-high of $4.9 trillion – $1.6 trillion or 48 percent higher than when the Trump tax cuts were passed and $884 billion higher than CBO’s projections for 2022.Corporate tax revenues reached a record-high of $425 billion – $128 billion or 43 percent higher than when the Trump tax cuts were passed and $72 billion higher than CBO’s projections for 2022.
Individual tax revenues reached a record-high of $2.6 trillion – over $1 trillion or 66 percent higher than when the Trump tax cuts were passed and $642 billion higher than CBO’s projections for 2022.
On average, revenues increased $205 billion per year over CBO’s projections.
In the first two years after passage of the Trump tax cuts, GDP growth was a full percentage point higher than CBO’s pre-TCJA forecast.According to the White House Office of Management and Budget, every additional one percent of sustained GDP growth will result in $600 billion in new revenues over 5 years and $2.8 trillion over 10 years.
Following passage of the Trump tax cuts…Real median household income rose by $5,000 – a bigger increase in just two years than in the prior eight years combined.
Wages increased 4.9 percent, the fastest two-year growth in real wages in 20 years.
The poverty rate and unemployment rate reached their lowest levels in 50 years, with all-time lows in unemployment among African American and Hispanic workers, and those without a high-school degree.
The bottom 20 percent of earners saw their federal tax rate fall to its lowest level in 40 years.
Americans earning under $100,000 received an average tax cut of 16 percent.
The share of taxes paid by the Top 1% of households increased while the tax burden paid by lower income earners decreased."
"And I think it explains a lot about what we're seeing in the polls and in the behavior of the candidate (evading any substantive questioning)."
The only thing I've seen (on X, from Kamala herself) is a vague reference to "bringing prices down." No specifics about what prices, or how any of it will be accomplished. She, and Joe, tout the lowered cost of some medications, accomplished by price controls, and I suspect that will be her tactic.
She's being purposely vague and evasive.
It really creeps me out that many people want to be slaves, tossed by the whims of would be elites who always turn out to get rich fast, like Beiden.
In each situation, these elites always pass laws to give the poor something, but at the last minute say, “ oh we ran out of money so you don't get yours, but we got ours.”
She has a vagina and that's all the likes of Robert, Inga and Rich require. Though I doubt Rich has ever seen one let alone been invited inside.
Harris didn't catapult. That would imply that she became so popular that she won the primary. No. Biden was pushed out and Harris was picked. They stamped her ticket in some kind of virtual convention that nobody knew even happened until afterward. There was no catapulting.
Now why is she "embryonic" policy wise. And if she is, why was she the only possible choice to replace Biden?
This woman ran for President 4 years ago. She has been in the Biden Administration for 3 1/2. She is supposed to be ready to assume the office at a moments notice. She hasn't given any thought to policy? She can't tell us which existing policies she agrees with and which she doesn't? Seriously? She's currently in office. What does that say about her? She should be able to talk policy better than just about anyone.
"Some polices will be a little too far left for a few and some will be a little too centrist for others, but you can guarantee that she will uphold democratic norms and try and govern to make the lives of ALL Americans better,..."
If you're not willing to admit that there are policies on the right that should be adopted, then you're not governing for ALL Americans.
Plus, I like how this writer somehow sees a "guarantee" in a candidate that has repeatedly flip flopped and not really come out with a lot of concrete policies.
Whilst? The only friends of mine who use 'whilst' instead of 'while' live across the pond from the U.S. Are we sure this comment was made by a registered voter?
For sure wasn't written by someone who has been to one of Harris's rallies or who knows much about her past, if decency and decorum are major concerns.
Uphold democratic norms like throwing your opponent in jail, unequal treatment under the law and disregarding the right to a speedy trial.
Two questions from Victor Davis Hanson re: Kamquat Harris…
1. How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now?
2. Would the media prefer to help her win but lose further credibility themselves by failing to ask why she has disowned her last three decades of leftist agendas, or to reclaim some of their reputations and thereby risk her losing?
"Whilst"? Is the commenter a Canadian or a Brit?
Now that was just mean, Rusty. Rich still has the hat he wore in early 2017 protest marches, so it will have to suffice.
I have a little, a very little, sympathy for Harris regarding policy announcements. She is ostensibly still a member of the Biden presidential administration (You in the back! No laughing!) and cannot really come out publicly opposing, in any significant way, any of their policies.
She also cannot hold a press conference to defend them as-is, because 1) they are terrible, 2) she did jack-all for them over the last 3.5 years, and 3) she's incapable of coping with even friendly press questioning. Accidents could happen, you know?
Would be nice to have a free press in the US. Sigh.
How do I know without looking that this comment was written by a woman?
Her big draw with the cat ladies and men who want to be cat ladies is her vagina.
She's been taught by Barack. The Blank Slate Method.
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she is teachin y'all !>> y'all have access to blank board to write graffitti
Unfortunately, I believe a D president, even with dementia, has a lock on 45% of the vote.
She's espousing the sentiments of the vast majority of voters for both parties in most elections. Nothing special here. The election will be decided by the minority of people who care to take the time to learn the issues, dissect the policies. And of course, those who vote at least twice.
Obama was elected twice by pretending to be a moderate, both racially and economically. Both were lies. Americans were eager to end racial tensions. They were lied to.
I appreciate italics as much as anyone but an entire page of them is over-indulgence.
Things Kamala won't tell you tomorrow:
Price controls always lead to black markets, special pleading, graft, misallocation of resources, and supply contraction. Always.
Rusty
She has a vagina and that's all the likes of Robert, Inga and Rich require. Though I doubt Rich has ever seen one let alone been invited inside.
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Word has it, Sheena Easton emphatically told Rich, "No sugar walls for YOU!"
"Calgon, take me away"
she will uphold democratic norms
As if there’s such a thing! LOL Norms! You’re killing me Lady!
Hammurabi, the King of Babylon almost 4000 years ago, implemented the first known government controls on food prices. They were enforceable by the death penalty. And they failed.
Every attempt since then has also failed, down to Venezuela and Argentina in the present day. There is no historical record of any nation that imposed price controls without suffering some combination of shortages, black markets, bribery, hoarding, misallocation of scarce resource, smuggling, special privileges for politicians and their cronies, hunger, social disorder, civil war, famine, and societal collapse.
Put price controls on bread, you get cheap whiskey and no bread. Put price controls on grains, you get no whiskey, no bread, and fields plowed under or converted to uncontrolled crops.
When I hear a politician advocate for price controls, I know immediately that he is a fool and a menace who should not be allowed to control any entity of more complexity than a hotdog cart. Don’t care how many degrees he has, how glib and flowery his speeches are, how appealing his other policies might be, or anything else. Such people are an existential threat to civilization.
Harris is just a front for Pelosi.
i.e. "Calgon, take me away"
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