A headline over at Salon. The piece is by Joe Tauke. Excerpt:
[R]egardless of whatever economic statistics Harris or Biden or any other Democrat might throw out there... [polls] strongly imply that no amount of attempted persuasion will convince voters that they feel better about the economy now than they did during the Trump administration — because, well, they don’t. It’s not even close.... Moreover, real-time economic conditions (other than inflation) for the country appear to be deteriorating just as the campaign enters its most intense phase.... If voters in [swing] states are thinking about the economy when casting their ballots, Trump will win. If Harris can get them to think about virtually anything else (other than immigration), she’ll win. In 1992, during Bill Clinton’s winning effort against George H.W. Bush, “It’s the economy, stupid” was the best advice a Democratic campaign could follow. In 2024, it’s the best way for the latest Democratic nominee to lose.
Okay, but "virtually anything else"? Immigration? Endless wars? Going toe-to-toe with Putin? The Covid lockdown? Guns? Gender affirmation treatments? DEI? Rather than "anything else," the best advice — the advice she seems to be taking — is that nothing else is better. Kamala Harris is running as representing no issue at all. They say you can't beat something with nothing, but they are trying, and they think — I believe — it's their best hope... because the something (Donald Trump) is so monstrously, calamitously bad.
ADDED: I think the phrase "You can't beat something with nothing" originated with Will Rogers, and he was talking, in 1934, about Republicans running on nothing but the horribleness of their opponent — FDR:
BUT: I see I blogged about Will Rogers and the phrase "You can't beat something with nothing" last January, here. At the time, "I wanted to critique the Biden campaign strategy." Ha ha. Anyway, I determined last January that "Will Rogers didn't invent 'You can't beat something with nothing.' Even back then, it was an 'old saying.'"
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Joy!!!!!
As far as I hear, all Harris has is Trump will make Abortion illegal. Something he's stated he won't do. And Project 2025! Something he's disavowed.
How can anyone vote for a candidate who won't talk to the press, who won't state what she will do (and explain why she's not doing it right now!), and who lies constantly about her opponent?
Hmmm… Believe the lying D-bagger Democrats or your lying eyes?
Tough call! /sarc
If you're happy and you know it, put your head in sand
If you're happy and you know it, put your head in sand
If you're happy and you know it
And Kamala tells you to ignore it
Well then you're happy and you know it
Put your head in sand
Ann nails it. I just read a story about a rural Indiana teen girl who was stabbed in the hand by an illegal alien at a baseball game. That was unthinkable 4 years ago. In Manhattan, 75% of the crime is committed by illegals.
The only way Harris wins is by cheating and TDS.
This election cycle is really showing the power the media still has to control the narrative. We hate them, we distrust them, but they still exercise huge control over what people think and talk about.
How many people have forgotten that less than 2 months ago, there was a nearly successful assassination attempt on Trump? How many people think about Kamal Harris' involvement in the conspiracy to hide Biden's physical and mental decline? (Which should be one of the greatest scandals in American political history.)
"the something (Donald Trump) is so monstrously, calamitously bad" That's what it's about. Plus killing viable babies. It's enough.
Just saw a Word Salad Kammie campaign ad that said Trump will effectively create a national sales tax. Where did that come from?
Its salon the chase branded dezinforma
The entire campaign is built on Trump lies a fearmongering. Yesterday on the Summerfest grounds in Milwaukee Walz claimed Trump wanted to bring back child labor. The latest project 2025 commercial is a complete lie. Their supporters swallow it all.
tim maguire said..
the power the media still has to control the narrative. We hate them, we distrust them, but they still exercise huge control over what people think and talk about.
a week after Kamela was anointed, my (92yr life long democrat) mother said to me:
"well, They Say that Trump's brain is starting to go.."
I asked her what she meant? and she said he was getting senile..
I asked her WHERE she heard that? and she said: "THEY SAID."
my mom believes ANYTHING that the media tells her.. ANY THING at all.
If it's in Mother Jones News.. it's Gospel.
Needless to say, She'll be voting for Kamela this month
(i'm assuming my dad (who died in 2021) will too)
The lies are astonishingly brazen. The D campaign has repeatedly referred to JD Vance as a child of rich parents assuming the voters that matter, the ones who are barely paying attention (because they have lives to deal with), will just accept it. Ds love to accuse Rs of "The Big Lie", but that one is pretty astonishing. I guess they know people don't read books.
Que Mala!
Virtually anything but that...and that..and, of course, that. Errr..Trump's Hitler!
Snappier if you remove "put your".
Will Rogers did not visualize the modern world (cf. Ayn Rand and George Orwell) where you can easily beat something with nothing when you have a one party media and a population lacking critical reasoning skills.
Mother Jones seriously not in a million years would I touch that with a 10 foot barge pole
Here in western Pennsylvania the HW campaign is running ads about how prices are high and Kamala has a plan to fix it.
Not persuasive for this voter.
The MOM + Grandmother who was jailed by Walz(D)/ Keith Ellison(D) in MN - for Covid violations - IE: attempted to run her small business against the crackdown from the communist anti-Constitution ChiC-om Covid radial leftist Covid Nazis.
See here.
Other that abortion - every issue is Trump's issue to leverage.
This is why the media pimp Kamala.
The corrupt lying liar left have nothing but lies and destruction.
The Dems disproved "you can't beat something with nothing" four years ago, and they're about to do it again.
well they had Covid then, so that was cover, and we've had four years of reality,
What is the "something else" that Kamala should focus on? Beats me...I know, let's ask Inga!
Remember Planet Hillary, that cringey Times Weekend cover,
Collective Radical Leftist Democrat Party Media in full war with the Constitution. On behalf of radical puppet Kamala and her pile of crap running mate - Dictator Walz(D).
The Democrats are officially anti-Constitution.
The sacred document that gives us our unique freedoms, our freedom of speech, and other liberties and freedom against a tyrannical government.
Keith Ellison(D) - Walz's butt-boi - is all in.
(of course most of this is due to Elon Musk)
A few self-described journalists, like Joe Tauke, are just a bit out of touch with ordinary people. I infer that Salon pays its writers extraordinarily well, because It is the economy, stupid. Only the affluent can ignore the costs of gasoline for driving to the grocery store and then paying for groceries.
Oh my goodness. As if her political shortcomings weren't bad enough. Kamala Harris is also getting atrocious advice.
Sooner or later, the Democrat Party was bound to realize: It's the stupid, stupid. Kamala Harris, the candidate and her voters are the perfect match. In a world full of squirrels: oh, look, another one!
Willful ignorance. That's how.
I simply don't get the complaint that Harris is running on nothing. She has at least one big issue -- abortion. She is clearly against banning abortion. And although folks say that abortion is now a state issue, the federal government has a big say. For example, banning the sale of mifepristone. This is a big issue, and the contrast between Trump and Harris could not be more stark.
Saying she is running on nothing is really saying that an issue that is a major concern for many people, including many women, is nothing.
The Democratic Communists have nothing but LIES.
Their 2025 paranoia is all lies and fear mongering.
The California Man with the Plan was socialist novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair's comment on the election may be relevant today: "The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000." The next summer, Will Rogers would be gone -- a plane crash in Alaska.
The Democrat hope is that with Biden's stepping down, everything Biden and Trump will be old news, eclipsed by fresh, new, "brat" Kamala, but what's really left for the Democrats to harp on? Abortion 24-7?
The thing is, Harris does have something. She's not running on nothing. She has the Democratic Press Infrastructure ignoring her lack of everything except big poofy bows (Honestly: How did the fashion police not drag that look at the DNC?). That's how you beat something with nothing: The Press Establishment drags you across the finish line.
Upton Sinclair lost in 1934, that was part of the complain of the Mankiewitz
series I think, they still haven't gotten over it, and that was 90 years ago
Inga! Inga! Inga!
Just testing.
Bill Maher pretends to be Will Rogers well he doesn't even really know his name
Mark Steyn has a column up titled, "What's the next plot twist?" It comes on September 18th when "Judge" Marchan sentences Trump to 3 years in prison and has him taken into immediate custody. Our Bastille Day is September 18th.
on the buffy spin off Angel, there was a firm of Devils Advocates called Wolf Ram and Heart, and they would engage in such public relations,
don't (redacted) on me, and tell me its raining
Nancy Pelosi : What's the premise?
David Plouffe : Well, as I was saying, Kamala would play herself, and... as a black woman living in Washington, and she has a portfolio of important items given to her by the President, which is all true.
David Axelrod : Yeah, but nothing happens in the campaign. You see, it's just like life. You know, she eats, she goes shopping, she reads, she eats, she reads, she goes shopping.
James Carville : She reads? She reads in the campaign?
David Plouffe : Well, I don't know about the reading. We didn't discuss the reading.
James Carville : All right, tell me about the issues. What kind of issues?
David Axelrod : Oh, no. No issues.
James Carville : No issues? So what is it?
David Axelrod : What did you do today?
James Carville : I got up and came to work.
David Axelrod : There's a campaign event. That's an event.
James Carville : How is that an event?
David Plouffe : Well, maybe something happens to her on the way to work.
David Axelrod : No, no, no! Nothing happens!
David Plouffe : [Pointedly] Well, something happens.
James Carville : Well, why are people watching it?
David Axelrod : Because it's on MSNBC.
James Carville : Not yet.
David Axelrod : [Clears throat] O.K... uh... look. If you wanna just keep doing the same old thing, then maybe this campaign is not for you. I, for one, am not going to compromise my political integrity, and I'll tell you something else. This is the campaign, and we're not gonna change it.
[Snaps fingers at Plouffe]
David Axelrod : Right?
[Exits]
David Plouffe : How about this? She manages a circus...
The Great Depression was sustained in a fiscal backlog.
Kamala = Que mala. Sing it loud from sea to sea. (From other blogs)
Now I live in Texas... and I drove to another city to put get my trail cameras photos (in a swamp.) I drove though the city and the 'poor section'. I SAW NOT ONE CAMALA POSTER!!! I did see many Trump ones, even on in the 'poor section' (i.e. black section.) Same goes in the city I live in (population over 100,000.)
Least here in Texas... outside Austin... no one want's Kamala.. no one.
Behold: The Modern Democrat Party
"It's not the economy, stupid: Why Kamala Harris should focus on everything else."
1: It IS the economy, which is why she's going to lose.
[R]egardless of whatever economic statistics Harris or Biden or any other Democrat might throw out there... [polls] strongly imply that no amount of attempted persuasion will convince voters that they feel better about the economy now than they did during the Trump administration — because, well, they don’t. It’s not even close
That's because the Dems are gaming the numbers, and the reality is far worse, which everyone knows from their own lives
If Harris can get them to think about virtually anything else (other than immigration), she’ll win
"anything else" like, oh, all the things the good Professor listed
If you can get them to do no thinking at all, on any subject, and simply emote "Trump is bad", then you might win. Once any thinking gets involved, Harris loses.
Tell me three things so bad about Trump that they force you to vote for Harris, and I'll show you where Biden, Harris, Obama, or Walz was at least just as bad as Trump on those things.
"Trump is a lying narcissistic windbag!" So are all 4 of the Dems. "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." There's no bigger liar in politics that Barack Obama, although Joe Biden ran a close second
Boy that's some vacuous advice. How apropos. Harris's problem in this campaign is that there are no wins in the biden-Harris era. The closest they come to positives are that most of the jobs lost during COVID (but not all) have been back-filled and inflation is not presently increasing. Unfortunately for the cacklers campaign both of those slight positives come with yuge caveats. The full-time jobs never came back to the extent part-time jobs replaced them and the only growth for US citizens was in government jobs; all other job growth went to immigrants. And inflation is stubbornly near 3% still, even if it is down from its high, there is no relief because wage growth has stalled. This used to be called "stagflation."
But I think the biggest hangover from being Biden's wingwoman is that Harris has had to continually lie to the American people about the border, about Joe's fitness, about the economy, etc. They were both in such a habit of telling us how great it was when we all knew it wasn't that she has no credibility left. Which is why "my values haven't changed" was received much differently than she thought it would be when she memorized it, and used like an all-purpose answer in the fake interview.
I live in a rural county in NW PA where Trump signs proliferate. There is one large estate that has a 4’ x 8’ sign plus several smaller ones with Biden-Harris on them. Biden? Would he/she be classified as a low information voter?
LOL that's really a thing her supporters put out. What dopes.
Go ask her.
Kamala-lala-ding-dong is running on abortion as are the Dems here in AZ. However, she is deceptive about the difference between her position (unlimited access until the moment of birth) and Trump's position (let the states decide, but thinks 6 weeks limit is too short).
In other words, Trump is taking the moderate position and Kamala the radical one. In AZ, Kari Lake seems to be taking the radical position (almost all abortions banned) and will lose dramatically to Socialist Rueben Gallego.
Harris/Walz.
Like Seinfeld they are a show about nothing.
KILL BABIES, KILL BABIES, KILL BABIES...that is the only thing Kamala and her side care about.
Well, that, and Orange Man Bad.
"Will Rodgers" twice? I know, I know, nitpicky.
Any time I have the opportunity to pound the facts while they're pounding the table, I do. I don't want to be the only one who's convinced.
If I had ham, I could have a ham and cheese sandwich, if I had cheese. If Harris stopped talking about the economy, she could win, if she stopped talking about immigration.
She isn't running on nothing- she running for abortion up to 9 months. She is also running on a flood of illegitimate mail-in-ballots in the big blue cities everywhere.
How about this? She returns to teh Competitive Hot Dog Eating circuit…
"If Harris can get them to think about virtually anything else (other than immigration), she’ll win."
Other than the economy and millions of unknowns flooding across the border and swamping our ability to provide for our own, much less them???
Why isn't Joe Tauke asking himself why he is voting for Harris?
In 1992, when Carville pushed that slogan, the recession prompted by a Democrat Senate vote, was already over. Ross Perot beat Bush.
That would certainly be interesting. I would expect an immediate appeal to the USSC.
Because Orange Man touched him in his special place.
The AZ GOP also voted for an absolute ban, which is stupid. But never doubt the AZ GOP is stupid.
Yup. And it might work.
Today’a question is how do you beat 30,000,000 fake mail-in votes inserted into the vote count. We are about to find out.
This is true, of course. This single issue may be enough to give her the win.
KH is the candidate for people for whom politics isn't a means to an end, but rather is an end to itself. For these people, it's absurd to ask "which candidate will make your life better?," because they'll only be capable of being content with their lives if Trump loses.
" For example, banning the sale of mifepristone. This is a big issue, and the contrast between Trump and Harris could not be more stark."
Could you explain that contrast. I don't see it.
Not nitpicky at all. Spot on, MadTownGuy
This is why Kamala talks as though Trump is the incumbent and she's the challenger.
She's running on the future, on "what can be, unburdened by what has been."
Since the Biden Administration's record is dragging her down she has to distance herself from what is currently perceived as her own record.
Maybe her campaign slogan should be: "Yeah, but Joe wouldn't fucking listen."
Trump gatherings and campaign flags, hats, banners and flags are all over town. In the tiny town of Port Salerno, FL, this morning, I saw my very first Harris-Walz sign. It was on the front lawn of a rather nice house on the Manatee Pocket.
Today's stock market might disagree with Kamala. Labor numbers to come. It doesn't matter what Kamala thinks or does not think. Reality has time to show itself before November.
All this fun and games is amusing, but only the mail-in ballot harvesting matters in electing the next president. And the Dems do that harvesting better than the Repubs. PA will have every single registered Democrat voter voting, absolutely 100%, for the Dem ticket, and every nursing home resident, empty lot, cemetery, etc., etc., etc. voting for the Dem ticket, too. Same in every other swing state.
I expect over 170,000,000 votes to be counted this election, versus the 155,000,000 last time. Both sides are harvesting mailed votes this time, but again the Dems do it better. Is a mail-in ballot, never asked for, never seen, by a nonvoter, but filled out by a Dem operative and mailed to the precinct counting center along with 100 or 1000 others, counted as a vote? Hell yes, always, since 2020. The fix is in, and it is being sent in via the US Postal Service.
Maybe her campaign slogan should be: "Yeah, but Joe wouldn't fucking listen."
If you can't convince the person who chose you for your current job, what chance do you have against someone who's an actual adversary?
But hey- she's black(ish), sort of Indian(ish) when it's useful and has a vagina. So she's got that going for her.
It's a joke, Mason.
I'm not pregnant (being as I'm a guy I'm not likely to become pregnant) nor am I responsible for anyone being pregnant (being as I'm in my 80's that's also not likely), but I do read Supreme Court decisions. Abortion is now a State law issue. Yes, I do recognize that the over-reach of Federal regulatory Authority often does impinge on issues that really are NO BUSINESS of federal policy makers. That's a high-priority issue among us "conservatives". If a particular drug is safe, the Feds have no right to ban it because it is used to prevent or cause abortions. If there are legitimate safety concerns, then they need to be addressed.
I knew I should’ve copyrighted that!
You go to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and all you see are Trump posters.
You may have intended it as a joke, but there's still a serious question there. Not that the voters will ever get an answer to it, of course.
Kamala is not brat. Kamala is THOT.
What are the odds that Harris fits that bill perfectly? Her saying nothing is better than her saying something. And it's assumed by the suggester that Democrat voters will be fine with it too. From what I read on Social Media it seems likely. Out - "ridin' with Biden", In - "anyone but Biden". Just do it silently!
And guess what? PA judge just determined that they can’t reject mail-in ballots with bad dates. And, turns out the USPS delivered maybe a million ballots from NY to a ballot counting location in Philadelphia in October of 2020. The USPS employee who moved them has sued his employer, and they are in full coverup mode.
Election 2024: Beware of the USPS
People these days forget how popular Will Rogers was - - he turned a vaudeville roping act into an early standup comedy routine, telling "fresh-laid" jokes in the same manner that Johnny Carson later did. He became a popular newspaper columnist and radio show personality, and of course was a popular actor in the earliest years of Hollywood. When he died in an Alaska plane crash the entire US went into mourning. He was well-informed from his newspaper reading habit ("I only know what I read in the newspapers") and was politicially astute. I'd recommend the Donald Day biography of Rogers for anyone who wants to be better informed of that period.
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