What questions would YOU ask Harris & Walz in the interview?

[Mick1]

Here’s a few I’d really like to see answered. Maybe more than a few:

1. Will you submit a detailed, 25-point position paper covering all of your positions within the next week?
2. You were in charge of the border (you didn’t disavow being called the border czar). You never visited the border. Illegal immigration was 6x what it was during Trump’s tenure. You’ve never denied you want open borders. What regrets do you have on how you handled border issues? Why should we trust you now?
3. You were part of a series of Biden failures over the last 3.5 years (e.g., stalled economy, worst inflation in three generations, Bidenomics, etc.). How will your high tax policies improve the economy? Why should we trust you now?
4. A high percentage of your new taxes have been tried before and failed and resulted in greater inflation. Why should we trust you now?
5. Why should Americans trust you on the economy after the administration admitted to being surprised by the extent of inflation during Biden’s term?
6. Was it a mistake to give Powell another term?
7. Why have you flip-flopped so much
   1. Border wall / Abolish ICE, which you compared to the Klan / Open Borders – she wanted to repeal the criminal statute for entering the country without permission, criticized Obama for deporting illegals
   2. Supported sanctuary cities.
   3. were anti-Fracking and pro Green New Deal and other energy positions
   4. Defund the police and other crime policies (e.g., she raised funds for bail for violent insurrectionists who attacked the Minnesota federal courthouse and people died in MN
   5. Health care/Medicare-for-all/elimination of private health insuranc
   6. You supported Israel in 10/23 and armed Israel to wage war but NOW you want to curb Israeli access to weapons and are sympathetic to Hamas and Palestine.
8.  In actuality, you (KH) haven’t flip-flopped, you’ve let aides redefine your 180-degree diametric opposite stances. Will you personally repudiate your former positions? Why should we trust you now?
9. What did President Biden get wrong on Gaza? What would you do differently? Why should we trust you now?
10. Of 14 major Democrat candidates in 2020, you were the first to drop out. Why should we trust you now?
11. By definition, you and Walz are two of the most Far Left politicians in the country, according to the nonpartisan GovTrack. Why should we trust you now?
12. Biden stated no American died in foreign wars on his watch, yet 13 died in the disastrous Afghan pullout. Do you want to correct that statement? DO you view it as a disastrous pullout? Will you get us in any more wars? What will you do about Russia v. Ukraine? Why should we trust you now?
13. You are a Berkeley / San Francisco radical, far to the Left of most of the country. You’re trying to position yourself as a moderate. Why should we trust you now?
14. How will you pay for Social Security? Why should we trust you?
15. The only policies you have openly supported (no tax on tips) not only were stolen from Trump, but you were the deciding vote to make them taxable. Why should we trust you now?
16. Chuck Schumer has stated that Democrats will reinstate tax-friendly policies for the rich; e.g., removing caps on deductions for state and local expenses like mortgage interest and property taxes. Will you keep the caps in place? Why should we trust you?
17. The key uber-wealthy groups that support the Democratic party (technology, Wall Street, legal profession, Hollywood) stand to benefit from your Presidency. Will you install tax-friendly policies aimed at those groups? Why should we believe you?
18. Academia is now almost completely far left. What will you do to redress that? Why should we trust you?
19. What do you really believe? Why should we trust you now?
20. Why have you avoided interviews? Why did you need a babysitter for this interview?
21. Why did you want to change the rules of a debate that had already been approved?
22. Will you accept the outcome of the election, or will you fight it as did Hillary and Al Gore? Why should we trust you?
23. Many, if not most of your supporters claim that democracy is at risk if Trump gets re-elected. He was President once before, nothing changed. Why are you and the democratic party pretending that democracy is at risk? In fact, your candidacy came about without benefit of a democratic vote. Isn’t the Democratic party the real risk to Democracy? Why should we trust you?
24. Incidentally, it creeps me out ever so slightly that you refer to yourself as “Gen X” when you were born in 1964. The Baby Boomers, by definition, were born 1946 to 1964. You’re a baby boomer, just like Bill and Hillary Clinton (and me). Stop running from it. You’re not young.

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[rogpodge]

Tell us, what brings you joy?

It seems that you’ve been so successful connecting with younger voters. What can you tell them you will do to make society more equitable?

One of your election themes is “We won’t go back.” Tell us how far back Trump and Vance want to take us.

What is the significance of the passage of time?

You were space Czar, what is America’s future in space?

How did working a summer job inform your proposal to increase the federal minimum wage?  Did you ever work for tips? Is that why Trump stole the idea from you, and your stance wasn’t a condition for the SEIU endorsement in Nevada?

Evidence of price gouging is all around us, with former Treasury Secretary Robert Reich putting Kroger on blast for having 20% gross profit last fiscal year. How will the federal government reign in corporate greed?

How is the alt-Right influencing the Trump campaign, and why are Republicans so racist?

Project 2025 is a libertarian version of Mein Kampf. How will you make sure that individual liberty doesn’t get in the way of using the administrative state to further progressive policies?

Elon Musk, and now even Mark Zuckerberg are openly spreading disinformation. What are your plans to curb misinformation?

What are you going to do to make sure that Israel unilaterally disarms so that the killing in Gaza and the assassination of Iranian peacemakers stops?

Joe Biden accidentally gave $239M to the Taliban. Coming in fresh, with no culpability whatsoever, what will you do to avoid similar problems in the future?

What will you do to make sure that we realize a return on investment on our climate change policies, give the Inflation Reduction Act’s record of only building 12 EV chargers with $7B, only providing a handful of electric buses with $900M, and not connecting a single rural high speed Internet customer? Those were Sec. Granholm’s failures, of course, not yours.

Recently, videos of you cooking are resurfacing on the Internet, including cracking and egg with one hand. Is this part of JD Vance’s plan to put women back in the kitchen?

How did you spend brat summer?

You’re the law and order candidate. How will you make sure that as many enemies of democracy are in prison?

America remains the most prosperous nation on earth. How are you going to ensure that that wealth doesn’t remain in the wrong hands? Every human being who can make it to our shores deserves a piece of that wealth as soon as they arrive, right? That’s what it means to be a global citizen?

You have an economics background and your father was an economics professor at Stanford. So you know better than anyone else how the government can continue to spend money and print money, so long as we reign in corporate greed?

Your economics background allows you to set the optimal price for food, housing, and other essentials. Why didn’t Biden use your expertise; how far down can you bring inflation, and how quickly?

We can also afford to provide health care, housing assistance, education, and social security to all refugees / economic refugees, because of modern monetary theory, right? Janet Yellen has said as much.

In the last four years, native born employment has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels, and foreign-born workers have gained approximately 1M jobs. Why are American-born workers so racist?

Educational attainment and test scores have dropped significantly in most states since the pandemic. Are you going to ban standardized testing like they did in Oregon on day 1?

Crime is clearly down since the Summer of Love in 2020. Some cities have stopped reporting statistics. Are you going to end the racist requirement that cities record and report crime statistics in order to receive federal funds?

What is possible if we are in unburdened by what has been?

[Mick1]

In this #metoo age, when men who pressure women to have sex with them in exchange for advancing their careers are rightfully sent to prison, you received your first two political positions when you were 29 years old from your 60-year-old married boyfriend, Willie Brown. These paid positions were on the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission. You had no experience or training in either insurance or the medical profession, yet you accepted these positions. Do you advocate that women should sleep with married men to receive paid positions? And (per Willie Brown) a BMW?

In February, 1998, popular long-time San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan recruited you as an assistant district attorney and promoted you ramidly to become chief of the Career Criminal Division. Four years later, you stabbed him in the back by mischaracterizing his positions — in your words, you ran a “forceful” campaign that was actually very conservative. You pushed for higher bail for gun related claims, yet you pledged never seek the death penalty, even in the case of a murdered SF Police Officer and an MS-13 gang member/illegal immigrant who murdered a man and his two sons in cold blood. You also supported SF as one of the first sanctuary cities in 2005. So…WTF?

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