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Reminds me of how MIT professor Jonathan Gruber arrogantly and condescendingly described how they had to flim-flam the voting populace into Obamacare.
Here’s his quote, which is the essence of Democrat lawmaking in general and Progressive lawmaking in particular:
“It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter,” Gruber said at the Honors Colloquium 2012 at the University of Rhode Island.”
And:
“They proposed it and that passed, because the American people are too stupid to understand the difference,” he said at Washington University at St. Louis in 2013.
Jonathan Gruber and Obamacare: What His Quotes Really Tell Us | The New Republic
Obamacare: Voters, are you stupid? | CNN Politics
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Please address his point, which is that Kamala Harris hasn’t had to answer a single unscripted question or submitted to a single interview since Pres. Biden withdrew. You’re being information siloed a la Ben Rhodes’s Iran deal.
I’ll answer it for him. This is Kamala’s version of Biden’s “basement strategy.” The less unscripted commentary that flows from her mouth, the better her odds of winning. Because she says some truly bizarre stuff when she has to speak off the cuff.
I’ll also add that she and Walz are rated as two of the most Progressive politicians in Congress. They are Leftier than Left in a moderate/right country, and they are trying to flim-flam the voting populace with the help of a desperate and willing media.
And…they just might win. If you look at the Dems, they have the Four Horsemen of the 21st Centry Apocalypse on their side: Wall Street, Hollywood, academia and Technology. They will Soros their way out of a Trump presidency if at all possible.
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Yeah, the Georgia thing wasn’t very bright. http://www.270towin.com just removed Georgia as a “likely Republican lean” to a tossup. 538 has Trump ahead in GA, but just by 0.6%.
270towin rates 77 votes as tossups in the following states: NV, AZ, GA, WI, MI, PA.
2024 Presidential Election Consensus Forecast – 270toWin
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Interesting you should point that out, I was just thinking about the same thing. Peggy Noonan wrote on her pros and cons this morning. Main concern is whether or not Harris is serious, a serious politician. Is she serious about the issues? Personally, I don’t think she is. I think she’s basically Dan Quayle.
The Fight of Trump’s Political Life – WSJ
Noonan says, basically, that Harris can’t do interviews and she can’t ad lib, but she can act the heck out of a scripted speech. So the formula is…no interviews. Will the voting public let her get away with it?
If Trump was smart, he’d double down on the interviews and shoot for three of them. And get JDV to “remove himself” from the ticket and replace him with Nikki Haley. It’s the only way Trump wins now.
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I don’t quite understand when or why the Democratic party abandoned Israel in particular and Jewish people in general. Israel is way down the list of voter concerns, even thought it makes for interesting nightly news…and Harris is missing a great opportunity to condemn Hamas / Palestine supporters who burn American flags and shout “Death to America”…while in America.
Shapiro should be a no-brainer. Not sure what’s taking so long.
The other no-brainer…on the other side…is that Trump should, really must debate Harris. The BBC, early in July referred to Harris as “deeply weird” and the Dems started applying it to Trump…and it’s going to stick, until the voters are reminded of just how deeply weird Harris is. She’s not interviewing with any media except the softball pitchers, and she’s happy to insult him at a distance. She must just marvel at her good luck that Trump is ducking her.
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That’s a good point. Kamala’s home state is rife with problems, described on this board ad nauseum. That should be the theme…”Do you want America to look like California?” I listened to Buttigieg go on and on about how Trump’s tax cuts benefited the rich and corporations, causing the great Have/Have Not gulf. The greatest Have/Have Not gulf, by far, is in California.
The only thing she did well was that she was actually a good, conservative DA, basically a law-and-order Dem, one of a vanishing breed. At the same time, she can’t trumpet that success because (a) it runs against Democratic mores and (b) she’s tied to the Defund the Police narrative.
There’s so much “there” that Trump and Vance should be attacking…
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Completely agree. If he sticks with Vance, Harris will win. Period. She may win anyway, which is odd given her complicity in the major fails of Biden’s reign.
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I’m like Dennis Miller, I voted “not-Hillary” in 2016. That said, if Hillary had embraced her husband, a very popular President, rather than run from him, she would have been a two-term President. Personally, I think she was miscast. She was a small-town lawyer, a Yalie, and while her extremely popular husband did extremely popluar things, he gave her one job — fix health care. And she mucked it up like crazy. Loooooove how she didn’t involve doctors or patients. Such a wonky way to approach it.
And she wasn’t a natural politician. Like I’d said before, when my youngest was in college, he had a WashDC internship with Tony Podesta’s ex-wife, who ran a PR/Lobbying firm. She held a fundraiser for Hillary, 20 people attended, raised $500k. When Hillary gave her remarks, she addressed the back of the room, like she was in an amphitheater. Bill C. had mastered the art of looking everyone in the eye. Wasn’t surprised when she wasn’t a hit in flyover country, especially given her propensity for malapropisms. “Deplorables” became a t-shirt and a slogan. My two favorites were (a) when asked if she regretted not spending more time at home with Chelsea, she replied “Well I guess I could have stayed home and baked cookies or something.” So…not a fan of stay at home moms; and (b) when asked about the burden her health care plan would place on small businesses, she said “Look, I can’t be responsible for every underfunded business in America.” So you hate small businesses and you hate stay at home moms. Such a tin ear.
Kamala…we’ll see. Like Hillary, her President gave her one job. While both mucked it up, at least Hillary tried to fix health care. Kamala didn’t even go to the border. Both cackle, both have the support of the media. Both lost/are behind in the swing states.
How can Kamala avoid HRC’s fate?
- Hillary…like Trump…selected a sub-optimal VP. Kamala looks like she’ll pick a good one, and she’ll benefit from Trump’s overconfident selection of Vance. Trump should have picked Nikki, who, unlike Kamala, actually is accomplished. She’d be a great counterweight. Might still happen if JDV “resigns”.
- Kamala needs to run hard on DEI. It has a greater impact now than it did eight years ago, especially running against two white hetero guys.
- They’ll have to lie a lot more and a lot better than HRC did the first time out with respect to all the areas the Dems are weak; e.g., the economy, inflation, immigration, the deficit, crime and unrest (Kamala’s between a rock and a hard place here).
- They’ll have to bait Trump and Vance into reactive mistakes (doesn’t seem too hard).
- Avoid the negatives that plagued HRC (e-mails, dead associates, one-note speeches, transparent ploys e.g. phony Russia scams).
- Encourage RFK to stay in the race and encourage Jill Stein and Cornel West to drop out.
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I think she’s at her high-water mark. She hasn’t had to seriously refute any of her past ridiculous comments, nor has she had to speak extemperaneously or talk to the media or face a hostile interview. Thirty seconds away from a teleprompter will remind everyone why she is spectacularly unfit to be President.
Right now, the Left is pretending that she’s the “most qualified”, ignoring the Everest-sized mountain of evidence that she’s remotely capable to lead anything, much less the Free World.
Here’s a little curveball of a question…transitioning from Biden to Harris is quite the mighty leap…from a 50-year professional, yet senescent politician who nonetheless appeals to the broadest swath of Blue voters, and a small minority of never-Trumpers, to a very capable District Attorney/somewhat capable Attorney General / not remotely capable Senator (most liberal) and a VP who literally had one job in which she failed miserably.
So here’s the question: are there voters who supported Biden but wouldn’t support his failure of a VP, and did/would/have any of them transitioned to support Trump?
Joe Biden is out and Kamala Harris is in. Disenchanted voters are taking a new look at their choices
Incidentally, the media contortions who are calling the current race a “tie” when Trump has a two point lead, nominally because it’s within a 3.1% margin of error is most amusing…
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Harris vs. Trump Polls: It’s a New Race (msn.com)
All of these polls show a close national race. Battleground-state data has been slower to arrive, but what we have shows Harris improving on Biden’s performance. A battery of Emerson–The Hill polls taken from July 22 to July 23 of five battleground states showed Wisconsin tied at 47 percent and Trump leading Harris by five points (49 percent to 44 percent) in Arizona, two points (48 percent to 46 percent) in Georgia, one point (46 percent to 45 percent) in Michigan, and two points (48 percent to 46 percent) in Pennsylvania.
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An Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey published this week found Harris was behind Trump in four key swing states and tied in a fifth, but was generally performing better than Biden had been. It showed:
- In Arizona, 44 percent supported Harris, while 49 percent backed Trump
- In Georgia, 46 percent backed Harris, while 48 percent supported Trump
- In Michigan, 45 percent backed Harris and 46 percent supported Trump
- In Pennsylvania, 46 percent supported Harris and 48 percent supported Trump
- In Wisconsin both Trump and Harris had 47 percent support
The poll was conducted on July 22 and 23 and had a margin of error of 3.3 percent. Arizona, Georgia and Michigan each had a sample size of 800 while 845 were surveyed in Wisconsin and 850 in Pennsylvania.
Times/Siena poll found the same thing on a national basis:
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It’s amazing that I yearn for the days of Bush. I spent years on the CEB railing against his policies and the Iraq War. I turned out to be right (and now all the MAGA are pretending they hated Bush too, when they were cheerleading all that shit). But at least we simply had differences of opinion and policy. His policies were disastrous, as were his court picks, but they were things we could move on from.
I don’t. I was a Republican until Bush. I left over his deficits. He was too left/too financially ridiculous for me. I re-registered as an independent and have been as such ever since.
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Transfer payments back to the home country should be taxed.
People here on asylum can’t/shouldn’t go back to the countries that they’re begging to leave.
And for the real controversial point: people here illegally should be registered, tracked and taxed and put on a path to citizenship.
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No wonder she failed at border control. In her eyes, she succeeded…she and Biden created, implemented and retained conditions which allowed in the maximum number of illegal immigrants, including 14,000 arrested for child trafficking.
Obamas endorsed Harris today. Interesting take by The Telegraph – and I have to admit, the British publications frequently have deeper and stronger takes than American publications – they posit that the Obamas intended to install Senator Kelly as the replacement, but Biden pre-empted them by endorsing Harris.
Obama’s scheming has spectacularly backfired
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Tierna Davidson, Sophia Smith, Naomi Girma, and Crystal Dunn did not put their hands over their hearts for the anthem. Weird that 3/3 Stanford players chose not to acknowledge the anthem. After the World Cup, I figured they learned their lesson. Maybe not. Contrast with the Euros and Copa America, where the men’s teams linked arms and sang their anthems.
Privileged people born in the shadow of giants who paid in blood for their privileged pettiness. Just another sign in the continuing deterioration of the country. Watching American flags burn and crowds chanting “Death to America” while in America.
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