Kamala Harris might save the Democrats from Biden but can she save America from Trump?
I always thought it was a terrible mistake to blame Putin for Hillary losing for two reasons:
1 – The idea that Putin could influence the 2016 American election with nothing more than a couple of million dollars of Facebook adverts suggests a weakness that is so terminal, that America should just shut down now.
2 – By blaming Putin, it removed all the responsibility from the Democrats for selecting a terrible candidate like Hillary.
You beat Trumps negative populism with Bernie Sanders’ positive populism. remember this …
…my God isn’t that powerful!
That advert still makes me weep with the beauty of it!
But no, Democrats playing their identity politics game believed it was more important to get the first female president elected and so knifed Bernie, selected a war crone like Hillary as candidate and Trump beat her.
I fear the Democrats identity politics have made the same mistake by handing a coronation over to Harris.
Biden selected Harris because he stated he would select a women VP no matter what and he came under immense pressure from Black Women Faction inside the Democrats to select Harris.
I think Harris has come across in the past as a flake and her wellness word salads that she conjures up are remarkably shallow, but the cadaver that is Biden makes Harris a billion times more preferable.
I hope she wins because I honestly believe Trump poses an existential threat, not only to America, but the planet. He is an Orange Fascist who will begin an American Midnight, but the coronation of Harris seems aimed at protecting Democrat interests holding the House of Representatives and the Senate rather than protecting America from Trump.
She has launched incredibly well with an enormous donation dump (although a lot of that money had been withheld because of Biden) and the first snap poll has her level pegging, (because of the electoral college she needs to be 4 points ahead to be winning).
She has taken it to Trump in her first speech and you can’t deny the relief and hope that she has generated amongst Democrats.
Trump is such an existential threat, any candidate that shows a chance of beating him is a cherished miracle.
What will win?
The United States of Angry Women or Trump’s Wounded Masculinity Amerika?
135million Americans are considered living in poverty with just one crisis away from homelessness – Trumps popularity is partly because the Democrats have not managed to respond meaningfully in the lives of the working poor!
The Democrats are selling hope, and Americans love hope, Trump is selling vengeance, and a large chunk of America craves revenge.
I fear Trump’s Wounded Masculinity Amerika alongside the way he responded under fire has the upper hand and that the coronation of Harris looks good only because Biden was so woefully in decline.
Once this fight is fought, the Democrats need to take a long hard look at themselves for allowing Biden’s condition to get as bad as it did that he had to stand down.
Smart money would be on Biden standing down on medical grounds shortly after the Democrat Convention and immediately place Harris into the role as President so she has that going into the election against Trump.
This would give Biden a redemption arc by putting into power the first Black Female President.
Anything is better than Trump and Harris is anything.
“The only time Harris has been promoted by a man pulling out”
Frank Zappa said that politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex and the US is certainly delivering!
Probably already out there are collections of Kamala quotes and exposees to keep us amused. But I am sure with an adaquately prepared brief, prosecuter Harris can deliver a convincing courtroom performance. The off script, adlib moments will be the revelatory ones.
My response to the 4 posters and slogans above is a very cynical and weary “yeah right” and “how may pot growers did you prosecute?” And “How many 10s of millions of people has your shithole country killed?”
Naughty.
The trouble with Trump is he has had to pay 100s of thousands for ” not pulling out”.
It’s hilarious. The republican spin machine doesn’t know what to do. They now have a woman of colour to attack but their own VP pick has an Indian wife ( which has pissed off factions in that party). Doh!
Can one big-money controlled US political party stop the other big-money controlled US political party from acting primarily for the interests of big-money over the interests of its people and people all over the world, well….can’t we see the problem here!
Nonetheless, Biden was so bad – cognitively speaking – back in 2020 and far, far, far worse today that he even makes Harris look half way decent. Sickening, the choices the US political system offers its voters, but even more sickening that most people can’t see that this is a clear symptom of just how broken their politics, therefore politics all over the Western world, at least, is. Heck, I even have people close to me that believe Biden to be the best US president ever. Fark me.
To be honest I wouldn’t vote for either to them. I would have voted for Bernie though . .
Me too.Wish we had a Bernie in NZ
Harris is of course awful, and is so nasty to work with she can’t even keep staff. She rose through the Democrat Party on her back, if you know what I mean, and she seems incapable of articulating a sound idea that hasn’t come off a prompt machine. She’s the ultimate consequence of DEI. Dead set useless, but the deep state types and oligarchs love her because she’ll be as easy to control as Biden.
Where I think you’re wrong is in calling Trump a fascist. Sure CNN, MSNBC and the BBC are saying that but in recent years they’ve become little more than statist propaganda machines. Remember that they were the ones pushing the Russia lie which was actually based on the Democrat Party and FBIs ‘Cross Fire Hurricane’ psyop. Tell me, who are the ones who are race obsessed? That would be the ‘woke left’ that is employing Goebel’s tactics of blaming their opposition of doing what they’re actually doing. So the combination of Trump and Vance now stand as a working class / populist revolt against an openly fascist federal state.
Who’s going to win? It could be Harris because the Machine is on her side. And never underestimate the shallowness of the average American vote: One promotion from Taylor Swift and Harris has it in the bag! If Trump wins, it will be a truly heroic win.
It will not be a heroic win if Trump wins in November, it will be the result of a US electoral system that seems to be designed to eliminate the ability to vote of people who are in difficult circumstances & while you seem happy to believe Trump’s lies that says more about your gullibility than anything else.
I fear that Trump will win since that is the likely result of the way I understand prophecy yet it will cause many problems some of which Martyn has already described.
Tell me more about these “difficult circumstances” that prevent people voting.
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Trump is of course awful, and is so nasty to work with he can’t even keep staff.
There Andrew, fixed the narrative you were trying to achieve
As the Big Yin said “Trump…now there’s a cunt”
Sorry pal, but Felon Daipher Don is a fascist, in word and deed. If you can’t recognise a narcissist egomaniac who desires unlimited power without any checks, you don’t know your history or political definitions.
As for endorsements for Harris, well keep up pal, she got them from Swift, Beyonce, Clooney and a whole host of others.
Even the latest right wing polls show her two points ahead of Trump, and her political “honeymoon” hasn’t started yet.
Boy, so confusing.
Numbskull racism and misogyny runs rampant here. Kamila has got it in the bag. She’ll choose Mike Kelly as VP. Yes, she can beat Trump. And NO the casting couch did not make her first in her field in practically every job she has had til now. What. The. Fuck.
The architect of sanctions against Russia, Bob Menendez, was recently charged with serious bribery charges in the US
https://www.rt.com/news/590071-us-menendez-qatar-allegations/
This pretty much sums up the Russiagate hoax, a racist lunatic conspiracy theory dreamt up by the likes of this corrupt loser to steal Russian money and smear it’s people (background: Ludicrous is the theory that Russia will invade Europe, if anything the countries bordering Russia are executing a defacto invasion. America would not allow foreign missiles to be stationed minutes from Washington but Russia is expected to. The Russian Federation was willing to use diplomacy to secure peace in the region years before 2022 but this was rejected by Ukraine’s handlers. Russia has shown the utmost restraint in their special operation and in response to sanctions and terrorism, while the EU, NATO and the US simply do not care about diplomacy, consequence, the rule of law or, lets be serious, people. Russia didn’t start the war in Ukraine but they will finish it).
Russia didn’t interfere in the US elections or try to influence another country for their own selfish ends. They aren’t America. Alarmingly though just today some genocidal maniac from Israel did take over the American congress in an attempt to promote mass murder, genetic superiority and religious extremism.
“Russia didn’t interfere in the US elections or try to influence another country for their own selfish ends”
I’m inclined to think that they did.
But I laugh out loud at USA’s indignation at the act, should it have actually happened as alleged by the US propaganda machine. After all, USA is doing the same thing, all the time, all around the world. And when/if USA doesn’t at first succeed at buying their own way, it follows by covert operations, the next step being that they just send in the boots and Blackhawks. It was priceless to observe the Russians out-playing them at their own game.
Kamala is on paper an incredibly weak candidate, and I suspect her chequered past will come back to haunt her (not to mention her complete failure as the “Border Czar”). That said, I think she is far more electable than Biden, and with some good speech writers might be able to give rallies people will want to attend. If she can maintain her current momentum, and selects the right VP, the election will be very close.
We talk about her credentials ignoring the fact that Trump has proven to be completely unsuitable. He’s a f’ing loser. Practically bankrupt for large amounts of this career. A misogynistic fraudster con artist, who topped it off by attempting a coup when he LOST.
The Democratic Party supporting news aggregator website ‘The Hill’ puts Kamala Harris behind Trump in every one of the six states that traditionally decide the election. Reporting for ‘The Hill’ journalist Niall Stanage, describes the situation as “fluid” as these results are based on an average of polls taken before and after Biden stepped down. (the few polls taken after Biden stepped down, show Trump’s lead over Harris narrowing)
Where Harris stands against Trump in the battleground states that will decide the election
BY NIALL STANAGE – 07/25/24 10:15 AM ET
https://thehill.com/homenews/4791373-harris-battleground-states-election/
Black and Arab American voters still seem leery of voting Democrat.
The war in Gaza could be a deciding issue. If Kamala Harris did decide to openly come out against the war in Gaza, Trump and the Republicans would have to respond, marking a clear demarcation between the two candidates, turning, the war in Gaza into the major deciding issue of the campaign.
Though not as yet coming out openly against the war, Harris found a plausible excuse to not attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress.