Election Thread II: Kamala vs. Trump

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It's not nice to criticize Kamala:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellne ... ngNewsSerp

If she'll do that to a Lt. Colonel, why wouldn't she do that to a journo?

Hov posted this story on Aug 11. Tulsi Gabbard revealed that she had been placed on a terror watch list and enhanced TSA security on July 23, right after Kamala locked up the nomination on July 22. Strange coincidence.

Meanwhile, Rep. James Comer of the House Oversight Committee has been investigating the abuse of Federal enforcement agencies (FBI, DOJ, IRS, etc) by the Biden/Harris Admin and bad actors in the deep state. Turns out that whistleblowers within the Federal Air Marshalls report that Tulsi had indeed been maliciously reported to TSA for enhanced scrutiny, as well as the wife of a Federal Air Marshall who had listened to Trump's speech on Jan. 6.

(Federal Air Marshalls/TSA have retaliated against protected whistleblowers. Official Statement from Rep. Comer, as House Oversight investigates the the illegal retaliation:)
Comer Investigates TSA’s Pattern of Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Who Expose Waste and Abuse

News story featuring clip of Tulsi Gabbard on CNN. CNN's Dana Bash is blithely ignorant (and perhaps even incredulous) that Tulsi has been harassed by TSA.
Gabbard: Harris-Biden Admin Put Me On Terror Watchlist Day After Biden Endorsed Harris

The funny part: Kamala put Tulsi on the terror watch list, just to spite Tulsi for calling out Kamala's hypocrisy and torpedoing her 2019 campaign. Now Tulsi is campaigning with Trump and telling everyone about it. Tulsi could very well end up working in the Trump Administration, perhaps even leading the effort to end these soviet-style abuses and fire/prosecute everyone involved. Including Kamala.

The sad part: Between the law fare attacks on political opponents and the abuse of federal enforcement agencies, these soviet-style terror regimes must be stopped. It started with Obama, and has gotten way out of hand.

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I'm very excited about Tulsi Gabbard joining the Trump campaign. I've been impressed by her spine and common sense for quite a while.

If you are also a fan of Tulsi, you might enjoy this 1-hr conversation with Tulsi Gabbard on Prager U. From last April, long before she was thinking about joining with the MAGA Americans. Some great insight into what makes her tick.

https://www.prageru.com/video/tulsi-gab ... ton-elites

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[Del]

Kamala Harris has finally added an "Issues" tab to her website.

As you can imagine, it's a lot of gaslighting. Plenty of platitudes, but very little in the way of substance and policies that could achieve these goals.
The classic campaign shtick: "Here's what I'm going to do!" without the "Here's how I'm going to do it."

She's going to "fight for the Middle Class." That means a slightly higher Child Tax Credit than Trump wants to maintain. And she's not going to increase taxes on the income of most families, hoping that we don't realize that we will still be paying the cost of taxes she will increase on corporations.

She promises to lower energy costs and end climate change -- because she passed the Inflation Reduction Act. So far, no good. But it'll get better soon, she promises.

And every tab some text on "Trump's Project 2025 Agenda," which is a huge tell that she's just making this part up.

Anyhow, it feels just like Obama's "Hope and Change" pitch, even though she isn't much change as she is the incumbent.

You can look at it for yourself:
https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

What I really want to see is Kamala's statement of positions on which she differs from Joe's policies. "Under Joe Biden, we did THIS. My Administration will do THAT."

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[Del]

An old clip of Willie Brown and Kamala, from a puffy ABC News profile:

This is an unearthed ABC profile of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in 1995.

Your jaw is about to hit the floor…

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1833539331505770508

[Del]

Top of the Debate: First impressions...

ABC News moderator is doing a decent job of being even-handed and asking solid questions.

Trump is not doing as well as I could hope. Kamala attacks Trump, and Trump talks about Trump. Too much Trump in a debate that needs to be more about Kamala. If Kamala keeps rattling Trump like this, she could come off looking okay.

Kamala's gaslighting enthusiasm for abortion has me rattled. I can't judge her performance fairly until I calm down a bit.

The candidates are already not answering the questions and rerunning their favorite talking points. I don't know what this looks like to casual observers.

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I'm turning it off.

Trump should talk about policy, and make Kamala talk about policy. But that's not happening.

Instead, Trump is spending too much time praising and defending himself.... and digging a hole. He keeps insisting that Biden/Harris is destroying our country.... which is already obvious to his base, but the people he needs to persuade need more facts and stories.

Kamala actually looks like she's more stable than he is. And that's good enough for her. Her base is satisfied with "vibes."

I predict that the polls won't budge much after this debate. It's going to be a nail-biter.