'Let's go': Harris agrees to debate Trump,
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 7/25/2024 6:01:59 PM
De facto Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said on Thursday she is "ready to debate" her Republican rival, former President Donald Trump. "I think that voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage, and so I'm ready," Harris told reporters on an airport tarmac outside Washington. "Let's go." Harris, the vice president, said she has agreed to face off with Trump on Sept. 10. ABC News had been scheduled to hold a debate on that date with Trump and President Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race on Sunday. "Now it appears he's backpedaling,"
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Say, whose honeymoon is this, anyway? Supposedly, Kamala Harris has "totally upended" the race with The Anointment and the media's rush to proclaim the advent of "Kamalot." Also, Donald Trump only has a ceiling in the mid-40s and can't possibly win an outright popular-vote majority, especially with such a Historic Candidate™ as an opponent.
Or so analysts thought. According to a new Harvard-Harris CAPS poll, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 52/48 with leaners, and 48/45 without. Harris has improved Joe Biden's numbers on the latter, but not the former: Even the unsure voters are breaking toward Trump, at least somewhat. The more worrisome data for Democrats are in the charts
The air war has begun.
For those of us who are terminally online (not me!), it may seem that the presidential campaign has been endless. But the majority of people have barely begun to tune in. With Kamala Harris suddenly the Democrat candidate, the Trump campaign has had to rework their strategy completely.
The results are here and not particularly surprising. Trump is going after Kamala as dangerously liberal, especially on the border. And they are making their pitch in a significant ad buy on TV in the big swing states.
Beirut — Israel says it has launched a strike in Beirut, Lebanon, targeting a Hezbollah commander that it blamed for a deadly attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said “Hezbollah crossed the red line” in a social media post minutes after the Israeli military claimed responsibility for the strike on Tuesday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had “carried out a targeted strike in Beirut, on the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians.”
It did not provide details about how the strike was carried out.
With Kamala Harris now the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, the polls are coming hard and fast. On Tuesday morning, another survey was released showing that she had narrowed the gap compared to Joe Biden before he dropped out of the race.
The headline was clear: Harris has "reset" the race to the numbers we were seeing before the disastrous debate that ended the current president's bid for re-election. According to the poll, Trump leads Harris by three points, clocking in at 48 to 45 percent. When leaners are included, the former president's lead grows to four points, with the spread being 52 to 48 percent.
Oh noes! Heaven forfend that a political candidate answer for their positions from four whole years ago!
Side note: Has anyone at the New York Times covered a political campaign before? Because usually the idea is to debate policy positions taken publicly as an indicator of what might take place when a candidate wins. Well, usually, but we'll get to the NYT's modus operandi in a moment.
Yesterday afternoon, the Paper of Record took great offense at Republicans who want to highlight Kamala Harris' record in the upcoming months. That's called "weaponization" rather than "accountability" when Republicans do it, apparently:
A report has found that the United States military is “not prepared” to fight in a major war, as “major powers” — such as Russia and China — have become “top threats” to the U.S., with China “outpacing” the U.S.
The report, which the Commission on the National Defense Strategy released in July, reveals that while the U.S. is currently facing some of “the most serious and most challenging” threats since 1945, several problems are preventing the U.S. military from being able to address threats from China or Russia.
Among the problems preventing the U.S. military from addressing threats from China and Russia is reportedly the Department of Defense’s
Remember how many primary delegates Kamala Harris won in the 2020 Democrat primaries? Oh, yes - none. She dropped out before a single primary vote was cast, in no small part because she was the recipient of a devastating attack by then-Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard (HI), who abandoned her laid-back aloha composure to tear Harris apart over her record as attorney general of California. I was recently able to uncover some previously unknown video coverage of Tulsi's takedown of Kamala Harris: Now, by dint of befuddled old Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris has been anointed as the candidate. And, we may very well ask,
Two children are dead, and nine others were critically injured after a horrific mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop in Lancashire in Northwest England.
Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy told reporters that police were called to the crime scene at 11:47 local time. Officers were "shocked" at the carnage they found in the wake of what Kennedy called a "ferocious attack." "It is with great sadness that today I am here to advise that two young children have died as a result of injuries sustained in a knife attack this morning," Kennedy said.
"Nine other children have been injured,
SEATTLE - Elon Musk has been highly critical of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following his government's decision to claim victory in the elections despite lack of transparent data. On Monday, Maduro picked up the glove and responded to Musk's claims by labelling him as as an "archenemy to the peace of Venezuela." "Who controls virtual reality? Our new archenemy Elon Musk, who is desperate to come to Venezuela with his rockets and an army to invade Venezuela," Maduro said in an event that ratified Maduro as Venezuela's President after the July 28 elections. He added that Musk is trying to use his money and his satellites to control the world.
LONDON -- A High Court judge on Monday upheld the British government's emergency ban on puberty blockers, saying a study that found “very substantial risks and very narrow benefits” of the treatment supported the restriction as potentially being harmful.
Justice Beverley Lang said a review commissioned by England's National Health Service concluded that gender care is an area of “remarkably weak evidence” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse.”
The group TransActual and a youth who cannot be named under a court order sought to challenge the decision of former Health secretary Victoria Atkins to ban prescribing hormones
Republicans took to social media to flip claims that Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) “is weird” back on Democrats.
Several people and accounts such as Fox News contributor Sara Carter, Donald Trump Jr., Libs of TikTok, End Wokeness, and JD Vance posted photos of Sam Brinton, a former Department of Energy official who has been accused of stealing women’s luggage, President Joe Biden appearing to sniff a child’s head, and Democrats wearing odd outfits.
The posts were accompanied by similarly worded text saying, “JD Vance is weird.”
What's the only thing worse than no apology at all? A so-called apology that blames people for taking offense. Offering up a lie to gaslight the offended makes it even worse. American political figures often offer these "I'm sorry you were offended by my brilliance" non-apologies and end up making matters worse, although these days they don't tend to give a hoot one way or the other.
If you missed this example of typical hard-Left elitist sneering at the normies, here's one report on it from over the weekend: Almost as soon as it aired, outraged viewers began posting the clip to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms.
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President Joe Biden called for major changes to the Supreme Court on Monday, including a constitutional amendment that would limit immunity for presidents, impose term limits for justices and stipulate an enforceable code of ethicst.
In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Biden said "no one is above the law."
“Not the president of the United States,” he wrote. “Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one.”
In July, the Supreme Court ruled that presidents cannot be prosecuted for "official acts" during their time in office. The court's ruling stemmed from a case concerning former President Donald Trump.
On a recent call, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said that men have more freedom in a country where abortion on demand is the norm because they do not have to take responsibility for their actions. Buttigieg made the remarks during a Zoom meeting for “White Dudes for Harris,” a group of voters working to make Vice President Kamala Harris the next president of the United States. Harris received President Joe Biden’s endorsement after he announced that he would not seek reelection.
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According to the website Michigan News Source, the group Republican Voters Against Trump is rolling out a campaign featuring disgruntled GOP voters who are standing with Kamala Harris this election. "Fiddlesticks," say you? Watch the ad below, says I. [Video]
In addition to the ad above, Michigan News Source said the PAC had started a $500,000 billboard campaign in several swing states. The campaign is aimed at getting Trump voters to switch sides (and presumably sell their souls) and join Team Harris.
The campaign includes 76 billboards showing alleged former Trump voters from Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin with the message:
The “public servants” in Washington D.C. act like our masters. And it’s an open secret that not only are many members of Congress horrible bosses, the more ‘officially oppressed’ Congressmembers (and some of the most socialist ones like Sen. Bernie Sanders) are the absolutely worst and nastiest bosses.
[SNIP] Harris vocally throws around “F-bombs” and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others. The staff is in complete fear of her and she uses her profanity throughout the day.
As Attorney General, Senator Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, “Good Morning General.”
Twenty-six years ago, a young man named Matthew Shepard was beaten and strung up on a Wyoming barbed wire fence to die. The beating and murder were because Shepard was gay.
The perps were quickly found, tried for murder, convicted, and sentenced to prison. They’re still there.
It was a good news story about bad news and was widely reported. But it wasn’t true.
It has since been shown that Shepard and one of the perps were in the drug business together. Shepard was due to receive a $10,000 shipment of meth. The perp himself was gay and had been in a gay relationship with Shepard.
One of my great peeves of the Trump era is the Greenland effect.
I belong to a small group of people who think America should peacefully acquire Greenland. It’s an old idea. The State Department pitched buying the vast arctic island in 1946, but the Danes didn’t want to sell their colony, alas. But given its strategic and economic value, it’s worth revisiting.
Biden formally unveils plan to overhaul
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Supreme Court — with focus on limiting
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President Biden formally unveiled his planned overhaul of the Supreme Court on Monday — with a clear eye on limiting the powers of former President Donald Trump should he succeed him.
The commander-in-chief took the unusual step of unveiling his major planned policy steps in a newspaper op-ed, with the Washington Post helpfully telling readers: “The writer is president of the United States.”
The president laid out three main changes to the court — which he said is “mired in a crisis of ethics” — including term limits and a binding code of conduct.
Squad leader AOC sounded off on Donald Trump and running mate J.D. Vance's 'SUPER weird' political platform, saying they're trying to attract sexually frustrated voters. [SNIP] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's assault on Trump and Vance supporters was accompanied by a flurry of insults at the Republican presidential ticket, calling the GOP pair 'creepy' and 'abnormal.'
'Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy,' AOC posted on X in response to a post from former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. 'Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal.'
What kind of president would Kamala Harris be if she were in office and another 9/11 struck?
According to reporter Seymour Hersh, probably a pretty surprised one.
She doesn't read her daily presidential intelligence briefings, because, well, that's "homework." Kamala doesn't do homework, as previous reports have noted.
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Kamala would be the nominee if she could perform, and here was Obama's concern:
"One possible drawback, I was told, was Harris’s sometime disdain for the work of the US Intelligence Community. She is known not to be especially interested in the President’s Daily Brief, a highly classified summary of current intelligence..."
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper withdraws
from race to be Harris' vice presidential
running mate 21 replies
from race to be Harris' vice presidential
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement on Monday night signaling that he's removed himself from contention as a vice presidential running mate for presidential candidate Kamala Harris. "I strongly support Vice President Harris' campaign for President. I know she's going to win and I was honored to be considered for this role. This just wasn't the right time for North Carolina and for me to potentially be on a national ticket," he said in a post on X. (Snip) Moments after Cooper issued his statement, he delivered remarks on a “White Dudes for Harris" Zoom call, but did
The New York Times reports that Vice President Kamala Harris’s advocacy for far-left policies on the 2019 campaign trail could imperil her 2024 bid for the Oval Office.
Just days into her candidacy — after President Joe Biden was reportedly forced out as the presumptive Democrat nominee amid a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign from top Democrats, donors, and Hollywood elites — Republicans have shown they are ready for Harris’s candidacy. As Times reporter Reid Epstein noted Monday, several videos and policy visions that Harris, who has been an elected official since 2004, espoused in her last bid for the presidency have already come back to “haunt” her.
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World” that Vice President Kamala Harris was not a serious person.
Kennedy said, “Many Americans think that the vice president is a little bit of a ding-dong.” Host Neil Cavuto said, “You raised a number of very clear issues, substantive issues that could be debated. I guess all I’m saying, for all the problems and calling her a loon and all that, and I get it. I know it’s political season, and that happens on both sides.”Kennedy said, “You’re putting words in my mouth. I said, she’s a member, she’s a member of the loon wing of the Democratic Party.