Friday, September 06, 2024

Links - 6th September 2024 (2 - Harris-Walz)

Strong, Capable Woman Asks Man To Come With Her To Job Interview In Case They Ask Any Hard Questions | Babylon Bee

Woman Who Got Soldiers Killed Condemns Man Who Comforted Their Families | Babylon Bee - "According to sources, Trump has been accused of accepting invitations from multiple Gold Star families to a solemn ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, where he honored their fallen sons and daughters. "It's terrible," said MSNBC's Joe Scarbarough, watching as Trump laid a wreath onto a tomb. "This just shows what depths Trump will go to, even leaving the campaign trail to attend a memorial service. Is there no low this man will not stoop to?""

Bad Hombre on X - "Trump’s last four interviews:
-57 minutes (Dr. Phil)
-57 minutes (Theo Von)
-2 hours and 3 minutes (Elon Musk)
-1 hour and 11 minutes (Shawn Ryan)
Kamala’s first interview in 40 days as the Democrat nominee: 18 minutes, edited, no transcript, and with a chaperone."

Thread by @buttonslives on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Young people are open about voting based on “vibes.” They are not informed on, nor are interested, in policy. It’s a popularity contest. It’s about proximity to their favorite celebrities and the “good feels” they get believing they’re voting for social progress."
Top comments on the above viral TikTok post:  “The dnc was like a class that got a pizza party in school while the rnc took a test”  “the RNC honestly could’ve been an email”  “the rnc looks like bingo night in a retirement home”
Christina Buttons on X - "Vibes are important to voters who are not politically engaged. Republicans should figure out their vibe and sell it like the Democrats do. "Conservatism is the new punk" is a cool vibe. Progressive ideologues have captured our institutions; they now represent the establishment."

Reporter Who Asked Kamala A Question Charged With Hate Crime | Babylon Bee - "The incident occurred during a brief campaign stop in which Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, visited a local deli that had been evacuated and repopulated with fake employees and campaign staff posing as customers. A stunned silence spread throughout the shop after a reporter from the press pool traveling with the Harris campaign asked her a question."Madam Vice President, can you tell us about your foreign policy?" the reporter asked with clearly vicious and evil intent. Before he was able to obtain an answer or follow up with an explanation for his heinous actions, Secret Service agents and local law enforcement officers swarmed him, wrestled him to the ground, and placed him under arrest. Thankfully, Vice President Harris was reportedly unharmed by the question."

Meme - Kamala Harris: "As I said, Trump's border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won't make us any safer."
"If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border - a project she once opposed and called "un-American" during the Trump administration."

Meme - Alex Jones: "That's right folks 2 out of 3 Americans died from Covid."
Cillian @CilComLFC: "Kamala Harris: "220 million Americans have died from COVID." Is she really the most intelligent candidate the Democratic Party could find?"

Meme - "Kamala's stepdaughter looks like someone the Secret Service would let onto a roof at a Trump rally....."

Meme - Financelot @FinanceLancelot: "Apparently Kamala was told not to speak during this event because she was too intoxicated, but she did anyways.
U.S. CITIZENS RETURN AFTER HISTORIC PRISONER SWAP
Apparently Kamala's aids are having trouble keeping her sober which is why she's only doing the scheduled rallies. Every time she gets off the plane she's app..."
Marcus Dellinger @MDellin...: "The drinks help to unburden the burdens of what has been done"
Ryan Rakich @ryanrakich: "Even Biden was scratching his head like; wtf is she rambling!?"
Chewy @HerbalHooligan: "When Biden looks confused and taken aback by someone elses stupid words you know it must be bad"
"Sky News March 08, 2024: US Vice President Kamala Harris has been mocked online for appearing to be "obviously drunk" while speaking to Wisconsin Democratic campaign teams ahead of the 2024 election. In her address on Wednesday, Harris highlighted the "duality" of democracy,"
"VP KAMALA HARRIS VISITS MADISON"
Thor Torrens @ThorTorrens: "There's zero chance we will be hearing this woman speak for the next four years. Zero"

Meme - "No one can challenge comrade Kamala"
Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze: "Jill Stein has received more primary votes than Kamala Harris ."
The Washington Times @WashTimes: "Democrats file complaint to block Green Party from presidential ballot in Wisconsin"

Greg Price on X - "Walz: "I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale."
Another weird moment where Democrats attack JD Vance for becoming successful."
wanye on X - "There were like 50 kids in my high school class and none of them went to an Ivy. This is indeed quite typical, but it highlights that Vance has been uniquely successful, which seems like a weird thing for his opponents to insist."
Left wingers hate success after all

Richard Hanania on X - "Under Tim Walz, Minnesota has adopted an ethnic studies curriculum for all students, written by anti-Israeli activists. Kids are taught about “racial capitalism” and how minorities suffer under “European beauty standards.” This is what’s behind the normal guy facade."

Meme - POLITICO @politico: "'Our corrupt leadership': Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during Michigan rally"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "The headline states "JD Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden." Harris is currently President Biden's Vice President."
The cope is that the Vice President is powerless, so she has no responsibility for anything bad linked to Biden, but she can still take credit for everything good linked to him

Meme - Elon Musk: "Please note that this is an actual statement from Kamala"
"An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal."

Meme - Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo: ""Sometimes, you just have to ignore the "Danger: Bridge Washed Out Ahead" signs."  Ignoring warnings might irritate safety nerds, but it makes sense to everyone in this car, and will continue to do so right up to the point where we plunge into the river and drown."
"Sometimes You Just Have to Ignore the Economists  Kamala Harris’s proposed price-gouging ban might irritate academics, but it makes sense to everyone else. By Zephyr Teachout"
Trust the experts - when they push the left wing agenda
The writer pretends that Harris's plan would follow state bans on price gouging in emergencies, but that is plainly misinformation. I like how Harris defenders are complaining that critics are distorting things, but Harris gets to be as vague as she likes

James Line on X - "Kamala Harris talks about her dream of someday opening a little restaurant"
Stephen L. Miller on X - "This is why she's never had a private sector job."
Mark Starrett πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ on X - "She’s describing a restaurant in socialism. Few choices and shortages."
Spiffy_Wanderer on X - "It's funny that her dream involves a restaurant where she runs out of food, lol. Her plan for the country as well!"

Democrats Beg Kamala Harris Not to Release Policy Agenda Before Election - "Harris, who has not held an unscripted press conference for 26 days since joining the race, is facing calls to not only remain hidden from the press but to keep her proposed policies a secret as she prepares to deliver economic proposals in North Carolina... Harris, however, already published several policies, such as socialist-style price controls, subsidies for homeowners, and two policies that copy the Trump-Vance ticket: a child tax credit and no tax on tips.  “She doesn’t need to negotiate against herself. We’ve got the biggest possible tent right now,” Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH), told Politico. “I don’t think there’s a real strong reason for her to try to weed out any points of view right now.”   Harris’s honeymoon phase of the campaign energized some Democrats, while others raised concerns against doing anything that could end the phase... Harris campaign advisers worry about publicly releasing “thorny details” of their economic plan because the specifics might backfire on the campaign, several people familiar with the discussions told the Wall Street Journal.  “Instead, they expect small shifts in emphasis that highlight her rΓ©sumΓ© and priorities” to hide the details of her agenda “amid concerns from some Democrats that releasing a lengthy plan could open the vice president up to criticism from Republicans and members of her party,” the Journal reported.   “Kamala needs to stop insulting the intelligence of voters and speak for herself to explain why she is running from every liberal policy she has ever supported,” the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement, ripping Harris. “The mainstream media needs to stop being complicit in her lies and demand answers.”  The media have not interviewed Harris on television since June 24, 2024. The last time the press reportedly questioned her at a solo news conference was eight months ago — on December 2, 2023.   One reason Harris could be running a “basement” media strategy is to navigate policy debates within her own party. Anonymous campaign aides reportedly flipped-flopped on five of her radical-left policies, such as socialized medicine and fracking.   “There’s already uncertainty with just what does she believe, what she would do,” Jeff Nobers, executive director of Pittsburgh Works Together, told the Washington Post about Harris’s promise to ban fracking. “And if she doesn’t support a ban on fracking, what is her energy policy plan?”"

Democrats defend Kamala Harris for not diving into policy - "Democrats are defending Vice President Harris for not diving too far into policy during her condensed campaign, arguing the short timeline lends itself to a focus on broad themes.  The Democratic National Convention focused on topics from freedom to patriotism, was heavy on biography and history, and emphasized building on the momentum behind Harris’s campaign.  But Harris has faced criticism for how light it was on policy specifics... Republicans have heaped criticism on Harris since the DNC ended for avoiding questions about how her policy stances have shifted since her 2020 presidential campaign.  Among those changes are on Medicare-for-all and fracking, two issues Republicans are using to bludgeon her campaign."

EXCLUSIVE MRC POLL: Most Dem Voters Don’t Know About Harris’s Radicalism - "A significant new Media Research Center poll finds that large majorities of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 — exactly those who would be expected to support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s contest — are mostly in the dark about many of the controversial and radical positions Harris has taken.     When asked about ten different aspects of Harris’s public record — on issues as varied as her sponsorship of the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, and eliminating private health insurance — between 71% and 86% of these Democrats and Independents said they either had not heard of Harris’s position or were unsure. When these voters were asked about where they got most of their news about political elections and candidates, by far the top answers were broadcast television (ABC, CBS and NBC) or cable news (such as CNN and MSNBC). This suggests that the knowledge gaps found by our poll reveal a failure of these outlets to report on radical positions once (and perhaps currently) supported by the now-Democratic nominee for President.   In fact, a detailed Media Research Center examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage in the three weeks since Harris became the leading Democratic candidate (July 21 to August 10) shows eight of these ten issues received ZERO attention from these newscasts, while two others received only minor coverage...
Harris supported cutting funding for the police
Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal
Harris supported the elimination of private health insurance
Harris supported reparations payments to atone for slavery
As “Border Czar,” Harris never visited a conflict zone on the border
Harris said it should not be considered a crime to enter the U.S. illegally
Harris supported abolishing ICE
Harris promoted a fund to bail out violent protesters during 2020 riots
Harris would consider allowing death row inmates to vote
Harris was named the most liberal U.S. Senator in 2019...
If our poll had been conducted even as recently as June, voters’ lack of knowledge about Harris might be understandable. But this poll was conducted in August, when the Vice President was receiving the most intense news coverage of her political career. Our study found heavy coverage of Harris on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts during this period: 184 minutes in just 21 days, eclipsing even that of Donald Trump.   Yet our survey of Democratic voters and pro-Biden Independents, who say their top source for news about the campaign are these same networks, shows the damage caused by today’s one-sided news coverage. These voters should be at least familiar with these key points about Harris’s past, even if they don’t agree with conservatives about their significance.   The fact that huge majorities don’t even know about these issues is damning evidence of the media’s selective and partisan approach to covering the 2024 presidential campaign."
She's never won a primary after all

Wall Street Silver on X - "Asking Democrats at convention: “ What is your favorite Kamala policy?” The answers are priceless πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ πŸ”Š"

BLAIRE WHITE on X - "I asked voters, “Trump or Kamala?" and it was shocking. πŸ”΅ Kamala voters were mostly white, older, and had no idea why they’re voting for her. πŸ”΄ Trump voters were mostly minorities with detailed explanations. What do you think this means? FULL VIDEO:"

Bill D'Agostino on X - "Journalists were calling Kamala the border czar until like five minutes ago. Don't let the media gaslight you."

Corporate Media Goes Into Overdrive To Memory-Hole Kamala’s Border Record - "Axios is not the only outlet attempting to shift the narrative. The Associated Press (AP), CBS, Time Magazine and other outlets all produced pushback pieces rejecting the claim that Harris was called the “border czar” by labeling it a Republican talking point. But the AP, for their part, did outline Harris’ responsibilities in a 2021 article, describing the role as “to lead response to border challenges.” Other outlets challenging the label published similar stories at the time.  It’s unclear if the synchronized timing of the media’s leap to her defense is organic, or a coordinated effort between the Harris campaign and sympathetic newsrooms... Former President Trump slammed her inaction on the job Biden tasked her with during a Tuesday call with reporters. “She visited the border a single time, far away from the epicenter of the invasion. You don’t even call it a visit,” he said, according to the New York Post. “She went to a place that has no problem, and was there for a very short period of time. So essentially, she never visited the border as we know it,” Trump reportedly added. Harris did visit the border in El Paso, Texas in June 2021. However, border patrol agents criticized the Veep for what they described as a “show” visit. “They rented out a ton of hotels and we spent hours moving out bodies. The kids that remained, we had to braid their hair,” a border patrol agent told the New York Post’s Jennie Taer. He also reportedly claimed agents “made jokes about how the building was more secure than the whole border was.” “She had zero interest in really seeing anything. It was rushed,” a former official present during Harris’ trip told the outlet."

Meme - Jason Beale @jabeale: "Bookmark to reference each time the Dems and corporate media attempt to erase the uncomfortable truth of Biden appointing Kamala Harris as Border Czar. They're going to try really, really hard to pretend none of this ever happened:"
"Biden taps VP Harris to lead response to border challenges"
"Biden tasks Harris with 'stemming the migration' on ..."
"Biden makes Harris the point person on immigration issues"
"Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis"
"Kamala Harris was tapped to fix the immigration crisis."

Meme - Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge: "31,800 references to Kamala as "Border Czar" over the course of 3 years 🫑"
"Border Czar Kamala Harris Accuses Abbott of 'Dereliction of Duty' for Busing Migrants Out of Texas"
"Kamala Harris increasingly absent from immigration debate amid Title 42 drama"
"Border Czar Kamala Harris Heads to the Border-To Push Green Energy"

Meme - Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson: "The media is denying she was ever the border czar. Share this wide and far."
Vice President Kamala Harris @VP: ".@POTUS lead our diplomatic work with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. To address the situation at the southern border, we have to address the root causes of migration. It won't be easy work- but it's necessary."

MAZE on X - "April 26, 2024. CNN roundtable discusses how Kamala Harris may actually be dragging Biden down in his bid for re-election.πŸ˜‚ They discussed the fact that people don't like her, including swing voters, and that her voice is annoying.🀣"

Opinion | Kamala Harris could help her party and the country by stepping aside - The Washington Post
From March

Bad Hombre on X - "Less than 300 people are in attendance to see Kamala and Gov. Shapiro. The capacity of the Wissahickon H.S. auditorium is 3,500 people. Massive black curtains were put up to make the venue look smaller. The enthusiasm was short-lived."
James Lindsay, anti-Communist on X- "I told you the Zoom events are fake. They're likely "fake" in two ways:
1) The usual way: padded numbers with fake accounts, almost certainly, though I don't know what percentage would be fakes;
2) They're national or even international rallies on Zoom, creating the illusion of huge support because a local rally can't pull from a population of 100s of millions.
We see at least (2) on display here."

Kyle Becker on X - "JUST IN: A former student of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz exposes how much he secretly worships the Communist Chinese.  “It was almost a daily revelation of how much he adores the communist regime."  The student told @AlphaNewsMN  that Walz is actually a communist who loves the CCP.
“There was no doubt he was a true believer,” a student named Shad said. “I’ve been trying to tell people this for 30 years. Nobody wanted to listen."  “At night, we’d go out, we’d walk the street fairs. We’d be buying souvenirs and Tim was always buying the little red book. He said he gave them as gifts … I saw him buy at least a dozen on the trip,” he said.  The Little Red Book was a famous propaganda pamphlet written by mass murdering Chinese Communist Mao Tse-Tung.  “It would be like in Germany and buying copies of Mein Kampf,” the student told Alpha News.  “If there was any doubt about what I’m saying just look at the policies enacted by his administration like the country’s worst abortion law, anti-free speech, the riots,” Shad pointed out. “He’s a Maoist to the core and should not be underestimated.”  “People need to have their eyes wide open,” Shad said. “The snitch hotline in Minnesota is straight out of CCP. Tim Walz is a very bright guy. None of this [is] by accident.”"
Man who says he accompanied Walz on trip to China calls VP candidate 'Maoist to the core' - "Shad drew attention to the similarities between the messaging of Walz and Kamala Harris—including phrases like “the politics of joy” and “unburdened by what has been”—and the propaganda materials used by Mao"

Debbie ZP ✝️πŸ—£πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ on X - "JD Vance is the guy who mows your lawn when you’re sick. Tim Waltz is the guy who reports your overgrown lawn to the HOA"

Meme - Dustin Grage @GrageDustin: "Since Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is officially being reported as a favorite to become the VP pick for Kamala Harris. Here he is pictured from his DUI arrest where he was going 96 in a 55. He then lied to police about being deaf in an attempt to avoid his arrest."

Meme - Hodgetwins @hodgetwins: "Vote for Kamala if you want black men in prison"
Trump: "If you don't vote for me, you won't have Israel for very long"
White Dudes for Harris: *looking at Kamala Harris*

Meme - Tim Walz: "In Minnesota we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make."
2020: "Governor Walz, I'm calling your hotline to report my neighbors choosing to be outside"

Charlie Kirk on X - "Tim Walz was so addicted to the Sega Dreamcast that his wife had to unplug it and hide it away. This is reported as a fun, relatable story, but doesn't anybody else find a 35-year-old man getting that addicted to video games a little sad? Or, dare I say it, weird?"

Harris's Personnel Problem: Over 90 Percent of VP's Staff Left in Last Three Years - "Throughout her career as a senator and then vice president, Kamala Harris developed a reputation as a difficult boss who struggles to retain staff due to the atmosphere of suspicion and disorder that tends to develop among her subordinates. Data from the government watchdog group Open the Books — released Monday, as Harris consolidates her position as President Biden’s successor atop the Democratic ticket — makes clear just how extreme Harris’s personnel problem really is: 91.5 percent of the staff Harris began her vice presidential term with three years ago have since left.  “Kamala Harris is taking center stage in the national discussion these days. However, our analysis of her payroll as vice president shows an extraordinary churn,” Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski said. “The stories out there are more than just anecdotes, they’re substantiated by the hard data available to us. Only a rare and loyal few staffers have persisted through her term as vice president.”  While high turnover is typical for a vice presidential staff, the level of churn — and public backbiting — in Harris’s office stands out.   A theme of instability has pervaded the vice president’s office since Harris took office in January 2021. Months after she assumed the vice presidency, many staffers left Harris’s office in a mini-exodus due to burnout and in pursuit of better career opportunities, Axios reported at the time. In the summer of 2022, two of the vice president’s most senior staffers, her domestic policy adviser and director of speechwriting, left on good terms, generating questions as to whether or not Harris had a loyal network of aides willing to follow her, perhaps even to the Oval Office. Only four of the initial 47 staffers Harris brought in with her in 2021 are still employed in her office, as of March 31, 2024, Open the Books found...   Harris’s former staffers, from her time as San Francisco’s district attorney, California attorney general, and a U.S. senator, blew the whistle on Harris’s reportedly toxic workplace culture to Business Insider in 2021. An insider told Politico around the same time that the OVP under Harris “is not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated.”  Biden has a staff turnover rate of 77 percent, Open the Books found, and only 127 of the 560 White House employees he initially hired still hold positions in the President’s orbit.  The vice president’s office has evaded Open the Books’ past attempts to obtain the names, titles, and salaries of Harris’s staff, the nonprofit said. “Despite claiming to be the most transparent administration ever, their response is too often something like, ‘we don’t absolutely have to tell you, so we won’t,'” Andrzejewski said. “The Office of the Vice President is particularly opaque because they claim they’re not an ‘agency’ of the federal government. That makes Harris, well, the least transparent elected official in the country.”  “Taxpayers deserve to see how payroll is handled in her office, what personnel and policy areas are priorities for her, and assess her performance against the cost and headcount,” he added. “Instead, we have to rely on semi-annual disclosures to Congress to fill in some of the blanks.”"

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