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Title: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: MillCreek on January 21, 2019, 11:03:45 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/politics/kamala-harris-president-2020/index.html

I don't know a lot about her yet. I recall that she is no fan of the 2A.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Andiron on January 21, 2019, 12:30:08 PM
I want to see this cat fight settled cage match style.  Harris, Warren and Clinton.  3 communists enter,  one leaves.  Survivor gets curb stomped by Trump.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 21, 2019, 12:33:29 PM
I hear she's a big fan of civil asset forfeiture.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: TommyGunn on January 21, 2019, 12:53:20 PM
And we're off to the races!!!!!!



https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/politics/kamala-harris-president-2020/index.html

I don't know a lot about her yet. I recall that she is no fan of the 2A.

Former Commiefornya Attorney General.  Before that she infested San Francisco.  D. A.  Or something like that.  Big time super liberal,  "Flaming Liberal" in old Frisco vernacular. 

She'd be a disaster as president.   I wouldn't elect her dogcatcher.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: French G. on January 21, 2019, 01:41:24 PM
Poontronage is the turn of phrase I saw coined somewhere for how she made it in politics. And Trump is just the right guy to point that out.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: TechMan on January 21, 2019, 02:06:42 PM
Paging Ben to the white courtesy phone. Ben to the white courtesy phone.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: makattak on January 21, 2019, 02:17:16 PM
Because what this country needs is for the federal government to follow the path blazed by California!
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ron on January 21, 2019, 02:40:09 PM
She was Willie Browns close protege, very close.



Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on January 21, 2019, 03:57:35 PM
Paging Ben to the white courtesy phone. Ben to the white courtesy phone.

I had a real fear that she would make significant headway and be the dem pick, but her soundbytes over the last year truly emphasize "clueless moron".

She got a lot - a LOT - of slack here in CA for all her dumb stuff because of the CA demographics. I'm not sure how well her liberal arrogance will fly on a national level in much of the rest of the country, including with moderate dems.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Angel Eyes on January 21, 2019, 03:59:59 PM
An admittedly biased op-ed piece on Senator Harris:

https://amgreatness.com/2018/04/21/poontronage-when-kamala-met-willie/
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: RoadKingLarry on January 21, 2019, 07:16:24 PM
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I had a real fear that she would make significant headway and be the dem pick, but her soundbytes over the last year truly emphasize "clueless moron".

Harris - Ocasio-Cortez 2020!!!
The Memes practically create themselves.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: MechAg94 on January 21, 2019, 07:39:06 PM
Harris - Ocasio-Cortez 2020!!!
The Memes practically create themselves.
Memes would be good, but just imagine the direct quotes.  I can also imagine the softball questions the press would throw at them also.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on January 21, 2019, 09:22:16 PM
Memes would be good, but just imagine the direct quotes.  I can also imagine the softball questions the press would throw at them also.

Harris has never known anything but softball reporting in CA in every office she has held, nor has she worked with anything but a large dem majority in state government. The "How can we ever thank you for existing?" media questions may not be so forthcoming on the national level, especially with some new media darlings in the dem primary list.

Though of note, CNN seems to have already anointed her. She is the first one they have arranged a town hall with, and did so like 17 seconds after she announced.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 22, 2019, 04:24:29 PM
https://politics.theonion.com/kamala-harris-assembles-campaign-staff-of-unpaid-califo-1831958905

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On the heels of yesterday’s announcement that she would be running for president, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) reportedly began staffing her campaign Tuesday with unpaid inmates from California correctional facilities. “I’m so grateful to have such an incredible and devoted team headed up by my new campaign manager, Spider, as we work together to fight for American values,” said Harris of the two dozen non-violent criminal offenders who would reportedly work shifts of up to 72 hours out of her campaign office in exchange for three square meals a day and all the “Kamala Harris 2020” merchandise they could carry.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on January 24, 2019, 06:44:55 PM
Ugh.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/01/24/make-it-stop-inspired-by-kamala-harris-heres-proof-that-2020-has-already-jumped-the-shark/
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: RoadKingLarry on January 24, 2019, 06:58:21 PM
Someone needs to make a talking Occasional-Cortex doll that spouts off lame drivel when you pull the string or push the button or whatever they do these days.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on January 24, 2019, 07:25:46 PM
Someone needs to make a talking Occasional-Cortex doll that spouts off lame drivel when you pull the string or push the button or whatever they do these days.

MSRP: $19.99
$658.23 after taxes
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Doggy Daddy on January 24, 2019, 09:53:23 PM
MSRP: $19.99
$658.23 after taxes

 :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl: :rofl:  Great material.  I hope you hang around for a while!
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Chester32141 on January 25, 2019, 10:46:28 AM
Someone needs to make a talking Occasional-Cortex doll that spouts off lame drivel when you pull the string or push the button or whatever they do these days.

How about a screen saver of her dancing as she spouts drivel … the right person could be selling/sharing those by the weekend …  [popcorn]
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Angel Eyes on January 25, 2019, 03:11:14 PM
MSRP: $19.99
$658.23 after taxes


https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/426832-kamala-harris-action-figure-unveiled

Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on January 25, 2019, 03:27:19 PM
Think you got the joke out of context, go to reply 16
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Angel Eyes on January 25, 2019, 03:31:27 PM
I got the context just fine.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on January 25, 2019, 03:35:21 PM
Then maybe I'm slow, which is likely, puzzled about your post.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: MechAg94 on January 25, 2019, 04:34:35 PM
I believe the Simpsons did a Barbie Doll knock-off where the doll would say a bunch of non-PC sexist drivel.  That coming from an Ocasio-Cortex doll would be funny.


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dxs016hX0AAw8Q4.jpg)
You just know her campaign paid for this crap, but some people to get into hero worship far too easily.  

However, considering their is a Mueller action figure, I can only imagine there is some small time outfit trying to market some of these stuff? 


Maybe someone like the South Park guys can use them to make a new movie.   =D
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on January 29, 2019, 10:04:41 AM
So it appears she has come out with a main campaign message of "eliminating all private health insurance". When asked if she would still allow people to have private insurance if they want it, the answer was "no".

I'm not totally familiar with various European models, but I think in most countries there, if you have the dough, you can still have private insurance. Is that correct? If so, then she is heading "Venezuela left" vs "UK left".

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-vows-to-eliminate-private-health-care-plans-lets-eliminate-all-of-that-lets-move-on


Edit: Another tidbit from her CNN Town Hall. "Ban all assault weapons". Just in case anyone thought she would tone down the California-centric message on the national stage.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/01/29/this-should-be-interesting-kamala-harris-take-on-2a-gun-laws-at-the-cnn-town-hall-is-something-else/

Her response is a great example of the cake analogy.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Fly320s on January 29, 2019, 10:15:23 AM
She should be raked over the coals for wanting to outright deny freedom of choice to people.  Sadly, the left will stick up for ideas regardless.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: TommyGunn on January 29, 2019, 11:11:55 AM
She should be raked over the coals for wanting to outright deny freedom of choice to people.  Sadly, the left will stick up for ideas regardless.

"The People"  seem increasingly ready for govt. to take over their lives and distribute lots of goodies. :facepalm:
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on January 29, 2019, 11:22:02 AM
"The People"  seem increasingly ready for govt. to take over their lives and distribute lots of goodies. :facepalm:

And when the goodies run out............
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: TommyGunn on January 29, 2019, 11:25:47 AM
And when the goodies run out............

....IT'S VENEZUELA TIME!!!!!!!!!! >:D
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on January 29, 2019, 11:34:44 AM
You got it
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: MechAg94 on January 29, 2019, 12:16:29 PM
So are we heading out of the US Republic era and into a US Imperial era?  After we get the Venezuela model, it seems all we would need is a general to cross the Rubicon. 
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on January 29, 2019, 12:34:42 PM
We'll be lucky if the end result is as "clean and neat" as what's happening in Venezuela
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: MechAg94 on January 29, 2019, 02:47:40 PM
We'll be lucky if the end result is as "clean and neat" as what's happening in Venezuela
It ain't over yet down there, but true.  They haven't tried to succeeded in outlawing guns here yet.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: makattak on January 29, 2019, 03:22:08 PM
So are we heading out of the US Republic era and into a US Imperial era?  After we get the Venezuela model, it seems all we would need is a general to cross the Rubicon.  

It's the Potomac.  :P And, after a Venezuela model, people would be happy for it.

Of course, our military would be a SIGNIFICANTLY different entity by that point, so it would certainly not be a good thing, but probably better than a Chavista.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Scout26 on January 29, 2019, 05:16:19 PM
https://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/general-mattis-crosses-potomac-100000-troops-president-senate-flee-city/
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on January 29, 2019, 09:41:39 PM
And she walked back the "no private insurance" in under 24 hours.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/01/29/looks-like-kamala-harris-is-already-backpedalling-on-her-plan-to-eliminate-private-insurance/
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: bedlamite on January 30, 2019, 09:20:25 AM
Generally, anyone making noise this early in the race isn't in the running by the time the primaries are done.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on January 30, 2019, 09:25:23 AM
Harris is a distraction. Makes me wonder what the left hand is doing while you're distracted by the right.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on January 30, 2019, 10:10:51 AM
Generally, anyone making noise this early in the race isn't in the running by the time the primaries are done.

Maybe, but so far she's the only one the MSM has gotten behind, and sadly and scarily, outside of Joe Biden, I think she is the most "moderate" big name in the lot (so far).

Hopefully the good news on that will be an additional four years of TDS.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on February 12, 2019, 10:22:55 AM
Interesting tidbit, in the "digging stuff out of the yearbook" sort of way that the dems started with Kavanaugh.

It would be interesting if the part about toking it up to Snoop Dog was true, given the implications of her sending people to jail for that at the time.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/02/12/kamala-harris-either-lied-about-smoking-weed-only-in-college-or-she-lied-about-listening-to-snoop-dogg-and-tupac-while-smoking-weed-which-is-it/
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on February 12, 2019, 04:50:19 PM
Maybe, but so far she's the only one the MSM has gotten behind, and sadly and scarily, outside of Joe Biden, I think she is the most "moderate" big name in the lot (so far).

Hopefully the good news on that will be an additional four years of TDS.

Welcome to 2019 America. Where the most moderate presidential candidate the dems have to offer and that has the support of much of the media in the country is a reparations paying full fledged socialist.  
You ever sit and think, gee that "evil villain" Joseph McCarthy may have been right all along?
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: MechAg94 on February 12, 2019, 06:56:27 PM
One comment I heard recently was that the only Democrats paying attention to Presidential candidates this early are the hard core Democrats who are mostly leftists.  As a result, the early candidate hopefuls have to run to the left to get any traction or support.  That person assumed they would run more and more to the center as we get closer to the election.  That person said we would see the same thing on the Republican side, but to the right. 

Anyway, just a different view.  IMO, all those candidates are being more honest now than they will be closer to the election. 
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on February 16, 2019, 01:55:38 PM
Like  I said, the MSM is in the tank for Harris. Like Brit Hume said, "This is just embarrassing."

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/02/16/seriously-journos-fawning-over-kamala-harris-trying-on-a-jacket-is-just-embarrassing-video/

The only thing that might tone the above crap down is if Biden jumps in. They may dump her for him as the better alternative to get rid of their enemy, Trump.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: dm1333 on February 16, 2019, 02:24:46 PM
Kind of reminds me of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zKCUG20xs
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Perd Hapley on February 18, 2019, 07:36:49 PM
https://www.dailywire.com/news/43629/watch-kamala-harris-literally-speechless-when-paul-bois
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: WLJ on February 24, 2019, 08:26:41 PM
What she means is it's not her money that would be paying for it.

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   Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) repeatedly failed to give CNN’s John King a clear answer on how she would pay for her proposals, saying, “it’s not about a cost.” pic.twitter.com/w8UHy10heg
    — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 24, 2019

Kamala Harris Says 'Of Course' We Can Afford Green New Deal, Medicare For All and 'It's Not About a Cost'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2019/02/24/its-not-about-the-cost-kamala-harris-dismisses-questions-about-how-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all-and-green-new-deal-n2542126

Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: TommyGunn on February 24, 2019, 11:58:25 PM
Hmmmmm...... "it's not about cost" ..... 22 trillion dollar deficit ....  ???   .... is there a connection here.... somewhere?...


" ....Bueller?.......... Bueller?........"   [tinfoil]
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Andiron on February 27, 2019, 06:11:19 PM

Kamala Harris Says 'Of Course' We Can Afford Green New Deal, Medicare For All and 'It's Not About a Cost'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2019/02/24/its-not-about-the-cost-kamala-harris-dismisses-questions-about-how-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all-and-green-new-deal-n2542126



Another devotee of Keynes.  We'll just print more money to pay for all that stupidity,  plus "Universal basic income", which will magically stimulate the economy into a perpetual profit.

I'm pretty sure inflation doesn't exist in her world.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on February 27, 2019, 06:49:15 PM
Another devotee of Keynes.  We'll just print more money to pay for all that stupidity,  plus "Universal basic income", which will magically stimulate the economy into a perpetual profit.

I'm pretty sure inflation doesn't exist in her world.

Slight tangent, but I recently read an article regarding Finland's UBI experiment. It basically showed no difference between a control group of unemployed and unemployed who received UBI regarding either group getting employment or "doing something" with their lives. The only concrete result was that the UBI unemployed reported being happier.

That make sense I guess, since with UBI, there was no stress about not having a job and no requirements (and stress) to look for a job as part of continuing unemployment benefits. Of course it appears to have given them no impetus (in fact possibly the opposite) to go out and find a job. If I know I have secure income with no strings attached that I don't have to work for, why should I work? I'll just go to the lake and fish every day. Of course if everybody does that, then who is driving trucks to stock supermarket shelves, etc.?
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: bedlamite on February 27, 2019, 08:53:02 PM
Slight tangent, but I recently read an article regarding Finland's UBI experiment. It basically showed no difference between a control group of unemployed and unemployed who received UBI regarding either group getting employment or "doing something" with their lives. The only concrete result was that the UBI unemployed reported being happier.

That make sense I guess, since with UBI, there was no stress about not having a job and no requirements (and stress) to look for a job as part of continuing unemployment benefits. Of course it appears to have given them no impetus (in fact possibly the opposite) to go out and find a job. If I know I have secure income with no strings attached that I don't have to work for, why should I work? I'll just go to the lake and fish every day. Of course if everybody does that, then who is driving trucks to stock supermarket shelves, etc.?

What do you care, you can eat fish and don't have to go to the supermarket.
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Ben on March 08, 2019, 09:37:33 PM
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And then she got up out of her wheelchair and walked for the first time in years. Praise Kamala!

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/03/08/hoax-watch-kamala-harris-press-secretary-has-a-crazy-story-he-wants-you-to-believe-about-a-sc-voter-in-a-maga-hat/
Title: Re: Kamala Harris announces 2020 Presidential candidacy
Post by: Angel Eyes on March 09, 2019, 04:55:58 PM
"Take up thy bed and walk!  In the name of Socialism!"