General Election 2024 Harris vs Trump (7 Viewers)

[SamAndreas]

Today it begins, Kamala has reached the point that she's the Democratic Party nominee:

There's video from today. this link has video from her first public appearance since Biden endorsed her:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/22/live-updates-harris-democrats-biden-drops-out-trump-campaign.html

She spent yesterday on the telephone for most of the day. I read that yesterday that she called the party leaders in all 50 states. That would take me three days.

She's renamed her YouTube channel, that's the where to go for video: https://www.youtube.com/@kamalaharris

This is her video on her channel from two hours ago:



To play it, start it, and then move it up to 5:47. This was one of those live videos which don't start at zero.

I've named this thread General Election 2024 Harris vs Trump

Trump needs an introduction post as well, a MAGA suporter ought to write it: @Farb, @SaintForLife , @Others, calling for someone to please introduce your GOP candidate for this 2024 general election thread.

 

[Lapaz]

As a society we really really need to craft a way of being, a path for young men where they can feel like the hero in their own life.

Now, hardcore feminists and LGBTQ activists would day that we don't owe a damn thing to young white men. Colonist scum that they are.

Maybe we don't, but there's a forkload of them and they can turn an election.

A little something to give them a positive context to apply to life wouldn't be a bad thing.

Men have been losing ground in society for many years. They’re going to college at ever lower rates. They are no longer needed as bread winners. White men get it even worse, since many policies favor minorities. I think it’s a backlash. I don’t know the answer. Perhaps cherishing masculinity more, but I’m not sure how.

 

[Lapaz]

Tim Walz acting like he would fit in quite nicely out on the main SSF board.

Walz seems like a regular guy. If he can couple that with governing chops, that’s a great combination. I hope this country gets to benefit from that.

 

[Optimus Prime]

A Democratic representative in a key battleground Senate race in Michigan told supporters she was concerned about Kamala Harris’s chances in the state’s presidential election.

“I’m not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan,” Elissa Slotkin said at a fundraiser earlier this month, according to Axios. “We have her underwater in our polling.”

Slotkin did not offer more details on specifics of the data to which she was referring, Axios reported. Without seeing the actual poll, it is difficult to assess its credibility. Candidates will sometimes use internal polls to motivate supporters and urge them not to get complacent.

Mail-in ballots started being sent to Michiganvoters on Thursday.

Donald Trump gave a speech and held a town hall in Michigan on Friday. Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, also made an appearance at a football game between the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota on Saturday.

Walz and Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, are set to square off on Tuesday in the only vice-presidential debate, another milestone moment in the race.

The FiveThirtyEight average of polls shows a very close race in Michigan, with Harris having a narrow lead. Winning Michigan, a state Joe Biden won in 2020 on his way to capturing the White House after Trump carried it in 2016, is key to Harris’s hopes of becoming president.

The simplest path for Harris to win the election and deny Trump a second presidency is to carry the Rust belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Losing any one of them would complicate her path to winning the electoral college……..

Harris is ‘underwater in our polling’, Michigan representative says

Democrat Elissa Slotkin worries about Harris’s chances as mail-in voting has begun in swing state Biden won in 2020

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of an October surprise that will “distort and pervert” Vice President Harris.

“There will be concerted efforts to distort and pervert Kamala Harris, who she is, what she stands for, what she’s done,” Clinton said during an interview with “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover.

She pointed to the 2016 “pizzagate” conspiracy theory that surrounded the end of her presidential campaign against Donald Trump.

“I mean, look, I mean, the crazy story about me running a child trafficking operation out of a basement of a pizzeria,” Clinton said.

The comment evoked laughter from the crowd. “Pizzagate,” as the child sex trafficking conspiracy became known, resulted in a North Carolina man opening fire on a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor in 2016.

“Don’t laugh,” Clinton told the crowd. “It was a huge story. And it got one young man in North Carolina to get in his car with his, you know, assault rifle and drove up to liberate these nonexistent children and shoot up a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.”

“This is dangerous stuff. It starts online often on the dark web. It migrates. It’s picked up by the pro-Trump media. It’s then reported on by everybody else, which makes sure it has about 100 percent coverage, and people believe it,” Clinton said.……

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4906833-clinton-warns-october-surprise-harris/

 

[MT15]

Lol

 

[fooferdoggie]

this is so gross. Someone is going to be spitting mad.
statue.

A naked statue of the former president, titled “Crooked and Obscene”, was erected in a fenced-in lot next to Interstate 15 north of Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 28.

The statue resembles a frowning Trump and has arms attached to strings, allowing them to be moved around like a puppet. It is made of foam-covered metal rebar and weighs about 6,000 pounds, according to The Wrap.

The piece is a “a bold statement on transparency, vulnerability, and the public personas of political figures,” the creators, who have not been identified, told the outlet.

What about crowd size? 43ft nude Trump statue erected along Las Vegas highway

The tribute to the Republican candidate leaves little to the imagination

www.yahoo.com

 

[SamAndreas]

A Democratic representative in a key battleground Senate race in Michigan told supporters she was concerned about Kamala Harris’s chances in the state’s presidential election.

“I’m not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan,” Elissa Slotkin said at a fundraiser earlier this month, according to Axios. “We have her underwater in our polling.”

Slotkin did not offer more details on specifics of the data to which she was referring, Axios reported. Without seeing the actual poll, it is difficult to assess its credibility. Candidates will sometimes use internal polls to motivate supporters and urge them not to get complacent.

Mail-in ballots started being sent to Michiganvoters on Thursday.

Donald Trump gave a speech and held a town hall in Michigan on Friday. Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, also made an appearance at a football game between the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota on Saturday.

Walz and Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, are set to square off on Tuesday in the only vice-presidential debate, another milestone moment in the race.

The FiveThirtyEight average of polls shows a very close race in Michigan, with Harris having a narrow lead. Winning Michigan, a state Joe Biden won in 2020 on his way to capturing the White House after Trump carried it in 2016, is key to Harris’s hopes of becoming president.

The simplest path for Harris to win the election and deny Trump a second presidency is to carry the Rust belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Losing any one of them would complicate her path to winning the electoral college……..

Harris is ‘underwater in our polling’, Michigan representative says

Democrat Elissa Slotkin worries about Harris’s chances as mail-in voting has begun in swing state Biden won in 2020

www.theguardian.com

OK, she's ignored.

"Elissa Blair Slotkin is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2019, representing the state's 7th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Slotkin was previously a Central Intelligence Agency analyst and Department of Defense official. Wikipedia"

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[SamAndreas]

this is so gross. Someone is going to be spitting mad.
statue.

A naked statue of the former president, titled “Crooked and Obscene”, was erected in a fenced-in lot next to Interstate 15 north of Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 28.

The statue resembles a frowning Trump and has arms attached to strings, allowing them to be moved around like a puppet. It is made of foam-covered metal rebar and weighs about 6,000 pounds, according to The Wrap.

The piece is a “a bold statement on transparency, vulnerability, and the public personas of political figures,” the creators, who have not been identified, told the outlet.

What about crowd size? 43ft nude Trump statue erected along Las Vegas highway

The tribute to the Republican candidate leaves little to the imagination

www.yahoo.com

I'd rather not. Someone did that, it wasn't me.

 

[SamAndreas]

As my daughter says - Trump is really on the struggle bus with basic reality. Is it really so very late in the hurricane season? I didn’t think so. You guys would know better.

"Late in the season for hurricanes"!!!

I doesn't seem all that late to me, not since global warming took over and replaced the old normal season.

This one seemed pretty "new normal" to me. As good as it gets.

More than a hundred died. As good as it gets!!!

 

[MT15]

OK, she's ignored.

"Elissa Blair Slotkin is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2019, representing the state's 7th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Slotkin was previously a Central Intelligence Agency analyst and Department of Defense official. Wikipedia"

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FWIW, I think she’s just fundraising. A lot of politicians try to make the polls seem worse than they are hoping to get people to help them by donating.

 

[SamAndreas]

Rolling Stone, at least, is giving some prominence to Trump’s startling proposal to give police a day to be extra violent toward people who steal stuff.

Trump Suggests Giving Cops 'One Really Violent Day' to Stop Crime

Donald Trump held a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, where he claimed if police could be 'really violent,' alleged migrant crime would end.

www.rollingstone.com

The phrasing of that kind of makes me feeling like puking on the ground outside. Kind of like I've been drinking red wine without eating some food first. I alway puke if I do that!!!

I've not been drinking red wine like that. It's the awful news this time.



I've been drinking good beer. Beer doesn't cause puking on the ground like that.



Check out the nice girl playing a three string instrument. Playing it very well.

 

[SamAndreas]

FWIW, I think she’s just fundraising. A lot of politicians try to make the polls seem worse than they are hoping to get people to help them by donating.

I've got a thing for CIA folks. I would prefer to ignore them. Pretend that don't exist.

 

[J-DONK]

OK, she's ignored.

"Elissa Blair Slotkin is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2019, representing the state's 7th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Slotkin was previously a Central Intelligence Agency analyst and Department of Defense official. Wikipedia"

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Yeah there has been one +Trump poll. That's it. Everyone else is Harris by up to +3. It's very close in the state obviously.

 

[SamAndreas]

Oh' dear!

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www.axios.com

May Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) meet a snapping turtle in her Michigan swamp.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I've got a thing for CIA folks. I would prefer to ignore them. Pretend that don't exist.

They would prefer that too

 

[SamAndreas]

They would prefer that too

Yeah, there's a fine solution there.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Harris evidently doing a good job on a popular podcast. More of this, please.

As a child of divorced parents who both dated and remarried, I did my best to mindful and careful when women I dated had children. Harris's campaign advisors in 2020 were a terrible fit for her.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Perhaps cherishing masculinity more...

Masculinity is a completely subjective concept and a lot of the current cultural clash comes from people having very different ideas about what masculinity is and what it looks like in action. People are fighting over which idea of masculinity should we embrace.

Personally, I don't want to go back to the "it's a man's world, men are superior, and every man is an island" self-entitled and self-aggrandizing bullshirt. That dysfunctional and insecurity driven nonsense is a big part of why we are currently in this mess.