General Election 2024 Harris vs Trump (5 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.

 

[efil4]

Yeah that will force his hand.

Watched a clip yesterday of a physician breakdown Trumps aphasia ( replacing words, halting speech, memory lapses, not able to finish a word but replaces ending with the "sound" ) episodes and the direct CLINICAL correlation to dementia. Its unbelievably evident that he is cognitively impaired.

The mere FACT that 200 physicians had to SIGN ON to have his records RELEASED are all you need to know about todays GOP. Those wagons are circled.

 

[superchuck500]

Trump’s primary plans for the economy are just plain terrible. It’s so wild that the primary complaint of Trump supporters and a more general American public for the past four years has been inflation. Trump‘s plans are highly inflationary! Removing workforce from full employment is inflationary. A major tariff initiative is highly inflationary.

It’s so stupid

https://wapo.st/4fh7BV3

 

[superchuck500]

Wtf is this guy talking about? How is this real?

 

[superchuck500]

Mass mental illness

 

[Maxp]

Trump’s primary plans for the economy are just plain terrible. It’s so wild that the primary complaint of Trump supporters and a more general American public for the past four years has been inflation. Trump‘s plans are highly inflationary! Removing workforce from full employment is inflationary. A major tariff initiative is highly inflationary.

It’s so stupid

https://wapo.st/4fh7BV3

This is the only argument I make to Maggats these days. You complain about 6-7% inflation and support a guy calling for 100% inflation. I work in Brazil where all imports are taxed; their inflation is much higher than the US and currency in the tank. The same iphone we buy for $1000 is $1500 here and the real is almost 1/6 of the dollar. What kind of Republican is pro tariff? It blows my mind.

 

[Eeyore]

Donald Trump has sought to cash in on his McDonald’s stunt by releasing a new, limited edition line of “MAGADonald’s” merchandise.

The former president attempted to troll Kamala Harris by manning a fryer at a drive-thru in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, on Sunday as he continues to claim the vice president is lying about working at the fast food chain as a summer job in the early 1980s.

And now, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have rolled out a new, limited edition piece of apparel to commemorate the day: a MAGADonald’s T-shirt.

“True Trump patriots” can purchase the white top brandished with Trump donning an apron and waving from the McDonald’s drive-thru window, featuring the “MAGADonald’s” slogan in the fast food giant’s red and gold brand colors.

The eagle-eyed shoppers can also spot Trump’s quiff sitting atop the slogan’s “D.”

“I HAVE A McGIFT FOR YOU!,” read a fundraising email, with the same slogan splashed across the top of the fundraising website. The so-called gift, however, is not free, with the website suggesting a donation of $100 in exchange for the T-shirt.

“I am the first and only 2024 presidential nominee to work at McDonald’s,” it continues. “But thanks to Kamala, prices for a meal are through the roof!”………

Trump cashes in on McDonald’s stunt with new ‘MAGADonald’s’ merch

Trump’s campaign offers the MAGA crowd a ‘McGift’: a $100 T-shirt featuring a photo of the Republican president candidate waving from a Golden Arches drive-thru

www.independent.co.uk

This is out there as well.



I'm surprised that they would allow it. Corporations usually protect the brand at all costs.

 

[Eeyore]

This was the first thing that I thought about when I heard about the stunt. I'm glad that someone else put it together.

 

[Optimus Prime]

This is out there as well.



I'm surprised that they would allow it. Corporations usually protect the brand at all costs.

They aren’t allowing it

McDonald’s corporate has already come out to say they don’t support any political candidate but as far as I know they haven’t specifically called this and the merch out

 

[coldseat]

They aren’t allowing it

McDonald’s corporate has already come out to say they don’t support any political candidate but as far as I know they haven’t specifically called this and the merch out

If McDonald's means that, then they need to sue Trump and his campaign for copyright infringement for using their logo in his campaign ads.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Optimus Prime]

If McDonald's means that, then they need to sue Trump and his campaign for copyright infringement for using their logo in his campaign ads.

The merch and ads is another issue I’m curious if they’ll address
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McDonald’s has issued a statement clarifying where the American fast-food giant stands on the upcoming 2024 election following former President Donald Trump’s campaign stop at one of its restaurants over the weekend.

Trump on Sunday worked the fry station and handed out orders to supporters who were prescreened by the Secret Service at a McDonald’s location in Bucks County in Pennsylvania, a key battleground in this election.

His visit was widely seen as a way to poke Vice President Kamala Harris, as the former president has baselessly claimed the Democratic nominee is lying about having worked for the company as a college student.

“McDonald’s does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in this race for the next President. We are not red or blue — we are golden,” the company said. “Though we are not a political brand, we’ve been proud to hear former President Trump’s love for McDonald’s and Vice President Harris’s fond memories working under the Arches.”

The company explained the owner of that franchise, Derek Giacomantonio, was contacted by local law enforcement regarding Trump’s intention to visit a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania and welcomed the opportunity to host the former president at his restaurant.

McDonald’s greenlit the request, while noting that other franchisees have extended invitations to Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, to visit their locations.

“Upon learning of the former President’s request, we approached it through the lens of one of our core values: we open our doors to everyone,” the company said.

“It’s with that same approach that franchisees have invited Vice President Harris and and Governor Walz to their restaurants, in order to share how McDonald’s provides meaningful pathways to economic opportunity and feeds and fosters local communities.”……..

McDonald's Clarifies Its Position On The 2024 Election Following Trump's Visit

"We are not red or blue — we are golden," the company said in an internal memo.

www.huffpost.com

 

[efil4]

i loved the "did we all die during COVID" part lol

Trump’s primary plans for the economy are just plain terrible. It’s so wild that the primary complaint of Trump supporters and a more general American public for the past four years has been inflation. Trump‘s plans are highly inflationary! Removing workforce from full employment is inflationary. A major tariff initiative is highly inflationary.

It’s so stupid

https://wapo.st/4fh7BV3

 

[superchuck500]

My common law brother in law (lol) is in finance and he said that the bond market has been moving steadily up lately and he thinks it’s because there’s concern that Trump is going to win and they all know his policies are inflationary.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The US army has been ordered to release documents about the Donald Trump campaign’s pugnacious visit to Arlington national cemetery in a move that threatens to reignite accusations over the Republican nominee’s attitude to military service members in the final phase of the presidential election.

The court order, in response to a lawsuit filed by transparency advocates, came on Tuesday with an end-of-the-week deadline and could shed new light on an episode that saw Trump accused of exploiting America’s most venerated military burial site for campaigning purposes in August.

A senior judge on the US district court for the District of Columbia, Paul Friedman, ordered the army to release documentation relating to the episode in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit brought by American Oversight, a group dedicated to the release of public records.…..

US army ordered to release records about Trump’s Arlington cemetery visit

Documents threaten to reignite accusations about ex-president’s attitude towards service members

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Six years? 4 years Trump is done, things are mess, Democrat win the White House in 24, two years later this happens GOP blames the democrats for it and retake the presidency in 2028
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If former President Donald Trump wins the November election and institutes his planned agenda, the Social Security Trust Fund may be empty in just six years, according to a new report.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), which opposes large federal deficits, said in their report released on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposed policies wouldn’t change the current timeline.

As the US is aging, the funding of the program will come into sharper focus as the current prediction by trustees that the fund will become insolvent in 2035 gets closer.

The CRFB found that Trump’s policies would bring that deadline closer by a magnitude of years. The group found that many of his proposed policies for a second term push the fund towards insolvency.……

Trump’s policies could drain Social Security in just six years, report warns

Retirement program might be forced to cut checks as early as 2031 under Trump’s proposed agenda

www.independent.co.uk

 

[efil4]

Six years? 4 years Trump is done, things are mess, Democrat win the White House in 24, two years later this happens GOP blames the democrats for it and retake the presidency in 2028
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If former President Donald Trump wins the November election and institutes his planned agenda, the Social Security Trust Fund may be empty in just six years, according to a new report.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), which opposes large federal deficits, said in their report released on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposed policies wouldn’t change the current timeline.

As the US is aging, the funding of the program will come into sharper focus as the current prediction by trustees that the fund will become insolvent in 2035 gets closer.

The CRFB found that Trump’s policies would bring that deadline closer by a magnitude of years. The group found that many of his proposed policies for a second term push the fund towards insolvency.……

Trump’s policies could drain Social Security in just six years, report warns

Retirement program might be forced to cut checks as early as 2031 under Trump’s proposed agenda

www.independent.co.uk

i am going to be SO MAD in 2035 if SSI is out of $$$

 

[Optimus Prime]

This is the state of the election. I would like to find out if they were even cited by police.

Trump Supporters: snowflake tracker?! No thank you. This is how you do it

This is local to me. This county has been struggling some past years with changing demographics

Younger, browner and more liberal

Some of the school board fights posted here before have been loudoun
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A Virginia property owner has placed a booby-trapped political sign on their property, eliciting a bomb squad response over the weekend – but police later revealed it’s perfectly legal.

The Loudon County resident placed a banner with an altered photo of Vice President Kamala Harris holding a sign that reads, “I helped create this mess!” Surrounding Harris’s image are the words, “Day one for me was Jan, 2021.”

But, the sign was booby-trapped with shotgun shells that one resident said seemed to be filled with gunpowder, local outlet Fox 5 reports.

A resident called the police on Saturday morning, concerned about “a device attached to tree with a fishing line” extending to the sign, Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office Media Relations and Communications Director Thomas Julia told The Independent.

Resident Charles King told Fox 5 he found the booby-trapped sign.

"I found the sign, I found a camera to take pictures of people near the sign, and a device in the woods that appeared to me to be an improvised explosive device," King told the outlet. "It looked homemade, made of shotgun shells and what appeared to be gunpowder."

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and Fire Marshal’s Office responded to the call, along with a bomb squad, according to Fox 5. But, they discovered the device was actually designed to make a loud noise when tampered with.

When asked to confirm if the device did indeed use shotgun shells, Julia said: “I believe it does.”

“While this is unusual, it is not illegal,” Julia told The Independent.

“We contacted the property owner who said he placed the audible device as a deterrent because signage had been disturbed there in the past,” Julia added.……..

Booby-trapped pro-Trumo sign in Virginia has actual shotgun shells. And it’s legal.

A bomb squad responded to the sign after a concerned resident observed what they thought was an ‘explosive device’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[efil4]

My common law brother in law (lol) is in finance and he said that the bond market has been moving steadily up lately and he thinks it’s because there’s concern that Trump is going to win and they all know his policies are inflationary.

add to that the situation in Ukraine and ME, and yeah i get it.

Just odd because when Fed cuts rate, yields should drop ( and 10 yr did 9/17 but immediately began the climb again - steep climb.