Comments on: Americans now look to Harris for policies, not just promises of joy  https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/ On politics, media, business, the environment and life Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Catherine https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-750152 Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:16:55 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-750152 If I were an American, the fact that Harris is NOT Trump should be enough to get my vote. The election is a two-horse race. Forget Stein, she’s just a spoiler. This is the hard fact of the matter. Either Kamala or Donny takes the prize. And Donny scares the bejesus out of me. He intends to dismantle American democracy ( such as it is, with all its inherent flaws.) Does anyone truly believe his disavowal of Project 25? Only fools would disregard everything he’s said and done so far – such as inciting insurrection; strong-arming Pence not to confirm the vote etc – to signal his intention to set aside the conventions and mechanisms of the US Constitution and behave “ like a dictator”. When someone shows you who they are, you’d better believe it. His words are worth zero.
Harris could decide she wants a national unicorn day where everyone has to wear a fake forehead horn and I’d still vote for her and Walz over the Orange Ogre. The Tangerine Tyrant has no right to re-enter the White House.

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By: Dr Stephen https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749778 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 23:13:11 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749778 In reply to Privileged Starvation.

Just what I was going to post. Vacuous? More than a touch of sexism in some comments. Given the challenge she faces, there are major strategic issues with turnout and capturing the centre.

Yes the USA does appear to be a failing country but remains the most powerful country in the world and KH is preferable by a long way to the alternative.

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By: Dr Stephen https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749772 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:59:41 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749772 In reply to Metal Guru.

HC won the popular vote remember?

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By: Dr Stephen https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749768 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:54:54 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749768 In reply to Metal Guru.

Just a touch of sexism?

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By: Hayward Maberley https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749762 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:26:26 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749762 In reply to PeterM.

Word Salad is SOP for Trump , in fact complete nonsense, below is just what The Mango Mussolini said on 4 July 2019.

“In June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York, and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief.

The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown.

“Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket’s red glare it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant.”

The facts are quite different!

Named after George Washington, not so, it was the The Continental Army .

The army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
It was formed on June 14, 1775, by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia after the war’s outbreak.

The only battle fought in June 1775 was Bunker Hill where the British won.

It was 1781 when the combined American and French armies marched south, it was the battle, aided by the French fleet defeat of the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay, that sealed the fate of General Cornwallis’ British troops and German mercenaries at Yorktown.

The first airplane flight by the Wright Brothers did not occur until 1903.

College Park Airport (KCGS), the worlds oldest airport in the city of College Park, Maryland, US, was only established in 1909 when Wilbur Wright arrived at the field to train two officers of the US Army

The Battle of Baltimore at Fort McHenry was in 1814 during the War of 1812 between Britain and the US, the Fort itself was not even built until 1798.

The American flag didn’t exist until 1777

That version called the “Star-spangled banner” did not exist until 1794.

And the tune used for that was from A Hymn To Anacreon, official song of a gentleman’s club of 18thC London, The Anacreontic Society.

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By: Metal Guru https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749736 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:38:39 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749736 In reply to Privileged Starvation.

A-G of California. Apparently this just entails putting away a lot of unfortunate coloured people. Something all A-Gs do in the State and Territories here all the time and we condemn them for it. But because it is a woman of colour doing it…that’s different. Just as well California did away with the death penalty in 1972. When sleazy old Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas, he approved the execution of quite a few felons and that followed him around wherever he went just as much as stories about Interns.

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By: Metal Guru https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749733 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:34:29 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749733 In reply to roberto.

It’s not over yet. The election is 2 months away and she has a lot of ground to make up.

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By: Metal Guru https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749732 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:33:24 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749732 In reply to PeterM.

True dat!

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By: Metal Guru https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749731 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:32:14 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749731 In reply to PeterM.

Damn straight. Got it is one and a bit.

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By: Metal Guru https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/02/kamala-harris-policy-positions-abortion-immigration-healthcare/#comment-749730 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:31:33 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172817#comment-749730 In reply to Tatlin.

Harris does not answer questions on substance. She is as vacuous as they come. A Public Prosecutor who hasn’t a clue and just prances about. A slimmer and more feminine Trump. Yanks are rubbish.

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