Kamala Harris is VP Pick

The Floyd wrote:

I love her. Smart, tough, articulate, moderate. She's a good centrist democrat pick, regardless of how the GOP and all the wing-nuts on here will try to paint her.

But here comes all the misogyny and racism. Strong men are "tough," strong women are "b-ches" and "ball breakers," etc etc.

The first person to write “racism” was you. Rethink your mindset. Stop painting us as persecuted and helpless. Your propagation of the victim mentality is as harmful to my race’s success as any white supremacist group. Please stop.

The Unkle wrote:

K5 detector wrote:

At least she’s not a Jew.

.

I had to report such a blatantly racist statement

Jewishness is not a race.

Good pick. She...

1. Fulfills Biden's promise to select a woman

2. Former prosecutor and state AG - defeats GOP arguments about being soft on crime

3. Moderate with law enforcement credentials - pulls in white suburban males that typically vote GOP but, are tired of Trump's antics

4. Helps to shore up the women's vote in the suburbs for reasons similar to #3

5. Brings more South Asian immigrant voters to the Biden side as she is of Indian heritage - this could hurt the GOP in places like Houston, TX and The Research Triangle of North Carolina that have a sizeable Indian/Sri Lankan communities.

6. Puts a woman a heartbeat away from the Presidency - I fully expect Joe to be a single term caretaker President that will announce his intent in late 2023 to not seek another term in 2024. I would not be surprised if he resigned in early 2024 to allow her to run as the incumbent.

7. She failed to prosecute Mnuchin but, this may also send a signal to Republicans that the Biden Administration is not seeking to go scorched earth on Trump aides/appointees and reassures moderates that you are not electing an AOC type. The Biden campaign can run on healing and re-building vs. FEAR and LOATHING and MORE FEAR!!!!

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Not going to make a difference.

Trump. Pence. Biden. Harris.

They all suck.

Seriously. You can waste your time debating their empty promises, but at the end of the day, they all suck. Also, I predict 2024 will be even worse.

usual low quality posts on lrc wrote:

tydi6 wrote:

If you mean District Attorney or California Attorney General, those are elective positions. She was voted in.

Nice try.

Yeah, seriously WTF. Is this just something you throw out there anytime you see a woman in power? Must have slept their way to the top... What a total piece of garbage thing to say.

Except it's factual.

"A 1994 Los Angeles Times report about then-California Assembly Speaker Brown's "rush to hand out patronage jobs" described Harris as Brown's "frequent companion" and said several people referred to her as Brown's girlfriend. That report also cited a column from the Chronicle's Herb Caen that called Harris "the Speaker's new steady." When they met, she was 29 and Brown was 60. "

"Among the issues that followed Harris from her time with Brown was the allegation of cronyism in his appointment of her to two well-paying posts."

"Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker," Brown wrote Saturday. Brown was the speaker from 1980 to 1995, prior to his stint as San Francisco mayor.

"Brown appointed Harris to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and then to the Medical Assistance Commission – positions that paid her more than $400,000 over five years, according to SF Weekly. Brown also gave Harris a BMW.

"And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco," he said in his Chronicle letter Saturday...

"The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I 'so much as jaywalked' while she was D.A.," Brown wrote. "That’s politics for ya." "

The Unkle wrote:

Timmy Treadwell wrote:

Maybe Pence can use this against her in the VP debate.

"You declined to prosecute our corrupt Treasury Secretary" he can say.

Drain the swamp, indeed.

Pretty sure the GOP is on this. Tulsi absolutely took her apart in the debates. You know the GOP will be all over this...but will have to stay away from Mnuchin (which Tulsi also avoided I believe) and use the rest of Tulsi's points

What do you think the GOP will say about both Trump and his daughter contributing thousands to her campaigns?

Also, I think it will interesting to see how each media outlet actually adjusts her skin tone when posting pictures. I bet Fox makes her much darker, and CNN makes her much lighter. Disgusting, maybe, but something worth noting.

The Unkle wrote:

You are ignorant of her history.

As a native Californian I am actually pretty aware of her history, thanks.

The question asked was, Did she sleep her way to the "California DA" position. The answer was that she was elected to her positions as SF DA and CA AG. So unless she slept with each of the people who voted for her...

But certainly, let's spend a good part of the next couple months looking at her relationships when she was an unmarried woman ~25 years ago. I mean, that's the only way women get ahead amirite?

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Not going to make a difference.

Trump. Pence. Biden. Harris.

They all suck.

Please explain more about what you think the above four all agree on. I am confident we can find some difference that matters to you.

GravyAin'tGonnaRegisterAgain wrote:

I bet Fox makes her much darker, and CNN makes her much lighter. Disgusting, maybe, but something worth noting.

Actually Fox initially is presenting her with three different skin tones.

And of course one of their opinion writers refers to her as "Biden's radical VP." KAMALA HARRIS? She's many things; radical, she ain't.

But *we* know what "radical" means here--pretty much what it did for Obama: *persisting* in being kinda brown-ish.

I spoked weed while listening to Tupac and Snoop Dog in 1988.

Starno wrote:

Democrats will lose like never before.

70/30 for Trump.

This will not age well

Lets also remember that it was She and Cory Booker bringing back Lynching back into the American conversation that led to the fake Lynching hate crime of Jussie Smollett.

She is not empowering black Americans. She is turning them into victims.

The Unkle wrote:

Four minutes in.

Kamala dismantled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fjA0K2EeE

Welcome back to the election Trump. This is his lifeline to the presidency. You better believe it is going to be all about Harris for the next 3 months and her record as a prosecutor. The biggest issue Biden has is his age and he needed a noncontroversial VP pick who people could see filling in. Harris is truly an awful person. She went to great measures to hold back evidence on people facing the death penalty who she knew likely to be innocent in order to protect her record. I don't want to hear about Trump being a terrible person, that has no relevance to acts Harris has committed that should be criminalized. Biden should not be left off the hook for picking someone of her character as VP. There were candidates who were very qualified and had solid character like Rice who had baggage for whatever political reason. The Trump campaign will jump on this. Biden will wish they had rehashed Bengazi for a week and then no one would have cared and he'd be on his way to the white house.

A lot of reasonable Republican Moderates were ready to jump on the Biden train. This is a pick that will placate factions of the Democratic party he would have won heavily with anyways but will make it a lot tougher to win many moderates.

usual low quality posts on lrc wrote:

tydi6 wrote:

If you mean District Attorney or California Attorney General, those are elective positions. She was voted in.

Nice try.

Yeah, seriously WTF. Is this just something you throw out there anytime you see a woman in power? Must have slept their way to the top... What a total piece of garbage thing to say.

Who could’ve predicted that this would be the conservative storyline? What’s that? Everyone, you say? I mean, how else could a woman - much less a black woman, succeed?

tydi6 wrote:

The Unkle wrote:

You are ignorant of her history.

As a native Californian I am actually pretty aware of her history, thanks.

The question asked was, Did she sleep her way to the "California DA" position. The answer was that she was elected to her positions as SF DA and CA AG. So unless she slept with each of the people who voted for her...

But certainly, let's spend a good part of the next couple months looking at her relationships when she was an unmarried woman ~25 years ago. I mean, that's the only way women get ahead amirite?

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/01/222799/kamala-harris-willie-brown-relationship-sexist-coverage

She made a ton of money and a lot of experience from jobs that she got by sleeping with Brown. She then used that money and that experience to run for office, and Brown helped her campaign (he was extremely popular).

It's ACCURATE to say Harris WOULD NOT have won her first election if she hadn't been sleeping with Brown and thus would not have gone on to be so successful. She was 29 and he was 60, it's clear the only thing Brown had to offer was money and power.

Hiyero wrote:

There you go. First woman preosident.

Joe Biden is healthy he has over 8 years of life left (if he wins, which there is a 60% Chance)

Ivanka slept her way to her current position too.

DerpDaDerp wrote:

usual low quality posts on lrc wrote:

Yeah, seriously WTF. Is this just something you throw out there anytime you see a woman in power? Must have slept their way to the top... What a total piece of garbage thing to say.

Who could’ve predicted that this would be the conservative storyline? What’s that? Everyone, you say? I mean, how else could a woman - much less a black woman, succeed?

It's well known that her career got its start when she was sleeping with the SF mayor. You can decide for yourself whether that is important but you cannot just pretend it didn't happen.