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Sep 1, 2024, 04:59 AM
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Kama Chameleon
a person who often changes his or her
beliefs or behavior in order to please others or to succeed
Chameleon Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The emperor taught us that if you run a campaign on ill defined hopey changy then you can be defined by other's aspirations and expectations .
Matthew Kaminsky of Politico says
The old rule that the pol picks up important debts to certain constituencies and VIPs on their rise doesn’t apply the same way to her. This is one of the most unusual features of the Harris ascendance and for now gives her unique advantages.
Coming out of the convention in Chicago, Harris has built as wide a coalition as any Democratic nominee in memory. Everyone there claimed her as their own, with arguably the exception of President Joe Biden’s family and a few of his staffers. The manner of her ascent — the replacement of the octogenarian incumbent, the lack of a primary, the single-minded obsession with beating former President Donald Trump, the coming together of Democratic powers around her candidacy in barely 48 hours last month — means that no one can claim to have brought her this far.
What does it mean to owe few explicit debts? You can design a convention, like the one in Chicago, with little of the identity politics or Gaza passions that tore up your side for years. You can stay ambiguous on policy prescriptions when you want to — no one’s in any position to deny her a check or an endorsement in exchange for a promise to adopt this or cancel that. You can tack as you wish: hence the new centrist, strong-on-crime, strong-on-defense, strong-on-business Harris who, before this summer, didn’t present any of those attributes strongly to the nation.
Most magically of all: You somehow come across looking like the newcomer.
Kamala Harris’ Secret Power: She Is Whatever You Want Her to Be - POLITICO
In well over a month since he imaculation she has done nothing to clarify ;and that includes the single sit down interview she had with the compliant press.
It apparently is a successful playbook ....... maybe.
The party is so relieved to get a candidate who has a hope to win this race that no one inside the camp seems to mind that she is hard to pin down.
This formula has worked for her in the past and I expect it could again .
“all but went into a bunker for about a year, avoiding many interviews out of what aides said was a fear of making mistakes and disappointing Mr. Biden.”
Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency. Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting. - The New York Times (archive.org)
New book says Biden called Harris a 'work in progress' - POLITICO
The question to ask is ;she was complicit in hiding Joe's mental decline . What is she hiding now ?
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Sep 3, 2024, 05:13 AM
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Weird But at least her values have not changed .
True. She values elective office.
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Sep 3, 2024, 09:41 AM
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 Originally Posted by tomder55
she changes her accent at will.
I too can change my voice and accent at will when I want to emphasize points. I did it when raising my sons. I do it when teasing my husband about something. I did it with my library coworkers when I wanted to make a point about something. You can do it too, just like Kamala Harris and I do! (And I bet you have more than once!)
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Sep 3, 2024, 12:31 PM
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 Originally Posted by tomder55
You are soooooo wrong! She knows and loves her audiences, and they know and love her! Plus her sentences are complete sentences that make sense, she doesn't play an imaginary accordion while talking, and she has a happy glow and big smile on her face
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Sep 4, 2024, 02:34 AM
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Now to the specifics of their argument.
Flashback day one of the Clueless Joe -Kam the Sham administration ;Joe shuts down the Keystone pipeline costing the Teamster's 8,000 union jobs.
Teamsters Statement on Cancelation of the Keystone XL Pipeline - International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Workers in the energy sector have seen massive layoffs as government regulations are forcing refineries and drilling shut down.
Fossil fuel layoff: The economic and employment effects of a refinery closure on workers in the Bay Area - UC Berkeley Labor Center
The transition to so called clean energy takes fewer workers to maintain once the infrastructure is installed ;and many of the parts are imported so that does not help find work for displaced workers .
Insight: Biden's clean energy factory jobs may elude U.S. union workers | Reuters
It is a fact that their green new steal is costing union jobs in Detroit . The conversion of autos to EVs have already cost union significant job loss.
Ford to Lay Off 3,000 Workers As Experts Warn of Layoffs Industry-Wide - Business Insider
Carmakers shed 80,000 jobs as technology, falling demand upend industry - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
‘I couldn’t see a future’: what ex-automotive workers told us about job loss, shutdowns, and communities on the edge (theconversation.com)
And from a union perspective ;jobs that the so called clean energy market ;heavily subsidized by the green new steal are producing, often end up in right to work states .
Insight: Biden's clean energy factory jobs may elude U.S. union workers | Reuters
I can almost see why public service unions support them . Their jobs rely on taxpayer funding. But it is baffling that private sector unions support the Dems .
Yeah union leadership if for them . Rank and file members know better .
They know lost jobs are not being replaced . They know that Biden-flation is making it harder for them to survive even if they have been lucky enough to keep their jobs.
Harris wins support from union leaders, but not necessarily workers | Politics | abc12.com
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Sep 4, 2024, 06:13 PM
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Even Liz Cheney has rejected and is talking against Trump!
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Sep 4, 2024, 07:40 PM
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If you want to appeal to a reasonable, true conservative who opposes Trump, you picked a poor candidate in Liz Chaney. No one would be surprised at her foolishness. She has been a long time opponent of Trump. Still, to come out in favor of Harris just shows Cheney's true values.
In the meantime, Walz's own brother along with seven other family members came out against him and in favor of Trump today.
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Sep 5, 2024, 03:50 AM
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Half of Walz family is Trumpers. That's because he's weird .
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Sep 5, 2024, 09:28 AM
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Yes, tomder, Trump is definitely weird! Glad you finally see the light!
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Sep 5, 2024, 12:22 PM
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Liz Cheney is a swamp critter . Ask her what her TDS got her She is no longer in Congress . Worse for her ;she was primaried out of office ;doomed the day she served as a fake Repub on the Jan 6 impeachment Kangaroo court . She got defeated in the primary by 70%-30% to a Trump supporter !!!!!
She considered running against Trump for President this year ;and said she would have an impact. Saying she will vote for Kam the Sham is hardly earth shattering .
Maybe she should boldly proclaim that she will leave the country as other "influencers " have threatened . Oh if only that were true. But they pontificate and never follow through . I can think of many nations for them to choose from.
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Sep 5, 2024, 12:35 PM
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Here is what Cheney thought if Kam the Sham in 2020
Liz says d@mn I thought I deleted that tweet !!
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Sep 5, 2024, 03:10 PM
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Hey, WG. Who is it who's weird??
Great post, Tom.
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Sep 6, 2024, 10:48 AM
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 Originally Posted by jlisenbe
Hey, WG. Who is it who's weird??
Trump and especially Vance.
Every morning's newpaper, page after page, contains reports about shootings and killings. How do we stop them???
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Sep 6, 2024, 12:33 PM
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for starters law enforcement should do it's job.
As noted here
Clueless Joe's gun control speech (askmehelpdesk.com)
The FBI had pin pointed the home and the computer where threats originated . They passed that info to the Sheriff who had interviews with the shooter and his father .
The father ;who should be charged with accessory to murder among the charges he was arrested for yesterday . Told the Sheriff that he had hunting rifles in his home BUT the kid did not have access .
Then the idiot buys his son a rifle as a gift knowing the the kid was making threats .
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CBS News has learned that police and federal agents are investigating if the suspect received the weapon as a gift from his father, Colin Gray, in December 2023, according to four federal law enforcement sources close to the investigation. That would have been about seven months after law enforcement officers talked to the teen and his father in an investigation of online school shooting threats.
Where the suspected Georgia school shooter got the gun, and more questions answered - CBS News
As my previous posting points out ;in almost every mass shooting event recently the FBI was forewarned.
The conspiracy minded would ask did they allow them to happen because it advances a political agenda about gun ownership ? Nah the Feds would never allow guns to intentionally get into the wrong hands .</sarc>
ATF gunwalking scandal | Military Wiki | Fandom
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Sep 6, 2024, 12:36 PM
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Trump and especially Vance.
Then your definition of weird must be substantially different than mine. I would think that anyone committed to voting for a candidate who, "wants to recreate America in the image of what's happening in the streets of Portland and Seattle," and had vowed to not, "give her the chance," is about as weird as it gets.
As to shootings and killings, it should be noted that the rate of gun homicides is still lower than in 68. It had fallen considerably for a number of years before beginning to rise again over the last eight years. So perhaps we should be asking why it has jumped over the past decade or so.
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Sep 6, 2024, 01:06 PM
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This is Vance type of weird . He raised himself up from coming from a dysfunctional family with a drug addict mom ;a father that abandoned them . He was raised by his grandmother . Still he became an Ivy League graduate ;a best selling author ;and a Senator. That was weird in that it is exceptionally rare but it is the essence of the American dream to pull oneself up and achieve despite the cards he was dealt.
Walz had an upbringing that is straight out of Norman Rockwell. His father was a teacher His mother was as stay at home mom raising the children . Hundreds of Americans rose up the ladder of life with a similar background But he ended up lying about his military service and supporting a law that brought Tampons into boys locker rooms . That is weird .
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