Rally - Harris introduces Walz
6Aug2024
Temple University's Liacouras Center. Took awhile to fill all the
seats, but it was eventually filled to capacity.
Interestingly, one big difference between the Kamala Harris campaign
and the Hillary Clinton campaign is that Clinton talked about herself
as a woman, while Harris has refused to do so. During her first
mainstream media interview with CNN, Harris was asked about her
being a Black person
and she just responded: "Same old, tired playbook" and that was the end
of that. She had no intention of making any sort of argument about her
status as either a woman or as a Black person.
Hmm, they fill up in back of the speakers first, so as to get the most
enthusiastic background, I guess.
For Donald Trump to "deport millions" of undocumented immigrats means
that all of those people who were
paying taxes will all of the sudden not be paying taxes. In addition,
Trump plans to have another
tax break for the wealthy, just like in 2017. How does he intend to do
all this and not just add
massively to the deficit or reduce the already-shrunken middle class to
complete nonexistence? Reporters haven't
asked him. There are a number of reasons why they haven't, but they
all add up to eithe a massive dereliction of duty or a desire to have a fascist
dictatorship.
A warm-up speaker. I don't do many long-range photos, so I was pleased
to see that the pictures came out sharper than they appeared when
looking through the camera lens.
The cartoonist Tom Tomorrow portrays Senator and Trump
running mate JD Vance as not-as-interesting as Robert Kennedy Jr.
As Vance is simply not as crazy as Kennedy Jr. is, Trump just finds
Vance less interesting!
Vance's "chidless
cat ladies" comment* was in addition to his complaint that
"...we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a
direct stake in it” was not
helped by his
follow-up comment that liberals can have a "1,200 sq ft apartment
in New York" and not be happy because they're childless. He then
asserted that this explains why liberals are so concerned about racial
and gender justice,
* But hey, the story drove out the joke that Vance did it with a couch!
So it's done him some good!
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker spoke.
So Biden is old, even though I
saw a campaign speech just a little while ago that he put out right before
introducing VP Harris, okay, sure, he's old. He clearly hasn't lost any
his ability to focus and to give a good speech. Trump, on the other
hand, has taken to describing his speeches as a "weave," where he takes
several seemingly unrelated ideas and "weaves" them together into a
coherent whole. Ehh,
nice try! Actually, he just sort of rambles and jumps from idea to
idea without any overall point that he's trying to make.
Trump also has an extremely serious problem of admitting, out loud
and in front of cameras and/or witnesses, things he really shouldn't
admit to. His
latest admission was that he was “'indicted for interfering with a
presidential election,' which he added he had 'every right to do.'" As
his January 6th trial is starting up again, this was an extremely
unwise admission to make.
Well, generally the pictures came out well. Just need to take multiple
shots, I guess. Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro.
Video
Looks like it's the week to beat up on Jill Stein. Representative
AOC took point on this, accusing the Green Pary under Jill Stein as
being stuck. Their head keeps appearing on the presidential ballot, but
the party isn't really moving anywhere. Stein's answer was that her
voters were people who would not have voted at all, so the accusation
that she's robbing Democrats was untrue. Trump is quoted in the piece
as saying that "I like [Stein] very much. You know why? She takes 100
percent [of her voters] from [Democrats]." The Democratic National
Committee followed up by claiming that Stein
is a "useful idiot" for Russia. Stein is scheduled to honor
"three members of a black leftist group federally charged for allegedly
acting as malign foreign agents of Vladimir Putin’s government."
Which kinda seems to justify the DNC's accusation. Notably, "the DNC
this cycle has decided to target third-party challengers." As the
margins are very slim, this seems to be a sensible strategy.
Our Next President!
Arlington National Cemetery, built on the estate of Robert E. Lee, the
general who commanded the largest Army of the Confederacy, the Army of Northern Virginia, has been sacred ground in the US
for quite a while. There are very clear and specific rules about what
you can and cannot do there. One thing you're not allowed to do is
to shoot campaign commercials. If that were okay, the cemetery
would be a very popular place to shoot them. So Trump and his people,
including several people who had lost loved ones on the field of battle,
shot a commercal using footage taken from an area where it isn't
allowed. Unfortunately, the
Army is very skittish about being seen as attacking Trump, so
The Army is currently sitting on the police report filed by
the cemetery staffer recounting her version of the incident where she
was reportedly verbally abused and shoved aside by two Trump campaign
staffers when she tried to enforce cemetery rules against political
activities.
Also, Democratic Representatives can't seem to get any answers from the
Army.
VP Harris introduces Governor Walz.
Russian state TV is very displeased
with Walz. Not only is he pro-Ukraine, he's also pro-gay!
Fair amount of stuff going on between
Russia and Ukraine. Big stories at the moment are that Ukraine has
invaded Russia and has occupied several hundred square miles of
territory, but
Russia's offensive to the South, in the Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk
is still making small, but
steady gsins. Ukrainians are infuriated that the US is forbidding them
to use long-range missiles against targets in Russia as Biden's NatSec
people fear escalation of the war.
Governor and future VP Tim Walz!
Showing that the movement to gift the Supreme Court with an enforceable
code of ethics is
far from dead, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expresses support for
such a code, adding that other Justices disagree. Among those who
disagree is Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She had great praise for First Liberty Institute,
a group that has fought against such a code. Acording to First Liberty,
Justice Kagan is "treasonous" and "disloyal" for supporting a code of
ethics for the court.
PRAWNWorks.net