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[Official] Kamala Harris for President 2024

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sajan, Jul 21, 2024.

  1. Space Ghost

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    When did calling people weird become an insult? I remember my grandparents using it as an insult. The alphabet people proudly adopted the term years ago.

    What thinkless tank command you leftist to start using that term. It's not insulting. It makes you look stupid
     
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    You would know as our resident expert here on it…
     
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    They blamed Trump's handling of the pandemic on Trump which is fair. He cut jobs and offices before it even started that were designed to help in that type of situation. His messaging was confused, unclear, and potentially dangerous.

    He did a crap job.
     
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    Trump and Vance seem hurt by it given how recently they’re claiming it’s the other side is weird.
     
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    I'm not sure why so much power is being given to the trump ticket to define words
     
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    Nah you're not gonna rewrite history. Even Gavin Newsom praised Trump during the pandemic. A few months down the line was when Kamala said she'd never take a Trump vaccine, which might actually still be true, but I digress:

    https://www.axios.com/2020/04/11/gavin-newsom-trump-coronavirus-cnn


     
  11. juicystream

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    Under Kamala's plan you owe $0. People won't magically stop buying stocks because people don't avoid making money because they have to pay taxes. Otherwise nobody would be making more than roughly $30K in this country.

    Here's what happens now for everyone: You bought Zoom at the IPO for $65. You sold it in 2020 for $500. You paid tax on it. You re-invested that money in Big Lots and now essentially have nothing. You paid tax on that money before. Its not fair. Cries. Had a client this literally happened to. Made $1M, lost it less than a year later, still has that tax bill to deal with though. You'd have to use income averaging for it to work out fairly. Do you know who was President when they got rid of income averaging? Ronald Reagan.

    Having the super rich pay taxes on unrealized capital gains is an idea based in the major tax avoidance strategies they use. For a country with a massive budget deficit. It is actually one of the easiest levers to pull that wouldn't be extremely recessionary.
     
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    That is interesting. Might even ding him if he was running for President, but then again he'd be running against Donald Trump, so he'd still have the moral high ground by about 30K feet.
     
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    That isn't rewriting history.
    Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised

    Trump’s elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see the threat of pandemics in the same way that many experts in the field did.

    “One year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,” Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed Friday in The Washington Post




    https://apnews.com/article/donald-t...ublic-health-ce014d94b64e98b7203b873e56f80e9a
     
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    It shows they don't agree with you that calling someone "weird" isn't an insult or makes someone look stupid.
     
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    Exclusive: Harris' election effort raises around $500 million in a month, sources say

    CHICAGO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' election effort has raised around $500 million since she became the Democratic presidential candidate, sources told Reuters, an unprecedented money haul that reflects donor enthusiasm going into the Nov. 5 election.

    Four sources familiar with the fundraising effort told Reuters that figure had been banked for Harris in the four weeks since she jumped into the race on July 21.
     
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    There’s a large chunk of Americans who are turned off by the direction Trump-led Republicans have taken and the people involved in it. “Weird” is a reference to that feeling of discomfort. It’s not intended to be persuasive to people who don’t get it. It’s a way of rallying people who do.

    It is certainly alienating to people who are in Trump world, and maybe they backfires politically. But mostly, it’s targeting people who make a living off of insulting others with much less power.
     
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    You post an article that has Nancy Pelosi as the headline photo, the same woman who downplayed the virus herself in early 2020 when Trump started talking about it? And this article you linked came out BEFORE people like Gavin Newsome and others were praising Trump. And not even your guy Fauci thought it was a mistake to disband that office
     
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    It's a dumb thing to say. You have cities like Austin that use "weird" in their city slogan. Liberals use to always embrace being weird and different, but now it's the opposite? Now THATS weird
     
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    Yeah I never cared what trump thought or said. Maybe i am immune to TDS.
     
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    He said he it would be nice if the office was still there.

    Look at your critique. You talk about a picture placed by the news organization. I'm talking about policy.
     

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