#6 - Respect the topics presented by those who start a thread. Attempts to derail a thread or change it's direction is referred to as thread hijack and will be discouraged. Attempts to guide a thread in the right direction are appreciated, while responses to posts which hijack a thread are not.
- biomed1
- 10-21-2024, 09:15 PM
To Remain On Topic . . .
- txdot-guy
- 10-21-2024, 10:10 PM
Well I’m saying that Trump has too many health problems to be president including dementia and alzheimer’s disease. If it’s not true then he should just release his medical records to prove it’s not true.
Any other evidence or logic isn’t good enough to refute the claim. Only decades of medical records will suffice. Why won’t Trump release those documents? What is he trying to hide? Originally Posted by txdot-guy
Way off topic. If you want to discuss trump's health start a new thread. Originally Posted by lustyladI was trying to use irony to illustrate how stupid this argument is. You want Harris to provide information refuting a blatant lie while Trump won’t refute the many claims about his age and fitness for office which is a much bigger issue.
You see the problem. I’m all for calling out a non response to a valid question but trying to refute lies is next to impossible. It requires time and energy spent on stupid questions while trying to convince people who don’t want to believe the answers anyway.
- Jacuzzme
- Yesterday, 09:59 AM
Stolen McValor
- texassapper
- Yesterday, 12:30 PM
BREAKING: Kamala Harris to do Five Guys today.
Unclear if she will also visit a burger joint.
Unclear if she will also visit a burger joint.
- Yssup Rider
- Yesterday, 12:33 PM
- Jacuzzme
- Yesterday, 03:33 PM
I was trying to use irony to illustrate how stupid this argument is. You want Harris to provide information refuting a blatant lie while Trump won’t refute the many claims about his age and fitness for office which is a much bigger issue. Originally Posted by txdot-guyWhat a steaming pile of apples to oranges dooty. Kamala made a claim, its on her to back it up. Trump did not, it’s on the accuser to prove its validity. Anyone, not previously brainwashed, who watches him interact with others can tell in seconds that he hadn’t lost a step.
And all this horseshit comes from a bunch of people who, not long ago at all, supported a guy who barely knows his own name. They’d still be fully behind him had he not went of stage like a flipping zombie and proven all of us who purported him as brain dead 100% correct.
Irony so thick you couldn’t cut it with a light saber.
- txdot-guy
- Yesterday, 04:24 PM
What a steaming pile of apples to oranges dooty. Kamala made a claim, its on her to back it up. Trump did not, it’s on the accuser to prove its validity. Anyone, not previously brainwashed, who watches him interact with others can tell in seconds that he hadn’t lost a step.You really think that Harris needs to prove that she worked a minimum wage job 30 plus years ago. That’s a steaming pile. This is only an issue because a known serial liar made an outrageous claim and his followers and the right wing media want to make it an issue.
And all this horseshit comes from a bunch of people who, not long ago at all, supported a guy who barely knows his own name. They’d still be fully behind him had he not went of stage like a flipping zombie and proven all of us who purported him as brain dead 100% correct.
Irony so thick you couldn’t cut it with a light saber. Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
All to change the narrative. That’s what Trump does and the fact that people still fall for it is the real problem.
- Jacuzzme
- Yesterday, 04:39 PM
She put her foot in it to prove her middle class credibility. She fucked up. Don’t blame others for calling her out on an issue she herself created.
- The_Waco_Kid
- Yesterday, 04:47 PM
You really think that Harris needs to prove that she worked a minimum wage job 30 plus years ago. That’s a steaming pile. This is only an issue because a known serial liar made an outrageous claim and his followers and the right wing media want to make it an issue.
All to change the narrative. That’s what Trump does and the fact that people still fall for it is the real problem. Originally Posted by txdot-guy
Harris made the statement. in politics if you get caught making false statements there are consequences. this is one time Harris should have kept her mouth shut and not made a statement, like her habit of not answering questions.
a statement she made to appeal to voters as a middle class person, a dubious claim given both of her parents are well educated. her mother was a biologist and her father is a professor of economics.
and she didn't grow up in Oakland as she's claimed.. it was Berkeley. pretty sure even then Berkeley was considered upscale to Oakland.
is that another lie?
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- txdot-guy
- Yesterday, 05:12 PM
Harris made the statement. in politics if you get caught making false statements there are consequences. this is one time Harris should have kept her mouth shut and not made a statement, like her habit of not answering questions.Not in the way that you think.
a statement she made to appeal to voters as a middle class person, a dubious claim given both of her parents are well educated. her mother was a biologist and her father is a professor of economics.
and she didn't grow up in Oakland as she's claimed.. it was Berkeley. pretty sure even then Berkeley was considered upscale to Oakland.
is that another lie?
. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
see: https://www.visitoakland.com/blog/po...e-white-house/
- The_Waco_Kid
- Yesterday, 06:46 PM
Kamala Harris is unable to answer basic questions on ‘60 Minutes’
https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/opinio...on-60-minutes/
Every interview Kamala Harris does reminds us why she does so few.
Even with a sympathetic questioner in CBS’s Bill Whitaker and a lot of editing, her prerecorded “60 Minutes” sit-down that aired Monday didn’t go well.
Harris gave us a glimpse into her mind, and there’s not much there.
Be thankful for small favors: At least she didn’t deflect anything with “I grew up a middle-class kid.”
But her canned evasions still aren’t actually answers to the big questions of this election: what she really believes, how she’d offer “change” from Joe Biden, what she plans to do, or why anyone should expect any of her policies to work.
No gotchas
Whitaker challenged Harris on a few points, but this shouldn’t have been a hard interview.
There were no “gotcha” questions.
There were no surprises.
Nearly every topic he broached was something Harris had been asked before, in her debate with former President Donald Trump and in her few prior interviews.
Harris wasn’t asked to defend her administration’s lackluster performance in the response to Hurricane Helene, or its execution of anything other than opening the border to illegal migrants.
Airing as it did on Oct. 7, the interview opened with questions about the war in Gaza.
Harris stuck to the administration’s usual weaselly formulation, saying that Israel had a right to defend itself — but immediately pivoting to declare that too many Palestinians have died and “this war has to end.”
So long as she won’t say that Israel can and should disable Hamas and Hezbollah to prevent further attacks on Israel, that’s not a real right to self-defense, but a recipe for a never-ending war in which more Israelis and more Palestinians will die.
So much for “Never again.”
Whatever else she may have said about the topic was cut off from a broadcast that was replete with edits.
Whitaker talked up the economy, but even with his encouragement, Harris could only say she had “a plan” to bring down prices.
But she still can’t explain what that plan is, despite having had multiple opportunities to do so, including on the debate stage.
We do know it involves the government printing more money, which is exactly how we got in this mess in the first place.
Coming for your wallet
Whitaker asked Harris twice how she would pay for her anticipated trillions in new spending.
She said the richest taxpayers should pay more, but you can’t raise that much money only from them.
And everyone who got a tax cut during the Trump years should notice that her only other answer was to blame the former president’s tax cuts — all of them. Watch your wallet.
Her answers on the border crisis were even worse.
Asked why the administration reversed course on Trump’s policies and let so many people into the country, Harris blamed Congress for not passing a bill in 2024 — ignoring the fact that her own administration had unilaterally acted without Congress for three years to create the problem.
She simply had no answer as to why the Biden-Harris administration hadn’t taken steps sooner to undo its own executive policies.
She looked pained that Whitaker pressed her on the question.
Harris didn’t just insult the intelligence of voters — she insulted them, period.
When Whitaker asked how Harris could brand Trump’s rhetoric racist when nearly half the country supports him, she scoffed that “most reasonable people” do not.
So Trump’s voters are either racist or unreasonable?
Got it.
When pressed on her many apparent flip-flops on fracking, immigration and health care, Harris claimed she had shifted after traveling the country as vice president and had discovered — shockingly! — that America is a big, diverse country in need of common ground.
Of course, she still has no regard for letting thorny issues be decided at the state level, as she would if she truly respected our differences.
The next time Harris works out a compromise will be the first.
The buck never stops
What about the gun she claims to own?
Harris revealed (laughing awkwardly as she did so) that she has a Glock, which she has used at a firing range(laughing awkwardly as she did so).
That makes it worse, not better, that she’s been so determined to take other people’s guns — and once filed a Supreme Court brief arguing there is no individual right to own a handgun.
Harris is running a campaign of slogans, not ideas or proposals — and certainly not a campaign of records and accomplishments.
On taxes, on immigration and on so much else, there are questions she can’t answer, and she can’t hide her inability to do so.
That doesn’t bode well for us if she’s our next president.
Harry Truman used to say, “The buck stops here.” Harris thinks she can always just print more bucks.
Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review. Twitter: @BaseballCrank
https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/opinio...on-60-minutes/
Every interview Kamala Harris does reminds us why she does so few.
Even with a sympathetic questioner in CBS’s Bill Whitaker and a lot of editing, her prerecorded “60 Minutes” sit-down that aired Monday didn’t go well.
Harris gave us a glimpse into her mind, and there’s not much there.
Be thankful for small favors: At least she didn’t deflect anything with “I grew up a middle-class kid.”
But her canned evasions still aren’t actually answers to the big questions of this election: what she really believes, how she’d offer “change” from Joe Biden, what she plans to do, or why anyone should expect any of her policies to work.
No gotchas
Whitaker challenged Harris on a few points, but this shouldn’t have been a hard interview.
There were no “gotcha” questions.
There were no surprises.
Nearly every topic he broached was something Harris had been asked before, in her debate with former President Donald Trump and in her few prior interviews.
Harris wasn’t asked to defend her administration’s lackluster performance in the response to Hurricane Helene, or its execution of anything other than opening the border to illegal migrants.
Airing as it did on Oct. 7, the interview opened with questions about the war in Gaza.
Harris stuck to the administration’s usual weaselly formulation, saying that Israel had a right to defend itself — but immediately pivoting to declare that too many Palestinians have died and “this war has to end.”
So long as she won’t say that Israel can and should disable Hamas and Hezbollah to prevent further attacks on Israel, that’s not a real right to self-defense, but a recipe for a never-ending war in which more Israelis and more Palestinians will die.
So much for “Never again.”
Whatever else she may have said about the topic was cut off from a broadcast that was replete with edits.
Whitaker talked up the economy, but even with his encouragement, Harris could only say she had “a plan” to bring down prices.
But she still can’t explain what that plan is, despite having had multiple opportunities to do so, including on the debate stage.
We do know it involves the government printing more money, which is exactly how we got in this mess in the first place.
Coming for your wallet
Whitaker asked Harris twice how she would pay for her anticipated trillions in new spending.
She said the richest taxpayers should pay more, but you can’t raise that much money only from them.
And everyone who got a tax cut during the Trump years should notice that her only other answer was to blame the former president’s tax cuts — all of them. Watch your wallet.
Her answers on the border crisis were even worse.
Asked why the administration reversed course on Trump’s policies and let so many people into the country, Harris blamed Congress for not passing a bill in 2024 — ignoring the fact that her own administration had unilaterally acted without Congress for three years to create the problem.
She simply had no answer as to why the Biden-Harris administration hadn’t taken steps sooner to undo its own executive policies.
She looked pained that Whitaker pressed her on the question.
Harris didn’t just insult the intelligence of voters — she insulted them, period.
When Whitaker asked how Harris could brand Trump’s rhetoric racist when nearly half the country supports him, she scoffed that “most reasonable people” do not.
So Trump’s voters are either racist or unreasonable?
Got it.
When pressed on her many apparent flip-flops on fracking, immigration and health care, Harris claimed she had shifted after traveling the country as vice president and had discovered — shockingly! — that America is a big, diverse country in need of common ground.
Of course, she still has no regard for letting thorny issues be decided at the state level, as she would if she truly respected our differences.
The next time Harris works out a compromise will be the first.
The buck never stops
What about the gun she claims to own?
Harris revealed (laughing awkwardly as she did so) that she has a Glock, which she has used at a firing range(laughing awkwardly as she did so).
That makes it worse, not better, that she’s been so determined to take other people’s guns — and once filed a Supreme Court brief arguing there is no individual right to own a handgun.
Harris is running a campaign of slogans, not ideas or proposals — and certainly not a campaign of records and accomplishments.
On taxes, on immigration and on so much else, there are questions she can’t answer, and she can’t hide her inability to do so.
That doesn’t bode well for us if she’s our next president.
Harry Truman used to say, “The buck stops here.” Harris thinks she can always just print more bucks.
Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review. Twitter: @BaseballCrank