Though this was about immigration, it describes quite well EVERY VP’s dilemma. If you accomplish something, your boss may dislike the way people speak of you with approval, and see it as criticism of [up through 2024, at least] HIM. But if you don’t accomplish something, you’ll wind up getting trashed.
From now on every Democrat should refer to Trump always and exclusively as “duhNAHLD.”*
When Republicans whine about that being childish, play the clips of them purposely mis-pronouncing Harris’ name.
I saw a cmmercial hammering Harris about her supposed screw up concerning the border. And teeRump (I like it) calling her a dangerous far right person. It was a barrage of lies, and creatively edited, “quotes.” So, same shit diffent candidate
If a Democrat administration apprehended and turned away 100% of people entering without permission, the Republicans would still accuse them of having open borders and letting millions of “those people” into the country. They’d simply lie and lie and lie and lie. Half the country would repeat the lies.
For example, see the economy. Half the country thinks unemployement is at record highs and the country is in a recession. Why? Because they soak up the lies.
Yep. The GOP created this problem, and they have no intention of solving it.
For example trump and his “wall” in 4 years, he managed to get just 52 miles of his special new wall built, and rebuilt or repaired another 400 miles of the old barriers. Of a total border of 2000 miles.
In some places, Trump’s barrier carried a price tag of up to $46 million per mile,
and the cost came out of the Defence Dept budget- Mexico didnt pay a peso.
So you see- it is an invented crisis, made by bigots, and the GOP doesnt even want to solve the “crisis”- they just want to use it as a club vs the Democrats.
Also, much of the issue is immigration being used as code for racism; the people trying to persecute “illegal immigrants” don’t care if they are immigrants at all. They just care what skin color their targets have and are perfectly happy to persecute American citizens for being “illegals”.
As we’re on the subject, the recent episode of Last Week Tonight covers the “Migrant Crime” crisis… which is entirely manufactured. I don’t know if there’s a link outside of HBO, but this article covers some of the main points:
However as we’ve repeatedly seen, telling the people who believe those narratives that they’ve been duped just makes them dig in deeper. Harris should have the real numbers at hand and hammer the fact that the Republicans blocked a major border security bill purely for political reasons, just as they did in 2013 under Obama.
Yeah. Heck, here in California I’ve had people start off a rant about “illegals” by waving in the direction of the nearest brown people. How do they know those people are “illegal immigrants”? Why, they’re brown, so of course they are “illegals”.
The facade that it’s about anything but racism is pretty thin IMHO. So it’s not at all surprising that the same people who hate the idea of a non-white woman for President will use fearmongering about “illegal immigration” to demonize her. Racists gonna racist.
An interesting article that covers much of what we’ve discussed here. Harris does have some soft spots and vulnerabilities. On the other hand, she’s also much more experienced now and has a much better team behind her.
This reeks of “Don’t threaten me with a good time!”:
Over the course of 2019 – in debates and interviews - Ms Harris endorsed scrapping private health insurance for a government-run system. She praised policing reform, including redirecting law-enforcement budgets to other priorities. She endorsed decriminalising undocumented entry into the US and entertained abolishing Ice, the immigration and customs enforcement agency. She backed the sweeping Green New Deal environmental legislation and supported a ban on fracking and off-shore drilling.
Now those positions could come back to haunt her.
Most of those are good ideas that are pretty popular outside the radical right bubble.
Tying Harris to Biden’s record
As has been noted, Biden’s actual record is really fucking good. She can come out swinging on this issue, and has enough energy to make that work. Flat-out lies will still work on the MAGAts, but everyone else will likely see through that.
Attacking her years as a prosecutor
And as discussed above, attacking her on “law and order” is going to be an uphill battle. Trump’s going to ignore his own “Never fight uphill, me boys!” made-up advice.
Nice! And if Trump is forced into debating Harris (which could happen if the cries of COWARD! get too loud and too widespread), then the first time he calls her “KaMALLa,” she should immediately return the favor with a hearty “Don-OLD!”
On Friday night, Mr. Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X, reposted an edited campaign video for Vice President Kamala Harris that appears to have been digitally manipulated to change the spot’s voice-over in a deceptive manner.
The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words from the original ad, it has the vice president saying that President Biden is senile, that she does not “know the first thing about running the country” and that, as a woman and a person of color, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”
