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TigerDrumMajor · 2024-08-15T11:25:00.360Z

Trump taking questions from local reporters. Kamala could never.

Kamala Harris to friendly media through her campaign:

I'm not against fracking...
I'm not interested in pushing Medicare-for-all and like private health insurance...
I'm not for mandatory gun buy-backs...
I'm really for securing the border...
I will work on inflation starting day one...
See - I'm a moderate...

Just keep counting Kamala's flip flops as I'm sure more are coming. It's all political posturing bullshid in an attempt to re-write her life-long leftist pandering because most of the country is not a far left nutcase like her. Do you really believe Harris all of sudden had some moderating epiphany in the last 3 weeks and now shuns her former 30(+) years of supporting the most left of the spectrum positions?

Put simply - Harris' whole campaign is being built on a lie that seeks to limit overall access, make only friendly public appearances, and obfuscate or flat out lie on her past radical policy positions when forced into that corner. Trump is a moron that tells his share of bullshid lies but he at least isn't hiding from the press or limiting his access to only friendly partisan media.

What Harris is doing is an updated version of the Democratic 2020 campaign of hiding Biden in the basement. We deserve better of our political parties and any leader who can't take the heat from "unfriendly" media is unworthy of the Presidency. If they can't handle routine, unscripted encounters with the press then they will certainly not be able to handle dealing with Xi, Putin and other world despots at a summit/negotiating table.

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Aug 15, 2024, 10:01 AM

Everything. I mean, literally everything. There wasn't an honest statement in there from start to finish. That takes some genuine talent.

Let's start with the usual petty lie he always tells about crowd size: "There were thousands of people in here, and thousands more out there..." Actually the venue was less than half-full. The upper deck was almost entirely empty. And there were absolutely not thousands of supporters out on the streets, unless he was counting the bums and troubadours playing their guitars every ten feet, because, you know, Asheville.

He went on to talk about how "inflation is out of control." Actually, it's down to 2.9%, which is the best in the world. Well, aside from China. They're experiencing deflation. (And that's seriously no bueno, and something no one wants.) And it actually appears we may have hit the most elusive of targets - that so-called "soft landing" from inflation, where we come out of a period of inflation without triggering a recession. That's actually quite an accomplishment, if it stands up. We'll see what happens when the Fed cuts interest rates next month. Then we'll know for sure.

He claimed "we were energy independent under me, and we will be again." That's both an oversimplification and a lie. Actually under Biden, we're pumping more oil and gas than we ever have before - up something like 29% from the peak in Trump's years - and we were never "energy-independent" under Trump. The reality is actually more nuanced than that: we produce the most and the best-grade oil in the world, the kind that requires the least refining, the so-called "light sweet crude". But our refining is set up to handle the "heavy sour" crude produced mostly in Canada and other low-grade oilfields, so there's a big mismatch between what we produce at home and then ship out, and what we refine and use domestically. The reason for that was, about 10-15 years back, we figured out how to extract oil from oil shale - frakking, but we had set our entire refining capacity up to handle the heavy sours because we thought that's all we were going to have left. So we ship and sell the good stuff...and bring in the crap, refine it, and then use it here. It's weird, and it's going to be awhile sorting out.

"I believe we'll cut energy prices 50% or more" and then went on to double down and say: "50%-60%" later on. Which is like, JFC, to anybody who knows better. That's completely unattainable and even Donald at his most addled knows it. Energy prices were low under Donald because everyone was sheltering in place and doing school and work at home in their underwear, and not taking trips to Daytona Beach. When no one's driving, yeah, gas is cheap...and all you need is a pandemic that kills a million-plus Americans to get there.

He then went on to say: "Biden and Kamala destroyed this country with their energy policies"...again, no. I've got some bones to pick with Biden's energy policies, for sure. In particular he's placing a very necessary emphasis on renewables like wind and solar, which is great for sunny and windy places, but if you're going to fill in the grid you need base-load production that works even on calm days when the sun isn't out. And that's where we badly needed some vision with either SMR's - small module reactors - or Thorium nuclear. He didn't address that at all - probably because he has that knee-jerk liberal reflex towards all things "nuclear" - and that hole's not going to fill itself by magic. There's also a mismatch between the kind of recharging infrastructure Joe's sponsoring and the kind industry analysts wanted him to build, and the way he went was...politicized, let's say. But he did a bunch of things right too, and got stupid lucky on top of it: he cut a massive trade deal with Australia for cobalt and nickel - which are necessary for solar - and the luck happened when the US discovered the world's largest-known lithium deposit in a dormant volcano in Nevada. Both of which will cut our dependence on Chinese solar. None of that adds up to: "disaster."

He doubled down on that bullsh!t with more bullsh!t too, and went on to boldly claim: "That's what created inflation to begin with."

Again, that's 100% total bullsh!t, every word of it. What created inflation was two things: massive supply-chain shortages caused by lost production during COVID, and all that free "stimulus" money both Donald and Joe gave away during the pandemic. And Donald's handling of COVID itself was by any measure an epic disaster.

The next statement was: "they'll be paying three or four times more in taxes if they vote for Kamala"...again, JFC. Again, the dude is just pulling complete bullsh!t out of his butt. No, Donald, if they cut taxes, people pay less. The sky is not pink.

At that point, I'm like: that's it, I'm out. I literally cannot take any more.

Again, none of this is a ringing endorsement of Kamala Harris, who has yet to make a substantive statement about, well, anything, as far as I've yet heard. But what came out of Donald's mouth even in his first few sentences...anybody informed and serious is left just shaking their heads and wanting to launch this dangerous a$$clown into the sun.

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Of course she is. Why is "what about" your constant response?

Who do you support?***

In the presidential election, nobody

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Yes, yes, because I'm so scared about what people here think...

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Not that I like thread hi-jacking but since you asked...

I'll give Kamala this, she doesn't lie to reporters.

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It's amazing what some people with no journalism experience