?????? v Trump (and one or two others) The US Presidential election 2024. Read OP before posting

Harris looked great on TV this evening - very early days I know but if she fights an election the way she grills people in an enquiry this is gonna be a great battle

Only issue with Kelly is that he does nothing particularly to engage with the eastern swing states. His anti-gun stance could also alienate a lot of gun owning moderates.

idk as a NASA pilot he could maybe even put Florida in play.

the age gap was less of a taboo back then. Remember when Tom Hanks starred in Big (and portrayed a child having sex with an adult woman)? Or when Trump flew with Jeffrey Epstein and allegedly slept with an adolescent girl? Yikes. The late 80s/early 90s were a wild time for everyone it seems. Harris having a relationship with an older man at age 29 seems the least of it. This may not turn out how MAGA hopes this angle will.

Plenty of other “gaffs” outlined in the article - hopefully she’ll get her speeches tightened up- she’s an awful one for the mixed metaphors or “word salad” sort of gaffes- needs to watch that in a live TV debate if going ahead

Reportedly, RFK jr. Tried to sell his endorsement for a spot in Trump’s administration

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/just-in-trump-camp-reportedly-rejected-rfk-jrs-offer-to-trade-an-endorsement-for-government-position/

spot on again, whoever runs this account is on fire

There will be. Just no one else has declared yet (as they will in all likelihood, lose.)

Person. Man. Woman. Camera. TV.

I love how all your posts are just tweet dumps and it appears you’re really digging all the way into that orifice to find any thing that looks nuggety - 2022?

to the unemployment insurance appeals board and medical assistance commission.

This has been known about her for what about 20 years (?) since she ran for DA in 2004 (and won), and AG (where again, she won) and to the Senate (won, again), and to the vice presidency (take a guess, nevermind: she won)

Despite his claims that he maybe helped her get those 2 committee roles she earned 3 elected offices by herself and 1 as partner to Joe Biden.

Her opponent meanwhile was handed everything, like “a small loan of a million dollars” and a get out of draft free card. He certainly was never elected to anything before buying his way up to the presidency. I don’t think this hurts her much like it didn’t hurt the ticket much in 2020, clearly.

I never said that particular issue was a “smoking gun” which would take her out. Nor am I saying this behaviour is unique to any political party/side/team.

Merely refocusing the discussion on the main issue people raise with her dating history. I.e. sleeping with people for career advantage.

I'm slowly going through it, and it is scary stuff.

"children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries"

That is bonkers of the highest calibre. I wish we had a separate thread, or there was a forum dedicated to discussing it, because, as you say, it's dense. There are 111 mentions of the word "gender" and 13 instances of "transgenderism." For such a small percentage of people that actually are trans, it beggars belief that they occupy so much room in the Republican mindset. Loot at this egregious example of what they believe:

"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare."

Madness.

Back to my issues with Trump (via friends in the US)

Project 2025, page 584

Restrict the application of Bostock. The new Administration should
restrict Bostock’s application of sex discrimination protections to sexual
orientation and transgender status in the context of hiring and firing.

That's achievable through an executive order, I believe.

Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis
of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and
sex characteristics. The President should direct agencies to rescind
regulations interpreting sex discrimination provisions as prohibiting
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity,
transgender status, sex characteristics, etc.

Also achievable through an executive order, I believe.

Page 62:

The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 1402041 and every
policy, including subregulatory guidance documents, produced on behalf of or
related to the establishment or promotion of the Gender Policy Council and its
subsidiary issues. Abolishing the Gender Policy Council would eliminate central
promotion of abortion (“health services”); comprehensive sexuality education
(“education”); and the new woke gender ideology, which has as a principal tenet
“gender affirming care” and “sex-change” surgeries on minors.

That's one that directly affects my friends son, and doesn't have to go through the senate/congress.

There's 199 mentions of abortion, and none of the are good. From cracking down on them, to withholding foreign aid lest it be used to procure abortions.

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In the education section (page 323) it says the following:

Stopping executive overreach. Congress should set policy—not
Presidents through pen-and-phone executive orders, and not agencies
through regulations and guidance. National emergency declarations should
expire absent express congressional authorization within 60 days after the
date of the declaration.

heh heh heh.. because the very next time "executive orders" comes up is, page 357 (still in education)

NEW EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD ISSUE

(I'm sadly not surprised about this)

I was interested to see if they had any policies on art, and after searching through the document I found zero results to the word "arts".

There is however, 4 instances of the term, "aborted baby body parts".

Hmmmm…

I wasn't aware, thanks.

(Where is it?)