Alright, it’s time for Kamala to do a sit down interview

Can’t wait to hear hear about the Ben and Jen break up!!!!

Maybe she’ll tell us her favorite Barbra album too!!! It better be Color Me Barbra or I’m not voting for her!!!

In this day and age of death by sound-bite, the less she says the better. They’ll use accidental spittle flying out of her mouth as a reason to hate her. Elizabeth Hasselbeck is already going off on her eating Doritos. Just let her do what she did at the convention at the debate and we can move forward after that. Let the margins continue to grow, keep sending Vance to donut shops and let Trump keep running his mouth at his unhinged chittlin circuit minstrel shows., for now.

That's not gonna work, R2.

The only effective line they have against her right now is that she hasn't taken questions from the media. She needs to close off that line of attack.

THEY are saying that.

I suspect majority of independents and Democrats are very happy with the way she’s handling it.

The only reason why they want her to talk to the media is so they rip her apart word for word. She knows that. They don’t care what she says, they just want content, any content. They want anything the can get their hands on to deflect from Trump’s downward spiral. Yes it’s the main thing they have in her but it hasn’t hurt her trajectory. As Walz said they are down by a field goal, but they have the ball and the debate is the end zone.

Current right-wing talking points:

-Why won't she do an INTERVIEW???

-Where are her POLICIES???

I think once the world sees how presidential she looks in relief standing next to Trump at the debate, that’s when she will start holding press conferences and she’ll address the media as a president with the Trump campaign flagging behind. The best thing you can do with an opponent like Trump, who craves attention and knows how to work the news cycle, is pay him no attention and give him no new content to riff off of. His old material becomes obviously stale and he’s left just spinning his wheels.

Most of America doesn’t speak Ebonics, how will anyone but her kind even know what she is saying?

“Karen in Kansas, I will fight for you!”

You’re right. But you don’t let THEIR talking points dictate your so far successful campaign strategy. You don’t play defense. If you can see the link below it’s a good description by the NYT of how Kamrla is not going to fall for the same mistake Hillary did of engaging Trump, playing into his news cycle manipulation.

Karen from Kansas with the webbed toes and opioid addiction…

“Opioid addicts, we’re fighting for you!”

K from Kansas who will fight for freedom for her country against Mexicans but isn’t even registered to vote because her husband does the voting in the family.

WHY the fuck is it time? Every Republican talking head is screaming she needs to do an interview. MEANWHILE, nobody says shit about Trump dictating his interviews. FOH

She should do an interview with a 14 yo TikToker and tell the NYT to fuck off.

She’s likely to do 60 Minutes.

The bar has been very low since 2008.

Fuck the MSM. After the way they treated Biden compared to the way they treat Trump, Harris is smart to not let them anywhere near her. They will ask horrible biased questions and try to make her look as bad as possible whereas they treat Trump with kid gloves and no push back at all.

R2 you are strange. If she is afraid of giving an interview, at least to some of friendly liberal media, how on Earth can she run the world's most powerful country in very difficult times, through upcoming recession, debt crisis, on the verge if ww3?

R18 has worms for brains.

She has summarily united Democrats and outraised Trump in the last month by something like 4-to-1.

I'd say she's doing just fine without giving interviews.

R21 Dem partisans are not enough. They would vote for blind baboon if it was nominated by the party. She must win the independents and she must not give the impression of a weak candidate who is afraid of media.

[quote]They would vote for blind baboon if it was nominated by the party.

Your slip is showing, r22.

I mean people are superficial, they have short attention span and they move on very fast. Trump's assasination attempt seems like it happened years ago. The summer is ending and with fall the boost of the summer will end and people will return to everyday problems, Kamala's honeymoon phase will be over. She will have to fight for her votes and get out of the party's shelter.

don't know what you mean R23. I meant that all partisans will vote for a blind baboon if it was nominated by their party. Here in Europe it is the same. I mentioned the blind baboon because I had just been on the thread about the guy from Namibia who has a blind baboon. It is independents that you must make some effort to conquer their votes.

Go eat roadkill, R20.

I agree, it's only the pundits and the media who are screaming that she needs to sit down for an interview. She should do it in her own good time. I think she understands this election is really not about policy, there are only two sides good or evil. That's it. She can explain policy til the cows come home but it's going to boil down to good or evil. Only the brain dead are undecided right now.

^ They are afraid of being called stupid on an international level.

[quote]Current right-wing talking points:

[quote]-Why won't she do an INTERVIEW???

[quote]-Where are her POLICIES???

She should do an interview [bold]only[/bold] after Trump does an interview explaining why he's embracing the contents of Project 2025 as his policies.

She's climbing in the polls without any interviews just fine. You'll have all the interviews you can eat... once she's president.

No, she needs to do interviews,

Who doesn't do them? C'mon. EVERY high profile Democrat does and has.

She needs to do an interview and also come up with some big policy statements. She needs to come across as serious and focused.

[quote]The only reason why they want her to talk to the media is so they rip her apart word for word.

I want to see her do an interview. I don't think one will do much to illuminate her policies, however. It will be an hour of "Trump said this, what do you think of that?"

R33 She could talk policy in an interview until she is blue in the face and they will still say "She's said nothing about policy." These people aren't looking for a rational fight. They will comment on how her hair was too curly and she smiled too much and Trump will nickname her Kamela Temple.

Not Anderson Cooper, he's right wing

[quote]She could talk policy in an interview until she is blue in the face and they will still say "She's said nothing about policy." These people aren't looking for a rational fight.

Who is they?

If you're talking about the opposition, well of course. That's politics. It's always been that way. So?

OP's pussy resonates like a bull elk honking.

She’s doing one with Tim soon.

SO the point is, r36, she doesn't need to do an interview to satiate MM or the opposition when she is doing a good job with moderates as it is by just letting Trump being weird until after the debate.

She's great and I love how mad the MAGAts are getting over her.

They keep continually fucking up, too. If it's not Vance acting like a fucking weirdo in a donut shop, it's multiple MAGA commentators hastily criticising Tim Walz's minor child in harsh terms, then rapidly backtracking when even they realise how cuntish they sound.

Let it continue!

The Orange Menace and Jade Vance are doing wonderful campaigning for her. Throw the Roadkill Bob in the mix and it's going wonderfully.

I think that you don't want Kamala to give the interview, because you have low opinion about her and think she will fail. I remember that few moths ago you were all ridiculing her as incapable. If it was Obama or Hillary you would be all for it.

If she's going to do an interview, I hope she picks David Muir at ABC. He has the #1 rated newscast, and he's the most likely to be fair.

She should do one of those editiorial board meetings with the NYT and Wall Street Journal. Also a 60 Minutes with her husband. That's just for starters.

[quote]Who is they?

The problem isn't that it's the obvious competition who will say this, it's the media — which I guess is saying the same thing because the media [italic]always[/italic] sees itself as the opposition to Democrats (but not so oddly, [italic]never[/italic] the Republikkkans; see the numerous adoring "interviews" of Mango and the softballs that interviewer after interviewer has lobbed at him to no avail; he always says the first nonsensical thing that pops into his head).

We've all seen the video from the middle of the convention in which Kamala approached the media screaming questions at her on the tarmac, saying "Okay, whatcha got?" to them and the first question was "Trump called you [some epithet, I can't remember]; what do you say to that?" And her reply just pissed them off: "I was talking to voters and didn't hear him." and with that, she turned and walked off It was a thing of beauty. Ask stupid questions, get the answer you deserve.

And that's really the issue and explanation as to why she hasn't done a sit down. She knows that half of the questions will be the media merely baiting her to reply to DonOld's latest name-calling extravaganza. And the other half of the questions will likely be the rightwing talking point of the day rephrased as a question. All they want to do is bait her into a tit-for-tat with Shitler (who never talks policy about anything relevant). All they care about is clicks, and serious policy is boring and people click away.

Are you kidding, R44? The NYT Editorial board is among the worst for clickbaiting; the WSJ is a lying rightwing rag, and 60 Minutes would spend 59.5 of them asking her about Trump calling her names. We only have a handful of serious journalists any more, and none of them work for the NYT, WSJ or CBS.

She shouldn’t give Anderson Cooper the time of day. David Muir or someone at MSNBC.

Walk Right in, Sit right down!

R45 So you would prefer Presidential campaigns with the candidates avoiding the press.

Sounds crazy to me and I doubt most Americans would agree with you.

Your demonization of the press sounds very Trumpian to me.

SHE NEEDS TO DO AN INTERVIEW! SHE NEEDS TO DO AN INTERVIEW! SHE NEEDS TO DO AN INTERVIEW!

Why do you people want to hide that gem from the rest of the world?

R42 and R48, the reason she is not giving an interview right now is the same reason Trump didn’t show up at a single Republican debate - She doesn’t need to. From her showing at the convention, I have complete faith in her ability to handle Trump at the debate. After that we’ll re-assess her need to participate in the media’s frenzy. But as the poster said above - the media AND Trump are desperate for sounbite, clickbait fodder, not in any of her qualifications as the next President of the United States or her policies.

[quote]Your demonization of the press sounds very Trumpian to me.

Demonization of the press is saying "They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”." Demonization of the press is saying "Well, first of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner, first question. You don’t even say, “Hello. How are you?” Are you with ABC? Because I think they’re a fake news network, a terrible network..." Demonization of the press is saying the press is "Crazed and Dishonest."

I criticize the press for not asking DonOld any serious questions about policy, governance or any of the issues facing the American people. I criticize the press for attending his MAGA-Lardo press "conference" and not asking him a single follow-up question, not pinning him down on anything, and allowing him to bloviate without interruption for minutes at a time. The "journalists" who covered him should be fired for dereliction of duty; they aren't journalists, they're stenographers,

[quote]So you would prefer Presidential campaigns with the candidates avoiding the press.

Nope. I would prefer the campaigns, specifically the Harris campaign, to tell the press that they welcome their questions with the exception of discussing whatever 34 called her, whatever epithet he used to describe the color of her skin, whatever excuse he's pushing to avoid the issues. And if they start down that path, get up and leave. We do not have time for the con man's bullshit. If the press wants to compare and contrast their positions, fine; but that ends when the question begins with Shitler's ad hominem attacks.

I agree with R52. Unfortunately, the times of the press approaching political interviews in a professional manner, focusing strictly on salient issues and topics have gone. The things they would ask her would be precisely what R52 describes in the last paragraph of their post. The sad thing is, no serious politician (which excludes the vast majority of the current GOP clown car) could assume that the journalist is conducting the interview in good faith, and not in order to generate soundbites and gotcha moments.

No interviews for mainstream/legacy media. She can be interviewed by Brian Tyler Cohen or Meidas Touch Network for YouTube. She could do town halls with the voters. We are watching the downfall of newspapers and the old stalwarts of media. The pundits, the opinion writers and editors are shooting themselves in the foot. And, maybe 24 hour news cable tv wasn't such a great idea.

Maybe an interview with the Capital Times:

R54 are you really that stupid not to know that mainstream/legacy media is extremely friendly towards Kamala

Friendly or not, R56, they're still all about generating clicks via gotcha and Trump-centered questions.

R56, change to a new media paradigm is hard, I understand. You'll get used to it eventually...I promise. Hollywood will never be what it was now that we have streaming.

In other words: interviews are fine. Just no tough questions.

R54 are you aware that all the hype around Kamala was created by the media?

[quote]Demonization of the press is saying the press is "Crazed and Dishonest."

R52 In the end, that's pretty much what you're saying.

Someone is pretending to be naive here. Mainstream media, except for the Fox, has been creating Kamala's image since she was nominated and built all the hyped around her. If she lost their support she would be over in a day.

They could soon turn her into incompetent and unpopular politician who failed as vice president and didn't pass the primaries. And who is afraid to talk to media. In a blink of an eye. So, don't underestimate them.

[quote] The only effective line they have against her right now is that she hasn't taken questions from the media. She needs to close off that line of attack.

That is NOT effective. It is a fabricated attack by her opponents fueled by the media. No one pays attention to what is said anymore. The majority of voters lack the attention span to remember what someone said yesterday.

Trump has verbal diarrhea and his supporters/defenders are left to infer sense and decency from his outrageous comments, desperately trying to clean up his shit and hide his cognitive decline.

[quote] They could soon turn her into incompetent and unpopular politician who failed as vice president and didn't pass the primaries. And who is afraid to talk to media. In a blink of an eye. So, don't underestimate them.

They do it at their own peril. If Trump wins, traditional, legitimate media will be discredited and put out of of business by fake news media.

Don't worry, they would survive.

Kamala wouldn't.

[quote]It is a fabricated attack by her opponents fueled by the media.

Wow. Expecting press interviews from a Presidential candidate is an "attack".

Don’t you people understand that this is the strategy from her campaign TEAM? She may or may not want to do 60 Minutes right now, but she’s playing it according to the team’s strategy. I think it’s good. Come Labor Day when everyone’s back from vacation and back to school, Kamala will emerge!

People, Kamala is not Stalin. She can't afford this attitude.

New game, new rules. Sorry, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, Anderson Cooper, Kaitlin Collins, Jim Acosta, Chris Hayes, Alex Wagner, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Jansing, Katy Tur, Ari Melber, etc. Or Peter Baker, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Maureen Dowd. Maybe she should do her first sit-down interview with Rachel Scott at ABC.

We are witnessing a Bitter Btches moment in American Media

They were not the gatekeepers of who became the American nominee as the candidates of choice..and they are freaking out.

The instinct for them is to use their platform to teach that candidate a lesson.

And that is part of the reason they are spiraling and losing credibility in the eyes of the American people

The treatment of Secretary Clinton The treatment of President Biden and the now treatment of Madam Vice President

[quote]We are witnessing a Bitter Btches moment in American Media

That's right! Don't trust the Lame Stream Media!

Nope. No sit down interviews. The debate will bring the American ppl up to speed. Kamala is a beautiful and super duper tough woman. Trump is out of his league this time around.

[quote]People, Kamala is not Stalin. She can't afford this attitude.

Your "concern" is duly noted, r68.

[quote]Nope. No sit down interviews.

We saw her interview with Lester Holt.

So her fear of tough questions is understandable.

I love Ron Filipkowski. He's one of the people I've missed the most since I left X.

Interview yes but not with Jake Tapper or Katy Tur-they’re ready to move to Fox if Trump wins.

I don't need an interview since I'm voting for her and anyone who votes for the alternative is out of their minds. I enjoyed her speech at the DNC and it told me where she stands.

I keep going back to what David Sedaris said about the 2016 election:

[quote] To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?” To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

Obviously, people here are terrified Harris will only lose support if she does an interview and that helps Trump. I get it. I felt that way when Biden would do a rare interview.

But stop pretending it’s all the media’s fault. If there’s no reason to why have her campaign at all. Just let her relax and be crowned in November.

The MSM would frame every question through Trump’s point of view. Just like Holt did in his last interview with Biden. So it wouldn’t be an interview, it would be a campaign contribution to Trump.

Fuck that shit.

Yeah! Fuck that shit.

“This our story and we’re going to tell it on our terms.”

I know! Have Rachel do the interview.

She’s going to debate the scoundrel soon enough.

[quote]Obviously, people here are terrified Harris will only lose support if she does an interview and that helps Trump

Yeah, r80...no.

R80, it was the media's fault for fucking Hillary over in 2016. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. We won't be fooled again.

I agree. Legacy media thinks it’s now in the soothsaying business. Well fuck them, they created trump, they can go fuck themselves. Harris wants to be interviewed by V from under the desk news, that’s fine by me

Wikipedia is now showing that Kamala has still not put out a policy.

R85 That will be the end of him.

Oh noes, r89, how very concerning.

R89, could you post Trump's policies? I'd like to see them. Other than Project 2025 - we're all familiar with that.

R92 Actually, agree with them or not, the Trump website has a comprehensive list and description of his policies.

The Kamala website has none.

No policy, you say?

Trump is a cruel imbecile. Anyone who votes for him is the same.

[quote]Kamala Harris’s housing plan is the most aggressive since post-World War II boom, experts say

She has some 'splainin to do.

"The rules that limit homebuilding are largely on the state and local level. The federal government cannot order localities to increase housing density, allow accessory dwelling units and eliminate cumbersome approval processes. It cannot strike down exclusionary zoning."

"Does Kamala Harris have a new strategy? Visit her website and you won’t find it. The links there do not connect to a single policy page. There are lots of links to donate money, though."

Why should she give bespoke courtesies to the braindead mainstream media who seem determined to clutch their pearls and concern troll her when they have a spare minute not fluffing Trump's micro-penis!?

The press is dumber than advertised and if you don't believe me go watch a whole hour of CNN, or sit through "Meet the Press" on Sunday! Your ears will bleed!

Kamala and Tim Walz have been barnstorming the country talking to the actual voters while the lazy press sputters and fellates itself. Frankly, they need her a lot more than she needs them, and by making them wait she seems smarter by the hour!

Serious analysis has been replaced with punditry, and not even very good one at that. And opinion pieces have replaced factual reporting. What I like about the Harris/Walz team is that they get that there are no longer any official gatekeepers who are in charge of disseminating filtered information to the masses. They are on social media, reaching out to the demos that will be crucial to secure the election victory and the results are already there.

instead of a sit-down interview, she should simply pull her pannies down and let the media do a full, intimate inspection, front and rear, p*ssy, taint, butt - everthang... that'll show those Republicans!😆

You people are lying to yourself. Pretending that media (except for the Fox) is not close to Democratic party and helping create Kamala. When, in fact, you secretly think Kamala is Dem's Sarah Palin and she must be kept away from the public eye.

Too funny R100. Kamala has been in the public eye for 35 years. Sarah Palin was chosen for her looks over a much better qualified governor from Hawaii

Don't forget Fred Trump made his money building substandard Section 8 housing and that was the basis of Donald Trump's forttune. Donald Trump is very much a welfare queen.

Oh no she has plans, we better choose the ad libbing wannabe dictator instead.

R100, you mean like how Trump never misses an opportunity to sit down for a hard hitting interview?

[quote]You people are lying to yourself. Pretending that media (except for the Fox) is not close to Democratic party and helping create Kamala. When, in fact, you secretly think Kamala is Dem's Sarah Palin and she must be kept away from the public eye.

Tell me you consume a steady diet of right-wing media without telling me you consume a steady diet of right-wing media.

The dolt @r100 has already been ignored so I assume it's one of those weekend trolls who comes here for some humiliation.

What she [bold]needs[/bold] to do is continue talking directly to voters without being filtered through the traditional media lens.

She doesn't need traditional media to talk directly to voters.

What voters are going to change their mind about her if she doesn't give an interview to the NYT? Seriously. She'd be better off taking questions from a random group of political bloggers, or any group of the social media influencers that attended and reported on the DNC convention.

If this was Obama, would you be against him giving the bloody interview?

r108 is Very Concerned®

Answer the question R109. If this was Obama or Hillary would you be concerned about them giving a simple little interview to the press?

r107, because she has something to say, and is articulate, I agree. Trump could do the same and it would be a shambles

The answer is that no one would be worried about Obama or Clinton doing an interview. Or Buttigieg or other Dems I could name.However, Biden rarely did them. It worked for him. We’ll see if Harris who isn’t 81 can play the same Biden game.

That is the truth R112. Nobody would be worried about a competent politician giving an interview and wouldn't want to hide him/her in the basement.

This is ridiculous. There’s time. Of course she’ll do an in depth interview.

When is Trump’s interview with the NYT editorial board?

Elections are in 3 months R114. Why not now.

Re Trump R115, say what you want, but he faced these black female journalists who went at him like sharks.

Why is Kamala afraid to sut down with an interviewer from a friendly media?

Democrats are persecuted by innuendo and the crimes that might exist. Why won't she just do an interview? Why did she delete those emails? Why doesn't he just show his birth certificate? He'll be 82, he's getting senile, he pretended to grab her breasts. He made a girly yell into a microphone, he's unstable. He was on a boat with a pretty girl. He once saw a psychiatrist. It never ends.

Meanwhile, TSF commits, rape, theft, treason, bribery, 30k published lies, fraud, racism and total assholery all out in the open.

2.4 Billion in 4 years, 160m proven from foreign govts. No questions asked.

Not to mention 33 felonies. But, that's OK, that's just the way he is. Perfectly normal, nothing to see there.

I will say it fir the 100th time R117, because it makes her look insicure and incomptetent. Big part of politicians' job in democracy is communication with media.

insecure*

Has any reporter asked him if he plans on paying the judgment he owes E Jean Carroll, or would that be rude? 10 million from Egypt, in cash? The missing documents? No. How about details on your Obamacare replacement? Coming soon?

Even Putin does the interviews ffs. Only Kin Yong Un doesn't.

Why are you people comparing her with Trump?

R119, Kamala will be talking to the nation with her Presidential fireside chats. No worries.

[quote]I will say it fir the 100th time [R117], because it makes her look insicure and incomptetent. Big part of politicians' job in democracy is communication with media.

No interviews. And she's so splendid she doesn't even need to have any policy on her official campaign website.

Get a load of this. Nothing:

(except for the Fox)? R100? I imagine you sitting in the bullpen with a hundred others like you, replying on DL, Twitter, Threads, etc.

Don't worry, R119. She'll join Truth Social and post a shitstorm of her policies in the early morning hours.

R117, thank you. And let's not forget that dozens of informants were killed, missing or were compromised. How many intelligence secrets were sold by Trump?

Not an interview, a press conference. Many interviews are softballed these days.

Maybe she should just say what beauty queens say at the contests: I am for the peace in the world.

The answer is simple: Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes, Labor Day Sunday. He's so dumb she won't even have to prep.

First it was said she needs to have a press conference. As a response to that, her people said that she would probably be doing an interview. After she does the interview, people will still say she needs to do a press conference, then her people will say "Well, why? She did an interview."

If that's the case, r132, I'm just going to vote for Trump. That'll show her!

For the third time, R132!

I meant R133^^

R132 thinks if you want a candidate to meet the press and not have a completely controlled media image without anybody questioning her, you must want Trump to be president, because...well, just BECAUSE. Deep thoughts.

[quote] The federal government cannot order localities to increase housing density, allow accessory dwelling units and eliminate cumbersome approval processes. It cannot strike down exclusionary zoning.

You're correct, the Federal government leaves these matters to the states and localities because that's the form of government we have in our democratic republic. However, what you fail to see is that the Federal government does, in fact, have a say in these matters and enforces it through antidiscrimination laws, the Fair Housing Act, and as in all things, it comes down to the money. The Federal government is in the business of guaranteeing mortgages through the FHA and loan guarantee programs like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The Federal government can and does influence the localities and their various policies and bugaboos by incentivising specific behavior. To wit:

[quote]To add more affordable homes for purchase, the Harris plan would also allow builders to get a tax break on profits on homes that are built and sold to first-time buyers.... Yet another part of the plan would create a new tax credit for renovating homes that couldn’t be sold for a price high enough to recoup repair costs. That would bring into the market additional supply that would otherwise sit unused.

[quote]To overcome infrastructure shortfalls and any local political resistance, the Harris plan would provide more money for states and communities....“Each of these moves would be meaningful on its own, but together they would amount to the most aggressive supply-side push since the national investment in housing that followed World War II,” Parrott and Zandi wrote.

[quote] No interviews for mainstream/legacy media. She can be interviewed by Brian Tyler Cohen or Meidas Touch Network for YouTube.

It would be pointless for her to do interviews with Brian Tyler Cohen or Meidas Touch because the people who follow them are already solidly Democratic. It would be a waste of her time and wouldn't earn her any extra votes. Whatever media she chooses for an interview, it needs to be media that reach a wide audience of independent and undecided voters in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Like it or not, that probably means mainstream legacy media.

Thanks for writing that, R137, so I didn't have to.

It amazes me how little some DLers know about the government compared to how many opinions they have.

[quote] Whatever media she chooses for an interview, it needs to be media that reach a wide audience of independent and undecided voters in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Like it or not, that probably means mainstream legacy media.

Which suggests quality (non-Sinclair) local broadcast and newspapers and heavy geotargeted social buys. Philly Inquirer before NYT.

R137

"“The federal government doesn’t have a whole lot of authority over what happens at the local level,” said Redfin’s Fairweather. “It’s up to the local planning commissions whether they’re going to allow for more housing in order to get that [innovation fund] money.”

“But time and time again, locals and local governments, local homeowners ignore incentives because they’re so resistant to building more housing,” Fairweather said."

My well-to-do town will do everything possible to block her plan for new multi-family apartment houses or low income housing. Not gonna happen here no matter what incentives the government dangles in front of us.

Just as Kamala's ultra-luxe Brentwood neighborhood won't see any new housing built either.

That one troll at R110, R116 and others definitely sounds like a fat man in short shorts sitting in a van with a jar of lollipops - "Just ONE simple interview child. Don't you want to? You'll see, all will be well. Come now..." Super creepy and might I add - Weird!.

R141? So you're a NIMBY, hunh?

Get ready for an invasion of "the poors," because you'll be getting an offer you can't refuse.

What are the American People's takeaways of:

Harris, Pence Debate - A fly landing on Pence's head Trump, Elon X Intreview - It started an hour late Tim Walz speech at DNC - Ann Coulter calling his son weird Nancy Pelosi speech at the DNC - a "roll of toilet paper" (notes) falling out of her pants.

Absolutely nothing of substance or importance, but indelible images. That is why you don't put yourself out there if you don't need to until you absolutely need to. No one wants the truth, they just want to fill the craving of needing to pick someone apart for clickbait monetary reasons.

R114 I admire Pete Buttigiege for going on to Fox News and fielding tough questions like a pro.

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't (see his interview on Meet the Press) but they were both fair interviews.

THAT'S how it's done. That's what's expected of a valid politician.

The Sunday news shows on all four networks are serious and a candidate for the Presidency, whether it's Kamala or Trump should not shy away from them.

^ Sorry, post R145 is in response to post R144.

[quote]Just as Kamala's ultra-luxe Brentwood neighborhood won't see any new housing built either.

This is where you give yourself away as a troll, R141. First, Brentwood is not the place where low income housing and/or starter homes should be built and specifically built under this proposal. The price of the land alone precludes the style and quantity of housing we're discussing here. Second, injecting Kamala's personal residence into the discussion adds nothing but partisanship and insincerity, as though it is only Democrats writ large or Kamala in specific who engage in NIMBY-ism and/or hypocrisy. Third, you've demonstrated that your knowledge of the housing situation in California is woefully inadequate. To wit, we already have a new program designed to increase low income and starter homes, and (gasp!) even Brentwood is subject to the laws passed requiring low income housing in tandem with any new projects. It's been controversial but is showing signs of working. Right here in my tony town where just a few years ago we saw a fantastic townhome-style project turned away by the city for not being upscale, we're seeing low income housing being built. No, it's not in the middle of the multi-million dollar home subdivisions, but it is being built and new residents will enjoy all the benefits of residing in my lovely burg.

^ Neither Kamala, Obama or Trump would ever want the poor living next to them. No way. No how.

[quote]So you're a NIMBY, hunh?

Anyone with a nice property is a NIMBY in one way or another.

u guys know shes rubbish..even those of u who want her to win do not want her to do something likr a sit down interview...why? Cos u are deluding yourselves...anything but Trump is NOT how this is meant to go.

Kamala will do an interview on her terms. She's in charge. Based on how she organized the DNC, she'll do a great job. She's the most presidential candidate I've seen in a long time.

USA! USA! USA!

My problem w her is her prosecution of weed smokers all the while she was stoned too.

[quote] could you post Trump's policies?

It’s on his web site, unlike Kamala’s which shows nothing but donate to her.

R152, she doesn’t write the laws.

[quote] Kamala will do an interview on her terms. She's in charge.

Until January when she’s sent packing. She works for us, not the other way around, tard.

you think she's gonna come after your splif? i doubt it

Fuck the media and everyone else bitching about Kamala not doing press conferences or whining "But wHAt arE HEr POLicies?!?" I agree with the perspectives expressed in this article.

Poor illiterate troll @R150. Obviously unexperienced and about to get mauled.

^ That article is INSANE

Get a load of this:

"My hope is that Harris and Walz don’t give in to media members’ howling about sit-down interviews and a spelled-out agenda for what they will do when elected."

The author is too stupid to realize that what they are promoting is authoritarianism.

inexperienced^^.

[quote]I agree with the perspectives expressed in this article.

Yeah, let's make the US more like a 3rd world banana republic.

Some basic UK chav who loves Sitges. That tells you everything. Trash.

The other day when she was talking about policy she was reading off the teleprompter and said "price gauging" rather than "price gouging," and she didn't even stop and correct herself. I can't imagine Obama, Hillary, Bernie, AOC or Trump making that kind of mistake. It was like she either was not paying attention to what she was saying, or had never heard of price gouging. This makes me understand why they don't want her to go before the press yet.

R151, you have no fucking clue.

He has put up a tireless fight, but from the post at r150, I can tell his battery must be running low. Go plug into a wall or stand on your charging pad and call it a night sweetie.

R150 needs some milk

I'm just curious: what do people like OP want to hear her say? What, exactly, are you expecting from this interview?

I expect a journalist to ask questions about what she will do as President and I expect her to answer them.

Too radical?

I assume she will do one fairly soon, but should be careful to pick a serious journalist and not some preening cable news star looking to score some idiotic points. I'd pick somebody from PBS and just do it. Don't be some stupid fucking "get" for some asshole looking to do anything and everything besides actually understand what she believes and wants to do as president.

And r163 is exactly the kind of horseshit I'm talking about. The kind of cunt who thinks it's extremely significant that she said "price gauging" rather than "price gouging," is exactly the kind of cunt I don't want to be doing any interviews.

[quote]I expect a journalist to ask questions about what she will do as President and I expect her to answer them. Too radical?

Yes, r168, have you listened to the questions reporters are asking now?

Since Gwen Ifill is not around, she should go with Yamiche Alcindor for her first sit down.

[quote]Yes, [R168], have you listened to the questions reporters are asking now?

They're basically, Trump said this, how do you respond? Trump accused you of this; how do you respond? Trump wants to do (insert insane thing here); how do you respond? Trump called you this: how do you respond?

[quote]They're basically, Trump said this, how do you respond? Trump accused you of this; how do you respond? Trump wants to do (insert insane thing here); how do you respond? Trump called you this: how do you respond?

Oh really?

Show us some examples of that. Name the journalists. Show us some clips. Back up what you are saying.

We'll wait.

Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that some of these posts are not trolling. So, to those asking why she's being wary of sitting down for an interview (or, rather why her handlers may be), can you answer this question honestly: do you think that the legacy media lost credibility due to their treatment of Trump with kid gloves, particularly over the past 4 years since he incited an insurrection? If so, do you think there should be a double standard of how two candidates are treated? I'll wait for those answers but I suspect they won't be forthcoming.

[quote] Yes, [R168], have you listened to the questions reporters are asking now?

If you think she's the sharpest, best person to become POTUS then you shouldn't worry about reporters are going to ask. She's going to have reporters asking things for the next four years if she wins.

Sometimes I think TV makes people too familiar to us, like this is just some nice, average woman. This is the Vice President of the United States. Running for President. If she can't face reporters what else can't she face? Come on.

It doesn't matter what they ask. She has been VP for four years and all the many accomplishments you all cite endlessly. If she can't handle an interview, whatever moron is on the other end of it, that's a problem. There's no good reason to avoid it post convention. Every credible candidate does it. Fucking Palin did it - and we all got valuable insight into her, didn't we?

Harris can handle it. She should be Trump?

[quote]Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that some of these posts are not trolling.

Fuck off, you simpleton. Cut and thrust is not trolling. You don't deserve internet access. You're a mosquito in a dark room.

She should do it after the debate.

[quote]do you think that the legacy media lost credibility due to their treatment of Trump with kid gloves, particularly over the past 4 years since he incited an insurrection?

No, I don't. There's a body of reporting that proves it. Who's lost credibility is bubble dwellers like you, who come up with alternate facts because the reporting doesn't satisfy your Trumpy bloodlust. Stick to Huffpo. You won't look like jackasses there.

[wuote]You're a mosquito in a dark room.

What does that even mean r178?

It doesn't mean anything but it sounds good to a stupid person.

Bitter, salty troll tears are the best cocktail at the end of a weekend.

Yeah that’s what I figured too R182. It seems like he’s suggesting the poster is lost like a mosquito in a dark room - as if mosquitos have eyes like humans. Obviously the person has never been in a dark room with a mosquito. Or maybe they have and the West Nile has affectively eaten away at their brain.

They are probably Zika babies, R184.

Or, maybe, it's the translation of a Russian/Chinese/Hungarian idiom?

It means you are a pointless, annoying noise in a vast empty space. Which you are with your hopeless, unthinking partisan stubbornness masquerading as a point of view. You are donkeys, braying nothing but aggravating noise, with neither the thought nor the integrity to stop yammering and be logical. You are all heart, no reason. You are I feel. You are I suspect. You are I haven't got a fucking clue but dammit I'm gonna be noisy until the bitter end because I'm a slack mouthed moron and proud of it.

That is what a mosquito in a dark room means, you oxygen deprived love children of sloths that fucked Komodo dragons at the World's Dumbest Animals Convention.

So many trolls stink this place up on the weekends.

R175 How could one be trolling in a thread that is titled, "Alright, it’s time for Kamala to do a sit down interview" by agreeing that it's time for her to do a sit down interview?

When Republicans decide to field a legitimate presidential candidate, we can return to regular election norms, such as releasing tax and financial information and having multiple debates. Until Republicans decide that they want a functioning political party again, Democrats, or Bull-Moose, or Whigs are not required to play by the longstanding traditions of presidential elections.

This is my main issue with the media; they want to cover Democrats like they always have but let Republicans get away with making up the rules as they go along. And I get it: Trump doesn't care, and his voters don't care, but the media should, and they just let it slide for one side. So fuck them.

R2 Imagine someone who supports a clown who eats nothing but Big Macs and KFC, criticize a very pretty, fit woman for binge eating one horrible night.

She'll have the opportunity for an extended interview when the Coward backs out of the debate.

Yeah, i somehow doubt he will debate her

[quote]This is my main issue with the media; they want to cover Democrats like they always have but let Republicans get away with making up the rules as they go along. And I get it: Trump doesn't care, and his voters don't care, but the media should, and they just let it slide for one side

The media really isn't the problem. The problem is that until now, the Democrats have not had someone who has been able to effectively press the case against Donald Trump. It is neither the job nor the responsibility of the media to help fill that gap.

Kamala seems to have cracked the code, finallty. But she does need to get in front of the American people and press the case. I don't care whether it is a press conference or a sit down interview, she needs to answer folks' questions ... or else this is just Hillary Clinton all over again.

[quote]The problem is that until now, the Democrats have not had someone who has been able to effectively press the case against Donald Trump.

Yes and no. Biden defeated Dump by the largest popular margin in US history.

I'm gonna sit right down

I keep saying this but Trump hasn't been president for four years. And he was a one-term disaster. Yet the Democrats have not succeeded in making people forget about him, and now four years after Biden became president, Harris is talking about achieving great things as if the Democrats have not already held the WH for four years. Why didn't Biden do some of these things? $25,000 inventive for first time home buyers, etc.? Why believe she will do them if Biden didn't? The Democrats have to do more than just say what they're going to fight for or what they believe in. People vote for the party they feel has improved their lives materially.

Because she's not Biden. Biden and his team will decide priorities, policies and approach. She was 2iC. She may have had opportunity to put forward a POV but the place of the Veep is well known, as are the frustrations. Veeps don't run the show.

My point was more that if Biden had done more of these things Trump would not have had traction. You have to be able to point to simple, concrete achievements that made people's lives better. Then Harris could run on the legacy of having been the VP in that administration. You can't really win on being against Trump and his badness, because average people don't care, they want money in their pockets and food on the table, a solution to homelessness, etc.

That's bull, and you know it. The public has been unable to move on from Trump because the media will not allow the public to move on. The press gets ratings and clicks and increased profits from Trump, it's sick, but the asshole brings in ratings. Biden has been your typical old school President, just getting shit done, but no one wants to report on that because it doesn't bring ratings. Trump farts, and the networks get a 30 share. This has nothing to do with Biden and everything to do with profits.

Well, he wasn't governing to set up a Harris run. He thought he had another term and he believed he had a great record to run on - that was one of the disconnects. He insisted on running on how great the economy was - which by the numbers it is - but people don't feel it. I don't know about you, but I don't. I feel it every time I go to the grocery store. And most people think the President can control the economy. I don't. I know some policies can influence the economy, but it is too complex and too integrated globally for even the President of the United States to single handedly improve. It's a fiction and I don't know why the political class doesn't start chipping away at it. If you can, over time, convince people these are the things you can do and these are the things you can't do, the cycle might not be able to hold the incumbent to ransom.

I agree, R199, people want simple, concrete achievements and whatever Biden did, either they couldn't communicate it in those terms or their achievements were too complex to turn into soundbites. Whichever it was, they totally fucked up the messaging and the narrative around inflation.

I'm gonna sit right down

It is not bull. Trump has been the presumed nominee for four years, at the center of one criminal scandal after another for four years, and he has completely changed the Republican party. What were media supposed to cover? You also completely ignore the role of digital in his presence and over simplify the coverage of Biden's accomplishments in office.

What you're really saying is they don't report it the way you wanted it reported. Well, welcome to the real world. The Republicans have the same damn complaint.

Stick to Huffpo.

just sit down!

Alright, it’s time for Trump to start telling the truth, the man does plenty of interviews but rarely ever does the truth pass his lips..

Can they keep her sober long enough for an interview?

So that's the latest right-wing line of attack, r206?

I can't keep up. They've tried to throw so much shit and nothing has stuck.

Imagine what a pig Trump is that he has severe obesity despite his diet of crystal meth

Trump is stupid and hated, and most of America sees him for the greedy asshole he is.

Pity the GOP let him purchase them.

Kamala’s for continuing democracy-so simple. Interview or not,.She can just sit there and eat pie and I will vote for her.

Trump is on a diet of Crystal Light.

What kind of pie?

Lol all these women haters demand she do an interview now! How dare she run her campaign her way! How dare a woman not submit! Who cares that she already addressed their concerns!

R213 wow you’re brainwashed.

She does fucking owe voters a chance to hear her stances. They can’t hide her drunk ass away forever. If Trump were avoiding the press you all would be screaming conspiracy theories left and right.

I'm finding hard to take seriously a poster who complains about supporting Ukraine in their struggle against Russia. So, everything you say speaks "vatnik" to me, without explicitly saying that. Granted, you are trying to be a bit more polished than a run-of-the-mill troll we see here, but you're still a troll.

And you can't comprehend apparently No one is saying she shouldn't do a interview. I'm sure she will, but your fake outrage blinds you to that fact.

She's running her show. Just sit down and shut up

Drinking? That must be Defuckto posting. He's an expert on alcoholism.

It’s been 36 days since she was endorsed and Biden stepped back, and there are only 71 days until the election. What the fuck is she waiting for?

Walking up to a bunch of reporters and ripping off some aviators and saying “whatcha got?”, like some fucking cocky Xanax’d bull dyke might suffice the yazzzzz kweeeennnzzz but I’m going to need more.

Her handlers obviously know that she’s gaffe prone and they’re trying to hide her away. That speech she gave at the DNC was completely completely written by someone else, and she was reading off the teleprompter. They know that left to her own devices there is gonna be way too many soundbites that are gonna be turned against her and her views are basically “communist for thee and corporate neocon for me.”

Limousine Liberal.

[quote]Yes and no. Biden defeated Dump by the largest popular margin in US history.

He won the election. But I would not say that he pressed the case against Trump effectively. Biden was barely seen during the 2020 election season. That wasn't just a GOP meme, it was the literal truth.

Thank goodness Biden won, but that outcome had just as much to do with Trump fatigue as anything.

Kamala is actually playing offense and winning. No one else has been able to do that.

It also wasn't anywhere close to "the largest popular margin in US history."

Where did you even get that?

The RWNJs are spinning out because she won't cave to their or the old guard media's demands while Trump continues to do interviews and press conferences that are damaging his candidacy a little more each time. Not to mention JD Vance's abysmal appearances. Cry more, you whiny-ass losers.

It’s hilarious that now the Democrats are shifting gears and requesting muted mics, because they realized that it made Trump very controlled compared to Biden to have a muted mic, So now they think the he’ll go unhinged if he goes up against Kamala without the mute. So now they want the mute gone.

They want him to talk over her because if she has to talk on her own without him talking in the background, she’s going to sound like a fucking idiot because without a Teleprompter that fucking drunk Xanax taking bitch sounds like you’re fucking alkie aunt at the end of the night after a family barbecue.

*requesting NO muted mics

*your

R213 is log cabin-fuck off

Sorry -R213 patriot-R214 log cabin Trumper

You have to have a lot of gall to expect a candidate to the Presidency of the United States of America to do interviews!

R226 lol

Can’t keep up-managing chronic pain (elder gay)

Alkie Auntie is hiding.

Well hey, if Kamala doesn't want to do interviews, we should be able to go to her campaign website and get info about her policies .... shouldn't we?

Try to find them.

As one reporter said this weekend, she was available for the past three and a half years as VP. She was willing to sit down for interviews and "talk policy" and her achievements, as well as what her future goals were as VP. Very few took advantage of her availability (in all fairness, she has ABC has taken advantage of her offers and she has appeared on 'The View' a number of times, and answered plenty of questions, especially on 'the border crisis' and 'the economy' ).

Now that she's campaigning, criss-crossing the country AND doing her duties as VP, reporters are upset that she won't give them time for an interview ? She's been the presumed candidate for only a month, so she has to catch up with voters as she campaigns furiously - but she's going to sit with Anderson Cooper for an interview ? Cooper should have interviewed her two months ago.

R231 keep spinning

R230 wow that is ridiculous

R232 Stay in your 'echo chamber' comfort zone.

She should sit with Cooper. Trump could outsmart that dope. Dangle an invitation to the big house and he'll f-f-f-f-forget to ask that trick question they write for him. Ah heh heh heh.

And an argument as to why a lot of people wouldn't even care about some sit down interview with legacy media.

Simple ideas take root.

Like, her emails.

Or, the economy's bad.

Or, she was part of the administration that made it bad.

Or, chicken suits at public appearances.

The downside of not doing (a) conventional interview(s) - as the credible candidate - is they leverage it to come up with a label that sticks. And hurts. And Tweets. And memes. And grapevines.

She isn't running with Trump, she's running against him. What's good enough for him ought to be nowhere near good enough for her.

She is a forceful speaker with a prosecutor's training, the freedom of running for the top job and a team of strategists to craft answers - and credible pivots - on the stuff that's already plaguing her.

Thwarting legacy media will not help her, short or long term.

I was all for screwing media in the run up to the convention and milking the euphoria. That's past, good will remains, she can capitalize on it by commanding interviews like she commands the stage or she can run the risk of squandering it by making a choice that can be leveraged against her.

She can handle this and she should.

Troll desperation is filling my jaded heart with so much Schadenfreude!! Even these tools can see the writing on the wall. At least I hope they get something for their futile efforts, like a bottle of booze.

Kamala MUST do what I tell her to do when I tell her to do it or she is not presidential material!!

Is anyone else enjoying the irony of R239 on a thread so industriously informing media of what to do, when to do and how?

Yip, yip, yip... went little doggies.

Either way that drunk pill popper isn’t president material

Defuckto, that vodka is not going to drink itself!

Vodka. Def… Russian. Troll. Oh, please stop the hurtful attacks, they’re so original and non-schizophrenic leaning that I can’t take it anymore

Wow, one block, many, many clears. Grown ups left.

Can I recommend this?

R245 is safe in their echo chamber again

R187 is on that good ass columbian shit, off the rails by way of some super thick rails. I'll have what he's having. I'm much more fun coked up than he is, I swear.

sit down! Stand Up! Sit down!

Mental breakdowns are fascinating.

It is utterly amazing to me, amazing, that people forget that when Biden took over we were still in the throws of a Global pandemic, the economy had basically stopped and no one wanted to go back to work. I find it amazing that absolutely NO MENTION HAS EVER BEEN MADE OF THE OVER 1 MILLION AMERICANS WHO DIED. 1 MILLION!. Gone. Never in my lifetime or any of ours has something come along and killed so many Americans in short period of time. Not even that many dead people can pause the news cycle in its tracks. R200 just knows his Starbucks is more expensive.

Don't forget crudites, R251!

^ No day of remembrance. No calling of names. Not even a national day of prayer for a single soul lost. Nothing, nada, zilch. It was all so politicized and bungled and washed over. That is national shame.

[quote]Harris is talking about achieving great things as if the Democrats have not already held the WH for four years. Why didn't Biden do some of these things?

Oh, I dunno, maybe healing a sick nation, burying the dead, putting us back to work and back to school, saving the economy, creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs, exiting from Afghanistan after Shitler surrendered to the Taliban (only after freeing 5000 of their worst with nothing in exchange, inviting them to Camp David on the anniversary of 9/11, and abandoning $trillions worth of military equipment), negotiating hostage releases (both Russian and Israeli/Hamas), fighting a proxy war with Russia, strengthening NATO including inducting two new substantive members, working with allies in Congress to make the largest investment in climate change ever, bringing manufacturing jobs back to America and particularly those in an industry in which domestic production is paramount for national security, saving the banking system after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, getting inflation under control, passing the PACT Act to fund veteran healthcare... should I go on?

Why hasn't Biden done more? What didn't he do any of the things Kamela is suggestion? That is the question? Because he was digging the country out of a grave for the majority part of his term. And doing a damn good job at it, that we didn't utterly crash and burn.

I'll just leave this here.

[quote][R230] wow that is ridiculous

It sure is ridiculous.

There is NO info of her plans and policies on her website.

Concerning the next four years, all we have from her so far are platitudes and bromides. We've got lots of "joy", feel-good vibes. And also the fact that she's not Trump. That's about it so far. Oh...and cooking videos of her preparing collard greens.

But policy? Nothing. Zilch.

the dollar is stronger than it ever has been

R26 That BBC article is absurd.

The US is ALWAYS doing better than Europe. Always.

Please tell us of a time in recent history when it had lower inflation and better employment numbers than the US.

We'll wait.

R257 is what happens when you have no remaining arguments but the masochistic cravings are stronger than ever.

[quote]the dollar is stronger than it ever has been

Not true.

1985 was peak for the US dollar against other currencies.

^ was the peak

Kamela Harris's policy is that she is not Donald Trump. To be honest, with as literally black and white as everything is between the two candidates, that is all that she needs. And I am fine with that. No other discussion necessary.

Proof that Kamala's economy will be a big success. Her presidency is going to usher in a golden era for America.

Her economic plan is IDENTICAL to Bill Clinton's, who had the most successful economy in the past 50 years. I hope Kamala will hit these economic points in the debate and in interviews.

This guy lays it all out for you with charts:

Oh god, she's been freakin Vice President for 4 years. If you haven't heard her talk you haven't been listening.

Oh yes, we've heard her talk....

[quote]Her economic plan is IDENTICAL to Bill Clinton's

Great!

Where is it so we can read it. Could you please provide an official link.

Thanks in advance.

^^Who's the TRump cunt?

I have a lot of trolls blocked on these political threads.

R264

"Economic policy of the Bill Clinton administration "

"Clinton's economic approach entailed modernization of the federal government, making it more enterprise-friendly while dispensing greater authority to state and local governments. The ultimate goal involved rendering the American government smaller, less wasteful, and more agile "

Please show us where and when Kamala said she would follow this formula.

R269 🏆🥇🏅🎖️🏆🥇🏅🎖️

R269 🍪

R251 oh yeah-No one either side ever reminds Americans enough 1million died because Trump ignored COVID. I watched that shit everyday.He just bull shitted. How this criminal has so many followers I cannot fathom I just know it’s our reality and I will do my part.

Totally horrible

[quote]No one either side ever reminds Americans enough 1million died because Trump ignored COVID.

The US hit that mark in the summer of 2022, well into the Biden administration.

December 2021: "COVID Deaths Under Biden Now Equal Those Under Trump" - Daily Beast quoting figures from Johns Hopkins University.

In fact by 2022 there had been more Covid deaths under Biden than Trump.

And BTW: millions died under the leadership of EVERY world leader.

The Northeast and West Coast will go to Kamala but I'm concerned about the other states.

Blah, blah, blah...

Clear Jiminy Glick’s schedule!

Well, Donnie Downer's recent low energy Doom and Gloom circle jerks are so boring. He's clearly giving up. Lol. And he's trying to weasel out of his ANYTIME ANYWHERE ANYPLACE debate challenge. Poor thing..

Don't be obtuse, R276. Biden couldn't wave a magic wand and stop the deaths fast enough. right? Just like every other time a Republikkkan has fucked it up and dumped the mess in his Democratic successor's lap. Bush the elder dumped a recession on Clinton. Clinton handed Bush the younger a surplus, the first in generations. Bush them handed out tax cuts to billionaires like candy at Halloween, wrecked the economy and dumped a worldwide financial collapse on Obama. Obama rebuilt the economy, made investments, and handed DonOld a thriving economy, low interest and low inflation. Like Bush, Dotard racked up $8 Trillion in debt, ignored the greatest health crisis in a century, and drive the economy into the wall. And then DonOld dumped the pandemic on Biden, who thank God got 200 million shots in arms within his first hundred days, put everyone back to work or in school, and got the economy moving again finally ending the horror of what Republikkkan rule will give you every damn time: death and destruction.

R276 proves my point that Covid just became a political tool and all the deaths were just ignored. When I said "No One Has Said Anything," I didn't say no Republican has said anything. NO ONE is no one.

But what I do remember is how Trump bungled the response to Covid. I remember sitting in my apartment in NYC, scared about what was going on outside and just waiting, waiting to hear from my President. Crickets for a good week or so. Nothing. That's how Cuomo rose to national fame, because he was the first leader to take charge of the message. That let me know that in a national crisis Trump is not capable of leading the nation. He only knows how to divide, not bring people together.

He is the one who eventually issued the mask mandate on one hand yet his followers are the ones who scoffed about their freedom. He is the one who listened to Fauci and then blamed him for everything that went wrong.

R276 sucks Trump anus.

Let R276 have his copium. Any straw to clutch onto will do.

Go vote Trump R276.

R282 gets it.

But t382 gives too much credit to Obama.

Obama put BIDEN in charge of the W meltdown recovery, and THAT is how Biden learned how to deal with the FAILED TRUMP PANDEMIC RESPONSE.

Never in the history of economics was the point of flood common Americans with money, that went right back into the economy, ever accomplished. The reason we had a soft landing AND NO FUCKING AUSTERITY is because Joe learned his lesson in 2008 when some segments of the economy would never recover.

Fuck the Nobel Peace Prize, Biden deserves the Nobel in Economics for saving the American economy and the American workers.

Problem with all great men, is he made it look simple.

Love my President Joe.

R276 should die Covid. Because Dump didn’t ‘’nip COVID’’ didn’t even get a fuck-hid it so as not to lose votes millions died well into Biden admin. you stupid fuck- and I thought I was the stupidest fuck on DL.

Her campaign has a better idea than to sit down with legacy media.

The Philadelphia Inquirer explains it all to those that demand she sit down for an interview.

R200 No, it isn't bull, and I don't know it. I think this whole "media controls what the public thinks" is insulting to everyone. If any administration is doing a great job and people lives are significantly improved, they will vote again for that administration, and won't care what they're told.

*people's

Jan 10th 2024 ABC News headline:

"Why are 1500 Americans still dying from COVID every week?"

(I guess it's Trump's fault.)

r293, Yes it was. When some drunk runs over a pedestrian, and it takes years to heal, the damage, and the responsibility do not end with the accident.

Trump fucking up the Pandemic Response is very like that.

r291, without Trump running for President or in court fighting jail time, without Trump Fox has no reason to lie for Murdoch.

Hundreds of people lose their jobs.

[quote]"Why are 1500 Americans still dying from COVID every week?" (I guess it's Trump's fault.)

Yes, because after his administration spearheaded the development of the vaccine, he joined the rest of the Republican party in denigrating it -- so much so that many of his followers never got any of the shots. They're the vast majority of people who were dying in Jan. 2024 and yet today.

Trump fucked up the pandemic is every single way he could

Trump couldn't find a transactional way to make money off of the pandemic with all the Doctors standing next to him. I wonder how much he lost on HydroxyQ and Ivermectin.

[quote]Yes it was. When some drunk runs over a pedestrian, and it takes years to heal, the damage, and the responsibility do not end with the accident.

LOL. Nice try. Doll, it is the year 2024. Not 2020.

Is the current rise in Covid in France Macron's fault? Is the current rise in Covid in Canada Trudeau's fault? Etc. and etc.

Covid is rising around the world....gee...whose fault is it?

Who allowed this summer wave of Covid-19 to arrive in the States?

r299, Nice try toots, but Covid has evolved into a manageable virus through the efforts of the CDC and NIH. Get your booster this Fall. And stop lying about Trump's culpability ONGOING.

CNN Lands Kamala Harris-Tim Walz Interview, Their First Since Becoming New Democratic Ticket:

I excited about that R302 just to hear that bitch troll shut up. What ill he whine about next? Shall we take guesses?

Sit down interview on Thursday.

CNN.

Dana Bash.

She should! I mean the master campaigner, Donald Trump, did one and it went extremely well!!!

Now right-wing twitter is whining about "pre-recorded!" "with Tim Walz for backup!" "with Dana Bash, who denies Kamala was Border Czar!!!"

She could talk to the press live for 12 hours a day every day between now and the election and they would not be happy. Because, of course, it was NEVER about giving an interview. It was only about trying to find additional lines of attack (since everything they've tried so far has been ineffective).

257, why do you care about her policies written down or her doing an interview? You're not going to vote for her. But go on with your manufacted outage for something you really didn't care about.

“What do you got?”

So now she's agreed to sit down for a major national interview and it STILL won't be enough for the baying hounds. We see you, freaks. Find something else to whine about now.

[quote]why do you care about her policies written down or her doing an interview? You're not going to vote for her. But go on with your manufacted outage for something you really didn't care about.

"Manufactured outrage" LOL. See how dumb you are?

These are politicians. No matter who they are, their feet should be held to the fire. Why should Kamala be exempt?

Expecting the next likely President of the United States to do some interviews or at least have info of her plans for the next 4 years on her website, really shouldn't be too much to ask.

It’s been 20 days now since Trump said he would soon let us know how he planned to vote on the Florida abortion referendum. Now that that the media has successfully hounded Harris into giving a sit-down interview, will they now turn their attention to Trump so we can get his long-promised answer?

I agree that her website looks ridiculous with absolutely no policy details whatsoever. Hopefully the media doesn’t pick up on that. I’m looking forward to the interview though, hopefully this blocks off this line of attack altogether.

Her website assumes you haven't been headless for the past 9 years.

The reason they went after Biden is that he was the decent alternative to the disgusting pile of steaming Trump shit.

That the choice is basically Trump or not Trump.

Not Trump doesn't need a whole lot of policies.

[quote] after his administration spearheaded the development of the vaccine,

Back in reality, the reason the vaccines were developed so quickly was because of the investments I referenced that Obama made, specifically on mRNA research and development. Obama, having gone through the SARs scare, awarded a group a 2012 $600k Whitehouse grant (iirc), they worked and developed the technology, patented it and became Moderna, manufacturer of one of the vaccines. So, in effect, Obama was responsible for the vaccine for which DonOld tried to claim credit.

Meanwhile, re: it’s time for Kamala to do a sit down interview: onward to the next manufactured crisis causing umbrage and outrage!

Will Walz do all the heavy lifting?

“I can certainly order a donut, and you know, talk to regular people. Wasn’t that video weird? This is how this guy acts with a camera on him? Is it always this awkward?”

I can see JD Vance’s next soundbite at a hot dog factory “I don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die…”

The choice this election is between:

A. fascism (or proto fascism, if you're restrained)

B. non-fascism

The pundits who are squawking about "policy" would appreciate it if you ignored this fact

Yet the people who scream the loudest about the deficit continue to back him the most strongly:

Who keeps screaming that Harris doesn't talk or promote her policies, or specifics re them? See this clip, for a comparison between the candidates and what they're putting out there in terms of explanatory ads:

Interesting perspective.