FUN FACT: Each of us who support Kamala are de facto surrogates for her campaign. So we have to have the talking points at the ready to answer questions or criticism about her or her campaign. So here are a few at the ready:
1) She didn’t pass any great things as VP:
Answer: The hell she didn’t, every dime that’s been invested in infrastructure, the money you got for COVID relief, the CHIPS act, the PACT act that is helping thousands of veterans, all of them required her input and her tie-breaking vote. But since 2022, Biden and Kamala have
had to deal with a dysfunctional GOP House obsessed with a pointless impeachment of Biden to even the score. Also, the POTUS & VP don’t write or pass legislation. They can present ideas & negotiate. That’s why it’s critical that we get Dems in control of the House & Senate.
2) She has no policies.
Answer: Nonsense. Protecting women’s bodily autonomy is a POLICY. Supporting Ukraine is a POLICY. Banning assault weapons is a POLICY.
3) She has no specific policies to help the economy.
Answer: Again nonsense. The economy is doing great, it’s working class people who are struggling. Her ideas to help them are:
-25K for first time home buyers
-50K for starting up a new business
-6K for new parents
-3K per kid for families with children
-$15 minimum wage
- 3 million new homes to be built
-Opening up thousands of gov jobs to people without college degrees
-caps on drug prices
-policy to restrain price gouging on groceries and gas
-protecting Social Security and Medicare
-prohibiting medical debt from affecting access to credit
-blocking hedge funds from buying up residential property to drive up rental prices.
4) I don’t believe in abortion.
Answer; Cool. Don’t have one. But by voting to restrict abortion, you are voting to let government control and criminalize women, their bodily functions,
their privacy, their freedom to travel, and their rights to determine when and how they want to have babies. Once you give that to the government, it has rights to step into every family to tell them what to do, including yours.
5) She was the border Tzar and she failed.
We have to close the border.
Answer: There is no such thing as a closed border. It’s a fantasy that Trump promised like the rest of his over simplified slogans that are basically lies.
Kamala was never given the task to close the border. She was asked to head up an effort
to reduce the incentive for migrants to cross illegally, which she succeeded in, seeing as how illegal border crossings are way down.
Kamala clearly stated that she would sign the GOP-led border deal that Trump cannexed. That’s a big deal! What’s Trump’s idea?
But also, and this is important, America NEEDS immigrants to survive. We are not making enough babies to sustain our economic model, and immigration is a key component to our labor market. Be careful which you ask for. If you get it, you might just tank the economy.
5) Kamala slept her way to the top:
Answer: Are you suggesting that she slept with the 50 million or so Californians who voted for her as DA, AG and Senator? Because I have yet to see anyone prove that claim.
Only one candidate claimed that fucking around was his personal
Vietnam (since he dodged the real one 5 times). So if promiscuity is an issue for you, Trump can’t be your guy.
More importantly, in no election has Kamala’s personal behavior ever been an issue of any kind. Can you say the same for the other guy? Hell, as we speak he is
likely cheating on Melania with Laura Looney. If sex life is an issue, why doesn’t his bother you?
BE BOLD and ready to speak on the issues. The GOP doesn’t have shit to say about anything because it is all written down in Project 2025 & it is all HORRIFYING!
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For the last 9 years or so, my account has been largely about trying to get Dems to push back at any one of the millions of little steps that got us into this abyss.
And at every turn, the intelligentsia was saying that I was hysterical and unpractical and reactionary and
whatever the fuck.
I posted idea after idea that would have contained the misinformation, plugged the holes in our national security, held wrongdoers accountable, flexed the regulatory, investigative and law enforcement muscle of this country to protect the Constitution.
And now, there is nothing left. Our leaders are silent. Our country is hopelessly divided.
We are left bewildered at how our fellow citizens could be so profoundly ignorant, misinformed, and just plain mean.
All of this could have been avoided. Every last morsel of it.
What people aren’t getting is that we did not lose an election, we lost the protections of the Constitution and rule of law.
Blue people in red states will be so damned vulnerable.
So I say this with every micron of my being, the people who told us last time that Trump wasn’t
going to be so bad we’re FUCKING WRONG!!
The people telling us to calm down and fight another day are even more wrong.
We have to have a whole new approach to protecting our families and our rights, and that approach cannot be focused on trying to leverage federal power.
Whatever the fuck is going on with manipulation of election results is going to keep happening.
So our future and our success is going to be dependent on concentrating power, resources and talent into blue states.
If you are a blue dot in a sea of red, start working on
The thing that gets me is just how many things had to go just right to get Trump back in office.
It would be too fantastical for a Netflix series.
Congress failed to impeach him. Then failed to apply the 14th Amendment to him. Garland dicked around for 18 months,
and then when he was handed a complete investigation, instead of indicting right away, he appointed Jack Smith to start form scratch and dick around some more.
DOJ pursued the most watered down claims they could and filed them in the most pro-Trump jurisdiction possible.
At that point FBI knew that Trump had stolen secrets, had likely burned hundreds of clandestine assets, and was still talking to Putin on the down low, without so much as a boo from CIA or any other intel org.
To understand the abject fear that drives MAGA, you have to understand the mentality of the slave owner.
Deep down, every single human being in America knew slavery was wrong & evil. They ALL knew it. They made all kinds of excuses for it, but at base, they all knew it was
wicked.
And we know this by their bone deep fear of rebellion. They didn’t fear that slaves would be free (well, they feared the economic impact). But the real fear was that slaves would do to them, what they had done to slaves. THAT was the bone chilling, nightmare inducing
horror.
And so they went to extremes to ensure that didn’t happen. But you can’t spend as much time as they did fearing what slaves would do to them, without acknowledging the horror of what they were doing to slaves. On the deepest soul level, they knew they were wrong.
Kamala did what she was supposed to do in her interview with Bret Baier.
What I wish she HAD done is said the following:
Bret, what you just did there, by running a clip that edited out the important part of what Trump said, what you did and your network has been doing for
years, was deceive and mislead the American people.
It’s purposeful. It’s deceitful. And quite frankly it is extremely damaging to our democracy.
There is a reason your network keeps getting sued for lying, and the intention behind cutting what Trump said about
using the military against Americans, is the same intention behind lying about voting machines and spreading lies about the election being stolen.
People died cause of your lies. Our Capital was attacked because of your lies. And you just proved that your network