Kamala Harris for President
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Generation Z has started a new trend leading up to the 2024 US presidential election – “canceling out” their fathers’ votes.
Just days away from Election Day, many women have on TikTok have hinted that they’re voting for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, while their parents are voting for Republican nominee Donald Trump. As part of the trend, each video shows social media users with a piece of paper in hand as they leave their houses to go vote.
In one video posted earlier this month, Arizona-based resident Jeanne could be seen walking around her house. She had her ballot in her hand and did a little dance in her living room, with the video set to the song “We Both Reached For The Gun” from the hit musical, Chicago.
“On my way to cancel out my father’s vote for [the former guy],” she wrote in the text over the video, referring to former president Trump. The text also included a blue circle to represent the Democratic party.
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No One Has an Alibi. Trump has told us his plans.
By David Frum | November 3, 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/american-republic
-trump-threat/680501/
Donald Trump’s presidency was mitigated by his ignorance, idleness, and vanity. Trump did not know how the office worked. He did not invest any effort to learn. He wasted much of his time watching daytime television.
Defeat in 2020—and Trump’s plot to overturn that defeat—gave him a purpose: vengeance on those who bested him.
A second Trump presidency will have a much clearer agenda than the first. No more James Mattis to restrain him, no more John Kelly to chide him, no more Rex Tillerson to call him a “fucking moron.” He will have only sycophants.
Trump has told the world his second-term plans.
He has vowed to round up and deport millions of foreign nationals. Because the removals will be slow—permissions have to be negotiated with the receiving governments, transportation booked, people forced aboard—Trump has spoken of building a national network of camps to hold the rounded-up immigrants. Deportation is a power of the presidency: Trump can indeed do all of this if he is determined to.
Trump has pledged huge increases in U.S. tariffs, not only on China but on friends and treaty partners, such as Mexico. Congress has historically delegated the president’s broad authority over trade. A restored President Trump will have the power to impose tariffs, and will also have the power to exempt industries and firms that bid for his favor.
Trump intends to shut down legal proceedings, state and federal, against himself. A friendly Supreme Court appears to grant him wide leeway to do so. He has promised to pardon people serving sentences for the attack on Congress on January 6, 2021. The president has the power to do that also. He has spoken of prosecuting people who donate to Democratic candidates and of retribution against media companies that criticize him. Although it’s uncertain how far the courts would let him succeed, Trump is seeking a stooge attorney general who will at least try to bring such prosecutions.
Trump ordered his allies in Congress to oppose further military aid to Ukraine and got his way for six deadly months. Trump chose as his running mate one of the GOP’s harshest critics of the Ukrainian cause. Trump boasts that he will end the fighting within weeks. That is code for forcing Ukraine to submit to Russia.
One of Trump’s former national security advisers, John Bolton, predicts that Trump would withdraw from NATO in a second term. Trump does not have to withdraw formally, however. NATO ultimately depends on the U.S. president’s commitment to upholding the treaty’s mutual-defense clause and assisting threatened NATO members. As president, all Trump has to do to kill NATO is repeat what he once said as a candidate: that unless they pay up, he won’t protect this or that ally from attack. No further action required; the deed is done.
Some Trump apologists put a gloss on his pro–Vladimir Putin instincts by arguing that abandoning Ukraine will somehow strengthen the U.S. against China. Really? China will be impressed by a United States that walked away from Ukraine’s successful war of self-defense against Russian aggression because the American president is infatuated with the Russian dictator?
Whatever theory Trump allies may confect, Trump himself made it clear in a July interview that Taiwan cannot count on him any more than Ukraine can. Trump conceives of the U.S. alliance system as a protection racket, not as an association of democracies. In his preelection interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan, Trump made the Mafia comparison explicit. He said of Taiwan and other allies: “They want us to protect, and they want protection. They don’t pay us money for the protection, you know? The mob makes you pay money, right?” A vote for Trump isn’t a vote for some Pacific-first strategy, however misconceived or addled. It’s a vote for international gangsterism. Trump feels most at home with dictators (includi
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Trump’s Cronies Threw the VA Into Chaos. Millions of Veterans’ Lives Are on the Line Again.
Former VA officials warn that another Trump term could irreparably damage the health care system for millions of veterans.
By Jasper Craven | October 28 2024, 10:54 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/28/trump-veterans-va-darin-selnick-pe
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Selnick and O’Rourke were key to implementing the twin pillars of Trump’s veterans affairs legacy: the 2017 VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act and the 2018 VA MISSION Act, which together served as a one-two punch to weaken the agency. First, the Accountability Act degraded conditions inside the VA — undermining labor power, gutting workplace protections, and leading to thousands of suspensions, demotions, and firings of front-line staff. From there, MISSION funneled millions of patients to appointments outside the VA, enriching the private sector while weakening the agency’s health care capacity, budget, and reputation.
That the pair managed to avoid infamy may owe only to the buffoonish crew that operated Trump’s single-term VA. This cadre includes a beer mogul who promoted snake oil PTSD treatments; a slick-haired “Fox & Friends” host who sought GI Bill money for predatory for-profit colleges; a longtime Marvel Entertainment executive who, along with two fellow Mar-a-Lago members, pushed a shoddy electronic health records system that’s been tied to the deaths of at least four veterans; a White House doctor accused of handing out prescriptions “like candy” and whose nomination to be VA secretary was derailed after he was credibly accused of drinking on the job; and a Lost Cause sympathizer alleged to have attempted to dig up dirt on a congressional staffer and Navy veteran after she reported being sexually assaulted at the VA hospital in Washington.
These characters and their chaos emerged from an election that Trump won on the backs of veteran voters. While the decorated Vietnam War veteran, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., won the veteran vote by 10 percentage points during his 2008 presidential bid, Trump, who viciously insulted McCain on the trail, took veterans by a whopping 27-point margin. According to a political science analysis of 2016 voting data, Trump also received exceptionally high support in American communities with the highest combat casualty rates, which was key to his victories in three swing states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Trump racked up similar margins in 2020 and appears poised to again dominate among those who served in the military come November 5.
Trump has generally talked a lot less about veterans’ policy during this campaign than his first two. Few tangible policy VA proposals have emerged from Trump or the Republican platform. There are, however, some clues in Project 2025’s detailed section on veterans policy, which, according to a former senior VA official, is eerily reminiscent of the VA road map drafted during Trump’s first transition. This slate of radical proposals includes further privatization of core agency services, as well as major restrictions to VA’s disability rating system, which determines the compensation amounts that veterans receive for their service-related disabilities.
If Trump’s presidential term proved anything, it’s that personnel is policy. The figures who staffed his first term can help illuminate how a second one may play out. Many would surely return to the VA under what Trump has promised will be a government flushed of career officials and then stocked exclusively with the type of loyal ideologues who dominated the VA during his administration.
“Government is serious business for serious people,” said Kayla Williams, an Iraq War veteran who served as a senior VA official during the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. “And that’s what I feel like is missing from these Trump people’s core understanding of the world. Government matters, people’s lives are at stake, and putting in charge figures who think government is a game or a joke or a way to enrich t
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Originally posted by THG:
Generation Z has started a new trend leading up to the 2024 US presidential election – “canceling out” their fathers’ votes.
Once again, I found the loophole.
Damn I'm good.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Originally posted by THG:
Generation Z has started a new trend leading up to the 2024 US presidential election – “canceling out” their fathers’ votes.
Once again, I found the loophole.
Damn I'm good.
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Na, my guys found the loophole. He stole the 2020 election from your guy and he's doing it again. Just think, after tomorrow we will have taken the presidency from your boy twice.
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Okay buddy.
You're about 5 points behind where you were 4 years ago in every state and the popular vote.
Your guy won the presidency by 44,000 votes in 3 states that Harris won't win.
I'd temper my expectations if I were you.
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I'll be watching Georgia tonight to see where we are at. They changed how they count votes so we will know early who is voting for Kamala and where in the state they live. That doesn't mean she has to win it.
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'F around and find out': Philly DA on election interference
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I'll be watching Georgia tonight to see where we are at. They changed how they count votes so we will know early who is voting for Kamala and where in the state they live. That doesn't mean she has to win it.
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You've learned how to say a lot without saying anything. You've got what it takes to be a Democrat.
I'd caution against looking at only one state to see where things are going to go. Florida and even New York made us think that 2020 was going to be a blowout for Trump. We didn't know at the time that New York was an outlier among blue states and we certainly didn't know that Florida was no longer going to be a swing state going forward.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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I'll be watching Georgia tonight to see where we are at. They changed how they count votes so we will know early who is voting for Kamala and where in the state they live. That doesn't mean she has to win it.
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I'm curious, Ted. How'd that work out for you?
Didn't go as planned, did it?
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