One thing I’m noticing is that race-mongering exploded in the hours since Biden endorsed Harris.
It goes on and on and on. When one imagines four years of this triumphant race-baiting, one begins to wilt. How, how does anybody think it’s a good idea?
That’s how they treat you when they desperately want something from you. Imagine what happens when you give it to them.
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This is a dumb way to criticize Kamala:
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1815147619544682955?t=RCmu8XBzEKt48HS-QZD6gw&s=19
Tough on crime is not bad. And the race of the criminals is utterly unimportant.
The same people who were screeching “I’m ridin’ with Biden!” yesterday are already lifelong Kamala fans. An instant switch. Back when I was on the Left, I always wondered how the people around me managed to fall in with whatever the new party line was so instantaneously. I still don’t get it.
That’s why I said that your post about that Byung Chul Han’s quote was profound. This is smooth brain at work.
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Kamala Harris is NOT black, in any way, form or shape whatsoever. Or guise, even.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/20/kamala-harris-father-pot-1176805
Kamala Harris made headlines last week when she joked in a radio interview that of course she smoked marijuana in her younger years: “Half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”
But the crack didn’t go over well with at least one Jamaican: Donald J. Harris, her father.
The elder Harris sent an unsolicited statement to Kingston-based Jamaica Global Online, for which the emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University wrote a recent essay on his family’s history.
“My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics,” he wrote.
“Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” he added.
Kamala Harris’ campaign had no comment.
Harris’ parents separated when she was young and divorced a few years later. Though Donald Harris remained a part of his children’s lives, Kamala Harris and her sister were raised by their mother.
This is really too funny.
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This is a good point. I remember that Kamala was Indian and introduced herself as such until she was chosen as Biden’s veep when she suddenly became not even just black but African American. She started sharing those spurious stories about saying “fweedom” at MLK’s rallies and celebrating Kwanzaa as a small child.
Another thing that bugs me is the stream of references to “Kamala’s daughter.” Kamala is childless. She married her husband when his children were teenagers, so there’s no question of her having any role in raising them.
These are the same people who say they support women’s choices but then they are terrified to say the word “childless” and have to invent ridiculous stories.
The last tweet re spending time and money is funny:
https://x.com/EricColumbus/status/1815220760136310889
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True, conservatives need to keep their racism and sexism in check during this season — if they want to win. This goes without saying.
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Yes, but nothing I said above accepts that premise you’re making that she is above criticism. That’s your faulty reading. She can and *should* be criticised. But if the GOP doesn’t keep its rabid racists and sexist commentaries in check, they will only garner her sympathy. You can surely criticise a politician without recourse to the basest of ugly instincts. But of course, they don’t need me to tell them. See how well it worked against Obama.
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These “rabid racist commentaries” are a figment of your imagination. And of the unhealthy imaginations of the tweeters I posted. Nobody even said anything about Harris yet because there was no time to do so, yet the screeching about “rabid racists” has been going on non-stop.
Obama, by the way, was a crappy president. But you can’t even notice it because you’ve been so bamboozled by these stories about him being persecuted by “racists.” This same trick is being played on you now and you are falling for it again.
Kellyanne, whom you posted, literally said that someone who has been an AG and Senator “doesn’t speak well or work hard”. Oh goodness.
Please ask them to keep up these racist dog whistles. Maybe also deliberately mispronounce her name, and question her citizenship and dating life and sexuality. What else? Go for it! It’s exactly how they’d defeat her like they made Obama a one-term president. Lol. You don’t need my advice, clearly.
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None of this is remotely racist. It would be racist to say she doesn’t speak well because she’s black but nobody is saying this.
Tons of people online today are mocking JD Vance for his sad attempts at being funny at a rally. That isn’t a manifestation of people despising the working classes. It’s a manifestation of people reacting to him personally not being funny but thinking he is
As for mocking a politician’s sex life, everybody has had their fill with mocking Trump. And that was perfectly fine. I myself have enjoyed pointing out that his wife is a vapid whore for years. Why wouldn’t it be OK to subject Kamala to the same mockery?
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Here’s a typical tweet (by Ramxpaul, someone w 150K followers and there are tons more like it) “We have gone from brilliant men such as Thomas Jefferson to a double digit IQ woman who got into politics by literally sucking dick.”
Trump wasn’t subjected to that, A married middle aged woman reduced to a whore. If they aren’t whores they are dried up old cat ladies. The sexism on the right is very real and I’m puzzled by your refusal to see it. I agree with you about the racist stuff being exaggerated or nonexistent.
Dems have a racism problem/obsession and conservatives can’t deal with real women with real sex lives. That’s what their abortion obsession is about. Tucker thinks it’s equivalent to a child sacrifice movement. They hate feminism, all of it not just crazy 3rd wave.
Sybil
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Here’s a magazine cover:
Clearly, the goal is to make the point that Trump is fat. If tomorrow a similar cover appears (or, rather, a meme because the mainstream press won’t dare) featuring Kamala and whoever is a thinner female politician. People will start saying it’s sexist, won’t they? Because nobody notices how often it’s done to men. The number of memes about how Trump is fat or screwed a whore or is sexually abused by Putin is enormous. Why is that OK and not sexist while doing the same to Kamala wouldn’t be?
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Sorry in my previous comment there’s a typo, it’s @ramzpaul. I’d leave the twitter link but my comments disappear when I try to leave a link.
Sybil
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Yeah. It’s kinda insufferable. It’s clearly mostly political propaganda now pushing Harris. Most of it comes off not genuine.
There is little to no talk about the negatives of a Harris campaign or what better alternatives there may be. Like the Democratic machinery is trying to block out any other possibility.
THIS is why the Republican/Democrat duopoly needs to end. At the end of the days , we only get to choose between two preselected candidates, both in the same pocket. This is why nothing changes or gets done.
I think that politicians that rise to the top get co-opted by special interests regardless of party.
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As a woman, this crap on X is embarrassing. This just plays into the idea that women can’t think and will vote for any woman no matter what, I hate that idea. This is why assholes on the right claim women shouldn’t vote, that women can’t think and only care about emotions and “feeelz” rather than logic. I hate the idea that women are more emotional and irrational than men and that it’s a good thing, I try to be rational and supposedly that’s “thinking like a man” 😑
That’s the story of my life, too. We are supposed to be tender flowers, falling apart at the first sign of scrutiny that any politician expects as a matter of course. Politicians’ sex scandals have always been fair play. So to claim that Kamala’s sex life being laughed at is somehow exceptional and sexist is ludicrous.
I think why people keep bringing up Kamala’s affair with Willie Brown is because it’s juicy gossip, plus political mistresses usually don’t become vice presidents. But seriously, that was a long time ago and she’s married now with stepkids, that affair isn’t relevant anymore. It’s the idea that female politicians or any woman in a high-powered profession is supposed to be chaste and asexual, not a mistress or remotely sexual.
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It’s still funny, though. She was young and beautiful when she farmed herself out to a hideous, old married dude to further her career. It’s also really funny how many sources were scrubbed to pretend that Brown’s wife was OK with it all when the scenes with their sex trio were notorious.
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How is that funny though? And how do you know she wasn’t attracted to him, a charismatic older man (he wasn’t 90 back then!). He was long separated. What sex trio?
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I’ve spent my youth listening to eager Russian young ladies on TV explaining that it’s not prostitution to sleep with old, skuzzy oligarchs. “Why is it so hard to understand that we are attracted to the personal qualities that helped them make all the money?” they chirped excitedly.
I’ve had my fill of these inanities, so I’ll pass.
It wasn’t even a secret affair, they were in a relationship. To these prudes, that’s the scandal. From AP:
THE FACTS: This is missing some important context. Brown was separated from his wife during the relationship, which was not a secret.
Brown, 90, is a former mayor of San Francisco who was serving as speaker of the California State Assembly in the 1990s when he and Harris were in a relationship. Brown had separated from his wife in 1982.
Sybil
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I’ve heard from people who were present about a scandal that Brown’s wife threw when she saw Kamala hovering around her husband.
It doesn’t matter, though. The issue is that Brown appointed her to very cushy jobs while sleeping with her. Let’s agree that this is clearly corruption.
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I don’t agree that it’s corruption because I don’t know that. Do powerful men give women they date jobs, women who are just “servicing” them, women they are having extramarital affairs with, as many allege, as a rule? I don’t think so, why would they? Or do friends help friends get jobs? She was ambitious (as they all are) and traveled in those circles, meanwhile she dated some guys. Whoop dee doo. I see zero “scandals”.
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OK, so the Dean at my school is choosing an Associate Dean out of 25 applicants. He gives the job to the candidate he’s sleeping with. That would not be corruption, in your opinion?
Seriously, people never quit delivering.
This is a hypothetical example, by the way. My Dean, with all his faults, would never do something this hideously corrupt.
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“He gives the job to the candidate he’s sleeping with. That would not be corruption, in your opinion?”
Yes it would be, but Brown didn’t give her a job. She was elected to those positions.
Again from AP:
He wrote that he supported Harris’ first race to be San Francisco district attorney — just as he has supported a long list of other California politicians, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Keep lying you fucking dunce. She owes her entire political existence to that fact that she was having sex with him. He gave her plum assignments and introduced her to the powerbrokers in CA politics. That’s how she got her start.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-29-mn-2787-story.html
Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, continuing his rush to hand out patronage jobs while he retains his powerful post, has given high-paying appointments to his former law associate and a former Alameda County prosecutor who is Brown’s frequent companion. Brown, exercising his power even as his speakership seems near an end, named attorney Kamala Harris to the California Medical Assistance Commission, a job that pays $72,000 a year. Harris, a former deputy district attorney in Alameda County, was described by several people at the Capitol as Brown’s girlfriend.
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Harris accepted the appointment last week after serving six months as Brown’s appointee to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, which pays $97,088 a year.
“Keep lying you fucking dunce.” no need to get all hysterical. Those were not the appointments we were discussing. Trump put his entire family in the white house it’s normal. Maybe Brown thought she was talented? So you are saying from that point on every election, for DA, AG and Senator, was a slam dunk? I don’t think it’s that easy. I know people who got jobs in the entertainment business that way, and they all eventually faded into obscurity. You think you could handle the job of DA? Or AG of California- all it takes is a talent for giving blow jobs?
I hope we eventually get around to discussing how she had one job as VP – to secure the border- and she did absolutely nothing. Unfortunately conservatives love discussing salacious details about women’s completely normal sex lives, or lack of them, in order to judge and degrade women. It’s crude and distasteful, in fact I feel that way about all the sex scandals (also I don’t think it was always like this- I think the Republicans started that in the 90s with the Ken Starr investigations. They also started the trend of calling their enemies nazis- of course aimed at women “feminazis”)
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In today’s money, 72K + 97K is 360K.
As a state employee, I’m legally barred from accepting a $15 gift card from a local vendor who’s hoping to win a contract with my university. Also, the only thing I’m allowed to eat at events in town that I attend as a professor have to fit on one of those little cocktail sticks. It’s literally illegal for me to eat something that fits on a saucer instead of a stick.
I find it extraordinary that people would claim it’s perfectly fine to throw around high-paying government jobs to mistresses when the reality is that there’s a million regulations on the conduct of state employees. And for a good reason.
I want to add that I grew up in the midst of the most disgusting corruption. The USSR was extremely corrupt on all levels. So it hurts my feelings when people suggest that it’s OK for America to become a corrupt cesspool where women need to sleep with well-connected older men to get good jobs.
People simply have no idea how lucky they are to live in a society where this is not the norm. I have achieved everything I wanted professionally in the US and never has anybody even breathed anything untoward in my direction. That’s how it should be. We should preserve this for the next generations. It’s an enormous civilizational achievement, so let’s not devalue it to make some unnecessary partisan point.
Okay keep calling women dumb whores this is all very boring. It will continue to be a turnoff and lose conservatives votes, and I will continue to maintain it’s as deranged as the “mediocre white men” rhetoric on the left. The two sides in American politics are like mirror images of each other. It’s a waste of time to discuss.
Just checked twitter and we are on to she drinks and is mean to her staff. i.e. she a bitch and a wine aunt. Not one single word about the border, which in my opinion should be the main topic of discussion.
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The border is an uncomfortable subject since nobody has the slightest intention to do anything about it.
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