Election 2024

Shiftless2 said:
"You're assuming ..." #420
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That's the premise.
Shiftless2 said:
that SS will be around by the time those workers retire. Or, if it is, that the benefit will be anywhere near enough to fund their retirement.
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I've long advocated a low impact phase-out of Social Security, essentially privatizing it, BUT !!
removing the Ponzi-scheme component entirely. Basing the security of senior citizens on a pyramid scam is insanity.

As #419 & #420 indicate, exempting tip income from this is not a panacea.
 

Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false claims at news conference​

Former President Donald Trump held a news conference on Thursday in which he continued to be highly dishonest – again making more than 20 false claims, as he also did in his Monday conversation with Elon Musk.

Many of Trump’s inaccurate Thursday claims have been debunked for years. But some of them were relatively new. At one point, he claimed ....

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Perhaps the most astounding aspect of #422 disclosure is that it is not newsworthy.
Shiftless2 said:

Trump makes more than 20 false claims #422​

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Not merely sad, but potentially extremely tragic:
the more noteworthy headline would be if Trump's news conference was both protracted, and entirely honest and forthcoming.

note:
The Democrat convention starts next week. VP Harris rumored to be their presidential candidate nominee.
 
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#424
KamBud, you carry that around with you do ya?
Shiftless2 said:
"Epstein" #424
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note:
The following Wiki entry is the largest I've ever seen. A tiny fraction of it is reprised below (More at Wikipedia):

Jeffrey Epstein​

American sex offender and financier (1953–2019)
Jeffrey Epstein

Summary​

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (EP-steen; January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and sex offender. Born and raised in New York City, Epstein began his professional life as a teacher at the Dalton School despite lacking a college degree. After his dismissal from the school in 1976, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles before starting his own firm. Epstein cultivated an elite social circle and procured many women and children whom he and his associates sexually abused.
In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent reported that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. Federal officials identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused. Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a controversial plea deal, and served almost 13 months in custody but with extensive work release.
Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019. The medical examiner ruled that his death was a suicide by hanging.
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Kamala Harris is an empty suit who has her handlers worried: Tulsi Gabbard ​

Former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard argues Kamala Harris has a record of hypocrisy on Americas Newsroom.
She memorably took down Kamala Harris in a viral debate exchange in 2019 and now former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been enlisted by former president Trump to give him some valuable insights ahead of his upcoming debates against the 2024 Democratic nominee.
Gabbard, who ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary, has been recruited by Trump to help him sharpen his preparation ahead of the debates, Fox News Digital has learned.
The former congresswoman memorably scorched Harris in a 2019 primary debate where she hammered Harris for jailing hundreds of Californians for marijuana violations while she was attorney general, yet bragged about her own use of the drug.
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Trump recruits Tulsi Gabbard for debate prep after she 'dominated' Harris in 2019 primary

Former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been enlisted by former president Trump to help him prepare for his upcoming debates against Vice President Kamala Harris.
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"Empty Suit" Kamala.
The debate will help answer the critical questions. The Dems. may not like the answers.
VP Harris has not yet been nominated. Not too late, just seems like it.
 
Shiftless2 said:
Don't forget who her opponent in that debate will be.
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Trump will not be soon forgotten. But it's a mistake to base our opinion of Trump's worthiness as a debater on the merit of contempt for him.
Trump is both media s a v v y and a prodigious, compulsive liar. And while that's important, it's not the whole story.
Don't forget the audience. That's basically the same as the polling data indicates, ... neck & neck.

I suspect Kamala will have to be quite lucky to emerge from the debate as popular after it as she was before it. Too many variables to make a sensible prediction.
 
titan said:
270 needed to win, Harris at 272. We'll see.
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Didn't take long for that to change.
Will she maintain her EC lead until election day?

Shiftless2 said:
Jo #433
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Recent Harris sound-bite:

"As attorney general in California I went after companies that illegally increased prices.
Including wholesalers that inflated the price of prescription medication. ...
So believe me, as president I will go after the bad actors." VP Kamala Harris, Raleigh, NC 24/08/16 / FNS 24/08/18

Superficially this may appeal to the semi-cognitive masses. BUT !
Individuals under stress tend to revert to previous / more familiar forms of behavior.

VP Harris is candidate for president of the United States, not U.S. attorney general.

Harris appears to threaten Nixonomics 2.0

Either her campaign team isn't bright enough to know this, - OR -
rightly or wrongly they feel so desperate they're willing to take the gamble.

Doesn't look good.
 
Shiftless2 said:
Cult members #435
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A "cult of personality"? Not clear to me what principle/s MAGA would claim. Anti-integrity? Treachery? Anti-law? What U.S. presidential candidate has been a more convicted criminal than Trump?

cult (kŭlt)
n.
1.
a. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
b. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5.
a. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
b. The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
[Latin cultus, worship, from past participle of colere, to cultivate; see kwel-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
cultic, cultish adj.
cultism n.
cultist n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

non compos mentis​

The Latin non compos mentis translates as “not of sound mind.” In the 1928 Hellman Commercial Trust & Savings Bank v. Alden opinion, the Supreme Court of California stated that the term’s legal usage encompassed “all degrees of mental incompetency known to the law” and compared it to the Standard Dictionary definition of an “unsound mind.” In specifying the term’s legal scope, the Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama, in the 1985 Goza v. Goza holding, noted that “[m]ere emotional instability or depression” does not qualify as non compos mentis, and that while the term “does not necessarily denote a total destruction of the intellect, … there must be at least such a severe impairment of the mental faculties as to make the movant incapable of protecting himself or of managing his affairs.” The United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit provided a similar definition in the 1998 Smith-Haynie v. District of Columbia opinion to clarify the term’s meaning, as found in Section 12-302 of the Code of the District of Columbia. The court wrote that the disability of a person claiming to be non compos mentis must be “of such a nature as to show [she] is unable to manage [her] business affairs or estate, or to comprehend [her] legal rights or liabilities.”
www.law.cornell.edu

non compos mentis

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Shiftless2 said:
Cult members #435
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"ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."James Baldwin

Shiftless2 said:
Senator John McCain #437
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I remember that sound-bite.
Assessing statistical impact in populations of many tens of millions, not easy.
Wouldn't surprise me if that McCain sound-bite nudged some fence-sitters into the McCain camp. BUT !
It may also have nudged others away.
So the question is, was that a net gain for McCain or not. Not sure we'll ever know.

McCain might have been an above-average president. BUT !
It seems McCain didn't do too well with delegating tasks, like finding a running-mate.

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