Questionable Social Media Post on Kamala Harris
Two friends from my youth are interacting on Facebook. One posted the meme at left and the other wrote: So true! Kamala never WON any election and yet, she could be our next President. So sad.
I’m struggling to understand this. Had Trump himself been elected to public office before he ran for president? I thought he was a reality TV show star, the owner of a sham university that was ordered to pay restitution to the thousands of students it had ripped off, and a crooked charity administrator whom the State of New York banned from the non-profit world for his criminality, before he became a presidential candidate.
To have never been voted into public office isn’t unusual; that was the case with Washington, Taylor, Grant, and Eisenhower. These were all military men, but did that make Ike Eisenhower unqualified to be president?
Kamala Harris had zero accomplishments? Wasn’t she a federal prosecutor?
Not sure about the quality of the thinking here, but I suppose I could be missing something important.
Henry Price writes: I don’t get it. I’m a veteran and no one anywhere has ever asked me to apologize for it. Who’s asking? Where? This veteran wants to know!
I can’t comment on the meaning behind Trump’s new outfit, only to say that he has already cultivated 100% of the white supremacist vote, and there is nothing he could possibly do to lose a single ballot from the constituency that could be called “the hateful morons.”
There are many mysteries floating around in American politics surrounding Trump’s popularity. Some people theorize that somehow, Trump has given us permission to be our worst selves, and that this holds an unimaginable amount of appeal to almost exactly half of U.S. voters.
The U.S. election system is far from perfect; in particular, we have voter suppression in addition to a small amount of fraud.
As shown here, it’s impossible to imagine that John Adams would have been a Republican in today’s sense of the word, let alone a Trump supporter.
While no one knows precisely what will happen to public spending if Trump is re-elected, a few things seem clear from what has been said aloud: the termination of the ACA, aka Obamacare, meaning the end of healthcare for people with pre-existing conditions, and a significant level of reduction in Social Security and Medicare.
The millions of people who watched the fourth game of U.S. baseball’s World Series saw this play (below), in which a fan interfered with the play of Los Angeles Dodgers right-fielder Mookie Betts. If you watch the clip, you may agree with me that that was closer to assault than it was to “interference.”
It may be impossible to put the toothpaste back into the tube when it comes to Americans’ sensibilities to non-whites.
