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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 8, 2024 9:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 8, 2024 9:49:24 GMT -5
Is Don the Con panicking? Is he going to throw Vance under the bus?Proposing a new debate? Means he knows he's losing! Trump to hold news conference as Harris gains ground The Cook Political Report has shifted its ratings for three competitive states toward the Democrats: Arizona, Georgia and Nevada are now considered toss-up contests rather than “Lean Republican.” This change puts 77 electoral votes up for grabs in the most competitive battlegrounds, according to their analysis. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/08/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 8, 2024 10:37:49 GMT -5
Clearly Walz is running for Veep only for the money! Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, owns no stocks, bonds or real estate, according to his most recent financial disclosure. Walz’s salary as governor of Minnesota is $127,629. He was eligible for a raise last year to $149,550, but he chose not to accept it, according to the state. If Walz is elected vice president in November, he would make an annual salary of $284,600, based on 2024 rates. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna165737
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Post by WilsonBlvdHoya on Aug 8, 2024 11:02:03 GMT -5
Clearly Walz is running for Veep only for the money! Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, owns no stocks, bonds or real estate, according to his most recent financial disclosure. Walz’s salary as governor of Minnesota is $127,629. He was eligible for a raise last year to $149,550, but he chose not to accept it, according to the state. If Walz is elected vice president in November, he would make an annual salary of $284,600, based on 2024 rates. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna165737Yeah the disclosures are, well, revealing! Vance, for an ex-VC guy--albeit with a short tenure, is relatively dirt-poor. And Kamala is not super-rich (at least by Bay Area standards!!) either. Clearly Doug is the money guy and I don't think his holdings were disclosed in this latest reporting.....
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 8, 2024 12:12:18 GMT -5
Clearly Walz is running for Veep only for the money! Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, owns no stocks, bonds or real estate, according to his most recent financial disclosure. Walz’s salary as governor of Minnesota is $127,629. He was eligible for a raise last year to $149,550, but he chose not to accept it, according to the state. If Walz is elected vice president in November, he would make an annual salary of $284,600, based on 2024 rates. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna165737Yeah the disclosures are, well, revealing! Vance, for an ex-VC guy--albeit with a short tenure, is relatively dirt-poor. And Kamala is not super-rich (at least by Bay Area standards!!) either. Clearly Doug is the money guy and I don't think his holdings were disclosed in this latest reporting..... Reports from the VC world was that Vance sucked at his job. Maybe that’s why he’s not far better off than he is.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 8, 2024 12:31:05 GMT -5
Reports from the VC world was that Vance sucked at his job. Maybe that’s why he’s not far better off than he is. Thiel's lackey. Billionaire investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel played a pivotal role in launching J.D. Vance's venture capital career in 2016. Despite the promising start, Vance's tenure at Mithril was marked by a notable absence. According to former colleagues, Vance rarely, if ever, appeared in the office. One person who worked at Mithril in 2016 told The Wall Street Journal that they never saw Vance at the office during his time there. Another former colleague recalled sporadic sightings of Vance but noted that his focus seemed to be promoting his book rather than engaging in the day-to-day operations of the VC firm. Neither person recalled any noteworthy deals Vance worked on while at Mithril. finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-launched-j-d-131520343.html
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 8, 2024 13:11:24 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 8, 2024 13:54:46 GMT -5
Decompensating. As a competence matter the Demented Donnie campaign can't even provide microphones for the reporters so we can hear the questions.
Fact checking this one will take days.
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 8, 2024 14:22:18 GMT -5
The more he talks, the better it is for Harris. I encourage him to do this more often. He has nothing even approaching a coherent thought when talking about his opponents or policy. His only coherent thoughts are related to crowd size, but he’s obviously lying because we’ve seen the pictures, and it’s also completely meaningless to anyone except him and his cult.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 8, 2024 14:27:57 GMT -5
RFK Jr. and the third-party effect are now hurting Trump Democrats have, until recently, spent much of the 2024 election fretting. And high on the list of reasons was the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who they feared would pull more votes from their side. Today, Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t just risen in the polls; she has shifted that third-party dynamic. She now does better when you include other candidates. And there’s increasing evidence that independent candidate Kennedy, in particular — a candidate once elevated by Donald Trump’s allies when he was challenging President Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries — is pulling significantly more votes from Trump than Harris. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/08/rfk-jr-third-party-effect-are-now-hurting-trump/
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Post by CTHoya08 on Aug 8, 2024 15:30:28 GMT -5
The more he talks, the better it is for Harris. I encourage him to do this more often. He has nothing even approaching a coherent thought when talking about his opponents or policy. His only coherent thoughts are related to crowd size, but he’s obviously lying because we’ve seen the pictures, and it’s also completely meaningless to anyone except him and his cult. Biden was so bad in that debate that it (understandably) deflected attention from how bad Trump was. And I can't imagine that he's going to get better between now and the next one. The juxtaposition between him and Harris--even if she's only hitting singles--is going to be drastic (much as it was, in the other direction, in June).
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 8, 2024 15:53:14 GMT -5
Harris in the debate should have her version of Reagan's "There you go again" phrase ready when Demented Donnie goes to his old and stale playbook of racism, misogyny and lies.
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 8, 2024 18:28:08 GMT -5
RFK Jr. and the third-party effect are now hurting Trump Democrats have, until recently, spent much of the 2024 election fretting. And high on the list of reasons was the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who they feared would pull more votes from their side. Today, Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t just risen in the polls; she has shifted that third-party dynamic. She now does better when you include other candidates. And there’s increasing evidence that independent candidate Kennedy, in particular — a candidate once elevated by Donald Trump’s allies when he was challenging President Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries — is pulling significantly more votes from Trump than Harris. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/08/rfk-jr-third-party-effect-are-now-hurting-trump/I was actually more concerned about Cornel West taking votes away from the Democrats than I was about RFK Jr. That is no longer the case. I fully expect West to just fade into the background at this point.
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