On Tuesday Night of April seventeenth of this year, seventeen year old Damien Hocker was run over while crossing the intersection of Fairview and Macdade in Ridley.
While shopping in Swarthmore, we saw this petition for pedestriansafety , with Damien’s photo. This has been organized by his father, Doug Hocker. They are requesting the following changes; creation of footbridges at two intersections on Macdade, more pedestrian crosswalks, “Enforce existing laws for both drivers and pedestrians “, and the banning of drivers using cellphones, among others. This should be seen as the beginning of the discussion.
In Philadelphia this year there were 65 total traffic deaths, 30 of them pedestrians, as per the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, and these fatalities led to their petition demanding concrete barriers, which over 5,000 people have signed.. Other demands include replacing “no parking” signage with “no stopping” signs, etc.
The next change.org petition originates in Newark, Delaware, where we now visit two of our longtime movement friends. This is also the home of the University of Delaware where Noellia Gomez, an 18- year old freshman, was recently killed by a speeding motorcyclist. This petition — Ensuring Pedestrian Safety for University of Delaware — requests improvement of the bus service and visibility of the traffic lights, etc.
Pennsylvania is the 35th listed state for pedestrian safet while Philadelphia is listed as number 6.
This is a problem but we need to consider how we try and make the streets safer for pedestrians, while not unduly burdening drivers of all vehicles. We have to also consider how much of this is the personal responsibilities of both drivers and pedestrians, i.e. driving and walking while aware and sober. We also have to decide how much is required of government and vehicle makers.
It’s also mentioned, in this article, that “Pedestrian deaths rose a staggering 77% between 2010 and 2022, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data, while all other traffic fatalities increased just 22%.”
Dating myself, as Sargeant Phil Esterhaus used to say in “Hill Street Blues”., “Be careful out there”.
Viewers who tuned in to the highly anticipated Donald J. Trump versus Vice President Kamala Harris debate were, regardless of their favorite candidate, disappointed. Harris’ supporters wished that she had taken the opportunity to clear up why she has U-turned on so many issues like fracking, the border wall, universal health care, and her mandatory gun buy-back program. The pro-Harris contingent would also like to have seen their preferred presidential choice face the tough questions more forthrightly rather than bob and weave, a show of weakness when what’s required of a president is strength.
ABC Co-host David Muir posed the first question to Harris: “…are you better off than you were four years ago? When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?” Harris completely dodged the question and instead launched into a long non-response that included references to her middle-class upbringing, her plan for an “opportunity economy,” and her “love for small businesses.” Such an abstract reply that evaded the question entirely converted no on-the-fence voters.
The pro-Trumpers hoped that the former president would have consistently reverted to Americans’ top two concerns, and the issues that polls show him leading Harris comfortably. Among probable voters who said jobs and the economy were “very important” issues, 86 percent said they planned to vote for Trump, compared to 64 percent who said they intend to vote for Harris, an Economist/YouGov poll taken Aug. 25-27 found. Trump had an even more substantial lead on immigration. Trump led Harris by fifty-one points among adults who said immigration was “very important” in the same Economist/YouGov poll, with 83 percent saying they planned to back Trump compared to just 32 percent who said they will vote for Harris.
Instead of hammering Harris with hard data about his strengths, Trump got suckered into silly back and forth squabbling about whose campaign events drew larger audiences or defending his J6 behavior. A survey that Pew Research conducted found that J6 does not appear in any of Americans top sixteen concerns. The same poll showed that probable voters felt that the GOP was more likely to resolve what they considered “very big problems” like inflation, illegal immigration, international terrorism, and violent crime. Moderators Muir and Linsey Davis asked only a handful of immigration-related questions. In all, slightly more than five minutes was spent discussing immigration even though it worsens a host of serious problems like a weak economy, education, housing, and crime.
Trump failed to bring the economy back into his spotlight even though the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports provide him with ample fodder. Measuring average hourly earnings from February of the first year of each presidency through July of their fourth year, specifically wage gains for production and non-supervisory workers, Trump’s gains were 6.54%; Biden-Harris gains, 0.00%. What’s more, immigration-driven population growth has displaced American workers or helped prevent recent college graduates from entering the work force. Foreign-born workers as a percentage of all employment under Trump, 17.4%; under Biden-Harris, 19.6%. Under Trump, foreign-born employment growth increased 7.5%; under Biden-Harris, 14.2%. Another voters’ worry: inflation. Cumulative inflation during Trump’s administration, 5.9%; in the Biden-Harris White House, 19%.
Harris exceeded her low expectations, and Trump missed several opportunities to put distance between him and his rival. Having to debate not only Harris but the meddlesome moderators Muir and Davis, Trump had to deal with three rivals at once. Muir and Davis continuously “fact checked” Trump but let Harris’ misstatements stand, unchallenged. Trump, who won the pre-debate coin flip, chose to deliver the last words. He asked why Harris, during her 3-1/2 years in the White House, had not accomplished “all the wonderful” things she promised to do during the debate. Harris could, Trump noted, proceed directly back to the White House and “do the things you [said] want to do.”
When the debate ended, Harris’ team emailed the Trump camp to ask for a second debate. Trump waffled, claimed that he won the Philadelphia face off, and said “Let’s see what happens.” The Vice-Presidential candidates Tim Walz and J.D. Vance will face off on October 1.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
“Trump is going to make a series of announcements about other Democrats who joining his campaign. I want to make America healthy again, and so does President Trump,” said Bobby in a Fox News interview.
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, added The Unity Party plan “to defeat the Democratic Oligarchs is underway”.
In 2020, there were a number of Democrats who endorsed then candidate Trump. We expect more to join this time.
So far Democrats endorsing The Donald include Rod Blagojevich, Rubin Diaz, Sr., Tulsi Gabbard, Kwame Kilpatrick and Andrew Stein.
We should also include Joe Exotic aka The Tiger King.
Another testimonial comes from Andrea Peyser who says “ I’m a pro-choice, anti-gun, gay-marriage-friendly Democrat. And I’m voting for Donald Trump.”
She says Trump has signaled a moderate approach to the social issues.
“I ardently believe the government has no business butting into, including going against traditional Republican opposition to same-sex marriage,” she says.
Turning to Wikipedia, you enter the phrase “Republicans who oppose Donald Trump, there’s a list of approximately 28 pages. Asking for pro-Trump Democrats, brings less than half the number.
We couldn’t find any similar listing that included the name Kamala Harris. Does this mean anything?
Lastly, let’s turn to Jared Golden of Maine. After the attempted assassination of Trump in July, he wrote on X “It should not be misleadingly portrayed as a struggle between democracy or authoritarianism, or a battle against fascists or socialists bent on destroying America. These are dangerous lies.”
Forward Party Moves Forward to the Ballot In Pennsylvania
By Bob Small
The Forward Party was founded on Oct. 5, 2021, by former Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang. The current co-chairs are former NJ Gov. Christie Todd Whitman and Penthera CEO Michael S. Wilner.
Additionally, in some way there are members of the Forward Party who are, for want of a better phrase, bi-party.
Philadelphia City Commissioner Seth Bluestein and Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala now consider themselves “Forward Republicans”. Meanwhile Pennsylvania state senators Lisa Boscola and Anthony H. Williams are “Forward Democrats.
How this works out in Caucuses and Primaries has yet to be worked out.
The two 2024 Pennsylvania Forward Party candidates are Attorney General candidate Eric Settle (Montco) and Treasurer Candidate Chris Foster (Pittsburgh).
Settle was Deputy General Counsel to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, and has a lengthy job history. Foster is a graduate of Emporia State University in Kansas and has spent two decades in health care settings.
Because challenges are still going on for other alternative parties, the candidate listing is not yet finalized.
The Forward Party battleground state strategy is listed here.
This is not related to The Forward (forverts) What happened to The Forward?, founded in 1897 as a Yiddish language daily socialist newspaper, still active online, unlike many socialist papers I used to read.
Lastly, why couldn’t we create a Common Sense Party in Pennsylvania? Because this is Pennsylvania and we don’t have any…
BLS Admits Jobs Overstated, Gives Phony Boost to Bidenomics
By Joe Guzzardi
The Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered an unpleasant Labor Day surprise earlier this year when it confirmed that it overstated the jobs created total from March 2023 to March 2024 by at least 818,000. The gross miscalculation, the largest in 15 years, makes President Joe Biden look foolish. Biden frequently but falsely proclaims that the U.S. has the world’s strongest economy, that he has created 15 million jobs, 800,000 manufacturing jobs which, he insists, proves that Bidenomics is a rip-roaring success. The adjustment brings the total employment growth for the 12-month period, not including farm jobs, from 2.9 million to about 2.1 million, knocking average monthly growth during that time from about 242,000 to about 174,000. To determine the new estimates, the government relied on the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), which tracks employment and wages that employers report and covers more than 95% of all U.S. jobs.
BLS and its dozens of economists inflating the aggregate jobs total by 818,000 is an error akin to a field goal specialist lining up for a five-yard boot but kicking the football fifty yards to the right of the goal post. Economists that work on the monthly reports have one job—to accurately count and report the number of jobs created. But if the numbers crunchers’ assignment was to purposefully put the most positive spin on the data to deceive Americans, specifically likely voters, and to give the Biden administration cooked reports to boast about, then everything becomes clear. BLS’ reports are a valuable information source that voters and analysts use to gauge the economy’s health. If they are patently dishonest, then Americans are right to question what other official documents are also purposely fabricated. Even Fed Chairman Jay Powell is suspicious. In June, when the government reported May’s unlikely job creation total of 272,000, Powell said, “they may be a bit overstated.”
Skeptics but realists at Zero Hedge noted that beginning during the summer of 2022, BLS, in its determination to show job growth regardless of the quality of those jobs, started to tinker with the labor market’s make up. ZH found that month-to-month gains were going to low-paid, part-time workers while the number of full-time workers declined or remained flat. Detailed data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services suggests that non-farm payroll growth to date for FY24—which started 1 October 2023—comes from illegal aliens who have received an Employment Authorization Documents, EADs, granted via parole.
The usual pro-growth suspects shrugged off this year’s downward adjustment. Yardeni Research founder and Yale University Ph.D. Ed Yardeni wrote that, “We’re not sweating this report.” Yardeni called the revision “old news” because it tracked employment data from months ago. Goldman Sachs economist Ronnie Walker labeled the revision “erroneous” and “misleading” because it excludes many of the jobs that illegal immigrants hold, a group that he noted contributes significantly to job growth. Walker understated illegal immigrants’ participation in the labor market. Since about 2019, native-born Americans have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period foreign-born workers have gained three million jobs. That is more than a significant contribution, the words Walker used. Instead, it’s a complete displacement of American workers.
Goldman Sachs advocates for more immigration and more non-immigrant visas like the H-1B visa, even if higher immigration levels deny U.S. workers an opportunity to get jobs in a tight economy. A Partnership for Public Service poll sampling of U.S. adults this spring found just 23% trust the government, compared to 35% in 2022. The results show more Americans consider the federal government to be incompetent, and just 15% believe it to be transparent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is both incompetent and non-transparent.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
Unassimilated Immigrants Fill Delco Apartment Buildings
By Sharon Devaney
Aston is green lighting the construction of apartments in a crowded section of the township, and apartment complexes, generally unattractive ones, are popping up at an accelerated rate throughout Delaware County, PA.
Whoever can be moving into this places?
Let me tell you hat happened to me at the Waterford Apartments in Havertown about nine years ago.
When I moved in, the apartment complex was well kept and clean. The grounds were beautiful and the staff was wonderful and friendly. If I needed something fixed the response was quick. It was a child and pet friendly enviroment. The neighbors were wonderful and friendly. When I renewed my lease within the year I started having some issues with other renters which I didnt experience before.
Then trash started appearing on the grounds. These included soiled diapers. The trash cans througout the grounds were ignored. Darby Creek in the back suddenly had trash floating in it.
The new residents could not speak English. Once upon coming home I saw a toddler’s head pushed outside a screen in a window on a second floor apartment. I had to run to the office to report it to the manager because there was no parent near the baby to help him.
Another very terrifying experience was with the new neighbors across the hall. They prayed in the hall outside my door and asked me in broken English why I wasnt wearing a hijab.
“Why would I?” I asked. “I’m Catholic.”
“You need to respect us,” they demanded.
I also had a small dog and they said they did not like animals. Herbie, my dog, was also apparently a sign of disrespect.
The men shouted constantly at their wives and disrespected them in front of others. On trips to the market, it was the wives who carried in the groceries despite the presence of empty-handed men.
I started making sure I left lights on at night and made sure my daughter was never alone.
These immigrants, I learned, received subsidized rent and health insurance, along with EBT cards.
I was a single mom with two kids. I worked full time. No subsidies for me.
The new immigrants did not assimilate and conditions worsened.
I chose not to renew my lease after an accident in 2017 left me permanently handicapped. The accident occurred a short distance from the apartments and the driver at fault was an illegal immigrant from Trinidad.
Still no subsidies, by they way, and I still work full time.
A society is required to have values and impose them. One of the values treasured in America is that one may not fight about theology. Another is that the rule of law applies equally to all. The illegal who crippled me was never prosecuted, I’ll note.
I used to wonder why our government subsidized illegals and gave them privileges unavailable to the native born.
Today’s news includes a report that an armed gang of illegals from Venezuela took over an apartment complex in Aurora, Col.
It appears that a group of sick but powerful people are importing their own army.
Harry Truman, former US President, had a sign on his desk saying “The Buck Stops Here”. Evidently, Kamala Harris never heard of that sign, or of that concept, involving her fellow democrat, as the following case will show.
Jamal Trulove, an emerging movie and tv entertainer, was convicted in October 2010, of a murder he did not commit. To be clear, Kamala, though the San Francisco District Attorney at the time, did not prosecute the case directly, but oversaw the case and was in the courtroom frequently.
Frequently enough to be aware that the conviction was based almost solely on the single testimony of one Priscilla Lualemaga.
Trulove appealed his 50-year to life sentence, and in 2014, his conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeals, citing “highly prejudicial prosecutorial misconduct” by Harris’ office, including falsely and improperly inflating the personal danger Lualemaga had been in.”
Trulove was acquitted at his retrial in 2015. Linda Allen, a prosecuting attorney in the case, was later fired. Oh, and Trulove was awarded $13 million and change for his unlawful incarceration. Harris, btw, has never publicly commented on the case.
In 2020 he voted the Democratic ticket. He stated that “The people that I work with in Hollywood, they’re all on the left,” he added. “I really had no other choice.” .
He explained his switch to Trump thusly “When we look at what our life was like when Trump was in office we felt like life was good compared to right now,” “We wasn’t in no wars, right now we’re in wars. Illegals wasn’t coming in, but they’re coming in now.”
“Before he was acquitted, Trulove spent years in maximum security prisons, where he was stabbed “ Kamala Harris didn’t frame and prosecute a man for murder is technically a true statement, as it was done by her office, not her personally.
We do know three facts from this case;
The murderer of Seu Kuku has never been caught,
Jamal Trulove was falsely imprisoned.and may never have the career he should have had
In any political campaign, possibly starting at class president, it’s easier and more profitable to go negative on the other candidate than to tell the truth about yourself. Most of the TV/Radio ads on the airwaves are negative this year.
There’s a new Republicans for Harris ad which features such stalwarts as Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (formerly of the House Freedom Caucus) who calls Trump an “inveterate liar” and a “conspiracy theorist”.
Locally, Matthew McCaffrey, Upper Merion GOP leader, is now the ex- GOP leader, for his endorsement of Kamala Harris in a July op-ed. The Montco County GOP Chair Christian Nascimento said “Our bylaws are pretty clear that if you want to serve as a committee person in the party then you support the endorsed ticket”.
A number of Republicans including former Rep Adam Kinzinger who opined that “Donald Trump has suffocated the soul of the Republican Party.”
However current Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark) criticized these speakers as suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” on NBC’s This Week. He continued “The Democratic Party under Kamala Harris has gone so far to the left that you actually had a Kennedy endorse a Republican.”
Of course, they’re reaching out to some of the former President’s critics though to no real effect as of yet. There are implications that they are planning events in Pennsylvania this September.
Lastly, where did this RFH campaign come from? “Speedily and bluntly put, Republicans for Harris is to 2024 what the Lincoln Project was to 2020:” This article goes on to mention that one Amy Cookson, a Harris staffer, is one of the main contacts for Republicans for Harris. One should read the whole article from westernjournal.com.
Wallingford Swarthmore Superintendent Is Gone, Gone, Gone
By Bob Small
One of the five demands at a contentious Wallingford Swarthmore School Board meeting was an independent review of Superintendent Wagner Marseille.
It was announced, Aug. 16, “the Board and Marseille . . . have mutually agreed to pursue an amicable conclusion to Dr. Marseille’s service as district superintendent”.
A special meeting was held Aug. 22 to vote on the terms of the separation agreement.
Jim Scanlon, a former West Chester superintendent, is expected to be voted in as the interim superintendent.
As noted in previous articles, parents accused Dr. Marseille of alienating staff members with his high- handed approach, and questionable spending decisions, such as hiring more administrators in lieu of staff, teachers, and repairs on the physical plant.
In the article in the Glenside local, we had some of Dr. Marseille’s backstory. He was a former track star who represented Haiti in the 1996 Olympics. He is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson where he was a Division 1 All-American.
He served at Cheltenham schools from 2015 to 2021. He received the annual President’s Award from the Cheltenham area NAACP Branch in 2012. He is enshrined in Princeton High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
Possibly a more diverse school board, including both academics and business people (with a history of hiring employees) could learn from each other and might provide a better model than the all-academic current board.
Just sayin.’
Today, the Swarthmorean newspaper returned from vacation (probably down the shore) and had an article which mentioned that, in his first seven months “he paid more than $70,000 for consultants and audits”. It also noted the recent resignations of Strath Haven Principal Greg Hilden; Wallingford Elementary School Principal Gabe Savage; and Assistant Superintendent James Conley.”
Nothing good would come from a Kamala Harris presidency, but endless bad things would come from one. It was reported the week before last that Harris’ campaign website had no economic plan on it. But everyone is supposed to cut Harris some slack, right? She was only just crowned after no real Democratic process.
Harris then said a plan was coming the next week, with a focus on the economy, as was a press conference at some point before the end of August — she needs the time to learn new words, as a talking head noted.
But as of August 18, still no plans — of any kind — on kamalaharris.com, but the requests for money were front and center on the website, along with the false claim that this is the team to “save democracy.” But why bother talking about pesky plans? As one Democrat operative said, “Why would we start talking about policy? We’re actually better off just running on this real wave of enthusiasm and energy.”
Harris did, however, start talking about old ideas that have failed on multiple occasions in her first policy-focused speech of her ever-so-brief campaign for the presidency last Friday. While most people would understand that socialist ideas which have been tried and failed are ideas never to be trotted out again, Kamala and today’s Democrats don’t. There is a School of non-Thought among the Democrat party today that socialist ideas will be different when they implement them.
A brief segue here … Every time I say or write “Democrat party,” I cringe. Today’s iteration of the Democrat party is so far removed from anything remotely connected to democracy. Thus, it’s truly Orwellian to refer to it as the Democrat party. So henceforth, I shall refer to it as the American Progressive Socialist Party (APSP), formerly known as the Democrat Party.
Le Economic Plan
On Friday in North Carolina, Harris’ “big economic idea” included a federal ban on “corporate price gouging” on groceries. “We will help the food industry become more competitive,” Harris said as she proposed price controls. Her research team should have told her that grocers operate on some of the thinnest margins of any industry. They should also have told her that most Americans today don’t believe the government can do anything efficiently. “Ms. Harris, we think you may lose credibility if you tell Americans that you will tell the food industry how to be more competitive. In fact, your proposal is likely to be compared to failed countries, such as Venezuela.”
The history of price controls is a history of failure, including Nixon’s. As revisited in a 2011 commentary in the Cato Institute, writer Gene Healy refers to the prediction of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, noting:
“Nixon’s gambit ended ‘in utter failure and the emergence into the open of the suppressed inflation.’ The people would pay the price — but not until after he’d coasted to a landslide re-election in 1972 over Democratic Sen. George McGovern.
“By the time Nixon reimposed a temporary freeze in June 1973, Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw explain in The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, it was obvious that price controls didn’t work: ‘Ranchers stopped shipping their cattle to the market, farmers drowned their chickens, and consumers emptied the shelves of supermarkets.’”
When articulating her economic plan, such that it was, at least Harris did not resurrect her use of the term, “The Plan,” with a French accent, when she tried to explain it. See Harris’ brilliant elocution on a trip to France in 2021 here, where she said, “In government, we campaign with ‘The Plan.’ Uppercase T, uppercase P — The Plan!”
Not surprisingly, her economic plan involves spending a lot of money — $40 billion assisting local government in seeking solutions to housing scarcity and $25,000 per person to provide down-payment assistance for homebuyers. Not inexpensive programs. How will she pay for them?
Kamala’s answer was one of her usual word salads, a non-answer that ended with the statement that the programs would pay for themselves in some nebulous way. The best summary of how her spending would be paid for may have come from Insurrection Barbie in this short clip here, which involves leprechauns.
And the best summary of Kamala’s understanding of economics may be this reader comment in response to the RealClear Politics article, “Kamala Harris Outlines ‘Opportunity Economy’ Agenda: ‘More than 100 Million Americans will get a Tax Cut.” DNC Political Prisoner writes:
“… Harris is an economic illiterate that doesn’t even have a grasp of high school freshman economics. Like all Communists before her, she draws her economic policy from the emotions of the Communist manifesto instead of the laws of economics.”
Harris, part of the Biden-Harris crime syndicate, now in its fourth year of operations, has made the point publicly that she was the last person in the room with Biden when big decisions were being made. Together, they printed a lot of money, which is inflationary.
Some insight into inflation from X posts:
“With nearly four years under Biden-Harris ‘rule,’ inflation reached a peak of 9.6 percent in June 2022. Looking at specific categories after one year under Biden-Harris, there were shocking jumps. In December 2021, bacon was up 20 percent; beef, 24 percent; eggs, 12 percent; gasoline, 51 percent and natural gas, 28 percent.
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“The rise in prices (inflation) is caused by government overspending, which increases the amount of money faster than the increase in goods & services output. That is the vast majority of the problem. Inflation was particularly bad during the Covid years, as there was massive government spending, despite productivity plunging, as people were forced to stay home. This is further exacerbated by excess regulation, which prevents the market from solving an unmet need (e.g., housing in high-demand areas). Occasionally, there is monopolistic behavior by companies, but this is relatively rare and usually only possible if those companies have gained control of their industry regulator. Again, a government, not private sector, problem.”
Then this, which is a tweet of Elon Musk from 16 Aug. 2024
“Inflation is caused by the federal government spending more than it earns, because they just print more money to make up the difference. To solve inflation, reduce wasteful government spending. Your tax dollars should be spent well, not poorly.”
Now we’re hearing “good news” on inflation supposedly dropping, but that doesn’t seem to be matching people’s realties.
Here’s one more on inflation and Kamala’s response:
An opinion piece by E.J. Antoni on FOX, “Kamala Harris’ economically illiterate agenda will just tank Americans’ finances even more,” opened with this zinger:
“If you’d been robbed by a person, you’d be insane to have that same individual investigate the crime. That’s essentially the situation with Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan to reduce the very inflation she helped cause. Like a burglar who won’t admit to the robbery, Harris is casting blame elsewhere and proposing an economically illiterate agenda that would only worsen Americans’ finances.”
Harris: The Thief
At a campaign rally in June in Las Vegas, President Donald Trump promised “no taxes on tips,” a bold idea. Reportedly this would impact 6 million workers.
Continuing the robbery theme of the Biden-Harris regime, Harris in early August announcedher no taxes on tips plan — a direct theft of Trump’s idea. Harris does not even have the political grace to give Trump credit. She could have said, “There is one thing I agree with Trump on.”
Harris is the mid-level manager who steals the fantastic idea from an “underling,” promotes it as her own to upper management, gets the promotion and has the lower-level employee fired.
There’s no way around the obvious reality of who Harris has shown herself to be through the years. She is a dolt. The three-month campaign is a con job — a faux campaign — with an anointed empty vessel, ready to be filled with whatever her puppet masters pour in to her to meet their agendas. Her flip-flopping on so many issues (fracking, policing, etc.) indicates she believes in nothing, but will say whatever seems the political flavor of the day. If there’s anything authentic about her, it doesn’t come across to the public.
Senator Harris
As a U.S. senator, Sen. Harris was a one-trick pony. Her “prosecutorial” background had given her one skill: grilling people to well-done. Often with bogus lines of inquiry. Often with a high level of disrespect. Often with her demanding, “Yes” or “No.” A few examples are here, here, here, here, here and here.
And we learned she can’t conjugate verbs properly. “The truth and the fact is …” And we got a taste of one of her favorite lines, “I’m speaking.” Here with Mike Pence.
AG Harris
As attorney general for the State of California, Harris’ bad policies and inability to think through implications have had real and painful implications for real people, a result she neither seems to care about nor own. A particularly horrifying law she advocated was penalizing parents for children’s school truancy. Newsweek detailed the horrors of Harris’ overreach of using the law enacted in 2011 to punish parents.
Harris also served as AG when Prop. 47 was introduced, which helped launch a crime wave in California by classifying theft of items priced below $950 as a misdemeanor, including for multiple offenses. As well, previous offenses categorized as felonies were reduced to misdemeanors. This included numerous drug possession offenses.
An informative piece on Substack by Sasha Stone, “Adopting Positions from Her Rivals is a Signature Move for Kamala Harris,” which provides tremendous insight into Harris’ career, also included a good discussion with Steve Cooley, the L.A. County DA from 2002 to 2012, who ran against Harris for the California AG position. Despite overwhelming endorsements from law enforcement and media, Cooley lost in a close race, 46.1 percent to 45.3 percent. We might have had an entirely different political landscape today if Cooley had won. That may have been Harris’ second big break, with the first one being her “special relationship” with one of the Democrat’s former powerhouses, Willie Brown, a relationship which resulted in several well-paying positions which launched her career.
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The list of Kamala’s failings is much longer (would easily be a 25,000-word article), but any one of the above failings should be enough to never put this person back into any elected office. But perhaps the most obvious disqualifier for sending Harris to the White House is four years of lies. There’s really only one role for the VP of the United States and that is to step in for the president if needed. While most of us saw that Joe Biden was mentally and physically incapacitated, Harris assured us for nearly four years that he was fit as a fiddle, rather than doing her duty to invoke the 25th amendment to remove Biden from office.
Had that been done in a timely manner — most certainly after the Afghanistan debacle — there would have been more than adequate time to conduct a legitimate Democrat primary versus the coup the country just experienced.
In a normal world, one where people weren’t suffering from full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome, a world where people voted in their best interests and used critical thinking, the Harris-Walz duo, along with other Democrats running for office, would be blown out of the water as criminal operatives of a criminal organization. Those with the ability to think and work through problems will not vote for the Harris-Walz pair. But there remain those who have financial interests in continuing to vote APSP — teachers’ unions, the APSP ruling elite, minions the APSP convinces and general hangers-on, toadies and sycophants — and will vote for Hollow Woman and Tampon Tim, no matter how poor their political career histories are.
Yes, in a functioning world, the 2024 election would be Mondale-Ferraro redux, the election where Reagan-Bush had 525 electoral votes to Mondale-Ferraro’s 13, with the popular vote, 54,455,472 to37,577,352, or 58.8 percent vs. 40.6 percent. (Interesting the year was 1984, but our 1984 closer to Orwell’s arrived in 2020.)
Americans hopefully will pull back their veils and see what lies have rolled out at this week’s Democrat National Convention. After a few weeks of Kamala 24/7 — the more you learn about her, the more you dislike her — I am more than done with her and have not watched this week’s farce & folly show. Hopefully the majority of voters will just say #NeverKamala, with the Harris-Walz pairing going the way of Clinton-Kaine — two politicos and two Timmys to be forgotten as soon as possible.
Maria Fotopoulos writes about the connection between overpopulation and biodiversity loss, and from time to time other topics that confound her. On FB @BetheChangeforAnimals and givesendgo.com/calliescathouse.
