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There’s probably a former intern at Politico looking for a new job right now as, at some point on Tuesday, Politico’s tracker page for Joe Biden’s running mate selection announced that Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate… on August 1, 2020, four days from now........
scipioafricanus wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:44 am
Guess Joe isn't racist anymore?
Kamala's mother was a Tamil Indian. Her father is from Jamaica, and his ancestral family were "free people of color" who owned a sugar plantation & black slaves.
She has a record as a prosecutor of targeting minorities for non-violent drug offences. It is well known that she "serviced" some fairly powerful California politicians to advance her career.
A lot of blacks consider her: "She ain't Black".
I don't really see how she will help Joe much in the voting booth.
"Life is a bitch. Shit happens. Adapt, improvise, and overcome. Acknowledge it, and move on."
She's an awful person with an awful record. In a world with reasonably educated voters she'd be poison.
In 2020? Who knows.
She checks (though not ideally well, because unfortunate facts others have pointed out) lots of diversity boxes. The only people I've even seen demonstrate *enthusiasm* for her are some ambitious and full-of-themselves folks I know who work in Big Tech in the Bay area, apparently the Big Tech crowd thinks she's their guy or something.
So diversity candidate who is reassuring to Big Tech to keep them on the plantation? Plus whoever is pulling Biden's strings probably figure they can control her too, it's not like she lacks for skeletons in the closet.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
Well, if he wants a female VP, she's the one least likely to complain about it when he gets his creepy hand mojo going. To her it would be just business as usual.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
randy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:42 pm
Well, if he wants a female VP, she's the one least likely to complain about it when he gets his creepy hand mojo going. To her it would be just business as usual.
It's well past that point.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr