Posted by contrarian23 on 7/25/2024 4:23:00 AM (view original):
Trump is panicking and for good reason. He can't beat Harris on his record (which is abysmal), he can't beat her on the issues (Project 2025 is sinking the GOP faster than anyone could have imagined), he certainly can't beat her on personal character. He and the GOP just wasted a huge chunk of their war chest on Biden research and ads (for which Trump now laughably thinks they should be reimbursed...this guy really is an idiot of the first order).

So what will he and the GOP do? At least 4 things we should be watching for:
-- They will play the race and gender card, sometimes overtly, sometimes surreptitiously
-- They will just make up **** to attack her with (like your 2nd post above this one)

And more importantly:
-- They will use every tactic available to them, including overtly illegal ones, to suppress the vote. Especially in areas populated by people of color.
-- They will use the courts that Trump has rigged, all the way up to the SC, to turn things in their favor.

We should be watching for all four. Trump has already proven he will go to any length to rig an election, or to contest a fair one that did not go his way.

Their 5th tactic will be violence.

Posted by Lennybruce26 on 7/24/2024 4:29:00 PM (view original):
Today Netanyahu was in DC to give a speech to Congess. Many did not show up and there were different reasons.
Kamala did not go and if she did she would have presided over the appearance.
She and Joe will have private talks with Netanyahu tomorrow I think.

There is of course a major political component to this and that is life in the big city.
If she presided over the speech it would look like she was endorsing everything he said. That would not be good.

The Biden administration supported Israel and Netanyahu for a long time in the war but Netanyahu has not been very cooperative. He has publicly snubbed Biden and has yet to cooperate on a day after plan.

Biden and Harris have never said that the war must end. They have sought a day after plan and more care not to kill civilians with cooperation on that end.

I think that Biden has been a very good friend of Israel throughout the war but Netanyahu has completely disregarded United States domestic policy issues and it has seemed to me that he has intentionally made the Biden administration look like they were not helping Israel enough as if he wanted Trump to win. It looked that way to me.

I am a big hawk but even I recognize that the war must wind down and a day after plan is urgently required.
We will see if his meeting ends up helpful or he makes Harris and Joe look bad to those supporting Israel.

There is no doubt in my mind that Netanyahu has put his thumb on USA politics to the benefit of Trump and maybe for Trump. Harris wants to be clearly on the side of Israel but also one that wants the war to soon end regarding strikes into civilian areas.

What happens over the next few days will be interesting.

Posted by Lennybruce26 on 7/27/2024 12:21:00 PM (view original):
Democrats like myself have been saying that MAGA Republicans legislators are a bunch of dishonest anti democracy cheaters who have no regard for truth honesty and the American way. They will cheat with denying old ladies a drink of water, with extreme gerrymandering, trying to rig voting machines, installing voter id laws that old people have trouble complying with because they can’t travel tne long distance of where they have to go, not letting multiple people give their mail in ballot sealed votes to a trusted individual to take to the post office, refusing laws that would add another day to voting day, trying to intimidate voters,calling honest election rigged, trying to throw out honest votes, moving drop boxes to distant places and limiting the number of drop boxes to make mail in voting more difficult to vote and more.

now they claim that they are going to court to stop Kamala Harris from being on the ballot and to force Joe Biden to be running for president again instead on every ballot of every state. And the irony of this infantile attempted cheating is that they insist that Joe Biden has to retire immediately because of mental impairment and he is a danger to national security.

It looks like they want to put Biden back on and then go back to court to say he isn’t fit and must come off and say nobody is on the ballot and the Dems forfeit the election.

UNBELIEVABLE !!!