I do not recall Kamala Harris' acceptance speech at the 2020 DNC - but that's mostly because the Democrats didn't gather for a super-spreader event - and, I already knew I was voting straight ticket Democrat. It's worth listening to now.

Last night, she nailed her speech and got so deep under Trump's skin - he later couldn't manage to complete two coherent ranting sentences when he called into Fox Entertainment to blather and moan and complain and lie.

I especially like how she directly quoted her mother - "Never do anything half-assed." - another pointed dig at the GOP. Every time she speaks - she exudes confidence, professionalism, charisma, empathy and competence (without chaos or indecision).

This is the next 2 term president of the USA. Now let's vote for majority Senate and House to complete the trifecta and remove the Mitch McConnell's, Joe Manchins and other troublesome, backwards thinking pieces of shit from congress.

I did nazi this coming, months ago. He's wanting a cabinet level job in a crazy administration to burnish his pedestrian whackjob résumé

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-said-weigh-dropping-191159226.html

(Reuters) -Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering ending his campaign to join forces with Republican rival Donald Trump, Kennedy's running mate said in an interview posted online on Tuesday.

RFK Jr - that trailblazer...that smart third choice...that savvy uniter with the iconic name. Turns out he's been attempting to negotiate his personal endorsement & the votes he thinks he has for a plum cabinet assignment in the Trump or Harris administration.

This is the double-talking, gravelly voiced putz some of you have been clamoring for.

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Please tell me why vegetarians won't eat meat ...but wear leather shoes ,belts, coats and purses. .........It's all a matter of choice...don't you think ....no one is right or wrong . If you don't like whom is running ...don't vote ...let your neighbor decide whom is elected!!🍷

Vegetarians won't eat meat, because the smell of roasted flesh makes them want to puke. Here's an anecdote you may or may not get. A buddy and I used to take lunch at a steakhouse within 2 miles of where we worked. This was more than ten years ago - so you were probably still eating whatever your parents threw in front of you.

He was 30 and I was 45. We both tried choking down the 50 ounce Cowboy Cut Porterhouse with 3 pounds of side dishes - anyone who could do that - got their $60 meal for free. Provided they didn't vomit any part of it out, within 10 minutes of declaring they were done. --- It's a midwestern American thing so it probably won't apply to you.

His Corvette had seats and interior trimmed out in the same glove soft cattle leather that his jacket and mine and his driving gloves were manufactured from - cowhide.

My cowboy boots were made from bird (ostrich) and his sandals were made from pig skin.

I've bought and given as gifts - rabbit fur coats, minx fur coats, chinchilla fur coats. Gave my mother a fox fur stole, 40 years ago at Christmas.

And I am a progressive liberal who grew up to regret many of my past decisions. Maybe someday, you will too. Dasiy

This is a straight question to those who might know.

Do American junior high schools (grades 7 through 8 (or 9 in some instances)) still teach anything about the Civil War or the American Revolutionary war?

Do our public schools still require students to be able to recite the preamble to the constitution?

That used to be set in stone in the 1940s to 1984ish to even pass that American history class or have to take that entire class again, and again, and again...

You could graduate if you hadn't flunked out by 10th grade because of your multitude of other learning issues. Nobody got flunked out of HS because they couldn't recite the first ten amendments of the Constitution and identify them as THE BILL OF RIGHTS - but they might get laughed at by the other kids in class.

Are the 27 amendments to the US Constitution still taught and discussed before our children even enter High School?

Are the Bill of Rights still taught and required (on tests) to be named in detail - for at least 1 week each school year - or are they briefly mentioned and then it's off to discussing Michael Jackson's career or Madonna's marriages and other assorted drivel - in American history classes of today?

I fear America has been so fucking dumbed down - thanks to Ronald Reagan's administration and all the following GOP administrations and congressional approvals (or denials) since 1981... That the majority of our populace really doesn't know jackfuckingshit about our Constitution aside from Amendment #2.

Yanno, he makes a lot of sense. This would be the end result of 40 years of Ronald Reagan GOP dumbfuckification of the Department of Education in America.

Trump threatens to sue the NY Times for their recent story shooting down his claim he was on a helicopter with Willie Brown A LONG TIME ago that had to make a scary emergency landing. The entire reason he exaggerated about that incident (which never happened - according to Willie Brown and according to historical records) - was to further bag on Harris being a DEI opportunist - instead of Trump, who is an opportunistic parasite/predator himself.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/probably-going-sue-trump-threatens-134614251.html

Trump is amongst the worst human beings on this planet who are not locked up with the keys tossed into the nearest river.

Donald Trump is the healthiest 78 year old human being on the planet and a very fast healer. Just ask him. No stitches required, no plastic surgery necessary, and no visual evidence of scarring tissue.

His right ear looks like it did before it got HIT VERY HARD by a bullet fired from an AR long rifle, less than a month ago.

Children of Men - every time I watch it...tears well up in my eyes at three key points in the movie. It's one of the best science fiction movies of the last 20 years. The cast nails their performances. The plot is simple, unique, magnificent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men

It is not a waste of your time, to watch this film.

I love Nicola

I love the old Lush stories

This new site sucks ass

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A few weeks ago I was worried about Trumps use of social media to spread his propaganda, he was on huge podcasts and really diversifying his audience and Biden was just impotence personified but I have to say the Harris campaign online has been nothing short of brilliant. Of course I don’t know sentiment on the street but her use of current pop culture is genius.

In essence, doing a late stage switch is a brilliant tactic because it doesn’t allow the opposition to launch the full scale smear campaign and Kamala Harris is an eloquent and vital speaker with an impressive resume which puts her in a strong position to mobilise late stage voters. I hope it works.

What I enjoyed reading today was how Biden secured the prisoner exchange about an hour before he came on domestic TV and announced he wasn't going to run for the Presidency again and then immediately endorsed his own choice to be his Veep as the next logical candidate to take up the reigns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/01/deal-us-russia-prisoner-swap/

He's old, he's decrepit, he can't debate Trump coherently and scares Americans out of their shoes for the next few weeks, but Dark Brandon still has the political acumen and wherewithal to engineer the captive hostage exchange with various American allies to the satisfaction of Putin's people. He's pulling off the best deal America and her allies can get.

He's negotiating on a level that Trump could never hope to achieve - and Trump denounces it immediately as the details come to light... Trump never accomplished anything on this level when he was the big kahuna. He just gave a $2,000,000,000,000.00 tax cut to the upper 1% and corporations. That's his greatest claim to fame, aside from stacking the supreme court with the shitholes he installed.

https://www.rawstory.com/news/biden-s-historic-prisoner-swap-an-indication-putin-betting-trump-will-lose-pundits/

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Wait, do liberals get off on guns too now?!

Don't you know anything, Noll?

Hey, good times in British Columbia about to happen.

It appears that Kamala is making a former conservative Trump stronghold in Florida - a lot less polarized. I bet there's ketchup all over the walls of Mar-a-Lardo tonight.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-rally-draws-hundreds-of-golf-carts-in-conservative-florida-community-the-villages-200715047.html

On Saturday afternoon, around 500 golf carts reportedly paraded through the Villages, a retirement community in Central Florida, in support of Kamala Harris for president — roughly 200 more than the number that reportedly showed up for President Biden ahead of the 2020 election.

Saturday’s rally was part of the newly minted Harris campaign's efforts to engage Florida voters and recruit volunteers to boost Democratic support.

With roughly 30% of Florida voters affiliated with neither the Republican or Democratic parties, per the Tallahassee Democrat, some attendees saw the turnout as a sign of a notable shift for the largely conservative community.

Political tensions were on full display in the Villages, when a man at a pro-Trump golf cart rally shouted “White power!” in a 2020

At least four people living in the Villages have pleaded guilty to voter fraud for casting multiple ballots in the 2020 election.

Do you know about Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13950?  If you don’t, be afraid.  Be very afraid.

Just weeks before he was fired by America’s voters in 2020, President Trump issued this piece of nastiness which was quickly rescinded by just-inaugurated President Biden.

The Executive Order is a “DCL,” what the right-wing brilliantly calls a, “Divisive Concepts Law.”  

These DCL’s terrorize teachers with the threat of losing their jobs if they dare teach the truth of America’s racial history:  That white people enslaved Africans, that the Klan enforced racial vote suppression with the hanging rope.  And God forbid, they teach that women were banned from the vote until the 20th Century.  The Executive Order bans teaching  any historical facts if, “….any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex….”

https://hartmannreport.com/p/harris-tells-teachers-we-want-to

Harris is going to rick-roll this convicted /criminal and his couch fucking VP partner in perversion. The house will fall into Democratic control. The Senate lead will increase for Dems. No more fucking playing nicey nice with the remaining McConnell Republicans like Obama attempted to do.

Then we get to reform the supreme court and stamp out future tea-party/GQP nazi, christian nationalist Putin puppets. Fuck a bunch of these culture warriors and their attacks on our freedoms and progress into this century.

Liberal progressives own handguns and rifles too. I also like the smell of spent gunpowder, burnt diesel and lightning produced ozone.

And 73% combusted concentrates.

GQP likes to throw around the word CUCK whenever they think they can fit it in. We just witnessed Trump's spokesman, the cone headed Steven Cheung use that word recently in another of his idiotic rants - as he described Trump backing out of debating Harris. Complete word salad with a liberal dose of ketchup against the wall.

You're having your ass spanked by Felix and WMM on a porn website, Thorn. Daily, repeatedly.

It's fun for us.

Harris is going to mop the floor with Trump & never-trumper VP candidate Vance. And you'll still be pissing and moaning.

You're dust in the wind, Thorn. Harris is quite a bit more liberal than Biden (pro-hint) that's why she was chosen in 2020...to offset Biden's conservatism.

Roevember is colluding with the 2018 blue tsunami to wipe out fucktarditis misogyny and racism in America. Deal with it.

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Some child bearing hips here

Eric needs an EXTREME makeover like his sister. There's zero hope for Don junior. He looks like Gargoyle knocked him up.

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These guys are sick

But, but, Hunter's laptop.

Vance's love affair with a latex glove loaded with Astroglide and shoved in between couch cushions and now him watching Dolphins fucking human females.

Trump has a groomer as a VP candidate who wants to remove women's rights so he can watch beastility in the comfort of his senate office via high speed fiber internet.

Almost makes ya wish for a Mike Pence and his mommy-wife, again.

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I'm really not impressed with predicting the winner of the match as the final seconds tick off the clock. I'm really also not impressed with guessing the vice president would succeed the president. Like, it's literally her job.

My records a lot better than 50/50. It's easy to see these things coming if you use logic and reason.

If you want a conspiracy theory to dwell on though, the Democrats are choosing a candidate with no input from primary voters. The process is completely undemocratic. With Biden's late withdrawal, an actual primary would be impossible. So if you want to believe Biden had planned all along to leave at a very specific time you also believe the Democrats do not want to give the people the right to choose their candidate. Makes more sense than your Trump shooter insanity.

I'm sure you've never heard of nor read, Robert's Rules of Order. Biden could die in office and Harris would ascend - automatically.

Since he backed out and promoted his Veep - he was doing what came naturally. He chose her to be his successor in case of such an event, in 2020. The choosing of a Vice Presidential candidate by the presidential candidate addresses this situation (and others) and is one of the most important first decisions a presidential candidate makes before an election.

She doesn't need to be approved of in a primary runoff, you dipshit. People who voted for Biden in 2020 - also voted for Harris and her succession - should it be required.

You sound like the GQP majority leader, instead of a thinking human being.

You're batting average is hovering just above .000. Have you ever been right about anything you've blathered on this forum in the last 15 months? I fail to remember such.

Thorn is a Johnny come lately punk ass beyotch. Since 2010, we've seen half a dozen such of his type come into these threads trying to influence anyone who reads his tripe, to sway opinion.

He practices whataboutism, changing the subject. His arguments are hollow and transparent.

Too bad Damon wasn't here to trash his garbage so I could sit back, crack open a cold one and laugh my ass off. Too bad Damon was damaged beyond repair. Of course that's the sort of thing that happens when you catch a rusty bolt in your eye from a Murphy bed.

Thorn, you're a poor fifth place behind other, more practiced fuckwads who've invaded Lush Forum since 2010. I await your implosion so I can heartily laugh in Roevember,

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Do you think the SS were in on actually killing him or setting up a photo-op?

I feel Trump wanted the most ass-kissy culty SS so they were incompetent like everyone else he chooses.

Doubtful they were in on anything. It wouldn't have taken a vast conspiracy to pull this stunt off. Maybe one or two SS sharpshooters who actually had eyes on the dork who was climbing a ladder to the roof of the building he then crawled across the top of. If he got discovered by any other cops (not in on the scheme) the sharpshooter could plug him and that would be the end of the whole shebang. Dead men tell no tales, etc.

His team of SS agents who were assigned to protect him on stage or whisk him off the stage into a waiting armoured vehicle wouldn't have to know anything. Nor would the other local law enforcement working to secure the area and guide traffic, etc... It would just take one or both of the reported sharpshooters with their spotters to be recruited and informed so they could ensure the patsy had free reign to climb the ladder, get himself in position then fire projectiles (he's a lousy shot so he'd likely miss Trump and maybe hit other people, for added effect) or maybe he had 2 or 3 live rounds and 5 or 6 blanks given to him before he climbed said ladder.

It's not difficult to slice through an obvious Roger Stone rat-fucking production. You have to have the audacity to think up what creatures like Stone and Bannon would dream up and then try to implement. They own some of the darkest hearts & minds of all the animals who have been promoting Trump since 2015.

The rat-fucking isn't over either. Again, you have to try to think like those inhumane motherfuckers. They've been pulling dragon/rabbits out of their hats for over 40 years from the GOP book of dirtyfuckingtricks. Stone and Manafort learned under the tutelage of Lee Atwater - who thankfully, died a slow painful death (Karma struck) over 33 years ago.

Something I'm curious about... Did Trump get to hand pick this current team of SS agents to guard him AFTER he left office on 1/20/21... or did the agents who erased their government issued smartphone call and text logs from 1/6/21 stay on with him and were they part of these keystone cops who failed in their role as protectors on July 13th? Was it a new team of LOYAL SS agents - or were they part of the same team who tried to hide their communications and probably roles in the insurrection?

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The other guy sowed chaos on a daily basis when he was in office. Lies flowed from his lips about everything. He was the greatest in the world of doing everything for everyone, some say. He failed to deliver on anything sensible - didn't pull the US out of Afghanistan over 4 years, increased drone useage levels over that of the Obama years, more soldiers died doing their jobs - than have under Biden - 65 to 16 is the score on that point.

He created further division between the far right and everyone else who don't identify as racists, misogynists or selfish/greedy borderline criminals. And then he tried to overthrow a fair election and our current form of government when he got his ass kicked in the 2020 election. January 6th and his involvement/instigation should disqualify him from holding even a mayorship in any small redneck town in a red state.

Biden/Harris - should run on their fantastic record of achievements for ALL Americans. I'm not going to type a wall of text reflecting those accomplishments, it's easy to look them all up elsewhere. Biden has restored dignity and diplomacy while strengthening our NATO partnerships - Trump wants to let the dictators of the world - start wars of aggression (he held Ukraine hostage for months prior to the Russian invasion in Feb 2022 - and if elected - Ukraine will be swallowed up whole).

Now is Kamala's turn to take the reigns (and the war che$t of donations already accrued by Biden) - she's the Veep and the most logical choice to combat the wombat in November. She'd wipe the floor with him and the Harvard Hillbilly. She simply needs a strong VP choice of her own, to help.

The shitshow lasted from 2017 to 2021 culminating in the most embarrassing and violent attempt at a coup de'tat in American history.

Just for you, Thorn. I called it here on Saturday 7/20 - about 20 hours before Biden finally stepped down. And only after he resisted for four solid weeks after his admittedly disasterous June 27 showing in the debate. And only after the leading Dem voices all began piling up on him to withdraw and let someone - anyone (some were calling for Kamala) to pick up the reigns. It looked like it was going to be a brokered convention similar to the 1968 catastrophe - for the previous week before Biden finally fell on his sword - maybe he waited - on purpose, until after Trump selected his VP choice. If that was Biden's plan - it has worked brilliantly.

Trump's already backing away from the previously agreed upon debate faster than a lobster fleeing a ray. His spokesman is spitting out stupid excuses even faster than Trump himself.

Very few Democratic leaders were calling for Kamala to take over. But she was the only logical choice and in the 8 days since Biden resigned and recommended her to take his place - the entire Democratic party has united around her. Records have been set for monies raised by any political party in this short of a timeframe.

But yeah, I was wrong about Biden toughing out the rough sledding and staying around. I was right about Kamala being the Chosen One.

I guess that makes me right about half the time. I'm batting .500, what's your record, Chump?

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Hey, how is your 100% sure prediction that Biden will win going?

Your claims of conspiracy are just as unhinged as Trump supporters claiming election meddling won the election for Biden.

Oh, you failed to see what I posted a week ago last night? I predicted Joe would step down, Kamala would get the nod - she'd raise a hundred million in less than 4 days. She's going to clean Trump's clock.

Do try to keep up.

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Honestly y’all want this Cheeto to be an idiot and a Machiavellian genius at the same time.

You're not the first simpleton we've seen come here to the Think Tank since 2010, Thorn. And this isn't recency bias as I type to you, either.

Fucktarditis is strong in you.

If Trump is stupid enough to debate Kamala - and they both get their 2 minute opening statements - I so want her to place her hands on her hips, turn away from the cameras and look him directly in his eyes...

And begin to read him his Miranda rights. When she's finished, she'll have one minute to state the obvious differences between the dictator and the freedom fighters.

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These conspiracy theories are just silly. Mr. Occam doesn’t mind if your burrow his razor.

Young white kid obsessed with gun culture trying to make a name for himself missed a very, very hard shot. Honestly I’m just glad he picked a Trump rally instead of a pre-school.

You prefer simple things. Easier to just move on, put things behind you.

I'm sure you also believe Oswald the lone assassin was firing magical right angle turning bullets into the President's limousine in Dallas 60 years ago also. Your type always reverts to muttering 'Conspiracy Theories' when you don't wish to think critically.

POOF - you make all other arguments disappear with a simple slur. Usually that spills from maga mouths when they don't wish to use what little brain power they've developed over the course of their lives.

This has got to be a first... The GQP party leaders are encouraging the rank & file to reign in their racist, misogynist commentary against Kamala.

Maybe they should inform the Wombat sex offender running for President too - and his sons and his daughters in law...

FFS

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-leaders-urge-colleagues-steer-010159487.html