Behind the rhetoric, a presidential campaign is a competition about how to tell the American story

Kamala Harris is an appointment without mandate, without any proven merit, rightly or wrongly. a proposed DEI requirement to be the first major gender appropriate, of black, south Asian heritage for the democrat party’s presidential nominee, into the Whitehouse a US historic first.

Now, you can burn me at the stake for such a suggestion.

But sooner or later a calm honest intelligent open "conversation" will need to take place.

Between respectful intelligent adults.

Without fear or favour.

Kamala Harris is being afforded, foolishly, inexpiably, caught within a maelstrom of toxic identity political delusion, by a willing sycophant media, a free ride into the Whitehouse without scrutiny or challenge.

*Because in the campaign season of 2024, just as in the fabric of American culture at large...*

This culture has been attacked like anything in the last 16 years, too late to talk about it now, KH's recorded and later live broadcasted interview was fact checked by CNN itself..so maybe there is hope..but too late for this election.

I suspect the assassination attempt on Donald Trump changed his perspective on life, age, family values became more pronounced in his priorities.

I once read, the death of former Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe affected him immensely.

Kamala Harris ascendance, without doubt presents a new beginning for a significant proportion of US Dem voters, Harris age a valuable political commodity.

Harris/Walz have a skilled capable culpable team of consultants and advisors.

Combined with a huge war chest of election finance.

Donald Trump will need review strategy, the main stream media will not gift him with any favours.

Combined with a huge war chest of election finance.

Donald Trump will need review strategy, the main stream media will not gift him with any favours.

They definitely were caught flat-footed for 45 days, and they had to change tactics and re-position themselves, but now they are picking up the slack where they left off. They have equally sound advisers and one of the largest war chests of any Republican in history, so it should be interesting to see how they move forward on this.

I hope so, bass4funk, the media are ruthless, bias without scruples. pervasive widespread

Whatever the ideological narrative presented, it is mostly hokey as hell, betraying the gullible nature of the people involved. And at the heart will be Trump talking about himself in the most ludicrously narcissistic way that his base seems incapable of noticing (but would they really even put up with a friend who talks like this, let alone someone who aspires to be leader? “You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about, like, nine different things that they all come back brilliantly together. And it’s like friends of mine that are like English professors, they say ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen’,” he said. BS to that.)

itsonlyrocknrollToday  12:00 pm JST “ Kamala Harris is an appointment without mandate, without any proven merit, rightly or wrongly. a proposed DEI requirement to be the first major gender appropriate, of black, south Asian heritage for the democrat party’s presidential nominee, into the Whitehouse a US historic first.

Now, you can burn me at the stake for such a suggestion.

But sooner or later a calm honest intelligent open "conversation" will need to take place.

Between respectful intelligent adults. 

Without fear or favour. 

Kamala Harris is being afforded, foolishly, inexpiably, caught within a maelstrom of toxic identity political delusion, by a willing sycophant media, a free ride into the Whitehouse without scrutiny or challenge. “

Accurate.

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*bass4funk, **Time is Kamala’s biggest enemy**—clearly, her honeymoon phase is over—people are finally realizing that she is not*** fit to be President;

… while the Democrats run out of ideas, Trump has all the time in the world (and the debate) to show undecided voters why he deserves a 2nd term.

… while the Democrats run out of ideas, Trump has all the time in the world (and the debate) to show undecided voters why he deserves a 2nd term.

Absolutely!

Yeah, one traitorous campaign wants to tell the story of how they will bring about America's decline through surrender abroad and spending on tax cuts at home.

Yeah, one traitorous campaign wants to tell the story of how they will bring about America's decline through surrender abroad and spending on tax cuts at home.

That would be great to finally have a President that puts his nation first as every leader should.

bass4funk

Yeah, one traitorous campaign wants to tell the story of how they will bring about America's decline through surrender abroad and spending on tax cuts at home.

That would be great to finally have a President that puts his nation first as every leader should.

Trump didn't do that during his first and only term then.

the article is written by someone who is the new “director of storytelling” as ap. i don’t get the point of the story.

a better story might be the u.s. voting process itself. it’s fractured, inconsistent, an anachronism from the 1800’s. now that’s a story that needs to be told… again.

it’s on the first tuesday of a month because many people traveled by horse and buggy on the first monday of the month to settle accounts in towns in an agrarian economy.

one day of travel, vote, one day of travel home.

today, people work on tuesdays and 35% of those who don’t vote say it’s simply inconvenient due to work and kids.

the u.s. isn’t even in the top 30 of voter turnout.

and if that isn’t enough, every state has different rules for registering, identity, number of polling locations per capita, mail in or not, early voting or not. it’s a mess.

these differences are used by parties to limit voting in areas they want less turnout, since election boards are politicized.

if they want less voters from an area where the voters are historically not the political party of the election board members, they reduce the number of polling stations, forcing people stand and wait for sometimes 5-6 hours in a traffic jam line on the sidewalk, regardless of the weather. make ‘em give up and go home.

areas with “their” people have easier. in and out like buying an ice cream cone.

gaming the vote process, gerrymandering, uneven rules, is just as important as any message or story by candidates.

people working in small retail shops (small business employs most people) are supposedly able to vote, by law, but it doesn’t happen. if they shut down a store for half a day, there will be consequences because companies will replace that person soon after with someone who will stay at work and not vote.

a rational system would have saturday and sunday voting. two days with more people able to vote those days. and federally mandated polling stations per capita.

and only by providing a valid photo id. every state issues a valid id, driving or not. and they all have a valid social security number tied to it.

i can’t get a drivers license without providing a birth certificate or passport for the first issuance to establish citizenship. you can get one without being a citizen, of course, but it clearly cannot be used for voting.

the problem with that is the system can’t be gamed by political parties, so it will never happen.

i think that’s a real story to be told.

Peter NeilToday 08:49 pm JST

and if that isn’t enough, every state has different rules for registering, identity, number of polling locations per capita, mail in or not, early voting or not. it’s a mess.

That "mess" has also defended it from national and international interference.

Trump didn't do that during his first and only term then.

He did, but he didn't get us into any new war, and second, he could have done even more for the nation if Pelosi and Schumer hadn't tried to throw monkey wrenches into everything he did.

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  11:03 pm JST

Peter NeilToday 08:49 pm JST

and if that isn’t enough, every state has different rules for registering, identity, number of polling locations per capita, mail in or not, early voting or not. it’s a mess.

“That "mess" has also defended it from national and international interference.”

you're going to have to explain that.

Only an arrogant country would keep calling itself the greatest nation on earth. Humility was never a strong point of some countries.

Imagine, a country where the run-up to an election takes up to two years and costs billions of dollars, involves corruption from a uni-party masquerading as two different parties, lobbyists, big pharmo, Israel, Wall Street and the military industrial complex and where the needs of the ordinary citizens are at the bottom of the list of priorities.

A complete clown show. 2024: a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Even the poorest country in Africa would find this freakshow embarrassing.

Pukey2Today 11:42 pm JST

Only an arrogant country would keep calling itself the greatest nation on earth. Humility was never a strong point of some countries.

And I suppose your vaunted "Middle Kingdom" is an example in humility?

Imagine, a country where the run-up to an election takes up to two years and costs billions of dollars, involves corruption from a uni-party masquerading as two different parties, lobbyists, big pharmo, Israel, Wall Street and the military industrial complex and where the needs of the ordinary citizens are at the bottom of the list of priorities.

If it is such a uni-party why is so much spent on the race, including by small time donors? Imagine defending a country where national elections are nothing more than clapping penguins for the corrupt party line.

A complete clown show. 2024: a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Even the poorest country in Africa would find this freakshow embarrassing.

And yet they don't have a near top of the world gdp per capita or military. Go figure.

Peter NeilToday 11:41 pm JST

“That "mess" has also defended it from national and international interference.”

you're going to have to explain that.

If you want to hack the US, you are going to have to hack hundreds of local elections.

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  12:01 am JST

Peter NeilToday 11:41 pm JST

“That "mess" has also defended it from national and international interference.”

you're going to have to explain that.

"If you want to hack the US, you are going to have to hack hundreds of local elections"

that doesn't relate to anything i said.

Peter NeilToday  12:46 am JST

“That "mess" has also defended it from national and international interference.”

you're going to have to explain that.

"If you want to hack the US, you are going to have to hack hundreds of local elections"

that doesn't relate to anything i said.

Absolutely relevant to the conversation. If you can't follow, that is on you.