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By MARC LEVY HARRISBURG, Pa©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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TaiwanIsNotChina
Thank goodness Trump will be muted part of the time.
Banthu
Whatever Harris promises to do... why isn't she doing it now?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Know nothings are in charge of the House. Everyone should know the only real issue is keeping a traitor from returning to the White House.
plasticmonkey
I want to hear Trump talk about locking up those who investigated his attempted coup. And more mispronunciations of Harris’ name and how she’s “not really black”.
Undecided voters like me want to know more about this firebrand outsider who (I’ve heard) will end the Ukraine conflict in a day and bring prices down through massive tariffs!
dagon
Let's get ready to Rumble!
I see it as Trump's WWE style of debate vs Harris' courtroom, Senate committee.
We will see which prevails.
NOMINATION
Exactly, those voting on the left don't care about what Kamala has to say and what policies she has(none of her own). They just want to follow every word Trump says and blow it up in the news.
plasticmonkey
Thanks for that info. I’ve heard she’s a far left Marxist who wants to turn America into Venezuela. I may just have to vote for the weird wannabe autocrat. At least he can make strong economy with magic wand.
plasticmonkey
Biden is solely responsible for high prices around the world. Because he’s a Marxist.
Only one man, Trump, has the power to lower prices. Massive tax cuts for the rich and 100% tariffs on Chainaa will do the trick. Probably in a week or two. He have the business record to prove his acumen!
Strangerland
The president makes policy, and the VP supports it.
Someone just had to be taught the basics of the system they weirdly think they're qualified to speak on, while with the exact same comment proved they aren't.
NOMINATION
Now you can give me an in depth analysis of why Kamala is the right one for the job instead of her not being Trump. If you want to go the Trump this and Trump that route, cool!
Strangerland
he keeps talking about how the tariffs are a tax on foreign countries. And MAGA are too stupid to realize that tarrifs are a tax placed on goods that are paid by the American companies that import the goods.
Foreign nations pay zero for American tariffs. The money collected from tariffs are paid by American companies and put into the government coffers.
The Republicans used to claim they hated tax. Their guy is pushing a 20% tax on all imported goods for Americans, right now.
Strangerland
I hope she does a lot of cackling on the podium just to annoy Trump.
It would be enjoyable to watch him go on an old man rant about how there is something wrong with being happy. I'm sure that will resonate with the voters.
Strangerland
Now you can give me an in depth analysis of why Kamala is the right one for the job instead of her not being Trump.
Reproductive rights.
Democracy.
Decency.
Trump is probably the biggest piece of garbage human in the western world right now. That's as good a reason as any.
But how about we get to Kamala having a plan to help struggling families, while Trump wants to put a 20% tax on all goods that they'll have to pay, while he claims "it doesn't cost that much to raise kids relatively" at the same time.
John
I look forward to Trump incriminating himself on live tv.
finally rich
"I will fix this!"
"I will make it better"
"I promise you I will take you out of this"
oh wait....
Good lord, things will be very tough for one side.
Good luck for both.
Last time it only took 1 debate, they're dropping like flies.
DaDude
I look forward to hearing about Kamala's border policy and how successful she has been.
WoodyLee
Harris will only say "Bring It On, All Or Nothing " Trump will be prosecuted like no others.
Strangerland
I'm looking forward to Harris prosecuting the felon in public!
finally rich
I understand how you can get alienated from the Western state of affairs while living in Japan.
But I wouldn't have the guts to cast my vote to make people suffer and struggle back home, my own family. Imagine someone actually doing that.
dagon
If you are an American expat casting your vote for Trump, that's you.
Consigning our brothers and sisters in America to a cultist, corporatist kleptocracy if you vote for Trump.
Strangerland
I think the people who want to go home to a democracy, rather than an autocracy, will probably vote for Harris regardless of your British concerns.
Bob Fosse
I wonder how 45 will tackle Harris and Biden’s achievements.
Most importantly, they’ve made our country very safe, and internationally, they’ve made it even more safe.
Desert Tortoise
Tariffs are not only a tax but they create a deadweight loss to the economy as a whole. Think about it. At a given price, x number of customers will buy a product. If you raise the price, fewer customers can afford to buy it or they buy less. Either way, raising prices reduces the number sold. When a government imposes a tariff, prices rise. The steepness or flatness of the supply and demand curves will determine how much price rises relative to the amount of the tariff. The rise in price reduces units sold. Some customers on the margin are priced out altogether. The reduction in units sold represents a deadweight loss to the economy, split between losses experienced by consumers (higher costs mean they can afford less) and sellers (higher prices mean they sell less and make less revenue). The amount of revenue the government collects is a fraction of the total tariff. There is literally no upside to tariffs.
Possibly the only argument that can be made for a tariff on a foreign product is to counter any subsidies that foreign government uses to promote the production of that good, but one has to be careful in designing such tariffs so they don't do more harm than good. It is not a simple, slap 20% on everything imported. That is just stupidity.
Strangerland
And the idiots praise him for being an intelligent businessman.
He only appears intelligent to the morons, and that's due to perspective. To an ant, a doorstop is a mountain.
Desert Tortoise
After Pootie-poo "endorsed" Ms Harris I so wish she had shown the 2016 video of him pulling up the shirt of a young boy in a Moscow crowd and kissing him on the stomach (go find it, it's on Youtube) telling him "I put lots of sick little pedos just like you in jail, it's what I do" and just leave it at that.
itsonlyrocknroll
If, yes, a big if, ABC, Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 9 p.m. EDT, delivers a promised impartial broadcast Trump Harris global debate, in Kamala Harris case to date the only opportunity, possibly the final chance the US electorate will be able to come close to fully realise the risk ideologically extremist Kamal Harris truly represents.
Quote "World News Tonight" anchor and managing editor David Muir and ABC News Live "Prime" anchor Linsey Davis will serve as moderators.
Donald Trump must refrain from any temptation to bark personal insults, this debate is undoubtably a consequential moment in 2024, i contend US election history.
Trump must focus on the Biden Harris appalling incompetent record in high office, the economy, immigration, law and order, a country divided through the pursuit of toxic gender identity politics
Permeated though schools, race baiting critical race theory, an open wound for US society to publicly politically self harm. the antisemitism openly encouraged in US colleges and universities.
The facetious giggling Harris performance on the world stage, that squirming embarrassing idiocy present at the solemn remembrance of fallen US heroes that stormed the beaches in Normandy France.
I suspect ABC will attempt to shield Kamala from close political security on direct “follow ups”.
Harris-Trump ABC News presidential debate: How to watch, what to know
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-abc-news-presidential-debate-watch/story?id=113387977
4 years of Harris Biden is more than enough, 4 years of Harris Walz could well embolden the dictatorships of China/Russia/Iran/North Korea that US people/electorate have finally truly taken leave of there senses.
Desert Tortoise
Well I would wager that Ms. Harris team is concentrating as much on how to deal with the kind of over the top lies and exaggerations one must expect from Jupiter, the orange colored gas giant. In all likelihood he is going to let loose with a stream of outright lies and fabrications in a volume so great that it would be impossible to get one's own message across if one tried to refute Jupiter line by line. That has been Jupiter's debate technique since the 2016 election. They have to have a tactic for addressing this effectively and imagine they are rehearsing that as much as getting their policy positions down.
bass4funk
Thank goodness Kamala can’t take notes, sit down, have Walz or Donna Brazile by her side.
bass4funk
Rest assured, that will happen.
And that’s just the beginning…
DaDude
He talked about his family struggles back home. That would have been your cue to tell him why Kamala is the better candidate for him and what her policies are. Why would he rush out to vote for her if you automatically dismiss him and his family as "cultists" for giving his opinion?
bass4funk
Not usually, more like the other way around
Ohh, that debunked story again, and the left continue to fall for it. Lol
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1832081627289154003?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ
Strangerland
This is what you get with no notes. Trump's economic policy:
More word salad in that "policy" than Biden has made in his life.
TaiwanIsNotChina
We know everything we need to know about who is beholden to Russia from Helsinki.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Tax cuts don't make things more affordable when everyone is getting them. And they won't even be getting that much after Musk gets his share.
The only reason China sits up for Trump is because they start wondering what they can actually get their foreign asset to do for them.
Strangerland
Trump's official economic policy is a 20% tax American importers will have to pay on all the goods they import. A tax that will be passed on to the consumer..
So no, no tax cuts for the middle class.
Strangerland
Just sayin'.
Strangerland
Says the fox news watcher! ($750 billion they've paid for their lies, and counting!)
bass4funk
Seem to be doing well in Texas and Florida overall.
But a lot still
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/24/texas-abbott-property-tax-cut/
Seriously, you need a better argument, they used to be interesting now they’re just all over the place, come on now…
TaiwanIsNotChina
It keeps appearing because it is true. Helsinki proves it to anybody with a brain.
Strangerland
Just sayin'..
itsonlyrocknroll
A Pee-wee Harris presidency, sorry, one cannot fail to notice the resemblance, could inadvertently trigger a globally catastrophic calamitous cataclysmic moment due to the propensity to dither, hesitate lacking confidence, strength of character.
US enemies will not fail to take full advantage of a Harris presidency.
This debate Trump must expose The Harris political flaws, the irritating inherent imperfections idiosyncrasies the incumbent cumbersome traits, that manifest in failure to overcome conflict and find resolution.
On a world stage the prospects conclusions are truly terrifyingly prominent obvious.
As little as 8 weeks ago, Obama, Clinton, Nancy Pelosi senior democrats found it unthinkable to endorse a Kamal Harris presidency.
Are you not being hoodwinked?
Taken for a gullible horde of the political unquestioning easily led?
Think about that.
This debate will/could provide an opportunity to taste the coffee wake up.
One last thought .....
Vice President Kamala Harris defends President Biden’s debate performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBmrW6LzV0&t=81s
Listen to Harris own words, knowingly falsely, in the knowledge that Joe Biden was suffering from extremes of cognitive decline.
Ricky Kaminski13
Hearing mobs spew their visceral hatred for the T man is always a good sign that the game is still very wide open.
Let’s see of Harris can actually do battle as well as they claim ( and hope really, really hard ) she can. Her chronic lack of interviews I imagine won’t help. It’s like fighting for a title with no sparring and like any fight, everyone has a game plan until they get punched in the nose!
May the best candidate prevail. Real simple from here. Can’t wait, history in the making.
Strangerland
She will!
I am very excited myself.
Strangerland
Fear! Doom! you must vote for Trump because fear! And doom! And very very bad! Ick!
Bob Fosse
I posted praise for Biden and Harris, keep positive.
bass4funk
I the same for Trump and Vance, that’s mad vibin, that’s a positive thing, support!
ArtistAtLarge
The former persecutor vs the 34 count convicted felon and insurrectionist.
This is going to be very entertaining.
ArtistAtLarge
"Prosecutor". Dang autocorrect.
Bob Fosse
They’ve made the US safer both domestically and internationally. Even 45 agrees.
itsonlyrocknroll
Strangerland
Doom gloom despondency?
Haven't both campaigns succumbed to the trusted blanket of good old fashioned fire breathing fear mongering?
For many I listen to, both Trump and Harris truly astonish, as the USA top two nominees for President 2024, for the next four years. out of 345,426,571 million obviously one must discount minors maniacs and marauders.
Will this ABC debate provide answers to some telling unanswered questions?
I guess we will have to all wait and see?
Won't we?
VoiceOfReason
The disadvantage to Kamala for having muted mics is that she wont get to accuse Trump of mansplaining everything like she did when she debated Mike Pence.
VoiceOfReason
Says the fox news watcher! ($750 billion they've paid for their lies, and counting!)
I guess I should go to MSNBC for all my news but then I wouldn't learn anything other than that I should feel ashamed for being white.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
No. Only the Trump campaign is fear mongering.
The Harris/Walz ticket just lets voters know the danger of voting for Trump and what that means to the average person.
However, mostly their message is one of hope.
itsonlyrocknroll
Underworld,.........back to 2019
Doom and gloom triggering, race batting, Harris
I suggest an insight to tomorrow's Kamal Harris debate possible bottom line strategy.
Donald Trump is the "devil" white supremacist, the ‘greatest national security threat’, how that for fear mongering!
WATCH: Harris says Trump is the ‘greatest national security threat’ | 2019 Democratic Debates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vG1Tnuvo78
Underworld
Itsonlyrocknroll
Try to stay relevant - a lot has happened since 2019. Harris/Walz is not about fear.
Strangerland
Yes, this is correct.
Are they not supposed to point out the facts?
Meanwhile, Team Doom and Gloom and Evil Cat Ladies Will Cause Another Great Depression And World War Three Through Eighteen is complaining about all the joy and laughter coming from the left, and ignoring the policy being put forward by Harris, while ignoring that Trump's policy is only serving to expose his mental decline:
John
Any rules regarding Trump hawking products on tv during the debate?
Cause I feel like that’s the kind of low-rent goober thing he’d do.
bass4funk
That will be it, Trump will let her ramble on and then talk about her record which then Kamala will repeat the same rant and pivot to J6 and who won the 2022 election and then Trump will talk about the border, law enforcement, the out of control crime, the craziness of Venezuelan gangs grouping and taking over Denver and Kamala will say, Fweedum. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
wallace
Trump will do his usual, lie and lie and then exaggerate his claims and achievements.
itsonlyrocknroll
Back to reality 2024 the only Harries/Walz CNN love fest interview
Harris/Walz word salad unintelligible gibberish.
Not the faintest explanation on how the US tax payers will pay for any of the promises, to where, or who is going to foot the bill for Harris/Walz crazy wish list.
The US hard working voters know they have paid for the Biden Harris reckless policies administration the failure respond promptly coherently to wars in Ukraine, Israel/Gaza.
All just a taste into the future Harris/Walz horror show yet to unfold
Harris defends her record, slams Trump in first TV interview with Tim Walz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRFXB0Yawok
Strangerland
Vote Harris vote DOOOOOOOOOM! Right? Amirightorwhatbruh?
Desert Tortoise
Everyone is missing the import of that one sentence. Marco Rubio proposed a family leave act that would be funded out of the leave taker's accumulated Social Security money. What that would do in the long term is reduce lifetime Social Security earnings by delaying when a worker could begin taking their Social Security retirement. It would take at least twice the length of the leave in terms of extra work months to make up what was lost taking family leave. Basically you have to accept less in retirement to afford family leave. This is how the conservative mind thinks, all so the wealthy can have their taxes cut while fooling themselves thinking they are somehow "pro family". They aren't. They are just jealously guarding their wealth.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-know-trump-really-talking-171312836.html
Bad Haircut
The small businesses had to start because the employment and inflation has been so bad that people couldn't get jobs, so they either had to start their businesses as a side hustle to make ends meet, or try to make a living. It's be interesting to know how many of them are surviving in this economic climate.
bass4funk
Not really, he will go on from his record of 4 years as President and then pivot to Harris and ask her what were her accomplishments and then that is where things will get quiet....deathly quiet
Chico3
Harris has got this one. She'll get him good while exposing him to the public. Go Harris! When faced with lies, you expose and pound on the truth! Pound on the facts!
Bad Haircut
Easy to do if they're not making a profit anyway.
itsonlyrocknroll
Every point I have made today, discounting my own humble opinion, is Harris in her own words.
Not embellished with fakery or political inuendo.
Strangerland
More jobs than any admistration ever. Didn't ban abortion. More small business start ups than ever. Less border crossings than Trump. The economy was a disaster at the end of Trump's term, and they recovered it.
You guys are going to be mighty shocked, having never ventured outside Fox News to hear the truth.
Strangerland
So should all the tax breaks go to the rich so they can trickle down? Trump round two?
wallace
bass4funk
Trump will do his usual, lie and lie and then exaggerate his claims and achievements.
Harris has been the VP, not the president for the last four years.
wallace
At his rallies, it takes Trump 60 minutes just for his opening. Bored people have already started to leave.
Bob Fosse
45 does that all the time.
lincolnman
Not as quiet as when Trump is asked;
Does life begin at conception or will you protect a women's reproductive rights?
Are EVs hoaxes or fantastic?
Is RFK Jr the world biggest Leftist Lunatic or someone you like and respect?
Did Egypt make a $10 million illegal donation to your 2016 campaign and was it a bribe?
Did you direct your aides to re-hide documents required to be returned under subpoena and then direct them to destroy the security tapes showing that movement?
plasticmonkey
And then after your prediction doesn’t come true, you’ll claim you never made it.
itsonlyrocknroll
When Harris/Walz are free to speak in public is mainly reading off a teleprompter, reciting and script
Tomorrow hopefully, no autocue, no notes, no minders, no safety net.
bass4funk
Not according to the last abysmal jobs readjusted report
https://x.com/OANN/status/1826398263865737667
Ahh, I see...
https://x.com/gatewaypundit/status/1654565320915402753
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41346257.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
https://x.com/GOPLosAngeles/status/1824604013175898202
https://nypost.com/2024/09/01/opinion/harris-biden-inner-circle-have-almost-no-business-experience-no-wonder-americans-are-hurting/
No wonder they the public trusts Trump more on the economy.
We already are that the left thinks that people are THAT stupid that they can't see through the Dems botched record.
Has nothing to do with FNC.
Cephus
"Harris and Trump prep for Philadelphia debate."
I hate to disappoint you all, but these debates are useless as they come. Only one thing matters, the final result in Nov 5th. Otherwise shenanigans will result in chaos you have never ever seen or encountered before in U.S history.
itsonlyrocknroll
Cephus
I see your point, this debate though, could well be the first and only occasion to gain a insight into both nominees alone on a platform without assistance, or knowledge of the proposed questions
Desert Tortoise
Eh, the crazies have been out there all along. I can remember decades ago neighbors cleaning their guns in the garage or sitting around at a motorcycle shop talking about in hushed tones with a touch of anticipation about (shhhh, lower your voice for this) "the coming race war". One neighbor in the National Guard used to like to tell me the military had "plans" for this, all while working on his guns and feeding rats to his Rosy Boas. The freaks have been out there forever. The difference is that Jupiter and MAGA and social media have made their bigotry and their crazy conspiracies socially acceptable.
bass4funk
This is very true and very important because you don't go after your political appointments, I didn't like it when the GOP went after Clinton, thought that was just as bad. Hillary got her punishment already, that's enough, but the left on the other hand want to go after and jail any and all political opponents and that is a very scary.
itsonlyrocknroll
I have always been a believer that American stand above, a true example of democratic greatness, US American way of life really doesn't no need billboard and hats to drill home that fact.
Neither is a wise in an election to hide behind autocues, to refuse interview, press conferences, to defend your party manifesto, to refuse to be subject to challenge scrutiny,
This is why for me tomorrow, the Harris/Trump debate so appropriate, never been so crucial.
Strangerland
I also am wondering if Harris will be able to sway my vote on Tuesday.
Jimizo
Trump has been very erratic recently. He’s been reasonably lucid by his standards at times but at others has looked tired, slurs, and sometimes falls into incomprehensible gibberish.
Will be interesting to see what kind of state he is in at this debate.
wallace
Trump is too old and too unfit to be president.
MotMotMot
I'll watch the super cut video from Jon Stewart. My bet is Harris winds him up and he has a couple unhinged outbursts. Maybe he'll call her Biden again.
Trump has a gift of word rhyme, but if you put actual words down on paper it reads like a dementia patient. It's a bunch of gibberish.
bass4funk
Not sure what you are watching, doesn't seem to be remotely close to that, odd...
Yeah, I will be praying for the woman.
Jimizo
I’ve seen him looking absolutely exhausted recently. The energy he had in 2016 has long gone.
To be fair to him, he had more energy in his early 70s than most.
Looking shattered now. Understandable.
itsonlyrocknroll
I suspect the Harris/Trump debate will decide who will be the 2024 President.
plasticmonkey
Why haven’t they done this to Jim Jordan, MTG, JD Vance, McConnell, Mike Johnson, Ted Cruz, etc?
Also, why weren’t past elections rigged against these people, but only against Trump?
John
Slouching in his chair, soft voice and the rate of (unintelligible) speech is way down.
And he looks really old and worn even though his campaign schedule could be characterized as “light”.
Jimizo
Not necessarily.
I remember Obama had an absolute nightmare in one of the debates with Romney but went on to thrash him in the election.
By the way, what’s this ‘Kamal’ Harris thing?
Strange.
bass4funk
No, still there, still there, and even more defiant than ever actually.
And still does going into his 80s astonishingly
No, but Harris will be after tomorrow.
Jimizo
He’s looking and sounding frail.
He can still muster up the old foghorn bombast at times but it’s very patchy now.
Sometimes the old engine just won’t cough into life.
Age.
ClippetyClop
Hardly surprising. He's been trying to sell the Trump Book of Fear for almost a decade now. He looks as bored of it as everyone else is.
He's only in it because it will keep him out of jail, and he can make a fortune rinsing his gullible followers / selling more stolen documents to Xi & Putin.
bass4funk
They did and still trying and so far they lost, all of them. Soros and Chucky and his Marxist minions are desperately trying to unseat Cruz as we speak, but so far, it's not working.
Because Trump is the ultimate anti-Washington establishment candidate, this is why so many millions are backing the guy.
Cephus
"I see your point, this debate though, could well be the first and only occasion to gain a insight into both nominees alone on a platform without assistance, or knowledge of the proposed questions."@itsonlyrocknroll
They are useless because the demographic which watches them are usually die hard political followers and their minds are already set on their given candidate. Therefore, to them a debate is not something they look forward learning the candidate new policies because they already know. Thus debates are like sports between two rival teams.
itsonlyrocknroll
Jimizo,
Kamala Harris, typo
Not rude intentionally, apologises.
Obama is a skilled orator, calm, humble in every respect.
Obama is also a ruthless under hand schemer political operator,
For Biden an "grinning" pat on the back smiling assassin.
I sense the Harris/Trump debate to be so important, due to US electorate expectation, the drama of the Trump assassination attempts.
Harris hide and seek campaign. would it not be disingenuous to refuse to acknowledge the fact
Ken
People tunnel vision a lot and think they have a basic understanding of politics, What Harris can do now isn't as much as what she can do as a president because vice is not the same thing as being president. And Biden can't easily do everything he intends to do because of how much push back their is and how hard it is to get people to agree on everything. Where as Trump would just threaten to fire everybody rather than work towards a compromise. And it is too much of a headache trying to understand why a grown man doesn't understand that there are processes and procedures but he believes in fabricating lies over and over again to brainwash his cult into doing his dirty work and send out threats
MotMotMot
The assassination attempt had one new cycle and just disappeared. Once the gunman was identified as a registered republican with mental health issues the media moved on. Biden dropping out and the vartious Harris campaign moves quickly filled the void.
wallace
Biden beat Trump in a historical election victory. Trump will never have another chance to beat Biden. The history books have been written.
itsonlyrocknroll
I am of the opinion there have been three world leaders, that have stamped an indelible mark, influenced modern political thinking, history.
Tony Blair, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton.
plasticmonkey
You claimed the left was trying to jail all political opponents. Running a candidate against Cruz is not trying to jail him. Or did you forget what you were arguing?
You mean all that supposed ballot stuffing and other supposed shenanigans only affected Trump, and not other Republicans on the same ballot?
Gene Hennigh
This flies in the face of current US values, but it's time to grow up. Watch the debate. Here's the best way to do it. Don't start watching to see who trips up first. Start watching to hear what the candidates say. Weigh what they say as objectively as possible. Don't assume from the start that one or the other is bad. Actually listen to the arguments. Think about them. Then, and only then, decide how you think they went. I know most of you have already decided who won. Try decided AFTER the debate for once. You might learn something. Hey, you
might not, but you will have conducted yourself like an adult for the first time in. . .how long has it been now?
Ken
It will be interesting to see Trump convince his people he is towards and against abortion at the exact same time and I wonder if he will try to start another cultural death match all while convincing different race groups that Maga are their BBFs.
itsonlyrocknroll
Haha ClippetyClop, actually of course, I am referring to Barak Obama, I don't buy that sleepy Joe thing.