What about Kamala?

[pmccarthy]

Kamala chameleon, she comes and goes.

[onetrack]

Who would've guessed that Boy George could be so prophetic!?

[Marty_d]

9 hours ago, onetrack said:

Who would've guessed that Boy George could be so prophetic!?

One could argue that a makeup-wearing, cross-dressing boy in the 80's was always going to be ahead of his time!

[old man emu]

I don't think you will find any photos of Boy George that show him as a cross-dresser. Outrageously flamboyant, especially with his hats, but his clothing was usually basically male - coat and trousers. As for make-up, think KISS, Alice Cooper, The Performer Formerly Known as Prince.

[red750]

The Nostradamus of U.S. presidential elections has predicted a winner when the country goes to the polls in November.

 

Pollsters will no doubt swing back and forth between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as the race comes down to the wire, but Allan Lichtman has history on his side.

 

The American University history professor and former quiz champion has forecast the White House winner in almost every election since 1984. The exception was in 2000, when he picked Al Gore over George W. Bush, although Lichtman did claim his model was then based on the popular vote, which Gore narrowly won.

 

In 2016, he accurately predicted that Trump would overcome Hillary Clinton and was rewarded with a handwritten note from the winner saying. “GOOD CALL!”

 

Now 77, Lichtman put his system to the test with the 2024 candidates, and Trump won’t be sending him a congratulatory message this time.

 

“The Democrats will hold on to the White House and Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States,” the septuagenarian soothsayer told The New York Times.

[red750]

Vladimir Putin has just confirmed he wants Kamala Harris to be the next president of the US in a moment of typical Kremlin trolling.

 

The Russian president told an economic forum in the country’s far east that it was up to the American public to choose their next leader, but that he would recommend his supporters back Harris.

 

“She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that everything is fine with her,” he said on Thursday, suggesting this could mean she would not impose further sanctions against Russia.

 

This comment is clearly tongue-in-cheek. After all, Harris was the vice-president when the US ordered a ban on oil, gas and coal imports from Russia in 2022, in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

 

And such seemingly affectionate remarks are at odds with the tensions between the US and Russia, which have only been rising since Putin started the war.

 

Only on Wednesday this week, the US justice department charged two Russian media executives over an alleged illegal scheme to influence the upcoming presidential election with pro-Russia propaganda – allegations Moscow denies.

 

Putin also endorsed outgoing president Joe Biden back in February, before he dropped out and was replaced by Harris.

 

In a similarly wry moment, he claimed Biden was a more “old school” politician than his Republican opponent Donald Trump, saying: “He’s more experienced, he’s predictable.”

 

Biden famously called Putin a “killer” in 2021, and has more recently called him a “murderous dictator” and a “pure thug”.

 

Trump, on the other hand, has regularly talked up his relationship with the Russian authoritarian leader, claiming to admire his “genius”.

[Marty_d]

Those Russian media executives were funneling money to conservative pundits to make videos.  
I don't think they were encouraging people to vote for the Democrats.

[Litespeed]

The stooge "journalists" had no idea they were paid $100k plus to write fake stories about the Democrats etc was dodgy.

 

I call Bullshit, they knew someone was paying to make up shit and push an agenda that is pro Ruski.

 

Since when do scribes get a sackful of gold for a story?

[red750]

The race for the White House is tightening up in two states previously thought to be solidly Republican.

 

Latest polls suggest the southern states of Texas and Florida, which Trump carried comfortably by 5 points and 4 points respectively in 2020, are now far closer than at any time in the race. 

 

Trump won Florida in both 2016 and 2020 securing 30 electoral votes, while Texas which has remained solidly red since 1976 was also won by Trump in 2020, garnering him 40 electoral college votes.

 

But the former president has seen his support erode among most demographic groups since his Democratic rival in the November 5 election, Vice President Kamala Harris, replaced President Joe Biden atop the Democratic ticket over the summer. 

Now in two states that were never considered swing states or toss-ups, things could be about to change with latest surveys from Emerson College suggesting Harris is now within the margin of error (about 3 points) in the two states.

 

The poll suggests Trump is only narrowly ahead in his home state of Florida at 50 percent with Harris at 45 percent.

 

In Texas things are even tighter with just 4 percentage points separating the pair at 50 percent compared to Harris' 46 percent, well within the margin of error.

 

Texas has remained a squarely red state since the late 1970s despite Democrats attempting to to turn the state blue.

[onetrack]

The problem is the Electoral College gerrymander the GOP has managed to refine - meaning that a presidential candidate can get a majority of the popular vote, but the EC gerrymander ensures it doesn't translate to a win. In 2016, Hilary Clinton got a higher percentage of the vote than Trump, but Trump still won, thanks to the crookedness of the EC voting system. It's electoral corruption at its finest.

[red750]

Russian president Vladimir Putin has claimed that he wants Kamala Harris to win the presidential election because President Joe Biden endorsed her - and because she has an “expressive and infectious laugh”. 

 

On Thursday, during the Eastern Economic Forum, the Russian president claimed that Biden was his “favorite” candidate but that since he dropped out he will now support the new Democratic nominee.

 

“Our favorite, if you can call it that, was the current president Mr. Biden,” Putin said, with a smirk.

 

“He was removed from the race, but he recommended that all his supporters support Ms. Harris. That’s what we’ll do too,” he said, according to a translation from Russian media outlet TASS.

 

He appeared to continue to mock Harris, adding: "She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that everything is fine with her”. The autocrat also said he hoped that means she would not introduce sanctions against Russia. 

 

Putin also claimed that “ultimately, the choice is up to the American people” and that Russia “will respect that”.

 

On Wednesday, the United States unsealed an indictment accusing Russia of attempting to influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

 

Federal prosecutors allege that Putin’s allies directed Russian state media companies to disseminate misinformation and Russian propaganda online with the intent to try and influence this year’s election.

 

U.S. law enforcement agents seized 32 Russian-backed websites that were designed to boost Trump’s campaign. Two employees of the Russian state network RT were charged over allegedly launching a $10m propaganda scheme using American right-wing influencers.

 

On Thursday, federal prosecutors also unveiled an indictment against Trump’s 2016 campaign adviser and Russian expert, Dimitri Simes, alleging that he violated U.S. sanctions by working as a presenter at a Russian state TV station.

 

For several years, the U.S. has accused Russia of trying to influence its elections using misinformation and disinformation online and on social media. Intelligence reports concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump win.

The Kremlin has repeatedly denied meddling in U.S. elections.

[Marty_d]

I haven't seen the debate, but ABC is reporting that Kamala knocked it out of the park.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/live-trump-harris-presidential-debate-latest/104328002

Trump appeared and sounded angry, told lots of lies (no surprise) and was pulled up by moderators and fact checkers.
Hope this solidifies more support for Kamala in the swing states.

[rgmwa]

I watched it. I wouldn't say she knocked it out of the park but she did very well. It was notable that she looked at Trump a lot, but he never looked at her, just looked at the moderators. He must have been told not to look at her, because she was grinning at him a lot of the time, and it would probably have set him off even more. He trotted out all the usual lies, but at the same time seemed to do most of the talking. He never answered a direct question, of course. His supporters will say he walked all over her, but I think she did the job she had to and the Democrats should be happy. I just wish she had challenged him to turn and look at her just once. 

Edited September 11 by rgmwa

[pmccarthy]

I watched most of it and thought Trump failed badly. But Kamala isn't the greatest debater either, it was more that Trump lost.

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, rgmwa said:

I wouldn't say she knocked it out of the park but she did very well.

If we are going to use baseball terms, then I'd say that it wouldn't have been hard for Kamala to walk to first 'cause Trump couldn't pitch in the strike zone. Whether Kamala needed home runs or was just batted in wouldn't matter because Trump would have struck out in each innings. 

 

Let's hope that the November result is a walk-off home run.