Buying just doesn’t make sense in my area. Property taxes alone on a $1m house would cost half as much as renting.
Zillow total estimated payment on a $1.1m house with 100k down-payment: $8000/mo. Ridiculous. You can rent a whole comparable house for less than $3k/mo all-in.
To anyone thinking, “well there is some subtext here we’re not talking about.” Gtfo the man wants to be putin. Since day one. Putin does have kompromat on donald. All the videos trump sends him of himself furiously masterbating.
Usha Vance, 38, addressed an overwhelmingly White crowd on the convention floor that tittered uneasily as she joked about her husband learning to cook Indian food and audibly gasped when she mentioned her vegetarian diet.
In case anyone didn’t remember what color most snowflakes are 🤦😂
I’m actually rather surprised the evangelicals aren’t revolting over a Catholic/Hindu couple being on the ticket.
Me too, but at the same time I’m not. I guess their inherently blasphemous worship of Trump is stronger than their bigotry.
Which is kinda ironic since his bigotry (and thus him validating their own) is one of the main reasons why these idiots consider him the savior of (white, Christian) mankind 🤦😄
While she is better than Biden, her condemnation of student protestors still rubbed lots of gen Z the wrong way, myself included. It won’t stop me from voting, but it does dispel the delusion that Kamala is anything more than another corporate liberal.
What condemnations were you concerned with? Most of her statements seem to have been generally non-committal on policy but supportive of protest. The only big negative statement I’m aware of recently was about the protest with “Hamas is coming” graffiti. Which like, yeah, that’s something that a politician should condemn. I feel kind of weird about her saying burning flags is super wrong, but I’m not that bothered by it.
Yesterday, at Union Station in Washington, D.C. we saw despicable acts by unpatriotic protestors and dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric. I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the State of Israel and kill Jews. Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric is abhorrent and we must not tolerate it in our nation. I condemn the burning of the American flag. That flag is a symbol of our highest ideals as a nation and represents the promise of America. It should never be desecrated in that way. I support the right to peacefully protest, but let’s be clear: Antisemitism, hate and violence of any kind have no place in our nation.
Her statement on the protests frames them as pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic, unpatriotic, and violent by focusing entirely on a few bad-faith actors. Spending the entire statement condemning the minority of protestors and saying nothing of the majority who were there simply to protest genocide is disingenuous.
To take a page out of her book,
You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you
The condemnation of Hamas and anti-Semitism isn’t the issue, it’s the context in which it is done, absent of support for the protest as a whole. The best we get is
I support the right to peacefully protest, but
As a qualifier at the end of the statement. If she were truly committed to justice for Palestinians she would have pushed back against the framing of those who defend them as anti-semitic and pro-Hamas.
It isn’t so much what she said, but what she didn’t.
But like, the graffiti was pro-Hamas. I’m down with fighting the good fight to not cede pro-liberation slogans like “from the river to the sea” as antisemitic, but I think actively trying to bring Hamas itself into the protests is bad. And she’s been, maybe not supportive, but understanding, previously.
“[Pro-Palestine protesters] are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza. There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their points,” she said, potentially referring to widely circulated but debunked narratives of widespread antisemitism within the protests. “But we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it.”
The interview comes after reporting from March, when MSNBC, citing four former and current U.S. officials, revealed that the White House specifically watered down comments criticizing Israel from a speech Harris delivered on the need for a ceasefire. Officials said that she was initially supposed to call out Israel for blocking humanitarian aid into the region and demand that more aid be let into Gaza, but these portions were removed.
It’s not like she’s going to don a keffiyah and join the protests, but that’s a fair sight better than Biden has been and at least a potential starting point for dialogue.
We need more patriots like Jon. He forces questions to the system of power and also uses his power to help those who serve that same system. I worry he’s a dying breed.
Wild that they finally caught him. Hopefully we get more details on how he got lured to the US in the first place. This guy stayed under the radar so long, US officials weren’t even sure if he was still alive due to his age.
I read in another article that one of Guzman’s sons told him they were flying to look at some property to purchase and then they landed in the US and were immediately arrested. The article gave the impression the son, who was their finance guy iirc, was in on it. What he got out of it I have no idea.
Vance said he wants only people with kids to be able to vote. And they will be able to vote on behalf of their children until they can vote for themselves. These people are something else.
Not just the first woman president, but the first female mixed race president and the first to snap back when attacked in a long time. Trump is scared. He just went from saying "you don't need to vote because we have plenty of votes" to "please vote so we can put an to end voting"
Edited to say first female mixed race since Obama was first mixed race
I hope if Harris gets into office she will be more than just a token granted by the DNC to appease minority voters. We already saw Obama being a mediocre at best internally, and internationally brutal war criminal, president. Him being black did not make him a good president. And for Hillary Clinton the “she’s a women” trope failed catastrophically and brought us Trump in the first place.
Harris needs to convince with policy and character, not with race or gender.
EDIT: I did not mean that Harris would only convince with ther background. It is important to move past the tokenism approach that the DNC used to take.
No one who can actually win/no one democrats would actually endorse.
Kamala is basically just another Joe Biden. Someone to toe the line and keep the status quo. Is she better than Trump? Absofuckinglutely. Am I voting for her? Hell yeah. But she’s just more of the same. And the same has sucked for a long time…
Also if she wins I feel like 4 years later were going to be having this exact same conversation about protecting America from Republican facist while Democrats ignore their constituents while they fight amongst themselves.
I’m sorry. I’m not trying to be one of those ppl who just complain but I’m just so very very tired of our politics and it gets harder and harder to fight off voter apathy…
That’s the issue with American politics. It’s so overtaken by corporate lobbying that “good candidate” and “electable candidate” are mutually exclusive.
Before any US election I seem to read everywhere “go vote, this is the most important election of your lifetime” or something. And while I agree that you should vote whenever you have the option, it gets old to have “the most important election” every 4 years. Maybe that’s a result of the bad electoral system, maybe it’s sensationalism, idk.
In any case, I wish the US good luck with this election and hope you can get Trump out once and for all, and tbh I feel like with Kamala Harris you actually have a shot, while with Biden I was convinced it was over already.
When one of the candidates just essentially said it will be the last election of our lifetimes to a group of Christian supporters a couple of days ago, I’d say it is the most important election of our lifetimes.
I think no candidate is a guarantee. All we can do is increase the likelihood. Right now there are two groups against Harris, Republicans being a given:
The people who denounced Biden’s Presidency and claim he’s done nothing, despite his rather impressive record these last four years.
Those who denounce Harris by attaching her to Biden and then complain about how she can’t win and that both are bad for the county because [insert democrat party].
What we never get are reasons. The simple reality is that you may have your opinions, and the opinions I hear so often are old. A courtesy search allows you to learn a lot about any candidate and member of any party. However, I can’t expect you to spend the time to learn about any of them yourself. The Dems get this much at least, and so does Harris. It’s why she’s pushing so hard.
Now’s the time to show us why she can be President and why she can beat Trump. 2020 doesn’t matter. Now does. Reasons matter.
I will just say that I am excited she doesn’t have the baggage Biden has and I am hopeful that as time goes on I will appreciate her more in her own right. I am not there yet, and I assume the person you were responding to originally was in a similar place.
She hasn’t really earned this, but she has the opportunity to prove she deserves it.
You’re right. Kamala is about as centrist as you can get with the only thing going for her being the current VP.
No one the could even possibly jump in and be a better candidate, but a two primary without Biden burdening it would have been better to nominate a true Dem candidate.
I have repeatedly heard her voting record is relatively close in line with Bernie’s, who is as about as left as they come here in the US. I haven’t verified that, but if it is true, how can you call her a centrist? Do you have information I lack?
You may point to her being a “cop,” which is a fair enough critique, but centrist is not really what I expected to hear
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