Today it was
reported that "Tyler Winklevoss [says that]: Kamala Harris snubbing Bitcoin conference won't be forgotten, industry 'will show no mercy' in November".
On no! How will Harris ever survive without the support of crypto? [/sarcasm]
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The
New York Times today
quotes Anna Ayala of San Jose, who says she voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but will vote for Donald Trump because "the border situation is out of control."
Oh no! How will Harris every survive without the support of people
who put human fingers in chili? (And then falsely sue Wendy's for it.)
Update: "Looks like it’s been removed from the digital edition."
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"
J.D. Vance Endorsed Book [by antisemitic conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec] That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters."
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What will Kamala Harris need to do to win
people who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 but Conor Lamb in 2018?
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I'm an admirer of Pete Buttigieg but skeptical that he'd be Kamala Harris's best choice as a running mate. Still, he's more experienced than J.D. Vance.
Buttigieg, age 42, has held the Cabinet position of Secretary of Transportation for 42 months. Prior to that, he served for eight years as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He also managed to win the Iowa caucuses and place second in the New Hampshire primary in his 2020 presidential campaign. He was also in the U.S. Naval Reserve for eight years -- overlapping much of his mayoralty -- during which time he was called up to active duty for seven months and deployed in Afghanistan, mostly as a financial analyst in a counter-terrorism task for but also as a driver in the field (100 trips, 36 miles each way, between Bagram Air Force Base and Kabul), but he never saw combat. He also worked in business. He has bachelor's degrees from both Harvard and Oxford.
Vance, who is about to turn 40, has been a U.S. Senator for 18 months. He has no other public service experience. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduating from high school and was on active duty for four years, including six months as a correspondent in the public affairs in Afghanistan, but he never saw combat. He also worked in business and published a best-selling book. He has a bachelor's degree from Ohio State and a law degree from Yale.
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Wall Street Journal opinion writer Jason L. Riley
penned these two columns just two weeks apart, on July 9 and July 23, respectively:
1. "
Kamala Harris Would Be the Best Democratic Choice: She'd rally Black voters who are souring on Democrats and she's close to Trump in the polls."
2. "
Kamala Harris Isn't the Change Democrats Need: On issues from crime to immigration to inflation, she offers more of the same failed left-wing policies."
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Much of what's in the new CNN article (which Voronwë cites
here) about the booming U.S. economy could have been written any time in the past month and arguably the past four to seven months. While it is based on a new report issued today, most of the data was evident by June or earlier. Nothing has changed economically in the past month, except that President Biden has announced he's not running for reelection. If the media had been writing stories like that for the first half of 2024, President Biden might still be in this race. Talk about bizarre fixations!
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To be fair, in
this clip:
Donald Trump doesn't say that military leaders should be replaced by football coaches and racecar drivers. He merely suggests that they should be around the table when military decisions are made, because "in its own way it's not so much really different."
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Has anyone seen the stories about J.D. Vance not wanting childless adults to vote? Or alternatively to give additional votes to people with children? I wonder: would the vote(s) be equally shared by the parents? And would it be a full vote per child or, say, three-fifths of a vote?
That clip is a few years old, but Vance's fellow Thiel acolyte, Blake Masters (who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate from Arizona two years ago), backed Vance up today by
saying that "political leaders should have children ... [or] should at least be married."
Further sayeth Vance: "If you want to brainwash children, have your own kids to brainwash."
Anyway, if Vance had his way, George Washington wouldn't have been allowed to vote.
