Quick overview

I read her entire Wikipedia today. Very impressive. In favor of everything she did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

She was too good at her job. I think people will care less about it since Biden directed the FDA to reschedule weed as schedule 3.

First test of whether she's actually moved on from her boomer-views of weed will be whether she undoes that.

As I feel the need to say every time I bring this up, I will be voting Kamala Harris in November. I don't see that these criticisms from when she was a VP candidate are any less valid than they were then though.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/kamala-cop-record/596758/

Closing paragraphs of that article:

I can forgive a politician a vote on a crime bill that looks ill-conceived two decades later, or a too-slow evolution toward marijuana legalization, or even a principled belief in the death penalty, something I adamantly oppose. I find it far harder to forgive fighting to keep a man in jail in the face of strong evidence of innocence, running a team of prosecutors that withholds potentially exculpatory evidence from defense attorneys, and utterly failing as the state’s top prosecutor to rein in glaringly corrupt district attorneys and law enforcement.

At best, Harris displayed a pattern of striking ignorance about scandalous misconduct in hierarchies that she oversaw. And she is now asking the public to place her atop a bigger, more complicated, more powerful hierarchy, where abuses and unaccountable officials would do even more to subvert liberty and justice for all.

Harris is also the one that has been more public about legalizing weed. She was the one that promised it in 2020 and reiterated the promise a few months ago. With six months left, I'm skeptical but it's still in the realm of possibility.

If the Republicans were smart, they'd do it first. Ballot initiatives for Marijuana legalization has driven blue turnout in several states lately. Florida has an initiative on the ballot this year along with abortion. I think FL will be a lot more competitive than people think with the ballot initiatives driving turnout for young people.

Just read her wikipedia page - as I'm not from the US I've been mostly treating US politics as a bad comedy show for the last two decades or so, and even though she's vice president she was too much of a side character to register.

The one thing that did rech me over there was that she's a bad candidate as VP as she'll erect a police state when biden dies. After reading her bio I can't find problems there, though. I disagree with some details - like seeking life imprisonment - but can give her a pass due to the environment she's operating in which probably wouldn't allow anything else (if you're confused: all convicts should undergo rehabilitation attempts with goal of release. If you stay locked up it'll be due to you still posing a danger to society, in which case you still get more privileges than a prisoner as at that stage it is considered a mental health issue, and treating you as prisoner for that would be a human rights violation).

For sticking to not seeking death penalty she deserves respect, though, and generally she seemed to be focused on putting actual criminals to prison.

Or the rapes?

there's soooooooo much there, it's almost hard to decide what to bring up. "Foreign Policy?" Yeah, he was compairing "button" sizes with Kim Jong Un.

Laughing at Venn diagrams, and you want Her as the next President?!

Meanwhile...

XKCD, on point as usual.

Though… probably wouldn’t be the worst president. …

Damn, she got the xkcd endorsement?! What reality am I even in right now

it's like he's ash ketchum but with pedophiles instead of pokemon

7 flights on Epstein's plane.

It's funny how when I raise this with conservatives they squirm and deflect or run away.

Good vs bad is subjective and some people might disagree. For instance, many in Trump's base are happy that he separated children at the border from their parents as a form of medieval punishment to immigrants seeking asylum.

However, here are two pages that I find important. Here is a super tiny list of Biden's accomplishments, keeping it to only 30 for brevity: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046

And since there's so much negative to say about Trump, given that he is a criminal with bankrupt ideas and tons of problems, here is one link that focuses on economics: https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

I like to summarize Trump's ability as a president with this simple example: Trump is the only president to have ever promised to completely wipe out the US national debt. The reason other presidents don't promise this is because it's stupid, no country should operate without debt. An economist should know that, BTW, and he is constantly remind us that he graduated in Economics from a top school, while he doesn't seem to understand basics of macro economics. Then, once he became president, he added the most debt in a single presidential term in history. So he campaigned on a truly stupid promise to completely wipe the national debt, yet he then added the most debt ever.

That's the kind of president you get when you vote for Trump. As Rex Tillerson said, a man that doesn't seem to comprehend what the adults are talking about and doesn't even understand why the adults want to talk about it. A fucking moron incapable of presidential decisions. That's in addition to all the horrible stuff he brings with his nasty personality, corruption, crimes, and so on.

It is only up until 2021 on the bad things trump has done but it is a long list none the less.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056

Well the problem would be that one could argue the "good" and "bad". It would be better to have a trustworthy factual list of things they've done and base our judgements on that.

But it's pretty hard to create such a list unbiased, if even possible. But I think it would help.

Yeah, I saw it on some MAGA web site

Those people are abject morons.

Old Sleepy Don falls asleep and farts in court. Harris does not.

If you can produce video of Harris ripping a honker in the middle of closing arguments, I doubt that'll change my vote. Flatulence isn't my biggest concern surrounding a presidential nominee.

Harris is eager to debate and could chew him up and spit him out RIGHT NOW.

It is extremely curious that Don felt comfortable squaring off against Biden on his last legs, but immediately turns down any head-to-head with Kamala. They're not sending their best, folks.

Unfortunately, too many Americans see the Saudi and Russian oligarchs as more aligned with their domestic interests than their next door neighbors.

That child rape document with the testimony of the victim was fucking awful.

Maybe force trump voters to have to read that before checking the box next to Trump.

Handwringing swingstate voters are stumped and I can smell their anxiety in the air.

Obviously the femoid, because they can't control their emotions!!!!!

( /s, just in case that want obvious)

She knows a guy

That’s how we know she has a JD

I think you mixed up your sides after the first sentence.

I don’t think there are “ee”s in the p-tape?

I'm continually reminded of that Penn Jillette quote about Trump: "However bad you think he is, he's worse."

Oh man. Set up a laugh track for a Trump speech with Harris' laugh? I would pay to watch that.

I don't actually know that her laugh sounds like and I'm too afraid to look it up because I'm afraid Google or YouTube will start serving me right wing lunatic content if I do. But people keep talking about her laugh and it's got me curious.