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    This undersells Kamala’s “legal issues”. She was Attorney General for 6 years:

    Harris’ office took on predatory for-profit colleges and also secured a nearly $20 billion settlement with banks following the 2008 foreclosure crisis.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-kamala-harris-legal-career-and-political-record

    The biggest argument against Harris is that she put too many people behind bars. 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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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

    Dementia Don is scared to debate but not scared enough. Harris is eager to debate and could chew him up and spit him out RIGHT NOW.

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      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.

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        I think Old Don’s lack of respect for the court system compared to Harris’s respect for the court system may be the better way to frame this.

        Sleepy Don thought wrongly that Joe was too weak and too old. More importantly, Lying And Rambling Don (LARD) is definitely too weak and too old going up against Harris.

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    Since my sleepy time edible is kicking in, I’m just going to ask here.

    Is there a comprehensive list of all the things Trump has done in office good vs bad compared to all the things that Biden has done good vs bad?

    I know some people that still need convincing, but I’m ill-equipped.

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    What about “committed treason by selling nuclear secrets to America’s enemies” - you’ll never guess which picture that one falls under!

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

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

      ( /s, just in case that want obvious)

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    “zero impeachments… So Far!” - Mike Johnson

    “We just need uh…um. <mutters, one, two, five…uh no, three…?> uh three impeachments. Which is uh. uhm… <mutters again, one…two…uh… two… uhm… how many is it again…?> uhm one more than we have.” - Trump.

    (sorry. some idiot is trying to do just that as a political stunt.)

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    That’s not fair. She also has a penchant for Venn diagrams, which should be noted under quirks.

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    I know she loves the venn diagrams with 3 circles, but I wonder if she knows about the delectation that is 5-circled venn diagrams.

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    Left one tries to grab right one by the pussy. Right one does not intend to grab anyone by the pussy. Among other things, left one pays sex workers to pee on mattress. The left one also pays off porn stars so they won’t talk about the sexual abuse they had to endure.