Sunday, August 25, 2024
Remember that Kamala Harris went with her gut in picking the chronically mendacious Tim Walz: I really like him, she said
“He’s just so open,” Ms. Harris marveled privately after her meeting with Mr. Walz, according to one person with knowledge of her comments. “I really like him.”
The leaker probably comes from this group:
The questioners included Marty Walsh, who had served as Mr. Biden’s labor secretary; Mr. [Cedric] Richmond, a campaign co-chair; Tony West, Ms. Harris’s brother-in-law; Dana Remus, a former White House counsel; and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada.
My guess is the brother-in-law, or Cedric Richmond:
“She
wanted someone who understood the role, someone she had a connection
with and someone who brought contrast to the ticket,” said Cedric
Richmond, a former White House adviser who was part of Ms. Harris’s
selection team.
In the end, General Harris picked the soldier who would obey orders:
In contrast, Ms. Harris would later describe Mr. Walz — who explicitly told her not to pick him if he could not help her win — as “joyful” and willing to do anything for the team.
-- The New York Times, August 6, 2024
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Friday, August 23, 2024
It's true: Kamala Harris fought hard for seniors facing elder abuse
Kamala Harris fought hard for seniors facing elder abuse, so hard she found a way to push an old man suffering from severe cognitive decline out of public office where he was the target of constant ridicule.
Make sure you vote for her Nov 5, since no one did in the spring.
Kamala, the beneficiary of a party which just tossed the votes of 14 million for Joe Biden in the primaries in the dumpster, accuses Trump of trying to throw away votes
Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes.
I thought Democrats were going to be about moving forward instead of about re-litigating 2020?
I thought they were about joy?
Kamala the confused: Trump is both unserious and a serious threat
Pick one!
Methinks she doth protest too much.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
This conservative outrage machine story yesterday and today about Commerce Secretary Raimondo has got to be the dumbest one I've heard in a long time
She was asked an ignorant question.
Why would the Commerce Secretary have something timely to say about employment revisions released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the Labor Department?
It's not her area. I wouldn't expect her to know anything about it, and if I had a brain I wouldn't bother asking her.
Commerce and Labor are two separate cabinet level departments and have been since 1913.
I don't expect the Commerce Secretary to have the latest labor information anymore than I expect the Labor Secretary to be able to respond to the latest GDP report produced by the BEA at the Commerce Dept.
But all the ignorami on the right, but I repeat myself, are up in arms over this. It's embarrassing.
What's really going on here is outrage over the size of the revision, which is the largest since 2009.
Republicans want to say Biden and Harris have been lying about the jobs numbers for a year to make themselves look better.
That's a crock. The initial benchmark revisions occur every year around this time, and their size should be no surprise since the Employment Situation Summary every month contains revisions upon revisions upon revisions of prior months. This happens all the time, and if you know you know that this year the numbers have been particularly susceptible of large revisions, criticism, and expressed suspicions from the FOMC members on down.
But total nonfarm payrolls have always been this way. They are quick and dirty on any day. I gave up following them in favor of other measures precisely because it involves securing jello on a galley plate in high seas, and I have better things to do.
Full time employment, measured with other data, around 50% of population under Joe Biden hasn't been great, and it hasn't been awful either. In my arrogant opinion, following total nonfarm and its endless stream of revisions is a fool's errand.
Even more foolish to get upset about it when plenty of other indicators show that employment up until this summer has been "secularly tight", as one economist likes to put it. Continued claims for unemployment have been steady as she goes since late 2021.
The slight recent elevation in these claims numbers is consistent with a softening of employment, which I have noted elsewhere in regard to full time jobs.
The bloom is off the rose it seems, but the preliminary total nonfarm benchmark revision down 819,000 is a problem with that model, not a sign of a sudden problem with employment.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
A million dollars in cash weighs about 22 pounds, in gold about 27
10,000 $100 bills vs. one 400 troy ounce gold bar.
Phony, baloney, plastic banana, good time rock n' rolla Barack Hussein Obama told Republicans to go sit in the back of the bus in October 2010, just before Republicans ate his lunch and swept the House
In Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Monday 25 October 2010.
Stories:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-to-gop-%E2%80%98they-can-come-for-the-ride-but-they-have-to-sit-in-back/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-tells-republicans-to-sit-in-back
https://www.today.com/news/rove-reacts-obama-saying-gop-should-be-back-wbna40024583
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/10/25/obama-assails-gop-on-clouded-final-campaign-push/
https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2010/10/26/obama-assails-gop-in-races/26396696007/
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Kamala Harris, phony baloney plastic banana good time rock 'n rolla, astroturfs event at Pittsburgh restaurant Saturday, kicks out all the patrons at 4pm and brings in her own using over a dozen vans
Staff told patrons that they would have to
leave due to a ‘private event’ which turned out to be a campaign stop
for Kamala Harris. ...
‘They kicked us out of Primanti Brothers,’ one man commented as a person in the crowd filmed a caravan of over a dozen unmarked Ford Transit vans arrived to the location.
More.
I saw this on X and thought it couldn't possibly be true and dismissed it over the weekend.
This story was published yesterday.
You'll be told in media and ads that she has strong support in Pittsburgh.
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