One of the most notably absent topics of this year’s election fracas has been any discussion on firearms. Then enter Kamala Harris.

The moderators in the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden didn’t ask a single question touching on the divisive topic, nor did either candidate bring it up. Observers noted during the Republican National Convention that the party platform in other than a passing reference didn’t even mention guns. None of the speeches delivered during the four-day event did either short of vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance talking about how his grandmother once had 19 firearms hidden around her house, a humorous story likely meant to convey to the audience, “we love guns” without actually coming out and saying “we love guns.” But in her first speech as the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee following Joe Biden’s endorsement of her after he exited the race, Harris was quick to trot the topic into the spotlight. And gunowners got a few of what they already knew, Harris is going to be no friend to the Second Amendment.

“That’s why we will work to pass universal background checks, Red Flag laws and an assault weapons ban,” Harris told staffers at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, and streamed on YouTube. Her statements support a continuation of the current administration’s efforts at combatting gun violence by restricting overall gun ownership and a continuation of her own views that she expressed in the 2020 campaign when she was seeking to defeat Biden for the party nomination.

“Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress a hundred days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws,” Harris told the audience during a 2019 CNN town hall. “If they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.”

As Vice President, Harris oversaw the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and played a significant role in several gun reform initiatives. These include a rule to reduce the number of guns sold without background checks, restrictions on gun exports, enhanced background checks for young buyers and the launch of a national center to support extreme risk protection order laws, as reported by The Trace.

Harris has a history of advocating for stringent gun control measures, often positioning herself even further to the left of Biden. During the 2020 primary, when she proposed using executive action to enforce stricter gun laws if Congress failed to act she declared her actions would include universal background checks, revoking licenses of gun manufacturers who break the law (based loosely on her interpretation of negligence and unfair trade practices), closing the “boyfriend” loophole to prevent domestic abusers from purchasing firearms and banning the “import” of AR-15-style assault weapons despite most companies making them in the U.S.

This approach contrasts sharply with the current Republican strategy, The Reload reports. As noted, Republicans recently dropped all previous gun policy promises from their platform and avoided discussing gun policy or the Second Amendment during the Republican National Convention. The truth is, that was probably a good thing gun rights wasn’t receiving attention, because it meant they weren’t being attacked either. Live and let live.

But now Harris’s statements in her opening speech serve as a shot across the bow and undoubtedly places a greater emphasis on gun rights and the gun debate as the election approaches. This will force the Republicans to formally take a stance as well, a stance most gun owners hope is already there and that Trump himself committed to during his speech at this year’s NRA Annual Meetings in May.

While Harris as the nominee is far from a done deal, in the days immediately following Biden’s bowing out of the race, no other challengers have stepped forward though a number were suggested prior to Biden’s exit. The problem the Democratic Party has should they veer away from Harris is one of severe optics. To give the nomination to a man or a white person could alienate those progressives within the party, as well as their supporters, who are eager to see a woman, especially a woman of color in a high position. It would also confirm what many people both inside and outside the party suspect, Harris was chosen as Biden’s VP not for her leadership credentials, but because of the woke boxes she checked off in an election that was going to go down to the wire. She was indeed the weakest candidate among a crowded field vying for the 2020 party candidacy was among the early ones to drop out, suspending her race before the primaries even began.

One thing remains true. Whether it is Harris or any other candidate who ultimately faces off against Donald Trump in November, to be the Democratic nominee, they are going to have to support gun control, which still leaves only one choice for gun owners come election time—and that choice is Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

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  2. There’s going to be another panic induced spike on guns and ammo that may already have begun. If you ain’t stocked up now, I suggest you get to stockin’ now.

    • Well I’ve decided to keep what I already have. Save my verboten rifle & magazine’s across the state line which I have ez access to I did prepare. I even have 1000 Russian 22 hollowpoint’s unopened from an estate sale. Now to get a 22😀 Trump/Vance 2024!

  3. Harris is a hopeless candidate. And they know it. They had to pull all the strings just to get her name into the candidate talks.
    So what really worries me isn’t their bad candidate, but why they are bringing a bad candidate? Do they want to have even more safer and securer mail-in ballots at 3am and win that way? Do they plan on something so horrible that they actually want Trump to win and catch all the heat when things really go south?

    • Optimistically they want to keep several hundred million in donations to the Biden/Harris campaign that they would have to refund if neither runs and regroup for next cycle. Planning for reality double check those voter rolls for dead people.

      • I watched a couple of political commentators discuss the possibility the way it went down may violate federal election laws. It has something to do with her not appearing or winning any presidential primary. Not that rules or laws mean anything to the dims.

        • “It has something to do with her not appearing or winning any presidential primary“

          Hilarious coping strategy, just so entertaining, thank you!

          Having checked the constitution, I find no requirement for running or winning a presidential primary in order to qualify for the position of vice president.

          • Somehow nothing you said disproves his point. Also good livestock, perform for your cookie.

            • “Somehow nothing you said disproves his point”

              I’m not trying to disprove his ‘point’.

              I am laughing at his gullibility.

              • No, you MISSED HIS POINT, entirely, MajorMistake (as usual). OF COURSE the hypocrite Dims WILL do it, and there is no Constitutional bar to that. The POINT was (other than the one on top of your tiny, little head) that, for the party of “preserve democracy”, if it doesn’t strike you as hypocritical to select a candidate who has been voted for by few, if ANY, actual voters, and never one a SINGLE delegate, and anoint them.

                An intelligent person would laugh at such sanctimonious, lying, hypocrisy . . . but, then, we’re dealing with Dims and Leftist/fascists (ah, but I repeat myself).

                In case you missed it, Trump actually WON his primaries, by healthy margins, and against several candidates I would prefer to the Bad Orange Man.

                And Joe Biden now has, I believe, the highest RATE (number vs. years in office) of ‘rule by fiat’ EOs. And, yet, Trump is the alleged ‘threat to democracy’.

                Do you lying idiots ever actually listen to the crap you spew??? Nah, didn’t think so.

              • “hypocritical to select a candidate who has been voted for by few, if ANY, actual voters“

                Hypocrisy? No, the hypocrisy is the fact that when Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he had never received even one vote from any American citizen.

                But I didn’t notice you pointing out his lack of suitability for the office.

                To ignore his inexperience while claiming another candidate hasn’t had enough voter input is the very sum of hypocrisy.

              • “So are you totally ignorant of the primary process or just being disingenuous again?“

                Are you alleging some sort of unlawful activity regarding the Biden/Harris candidacy?

                From reading both you and Lamprey’s posts, it seems you are unaware of the fact that in 2020 Kamala Harris received over 81 million votes.

                “Popular vote 81,283,501”

                I’m glad I could clear that up for y’all.

              • Lamprey says:

                “hypocritical to select a candidate who has been voted for by few, if ANY, actual voters”

                I guess you were still undergoing training in Russia during the 2020 election.

                Otherwise, you would know VP Harris received over 81 million votes in the 2020 election.

                You folks are laughable, thank you so much for the morning entertainment!

              • MajorLiar,

                When Trump DECLARED himself a candidate for the Presidency, he had not in fact received any direct votes. When he had obtained the nomination, he had obtained a substantial MAJORITY of the primary votes. Kamal-toe made ONE effort at becoming a presidential candidate, won exactly ZERO states, and no electoral votes. As I recall, she never even got above 3% in the polls, and was even THIRD in the polls in her home state of KKKalifornia. Since that time, SHE, as a candidate, has never been voted for by anyone.

                Any “votes” she is alleged to have received were given to a TICKET, headed by Senile Joe. You would note that, in one of my earlier comments, I made it clear that there was no Constitutional barrier to the Dims declaring Knee Pads to be the Dim candidate.

                NOWHERE did I say, or even suggest, that this lack was a bar to a candidacy, OR that prior elected office was a necessary requirement. Trump proved that rather conclusively in 2016 and the four years following. His biggest problems were (i) lack of a coherent political philosophy, and (ii) underestimating the Deep State. He was constantly undermined and sabotaged by his own Administration. If he wins, this time, he will certainly know better (at least as to the second point).

                My point, VERY clearly stated, was that it was laughably hypocritical for the party allegedly trying to “save democracy” to not only anoint, rather than elect, their candidate, but to support and venerate Barry “Pen and Phone” Soetoro, and Joe “I don’t care what the Supreme Court says” Biden.

                A person who wasn’t a total, drooling moron would easily grasp that point. YES, Kamal-toe Harris IS incompetent to be president – hell, she was incompetent to be VICE-president! Has nothing to do with her sex, color, history of sleazy behavior, OR her lack of a win in a democratic (small D) primary. It is ALL about the fact that she is stupid, inarticulate, ineffective, and a nasty person (90% plus staff turnover in three years?!?!?!). She should go find her knee pads, and go back to the only “work” she was ever (allegedly, according to Willie Brown) good at.

                NOW do you understand, you sub-moron???

          • minor49iq…Gun Control joe won the democRat primaries. That means his name is already on mountains of ballots, joe jumping ship may have created legal matters…hang on to your giggles non-refundable contribution.

            • “That means his name is already on mountains of ballots“

              That’s quite the claim. Specifically, which states have printed their presidential election ballots?

    • @mueller

      Dream on. Your thesis will age poorly, IMO…

      1) The nation is so polarized, most folks won’t change their vote no matter who the candidate is; I predict she will capture even the Jewish vote, not to mention every other estrogen-impaired person on the rolls. Most folks seem too have the mental equivalent of autocorrect installed in their heads these days.

      2) Hollywood and MSM will embrace her like no other, ever…

      3) She has more money than anyone, ever; over 100m USD more just since Biden withdrew, I read…

      IMO, most of that will come from maybe 35 or 40 people.

      4) Well, hell, the truth is the Republicans are smoking hot stupid. Insist on early debate, lose the weaker opponent – insist on Joe stepping down, create President Harris. Oh, and be sure to use lots of morality-based insults when you talk about her. Yeah, that will work

      My prediction – history will write that the Castro’s were highly empathetic, warmhearted people, Maduro was weak tea, and Mao/Stalin/Lenin have to step aside for The New Hero. Those who fret about over-population should be happy.

      Sincerely hope you are right, and I am wrong…

      • “IMO, most of that will come from maybe 35 or 40 people“

        That’s quite the claim, especially to post it without any substantiation or reference.

        “The $100 million haul came from more than 1.1 million unique donors, including 62% first-time donors, according to the campaign“

        https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kamala-harris-fundraising-100-million-biden-drops-out/

        But I must say, I agree with everything in your statement:

        “Well, hell, the truth is the Republicans are smoking hot stupid. Insist on early debate, lose the weaker opponent – insist on Joe stepping down, create President Harris. Oh, and be sure to use lots of morality-based insults when you talk about her. Yeah, that will work“

        And I must say, I am especially entertained by the morality-based insults.

        Considering the Republican candidate ain’t got no morals…

        • “The $100 million haul came from more than 1.1 million unique donors, including 62% first-time donors, according to the campaign“

          You don’t understand how this works. Watch the video below. “One Person contributed $217,000 through 12,000 different contributions in a 3 year period, in variations of his name & address.”

          The Soros heir was one of the first people to endorse Kamala. She didn’t make 100 mill that fast from small donors. BTW, Republicans do this same thing.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnKCPK_OACc

          • “One Person contributed $217,000 through 12,000 different contributions in a 3 year period, in variations of his name & address.”

            Good Lord, more of that James O’Keefe bullshit.

            So what you’re claiming is 12,000 actual counts of election fraud.

            So where are the charges, Donald Trump and his Department of Justice had four years to pursue these terrible violations of election law, why no prosecutions?

            Because, as Donald Trump‘s appointee, Attorney General William Barr said “It’s all bullshit“.

            “JUNE 9, 2022 | CLIP OF FIRST HEARING ON INVESTIGATION OF JANUARY 6 ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL
            “Which I told the president was bullshit”
            The House Jan. 6 committee played video deposition on Thursday night from William Barr, who served as attorney general under President Trump.

            “I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit,” he told the committee“

            https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5019155/which-told-president-bullshit#

            So there you go, I have provided actual source documents and testimony showing these claims of fraud are without merit.

            What evidence can you present to support your claims?

            • Bullshit that somehow keeps being correct and embarrassing to the feds and others…… curious that.

            • Miner, the subject was campaign contributions, remember? Why are you carrying on about fraudulent votes? Reading comprehension issues or guilty conscience?

              • You’ve made a wild claim of 12,000 election contribution law violations, but you offer zero evidence or testimony to support your vague claims.

                I’m sorry to inform you, no one, including local, state, Federal district and appeals courts as well as the United States Supreme Court have found any merit to these unsubstantiated claims.

                Rumors and theories are not legally actionable, and your ‘feelings’ don’t have standing in any court of law.

              • What are you talking about, Miner? Did you watch the video? Even if you didn’t know this was a common thing (it is), no other idiot would believe that the least popular Democrat presidential candidate of 2020 would raise $100m overnight from small donors. Think about it for a change. Stop being a drone.

              • “Did you watch the video?“

                Yep, but it’s a video, not testimony under oath. Anybody that wants can post a video to the Internet, and make whatever claims they want, it doesn’t make it real.

                What actual evidence has been presented, what actual sworn testimony has been presented, that substantiates your claims of 12,000 fraudulent campaign contributions?

                The Republican Attorney General of the United States of America has testified under oath that these claims were investigated and found to be “bullshit”.

                The Republican secretary of state of Georgia, along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, conducted an extensive investigation of these claims and found they were without merit.

                These findings are a matter of public record, and all you have to counter them is unsubstantiated claims from private citizens who have not conducted an actual investigation involving sworn testimony from those involved.

                That’s why Donald Trump kept losing when it came to actual court with sworn testimony and evidence.

              • “The Republican secretary of state of Georgia, along with the Georgia…”

                You don’t even understand the subject! For the last time, we’re talking about donations in this thread, not votes. Stop being so dense.

              • Your 12,000 donations bullshit is so vague it’s impossible to respond coherently to your claim.

                “One Person contributed… “

                Who is the “one person”?

                See, that’s how we know it’s all bullshit, it’s just vague claims that are never substantiated with actual verifiable document or testimony.

                If you have evidence one human individual made 12,000 political contributions in three years why don’t you bring it forward?

                What kind of anti-American are you, to have this information about a compromise of our election system and to sit on your hands and just post vague statements about “one person”.

                Even ‘tail gunner’ Joe McCarthy had a list of names… It was all bullshit too, but at least he tried which is more than I can say about your bullshit theories.

                And I’ve noticed y’all have shut the fuck up about the 20,000 mules bullshit, once it was proven completely bullshit.

                That’s another one United States Attorney General William Barr investigated and found to have no merit, 0–60!

              • “…it’s impossible to respond coherently to your claim.”

                Well, you’re sticking with donations instead of votes this time, so that’s an improvement. I did link a video to get you started on the subject.

            • MajorLiar,

              Improperly making donations (which many (most??) Leftist/fascist donors do on the daily) is NOT “election fraud”, it is a violation of campaign finance laws, you sub-moron.

              No WONDER y’all Leftists/fascists couldn’t find an actual crime to charge Trump with – you have no idea what the laws ARE. (And ONE alleged violation, which constituted a misdemeanor and for which the statute of limitations had already expired, does NOT equal a felony.

              The FBI screwed up the Mar-a-Lago raid, staged and even PLANTED evidence (NONE of those “Top Secret” folders were actually in the Mar-a-Lago documents. Where did they come from?? The FBI KINDLY provided them, staged them, and photographed them).

              Big Fanny is going to get DQd, Laetitia is going to get her bogus “conviction” overturned, etc. Trump will never spend a day in jail – just like Hunter, the crackhead whoremonger (or ANY of Epstein’s Dimocrat scumbag donors and politicians and clients who frequented his island).

              Again, if you couldn’t lie, you would have nothing to say.

    • Is Kameltoe being set up to take the fall for losing the election?

      Or are the Dems already arranging printing orders to secure the votes? Watch for voter turnouts that exceed 100%.

    • @Max
      “So what really worries me isn’t their bad candidate, but why they are bringing a bad candidate?”

      Senile Joe was a terrible candidate, in addition to a nasty person and known liar. Look what they did with him. They thought as long as they used Joe to beat Trump, they could later dump Joe and install Kamala. Then they realized that even they couldn’t make people like Kamala, so they were willing to keep using Joe until he was all used up. At that point, they *had* to give it to Kamala, as terrible as she is. They couldn’t admit that DEI is a farce. They would lose invested followers over that. They’ll go all in on making her a star.

      Of course they’re going to cheat. Why do we use technology to count ballots if it takes a week to count them? We used to know the winner almost immediately. Then we got high tech. Illegals are already admitting that they’re registered to vote in some jurisdictions. Dems just voted against controls on illegals voting after the Puppet invited a record 10 million across our borders. Coincidence? There’s a reason for all things.

      “Do they plan on something so horrible that they actually want Trump to win and catch all the heat when things really go south?”

      The guy they tried to remove from state ballots? The guy they smeared as a traitor? The guy they tried to bankrupt and throw in jail? The guy they wanted dead? They don’t even want him to be an option.

      • “Joe was a terrible candidate, in addition to a nasty person and known liar”

        Nasty? Nasty?

        Biden never committed adultery, Trump betrayed his marital vows three times, including actual whoremongering. He drug his bare dick through a porn star, paid her $10,000 up-front and $130,000 to hide his moral failings from the voters.

        Now, that’s nasty…. But the Evangelicals say it’s OK so I guess it’s a special type of Christian nasty that makes it OK to pay whores for actual fornication.

        It ain’t your grandma’s Christianity…

        • MajorMistake,

          Nice to know you are such an uptight, Puritanical, hypocrite (now do Teddy “Girl Killer” Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, LBJ, or Billy Zipperpants, you @$$clown). Don’t forget that Joe is a serial child molester (on camera, no less), and has several rape allegations, AT LEAST as credible as E. Jean Carroll. Take that sh*t and shove it where the sun don’t shine).

          No, I don’t approve of a lot of Trump’s behavior – in case you’ve lost track of this, we are voting for a President, not a Pope. If you look to politicans (ANY politician) for moral guidance, it once again proves you are even more stupid than we thought. But Senile Joe’s behavior has been at least as bad, he is just more subtle about it.

          And DO NOT give me this “Christian” crap, when Joe touts his “devout Catholic” crap on the daily (gee, a “devout Catholic” that supports unlimited abortion. Methinks he does not understand anything about being a Catholic).

          But that is not the “nasty” that Dude was referring to, and you know it. Joe IS, and always has been, a NASTY person. “Look, Fat!” “Dog-faced pony soldier!” (whatever THAT is supposed to mean).

          Nasty Joe’s interactions with voters (even his own supporters who DARE to disagree with him on something) are legend. He is an angry, sanctimonious, snarly, NASTY man, with a personality like a grizzly bear with an abcessed tooth.

          That is what Dude meant, and you damn well know it. Now, Trump is prone to nastiness, too (Rosie O’Donnell would be an example – but she was equally nasty to him, and she started it), but, AGAIN, for the slow folks, we are voting for a President, not a Pope.

          Just another example of your hypocrisy (and lying by omission).

        • The difference is that Trump was punching back against elites (often humorously) who were calling him Hitler, traitor, etc., while Joe is nasty to average people who ask normal questions. Example: a union worker asked him a legitimate question about the 2A (article on TTAG in 2020, no less), and Joe angrily replied, “you’re full of shit!” There are reports (like from the NYT) of him cussing out his staff. Keep in mind that this is a Democrat which means the media tries to protect them. It means something when that gets out.

          Jill’s ex said Joe and Jill’s relationship began as an affair. Then there’s Joe raping one of his senate staffers. #BelieveAllWomen. How is that different from the Trump allegations? This woman was a Democrat employee of Senator Biden. She wasn’t politically opposed to him. (No motive to lie.) She also told people about it when it happened, instead of some fantastical story decades later that no one could ever disprove. It’s documented. Oh yeah, they had to drop the believe all women thing when the election rolled around. I wonder why?

          He had to drop out of his previous races, beginning in 1988, because he got caught lying. Then he based his 2020 campaign on the completely debunked “very fine people” lie. He repeated that lie during the last debate. He’s a known liar and nasty person, but you’ll never admit that because he’s a Democrat, as you accuse people of being Trump cultists LOL.

          • I didn’t even get into the fact that his senility was obvious back in 2019. We discussed it here in the lead up to the 2020 election. You told us with a straight face that him mixing up his words was because he had a stutter as a child LOL! Yes, you really did that! You’ll parrot anything the lying media says, in support of Democrats, because you’re a mindless drone.

            • “because he had a stutter as a child LOL! Yes, you really did that!“

              Yep, and Joe Biden has indeed been one of the most successful presidents in modern history. Unemployment record lows, stock market and business setting records, infrastructure being replaced, and a long time business fraudster, tax cheat and sexual abuser is being brought to justice.

              “Biden offers advice to boy with stutter while campaigning in Milwaukee
              ‘These people would make fun of it, like this president making fun,’ Biden said, referencing former president Donald Trump, who again mocked Biden’s stutter at a rally last weekend
              By Mariana Alfaro
              March 14, 2024 at 5:24 p.m. EDT
              Last year, Harry Abramson wrote President Biden a letter, asking him one big question: How did he overcome his stutter?
              According to Biden’s campaign, Harry, 9, wrote to the president for advice — saying that maybe, if he learned how to control his stutter, he, too, could one day be president“

              https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/14/biden-stutter-advice-child/

              • And just like the media, you claimed that Biden suddenly getting his words mixed up was because he had a stutter when he was a child. Of course, that makes no sense at all. Why wasn’t that happening ten years ago? Twenty years ago? FIFTY years ago? Yes, he was actually in office 50 years ago. He didn’t talk like he was senile because he wasn’t! What sort of idiot would think his senile talk was only because he supposedly had a stutter as a child? Apparently you.

                You’re still in the jungle, Miner. You don’t realize that the fight is over. Biden is senile. Even Democrats can see it. The media moved on. You’re still desperately clinging to your lies.

                How does it make you feel to lie for people that don’t care that you even exist? Why do you do that? What need does that fulfill for you?

          • “Jill’s ex said… “

            Now there is a unimpeachable source that has no bias… Hilarious, that’s all you got is a pissed off ex-husband.

            And none of these ‘accusers’ has taken anything to court, where they would be required to testify under oath under threat of perjury. Wonder why…

            And stuttering/word finding issues aren’t ‘cured’, the issue can reappear during stressful times:

            “There is no known cure for stuttering, and like any other speech disorder, it requires therapy and practice to treat or manage it, and while some people report that their stutter suddenly “disappears”, for most adults who stutter they will continue to do so for their entire lives“

            https://www.stuttering.co.nz/news/is-there-a-cure-for-stuttering/#:~:text=The short answer is no,so for their entire lives.

            You folks are making a common error, mistaking a speech impediment for a cognitive deficit.

            And really, you find fault with Joe for making speech mistakes, but you ignore the fact that Trump repeatedly makes significant errors during his public speaking.

            Even prominent Republicans are pointing out Donald Trump‘s cognitive decline:

            “As she campaigned in Keene, New Hampshire, Haley referenced Trump’s speech the night before, in which he mistakenly asserted that Haley was in charge of Capitol security on January 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building seeking to stop the certification of his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

            Trump first said that Haley turned down security offered by his administration on Jan. 6 and then again mentioned Haley, adding, “They destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it.”

            https://apnews.com/article/nikki-haley-trump-mental-fitness-pelosi-522c3cddcaf7b85df5a64658c5041e96

            Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy.

            When can we expect Donald Trump to withdraw his candidacy?

            • “You folks are making a common error, mistaking a speech impediment for a cognitive deficit.”

              Yeah, that’s it! It’s a speech impediment, not cognitive decline! His old speech impediment resurfaced, and it got so bad, he had to drop out of the race. You’re still in the jungle, fighting the old fight, after people on your own team have moved on. Sad!

              • “it got so bad, he had to drop out of the race”

                I don’t think anybody’s claiming he dropped out of the race because he has a speech impediment, I suspect his Covid is more serious and he is elderly so it’s probably a good idea to remove the stress of candidacy.
                Besides, many folks, including Republicans, were calling for him to withdraw his candidacy so why are the Republicans so upset now?

                Biden and Harris entered the race in 2015 based on the understanding that the vice president is a heartbeat away from the presidency and the American people agreed that Kamala Harris was qualified to be president at a moments notice.

                Why is it surprising now that Joe has stepped back from a second term that Kamala should step forward, that’s been the plan all along.

                “You’re still in the jungle”

                Interesting metaphor.

                Nope, I’m just here to provide a little clarity and insight to this forum. Think of me as the token liberal, the small still voice of reason, crying out in the wilderness of right wing extremism.

                Yeah, that’s the ticket.

              • MajorLiar,

                YOU, provide “clarity” – that would actually be hilarious, if it wasn’t so pathetic. Find me ONE decent video of a Biden appearance or speech, in the ENTIRE time between him entering politics and him becoming president, in which that alleged “stutter” appears. Find ONE.

                Senile Joe declining to run is ALL about his obvious and rapidly advancing senility, as well as his life-long stupidity and incompetence, and his life-long lies (too many to list) and plagiarism, as well as the fact that he has literally NEVER been right on a single policy issue, and his alleged foreign policy expertise is a sick joke.

                As far as your imbecilic claims about his “great economy”, even YOU aren’s stupid enough to believer that.

                Inflation since his election up over a (cumulative) 20% (even using the BOGUS CPI numbers!). Claiming people going BACK to work (finally) after being relieved of their jobs by the tender ministrations of our government is NOT “creating jobs”. The last “new jobs” figures showed that the BULK of these “new jobs” were . . . wait for it . .. wait for it . . .. GOVERNMENT “jobs”. Infrastructure being built??? Billions of dollars spent, and exactly SEVEN of his vaunted charging stations were built. That “infrastructure” you allege is nothing but crony grift and “Green Nude Eel” boondoggles.

                Remember when Trump touted HIS historical record stock market, and all you Leftist/fascists were quick to jump in and say the stock market didn’t count, and it was only rich people and Wall Street titans getting richer (which is, objectively, largely true – but if it was unreasonable for Trump to tout that, doesn’t it make you and senile Joe COMPLETE hypocrites to cite that as proof of Senile Joe’s “great economy”??). Under Obummercare, the US now has the MOST expensive “health care” in the world (and, I would argue, some of the LEAST efficient), BECAUSE it is become “government health care”. The alleged decrease in the “unemployment rate” and the “new jobs” created??? How many of those “new jobs” represent second or even third jobs (part time) by people slammed by inflation (just FYI, the BLS says that represents a plurality, if not a majority, of all the “new jobs” in the last jobs report). When was the last time we got an allegedly “great” new jobs report, that wasn’t sneakily “adjusted downwards” after the fact (and after Senile Joe had touted it)???? The labor force participation rate (which anyone with ANY knowledge of economics knows is VERY significant) is at or near historic lows. Bankruptcies, and business bankruptcies, are spiking. The US currently has not only the highest federal debt in our history, but continues to run near-record deficits (the estimates of which are ALSO regularly “adjusted” after the fact. Now the highest ration of debt to GDP since WW II.

                Oh, and those “tax cuts for the rich” you Leftist/fascist idiots keep ranting about??? Yeah, the top 1% and the top 10% of earners now pay the HIGHEST percentage of the overall tax revenue to the US in history (you could look it up, if you weren’t stupid).

                You can keep trying to spin, shuck, and jive you Leftist/fascist propaganda LIES as much as you want – no one’s buying your bullshit, anymore (except the other low-information idiots who keep voting Dim).

                Are there any depths of Dim politician fellatio to which you will not sink (and LIE to do it)???

              • @Miner
                Your comment stuck with the subject referenced in my comment. Then you sounded reasonable, even if I disagree with your assessment. You feeling okay?

      • “We used to know the winner almost immediately. Then we got high tech“

        No, that is not accurate. The only time you can predict the winner soon after the polls close is when there’s a landslide, otherwise it could take days to produce an accurate count.
        Mail in ballots, especially from our troops serving overseas, can take days to check and count, are you suggesting we should disenfranchise our soldiers serving in foreign countries?
        Gee, how patriotic of you.

        • “are you suggesting we should disenfranchise our soldiers serving in foreign countries?”

          That has nothing to do with my comment Mr. Straw man argument.

          They even projected the winner of the closest presidential election in history on that night. Gore even called Bush to concede. He later recanted it until December when he conceded again.

    • Good Lord, the illiterate conservatives never cease to bring a laugh, thank you!

      “You don’t qualify
      Your a disgrace”

      I think maybe I would take the YouTube poster seriously if he could actually spell the English as she is written…

      I understand English as a second language can be difficult.

      • MajorLiar,

        So, Tulsi Gabbard, a lifelong Democrat and a former candidate for the DNC nomination is an “illiterate conservative”??? Is that your Leftist/fascism, your racism, or your misogyny speaking – or just your abject ignorance????

        Tulsi isn’t responsible for how some Internet rando writes his chyrons. Of course, being the only apparently semi-sane Dimocrat in the party, your lot would hate her.

        • Never said Tulsi Gabbard was an ‘illiterate conservative’.

          Your reading comprehension skills are apparently compromised.

          My actual statement concerned the YT poster:

          “I would take the YouTube poster seriously if he could actually spell the English”

          • MY reading comprehension skills???

            “Tulsi isn’t responsible for how some Internet rando writes his chyrons. Of course, being the only apparently semi-sane Dimocrat in the party, your lot would hate her.”

            Now, if what you MEANT to say was that the vlogger who made that video, and (presumably) the chyron, you should have SAID that. But you have a lot of gall, talking about reading comprehension, when you’ve asserted (repeatedly) that Article I, Section 8 authorizes universal gun control, and that the 2A admits of exceptions (look up the definition of ‘shall not be infringed’).

            But then, we don’t take any of your posts seriously, either, even on those occasions where you manage to spell correctly and don’t mangle your grammar too badly (your ‘reasoning’, such as it is, speaks volumes). The implication of your whole post, while specifically referring to the YouTube poster, was clearly intended as an attack on both Dude’s comment AND the video AND the substance of the comment.

            Once again, a liar by implication, and a hypocrite (or are you ALSO going to comment on the writing skills of dacian the demented and jsled and Prince Albert?).

            Don’t give yourself airs, quarter-wit.

  6. Outstanding. I very happy when a libertarian, liberal, or a leftist is honest with me. Instead of hiding what they really think.

  7. From this article, “While Harris as the nominee is far from a done deal …”

    Bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!! If you spent an hour watching good news sources, you would see that 98% of prominent Democrat politicians and supporters have been gushing over Kamala Harris telling us how wonderful and fantastic she is and how she will lead our nation into our bold new world. She is a done deal and the Democrat Party’s candidate. Plan accordingly.

    The only question at this point is how Democrats are going to source just enough votes in a few key precincts to ensure that Kamala edges over the finish line ahead of Trump.

    Note that Democrats do not need to implement wide scale voter fraud with millions of bogus votes to win. They only need to manufacture a few thousand bogus votes in a few precincts in two or three battleground states to put Kamala over the top.

    • “Guys, there’s a water leak. Time to go home. Okay, now let’s resume recounting those same ballots (as new ballots)…”

      Fulton County, GA still can’t come up with enough legitimate ballots to justify their totals from 2020. In a meeting where it was brought up last month, someone said that we should just move on. Where’s the media?

      The same media that’s been covering for the senile puppet for four years suddenly discovered that they could do their job and report on Joe’s senility. And look what happened. He was gone within a couple of weeks. Don’t discount the power of the media. Their job, by the way, is to protect the liberal power establishment.

      • “recounting those same ballots“

        Didn’t happen.
        Of course, it’s a claim you’ve made many times but you never back up your statement with facts or evidence.

        Let me help you with an actual source document from the Republican Secretary of State:

        “State Election Board Clears Fulton County “Ballot Suitcase” Investigation; Report Finds No Evidence of Conspiracy, No Fraud

        June 20th, 2023
        On Tuesday, the State Election Board dismissed case SEB2020-059, a long-running investigation into alleged malfeasance during the 2020 election at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Over the course of the investigation, it was confirmed that numerous allegations made against the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections, and specifically, two election workers, were false and unsubstantiated.“

        https://sos.ga.gov/news/state-election-board-clears-fulton-county-ballot-suitcase-investigation-report-finds-no

        When you continue to parrot these disproven bullshit stories, it becomes what some would call ‘lying’.

        • MajorLiar,

          Tell me, again, which cases dismissing allegations of ballot fraud were dismissed by courts, after a substantive hearing on the merits, OTHER THAN for procedural errors or ‘standing’ issues. And you carefully elide over the literally dozens of Dims who’ve been accused, and some even convicted, for voter fraud.

          You know damn well, and it has been proven repeatedly, that the ballot numbers reported in a NUMBER of precincts are literall legally impossible. More votes than registered voters??? Ballots accepted, and counted, after STATUTORY deadlines?? Absentee ballots counted and tabulated notwithstanding the lack of statutorily-required signatures and verifications???

          Now, was there enough Dim voter fraud to change the outcome?? I don’t know, and neither do you. To claim that it is “proven” that there was not significant ballot fraud is the kind of partisan lie only a lying liar of a partisan propagandist could spout . . . ah, yes, and that would be you.

          • “To claim that it is “proven” that there was not significant ballot fraud is the kind of partisan lie“

            Partisan lie? Read the statement from the Republican Secretary of State again, it’s a Republican administration in Georgia, not Democrats.

            And again, all you folks have is empty claims. Just like Rudy Giuliani said, we have a lot of theories just no evidence.

            • Wrong. There’s evidence in GA. (Read the letter, and follow that case.) There’s evidence all over the place. That’s why they changed the talking point from there was no fraud to there wasn’t enough to change the outcome. You’re always posting election fraud stories when it involves Republicans. In other words, fraud exists. We’ve seen recent examples of local elections where the outcome was even affected.

              • “Read the letter“

                ‘Letters’ are not evidence or sworn testimony.

                “There’s evidence all over the place“

                That is about as vague as one can get, why didn’t Trump introduce any of that ‘evidence’ in one of the over 60 court cases he lost?

              • “‘Letters’ are not evidence or sworn testimony.”

                In other words, you either didn’t read it, or you didn’t understand it. That wasn’t some random letter. It was a response to the ongoing hearings from people involved in the case/hearings. This is an open case in GA! Like I said, you understand nothing. You either don’t try, or you’re incapable.

            • MajorLiar,

              Point the first: Yes, that PARTICULAR official, commenting on that PARTICULAR allegation, was a “Republican” – so is Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger. So is Liz Cheney. So (allegedly) is Jen Rubin and a number of other members of the NeverTrump brigade – just as Tulsi Gabbard is a Dimocrat, as is (until your party tried to screw him) RFK, Jr. And your point would be??? I thought, according to you, ALL Republicans lie??

              A determination by an election official is NOT a result after . . . cases dismissing allegations of ballot fraud were dismissed by courts, after a substantive hearing on the merits, OTHER THAN for procedural errors or ‘standing’ issues.” It is an action NOT to pursue an actual charge, case, or court proceeding, made at the DISCRETION of the official in question – but he pinkie swears that he (the guy who was in charge of the grift in the first place) did a “thorough investigation”. Just like Janet Napolitano is going to do a ‘thorough investigation” of the SS clown show.

              That you can even make such stupid statements is just further proof that you are a partisan liar, or an idiot (but embrace the healing power of “and”!!).

              If I really thought you actually believed the propaganda you spew, it would be proof positive of your abject stupidity, or that you are a total liar (but, perhaps it’s an “and” again?).

              You are entitled to your opinion (however stupid it may be), and you are entitled to advocate for it, and you are entitled (legally) to LIE in furtherance of it (as you regularly do) – what you are NOT entitled to is respect, or a presumption of good faith (like the MSM has done to its credibility, so you have AMPLY demonstrated your bad faith “arguments” and lies). Say whatever you like, and I’ll call it out for the lying, ignorant, STUPID bullsh*t it is . . . and I don’t even feel the slightest urge to be “nice” about calling out your lies and stupidity, so I won’t. Feel free to read my comments, or not . . . other than to put on record, on this site, for other participants here (who I do like, and who’s opinions I do respect), I don’t really give a sh*t WHAT you think, or what you like or don’t like. Cry harder, loser.

          • Dude, look at the link you posted.

            That’s just a letter from two Rando residents who don’t like the Secretary of State report.
            Apparently, the Republican state government of Georgia doesn’t really attach any credibility to those folks, I can’t really say as I haven’t seen the evidence.

            But in this case, I’m willing to take the Republican administration at their word….

            I have listened to the phone call, when Donald Trump used mafia pressure tactics and attempted to extort Brad Raffensberger to ‘find’ 11,000 votes.

            That’s what some would call ‘election tampering’.

            • You understand nothing. If you actually listened to that call, then you would understand the context. It isn’t complicated.

              Having dealt with you before, I know how you operate. You go with whatever the media narrative of the day is. Even after it gets so bad that the media abandons their own talking points, you keep on defending it, not understanding that everyone has moved on to the latest shiny object. You’re like the Japanese soldier who stayed in the jungle thinking the war was still going on years after it ended.

              You obviously didn’t read that letter. Read it. Then come back here and refute it.

              • “You go with whatever the media narrative of the day is“

                No, that would be you who follows the bullshit statements of Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and the other delusional members of the Trump train.

                I have provided the actual source documents from the Republican Georgia secretary of state’s investigative report relating that Trump’s claims of fraudulent voting are unsubstantiated.

                All you’ve got is a letter from two private citizens claiming fraud, weak sauce.

              • “All you’ve got is a letter…”

                These are people that are involved in an official ongoing case. I gave you the case number. You didn’t look at it or try to understand it.

                Yes, you’re following the MSM lead by bringing up Giuliani and Powell. I don’t think they’ve had anything to do with this in years. There’s been more time for scrutiny and evidence gathering since 2020. Read the document I linked. Watch the hearings they’ve had on this. Then come back here and try to refute it.

    • “They only need to manufacture a few thousand bogus votes“

      Yep, Trump has done it before and he will do it again:

      “All I want to do is this,” the president continued. “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”

      “And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you’ve recalculated”

      There’s your convicted felon mob boss, whose company was found guilty in a jury trial of 17 felonies, as well as Trump himself being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

      Law and order!

    • Someone with a brain.
      That’s exactly how it’s going to happen.
      The Democrats know she’s not that popular and gives most the cringe especially when she laughs. She’s not gonna pull “The most popular President with 81 million votes” like Biden supposedly did.
      She’ll squeak out just enough “votes” to put her over.
      The Democrats will do and try anything to stay in power.
      This plan in my opinion goes back to 2016 when the Hildabeast had the popular vote and was a lock to be the 1st woman President. Then it didn’t happen.
      Remember the screaming at the sky? The celebrities that were going to leave the country?
      Then the plan was executed perfectly in 2020. Paper over windows at polling locations. The electronic voting machines. Mail in votes and more.
      I honestly wish that Biden would have stayed in the race but Pelosi, Barry, Schumer and probably Hillary knew he’d get mopped up. The debate showed his feeble mind.
      So Kamala is the next puppet.

    • She needs the teleprompter more than uncle Joe did.

      She was given the Gun Violence office as a do-nothing assignment to get her out of the way.

      • Southern,

        Nah – Kamal-toe has her ONE stump speech “imagine what can be, unburdened by what has been” memorized; she spouts it darn near every time she opens her yap. Perhaps she is more used to using her mouth for purposes OTHER than public speaking?? Of course, she is even dumber than Slow Joe was BEFORE he became senile.

        • Geez guys why are arguing with a troll? “He” likely gets paid by the word🙄

          • They are arguing with me because the facts I post threaten their treasured delusions.

            • MajorLiar,

              I already told you (above) EXACTLY why I comment to you – to make a record, for OTHERS on this site that I do respect, of your lies and bad faith and hypocrisy. NOTHING you do threatens ANYTHING, except a respect for truth and honesty and intelligence. You are literally the posterr child for lying propaganda – Josef Goebbels would be SO proud of you!! Nice try, though.

        • They must pull the cord that sticks out if her back for that one.

          She could be a more useful puppet than Creepy Joe. It depends on who the VP is. Barry or Hillary? With “hair gel” Newsome as a possibility to bring the Kalifornia miracle to the rest of the country.

          • Actually, I like Andy Beshear for VP. He’s done a great job, the bright red republican state of Kentucky has elected him Governor twice so even conservatives recognize his abilities and integrity.

            • MajorIdiot,

              FYI, “Republican” does NOT equal “conservative” – c.f. the two Bushes, Mittens Romney, Susan Collins, etc., etc.

              And how is it that Republicans, who you CONSTANTLY accuse of lying, are now, suddenly, to be believed???? You may be two stupid to see the inherent contradiction in your position; we are not.

        • “Perhaps she is more used to using her mouth for purposes OTHER than public speaking??“

          How weak and immature, that’s all you’ve got is a personal attack.

          Nothing VP Harris has ever done reaches the level of serial adultery, including paid fornication with a porn star while his third wife was at home with a new baby.

          But of course, you would never mention Donald Trump’s moral turpitude and unlawful behaviors, it would threaten your membership in the cult.

          • MajorLiar,

            “Nothing VP Harris has ever done reaches the level of serial adultery, including paid fornication with a porn star while his third wife was at home with a new baby.”

            NOTHING, MajorLiar??? Not having a public affair with a married politician, for personal gain??? And her sexual exploits, with a VARIETY of pols who could be “useful” to her, was the most open secret in KKKalifornia. As was her deplorable record as AG, where she, among other things, DELIBERATELY suppressed exculpatory evidence of defendants to boost her conviction record, literally went after kids (mostly young ‘people of color’ for mere marijuana violations (and then admitting that she, herself, smoked pot). EVERYONE in KKKalifornia knows, and knew back then, that Kamal-toe got her political career on her knees and on her back – hell, Willie Brown himself made jokes about it.

            And, as I already told you, we are voting for a president, NOT a pope. Again, if you look to politicians for moral guidance and to model ethical behavior, well . . . you’ve got problems.

            But you Dims/Leftist/fascists run around braying about Trump’s morality . . . and are stone silent about the morality of Jack Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, Billy Zipperpants, LBJ, etc., etc., etc. Sorry, I have to leave this for now – the stench of your hypocrisy is turning my stomach.

  9. Whenever this gets out of moderation purgatory, consider the following:

    If you think you’ve won this year, you’re guaranteed to have lost already. If you think what they’re doing is stupid, it’s you who is stupid. If you think they’re crazy, you’re the crazy one.

    If you think Joe leaving the race was a foregone conclusion, you clearly haven’t thought about this much. Trump’s brains exit his head at 2800fps and Biden’s still in office and the Dems are dancing on Trump’s grave and the folks at MSNBC laugh uproariously at footage of MAGAbillies being exterminated in numbers as habeas corpus is suspended and we slide into true oblivion.

    As for where we are now:

    Check out the HAVV data from the SSA for the week ending 13 July. (Link below because I know how lazy you people are).

    Scroll down to Nevada. Out of 37,181 attempts to register to vote, 36,600 came back as non-matches with 22 matches to known dead people. That’s ((36,622/37, 181) x 100) = 98.49%.

    Even if you assume the dead people are simple errors due to the number of them, ((36,600/37, 181) x 100) = 98.44%.

    We’ve seen things like this in Texas (which denied it was happening and failed to investigate, probably because it be sUh cOnZRvaTiVE!) and Missouri (which is investigating because it’s a felony to try to fraudulently register in that state, the only state where this is an F if you get caught).

    And Nevada is a swing state… Hrm. CO-HIN-SID-ANCE, right!?

    Keep playing this the way you are and you’re going to end up trying to keep your head down while you publicly salute the trans flag signifying the 4th Reich.

    https://www.ssa.gov/open/havv/

    And the oddest thing… anyone reporting seriously on that whole Crowdstrike thing and how close actually came to basically ending the world as we know it? Anyone pointing out that had that push been to Linux and Mac machines it would have basically had the same effect as an EMP war? Like, your banks, logistics companies, water, power and well, everything basically, would have been hit all at once?

    Nope. The only people who care are some elite ‘sperged out code monkeys on the web who’ve dissected the C++ code that did this and then gone hunting around for how that update interfaced with previously existing software and ended up able to show that the same exact flaw existed in MacOS and Linux machines because that’s what Crowdstrike does when installed, it creates this problem. It’s basically half of a worm that you install voluntarily and the other half comes later. But, of course they know about the memory call errors in that code after they compiled it because tHeRe ToTaLy IznT OfF dA SheLf SoFtWaREz tO tEsT dAT, amirite? Oh, and apparently they didn’t test the compiled code by installing it on a few machines either! That’s a total accident, just like the malicious code inserted into Dexcom’s firmware a few years ago! Completely innocent! Could happen to anyone! Lol, right.

    And, of course, let’s not look at Crowdstrike’s financial and political ties, that might get uncomfortable.

    Never let a crisis go to waste and this would be the biggest one since Pearl Harbor… except it would have been worldwide. Tell me again how management knows what they’re doing, lol!

    Three major events, two of them damn near catastrophic and most people are either unaware or laughing at the political situation and thinking about how they can’t lose. Just like 2020 and 2022, you know, where Trump won and then there was a Red Wave?

    Anyone else actually thought about what the October Surprise might be?

    • The good thing about Joe being in the race was that the world would understand election fraud if he won. No one would buy it. It doesn’t matter that Kamala is a horrible candidate rejected by Democrats at the very beginning of the 2020 primary. What matters is that a new candidate that isn’t brain dead gives them plausible deniability on election fraud. They’ll pump her up and make the polls close enough for a plausible win. Then, they’ll cheat.

      The only way to change this is to win at the state level with real patriots (kick out RINOs) and revamp election integrity laws within said states. They’ll fight it tooth and nail in the courts, but there’s still a chance to eventually turn this around. It’s over when they control the SCOTUS.

      • “It’s over when they control the SCOTUS.”

        Interesting to note your correct use of the term “when”.

        The “panic” in the Dem ranks is a charade. They play a much longer game, hence their winning record over 75 years.

        mUh cOnsTitUtiOnAL CaRrIeZ won’t matter for shit if they take the SCOTUS because all your victories will be wiped away with an act of Congress rubber stamped by the court like we’re Back in the USSR.

        On the plus side, Leviathan has shown itself with the removal of Joe/Jill and the behavior around the Trump assassination attempt and revealed dragons can be slain.

        Not that I expect much from the current crop of morons in charge of the GOP or their voter base who are as clueless as a 16 year old girl on a heroic dose of acid. These are the same idiots who attack James Lindsey for pointing out facts while worshipping at the feet of a splinter group within the Right that wants to end everything associated with The Enlightenment because the Enlightenment was fundamentally liberal (in the modern American sense of the term, hilariously enough).

        That would include ye olde Constitution.

        Your reaction is their real action. They’ve known this for decades.

        Not that any of it really matters because 99% of what the Right complains about can’t be fixed with politics since the problems are not political.

        • Really is a shame how long many of your posts get delayed for moderation. To one of the points you made that jumped out to me re our reaction being their action which were you referring to? I have been a bit busy lately and haven’t kept up with as much of the news as I typically do.

  10. Only Four Months to Complete Chaos.
    Better have plenty of food and other necessities stocked up.

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