Kamala Harris: a dangerous Democrat
Today I was awakened by my iPhone chirping a new message from my news app:
Trump hearings launch Kamala Harris
Oops!
From her first days on Capitol Hill, Sen. Kamala Harris has been winning kudos from progressives, beginning when she became one of only 11 senators to vote against the confirmation of General John Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security.
She is as progressive as Markos Moulitsas. She may be intelligent, good-looking (sexism warning), and anti-Trump but that's where her political appeal ends. If all it takes is to be rabidly anti-Trump to make you a political star, then why didn't the Evil Queen conquer the Orangutang? Being anti-Trump is simply not good enough. There must be substance other than being against something.
The fluff piece from Politico continues:
On Wednesday, Harris’ team skillfully seized on her budding profile, sending out a fundraising letter titled “They told me to be courteous.”
Her pitch: “This is hardly the first time the GOP has done this — let us not forget when they silenced my friend and colleague Elizabeth Warren for trying to read a letter from Coretta Scott King about Jeff Sessions. … Well here is the truth: I will not be silenced. We will not be silenced. The American people, who deserve the truth, will not be silenced. Not when the faith and integrity of our democracy is at stake.”
This is hypocritical horseshit. Kampala is anything but honest. She is corrupt and I will provide a small sample of this below. As someone's sigline here says "Don't tell me what you believe, what you do shows me what you believe."
Here is the supreme horseshit:
She argued that as California's top cop, “when I was fighting the big banks for the people
Fighting against the big banks, KH, is that what you call it? I call it not just dereliction of duty but betrayal of public trust.
Here's a picture of her. "Let's move to the right"
From an L.A. Times, known to be a wildly progressive news outlet (s/) comes this article likening Kamala Harris as the Democratic Moses:
We can’t afford to be purists,” Harris said. “You have to ask that question of yourself: Are we going to be purists to this resistance to the point that you We can’t afford to be purists,” Harris said. “You have to ask that question of yourself: Are we going to be purists to this resistance to the point that you let these guys go?
What guys are you talking about? Donald Trump and only Donald Trump? What about the vicious battle you waged against the current Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin? Surely you remember Steve, you know, the foreclosure king.
Here's some information about Steven Mnuchin
ONEWEST BANK, WHICH Donald Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, ran from 2009 to 2015, repeatedly broke California’s foreclosure laws during that period, according to a previously undisclosed 2013 memo from top prosecutors in the state attorney general’s office...
In the memo, the leaders of the state attorney general’s Consumer Law Section said they had “uncovered evidence suggestive of widespread misconduct” in a yearlong investigation. In a detailed 22-page request, they identified over a thousand legal violations in the small subsection of OneWest loans they were able to examine, and they recommended that Attorney General Kamala Harris file a civil enforcement action against the Pasadena-based bank. ..
But Harris’s office, without any explanation, declined to prosecute the case.
Well, at first the vocal KH seemed to be at a loss for words:
But the investigation into what the memo called “widespread misconduct” was closed after Harris’s office declined to file a civil enforcement action against the bank.
Harris’s statement on Tuesday doesn’t explain how involved she was with the decision to not prosecute, or why the decision was made.
A day later, KH regained her speaking abilities, a medical disorder known as political aphasia:
“We went and we followed the facts and the evidence, and it’s a decision my office made,” Harris told The Hill. “We pursued it just like any other case. We go and we take a case wherever the facts lead us.”
Does this sound a little bit like James the Weasel Comey's "no reasonable prosecutor" BS?
The Soros - Mnuchin - Harris connection:
Kamala Harris’ indiscretions at California Attorney General have exposed an embarrassing case of corruption at the start of her career in the senate.
Coincidentally, before Harris passed on the opportunity to file action against OneWest Bank, one of its owners, prolific Democratic Party donor George Soros was pouring money into California for California Criminal Policy Initiatives.
In 2014, Soros and hedge fund billionaire John Paulson sold OneWest for $3.4 billion. In 2015 Soros maxed out a donation to Harris’ Senate bid.
What makes Harris’ campaign donations and her decision to not go after OneWest Bank even more suspicious is that despite Mnuchin primarily donating to Republicans, his only donation to a Democrat in 2016 happened to be to Kamala Harris.
The article goes on to state than Mnuchin's then-wife Heather contributed $8,750 to KH in 2010. In the same year the Mnuchin-led OneWest Bank contributed 6500 to KH.
But wait, there's more! While digging into the Seth Rich Assassination matter (part 2 to be published soon) I came across an interesting "tidbit" as James Clapper is fond of saying.
The video is 29:30 long but contains useful information, not only about "progressive" KH and her sister Maya Harris but also about one of KH's trusted aides. The aide likes to play dress up in police uniforms and barge into California police stations pretending to be a visiting police chief. People are often judged by their associates. Yeah, yeah, I know, guilt by association. But too many associations to dispel the strong odor of corruption.
Kamala Harris is bad for California and bad for America.
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Yeah, TPTB are polishing her up
for a 2020 Potus run in case they can't remove the stench from Clinton.
The MSM are on board.
Superdelegates are probably on board also.
We should ask them.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
They could just announce the winner to the press
and save everyone the cost and time of a primary.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
DWS as much as
threatened that somewhere. "We don't need to hold Primaries, we can just retire to the back room, like they did in the old days, light up a
doobie~er cigar, and bat it around 'til we come up with a nominee. We don't need you little people $h!tting on our presumptive, so, watch your tongue." (or words to that affect).the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
That sounds more like what Bruce Spiva (DNC Attorney) said
at the DNC Fraud Lawsuit hearing back in April. This was his exact quote:
On a side note - It wouldn't be a Clinton scandal without a few cigars thrown in.
@LoneStarMike
Dear LoneStarMike, may you live forever.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
The lllusion of democracy is crucial.
Fictitious, but crucial.
During the first 20 minutes of the recent Comey hearing
when the chair and co-chair of the committee made their opening statements, I almost turned it off because the hypocrisy from both sides was so overwhelming. When they started talking about democracy, it was just too much. We have lost any semblance of democracy since the Patriot Act. Before 9/11, the veneer was just thick enough to cover up the slime, which is now exuding in plain sight.
I repeat this to the point of tedium precisely
because the illusion of democracy is crucial to them:
We have not lost democracy. We never had it.
We were constituted a republic, not a democracy. Originally, we were a republic with very limited suffrage. Over time, we expanded suffrage, but we never altered the form of government. We remain a republic. We have never been a democracy. And, as long as we keep conflating suffrage and democracy, we never will be a democracy. People don't fight to become that which they imagine they already are or fight to get that which they imagine they already have. And that is why I repeat myself on this subject endlessly.
More: https://caucus99percent.com/content/sleights-santa-and-republic
Yes and no
Quite correct. Maybe I should strip the word democracy from my lexicon of American politics. Republic, pseudo-democracy, magic illusion, or whatever.
Incorrect:
People DO fight for what they think they have because of cradle-to-(early) grave propaganda.
I don't know what you intend your last sentence to convey.
The intent of my comment is that propaganda
to which Americans are exposed to makes them want to preserve the capitalist/consumerist way of life and it's so called freedoms. For this reason, many will fight.
I hope that clarifies the response.
Yes, thanks!
A huge amount of propaganda has long been devoted to brainwashing Americans into believing the Big Lie that the USA is a democracy and that we go to war to defend democracy or to "spread" democracy abroad. In reality. we should be going to war to get democracy and to severely restrict the power of our corrupt, selected unrepresentatives.
@HenryAWallace
Well, that certainly explains why TPTB claim to believe that democracy is spread around the globe by bombing the civilians of other countries and overthrowing democratically elected government in order to install corporate puppet governments more to their liking. I wish I hadn't missed this thread/comment when it came out...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
There's an app for that? Holy cow-tapult!
Thanks for the informative essay. I thought Harris over-acted and was badgering Comey in the clips I saw, hard to watch. Too bad the Chair didn't tell her "Elections have consequences", that would have been funny Kabuki after all, not so pathetic. "Trump hearings launch Kamala Harris" indeed!
Feinstein asking Comey (paraphrasing) "You're big and strong, why didn't you stand up to Trump?" really lit my Feminist Identity on fire. Woo! Thank you Mrs. Richard "Dick" Blum. Year of the Woman was '92 so I guess she forgot already. Her and McCain should toddle off together, sorry to see them degrade in public.
peace
Nothing but the female version of O
all talk, no walk.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
I was going to say something less polite than that
but I wanted to maintain a certain amount of decorum on this site. JtC might not approve of calling KH as Obama with tits.
and hear I thought I was being nice. -sigh-
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
You make me laugh gator.
Until now I never thought you could say something that was unfair to Obama.
On to Biden since 1973
but gives no milk .
something missing .
don't these women care about children at all?
poor ones, war victims, etc.
gee whiz.
@irishking
I know you'll never see this, but: what's even a half-million or more dead children next to a warmongering politician's cut of billions or trillions in profits made by various self-interested donors?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Oh goody
another republican-lite candidate. Nope, no how, no way in hell. I unfortunately believed Obama when he said he would hold the banks accountable and all his other lies he told.
I should have looked deeper into his past because I would have seen him for what he really was.
Harris has shown that she can be bought by anyone and that IMO, makes her no better than anyone who sells themselves. I'm sure we all know what the word for people like her is.
She had a slam dunk case against One West Bank and instead of helping thousands of people who were losing their homes, she only helped herself. Her actions went further than just California. She talked other AGs into joining a class action lawsuit that Holder was doing and we know how that turned out. How many people did her decision end up losing everything that they had because she let them down?
There was once a time when people would be able to see her for who she is, but too many people have drunk the neoliberal kook aid.
As ggersh wrote, she's a female version of O. Shorter and sweet.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
This needs more attention than it's getting
I feel that the democrats losing so many seats in congress was by design and deliberate. They started losing seats in 2010 and that was when Obama appointed DWS to run the DNC. Under her leadership they continued to not run good candidates or they ran none at all. The republicans ran unopposed in too many elections to make that be a coincidence that they wanted to hold on to their majority.
For what reason would they deliberately put themselves in a position to not being able to use the filibuster? Seriously, can anyone answer that?
Now they are in no position to block the republicans legislation. Hell, they didn't even try to block Trump's cabinet appointments. Except for DeVos who in all honesty is just continuing what Arne Duncan did as Obama's education secretary.
But to vote for the other picks is just damned inexcusable!
Warren said she voted for Carson because she was afraid that someone worse might be nominated. Who the F'cking hell could be worse than a brain surgeon running the housing department?
They aren't even trying to hide their actions. Full on "where else are you going to go?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
I can understand Trump getting Betsy DeVos in power
because he acquires loyalty from Erik Prince and his private army.
My prediction for 2020: Kamala the Camel Harris and Booker T. Booker as the two candidates in 2020.
We can call it coast-to-coast corruption or just another shitty deal.
bing! My headscratcher, all
thru the Tea Party assault on America in 2010 was, "why isn't Obama standing up to these futhermuckers, standing up for his "signature" "legacy" legislation? Not once during the entire 2010 campaign did he stand up for himself and his health care Plan and say, "wait a second, assfucks... I said wait a second," and defend himself and his Plan. Instead... crickets. Instead, he allowed the Teabagger assfucks to run roughshod over himself and his Plan. Result: Dems got their asses handed to them, becuz Obama didn't give them any cover. Becuz they couldn't defend ObamaCare becuz he didn't. Now, that should have been a clue for me, but I continued to support the traitor for another four years. Wasn't until after the 2014 election that it finally sunk in that Obama was a sellout. [sigh]
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I absolutely guarantee you that if "the Camel" gets in the WH
We will get more of the sell-out accompanied by a big grin.
Why do I call her the Camel? She is carrying the water for the banksters. I'm sure she will attract other establishment organizations to service also.
I thought that exact same thing
why did no one from the DP or the WH let the republicans spend all summer attacking the part of the ACA that was about end of life care rant on and on? I too was telling people what that amendment meant.
That was classic Obama though. The only time he called out the republicans was at the end of his tenure. He kept calling out congress on his Saturday video spiel where hardly anyone heard him.
The hollow suit is what he turned out to be.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Hollow hell!
That suit gets more tightly stuffed with money by the week. It holds a lot more than a trick or treat bag.
Worth repeating:
And this is the resistance! These should have been the most painless no votes ever to cast (as they'd really only be ceremonial due to the Dem's wipeout.) Instead, we have people like Warren "very troubled" by these picks but still rubber stamping because (to paraphrase as I can't remember her actual quote) the President deserves to have the cabinet he wants. And they can't understand why progressives won't get on board. Unreal!
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Does he, though?
I have never been able to trust Warren completely. I am not entirely sure why, but I do have some ideas. I am not alone, though. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/elizabeth-warren-2020-poll-trump
She was not polling great in Massachusetts at year end, but I think touring with Sanders, including a rally in Massachusetts, helped her. In any case, her numbers improved.
Elizabeth Warren is too weak to be president
At first I was a big Warren fan. When she not only failed to endorse Bernie before the MA primary and instead supported Medusa, I lost 98% of my trust in her. Her recent actions during the Cabinet nomination hearings destroyed the remaining 2%.
Same here.
actions speak louder than words, and Warren has a lot of words, many fewer actions.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
One must also look at whether she has accomplished anything
in the Senate. Warren is good at grandstanding for C-Span's cameras. However, Obama taught me not to be beguiled by speechifying. At least, I thought he had. After last year, I'm not totally sure how well the lesson stuck.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
has recovered a lot of money for working people. The financial sector hates it and may succeed in getting rid of it.
Not many Democrats in congress are going to produce a list of achievements that would make me proud in the current environment.
It keeps getting worse with the democrats selling us out
after the House republicans tore up the weak Dodd Frank act, the democrats in the Senate said that they are OPEN to working with the republicans on this.
Again, WTF??? The republicans went on record after Obama won and said that they were going to make him a one term president. And they followed that up with their actions by voting no on every damn piece of legislation he said 'he wanted to pass'. And instead of using his bully pulpit or standing strong, he rolled over and would give them more than they were asking for.
But now that the shoe is on the other foot with the worst president ever and the republicans holding both houses, the f'cking democrats say that they are OPEN TO WORKING WITH HIM AND THEM? As I stated, they aren't even trying.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
I think they are trying hard
to maintain or advance their status within the Party's hierarchy, and to foster the various neoliberal connections that are integral it. They don't seem to be trying very hard to do much else.
native
Does not pass the smell test:
could we just do the right thing?
gee whiz.
six feet tall and everything. scared.
of what. Ms. Heroine? you don't suffer the consequences. what was that?
RUSSIA!
Kamala Harris: Headed in the Wrong Direction
No. Just no.
No.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
They're playing the same song, once again...
It's like an aging boomer rocker, who thinks that if he just hits the same chords again and again, but this time do it with the appearance of whatever the new trend is...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdWPwVTWsI]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Must you insult the
boomers? (kidding)
dfarrah
It's jealousy.
Aging boomer rockers are still better than anything that's come since.
maybe "her office" should talk.
Was it the carpet or the desk?
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
I think similarly when I read things like
"According to the White House...."
When did buildings become so sentient and verbal?
Honestly, I haven't kept up on Ms. Harris.
Now I see she's just another limousine liberal. And in other news, Joe Biden is encouraging mister Vulture Capitalist himself, Mitt Romney, to run for Senator in Utah. smh
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.
@SparkyGump I normally pay no
I normally pay no attention to Joe Biden, but I would like to read up on his adventures with Mitt. Do you have a link?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Biden+Romney&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Take your pick:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Biden+Romney&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Move over, Joe Lieberman, Biden is joining you
The tale of two Joes. One can only laugh at useless Joe Biden, his career at an end, trying to play power politics, just like his massa, BHO. Joe, go away and take Killary with you--please!
And they are defending Romney
on DK. There is a diary there that calls Biden out for saying Romney should run for office.
Too many people are saying it's okay for Biden to ask him to run because he is a centrist republican and besides, a democrat will never win in Utah because it's such a red state. There are many other excuses for why no one should be faulting Biden for his views.
Romney is having his annual meeting in Park City and most of the people who come to it are republicans. This is the first time I have heard that any democrat has come to it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Daily Kos? Daily Kos!
The home of pretzel logic and parrots. "Polly, want a pretzel? Polly, want a pretzel?"
I agree with earthling 1. I've been reading
breathless stuff from dembots about her for months and I have no clue why she supposedly deserves all the admiration. I don't know if they're grooming her for POTUS. For whatever reason, though, they've been trying to brainwash us into believing she is the best thing since sliced bread.
Her appeal
She's a black female who is in the bag for the banks. A perfect DNC candidate.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
I posted this information in a different thread
Hopefully people will see what else Kamala stands for and we can help spread the word on her to keep her from being a candidate.
Kamala Harris thinks prisoners are just a labor pool
The upcoming neoliberal presidential candidate who is being groomed for 20/20 doesn't have a problem with prisoners being paid $.08 to $.34 per hour.
The democrats are having a bad week after this article from 2014 has been rediscovered and is back in the news again and is being spread on social media. Then there's Hillary being okay with Black prisoners working at the Arkansas governor's mansion.
Prisoners are part of the labor pool
That is an astounding argument, implies that the "justice" system is simply a means for acquiring slave labor and has nothing to do with so-called law and order.
Not to mention if they are forced to release inmates early it affects their profit - unless of course they can replace them with new prisoners.. (Empty prisons aren't profitable)
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Thanks, Snoopy, I knew the Camel was bad
but she is an astounding slave owner. Her slaves are on the Gray Bar Plantation for exploitation and they are well-used apparently. Just another disgusting POS masquerading as a human being.
California conflagration without Con Camps
thanks, she is carrying on a long tradition. Without these guys, the state would burn down every year. Seriously I am not kidding, we worked side by side firefighting when I was in the CCC and that was decades ago. They used to trim along our river path, now it just gets sprayed with herbicide. Public/private nightmare around here if you ask me. "That's the system." Lobbyists and contractors galore.
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Conservation_Camps/
My my, the power of pretty prose. "Rainbow Camp Makes History" Sold!
Positraction why is that stuck in my lint trap? Insidious Chevy advertising for the win. lol
Relax and Enjoy: Santana - I'm Winning
Edit: oops changed video embed to link, because owners gotta own.
peace
What Democrat isn't dangerous?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
You had to say that and ruin a perfectly good essay!
@Alligator Ed heh....
heh....
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Nah, she's just
a more attractive and 25 years younger choice than Liz Warren.
Wacko. "Progressive". From California, FTW!
Heh!
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
Gonna be laughing in my sleep tonight
MichelleB
They ARE trying--and succeeding.
@ #5.3.2
Never imagine that they are not trying to do what most benefits them.
What you would like to see them try to do is irrelevant to them.
Starting to wonder who most of us will be backing in 2020
I haven't been delving into any details, but it seems like MSM, rightly or wrongly, is starting to smear Tulsi Gabbord. I hope somebody inspiring, real and good steps up soon. Nina Turner? I'd support Barbara Lee. Maybe it will have to be Bernie again because of name recognition.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Smearing Tulsi means the establishment fears her
Now the MSM (=DNC) is pushing the Camel on us. Another essay on this new menace coming.
Yeah, I know
Which means that we're probably going to be ruling out Kamela as a candidate most people here will support. Sorry if I'm changing the subject too much, but I think it's related.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Nah, you're right on track
The more I learn about Obama with tits, the less I like her. Just like Hillary. I plan on another Camel essay. She has to be stopped before she gets rolling.