Joe Biden Chooses Kamala Harris As V.P. Running Mate

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  1. Polydectes

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    I figured he laid it on thick when he was in office to aggravate the right people. I entered into elementary School in Houston and I was in speech therapy. Because my mom taught me how to talk and she was from Midland.

    Lol
     
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    ~ More stuff about "what " a person is - not who they are. Progressive liberals are always defending their own racism. Self-loathing is never good. :neutral:
     
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    Its how they do.
     
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    Hahaha! My parents were from New Mexico, where people are oddly missing any particular accent. My parents were always making me say "get" instead of "git" and "wash" instead "warsh".
     
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    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    I remember the one that got me I said fark when I meant fork.
     
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    No argument there, but (risking the Usual Suspects' derision) let's look at how ANY party presents its slate of candidates and the usual process slims it down to one Prez and one Veep on their ticket --- until they aren't.

    This is what the Donks would be doing if they denied Biden their official nod. They're already hedging bets by saying AOC can only have a pre-recorded single minute of time at their festivities. (Translated; "We censor.") The Bernie Bros aren't exactly getting Joe's face tattooed on their body parts, either.

    Oh sweet political meteor of death, save us from Kamala Harris and that atomic whinny.


    It shall be a Teleprompter circus. Cue cards and rehearsals and everybody but Trump let in on the debate. Plugs and Kamullusk will sound like beacons of democracy. The media will swoon.

    Bring on Mitt Romney in his very bestest timeshare-salesman smile. And we shall see Donks again take their own voters for a ride, as they've done from the beginning, the first political party which literally invented all the stunts we complain about today, technology notwithstanding.
     
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    That's one heck of a big "if" you're posing here. Filing to run is the start. Their interest is growing and this shows it.
     
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    Nixon did a number on the GOP and now they SUPPRESS the Votes of Minorities to ENSURE that they never have to deal with that many black Congressional Representatives in the Republican party.

    But thanks for highlighting how far the GOP has FALLEN from it's original intent.
     
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    I wonder how many were done by the Fine People ?
     
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    And, if as you suggest, she might even be "25% black", how does that provide a "mission accomplished" for those who wanted a 'negro-with-a-vagina' candidate for vice-president? :buggered:

    [​IMG]. "Just get over it! I'm a NEGRO!":party: . :lol:
     
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    Their interest is growing, but the number who make it past the primary will help to demonstrate the degree to which Republican Primary Voters agree that a female or a minority is the best choice to represent their district or region.
     
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    ❔~ We wonder how just why that may be likely ... :confuse:´
     
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    Who is demanding those EXACT requirements, Cy?
     
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    Who is demanding it? The radical wing of the Democrat Party! Where have you been, Te?

    After shooting his mouth off (again), if Biden had picked any kind of human other than a negro with a vagina, the hyperliberals in the Democrat Party (which, by now, is a huge contingent) would have been frothing at the mouth and twirling in circles of outrage! Good grief! Surely no lock-step Democrat wanted to see a repeat of "1968 in Chicago"!

    So, he picked an exotic mixture of Jamaica and India (with the requisite vagina, of course) -- and the Democrat 'cattle' bought it! :lol:
     
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    Please provide the quotes supporting that allegation from credible sources, Cy.
     
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    When someone lets a fart in a small, crowded room, everyone is AWARE of it, but nobody is willing to shout out, "Hey, I'm the one who did it!" It's a feeling, Te, that had grown to sheer ubiquity in the Democrat Party, riding their own post-Floyd hysteria. You couldn't be unaware of it -- especially in the petulent, impatient behaviors and utterances from hyperliberal-Left drum-beaters like those of 'the Squad'....

    But, although you won't be satisfied with that or anything else I scrape up, to recapture the 'flavor' of the thing, you may enjoy: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/joe-biden-black-vice-president.html
     
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    Biden himself announced he wanted a female black VP. That much is established fact. Why he did it, or if the party made him do it, is not the actual point. The "black woman" VP announcement came from him and therefore the party had to go along with it (*IF* they hadn't set it up to begin with, bypassing their own Black Caucus).

    What if Biden had said it expecting racist Dems to bypass him, nominate someone else, and let him retire in peace? What if it was his poison pill gone bad and they're stuck with it?

    Or what if the Dems ARE letting him retire as ex-President, to get the shark they wanted? Remember, boys and girls: to a Democrat the Constitution is only a piece of paper. Who cares if she lost her own primary?
     
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    You may also enjoy this: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/o...-harris-shows-power-black-demands/3353188001/

    How do you identify individual drops of water in an ocean wave?

    Maybe I should have responded by asking you to supply quotes from prominent Democrats who were demanding that someone OTHER THAN a 'negro-with-vagina' should be picked for the vice-presidential slot, but I don't want to fall into that level of debate tactics.

    In any political party, you learn to 'go with the flow', even if it amounts to tidal sewage. You 'go along to get along', and I suspect that you and I were both utterly REVOLTED by that when we voted for Ross Perot!
     
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    Thank you for that source, Cy.

    It appears as though the VP search committee was mindful of ongoing turbulence and Biden's desire to have BOTH a "simpatico" relationship and someone who had strengths to bolster areas where he was lacking. Obama did much the same thing when he picked Biden as someone who knew the levers of power in Congress and was also willing to be fully involved in the job on a daily basis.

    So given that there were several finalists in the mix it probably came down to whomever Biden felt he could work with the closest. In that regard I suspect that it it was Kamala's Senate experience AND her law enforcement background that gave her the edge.

    Biden did NOT bow down to the "radical wing of the Democrat Party" at all. If anything his pick is actually way too Establishment for their liking. My recollection is that there was disappointment in that sector of the party that he had chosen Kamala rather than someone who was more Progressive.

    So what we actually have on the DP ticket are TWO Establishment career politicians whose credentials and qualifications would MIRROR those of the old GOP prior to it's ABDUCTION by the extremist white nationalist Regressives.

    This is about as traditional as it gets, Cy. Getting bent out of shape because of something as MEANINGLESS as color and gender is POINTLESS. Both of them are QUALIFIED to do the job and that is all that matters.

    Much ado about nothing.

    I am way more concerned about the HEIST of the USPS pension fund and real estate assets by the GOP and the Wall Street Casino Banksters than I am about the DP ticket. We, as in you and I and every other taxpayer, are about to be RIPPED OFF in a SCAM worth hundreds of billions of dollars and it is all happening right NOW.
     
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    Honestly, I predicted months ago that Biden would choose Kamala Harris, precisely because she was the best pick available to him, and for a Democrat Party ticket -- even with no consideration given to the 'niche' qualifications of race or gender. I just think it's laughably tragic that the hyperliberal Left got itself so spun-up over having a "Black female" on the ticket. Honestly, to a lot of us, it just made them look even sillier and more ridiculous than they were already perceived to be....

    You're right, Te -- it is "much ado about nothing"... and that typifies so much of what the Democrat Party occupies its time with.

    In fairness, I have to laugh at Trump's war on mail-in voting. We've made it work very well here in Colorado since 2013, so if the 'Feds" want to craft a nationwide system that actually works WELL, they should come and study us! In saying that our system works well, I mean that nobody here in either political party bitches about it! That surely counts for a LOT when it comes to how well a new system is accepted and appraised.

    Many of us don't mail the ballot back. No. We just drop it off after filling it out at any one of dozens of strong, secure 'drop-boxes' -- thus bypassing the post office for return of the ballot altogether....
     
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    The American electorate does not vote based upon Trumpers' contrived stereotypes, and I am unaware of any folks who have expressed your sentiment.

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    Any who insist upon a 'caucasian-with-a-pecker' for vice-president may be projecting the nature of their criteria, of course.

    Harris is an excellent choice in many respects, not the least of which is in her selection automatically triggering displays of Dumpy's misogyny and racism in an election in which women and non-white Americans, as well as anyone who views representative democracy as reflective of the nation's diversity, are already highly motivated.

    Dumpy's support and endorsements from neo-nazi Andrew Anglin and the Klan's David Duke appear unshakeable, but will hardly compensate numerically.
     
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    If Democrats didn't care about race or sex then have they made such a GIGANTIC deal out of it for about the last year? If you haven't been aware of the constant drum-beating by hyperliberals for a VP selection to be made, first -- among females... and shortly after -- among BLACK females -- then you really haven't been paying attention.

    Dizzy Lizzy Warren based a large part of her desirability-coefficient among radical Democrats by being, first -- a woman... and then, an American-Indian woman! She was actually getting traction with those silly criteria, until it was revealed that AT MOST she was 1/64th's Indian. Oops!

    Now the libs have thrown in with someone who supposedly meets their squeaky-clean, orthodox criteria by being a NEGRO WOMAN!

    Half of her is from India... and the other half is described obliquely as "Jamaican", a group defined as being of of African descent, European, East Indian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern.

    But, if that's "NEGRO" enough for liberal Democrats, why should I care...?

    [​IMG]. "Yes! This is the negro woman you're looking for...." 8)
     
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    Very good analysis.
     
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