This is the US politics thread. It’s important as Kamala Harris is now the leading Democrat in the race for 2020, so every aspect of her past will be scrutinized. In this day and age nobody gives a fuck about a 30 year old shagging a married lad in his 60s, but considering the favors he bestowed in her, it’s a story she needs to get out in front of and put to bed.
As the SF Chronicle reported in 2003 “Aside from handing her an expensive BMW, Brown appointed her to two patronage positions that paid over $400K over 5 years” (this would be separate from her job). If she runs on a good, honest government platform, she’ll have to address at some point the question of her benefiting financially and professionally from a personal relationship with a then senior politician.
Yet most people do believe it. Which is remarkable given that it is clear as day the whole narrative was created by James Clapper, who was Director of National Intelligence from 2010-2016. The same Clapper who was responsible for the agency analyzing intelligence imagery before the Iraq war and admitted in his recent book to “finding what wasn’t really there”. He should be rotting in prison along with Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush. The same Clapper who lied to congress regarding NSA surveillance, had to admit the lie, but was still left in place as DNI for another two years.
But the media and public believe this proven liar who was directly responsible for the Iraq war.
Bad news for the resistance, 82% of Independents approved of Trump’s state of the union speech, and 72% overall approval rating. The Democrats better come up with a better slogan than “deplorables” for 2020.
Contrary to expectations from the usual morons, Trump reached out to Democrats and called for unity, giving significantly on the wall issue and conceding that those tasked with border security should determine where a barrier was needed, committing to working on reducing health care and costs of medicine, infrastructure spending, etc. He also gave a lovely tribute to the white clad new members of congress which got them on their feet for the only time.
He had a right bash at socialism at the end of the speech which AOC later characterized on MSNBC as an ad hominem attack. FFS Alexandria, how in the fuck can an attack on an ideology be an ad hominem attack? Get your act together.
