Does Anyone Like Kamala?

She will surround herself with competent people working for the good of the country. That's more than good enough for me.
I think that is the right answer. I don't like her at all, but Trump is a nonstarter for me. I have not and will not ever vote for him. Who will put the right team together? It's not Trump.

I don't know why people here struggle so much with discussing opinions they disagree with in an adult way. It's ok to have and to discuss different opinions.
 
I think that is the right answer. I don't like her at all, but Trump is a nonstarter for me. I have not and will not ever vote for him. Who will put the right team together? It's not Trump.

I don't know why people here struggle so much with discussing opinions they disagree with in an adult way. It's ok to have and to discuss different opinions.
I didn't bother because nothing prepares you to be president. It's a transformative office that can take a failed haberdasher like Truman and turn him into one of our greatest presidents. Not everyone make those leaps but very few had previous careers predictive of their performances. It might be different if there was a less obvious choice to vote for but, at least, for me, there's no point in trying to read the tea leaves to figure out who to vote for.
 
I’ve never voted FOR anyone for president, only AGAINST. This election is the strongest AGAINST vote I have ever cast plus I feel good about a Harris administration. It will be filled with competent people and she’s sharp and will only get sharper.

In retrospect I may have voted FOR Jimmy Carter. I was 18 and I don’t clearly remember.
 
She doesn’t have a clue and if she were a Republican this board would tear her apart but TDS and world class hypocrisy prevents any kind of logical reasoning. Given the state of world disorder and our inflationary economy she is the last person on earth qualified to be potus especially given her abject failure as VP.
Inflationary economy?
 
Would love to see the TOP TEN list of things American vice president achieved while they had that office. I think the worst ten things that they did in that office might be amusing as well.

My best recollection of the vice anything is that they have duties delegated to them but their authority and responsibility is a proxy and not actually theirs.
 
I love Kamala and I have max donated to her and several other key democrats around the country. (You would not believe how this has affected the volume of mail I receive.) I strongly feel that we need tax reform- the wealthy need to bear more of the tax burden. However I disagree with the plan to tax unrealized capital gains. I just don't see how this can effectively work without a massive increase in the paperwork/documentation necessary and the need for many more IRS personel to enforce it.
 
I think that is the right answer. I don't like her at all, but Trump is a nonstarter for me. I have not and will not ever vote for him. Who will put the right team together? It's not Trump.

I don't know why people here struggle so much with discussing opinions they disagree with in an adult way. It's ok to have and to discuss different opinions.
I don't believe people have any issue discussing issues.

Your first post came across more as trolling than really looking for discussion.

And we have had many others start threads in a similar way with no intent on a civil discussion.

If your intent is discussion, you will get that as the discussion evolves.

I'm glad that you are voting for Kamala, I hope her administration meets all of our expectations.
 
Kamala is a breath of fresh air. She is highly qualified and has proven to be very competent in every role she has occupied be it AG,Senator,or VP.

Moreover, as president she will end the country's malaise wrought by 9 years of Trump/GQP/MAGA cynicism
 
Whenever a thread like this gets started about Kamala, I always wonder how long before HY chimes in about how bad Biden is. Didn't take long this time. I've said it before, to the extent that "Trump derangement syndrome" is even a thing, at least there's some merit in it. But how pitiful do you have to be to still have Biden derangement syndrome at this point?
 
Whenever a thread like this gets started about Kamala, I always wonder how long before HY chimes in about how bad Biden is. Didn't take long this time. I've said it before, to the extent that "Trump derangement syndrome" is even a thing, at least there's some merit in it. But how pitiful do you have to be to still have Biden derangement syndrome at this point?
Biden is so bad that his plan to “destroy America” is having the opposite affect and resulting in a surging stock market, low unemployment, rising wages, falling interest rates, and falling crimes rates. Even inflation is now under control.
 
Biden is so bad that his plan to “destroy America” is having the opposite affect and resulting in a surging stock market, low unemployment, rising wages, falling interest rates, and falling crimes rates. Even inflation is now under control.
Exactly !

He has even failed at destroying America... worst president ever:mad:
 
I think that is the right answer. I don't like her at all, but Trump is a nonstarter for me. I have not and will not ever vote for him. Who will put the right team together? It's not Trump.

I don't know why people here struggle so much with discussing opinions they disagree with in an adult way. It's ok to have and to discuss different opinions.
Your original post was not presented well at all and your follow ups about a past primary wasn’t good either.
Your reasons for not liking her come off as contrived. You say she doesn’t grasp issues but how do you know? You say she’s not qualified. Based on what? You say she’s not as good as Obama. Who is?

Her past failure to be nominated by the party have nothing to do with what kind of president she could be. She didn’t get votes, that doesn’t mean she can’t lead.

She’s really pretty easy to get behind if there aren’t biases holding you back.
 
My mom said she won’t vote for Kamala or Trump. I asked her what she had against Kamala and she said she was “arrogant.” I was never able to get an answer as to what made her arrogant though.
 
I love Kamala and I have max donated to her and several other key democrats around the country. (You would not believe how this has affected the volume of mail I receive.) I strongly feel that we need tax reform- the wealthy need to bear more of the tax burden. However I disagree with the plan to tax unrealized capital gains. I just don't see how this can effectively work without a massive increase in the paperwork/documentation necessary and the need for many more IRS personel to enforce it.
I don't think taxing unrealized capital gains is a workable solution as a general concept and the proposal to tax capital gains is more likely a beginning negotiation position. I think a more likely end position would be to have banks who make loans based on stock holdings as collateral report those loans on a 1099. Banks already have the reporting infrastructure and regulation, so it would amount to adding a rule that these types of loans will be considered to be a dividend.

I also think that there will be another capital gain tax bracket at 28% (which is still lower than the ordinary income bracket) around $1m+. So if you are a multibillionaire who owns your own company, you can still use the loan mechanism to maintain control over your stock, but you will pay ordinary income tax rates on the loans instead of doing it tax free and then passing your stock on to heirs with a stepped up cost basis. Alternatively, you could sell investments and pay 28% on those capital gains. So depending on how their particular portfolio is structured, there are two paths to take, one which maintains control over a business but with higher taxes and one which pays a lower tax rate if you don't have a concern with having to maintain control over a business.

I recently saw a video on capital gains reported in a recent tax year (2022 maybe) and the total was about 2 trillion reported. It showed how many tax payers were reporting gains at various levels and the total gain reported. Something like $1.9 trillion of the $2 trillion total was reported by around 1-2k tax payers. So almost all of that $1.9 trillion would fall into a higher tier capital gain bracket if implemented.
 
No Republicans will get on here and discuss ANYTHING.
Yeah, it's irritating but it's not surprising. It's hard to answer questions when you know the only answers that you can muster are complete bullshit fabrications. It's why I asked earlier on this thread why Republicans are so desperate to lie to create this completely fictional alternate reality that the entire country is supposedly living in- one where the economy is in shambles, the border is completely nonexistent, the stock market is in the tank, inflation is raging, crime is out of control, we're in a recession, we're about to be nuked into Armageddon any moment now, and everything is just horrible. I asked because I feel almost certain that no decently functional human being with a modicum of brain activity actually believes any of that, so I am genuinely curious why they keep lying about it. I couldn't care less if they hate Biden, hate Harris, hate Democrats, etc.- that's fine. They're entitled to that view. But just say that. Say that you are tribal to a fault and that you wouldn't vote for a Democrat if your life depended on it for any reason. That's a much more respectable point of view than to lie about things that are very blatantly, very nakedly untrue. I'd be embarrassed as fuck if I were that much of a partisan hack.
 
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