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Home Front: Politix
WATCH: Kamala Harris Completely Bombs Her First Solo Interview
2024-09-14
[RedState]
TAFF: "Talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people. What are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?"

HARRIS: "Well, I'll start with this. I grew up a middle-class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager. I grew up in a community of hardworking people. You know, construction workers and nurses and teachers. I try to explain to some people who might not have had the same experience, but a lot of people will relate to this.

You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of people who were really proud of their lawn, you know, and I was raised to believe and to know that all people deserve dignity and that we as Americans have a beautiful character. You know, we have ambitions and aspirations and dreams, but not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions. So, when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people and creating opportunity for people, for example, to start a small business.

For example, thinking about developing and creating an opportunity economy where it's about investing in areas that really need a lot of work and maybe focusing on, again, the aspirations and the dreams but also just recognizing that at this moment in time some of this stuff we could take for granted years ago, we can't take for granted anymore"
Posted by:Frank G

#7   She was not raised in a middle income family

Except for the very richest and poorest of us, Americans all think of themselves as middle class. And given that we do not have an aristocratic or noble class, and our very richest have paying jobs just like the poorest McDonald’s cashier, we are almost exclusively a country of the bourgeois class, with all the virtues and vices thereof. Many of our kids get paying jobs as soon as they have skills to sell, an experience middle class kids are not permitted elsewhere in the world, and it shapes their outlook.

Our beloved vice president’s problem is that she is an idiot, poor dear, not that she grew up other than middle class — even if it was the upper range of middle class.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-09-14 18:17  

#6  People are always dinging her for not being able to talk coherently or answer questions. To be fair, Kamala has strong oral skills, just not for words.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-09-14 17:27  

#5  Funniest Debate Segment ever-her commenta about no military in a war zone as seen by soldiers in their bunker!https://x.com/i/status/1834763749636685920
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-09-14 14:32  

#4  "John Fogerty Theory"

Growing up absolutely privileged (Berkeley even!), and framing your entertainment face as 'Born on the Bayou'.

"See, I worked at McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-09-14 14:25  

#3  She was not raised in a middle income family and she absolutely refuses to answer a question. This is why I believe she was given everything before hand in the "debate".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2024-09-14 13:45  

#2  "Mr. KS, you are 130 yards from the green, pin on the 4, 10 ft. elevation with a 5mph cross wind, what club do you choose?"

"You see, when I grew up many people mowed their yards, as people around me had yards, and in these yards were many, many, different kinds of insects, all of them good. And these insects, these different mounds, were not the same mounds as like in baseball. Baseball, also a sports ball, is sexist because I did not have the fweedom to play because I am too Black."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-09-14 10:20  

#1  National Fraternal Order of Police Endorses Trump over Kamala
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-09-14 09:43  

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