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Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate

29 points by Alupis 6y ago

fermienrico 6y ago
I am sort of disappointed. Susan Rice would have been an excellent choice given the current relationship of US on the international stage. Rice would work with our allies and fix the damage Trump/Pompeo has dished out. If we didn't have to pick a woman, Bernie Sanders would have been a major step forward for America.
- Alupis 6y ago
  > I am sort of disappointed. Susan Rice would have been an excellent choice I agree Susan Rice would have been a much better choice. Harris already had her chance in the "limelight", and was rejected. She was a very unpopular primary candidate - why would she become more popular now? > Bernie Sanders Realistically, Bernie's platform is at odds with Biden's - so that doesn't seem to be a natural fit really.
  - fermienrico 6y ago
    Bernie has had two shots at it, but I think he would bring his decades of experience in politics, his unwavering stance on corruption/lobbying, his plan to reduce wealth disparity and a relentless push for climate action. The man that fought for decades, still has the same message he did in 1981! [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OraxqbUjpHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OraxqbUjpHw
    - Alupis 6y ago
      You may be right - but there's a healthy amount of American's that don't agree with Bernie's priorities our outlook on government. I guess this is evidenced by his failed bids at the presidency - although I admit he was far more popular than Harris has ever been.
    - blisseyGo 6y ago
      Here is Bernie in 2015 saying against open borders saying it was a rightwing proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0 https://youtu.be/McKI1gfoeaY https://youtu.be/McKI1gfoeaY Now he's fully onboard with open border policies. He doesn't even have the same message he did 5 years ago. Just like his twitter history shows him tweeting about evil millionaires and billionaires until he became a millionaire himself and now only targets billionaires.
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tetrometal 6y ago
I'd love to hear any theories about how/why this decision was made. If it aids the discussion, here's a list of her policy positions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_...
- TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
  It's pandering to identity politics. Biden explicitly said he was picking a female candidate. With the riots, picking a black female is a natural(but risky) extension.
  - blisseyGo 6y ago
    People downvoting you but it's the truth. Watch how media is lying about her being African American. She's Indian and Jamaican and family owned slaves - doesn't matter to me but it does matter a lot to the current left.
    - kgraves 6y ago
      Don't forget that she was also the top law enforcement officer for California aka 'Top Cop', which to some on the left find unforgivable. (see ACAB (All Cops are B*stards)
      - Alupis 6y ago
        And the right didn't care for her anti-gun policies either. In California, she doesn't have a lot of fans on either side of the isle.
    - jeromegv 6y ago
      You might know that sexual relationship between slave owners and their slaves was not always consensual. There is a decent amount of Black people that have a slave owner as an ancestor and this was most likely not by choice.
webninja 6y ago
Who do you think will win the election and why? I think gerrymandering and the electoral college allocation will give one of the sides a distinct advantage.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > I think gerrymandering and the electoral college allocation will give one of the sides a distinct advantage. Which election? For the Presidential election, gerrymandering has very little potential impact, though electoral college allocation is a big factor. For the Senate, neither of those factors is in play, though something like (and, indeed, the source of most of) the electoral college distortion is in play. For the House, gerrymandering is a big deal, but the electoral college distortion is not a factor (nor is anything much like the electoral college distortion, except the chaotic effect of granularity on small states).

29 points by Alupis 6y ago

I am sort of disappointed. Susan Rice would have been an excellent choice given the current relationship of US on the international stage. Rice would work with our allies and fix the damage Trump/Pompeo has dished out. If we didn't have to pick a woman, Bernie Sanders would have been a major step forward for America.

Alupis 6y ago
> I am sort of disappointed. Susan Rice would have been an excellent choice I agree Susan Rice would have been a much better choice. Harris already had her chance in the "limelight", and was rejected. She was a very unpopular primary candidate - why would she become more popular now? > Bernie Sanders Realistically, Bernie's platform is at odds with Biden's - so that doesn't seem to be a natural fit really.
- fermienrico 6y ago
  Bernie has had two shots at it, but I think he would bring his decades of experience in politics, his unwavering stance on corruption/lobbying, his plan to reduce wealth disparity and a relentless push for climate action. The man that fought for decades, still has the same message he did in 1981! [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OraxqbUjpHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OraxqbUjpHw
  - Alupis 6y ago
    You may be right - but there's a healthy amount of American's that don't agree with Bernie's priorities our outlook on government. I guess this is evidenced by his failed bids at the presidency - although I admit he was far more popular than Harris has ever been.
  - blisseyGo 6y ago
    Here is Bernie in 2015 saying against open borders saying it was a rightwing proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0 https://youtu.be/McKI1gfoeaY https://youtu.be/McKI1gfoeaY Now he's fully onboard with open border policies. He doesn't even have the same message he did 5 years ago. Just like his twitter history shows him tweeting about evil millionaires and billionaires until he became a millionaire himself and now only targets billionaires.
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tetrometal 6y ago

I'd love to hear any theories about how/why this decision was made. If it aids the discussion, here's a list of her policy positions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_...

TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
It's pandering to identity politics. Biden explicitly said he was picking a female candidate. With the riots, picking a black female is a natural(but risky) extension.
- blisseyGo 6y ago
  People downvoting you but it's the truth. Watch how media is lying about her being African American. She's Indian and Jamaican and family owned slaves - doesn't matter to me but it does matter a lot to the current left.
  - kgraves 6y ago
    Don't forget that she was also the top law enforcement officer for California aka 'Top Cop', which to some on the left find unforgivable. (see ACAB (All Cops are B*stards)
    - Alupis 6y ago
      And the right didn't care for her anti-gun policies either. In California, she doesn't have a lot of fans on either side of the isle.
  - jeromegv 6y ago
    You might know that sexual relationship between slave owners and their slaves was not always consensual. There is a decent amount of Black people that have a slave owner as an ancestor and this was most likely not by choice.

webninja 6y ago

Who do you think will win the election and why? I think gerrymandering and the electoral college allocation will give one of the sides a distinct advantage.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> I think gerrymandering and the electoral college allocation will give one of the sides a distinct advantage. Which election? For the Presidential election, gerrymandering has very little potential impact, though electoral college allocation is a big factor. For the Senate, neither of those factors is in play, though something like (and, indeed, the source of most of) the electoral college distortion is in play. For the House, gerrymandering is a big deal, but the electoral college distortion is not a factor (nor is anything much like the electoral college distortion, except the chaotic effect of granularity on small states).