How can you vote for Kamala? From the other side I know the question is the same about Trump.
Kamala gets flustered very easily if there’s pushback or distraction while she’s speaking in public. She seems to have problems when she’s confronted with the unexpected. We’ve seen this for her entire Vice Presidency. Prior to her selection as a running mate by Biden she was so throughly mistrusted and disliked she couldn’t get votes in her own state.
That alone speaks to her authenticity and character. If you think about it, when an inauthentic person can’t get votes in one of the most inauthentic states in the union, a place where illusion is king and success is one phone call away, then there’s something seriously wrong.
This is important to me because you have to be authentic if you’re telling someone like Putin to stop advancing into Ukraine. He’s gotta believe you’re not only serious, but what you’re saying at a negotiation table is what you really mean.
The Mullahs of Iran will not have respect for a woman, culturally speaking they don’t have to. They’ve got to believe that the President is going to provide any and all weapons to Israel necessary to level Gaza, Lebanon, and Tehran. Same goes for Xi.
Critically thinking, Kamala just doesn’t fit that bill. Few, if any people take her seriously and she in her Vice Presidency has demonstrated that she’s culturally insensitive and out of her depth.
When you add the issues of translation. How will one of Kamala’s word salads translate? Translation isn’t just word for word… It’s taking what the speaker says, then framing it in context to the situation and subject under discussion then putting it into the listeners language.
These are some of the reasons that I won’t and can’t vote for Kamala.
I loathe the woman but that personal feeling has no place in my assessment.
I loathe Hillary. I thought and still do think that she’s an evil person. That being said If it was necessary to have a woman president, I’d vote for Hillary in this election because I think she’s more logical, a better communicator, and flat scary. That decision is about the good of the nation, not my personal distaste for that vile woman.
She would be able to command respect, and lots of people have noticed her enemies end up shooting themselves in the back of the head. Putin, Xi, and the Mullas will also have noticed that. So at the negotiation table they’d perhaps be more likely to believe her. She’s authentic. Authentically evil but world leaders can work with that.
Trump on the other hand is plain spoken, sometimes too plain spoken. He’s believable, and honestly just random enough that Putin, Xi, the Mullas, and everyone else don’t quite know what to think. He’s an interesting combination of bombastic, arrogant, and narcissistic which puts him on equal footing when he walks into a room full of world leaders.
No-one is going to walk all over him, or dismiss him, or talk over him. He will be heard, and his message will be plain. Easily translated foul language and all.
Even now, while Trump isn’t president, he’s a candidate, the EU is moving to budget payments for their fucking NATO bill. That’s a win for America and American interests. The EU appears to be making this move because they believe Trump will be elected.
I’m of a mind that Trump accurately reflects the mood of at least 1/2 of America and that mood is generally pissed off.
Americans don’t want to be in another fucking war. We don’t want to have to take in millions of so called “economic migrants”. Fuck! I’m damn close to becoming an economic migrant, where the hell do I go?
(Although Poland is stable, clean, and full of good people. I don’t know if they’d give me a residence permit. )
We’re tired of all the bullshit fighting in our government, we’re tied of our tax money being frittered away for nothing. We’re angry that our government organizations can’t help our people but somehow manage to help anyone else around the world. We’re sick of zero accountability for our representatives. We’re tired of endless hearings and investigations that go nowhere.
When do we get to see some butts hanging on our office walls? When do we get to see real criminals being taken to prison, or real traitors being taken to the gallows?
I’m pissed off as a citizen, who can’t afford medical insurance, (it’s a roof over my head or insurance not both). I’m pissed off as someone dealing with home owners, and car insurance rates skyrocketing to the point that I will likely have to give up my home. I’m pissed off because feeding myself is more difficult, & finding a job, even a job cleaning toilets, is ridiculously difficult. Most are occupied by an illegal immigrant on a temporary work permit.
I’m pissed off and worried all the damn time about the next expense, or next thing breaking. I’m pissed off interest rates are affecting my purchasing power, and my dollar goes 1/3 as far as it did.
I’m pissed off when Politicians claim that the minimum wage should be $15 and I ask, “why isn’t the social security minimum $2400 a month?” They never have an answer for that one!
At the same time illegal immigrants get healthcare, cellphones with service and Internet access, housing, and stipends of, in some cases 4K a month, all funded by taxpayer dollars.
What about our people, our elderly, our homeless, our veterans?
Why would American Citizens have done better putting money into a savings account during their working life than paying into Social Security? Wasn’t that supposed to be a managed fund? Oh, right our politicians have effectively stolen Social Security funds and now claim the system is broken and the money won’t be there for people in their 30s and below when they’re ready to retire
I’m asking a simple question.
Why the fuck did I work my ass off?
For what? To watch a bunch of assholes piss money, they collected from me and everyone else in the county, away on stupid shit?
Did I work my ass off only to be skating the edge of the financial precipice after a lifetime of doing the right thing, being the good American, shouldering my tax burden, obeying the law, keeping my nose clean, and then watching the Biden Harris administration shift educational loans to the backs of the taxpayers, against rulings from the Supreme Court?
Then they tell me they’re going to raise taxes? After they’ve broken the law???? WHAT!?!?!?!
Well, I’ll be damned! I was a sucker and a loser, for doing the right fucking thing. I should have devolved to my Viking heritage of looting and plundering. I’d have been better off!
My personal anger isn’t justified by any more than these issues.
Our Military service members have every reason to be a whole lot angrier. They’re dealing with my gripes and they’ve been screwed time and again.
Biden fucked em over during COVID. The VA fucked ‘em over regarding health care they earned! They’re trying to make ends meet like everyone else, they’re ignored until elections then promised the sun, moon, and stars. After the election is over they’re forgotten about again.
Our “checked out” politicians don’t get it.
We The People are angry because of the things I mentioned above.
That’s why Trump, for all his faults, is resonating with the American people, and why Biden and Harris have become a very bad joke.
We’re hoping that at least during a Trump administration when we’re being screwed it’s not because we’ve got some stupid DEI hires making the same shitty decisions that led them to $100K degrees in women’s studies.
We hope that Trump will at least put a stop to the firehoses of money the Biden / Harris administration has been burning.
And yet, I still believe that somehow, someway, Kamala will be installed in the Oval Office. I believe that the Washington Machine is already cheating.
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, even some districts of Kentucky have evidence of incorrect voter rolls and very specific “Malfunctions” on voting machines. Colorado has leaked administrative passwords to their voting machines that the registrar of voters tried to cover up. Those passwords were available online, unencrypted, for weeks. Yet all of this is just “accidental”.
We’ve seen this movie before. All of these “accidents” that also didn’t happen last election, we’ll be told are insignificant and that they aren’t really happening this election. (We’re mistaken, we didn’t see what we saw. There are live action videos all over X of people tapping Trump and the machine changing it live to Harris.)
Four years ago, in this blog, I said I didn’t really care who won, I just wanted to get on with life. At the time I also said that our concern should be to improve our voting process such that any question of cheating could be ruled out. I suggested that we adopt voter ID and cleaned up voter roles, and even mentioned the possibility of everyone having to re-register. It’s obvious we must have clean voter rolls and only citizens should be voting. I expressed the opinion that If we did the basics without spending a ton of money we would know the will of the electorate.
Four years later… it’s Same Shit, Different Year. The election process is just as screwed up as it was because “The Machine” made sure that no consensus about voter ID and clean voter rolls could be reached.
I believe the machine will cheat like there’s no tomorrow. The Machine acts like a living animal, it will defend itself. The last thing the machine in Washington DC wants to deal with is Donald J Trump and a cabinet of people who ask “why money is being spent on x,y, or z”.
The machine is terrified of those people in Trump’s cabinet or administration being unafraid of firing 80% of the dead wood and moving on.
So yeah, Kamala is likely to be installed in the Oval Office, just as she’s been installed in every other office she’s had. She’s the ultimate DEI hire.
Here’s another juicy thought. If by some miracle Trump wins, Kamala and the Democrat party will become election deniers and this time…
The courts will hear every case Kamala brings in every state. Why do I say this? Because we have two tiers of justice in this country. The Machine is no longer trying to hide it from us.
So Joe Biden put down his Fisher Price Talkie Toy microphone, and found a real Microphone.
Threats from the Democrat party. I’m not talking about outright, “We will Bury You” as in the case of Nikita Khrushchev. (At least he had balls!)
Okay, I admit it, I loved Trump working the fryer at McDonalds.
Trump can say now that he too worked in a McDonalds, and the world has the receipts to prove it. He supposedly said, “I’ve worked in a McDonalds 15 minutes longer than she has.” This may, or may not, prove to be true but for the moment it stands. 
Surely the pundits don’t think Trump wasn’t having conversations with those workers asking them about their lives, their hopes, and aspirations.
Vance’s advantage is that he is young & strong. Vance is smart and tactical and he seems to resonate with average working class folks. Vance as The President would be interesting because as a former military man he’d be real sensitive to military misdeeds & misbehavior.
By that, I mean the Fox interview with Kamala Harris and Bret Baier.
Believe it or not, much as I dislike the Biden / Harris administration, if Kamala Harris presented me with a better choice than Trump, I’d hear her out.