Insomnia, the CNN town hall, double standards and WHY this is even close.

[PatrickforB]

My wife and I watched the CNN town hall with Harris. She stood tall, made no gaffes and repeatedly schooled Anderson Cooper on some of the bullshit 'gotcha' stuff he pressed her on. We noticed two things: CNN carefully screened the audience to be right-leaning. How did we know? We heard no laughter when Harris told a couple of jokes. As an experienced public presenter, I'll tell you this was a purposely difficult audience.

The second thing is that we all need to remember that Kamala Harris is human. She was visibly tired, and yet STILL performed well. This campaign, because of its historically high stakes has been a meatgrinder. I cannot imagine how tired she and Tim Walz are.

But as other posts have pointed out here, there is a serious double standard. Harris has had to be FLAWLESS, and she has been, but the media has no comparable expectations of Trump, who has gone full-on lawless. That, my friends is bullshit of the first degree.

So why is this race even close? Well, GOP 'ratfucking' for a start - they circulate misinformation that harms people, they lie to ensure that low-information voters can no longer tell the difference between truth and lies, which is the goal of such propaganda. And we really haven't quantified all the GOP-tilted psyops 'polls' that show Trump overtaking Harris in key states. This is intended to demoralize us, make us angry, make us despair and above all make us doubt that our votes will count.

There IS another reason though, and it is worth stating. I saw it in a post by Sunseeker that I bookmarked:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219600621.

Bottom line we have, in Sunseeker's words, "More than 60 billionaires have opened their wallets to help elect Donald Trump, with some giving $10 million, $20 million, or more, indicating that many plutocrats are far more worried about the prospect of Democrats increasing their taxes than about the threat that Trump poses to our democracy."

These fucking billionaires are a cancer on this republic. Every billionaire is a failure in tax policy. Harris SAID this last night in the town hall, too. That she would have to raise taxes on billionaires. Did you see the CNN-planted question by that young lady that seemed to come right from Charlie Koch and his Heritage Foundation? This young lady actually led off her question with the misleading statement that wealthy people already pay more (gross dollars) in taxes and so are already disproportionately taxed.

Utter bollocks as our British friends might say. The reality, and Harris did point it out, is that many of these people pay LESS as a percentage of their income than we working schmucks.

Harris did fine in the town hall, and CNNs packing the audience with right-leaning people who asked carefully phrased 'gotcha' questions was just like something from Fox.

I believe Harris will win this one decisively. I want to remind all of you about the GOP psyops. I lost sleep last night, and I know that all of us who really understand the stakes in this election have been feeling increasing stress given the constant 'razor-thin-margin, a few hundred voters in a handful of states will decide the whole future narrative' coupled with these supposedly 'undecided' voters who have been hand-fed specific questions.

Harris has to be FLAWLESS, but Trump can be LAWLESS? What kind of crap is this???????????? Yet it is the world we live in, governed by the bronze Wall Street idol of greed, envy and lust for power.

I know many of you don't believe in a God per se, but I do encourage all of you to lift your hearts in prayer for all of us, this republic and all the world - humanity itself - that good prevail November 5th. We are facing a lot of collective negative energy here - Trump sows chaos, and JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and these 'more than 60 billionaires' represent the tyranny of greed over good.

Human intent can and does affect matter, as has been proven in many scientific settings. Please focus your intent (and donations, phone calls, postcard writing and other efforts) on saving this republic.

We are very lucky someone with the strength, courage and fortitude of Kamala Harris is our candidate.

[LiberalArkie]

1. Trump keeps telling us what the double standard in the media. If Trump is reelected that he will be hauling every one

who did not do his bidding to jail or worse. They worry about it the same way a news person in Moscow worries about Putin having a reporter shoved out a window or giving tea to a reporter.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Harris, Trump and the ridiculous double standard

Link to tweet

[PatrickforB]

3. Funny story - I cannot resist.

Here, now, in the twilight of my career, I am working for a wonderful and powerful young lady who has a great shock of black hair.

She earned her Juris Doctorate earlier in the century, and yet came to work in our workforce center. She was very intelligent, and very caring. Good at helping young people turn their lives around.

Then, a promotional opportunity came up and she was chosen. She moved into an office.

One day, after having heard she was a lawyer, I went into her office and congratulated her on her new position. I then said, "I've decided you should take the bar exam."

She looked up, smiled and replied, "Oh, you have, have you?"

I said I'd only been teasing but asked her why she had chosen to enter our field when she could have been a lawyer. She told me that she could not in good conscience practice law because she couldn't represent someone who was in the wrong or guilty as fully as our adversarial legal system demands, and so turned her career toward the helping fields, to make a difference in that way.

At this point (no offense to lawyers at all!), my respect for her grew no end. Now I serve as an economist, advisor, and someone who has a great deal of institutional knowledge, and she is respected throughout our state.

Not really funny, I suppose. More a source of admiration and respect for a person who followed her heart and found great meaning in her life. And that discipline she learned in law school has stood her in good stead.