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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] What's next for Kamala Harris?
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 22:28:53 -0500
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On 11/15/2024 8:32 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2024-11-15 8:11 PM, shawn wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:34:44 -0500, Rhino
>> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-11-15 6:15 PM, shawn wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:02:34 -0500, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11/15/2024 5:00 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-11-15 4:07 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/15/2024 3:59 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>>>>> Has anyone heard anything about what Harris is going to be doing
>>>>>>>> after January 20, 2025?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> She's going to be out of a job. I know her husband is a successful
>>>>>>>> lawyer so I'm sure they're not going to be homeless but I can't see
>>>>>>>> her retiring either. That would be too much like an admission of
>>>>>>>> failure or irrelevance.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> One commentator raised the possibility of her running AGAIN in 2028
>>>>>>>> but that seems improbable in the extreme. She'd need a makeover 
>>>>>>>> of a
>>>>>>>> lifetime to make her a viable candidate or even just a likeable 
>>>>>>>> non-
>>>>>>>> viable candidate.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've heard that both MSNBC and CNN are for sale - or at least
>>>>>>>> implementing severe salary cutbacks - so that lessens her chance of
>>>>>>>> getting a lucrative gig there as a host or co-host. Besides, those
>>>>>>>> would be something of a step down in status from having been VP 
>>>>>>>> and a
>>>>>>>> presidential candidate of a major party. But maybe she'd swallow 
>>>>>>>> her
>>>>>>>> pride and take a gig at ABC, CBS or NBC.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm going to be VERY surprised if she doesn't get a book deal of 
>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>> kind for her memoirs. I'm going to be astonished if it sells a 
>>>>>>>> lot of
>>>>>>>> copies.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm thinking the ideal job for her would be to be the host of a
>>>>>>>> series of educational videos for elementary school age children. 
>>>>>>>> She
>>>>>>>> is a master of talking to everyone as if they are 4 years old 
>>>>>>>> but she
>>>>>>>> couldn't possibly teach at any level because she can't think on her
>>>>>>>> feet or adapt to changing situations, which are common in teaching,
>>>>>>>> so giving her hosting duties where every word is scripted would 
>>>>>>>> seem
>>>>>>>> right up her alley.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Failing that, maybe her old McDonalds could give her some shifts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Part of the reason Harris lost is that she's not interesting 
>>>>>>> enough to
>>>>>>> warrant even this sort of grave-dancing, much less a book or TV 
>>>>>>> slot.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A bit of sour grapes? You guys chose her! Maybe you should pick your
>>>>>> next candidate with criteria other than skin colour and gender....
>>>>>
>>>>> 'Sour grapes'?  I think the applicable vernacular is 'dead horse'...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Given the situation I'm not sure who would have been a better
>>>> candidate. There wasn't time for the full on campaign that one would
>>>> normally have if an incumbent isn't running. So falling back to the VP
>>>> seems an obvious choice. It's not to do with her skin color or gender
>>>> but her position as being the closest to the President.
>>>
>>> It's been well-established that the only reason she was the VP is her
>>> gender and skin colour: competence didn't figure into it all apparently.
>>>
>>> For the record, I feel strongly that she did NOT lose because of her
>>> gender and skin colour: not by a long shot. I think she might well have
>>> won handily if she'd demonstrated any competence as VP, let alone the
>>> Presidential candidate. But her unwillingness - or inability - to answer
>>> any of the questions put to her along with her inability to articulate
>>> policies or even specify anything she would do different to Biden soured
>>> a LOT of people on her, people who would normally have voted for her
>>> party. Add in the ludicrous demonization of Trump as a fascist and the
>>> embodiment of Hitler and you've got more than enough to turn off a lot
>>> of potential voters for the Democrats.
>>
>> The only calling Trump Hitler was J.D. Vance. So that should have
>> turned off the Republicans if they really didn't want someone calling
>> Trump Hitler or at least much like Hitler.
> 
> Wow. Just wow.
> 
> Have a look at this clip, especially starting at 3:45:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AifTTFSQfqw [6 minutes]
> 
> And yes, she said "fascist" as opposed to Hitler but if you ask the 
> average American to list all the fascists they've learned about, I 
> submit that the vast majority of them would list Hitler before Mussolini 
> or Francisco Franco or any of the other fascists.
> 
> Of course if you ask the average young person, especially a college 
> student, you'll find that half the people alive today are fascists: they 
> are like moviepig who admits he doesn't know what the word means but 
> applies it to everyone he disagrees with.

You may recall me asking for your *preferred* broad name for a President 
who attempts to overturn the election that deposed him.

Care to supply it now?