Does Kamala's candidacy make you more hopeful?

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07 Aug 2024, 11:17 am

He's young. Maybe he'll rule the world one day, and every American will get one thousand dollars on the spot.

Anyway my point is just that I liked him more than the typical selection of windbags.

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07 Aug 2024, 4:56 pm

Yang was like if you crossed Ross Perot with Elon Musk. Innovative yes, but offering every person $1000 is pie in the sky (Of course Perot's idea of a flat tax was just as silly).

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09 Aug 2024, 1:29 pm

"He announces that he (as Hynkel) has had a change of heart,
he makes an impassioned speech for brotherhood and goodwill, encouraging
soldiers to fight for liberty, and unite the people in the name of democracy.

He then addresses a message of hope to Hannah: "Look up, Hannah.
The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly.

He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future,
the glorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us."

Hannah hears the barber's voice on the radio. She turns toward
the rising sunlight, and says to her fellows:

"Listen.""

-Quote from the Movie
"The Great Dictator"
As Also Expressed on Wiki...

Regarding the New Direction of Both
Kamala Harris, For President and Her Vice
Presidential Running Mate Tim Walz, too...

It Doesn't Matter So Much the Message as it Does
The Charisma of the Souls Who Deliver it to Move HeARTS; Yes,

Human Spirit, in Terms of Feelings, Senses; Yes, Overall Emotions...

Some Folks Are Addicted to the Neurohormones and Neurochemicals

Fear, Anger, And Hate Relate. Trump/Vance Is A 'Perfect Storm' of Politicians

To Spread a Message With Charisma For Fear, Anger, And Hate; On the Other

Hand, The Tag Team of Harris and Walz Are A 'Perfect Storm' To Spread A Message

of Hope, Joy, Related to LoVE iN Peace, in Terms of Empathy and Compassion For All;

in Other Words,

To Truly Spread
A Unifying Message of
Good Will For All as Related

in the "The Great Dictator" Speech Too
WHere a Message is Delivered in a Way

of Charisma
To Move
Crowds
to Wild Applause

And Ensuing Action For Change...

When it comes to Human Beings,

If We Don't Move Emotions in Others,

(AND OURSELVES FOR REAL NOW)

Change is Much Less Likely to Happen

As Science Shows Most All Our Reasons

Are 'Dictated' By Emotions First... Yes, Our Cognitive
Executive Functioning at Core of Attention Span And
Focus; Short Term Memory Retrieval; As Well as Long

(LIKE REMEMBERING TO VOTE AND ACTUALLY DOING IT!)

Term Memory too...

'Politics' is
Just Another
Term for Influencing
Other Human Beings With Emotions...

True, It is Often More About Tone than Substance of Message...

If Trump Doesn't Prove That Perhaps Another Wanna Be/Do Dictator Does...

Hehe, The 'Trump and Vance Tag Team' Reminds me of an Old "Sgt Pepper's Lonely
Heart Club Band" Movie, Where a Similar Demagogue Tag Team Brainwashes A Segment

of the Population

to HATE, HOPE, And JOY, And Yes LoVE iN Peace;

Really Sour Grapes; Almost Poison Indeed AGAINST

REAL CHANGE, Like Feeding School Children Free; Allowing
Children of Parents Who Make Less than 80 Thousand Dollars
To Attend College Free; And Supporting the Most Marginalized Among Us;

Yes, Both Women
And Transgender Folks;

FOR Reproductive Heath Care;

Even Providing Free Menstrual
Products in Schools to All Who Need Them

As It's True, Believe iT OR Not, Some Parents Can't afford

To Supply Those Products to Their Children; Yes It's True,

Harris and Walz Aren't 'The Second Coming,' They Are Actually

'Among The First,' "According to the Catholic Church," Considering the Pope

And His Underlings Exclude Transgender Folks From the Soup of Humanity

And Insists
That THeiR 'First
Story' Still Excludes
What LGBQT Plus Folks
Do In Terms of 'Loving One Another;'

Yet True, Not All Christianity is the Same,

Not All Churches, And Not All Human Beings too...

It's All About
A Spectrum And

Real LoVE iN Peace
Whenever it Comes

FOR REAL

Is all About Inclusion
And Providing a Way to
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness FOR ALL With Most
Respect And Least Harm to/FOR Others...

Sort of What the USA Is DeSiGNeD to Do...

Always Perfecting A Greater Union For All ThiS WaY...

Other than
that this: Do

Vote With SMiLes..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20

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10 Aug 2024, 10:33 am

cyberdad wrote:

Yang was like if you crossed Ross Perot with Elon Musk. Innovative yes, but offering every person $1000 is pie in the sky (Of course Perot's idea of a flat tax was just as silly).

We've got the money to do it. It's just not popular with the elites that make the decisions. As are things in general that would benefit the people.

It's just another sign that we don't have a real democracy.

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10 Aug 2024, 10:56 am

MatchboxVagabond wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yang was like if you crossed Ross Perot with Elon Musk. Innovative yes, but offering every person $1000 is pie in the sky (Of course Perot's idea of a flat tax was just as silly).

I'm pretty sure they even did give every American about one thousand dollars during the pandemic. I know Yang's proposal was mostly a meme, but it's pretty bizarre that it has happened every decade or so that money is given to citizens to stimulate the economy, but his proposal was considered too outlandish...

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10 Aug 2024, 1:40 pm

ColdFeetareCold wrote:

MatchboxVagabond wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yang was like if you crossed Ross Perot with Elon Musk. Innovative yes, but offering every person $1000 is pie in the sky (Of course Perot's idea of a flat tax was just as silly).

And the Democrats stopped it as soon as possible. What gets me is that it's not hard. They give everybody $1k and then they tax it back from the wealthy. That money winds up back in the hands of the billionaires anyways. It's less than half the money that is spent on defense. So, it's not like we can't afford it. Nobody in power questions the spending when it's for iffy purposes.

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13 Aug 2024, 11:57 pm

No.

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14 Aug 2024, 2:26 am

MatchboxVagabond wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yang was like if you crossed Ross Perot with Elon Musk. Innovative yes, but offering every person $1000 is pie in the sky (Of course Perot's idea of a flat tax was just as silly).

Most people would blow the $1000 on shoes.

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14 Aug 2024, 10:43 am

cyberdad wrote:

MatchboxVagabond wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yang was like if you crossed Ross Perot with Elon Musk. Innovative yes, but offering every person $1000 is pie in the sky (Of course Perot's idea of a flat tax was just as silly).

Most people would blow the $1000 on shoes.

So? That was the whole point of the stimulus checks originally given to people in the first place...

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14 Aug 2024, 1:33 pm

cyberdad wrote:

MatchboxVagabond wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Yang was like if you crossed Ross Perot with Elon Musk. Innovative yes, but offering every person $1000 is pie in the sky (Of course Perot's idea of a flat tax was just as silly).

Most people would blow the $1000 on shoes.

Which would stimulate the economy. The money would get spent, then the people who benefited from the increase in shoe purchases would spend more, leading to the people who benefited from their purchases to spend more...

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14 Aug 2024, 4:57 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

Yeah but the shoes or big screen tv will be made in China so the stimulus money would be stimulating the Chinese economy.

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14 Aug 2024, 9:32 pm

cyberdad wrote:

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Yeah but the shoes or big screen tv will be made in China so the stimulus money would be stimulating the Chinese economy.

The stimulus would be split between the retail sector where the products are sold and the manufacturing sector where they're made. It's not like the benefits are only seen where the manufacturing occurs.

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15 Aug 2024, 4:00 am

funeralxempire wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

Yeah but the shoes or big screen tv will be made in China so the stimulus money would be stimulating the Chinese economy.

hmmm Sony, Hisense and Samsung televisions are made by Asian owned corporation where the labour is in Asia and shoe companies and other luxuries like shirts, trousers and parfume are also manufactured overseas and own by foreign based companies. So the amount going to the retailer is a very small slice of the pie.

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