Hi.

I don’t want my tax dollars going towards someone’s IVF treatments.

Signed, a Catholic. Thanks! pic.twitter.com/4PHjo15J9z

— Alexandra Lains (@realalexlains) August 30, 2024

https://swifties4kamala.com/

!khive

It's time to regroup after the CNN interview. What are your views and opinions on Kamala Harris's latest interview with CNN? Thoughts regarding Tim Walz?

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/29/politics/takeaways-harris-walz-interview/index.html

Here are the main points:

Policy

She is going to implement her plan regarding an "opportunity economy." This includes bringing down the cost of everyday goods and extending the child tax credit to $6,000. She is also focusing on investing in small businesses and addressing the cost of housing (which includes a tax credit of $25,000 for first-time home buyers). You can find out more about her opportunity economy here:

https://www.fastcompany.com/91177946/kamala-harris-opportunity-economy-plan

She confirms that she does not want to ban fracking, and she will not do so as president. This is a change from her previous stance, although she claims she has not changed her values and her determination to create a green economy.

Madam Vice President has also vowed to address illegal immigration and she plans to increase the number of border patrol agents.

Personal Life

Kamala spoke a bit about old man Joe Biden. She doesn't regret endorsing him and claiming that he is fit to serve another four years in office. She is also proud to have served as his Vice President. She also discussed when she discovered that old man Joe Biden is dropping out of the race. It was a Sunday and she was spending time with her family. Just as they were sitting down to do a puzzle, old man Joe Biden called and announced that he is pulling out of the race. She didn't have to ask for his endorsement.

She didn't have much to say regarding Trump's attack on her race. He argued that she is claiming Blackness for political reasons. Kamala claims that Trump is using the "same old tired playbook".

Lastly, she spoke about the viral image of her and her grand niece. She says she was deeply touched by it, and that it was very humbling.

Public Reception

Ben Shapiro describes it as a "car crash interview" and he argues that it was boring and not a lot happened.

Sky News also gave a scathing reaction, claiming it wasn't an interview but a campaign ad instead. It is described as a "promo puff piece".

Not all reactions have been negative. You can see this on Reddit where user /u/Buttfulloffricks argues that Kamala knocked it out the park.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1f4jz8w/kamala_harris_and_tim_walz_interviewing_with_cnn/lkm3x3v/?context=8

/u/flyoverliberal claims the following: "Lots of pointless gotcha questions instead of actually seeking information. Harris and Walz did well."

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1f4llo3/kamala_harris_cnn_interview_was_too_sane_to_be/lkma5q4/?context=8

In a thread created by /u/ac_slater10, the user gives the overall interview a B+.

https://old.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/1f4jye6/grading_the_harris_walz_cnn_interview/

Conclusion

I'll be honest - I think it was a softball interview, and they didn't ask enough hard questions. It started off well but went downhill quickly. There is some merit to calling it a puff piece. Nevertheless, I'm glad that they spent time discussing policy, especially regarding creating a green economy. I'll give the overall interview 7/10 Hollys.

!khive 9 PM EST

NEW: Kamala Harris’s missing “summer job” at McDonald’s job. Her resume and job application a year after graduating college — @FreeBeacon obtained through FOIA — don’t mention it. Neither do either of her books, or either of the biographies on her. @SaysSimonson @ChuckRossDC and… pic.twitter.com/so0fNA6rNG

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) August 29, 2024

!khive

Doug Emhoff has been called many things in recent years: Second Gentleman. "Goofy dad." "Crappy Jew." But perhaps his most appropriate title: Progressive S*x Symbol.

Move over, Ryan Gosling. The modern female fantasy is embodied by the man who might soon become our first First Gentleman. Emhoff appears to be a genuine mensch with an impressive career. He's smitten with his wife and supports her ambitions, as is obvious from his convention speech and their sweet interactions on the campaign trail. But most important for this sexy sobriquet: Emhoff is secure enough with his own masculinity to sometimes prioritize his wife's ambitions over his own.

What. A. Hunk.

Emhoff was a corporate lawyer and partner at a prestigious national firm. He left the firm shortly before Kamala Harris's inauguration as vice president in 2021 to avoid any appearance of conflicts of interest. He's occasionally spoken about the difficulty of walking away from that career.

"I miss it every day," he said in an interview for the book "American Woman." "The vice president and I had a lot of conversations about how we were going to, you know, maintain a normal marriage in this milieu of me stepping away from my partnership with the firm and being there, to really openly and publicly support her as her husband."

Whatever his previous marital drama, that makes him the working woman's ideal partner today: He's a high-achieving alpha, but isn't threatened if his wife is, too. He loves his job, but he loves his wife more. He knows that "supporting" one's family is about more than financial support, and that temporarily setting aside his own professional ego makes him no less of a man.

In fact, it demonstrates the opposite. As Emhoff once told a South Korean newspaper: "Lifting women up so that they can carry out important roles is a very manly thing."

Emhoff is not the only public figure who exemplifies this enlightened machismo. Witness the online swooning when Jonathan Owens, a Chicago Bears player, negotiated permission to miss NFL training camp so he could cheer on his wife, gymnast Simone Biles, at the Paris Olympics.

Lest you think this is just my own weird personal hang-up (I'm dreading the creepy emails this column will provoke): This fantasy man is already omnipresent in pop culture. In fact, he's become a trope in contemporary rom-coms.

The romantic comedies of my childhood often featured a gallant hero rescuing a damsel from some lowly status, whether financial ("Pretty Woman," "Maid in Manhattan") or social ("She's All That"). But when my generation grew up, the female gaze refocused. Today's heterosexual rom-com heroine is not a "Cinderella," but a self-actualizing overachiever. And she seeks a mate willing to prove he values her aspirations.

For instance, in the TV shows "Jane the Virgin," "Younger" and "GLOW," male suitors prove their worth by agreeing to walk away from their own professional accomplishments to prioritize their partner's. In the film "Always Be My Maybe," our hero's grand gesture is not an engagement ring, but an offer to move cross-country to support his girlfriend's fabulous career (and then, to hold her purse as she walks a red carpet).

In "Isn't It Romantic," the rich hottie reveals himself to be Mr. Wrong when he urges our winsome heroine to quit her cool architecture job to become his wife. Her real soul mate is the guy who encourages her to speak up more at meetings.

These storylines are often presented as subversions of cinematic clichés. But they've become clichés themselves because they're what modern-day female audiences crave.

Relative to their mothers, women today are much more likely to be in dual-earner, dual-career households, where both partners have similar educational backgrounds and professions. Even if women remain more likely to become primary caregivers and stay-at-home parents than men are, the beau-ideal beau is one who treats this arrangement as a real choice, not a default predetermined by gender. Women at least want a mate who won't resent their career success — a tangible concern, given that divorce has been statistically more likely when women received job promotions or outearn their husbands.

Hence, the Emhoffian "wife guy" fantasy. Which, needless to say, sharply contrasts with conservatives' portrayal of manliness.

Ever since the sexual revolution and the post-industrialization of the U.S. economy (i.e., the shift away from "manly" jobs, such as manufacturing and coal mining), some American men have understandably experienced status anxiety. Donald Trump has exploited it. Instead of helping men appreciate how they fit into their evolving families and communities today, Trump offers sexist name-calling and weaponized nostalgia. "Make America Great Again" means returning to a 1950s-era economy, with its attendant gender (and racial) roles.

Yet even some Trump allies who peapeepee as patriarchs appear somewhat more egalitarian in their private lives. Take JD Vance, Trump's millennial running-mate.

Vance has publicly espoused retrograde views on gender. He has also mocked calls for making child care more affordable, suggesting "normal" families don't want accommodations to help both parents work. And yet his wife, Usha Vance — by all accounts a brilliant, high-achieving attorney — had her own demanding career. Until last month, when Vance joined the GOP ticket.

What do women want? To be valued and supported as much as they deserve, both privately and in public. On that score, Emhoff looks like a dreamboat.

My apologies for not putting a tweet up for a few days, but I wanted to offer a bit of support to @KamalaHarris. I have read the Wikipedia article on her Political Platforms, and I agree with a lot of what she stands for.

And channeling her energy, I did a reading just now.… pic.twitter.com/81HfZZcU0p

— Jesus Christ Chan Sonichu - CPU Blue Heart⚡️💙⚡️ (@CPU_CWCSonichu) August 25, 2024

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Even as feel-good displays of joy and confidence are set to dominate the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago, one painful issue is bitterly dividing the Democratic establishment from its left flank: the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

The specter of convention-upending protests that hovered over a gathering hosted for President Joe Biden has receded somewhat with the rise of a new candidate in Kamala Harris, who is seen as more sympathetic to Palestinian rights activists. But tens of thousands of protesters are still expected to convene just outside the event's security perimeter, and the potential for high-profile disruptions remains real.

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Speaking slots have been allotted to the families of American hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. One of the most prominent Muslims in national politics, Keith Ellison, the progressive attorney general of Minnesota, will be given time onstage. Doug Emhoff, the husband of Harris, is expected to speak proudly of his Judaism. And the Democratic platform highlights America's commitment to Israeli security.

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At the same time, Harris' campaign manager, Julie Chavez-Rodriguez, held a series of meetings last week to hear the concerns of Arab Americans and some delegates representing Democratic primary voters who cast "uncommitted" ballots in the Democratic primary to protest Biden's Israel policy

Despite such efforts, the convention will be shadowed by large protests against the Biden-Harris administration's approach to a war that Gaza health authorities say has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that left 1,200 people dead in Israel.

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The key question for Democrats this week is whether the demonstrators represent a meaningful group of voters who could swing the election in November, or if they are outliers on the left who should be resisted in an appeal to the center.

Either way, the subject of the war is bound to be a central issue throughout the convention, said Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey.

"It is a reality, and it cannot be ignored," he said. "There's too much tragedy, there's too much loss of innocent life, and by the way, there's still too much — at a very high level — of geopolitical risk, and that is not going away, unfortunately, anytime soon."

"Sooner or later you're going to have to take a position, and sooner or later you're going to have to be sure of what you mean," he said of Harris' stance on Israel.

Resource

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/us/politics/dnc-democrats-israel-gaza.html

Elisabeth Hasselbeck questioned Vice President Kamala Harris binge eating a bag of Doritos as a response to former President Donald Trump winning the 2016 election.

Harris wrote in a campaign email on Friday that after Trump won the election, she went home and ate a family-sized bag of Doritos and "did not share one chip with anybody," not even her husband.

The email was meant to be a relatable anecdote as many Americans were rightfully fearful after Trump won in 2016. But Hasselbeck, who was a host on "The View" from 2003 to 2013, criticized Harris's response during Friday's episode of Fox News' "Hannity," saying relatability is not the equivalent of ability

"That's the commander-in-chief potentially," Hasselbeck said, referring to Harris. "That's the emotional response of the leader of the free world? To binge eat a bag of Doritos? Are you kidding me? Can you imagine [Vladimir] Putin, how he deals with things, chugging down a bag of Sour Patch Kids because he's depressed about something not going his way?"

>Conclusion

>we all have food on our mind

Felt a slight panic today as I left the house in my new Harris/Wall t shirt for fear of red retaliation. Anyone experienced this?

Saw this pop up in the Arkansas and Missouri subreddits. An occupy democrats post, least astroturfed site

In her latest campaign video, Kamala Harris wrongly claimed to be the first vice president to ever grow chili peppers. Thomas Jefferson was growing them in 1767! https://t.co/Oo1cvOwiG0 pic.twitter.com/v6hOvD1bGU

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 15, 2024

A whte sceote wearing a shirt depicting a Black female politician with her skin bleached whte? Wtf is that shit?!

unsurprisingly all the white scrotes on reddit think its amazing bc he wrote maximum overdrive or whatever

Our queen is here to enact price controls for food

Can someone with a bigger brain explain why good or bad plz

P0litics are exhausting. We could use some contagious laughter instead of contagious hate. pic.twitter.com/yUa9GHK531

— SpookToons (@SpookToons) July 30, 2024