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Kamala Harris interviewed by Brett Baier

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So, you're proclaiming the obvious.
If you think it's obvious that the majority of people who you'd think to consult on their opinion as to who has been the worst president have considered that to be Trump, then you'll get a lot of agreement.
 
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You sure you wanted to say that?

They are illegal, but they are not illegal! Really?

Same adjective. Same accurate description.

Certainly you made a typo or error somewhere.
No. They are illegal (adj); they are not illegals (noun). Referring to people by an attribute is dehumanizing.
 
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It's very simple. Claiming that taking away tax cuts from one group will provide all the money that's needed for another group to be happy is just a bunch of talking points that don't provide any mathematical data that proves any of it to be true.
Can you show me where Harris says that, "taking away tax cuts from one group will provide all the money that's needed for another group to be happy"? I seem to have missed that.

What she is saying is that it would be more fair if we had tax policies like that in the '50s (under a Republican President) in which the rich payed more in taxes, and the middle class paid less. She is not saying that this policy will provide all the money the middle class need to be happy.
 
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Harris recently proposed a policy to give families help to care for older family members at home--and she had a way to pay for it.
Recently she and President Biden reduced prices on ten well-used drugs for Medicare patients, such as insulin. They achieved this by beginning to use Medicare's huge market share advantage to bargain for lower drug prices. The money the government saves can be used to help families care for older members at home.
We all know that the benefit we could provide with those savings would be small, but it would be a start.
We can learn how other countries manage elder care--and cull the best ideas.

In 2020, the federal government spent $200 billion on long term care for adults through Medicaid. Helping families care for elderly relatives at home could drastically lower those costs, and the money spent on family assistance would be much less expensive.

One idea would be adult day care availability, especially good for patients who need memory care services. This would help working caregivers, and give retired caregivers some respite time, allowing them to focus on their loved one's needs in evenings and night time.

But the referenced article even talks about how technology helps. My friend who lives alone and had a stroke now wears a device that will call 911 if she has a fall. Fortunately, she has been able to resume driving, enjoying an active social life, etc., but the device reassures her that she will be helped in an emergency.
Blood sugar monitor readings can be shared with family members who can get their senior back on track if his sugar is too high or low.
There are assistive devices that can help seniors dress themselves, get out of bed safely.
Services like meals on wheels make sure they get one good meal a day--and if a senior has a working 'care partner,' that daily check in from the meals on wheels volunteer is a help.
Door-to-door senior bus services can help patients who can no longer drive get to medical appointments.

Harris' plan to make it easier for seniors to stay in the family home could easily be financed by nursing home Medicaid savings--and seniors would have a better quality of life.



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I don't know why some people think that there are no positive reasons to vote for her (and thus only negative reasons to vote against Trump). These are both solid reasons to do so and there are others. Even if you disagree with these particular reasons it should not be hard to imagine that others find them compelling positive reasons.
 
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No. They are illegal (adj); they are not illegals (noun). Referring to people by an attribute is dehumanizing.
It is an accurate description.

If someone robs a store, it is not dehumanizing to call them a robber.

If someone is here illegally is it not dehumanizing to call them what their own actions label them. Illegal
 
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Vocabulary problem. People are not "illegal."
When you are here illegally you are an illegal. A criminal.

You are not an illegal person. But you are an illegal immigrant.

And as we.have seen there are illegals who have murdered and raped people.
 
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No. They are illegal (adj); they are not illegals (noun). Referring to people by an attribute is dehumanizing.
Calling it dehumanizing is excusing the behavior of the illegals who decided to come into this country illegally, and do know-knows-what-else after they escaped immigration process.
 
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Can you show me where Harris says that, "taking away tax cuts from one group will provide all the money that's needed for another group to be happy"? I seem to have missed that.

What she is saying is that it would be more fair if we had tax policies like that in the '50s (under a Republican President) in which the rich payed more in taxes, and the middle class paid less. She is not saying that this policy will provide all the money the middle class need to be happy.
Then the "middle class" she claims to speak for while partying with the rich black celebrities won't be happy no matter how much those who keep the economy going pay.
 
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I don't know why some people think that there are no positive reasons to vote for her (and thus only negative reasons to vote against Trump). These are both solid reasons to do so and there are others. Even if you disagree with these particular reasons it should not be hard to imagine that others find them compelling positive reasons.
Even Harris can't think of much to say positive about herself when asked by friendly reporters as to why we should vote for her. She only has anti-Trump rhetoric to spew out, and her followers do the same as a result.
 
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Calling it dehumanizing is excusing the behavior of the illegals who decided to come into this country illegally, and do know-knows-what-else after they escaped immigration process.
No, it really isn’t.
 
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No, it really isn’t.
Does it equally bother you when a person in jail or prison is referred to as an inmate? Or when a person convicted of a felony is referred to as a felon? Or how about when Donald Trump is referred to as a criminal, felon, or any other number of derogatory terms?
 
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As well as "legals" who have done the same.
At least the legals had the right to be in the country in the first place. The illegals don't have an excuse for being here, let alone raping and murdering those who do.
 
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Or how about when Donald Trump is referred to as a criminal, felon...
Here's the deal. If you want to decribe a group of people by what illegal things they have done then we need some eqivalence. We'll expect you to now refer to your preferred candidate as 'the convicted felon Trump'.
 
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Fact? You're citing nothing more than an opinion. Good try though.
There were and still are Republicans who don't like Trump. Establishment types are typically the ones and these historians are certainly of that type. Trump is a wild card, and academics and many politicians don't like that.

He's undignified, boorish and uncouth. He's no great orator. Many things that are not acceptable among the academics.

But many people support him because he gets things done that helps America. He kept the world safer. He doesn't hate America. I will say this, I don't know if it's too late. Biden may have sent us down a pathway where there us no recovery. The world nay be careening toward WW3 and there is no stopping it. I guess we'll see.
 
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Got it.

So we should vote for Trump, ignoring that "Donald Trump is a liar, a felon, a racist, a bribery-accepting profiteer, a lunatic in documented mental decline, a shockingly incompetent businessman, objectively one of the worst presidents in recent memory, a probable rapist, and a multiply-indicted criminal and insurrectionist, who has threatened to weaponize the legal system against his political opponents and destroy the protections our democracy depends upon, and who has already been granted authority to commit crimes by the Supreme Court and who will likely appoint even more anti-constitutional fascists to that and other courts, and whose most singular achievement (that he has said he will maintain or even advance) was taking away American reproductive rights (effectively violating the Constitution’s ninth and fourteenth amendments)?" (Source)

Does that sum up the intention of the above statement?
I think you left out murderer and child molester. I also think you forgot to mention that Trump wants to bring back slavery and throw gays off of the Trump Tower. I think need is also planning on invading Canada.
 
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