Exactly my pain points!
Smack childcare on there and I think it covers what most all of working people need relief from.
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Gee, if only there was some proposed legislation the last time Democrats had a majority about childcare.
Oh yeah, the most recent rotating villain killed it.
Them politicians are soo out of touch
Reads headline again
Wait, what the hell? Really? Should I start being optimistic again?
Kamala might actually make some progress on the symptoms of capitalism, but she’ll never stop the root cause. Best case scenario is things are less bad for 4 or 8 years than they could be.
We need a socialist president, not a liberal.
No probably not. But let’s at Bernie was president.
He would work in the confides of capitalism but there is another win:
A progress president would open the conversation to move further towards socialism.
Americans first need to stop fearing socialism, and imo Kamala might help a little with that. I’m not holding my breath though
Exactly my point. We might have “conversations” for a few years, then we’ll go right back towards moving to the right. Just like what happened with Obama. Just like what happened with Clinton.
Nobody said it would be easy, it’s taken the right wing almost 7 decades to forge their alliance with Christian fundamentalists. I don’t expect The Left to be able to enact massive change in any less time if they’re even able to mobilize.
Even a best case scenario of 8 years of Harris and then 8 years of Walz could only be the beginning of unfucking what The Heritage Foundation and Reaganomics and trickle-down lies have done over the last half century.
Baby steps. If things are less bad for 4 or 8 years, progressive policies become more palatable for people. This gets you closer to your ideal state.
Obama didn’t get us closer, we’re further now than before he was elected
We need a socialist president, not a liberal.
Ok, but it’s not gonna happen.
Ok, but it’s not gonna happen.
Certainly not with that attitude.
The way you change things is to start at the bottom. If it were even possible to get a socialist president, they’re be incredibly unpopular, and they’d have a very hard time working with Congress. We need to be playing the long game like conservatives did, building up from local office like school boards.
So the people of the UK had to have universal healthcare rammed down their throats. I don’t remember the stats but it was extremely unpopular. Turns out they loved it. Now if someone campaigned on privatizing the NHS they’d be laughed out of the room.
I’m sorry, I agree 100%. I forgot my /s.
You mean rather than tax cuts that are supposedly to benefit people too poor to pay taxes?
I was literally talking about housing costs with my wife on our walk back from the grocery store not 30m before stumbling across this post.
And totally ignoring Healthcare!?
Said they were on a walk, no other health activities are so adorable!
Or affordable.
Ahahah whoops
That discussion comes up whenever we talk about having kids.
First article I’ve seen where her photo wasn’t a big smile. At least since Biden dropped out.
Doesn’t need plan for future. Can fix now. Like today.
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I mean isn’t she the vice president? Why can’t she do that shit now?
Because she’s the vice president. What powers does she have other than influence?
Among the plans from the Harris campaign is a federal ban on price-gouging in the industries. Most states currently have such bans in place.
O…kay.
Harris will single out meat prices, and in particular the meat-processing industry. Her first 100 days will also see support for small businesses, a “crack down on unfair mergers and acquisitions” among food corporations.
Bird flu and swine flu are two of the biggest pressure points on agricultural supply. Heat and drought are also doing horrible things to cattle stock. Will her support for small businesses address this? Guess we’ll have to tune in next week to find out.
Harris no longer supports measures from her short-lived 2020 presidential bid such as a fracking ban or Medicare for All, advisers told Reuters.
sigh
Her campaign said it wanted to avoid dividing voters and attracting attacks from business groups over granular details
mega-sigh
She will push plans to cut costs of rental housing and home ownership, including funding more affordable housing and building climate resistant communities.
Sounds nice. Wonder what the details will look like.
“She does have a focus on housing because we know and she knows very, very clearly that housing is a crisis in this country,” said Marcia Fudge, a Harris adviser and the former housing and urban development secretary under Biden.
glances at the housing market under Biden
Oof.
Yes, yes. We all know that you folks have moved on from “don’t vote for Biden” to “don’t vote for Harris.”
This country really needs Project 2025, doesn’t it?
I think its more like when you see somebody step on a rake and it hits them in the face. The natural response is to be like “oh no” . Fortunately these are second hand sources and Walz is hopefully on hand to check some of the more lawyer tendencies when dealing with the public.
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don’t vote for Harris
I’m curious to know what Harris stands for and this article doesn’t seem to offer much.
This country really needs Project 2025, doesn’t it?
Project 2025 seems bad and I wouldn’t suggest voting for a guy like Vance or Trump, given his support of it. But Harris’s response appears to be to just not talk about policy and campaign without upsetting anybody.
Who do you think wins if people don’t vote for Harris?
American elections aren’t decided by the popular vote, so its anyone’s guess.
They are decided by the per-state popular vote, as I am sure you know.
Who wins when not enough people per state vote for Harris?
They are decided by the per-state popular vote
They’re decided by an electoral college selected by the party. We’ve seen state governments assert the right of the state legislature to usurp the popular vote by citing Rehnquist’s decision in Bush v Gore. And while you’d like to think this remains a decision in popular hands, Idk how current composition of the SCOTUS will respond if presented with an opportunity to overturn another general election victory by the Democrats.
Who wins when not enough people per state vote for Harris?
In theory, its the Big Scary Cheeto (or, assuming another Demolition Ranch subscriber gets within 400 feet of the former Prez, JD “Couchfucker” Vance).
But if all you care about is Not-Trump, why are you in a thread talking about Harris’s policy? Why take offense at anyone asking? You know who you’re voting for, regardless of what she says, so why are you in here pretending that you care?
I am not pretending that I care that people don’t vote for Harris.
I fucking care because I don’t want a fucking genocidal dictator. Why don’t you care about that?
Securing Universal Health Care Through a Public Option
That’s in the platform, but it appears it isn’t part of Harris’s platform because she’s afraid it might upset people in the private industry.
And possibly because it’ll upset the victims of the private industry. MFA is the only solution to the American healthcare crisis. They’ve already sold off parts of Medicare. We need to kill the private health insurance industry or it will keep trying to get us back here
You didn’t say how any of her plans are going to be bad for America. Why don’t you go to the points you highlife and tell us how they’re going to hurt Americans. Show us you really understand the things you don’t like.
Fracking is contributing to climate change and can harm local environments.
Medicare for all is a popular progressive universal health care solution.
In an ideal world her positions on these would at best be the platform of the right wing candidate.
In our world the “left” candidate continues to be right of global center
You’re against fracking but don’t like it when a candidate is for less fracking?
What’s wrong g with universal health care? If the military has it why can’t civilians?
The article is saying she no longer supports a fracking BAN and no longer supports Medicare for all, i.e. she has shifted her views right.
The article says it, has Harris said she isn’t going to do anything about fracking?
And just because she changed some of her views to win battle ground states means you don’t support her anymore and are going to vote for Trump? No candidate is perfect. It she’s so much better than Trump
wow dude chill out, we don’t have to blindly and ignorantly worship Harris to prove we’re not Trump supporters.
This is blue MAGA shit. Fuck off with that
Oh shut up lmao. I’m voting for the best candidate. I’m not sorry I don’t support a convicted felon. Harris isn’t perfect but she’s so much better than Trump.
You can pick any president in history and nit-pick their policies. What you’re doing is making it seem like she’s a worse option than a convicted felon. And just because I support her doesn’t mean that I’m blindly following her. Stop projecting.
Yeah that “will single out meat prices” got my eyes rolling so hard I might have a knot in my nerves now.
Meat production is one of the main contributors to the climate crisis. We need to produce less of it. I get that campaigning with that message would probably not be popular, but just focussing on groceries would have been enough right?
It’s also just one of those things where people will never be happy. Unless you can get a prime cut porterhouse for a nickel, you’re going to have the ahem meat heads screaming that you’ve failed them. Would love to buy a head of lettuce for under $3, though. Or a bag of onions. We used to practically give away corn and now it’s two ears for $1.
So much basic foodstuff has skyrocketed in price, well before you get to the pork chops and chilean seabass.
Bird flu and swine flu are two of the biggest pressure points on agricultural supply. Heat and drought are also doing horrible things to cattle stock. Will her support for small businesses address this?
Are we pretending that the American meat industry is small business now?
As for housing, the ONLY answer is to remove corporate ownership of single-family dwellings.
Are we pretending that the American meat industry is small business now?
This isn’t a “small business” problem. Firms like Tyson and Smithfield can suffer hundreds of millions in loses in the event of a livestock flu outbreak. Their mega-farms and super-sized slaughterhouses are rife with disease, which is why their animals have to be pumped full of antibiotics and antivirals practically from birth. And that’s before you get into the risk of their ag workers getting infected by a mutant strain and turning the disease into a global pandemic. The so-called Spanish Flu got started on a pig farm just outside a Kansas City military base, before spreading to the front lines in Europe during America’s late entry into WW1.
That’s the kind of enormous tail risks the meat industry is juggling right now. And its a major driver behind inflating pork, chicken, and egg prices.
As for housing, the ONLY answer is to remove corporate ownership of single-family dwellings.
No way Harris does anything even resembling this. The Real Estate Industry would revolt en mass.
