Because Kamala

[17thfabn]

6 hours ago, sunday said:

There is no paywall for this

https://www.newsweek.com/i-worked-democrats-years-billionaires-have-unfettered-influence-opinion-1961471

Are the Ds the party of oligarchs now?

I'd imagine the big donors on both sides have an all access pass to politicians on their side.

I heard a comedian years ago, can't remember which one, say politicians should be required to wear markings on their clothing the way race cars have tags from their sponsors. 

[NickM]

14 hours ago, sunday said:

I am banned from X since long time ago.

not just that! why can't we just read the damned message without having to be a member.

[Tim Sielbeck]

5 hours ago, NickM said:

not just that! why can't we just read the damned message without having to be a member.

I’m not a member and I can still read most of the messages posted here.

[NickM]

Just now, Tim Sielbeck said:

I’m not a member and I can still read most of the messages posted here.

How? I click on the darned thing and I'm transported over to X and given the option to log in.

[Tim Sielbeck]

This is usually what I see.  Sometimes there is only the stuff on the right.  Sometimes I can close it and read the post other times not.

[JWB]

Kamala Harris gave $500,000 to MSNBC anchor's nonprofit before network's fawning interview.

https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1856479778829898180

[Ivanhoe]

On 11/10/2024 at 11:56 PM, Tim Sielbeck said:

This is usually what I see.  Sometimes there is only the stuff on the right.  Sometimes I can close it and read the post other times not.

 

X and many other sites (looking at you, Google) seem to be infected with the Indecisive Squirrel Syndrome. They can't seem to develop a decent UX and then just run it, they've got to keep effing with it so that the UX changes weekly.

 

[NickM]

On 11/11/2024 at 12:56 AM, Tim Sielbeck said:

This is usually what I see.  Sometimes there is only the stuff on the right.  Sometimes I can close it and read the post other times not.

Same here. Exactly the stuff I DON'T Wanna see.

[rmgill]

3 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

 

X and many other sites (looking at you, Google) seem to be infected with the Indecisive Squirrel Syndrome. They can't seem to develop a decent UX and then just run it, they've got to keep effing with it so that the UX changes weekly.

 

It's an artifact of Dev Ops. You hire some interface folks and then they're going to do re-freshes on a routine basis. 

At CNN.com they had a rolling project to re-fresh the home page. Basically several senior artists and devs were constantly employed rolling through each of the sites to upgrade them. What was funny was when they upgraded the CNN.Espaniol page. The site design was NOT well received by the viewers. The designers were an Icelandic man and a Japanese woman. Needless to say the color pallettes chosen were culturally appropriate for Japanese and Icelanders. 




CNN's home page circa 2000. I'm still looking to see if I can find the abortive espanol page redesign. 

[rmgill]

Ahh this was the early page.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010331064355/http://www.cnnespanol.com/

2005
2006
2007
2009 - This was the later design. I think the abortive design was some where earlier in 2009 or 2008...

Edited November 13, 2024 by rmgill

[sunday]

Not so bad, I think.

[rmgill]

I miss the early homepage formats. It was far more clean and simple. Fewer web elements. Now it's FULL of stuff. And don't get me started with the ad sourcing that is entirely mercenary but still affects the news editorial side. 

[lucklucky]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/11/12/behind_the_scenes_french_man_witnesses_kamala_harris_fashion_week_party_september_2024.html

[Tim the Tank Nut]

so the Harris campaign was shorter than most Presidential campaigns because of her "appointment".  After Harris got the position of candidate she was showered by all manner of wealth and riches for her campaign.  Now, it is all said and done and the unusually short campaign ended deep in the red with reports of massive payouts for celebrity endorsements and huge expenditures for campaign props.  Given the ability of Harris to make a complete wreck of the campaign I think it is safe to safe we dodged a bullet in this election.

Factually Harris was unable to manage a campaign and the United States is a much larger thing to have to manage.

[rmgill]

The Dark Horse podcast has an extensive deep dive into that campaign funding problem set. Another aspect was that donations by regular people were matched at an 8x rate by big donors. Why the match by the big donors. Strange thing all of that. 

[Sinistar]

very few people can actually name what kamala actually campaigned for. she was either deliberately opaque about her motives or she had none at all and was more of a vapid opportunist- politicians have long known the game not to come out and say what they really think or else they might get hung with their own words later. behave one way but hedge another when making public statements or stumping on the campaign trail but usually there is at least something to go on for a sense of continuity

 

hillary clinton was a similar type of slippery animal- you can find videos of her prior to her presidential run in 2016 where she openly stated she was a against homosexual marriage, when bill clinton was president, his administration signed DOMA into law. so that at least a kind of contiguous logic as to where she was coming from. then during 2016 when confronted with her own past statements she acts like that never happened

 

in the end kamala is unburdened by what has been. or something

[Rick]

Some of the details of her campaigns dept is semi-unbelievable.  

https://news.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-raised-1-billion-160956903.html

[Ivanhoe]

[Rick]

And the Democrat Party wonders why they cannot win the blue-collar worker. 

https://news.yahoo.com/news/union-calls-democratic-party-staff-195646111.html

[Murph]

Most Democrats want the former high price call girl to run again.  https://puck.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/November-2024-Voter-Omnibus-PUCK-Topline.pdf

[Stargrunt6]

In the medical field, we call this "sh*t-hammered commode-hugging drunk"

https://twitter.com/Aristos_Revenge/status/1861621035042275802

 

[Stargrunt6]

And they tried to stop her

 

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1861622277042819128

 

[Ivanhoe]

I know its a character flaw of mine, but I'm going to LMAO when some video from Diddyville shows her high as a kite and making out with actresses or teenagers.

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/11/26/dnc-staffers-beg-for-cash-after-kamala-shellacking-n2648263

Quote

"Last week, 2/3 of DNC staff was laid off with little notice and no severance. We are heartbroken to see our colleagues—who dedicated countless hours to electing Democrats up and down the ballot—depart under these circumstances, and we are furious with DNC leadership for failing to provide severance to those affected. As such, we are creating a relief fund which will directly aid staff members, including single parents and workers expecting children, impacted by the recent layoffs. The funds raised will be distributed equally to any laid-off member who opts in to receive funds. We hope these funds can soften the economic blow for those impacted," a statement on the page states. 

https://freebeacon.com/elections/these-four-democratic-firms-raked-in-600-million-running-ads-for-kamalas-failed-campaign/

Not surprisingly, the Harris campaign very deftly demonstrated the 3rd world kleptocratic value system that drives the DNC.

[NickM]

9 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

In the medical field, we call this "sh*t-hammered commode-hugging drunk"

https://twitter.com/Aristos_Revenge/status/1861621035042275802

 

You forgot to include "knee walking".