The late Bernie Baltic used to ask politicians, who invariably wanted him to write them a check, “What are your principles?”
They would then recite their key issues or the issues they thought were key to getting Bernie to write that check. He would stop them, saying, “Not your issues — issue positions can change — your principles.”
Values are like sorta like principles. In politician speak.
“My values haven’t changed,” Vice-President Kamala Harris assured us, after being quizzed about her flip-flopping on issues including fracking (hello Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes), defunding the police and building a border wall.
CNN host Erin Burnett recently took the Democratic nominee to task, citing an investigation that counted more than 50 instances of Harris “slamming Trump’s border wall,” even while her “campaign ads actually showcase that wall.”
Hard to believe but true: Kamala’s TV spot touts Trump’s wall — his “big distraction,” as she dubbed it — as a symbol of her tough border stance.
You can’t make this stuff up.
In her 2019 book, The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris identified “a bigger reason to oppose a border wall,” decrying such a structure as “a monument standing in opposition to not just everything I value but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built.”
Therefore … it would seem obvious that her values have indeed changed. Or perhaps the problem is that she doesn’t have any values that cannot be trumped (go ahead, pun intended) by the all-powerful need to secure her personal political advance.
That’s her paramount principle.
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“For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.” — Eric Blair, 1984 ch 5
The various political leaders and politicians and pundits and journalists and teachers who engage in such dishonesty do so because a large share of the populace just go along with it.
Kamal on her intention to create a mandatory gun “buy back” system: https://x.com/i/status/1834311547021394011
AK47s come in handy when you are hunting squirrels and ducks! Everyone should have two!
Keep your dogs and cats inside. If you don’t, the Haitians will eat them. Did Trump really say that?
“SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Bomb threats on Friday forced the evacuation and closure of public schools and municipal buildings for a second consecutive day, as the city continues to deal with sudden national attention due to false claims involving its Haitian population.”
Bomb threats due to Trump’s lies about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, OH. Why don’t you write about Trump being unfit to be president. Bet you won’t!
False claims? Haven’t you seen the pictures of people walking down the street with headless ducks from the city parks?
What happens when you take a city of 60,000 people and import 20,000 illegals directly to that city?
Are you hoping that some readers are so very stupid that they’ll forget all about the question of what, exactly, Kamala Devi Harris believes, if you repeatedly screech here about Trump being a liar?
30,000+ documented lies by Trump. 30 lies during the debate with Harris.
Are you hoping that some readers are so very stupid that they’ll forget all about my question asked of you, if you repeatedly screech here about Trump being a liar?
Source?