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THE HONEYMOON PERIOD continues for Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, who will soon be the officially confirmed as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
She has fired up the progressive grassroots, who were dejected by the prospect of working to secure a second term for Joe Biden after his horrendous debate performance in late June. The Californian has raised in excess of $200 million and signed up approximately 170,000 new volunteers across America.
There is evidence of movement in the aggregated polling data on RealClearPolitics.com.
Most notably, Harris has surged slightly past her foe, Donald Trump, in the key state of Michigan. She is behind and has a distance to go to erase the deficit in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and elsewhere. But she and the Democrats are in infinitely better shape than they were prior to Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
Trump, meanwhile, seems to be flailing. His abbreviated interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, during which his rage was manifest, was a car crash. Alleging that Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants to the US from Jamaica and India, only just decided that she was Black probably made his ardent followers chuckle,
notwithstanding her being a graduate of historically Black Howard University and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus when she served in the US Senate.
The truth is that Harris is Black and Indian. Lots of Americans have mixed ethnic and racial origins and celebrate them all. It’s one of the best things about the country of my birth. Politically, this sort of attack won’t help Trump with the relatively small cohort of floating voters, such as suburban white women, who will determine the result of the election in November.
It could stall his momentum with people of colour with whom he had been making inroads, too. Democratic strategists were losing sleep over this troubling trend. They may now be allowing themselves occasional sighs of relief.
My own suspicion is that, at this juncture, Trump is incandescent that he’s not competing against President Biden anymore and that he committed an unforced error in selecting JD Vance to be his number two. On the latter, rumours are circulating that he might
drop Vance and replace him with a woman – perhaps New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik or even the ex-South Carolina Governor and US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, who he despises. Since it would prompt talk of an internal campaign crisis and constitute a tacit admission that he got it wrong, I don’t think he will.
Trump actually should not be panicking. His political advisers must be tearing their hair out that he is behaving so erratically and appallingly. They need to convince him that his base isn’t large or strong enough to return him to the White House. Harris is certainly riding high and is benefitting from coverage in the mainstream media that is incredibly positive, veering close to fawning in some instances.
But objectively speaking, her approval ratings had been terrible. She is easily linked to the Biden administration’s perceived failings on what may be the two dispositive issues in the election: inflation and immigration, She is a powerful pro-choice advocate for the solid majority, though not all, of American women who lament the reversal of Roe v Wade. Yet she has expressed opinions well to the left of, again, those few hundred thousand citizens in the battlegrounds who have her fate in their hands on an array of contentious subjects: from Black Lives Matter, to the Green New Deal, to voting rights for convicted murderers, to fracking, and plenty more besides.
Trump has no shortage of material to use to create political hay out of. Whether the man who Hillary Clinton once said “lacks the temperament to be president” can temporarily
shelve his unredeemable penchant for nastiness and cease making vile, counterproductive comments that reek of misogyny and/or racism, however, remains to be seen.
It has been hypothesised that Trump sarcastically questioning if Harris is Black or Indian is an initial step in his attempt to frame her in the public mind as unlike the average American. He may not be that conniving when he is in full flow, but he and his allies will surely seek to portray the former prosecutor in an unfavourable light.
Harris’s choice of running mate, expected to be announced imminently, and the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she must both salute Joe
Biden for his lifetime in politics and draw clear blue water between her and her boss, are
hugely important in this regard. Partly because she was kept in the background by Biden’s people, who recognised that she could outshine their man, very many American still don’t know who Kamala Harris really is.
The difficult task for her in the weeks and months ahead, as she is scrutinised witheringly and denounced disdainfully, will be to define herself and to be equally appealing and authentic in so doing. Harris has struggled on this front previously. Of course, assailing
Donald Trump’s weak moral character and detailing the threat he poses to the nation and the world will motivate the substantial swathe of the electorate who loathe the 45th POTUS.
That gambit alone won’t win the contest. She also needs to persuade a diverse cross-section of Americans who aren’t especially ideologically driven and tuned in politically or who abhor elements of her liberal agenda to vote for her – either as the superior of the two candidates on offer or as a person they come to respect. This aim has to be to the fore in picking a partner at the top of the ticket and in messaging at the DNC.
At the convention, Democrats will hammer home the rallying cries that animate their core constituencies and boost the duo they ratify to take on Trump/Vance. Simultaneously, those who address the delegates in the arena and a massive audience watching the proceedings in their living rooms should extend an olive branch to women and men who aren’t “right on” or “woke” in the words of the cynics.
It is imperative that they make their fellow Americans, who are practising Christians, who own guns, who love gas guzzling vehicles, who drink beer not wine and who generally lead very different lives to their activists and donors, feel welcome in what they should describe as a big tent.
The Electoral College maths dictate that concerted, genuine outreach to the vast,
amorphous entity known as Middle America from the stage in Chicago and every day until 5 November is not optional for Democrats. With a proud Black and Indian American woman from California, Kamala Harris, as their nominee, they have to double down on these efforts for a range of complex and not altogether pleasant reasons.
Larry Donnelly is a Boston attorney, a Law Lecturer at the University of Galway and a political columnist with The Journal.
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Larry hasn’t figured that middle America, like the rest of world, want Peace & Stability.
Fortunately, the President of Peace is willing to serve us again.
A PROVEN peacemaker, the NO WAR president.
Let’s finish the ugly Ukraine/Russia proxy war
Let’s finish the ugly Palestine/Israel proxy war
Let’s REBUILD!!!!!!
TRUMP/ Vance 2024
#betterdaysarecoming
@Buster Lawless: I just hope the Dem,s will be gracious in their crushing defeat Buster…MAGA!
@Finian McG: we know there’s a MAJOR lefty meltdown a-coming Nov 5th
@Buster Lawless: Trump never served US
@Buster Lawless: I love this one ! :
‘… Americans, who are practicing Christians, who own guns, who love gas guzzling vehicules, who drink beer not wine …’ hahaha !!! What a place the USA is !
@Joe Kelly: lol, ok so lad, the 4 NO WAR years, 2016-2020….. Those years when shares in US arms industry imploded…..that didn’t happen??????
President of Peace doesn’t JUST serve the US, he serves the world.
#betterdaysarecoming
@Buster Lawless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhxxR-46Cjo
@John P Doe: He took far more.
$10 million from Egypt, as an example.
After which he released $1 billion in frozen aid to Egypt.
Aid which had been frozen due to Egypt’s human rights record.
@John P Doe: tbh, John, I’d give that accolade to Ghandi …..but if that President of Peace can give us 4 more NO WAR years …….he wins that one hands down.
#betterdaysarecoming
@Buster Lawless:
@Buster Lawless: imploded? I looked at Lockheed Martin stock for the period 2016-2020 and it went from about 220 a share to 390. So what? Should I look at another arms manufacturer? Which one will show a decline even? If you can tell me one that shows an implosion even better.
@Buster Lawless: Troll troll troll away. Orange id10t is finished thankfully. Cry harder
The JUGGERNAUT of Peace is coming.
Like Ghandi & Mandela the President of Peace cannot be derailed.
#betterdaysarecoming
@Buster Lawless: You can’t even spell Gandhi’s name, and you know that this is gibberish even as you’re typing (or pasting) it.
@Brendan O’Brien: lol, just like Ghandi & Mandela you’re petty gibberish is irrelevant to the President of Peace…….. Throw a 3 year witch-hunt at him, weaponize the whole justice department against him, throw lie after lie against him …. EVEN go as far as attempting to assassinate him……..makes no odds, peace WILL triumph over everything.
Let’s stop the needless wars, death & destruction.
Trump/Vance 2024—– the A TEAM
#betterdaysarecoming
@Buster Lawless: You’re really not well! Complaining about the intelligence of people being defrauded last week my and you’re a Trump supporter? You need to Google more to check some of your supposed “facts”.
@Buster Lawless: Luster Balless, finally understand the name, a tribute to your idol. All lust, no balls.
Because having ratchets on stage twerking is a great way to run her campaign. That there costed her a lot of votes in GA I guarantee it. People showed up for the free concert and left when she started talking. She’s pulling the 2016 Hillary playbook. People aren’t dumb and when she changes her accent depending on who she is talking to, people blatantly realize that’s she’s just pandering. I don’t know how she can even tout her job as DA/AG when she locked up over 1500 people for Marijuana charges and then goes on the Breakfast Club and said she smokes it herself. She also kept people locked up past their release dates for labor to fight California wildfires. She also had evidence that exonerated a death row inmate and hid it. A judge had to order the evidence to be released.
She also has to argue how she worked on the border when Biden named her “Border Czar” in March 2021. She didn’t even go down to the Rio Grande or other hot spots on the actual border with major illegal crossings. She also has to somehow say she isn’t part of the Bidenomics disaster and how she helped cover up Joe’s mental decline these past years. If there wasn’t a decline, he’d be in the race he was given him an ultimatum to drop out or get 25th out. A major problem she is going to have is what she is going to run on and how come she didn’t accomplish it in the past 3.5yrs. A current problem, how come she can’t fix it now, she’s in office. It isn’t like Joe, who endorsed her, is standing in her way. She was ranked the most liberal Senator and had the lowest approval rating of any VP.
@DN N: People don’t know who she is because she hasn’t accomplished anything under this administration she is hiding like Biden did in 2020 race. Once people do some research on her, something not written by MSNBC or CNNs she going to have to answer some questions. That’s just my two pennies right now. I’d rather have Trump’s mean tweets, no new wars, and prosperity any day 2018-2019 US economy is going to be hard to best. I don’t blame Biden or Trump for Covid that hit the entire world hard, and there wasn’t anybody who knew what to do to combat it. I’ll say I definitely don’t think people should have been mandated to get a “vaccine” or not put food on the table that was infuriating especially when there wasn’t very many jobs that were available at that time to leave. Alright, enough said
@DN N: Even if all the smears and propaganda against Harris were true, she would still be a thousand times better than Trump.
She is a normal politician: Trump is an amoral egomaniac who wants to overthrow the political system and have absolute personal power.
@DN N: The smears and propaganda are, in fact, a sign of panic in the Trump camp.
Finally a half decent article Larry but Trump 2024.
@Robert Bell: Trump does not even have the support of his own party, much less the support of Democrats and independents.
Can he really win when so many Republicans will either stay at home, or even vote Democrat?
Crooked Kamala likes to keep black men on Death Row. Is she really a Democrat?
KEVIN COOPER CASE
In February, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered new DNA testing in the 1983 murder case of Kevin Cooper. Cooper came within hours of execution in 2004 after being charged with the murders of an adult couple and two children. Harris opposed the testing when she was the state’s attorney general
@Paul: Paul, familiarise yourself with the journal ground rules re US elections…..there’s only 2 simple ones……:
1. Democrats= saints, brilliant, fantastic,can do no wrong
2. President of Peace= bad orange man,can do no right
@Paul: It must be really embarrassing to be you.
And to show the World your nature and capabilities.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: you’re not very smart.
This is reported by left wing newspaper the Sacrambeto Bee, and was used by her Democratic rivals including creepy Joe against her when she ran for the democratic presidential candicy in 2019.
Do some research you blinded, blinkered muppet
@Paul: There are numerous fact checks on these claims: you are referring to a different one to the one linked to above (which suggests that you are not very bright).
https://factcheck.afp.com/misleading-claim-says-harris-jailed-1500-black-men-marijuana
@Brendan O’Brien: Q.E.D.
And, at at the time I write this, there are 15 other idiots who upvoted Paul’s comment.
It would almost make one weep.
But we must remember that for every person with above average intelligence there is another below.
In the US, they call themselves Republicans.
Plain sailing for Kamala despite what Larry the spoofer thinks.Another 3 months or so for Trumpty Dumpty to put his foot and mouth in it again, which he no doubt will.
Kamala 2024
BIGLY
As a socialist, I can’t stand the neo-liberal & centrist Democrats, who are more of a danger to Palestinians than any Republican president could be.
@Jacintha Dumbrell: Better acquaint yourself with Trump’s record as president and the GOP’s hardline rhetoric and voting record on military aid to Israel over the last several months (reducing the leeway Biden’s administration have in pressuring the Israeli government).
@Jacintha Dumbrell: Nikki Haley visited the region not too long ago.
And signed Israeli bombs to be dropped on Palestinians.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Mental that this isn’t brought up more… Horrible bunch
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Well done, but not nearly enough.
An eloquent piece from Mr Donnelly boils down to a couple of Democrat talking points, Harris is black and Orange Man bad.
Unfortunately, the constituency that this narrative needs to convince is mostly the black community itself, from what I can gather they believe that she has a higher percentage Irish ancestry than black.
He describes his attendance at the NABJ forum as a car crash.
But at least he showed up, unlike Harris, and many commentators in the US are more critical of the hostility shown to him by the host than of his contribution to the event.
I know that Mr Donnelly has a particular pitch to sell to the Democrat supporters in Ireland, but if this is as good as it gets, even he must know the hole they are in with Harris as their candidate.
Harris will win in November.
Trump is a convicted felon against an accomplished former DA who got to where she is on her own hard work.
How anyone with any semblance of a moral compass could vote for Trump is beyond me.
@John P Doe: Not to people who have a moral compass.
Why do so many commenting on here respond to “Buster Lawless” and his “President of Peace” nonsense.
Please people, stop feeding the t roll.
Buster, if you reply to this with your usual “try harder”. Please know I won’t engage.
@Paddy Whelan: The alternative is to let pro-Trump propaganda go unchallenged: it’s difficult to know which is worse.
@Paddy Whelan: #betterdaysarecoming
@Brendan O’Brien: Buster is only having a laugh. You on the other hand are far worse and insideous. One from you yesterday :
“Even Palastinian babies are suspected of terrorist thought crime, therefore they have to be eradicated”. That does not come from someone who debates in good faith. And it is obvious you have more than one account.
@offside again: If you’re going to quote me, at least copy and paste so that there aren’t spelling errors.
Yes, that is the Israeli attitude to Palestinian babies, so what is the problem?. And I certainly have no need for more than one account.
@Brendan O’Brien: oh, spelling errors upset you ? But making disgraceful and false comments like that doesn’t ? My turn now to ask you : do you have any evidence to support such a disgusting assertion ?
And whilst you’re at it, what did you think of Hamas murdering their own people rushing towards an aid convoy ?
@offside again: Come back to me when you’ve joined the real world.
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/israel-war-on-gaza-10000-children-killed/
@offside again: suspecting babies of terrorist thought crime. I mean, how warped do you have to be make that up ?
@offside again: just ‘play’ along with the troll, all those accounts..d peder’, Kevin ker, pad….they get so pedantic about perceived errors in grammer…… Sometimes, I deliberately spell something ( using their instead of there always triggers those accounts) wrong just for the craic
@Brendan O’Brien: I tune into aljazeera regularly. Not biased at all ..
@offside again: That is the attitude of the Israeli state (echoed by Trump): that Palestinian children are ‘taught to hate’ and, as a result, are fair game.
See also Bob Marley’s ‘kill them before they grow’.
@Brendan O’Brien: Bob Marley eh .. ?.muslims are taught to hate jews and despise christians. Here in France most anti-semitism is found in the muslim community, and it’s not even got anything to do with Gaza. It’s cultural.
Without western support, Israel wouldn’t last 3 weeks. And fyi, I believe Netenyahu should be tried in the hague. Most Israelis just want to live in security but their neighbours won’t let them.
@Brendan O’Brien: Palestinians only see their babies as future “martyrs”.
@Paddy Whelan: Most of us are just here for the sheer entertainment of his delusional comments.
@offside again: One point of evidence for Brendan’s contention that Israel wants to eradicate Palestinian children: The video that forms part of South African case against Israel at the ICJ — Soldiers singing about “Amalek” ref Samuel 15:3 NIV,
“Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
It’s time to institute fines for littering…..in comments sections by low-skill trolls. It’s just making the comments unsightly with the usual multiple personality commenter(s) fly postering gibberish. We need to reclaim the natural landscapes and picturesque tidiness of our online environment. Guess who will be along shortly to graffiti all over this sentiment.
@Numinous20111: d peder’??
Brendan o Brien????
Kevin ker????
Pad??????
Your ‘present” account??????
@Buster Lawless: My predictive abilities confirmed.
@Numinous20111: Can you PM me this weeks Lotto numbers please, Numinous?
Ah Larry lad iam getting sick to my stomach with the Bible belt dollars corruption,
‘from what I can gather’ – what you ‘can gather’ is simply what you want to believe.
‘The ham-handed ploy to portray Harris, an HBCU grad, as a kind of race traitor or an inauthentically Black person mainly serves to remind voters of the 78-year-old Trump’s advanced age — nothing says septuagenarian like a preoccupation with pointless racial and ethnic distinctions.’
@Brendan O’Brien: (that was intended as a reply to Garry Coll)
@Brendan O’Brien:
I am from the human race. What ‘race’ are you from?.
The only valid biological distinction within humanity is male and female. A tiny number of humans have traits from both genders, but they can not decide to be exclusively one or the other.
The same people up in arms about the Algerian boxer who shares male/female traits become silent when faced with the invalid biological language of ‘races’ along with racism, racial, racist, multi racial, biracial and so on.
@Gerald Kelleher: Yet again: I *know* that the concept of ‘race’ is a false one. You need to tell it to the racists.
@Brendan O’Brien: woohoo….Gerald Really SCHOOLED you there ..try & &troll’ back from that smackdown…. Use your accounts , d peder’ & Kevin ker, to try & give you a start!! Lol
@Brendan O’Brien:
If, as you write, racial and ethnic distinctions are pointless, why are you and Mr Donnellly so preoccupied with trying to convince everyone that Harris is black.
@Garry Coll: I don’t need to convince anyone of anything. It is a fact that she is ethnically Black and Asian. To try to distinguish critically between the two, as Trump did, is pointless.
@Brendan O’Brien:
Many Irish of a particular generation bought into the subculture that misguided people like Dawkins and his Royal Society colleagues push. An adult identifies Origin of Species with its favoured and less favoured or civilised and savages ‘races’ using the islands of famine Ireland and industrial Britain as the template.
‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’ Darwin 1859
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/feb/09/darwin.dawkins1
If there are no ‘races’ apart from the human race, then racists can’t exist. It isn’t rocket science. The real culprit is the scientific method modelling subculture itself.
@Brendan O’Brien: The concept of race, in this case the human race is biologically valid while favoured and less favoured ‘races’ is a dumb and dangerous conviction.
@Gerald Kelleher: “If there are no ‘races’ apart from the human race, then racists can’t exist.” Logically incorrect, come on GK! You clearly have some desire for accuracy and precision in your argument. Races don’t have to exist for racism to exist, only the idea of races. Seriously dude
@Gerald Kelleher: If racists can’t exist, how do you explain all the genocide, all the murders, all the suffering, perpetrated by those who claim otherwise?
Your disbelief in the concept of race will not bring these people back.
@Gerald Kelleher: The concept of ‘race’ is not biologically valid and the concept of ‘favoured races’ is minority held view not held by the vast majority biologists. Your problem is with Darwin, Dawkins and whoever else you perceive to be undermining your religiously held beliefs. By all means keep peddling your views if you so wish but constantly showing your misunderstanding of evolution is embarrassing.
@Gerald Kelleher: The only biological difference between people is male or female? You keep showing you know nothing of biology and yet think that you know that what is accepted as true is all wrong?
@Garry Coll: You’ll find the issue of Harris’ race is one that is being harped on by Trump, and his ilk.
Take a look at the videos from Trump and Vance.
But you already know about those.
What’s going on with the extreme of attacks in Dublin and the rest of the country, most kept quiet.
@ken smith: English not your first language eh? Or is this a haiku?
@ken smith: There does seem to be a lot recently.
russia spreading it’s destabilisation?
Using those that are easily led and fooled, aka the far-right?
It is difficult to discern what must go through the heads of 21st-century people when they review Victorian natural selection with its anthropomorphous apes (black complexion humans) on a sliding evolutionary scale from white complexion Europeans back to gorillas.
“The civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.” Darwin, The Descent of Man
“In the brain of the lowest savages, we have an organ so little inferior in size and complexity to that of the highest types (Europeans), that we must believe it capable during the space of two or three thousand years, of producing equal results. The mental requirements of the lowest savages, such as the Australians are very little above those of many animals.The pure intellect and refined emotion are useless to them and have no relation to their wants, desires, or well-being. How, then, was an organ developed so far beyond the needs of its possessor? Natural selection could only have endowed the savage with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one but very little inferior to that of the members of our learned societies” Wallace
Anthropomorphous !.
Unless Irish society is totally lost, the famine Irish and their culture served as a template for the Origin of Species in contrast to industrial England rather than the Galapagos islands.
We were the less favoured ‘race’ among the favoured ‘races’, and whether people today do not have the courage, bravery or courage to deal with the prejudiced conviction of natural selection, at least they now know that it is a self-inflicted injury on humanity and Ireland as a nation.
‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’ Darwin 1859
Wallace asserted his Origin of Species a year earlier based on Malthus, the governing opportunistic response of a section of English society to the Irish famine.
This is an opportunity.
Let’s say this Darwin stuff you continually post is correct. I don’t think it is, but for the sake of argument, let’s grant you that, what are you trying to say? Darwin was a racist, ok, maybe, why should I care? Are you trying to say that the idea of different races of human beings is unscientific? Fine, but again, why does that matter? Kamala Harris is of both Indian and black Jamaican heritage and Donald Trump said she was a DEI hire, a racist assertion that she was hired because of her race.
None of that needs Darwin to be true; racial differences don’t need to be true for there to be racist people, racist views and racism.
@Geironymous Bosch: Please keep positing this every time Gerald posts his nonsense.
Getting rid of boxing and the US bible money flowing into Ireland for close to a century are on my bucket list ,watch your arse lar I don’t have that long to live
There are complaints that I keep posting material on natural selection even when it was central to the invasion and extermination imperatives of WWII. It is still celebrated and taught in schools through its foundation of favoured and less favoured ‘races’ that originated between the neighbouring islands of Ireland and Britain and not the fairy tale of the neighbouring Galapagos.
“One day, something brought to my recollection Malthus’s “Principles of Population,” which I had read about twelve years before. I thought of his clear exposition of “the positive checks to increase”–disease, accidents, war, and famine–which keep down the population of savage races to so much lower an average than that of civilized peoples.” Wallace, Origin of Species, 1858
This is important for many reasons.
@Gerald Kelleher: Why won’t you answer any of your fellow posters’ questions?
I concede: 1, Wallace was a bad guy, 2, Darwin thought the Irish an inferior race, 3 Natural selection was central to the invasion and extermination imperatives of WWII.
Now what? What are you saying? I’m actually trying to understand you ffs! Do you not want to be understood?
Are you just trying to say Darwin and Wallace are wrong?
Clearly, many commenters invest heavily in supporting the Victorian prejudice conviction even when the Irish were the template for favoured and less favoured ‘races’ in the case of the Origin of Species.
“In 500 years how the Anglo-Saxon race will have spread & exterminated whole nations; & in consequence how much the Human race, viewed as a unit, will have risen in rank.” Darwin
Learn from the Olympics that friendly competition and loving what is best is at the centre of human life on Earth and not the aggression, dominance, and a colonial expansion excuse.
Yes, it is an opportunity for humanity to rid itself of tribal prejudice and strive for what is productive and creative. Nobody else can make a difference if you can’t understand that.
@Gerald Kelleher:
Oh I get it now, it’s a religion thing.
Sigh
You have no interest in Harris, Trump, the US election, or questions of race and racism, you just want to shoehorn in and repeatedly spooge this Darwin and Wallace bollox all over other peoples’ discussions.
And all because you’re butthurt evolution by natural selection is more persuasive and scientifically proven than the talking snake, magical sky fairy bs.
I’m done with you, I actually tried to understand you, but fk that now.
@Geironymous Bosch:
The 20th-century American variant is a false choice of natural selection vs creationism, science vs religion, faith vs fact or some other worthless description arising from the Origin of Species. A recent generation of Irish bought into the subculture, so some are beginning to discover what Victorian natural selection really represents before it morphed into the American variant.
The Royal Society subculture is so dominant that even after the misery, destruction and death of WWII as the Nazis employed the imperatives of natural selection, the academic community attempted to soften natural selection to social darwinism and eugenics. There is only natural selection based on favoured and less favoured ‘races’, nothing else.
You are no better or worse than others.
@Geironymous Bosch: I hoped for a long time that he had a point, I asked questions to try and understand but it all boils down to religiously held beliefs and viewing the world through that prism. I argued for his points when I was a teenager who had read the bible and probably a lot of the same source material as Gerald but by learning the actual concepts of evolution it was easy to see the mistakes I had made in trying to blame the personal mistakes of historical scientists on a concept.
It’s hers for the taking. Doughnut Trump is looking old and tired now. Mind you, he very nearly died. That would take the wind out of anyone’s sails. Hopefully wokism prevails.
Did Trump seriously think that Biden would be in the race by Nov, seems he did .His abuse of Harris is pure b/vile
I have big reservations myself about Harris , all that mad laughing . she urgently needs to acquire gravitas . Her whole hearted support of abortion to late term horrifies me ,and again the Democratic support for transgenderism disturbs me too .Many women’s sports have been seriously damaged in the U.S. Harris wd be against fracking I think ,a horrendous assault on nature and the environment .The next 100 days will b v interesting
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