| Jaicee said: (snip) (I'm sorry to fawn so much over Harris, I've just come to like her a lot. Also I've noticed that we don't discuss actual public policy very much on this thread. It's mostly just the horse race and Trump/Republican-bashing.) |
The reason why policy doesn't get discussed much here is that Trump has next to nothing that he is clear about. On almost all topics he flip-flops, evades the question or tries to run on lies to have a problem that only he can solve. Trump doesn't care because he runs for himself to escape convictions and prison time.
It's funny that the more level-headed Republicans suggest that Trump should stick to policy and attack Harris's record instead of attacking her personally. Trump doesn't have a proper understanding when it comes to a lot of topics, so he's actually better off doing his own thing. Attacking Harris's record is a similar dead end because for one, there's not much that a vice president gets to decide, and two, tying Harris to Biden isn't a good plan when Biden's policies have kept creating jobs and got inflation under control. That's why Trump's own strategy is actually the best course of action for the Republican party.
Biden hasn't been a great president, but I think everyone expected that going in already because there was no excitement for either candidate in 2020. 2020's election was about cleaning up Trump's mess and hopefully set the stage for a return to more normal times. Biden was about playing it safe and being more about a presidency of transition, because he should have never run for re-election to begin with at his age. Nevertheless, the Democrats managed to salvage the bad situation they got themselves in by convincing Biden to step aside.
2024 is the first time since 2012 that the sentiment isn't that America gets to choose only between two shitty candidates. Now that doesn't put Harris above criticism, but it's a huge improvement over recent times.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
