Subj : Re: Promises and Word Sal
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Sep 29 2024 10:17:00

>  MP> None of his other rallies were down the street from where the Electoral
>  MP> Votes were being counted, either, and I doubt he suggests at any other
>  MP> rallies that the crowd should march down to somewhere else after he is
>  MP> done.

> Being chosen by God puts pressure on a guy. :)

I do not believe he, or Kamala, are "chosen by God."  Beliefs like that
when it comes to someone in politics will get you in a lot of trouble.

>  MP> That is an issue that has already been decided.  I want to hear more
>  MP> about some of the plans for what sound like potential pie-in-the-sky
>  MP> promises.

> I don't think Trump needs many of those, it's just good vs evil and save the
> country vs trash the country. But Trump has mentioned no tax on tips, no tax o
> overtime, and no tax on social security.

You brought up cutting power bills in half.  That sounds pretty pie in the
sky that, I am guessing, could become true for some.  I don't think he can
promise that to everyone and have it work out, though, without a really
good plan.

I am on the fence about taxing OT.  I think that should depend on how much
money you make overall.  I have worked places where people are not making
much and are working their tails off.  I have also worked places where
people are making plenty but are intentionally pissing about during their
alloted 40 hours so they winding up earning OT (and causing others who don't
want it to get some, too).  They should be taxed as they are now.

I suspect that all of these things he is suggesting regarding "no tax on"
will not really pan out the way people think, though.  The President won't
have any control over what states do, and I am sure most of them will
continue taxing whatever they are taxing now.

>MP> Kamala is making some of those, too.  The "$25,000 for first time home
>MP> buyers" apparently has some fine print where "first time" means "first
>MP> generation."  So if your parents or grandparents owned a home in the US
>MP> you won't qualify.

>I haven't heard about it but that's very snakey behavior. People who rent awful
>apartments will walk right into that trap.

It will buy some votes I am sure.

> When Trump improperly referenced West Virginia (when he meant to say Virginia)
> that was an opportunity for Harris to correct him and look smart, but she was
> too dumb to even do that.

She probably knew what he was saying, regardless of which state, has been
debunked and that only die-hard never-gonna-vote-Harris people would
believe it.

> Which part of the debate did she make sense on?

Most of it.  She wasn't word-salading for the most part.  Now, she
completely ignored some questions for sure, but she was coherent.

>  MP> "Word salad" is when someone is speaking incoherently or throwing out a
>  MP> bunch of unrelated buzz phrases.  Coherently saying something you just
>  MP> don't like doesn't not equal "word salad."

> It's just that the things she talks about, that I heard, are extremely
> unimportant because I'm fixated on the border issue. Maybe that's how the
> leftists felt in 2020; they were fixated on covid-19, and it looked to them
> like Trump did it and he was refusing to fix it. Unless Trump would say "I
> fixed covid," the leftists didn't want to hear what he had to say.

Back when the Republicans chose to vote against giving the President the
power to close the border, weren't you one of the ones that said the border
"wasn't important"?


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