2024 US Presidential Election

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i've seen on here several folks that dislike Harris because as a district atty she put folks in jail. (most hate was over pot "crimes") but nobody mentions that she and her office helped defend Harborside when Melinda Haag etc tried to shut them down/steal their money etc. i'll give credit when it's due.

also, as a district attorney, her main focus was on sex crimes. i'm all for prosecuting the shit out of sex offenders.

 

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Viral TikTok Videos Erase Kamala Harris’s Record as California’s “Top Cop”

From the drug war to the death penalty, Kamala Harris’s past as a prosecutor deserves scrutiny.

truthout.org

 

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California's tough-on-crime past haunts Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris’ work as a prosecutor during California’s lock-'em-up era has made it harder for her to sell her presidential candidacy to voters wary of the state’s high rate of imprisoning people of color.

www.latimes.com

 

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/chesa-boudin-recall-17216520.php

 

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California's tough-on-crime past haunts Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris’ work as a prosecutor during California’s lock-'em-up era has made it harder for her to sell her presidential candidacy to voters wary of the state’s high rate of imprisoning people of color.

www.latimes.com

That article references the disproportionate percentage of Blacks compared to population incarcerated in California prisons but it fails to compare them with states like Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, etc... which are all much higher.

As a prosecutor her job was to lock people up. Apparently she was good at her job.

What I find funny is that the same White people that complain about Black crime in most big cities are now complaining about someone that was tough on crime and locked Black people up. That's why when I look to the right I see pretzels.

I'm in no way justifying her record but it's odd that now that she's running for President she's attacked for doing exactly what the right wants. I mean, they are the ones that are famous for their chants of "Lock her up!"

 

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That article references the disproportionate percentage of Blacks compared to population incarcerated in California prisons but it fails to compare them with states like Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, etc... which are all much higher.

As a prosecutor her job was to lock people up. Apparently she was good at her job.

What I find funny is that the same White people that complain about Black crime in most big cities are now complaining about someone that was tough on crime and locked Black people up. That's why when I look to the right I see pretzels.

I'm in no way justifying her record but it's odd that now that she's running for President she's attacked for doing exactly what the right wants. I mean, they are the ones that are famous for their chants of "Lock her up!"

Kamala was a right-leaning corporatist for years for most of us that gave her record and values a review..

She prosecuted over 1,900 cannabis cases in her stint as a prosecutor, though, yes, while that was her job and California certainly gets its share of large numbers of all sorts of cases due to population size, it's also more indicative of an Orange County attitude than the supposed (disingenuous) 'progressive' mindset that Biden's and her handlers have invested so much energy in marketing the pair as.

Progressives or traditional Left, they are absolutely NOT.

 

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Besides changing his actual skin color, he has gone back and forth about his ancestry, too.

Article from 1990

After the Gold Rush | Vanity Fair

Unfortunately for Donald and Ivana Trump, all that glittered wasn't gold. But the reign of New York's self-created imperial couple isn't over yet. Donald's Midas touch may be tarnished, but the banks are still throwing money at him, while Ivana is busy brokering a future of her own. MARIE...

archive.vanityfair.com

 

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Besides changing his actual skin color, he has gone back and forth about his ancestry, too.

Article from 1990 View attachment 19043118

After the Gold Rush | Vanity Fair

Unfortunately for Donald and Ivana Trump, all that glittered wasn't gold. But the reign of New York's self-created imperial couple isn't over yet. Donald's Midas touch may be tarnished, but the banks are still throwing money at him, while Ivana is busy brokering a future of her own. MARIE...

archive.vanityfair.com

Oh crap. I never knew his heritage. I sure hope I'm not somehow related the the orange goblin.

 

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Oh crap. I never knew his heritage. I sure hope I'm not somehow related the the orange goblin.

Did your people come from Bavaria, by chance?

The Emigrants, by Friedrich Trump

harpers.org

 

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Did your people come from Bavaria, by chance?

The Emigrants, by Friedrich Trump

harpers.org

Fortunately no. They were actually Germans that had immigrated to Hungary sometime in the late 17th and early 18th century before my great grandparents immigrated to the United States in the early 1900's.

Thanks for that link. I feel much better now.

 

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Cedar's an amazing wood.

When I worked briefly in 1979 for the US Forest Circus, when we were out in muskegs working, dropping trees, etc., we had chainsaw mini-mills, and the cedar was sturdy/durable enough in the water, and plentiful enough back then, they had us rip 3-inch planks with the mini-mill of various cedars, including yellow, and literally lay them across the muskeg's more wet areas to walk across.

Like bathing in hundred-dollar bills.

Small commercial mill outfits would also set up on numerous logging roads, on Prince of Walles Island and elsewhere, and make cedar shakes on site. Not so much of that anymore.

Almost identical to my boat;

 

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Almost identical to my boat;

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That's a slightly longer version, but very similar to my former friend's double-ender, salmon hand-troller that was previously in Wrangell Island's harbor in the late 1970's and out at Pt. Baker on the north end of of Prince of Wales Island.

Very stable and reliable old boats, though they often do poorly against the rocks in heavy seas.

Edit: It looks as though that fellow has such a full fish hold that he's got them slathered about the deck, too.

 

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Almost identical to my boat;

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that's gotta be around 40 ft! you could put 4-5 tons of fish in/on it. what did you use it for?

 

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It looks as though that fellow has such a full fish hold that he's got them slathered about the deck, too.

Yup, riding low in the water.

 

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that's gotta be around 40 ft! you could put 4-5 tons of fish in/on it. what did you use it for?

I just putted around the inlet and inside passage. I had thought to fix her up to go further but alas it was over my head financially. 37 ft.