Verdant Banana @ verdantbanana @lemmy.world

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but the US had enough to fund a Democrat versus Republican election that cost over a billion dollars that in four years will have nothing to show that justifies the spending other than the corporations that are going to come out well because of the bought politicians and judges

the people who are directly affected by the laws and policies of the Democrats/Republicans in their daily lives are not having a cool fun time with the bread and circuses

disappointing stance? it is the exact same response as Trump

strictly controlled closed borders with no clear path to citizenship

yes, she has given strong lip service to women's rights, but the Democrats have always done that with everything

lip service with no plans or intent

why? we all know what it would be like

Harris: restrictive immigration policies, no upping the federal minimum wage to a livable wage, less workers' rights, less women's rights, more fracking/oil and blames all the Democrat party's shortcomings on the Republicans

Trump: restrictive immigration policies, no upping the federal minimum wage to a livable wage, less workers' rights, less women's rights, more fracking/oil and blames all the Republican party's shortcomings on the Democrats

US relies more on faith based and volunteer help than a third world country while corporations get tax breaks and corporate welfare

Why haven’t Democrats embraced economic populism? Because for too long they’ve drunk from the same campaign funding trough as the Republicans – big corporations, Wall Street, and the very wealthy.

US two-party sham needs replacing

because the elites write the checks for all the Democrat/Republican politicians in Washington including hers and the justices on the supreme court

it is the elite's interests running the country not the citizens

when "I am not Trump." is the only requirement to be president this is what we end up with

two-party sham that shackles the people and supports war

as much as history will remember their loudest slogan

I am not Trump.

this election is already bought and paid for by the donors that give to the two-party sham with some donors giving to both parties

we live in their fifty ununited states

https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/president/2024/

filtered masks on jobsites with particles is still not a hard requirement, pay is not keeping up with the cost of living, no universal healthcare

welcome to the US

in the US it is better to bleed out than to call 911

much worse here than the media is making it out to be with both the Democrats and the Republicans being bought they make sure nothing changes because people papered are easier to track and control

once arrested in the US charged or not you are now in the system marked/tagged and ready for exploitation for the remainder of your life

US never got over losing the free labor force it once had and now megacorps look to prisons for free labor and after incarceration cheap underpaid workers that have less rights

or Edge which fully supports Manifest V2

$15 an hour will not afford you housing, food, and healthcare

you mean that $15 an hour Obama wanted 16 years ago that they keep dangling over our heads until we vote for them?

At the same time, we’re pushing to guarantee workers the pay, benefits, and protections they deserve as well. We passed the Butch Lewis Act, keeping over 2 million people’s hard-earned pensions solvent. We also raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $17.20 an hour, and will keep pushing Congress to increase it to at least $15 for all Americans. We’re making millions more hourly workers eligible for overtime pay; and we’ve cracked down on wage theft and exploitation, recovering over $750 million for low-wage workers wrongly denied pay. We’re making it harder for employers to misclassify workers as independent contractors to avoid paying them full pay and benefits. We’re banning most non-compete agreements, freeing workers to move between jobs and negotiate. And we’ve restricted mandatory arbitration, so fewer employers can silence wronged employees in a workplace dispute

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

port workers are striking stating $80,000 a year is not enough, and you think $15 will not only cut it today but also buy a house with Harris's plans

what good is a fixed amount to buy a house when the minimum wage is still $7.25?

my response had nothing to do with "But not Trump." or what Harris's donors have her working towards

Harris did not grow up in a poor, mostly black neighborhood with people that are underpaid, sick from pollution such as local oil/fracking and no healthcare, free from police oppression, an underfunded education system, and instead her politics are akin to someone with an HOA background

should matter that we the citizens have proper representation in our government and is part of the reason our laws/policies do not mirror the citizens

her heart is on the right not in the right such as her positions on oil/fracking, right leaning immigration policies, not supporting a modern living wage, pro-police stance

if Harris would have grown up in a predominately black neighborhood with everything that involves down to pollution her platform would be a different story

the tallies are misleading below is the actual skinny

Walz: "When Iranian missiles did fall near U.S. troops and they received traumatic brain injuries, Donald Trump wrote it off as ‘headaches.’"

True.

Walz: "Sen. Vance has said that there's a climate problem in the past. Donald Trump called it (climate change) a hoax and then joked that these things would make more beachfront property to be able to invest in."

True.

Walz: "We are producing more natural gas and more oil at any time than we ever have."

True.

Walz: "And the good news on this is, is the last 12 months saw the largest decrease in opioid deaths in our nation's history."

Mostly True.

Walz: Trump "gave the tax cuts that predominantly went to the top class. What happened there was an $8 trillion increase in the national debt, the largest ever."

Mostly True.

Vance: "What (Harris has) actually done instead is drive the cost of food higher by 25%, drive the cost of housing higher by about 60%."

Half True.

Vance: Donald Trump "peacefully gave over power on January the 20th as we have done for 250 years in this country."

Mostly False.

Vance: "So there's an application called the CBP One app, where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status."

Mostly False.

Vance: "Kamala Harris let in fentanyl into our communities at record levels."

Mostly False.

Walz: "Donald Trump hasn't paid any federal tax in the last 15 years. The last year as president."

Mostly False.

Vance: Donald Trump "peacefully gave over power on January the 20th as we have done for 250 years in this country."

Mostly False.

Walz: "Their Project 2025 is gonna have a registry of pregnancies."

False.

Vance: "As I read the Minnesota law that (Walz) signed into law … it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives, the doctor is under no obligation to provide lifesaving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion."

False.

Vance: "Iran, which launched this attack (on Israel), has received over $100 billion and unfrozen assets, thanks to the Kamala Harris administration."

False.

Vance: "Donald Trump could have destroyed the (Affordable Care Act). Instead, he worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that Americans had access to affordable care."

False.