I listened to it. It was an OK speech, but it willfully ignored the agency of Israel in the destruction of the Palestinian people. She called Hamas terrorists, but what about Israel? What do you call an administration and a nation's army that's committing genocide? She gave no scoldings to Israel, which to me is weak sauce.
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I think this was pretty much the best that could be expected from an american presidential candidate. Israel's position in the geopolitical balance of power makes it impossible for her to just outright denounce them. She's signalling that she's (hopefully) going to be less limp-wristed than Biden was on the issue, but the US's hands are largely tied when it comes to Israel - at least for as long as the forward outpost in the Middle East is as desirable as it still is to US interests.
All she had to do was say "Two wrongs don't make a right. End the genocide." Netanyahu has a warrant for arrest by the international criminal court. Israel's only remaining ally is the US at this point.
She can't even say more than 3 words without looking down at her teleprompter. It's quite astonishing watching it.
I hate to break it to you, but the teleprompter bit died with Obama. Trump and Biden both use them, too, they just got better at hiding them.
Yea no shit. And if she doesn't get better at hiding it then trump possibly will dog walk her.
What is the purpose of this comment?
Are you saying that because she uses a teleprompter too much she isn't going to be a good president?
Are you saying this because you are equating her use of a teleprompter to her intelligence?
Are you saying this with the intention of getting people to not vote for her because she isn't perfect ?
Or are you just making a random statement about her?
I'm saying she didn't write that speech nor even partake in it's writing nor did she read over the damn thing once or twice. And it's obvious she did not.
I'm saying how was that performance any better than Biden and him say accidently calling someone the wrong name and immediately correcting himself. At least the guy can get out complete sentences before pausing to read.
Any other candidate beside trump will dog walk her if she continues to read from that thing like that. That's what I'm saying here.
What's the next thing you're gonna try when this one doesn't stick?
Something about her being a criminal herself considering she prosecuted 1300 people for weed then years later laughed about it and admitted she smoked weed and definitely inhaled as well.
You just admitted that you're just spamming agitprop until something sticks.
Wtf are you talking about. Two threads is spam? Relax. Breathe. And stop doing what you are accusing me of doing. I'm voicing my concerns as I'm free to do and I don't care if the leopards don't like it.
Here's a fact check that goes over her history as a prosecutor. Hint: it doesn't fit well into a single reductive sentence.
And what about it????
Hint:
she was conscious of the role of race when prosecuting. However, because of the lack of data, it is still hard to come to a conclusion as to whether or not her prosecutions disproportionately harmed people of color.
The NAACP and DPA Report also found that from 2004 to 2008, while Black people in San Francisco made up approximately 7.5% of the city’s population, they made up approximately 37% of marijuana arrests.
This fact check almost does the work for you, as much as they try not to.
I'm sure everyone has done some decent acts in their life no matter how much of a POS they ended up as. Good luck to her and God bless our troops.
marijuana arrests
Arrests are done by the police, not the DA, so that issue lies with the police. And as much of the rest of the article pointed out, the number of people who saw the inside of a prison cell for marijuana possession was small.
The article did not say the number of people she prosecuted who saw the inside of a cell was small it was vague in saying a small number went to state prison and some went to county jail or other conseques. Anyways how convenient. The number prosecuted remains hidden.
And that has nothing to do with anything. You don't have to see the inside of a cell to have your life de-railed and ruined due to a conviction. Once it's on your record. It's there and will affect certain opportunities you may have otherwise had. And that will follow you a long time. So that's long term. Then there was also the short term immediate perils you may have went through going through the conviction process. Arrests are done by police sure but that's also
Man, your entire post history is just hot garbage opinions.
Not true. I've some takes that people have agreed with. You may not agree with things I say and that's fine. I'll keep continuing though.