Sen
Kamala Harris is a product of Silicon Valley's billionaires and will enforce
their agenda in DC.
Eg, she's an author of the S.386 bill that allows the Fortune 500 to hire more
white-collar workers from India for jobs needed by America's college
grads https://t.co/gKCuD9DH5z
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August
12, 2020
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Silicon Valley Donors ‘Happiest’ with Pro-Big Tech Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s Running Mate
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) sparked enthusiasm for the ticket in Silicon Valley as Harris has kept a close relationship with big tech and done little to obstruct the industry during her tenure in office.
Recode wrote on Tuesday that Biden has struggled, until recently, to “excite the wealthiest and most powerful tech moguls,” whereas Harris will bring “superfans” from the Silicon Valley billionaire class to help out the Democrat presidential ticket.
Biden’s selection of Harris, as opposed to anti-tech big tech Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-CA), signals that a Biden-Harris administration would likely take a lax attitude toward big tech regulation, and likely stray away from regulating it or pursuing antitrust solutions for allegedly anti-competitive behavior.
Cooper Teboe, a top Democrat fundraiser in Silicon Valley, said that roughly one-third of the donors he’s spoken to believe Harris would serve as one of the most big tech-friendly vice presidential candidates.
Harris “is the safest pick for the donor community. She will be the pick that the California, Silicon Valley donor community — who are worried about things like tech and repatriation and taxes and so on and so forth — she is the pick that they will be happiest with,” Teboe said.
Big tech billionaires have even developed deep admiration for and friendships with Harris.
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff told Recode that Harris is “one of the highest integrity people I have ever met.”
Former Facebook President Sean Parker invited Harris to his wedding.
Billionaire Democrat donors such as Reid Hoffman and John Doerr donated to Harris’s short-lived presidential bid.
Tony West, Harris’s brother-in-law, is the general counsel of Uber; Harris’s niece worked at Uber.
Laurene Powell Jobs, Apple founder Steve Job’s widow, wrote when Biden announced Harris as his vice presidential nominee, “Joe Biden you made a great choice!”
Joe Biden you made a great choice!
— Laurene Powell Jobs (@laurenepowell) August 11, 2020
Harris also developed a deep friendship with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, which included helping Sandberg market her book Lean In.
Two days after Californians elected Harris to the Senate, Sandberg congratulated Harris, writing:
Kamala,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!! We need you now more than ever.
I just did a Facebook post about you and all the women.
Cheering you on!
Sheryl
While many could claim that Harris has a tight relationship with Silicon Valley, Roger McNamee, a Silicon Valley investor, said that Harris could create a “Nixon-to-China” moment to push regulations due to her relationship with big tech.
“As senator from California, Kamala Harris was understandably aligned with Big Tech,” McNamee claimed. “As vice president, she has an opportunity to stand up for all Americans.”
When it comes to her time in the Senate and on the presidential campaign trail, Harris has had a mixed record in regards to her attitude towards big tech.
While she has grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the company’s alleged misuse of Americans’ private data, she has waffled over how she would address calls for using antitrust against America’s largest technology companies. She has also dodged questions over whether the federal government should break up big tech companies, only to suggest that “we have to seriously take a look at that.”
Sen. @KamalaHarris: "Facebook has experienced massive growth and has prioritized its growth over the best interests of its consumers."
"We need to seriously take a look" at breaking up Facebook, "it is essentially a utility that has gone unregulated." #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/ywbJk6gxvC
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) May 12, 2019
“The tech companies have got to be regulated in a way that we can ensure and the American consumer can be certain that their privacy is not being compromised,” Harris told the New York Times.
When asked about breaking up big tech companies, she said, And, when asked about breaking up, “My first priority is going to be that we ensure that privacy is something that is intact.”
However, Sally Hubbard, a director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, said, “All of the problems with Facebook all come down to two things. “Its business model and the fact that it’s a monopoly power. You can’t fix that with better privacy standards alone.”
In one instance, she did call on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to ban President Donald Trump’s Twitter account over the president’s questioning of the legitimacy of the intelligence officer “whistleblower,” used to launch an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
Big tech donations helped launch her into the Senate after her time as the attorney general of California. Harris received $214,000 in donations from big tech to help get her elected to become the junior senator from California, which included maximum contributions from Sandberg.
“As a senator, Harris has been mostly quiet on policy-making issues that carry implications for Facebook and Google,” HuffPost wrote.
Harris remained quiet on the 2018 sex-trafficking bill, which carried considerable implications for Google and Facebook. She only became a cosponsor of the legislation when it became apparent that it would pass through the Senate.
Big tech remains one of her largest donors over her career in Congress.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, donated $161,137 to Harris over time in the Senate.
Apple donated $81,329 during her time in Congress.
Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm that focuses on technology startups, donated $69,722.
Joel Kotkin in the City Journal noted that Harris is “Silicon Valley’s dream of political control.”
“Harris is also the favored candidate of the tech and media oligarchy now almost uniformly aligned with the Democratic Party,” Kotkin wrote in 2019.
He continued:
Given the media’s obsession with style, race, and gender, we would do well to understand what agenda lurks behind Harris’s atmospherics. The reality: if she wins, the tech oligarchy — titans of today’s Gilded Age — will have achieved commanding influence, not just in the information business and the media, but in the White House as well.
Kotkin also explained that Harris did little to prevent the rise of controlled power amongst the Silicon Valley companies. He wrote:
Harris has not called for curbs on, let alone for breaking up, the tech giants. As California’s attorney general, she did little to prevent the agglomeration of economic power that has increasingly turned California into a semi-feudal state dominated by a handful of large tech firms.
“Her husband, attorney Doug Emhoff, was a managing partner with Venable Partners, whose clients include Microsoft, Apple, Verizon, and trade associations opposing strict Internet regulations,” he added.
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
Big Tech Joins Chamber of Commerce Lawsuit to Import Foreign Workers While 26M Americans Jobless
Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.
Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce
lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa
programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.
Last month,
the Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit against Trump’s expanded executive order,
signed in June, that halts the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1, and J-1 visa programs to
reduce foreign competition against millions of unemployed Americans.
Today, there
are 26 million Americans
who are jobless — 7.7 million of whom are out of the workforce altogether and
about two million who have been out of work for months but want full-time
employment. Another 8.4 million Americans are working part-time but want
full-time jobs.
Now, CEOs for the largest tech
corporations in the world have signed onto the lawsuit in an amicus brief. Tech
corporations such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Netflix, Zillow, and
PayPal have all signed on to fight Trump’s order.
The full list of
those supporting the Chamber of Commerce lawsuit include:
1. Adobe Inc.
2. Alliance of Business
Immigration Lawyers
3. Amazon.com, Inc.
4. Apple Inc.
5. Atlassian, Inc.
6. Autodesk, Inc.
7. Bates White, LLC
8. Box, Inc.
9. BSA Business Software
Alliance, Inc.
10. Consumer Technology
Association
11. Denver Metro Chamber of
Commerce
12. Dropbox, Inc.
13. Facebook, Inc.
14. FWD.us Education Fund
15. GitHub, Inc.
16. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Company
17. HP Inc.
18. HR Policy Association
19. Information Technology
Industry Council
20. Institute of International
Bankers
21. Intel Corp.
22. Internet Association
23. Juniper Networks, Inc.
24. LinkedIn Corporation
25. Metro Atlanta Chamber
26. Microsoft Corporation
27. Netflix, Inc.
28. New Imagitas, Inc.
29. North Texas Commission
30. Partnership for a New
American Economy Research Fund
31. PayPal, Inc.
32. Plaid Inc.
33. Postmates Inc.
34. Reddit, Inc.
35. salesforce.com, inc.
36. SAP SE
37. Semiconductor Industry
Association (SIA)
38. ServiceNow, Inc.
39. Shutterstock, Inc.
40. Silicon Valley Bank
41. Society for Human Resource
Management (SHRM)
42. Splunk Inc.
43. Square, Inc.
44. SurveyMonkey Inc.
45. Twitter, Inc.
46. Uber Technologies, Inc.
47. Upwork Inc.
48. Vail Valley Partnership
49. VMware, Inc.
50. Workday, Inc.
51. Xylem Inc.
52. Zillow Group, Inc.
The
corporate lobbying effort to reopen pipelines of foreign workers to take U.S.
jobs comes as companies are cutting Information
Technology (IT) jobs, about 134,000 in July, due to economic shutdowns spurred
by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
The Wall
Street Journal reported:
Across all
sectors, job postings in
IT fell to roughly 235,000 in July, down from nearly 269,000 in June and about
358,000 in March. The sectors with the most tech-job postings in
July were professional and technical services with 39,956 postings, finance and
insurance at 18,756, and manufacturing at 17,473. [Emphasis added]
Tech CEOs like Jeff Bezos, Mark
Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Tim Cook signing onto the lawsuit is significant
because of their tremendous sway in the Washington, D.C. beltway, particularly
when it comes to labor and immigration policy.
In July, the
Trump administration clarified that foreign nationals taking online courses
with American colleges and universities would not be eligible for F-1 student
visas. A lawsuit was quickly filed with the support of
tech executives.
Weeks later,
the administration dropped the
policy. A Yahoo Finance report admitted that the tech executives signing onto
the lawsuit had “underscored the power wielded by tech companies, who have lots
of money and political influence at their disposal.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
DHS Recycles 14,500 H-1B Visas for Fortune 500 Employers
The Department of Homeland Security is recycling 14,500 unused H-1B visas to employers after worried companies declined to accept the work visas they had won in the annual lottery.
The redistributed visas will be used to import foreign workers to fill the Fortune 500 jobs that will appear when the economy recovers, said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, a group of white-collar professionals who oppose the Fortune 500’s visa workers programs that damage their careers.
Those jobs are needed by the hundreds of thousands of skilled young Americans who are graduating this year and by the hundreds of thousands of American professionals who have lost their jobs in the coronavirus crash, he said, adding:
Our immigration system is on autopilot. It is not flexible, it does not make allowances for how the economy is doing, what the true labor needs are to make sure immigration is working for American employees … We need employment-visa reform that doesn’t allow for Americans to be displaced.
In April of each year, companies enter an annual lottery for 85,000 H-1B visas. The lottery allows new H-1B workers to arrive each October, so joining a growing population of at least 600,000 resident H-1B workers, many of whom are working as powerless gig-workers for subcontractors in Fortune 500 companies. Non-profits — including hospitals, research centers, and universities — can import as many H-1Bs as they wish.
In an August 14 statement to Breitbart News, the DHS’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau declined to say how many H-1B visas are being recycled from companies that no longer want the visas they won in the Spring:
Recently, USCIS determined that additional registrations needed to be selected to reach the numerical allocations. A selection of previously submitted electronic registrations was completed on Aug. 11. The petition filing period based on registrations selected on Aug. 11 will begin on Aug. 17 and close on Nov. 16.
Companies can apply for the visas under “existing statutory and regulatory requirements,” the USCIS statement said.
The unused visas are being reallocated 81 days before the election, and two days after the Department of State gutted President Donald Trump’s June 22 Executive Order barring the entry of H-1B visa workers until at least January.
The news was cheered by the immigration lawyers who bring in the white-collar workers for the Fortune 500 companies:
And, new H-1B selections flutter into the email, like snowflakes from the winter sky. Of course, @USCIS notified no one publicly it was reopening the H-1B lottery b/c not enough applications were submitted to reach the cap. Nor have the said how many new apps will be accepted.
— Charles Kuck (@ckuck) August 14, 2020
Yes we also are seeing those
— Helena S. Younossi (@helenayounossi) August 14, 2020
The recycled visas will be used by CEOs to replace innovative Americans with imported and compliant foreign workers, said Lynn. CEOs “want to build a serf economy — where workers work for less and accept worse conditions,” usually in the hope of getting a green card from the government, he said.
The new welcome for H-1B and other visa workers is an apparent reversal from policies Trump announced in June and early August –and from the promises that candidate Trump made in 2016.
On June 22, Trump blocked the inflow of roughly 90,000 H-1B workers until at least January 1, and he directed his deputies to rewrite the regulations to prevent H-1Bs from cutting white-collar salaries.
The policy was a late and partial implementation of Trump’s 2016 campaign trail promise, “I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions,” Trump said in March 2016.
On August 3, President Donald Trump met with a group of Americans whose jobs at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) were being transferred to H-1B workers. Trump said:
It doesn’t work that way. As we speak, we’re finalizing H1-B regulations so that no American worker is replaced ever again. H1-Bs should be used for top, highly paid talent to create American jobs, not as inexpensive labor program to destroy American jobs.
“The H-1B visa is sort of a Trojan horse to bring in folks who cannibalize our own workforce and ultimately take any number of intellectual property secrets, or proprietary information, back to their home countries,” White House adviser Theo Wold told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow. He continued:
That cuts [Americans’] wages, not only for the American workers they replace. It also has as a cascading effect on related sectors of the economy [and] on overall wage-growth in the country writ large.
So, the Swamp, the tech sector, the Silicon Valley barons, the big banks, all of these folks, love the idea of being able to import cheap labor.
I think the main thing your listeners need to know on the H-1B visa is, ultimately, it just perpetuates the lie — and it is a lie — that Americans lack the talent, the ability, or the credentials to fill these jobs.
The visa worker pipelines are fiercely defended by Fortune 500 companies and their subcontractors, by investors, Silicon Valley CEOs, and the nations’ universities.
The resident population of at least 1.3 million foreign contract workers allows the CEOs to cut salaries, boost stock values, and curb the creation of rival technologies by innovative American professionals. The fierce defense also minimizes media coverage and suppresses social media debate over the harm caused by the visa worker programs.
In addition to DHS’s second lottery of H-1 visas, officials from other agencies are opening the door to tens of thousands of excluded H-1Bs during the few months before the election.
On August 12, the three agencies responsible for approving, selecting, and admitting visa workers “gutted” Trump’s June 22 policy by creating numerous exemptions for favored H-1B, L-1, and J-1 visa workers. “You can drive a Mack truck through this,” Lynn said as he read the exemptions. “The exemptions basically cover anyone on an H-IB or a J-1 or an L-1 …. Boom! They’re in. … With all the exemptions, there is no EO — they’ve eliminated the EO through the exemptions.”
Lynn worked to highlight the TVA outsourcing and helped bring about the August 3 meeting of Trump and the TVA workers.
For years, the White House has used exemptions to defang lawsuits and media sob-stories. For example, the L-1a exemptions are engineered to minimize problems for the senior managers of foreign-owned auto factories.
But pro-migration lawyers welcomed the breadth of the exemptions:
There's more there than just cheap labor. It could be tax evasion, indentured servitude, spying or something else. In addition, there is widespread hacking, sabotaging data stealing and complete incompetence throughout the Indian takeover of IT in America and the world.
— Arthur Rosalind *** this account has been blocked (@arthur_oslund) August 14, 2020
So far, the White House has not announced a response to the nullified rules.
In a statement to Breitbart News, the Department of State stressed that its exemption policy was developed with DHS and the Department of Labor:
One important thing to note is this line … “Such exceptions …. were developed in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor as directed in the proclamation.
The state department also noted that the number of H-1B “issuances” in 2020 had declined by roughly 60,000 for the March 1 to July 31 period, compared to 2019. The agency did not explain if the reduced number of “issuances” opened up H-1B jobs to Americans.
The State Dept. has nullified Pres Trump's popular visa-worker Executive Order.
An agency memo provides easy workarounds for CEOs to import #H1B, J-1, etc, workers for the Fortune 500 jobs needed by US grads, despite protections in Trump's June 22 rulehttps://t.co/Uk3YFmBwSK— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 13, 2020
State Dept. ‘Guts’ Donald
Trump’s Curbs on Fortune 500’s Visa Workers
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The state department is allowing
Fortune 500 companies to freely import H-1B visa workers for jobs needed by
American voters, despite President Donald Trump’s June 22 Executive Order
barring nearly all visa workers.
“They have totally eviscerated the
requirements” of Trump’s E.O., said John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigration
Reform Law Institute. “There is no doubt about it — whoever created this
is thumbing their noses at President Trump,” he said, adding, “you can bet that
the guys who did this are voting for [Joe] Biden.”
‘This is an insult to the President of
the United States, it is an insult to working men and women of the United
States,” said Kevin Lynn, the founder of U.S. Tech Workers.
There are less than 90 days to go in
the election. How can he persuade Americans he’s keeping any of this 2016
promises if he allows the State Department to nullify and gut the E.O. he
signed to protect Americans from [outsourcing by Fortune 500 companies]? More
than that — I think it is beginning to make Trump look stupid in front of the
voters. He needs to call in Pompeo and
talk to him about his job prospects because [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo
does not seem to give a hoot
about Americans’ job prospects.
The exemptions are “expansive,” admitted Greg Siskind, a lawyer
who is working to widen the pipelines of foreign doctors into U.S. hospital
chains. “They are backing off … that could be good news for thousands of you guys,” he told his clients.
On August 3, Trump met with Lynn and several employees of the
Tennesee Valley Authority to announce he would block the outsourcing of their
jobs to H-1B workers imported by three staffing companies. Trump said:
It doesn’t work that way. As we speak, we’re finalizing H1-B
regulations so that no American worker is replaced ever again. H1-Bs
should be used for top, highly paid talent to create American jobs, not as
inexpensive labor program to destroy American jobs.
On June 22, Trump signed
another Executive
Order to close
down the pipeline of white-collar H-1B, J-1, and L-1 workers, as well as the
pipeline of H-2B manual laborers. The E.O. is expected to temporarily bar the
arrival of perhaps 80,000 H-1Bs, plus thousands of J-1s and L-1s, while
hundreds of thousands of new graduates and fired professionals look for jobs.
Trump also directed his agency deputies to write
new regulations that
would reduce the Fortune 500’s widespread use of visa workers as cheap labor
replacements for American voters.
Trump’s intervention to save U.S.
white collar jobs is
very popular among millions of American
voters whose futures are threatened by the Fortune 500’s preference for docile
and cheap visa workers. The CEO’s workforce policy keeps at least 1.3 million
foreign graduates in U.S. jobs, even amid the dramatic economic crash caused by
China’s coronavirus.
The official unemployment rate for U.S.
tech grads has jumped to 4.4 percent, according to an
industry association.
But the calculation does not count the many U.S. tech grads who were forced
into lesser careers by
the many visa workers in the U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy.
But the State Department’s June
12 bulletin provides a long list of many
easy exemptions for Fortune 500 companies and their Indian staffing
subcontractor. The document says Trump’s directions:
… include exceptions, including
an exception for individuals whose travel would be in the national interest, as
determined by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or
their respective designees. The list below is a non-exclusive list of the
types of travel that may be considered to be in the national interest, based on
determinations made by the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs,
exercising the authority delegated to him by the Secretary of State.
Pompeo is the Secretary of
State. Carl
Risch is
the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
The list of exemptions is very wide:
Travel by technical specialists,
senior level managers, and other workers whose travel is necessary to
facilitate the immediate and continued economic recovery of the United States
… The petitioning employer has a continued need for the services or labor
to be performed by the H-1B nonimmigrant in the United States.
Miano is an expert on visa worker
laws and studied the long list of exemptions:
The first one on the list is what
they needed to do to get the visas in the first place … Number 2, any of
them can do that, no problem … Number 3 is totally meaningless — anyone can do
that … ‘Financial Hardship’ for an employer is so loosey goosy that anyone
can meet that … ‘Critical Infrastructure’ is basically anything.
Lynn was less formal;
This is effing b….. Who the f… came up with these
exceptions? … You can drive a
Mack truck through this …. The exemptions basically cover anyone on an H-IB or
a J-1 or an L-1 …. Boom! They’re in … with all the exemptions, there is no
EO — they’ve eliminated the EO through the exemptions.”
One of the most notable exemptions are for visa workers who
have jobs at government agencies, usually via Indian-run staffing companies:
… individuals, identified by the Department of Defense or
another U.S. government agency, performing research, providing IT
support/services, or engaging other similar projects essential to a U.S.
government agency.
The document also provides exemptions to foreign workers who
have taken jobs from Americans in “critical infrastructure,” such as the TVA
jobs blocked by Trump:
The applicant’s proposed job duties or position within the
petitioning company indicate the individual will provide significant and unique
contributions to an employer meeting a critical infrastructure need. Critical
infrastructure sectors are chemical, communications, dams, defense industrial
base, emergency services, energy, financial services, food and agriculture,
government facilities, healthcare and public health, information technology,
nuclear reactors, transportation, and water systems.
“The people who are doing this are
ignoring the president,” said Miano. “I can only guess at their motivations,
but we can say it is Deep State acting independently.”
“In a close election, with time
running out, with [2016] expectations not met … Trump needs things to go
smoothly from now till November, and this list clearly he has people in
the State Department sabotaging him,” said Miano.
“When word of this gets out to the
public that every E.O. he writes is not worth the paper it is written on,” said
Lynn. “Because through exceptions, they become get nullified by the Deep
State, he loses the voters’ trust and confidence.”
He added: “What good is a State
Department that becomes the tool of corporations that want to displace
Americans, when tens of millions of Americans are under extreme financial
duress?”
The State Department did not respond
to emails from Breitbart News requesting comment.
Sen
Kamala Harris is a product of Silicon Valley's billionaires and will enforce
their agenda in DC.
Eg, she's an author of the S.386 bill that allows the Fortune 500 to hire more
white-collar workers from India for jobs needed by America's college
grads https://t.co/gKCuD9DH5z
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August
12, 2020
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Kamala Has Already Struck
Out
Even before the Democrat presidential candidate, Joe Biden,
named his choice for vice president, a group of Democrat Party activists
released an unprecedented document outlining their "rules" for how
the media could address issues surrounding the woman Biden ultimately
chose. These guidelines made it abundantly clear that the media were
"required" to handle Biden's choice with kid
gloves. Questions were not to be probing; instead, this veep
candidate, unlike the vicious coverage Sarah Palin endured years ago, was to be
above questioning. With astounding hubris, the Democrats actually
warned the media that they would "monitor coverage" of the female
veep candidate and that anything even slightly critical would be condemned as
"racist and sexist." Hollywood celebrities and the usual
line-up of leftist women's groups (NARAL, Planned Parenthood, etc.) have
promised Kamala, "We've got your back."
Bottom line: Biden is in hiding; Kamala is untouchable.
This mafia-style intimidation cannot be allowed to
stand. The public needs to know that Kamala's quest, as in baseball,
has already struck out. She has three strikes against her that are a
death knell for her prospects. There is no way, after these strikes, she should
be anywhere near a heartbeat or a brain flare away from the presidency of
America.
1. Opportunistic Career Path — We are not supposed to
have noticed (or it's not supposed to make a difference or matter), but Kamala
Harris came into politics as a mistress under the patronage of the notoriously
unethical speaker of the House in California, Willie Brown. Numerous
public servants in government in California at the time noted that Kamala was a
pretty twenty-something young woman that Brown, a married man in his 60s,
regularly showed off as his mistress at political events. She
received prestigious, powerful, and profitable political appointments in state
government and moved on from there. Anyone who brings up this
opportunism is against her "ambition" and is trying to keep her
"in her place." In short, anyone raising these well
documented facts is both misogynistic and racist.
Kamala is known as being "pragmatic, rather than
principled." Some Democrat strategists claim to be happy with
Kamala as a "messenger" (meaning she is good TV) but cringe at her
inconsistent and problematic "messages" (meaning she is all over the
map on any given issue).
Harris has flip-flopped on issue after issue, depending on
what's politically expedient. She excuses this inconsistency by
saying being a prosecutor is, by its very nature,
"controversial." As a prosecutor, she defended capital punishment,
but she ran for office on an "anti–death penalty"
platform. Her truancy policies were a problem; also her drug
programs. She opposed police body cameras, claiming they
disadvantaged blacks and minorities. She was criticized for siding
with police too often; now she is vocal about police
"brutality." She is now very pro-LGBT and transgender
issues and blames her previous inconsistency on staffers who disregarded her
personal views. She was against decriminalization of "sex
work" before she suddenly advocated for criminalization. Same
with marijuana; she was against it before flippantly claiming that marijuana
brings joy and "we need more joy in the world." She's
taken both sides on whether a convicted terrorist should be able to vote from prison!
2. Radical Woke Ideologies and Policies — Many analysts believe
that Kamala Harris will be America's most radical left political candidate
ever. She's consistently among the top two "most
progressive" members of the Senate. She has been called one of
the most radical-left politicians today; pick any pet woke cause, and Kamala
will be farthest left! These policy positions are not only
constitutionally problematic; they are also prohibitively expensive, with a
price tag in the multiple billions of dollars!
Guns? Kamala supports extremist laws to restrict
our 2nd Amendment rights. She advocates a wide array of increased
gun control measures, including executive orders to implement problematic
regulations.
Health care? Kamala co-sponsored Bernie Sanders's
"Medicare for All" health insurance proposal. She wants to
abolish all private health insurance, saying, "Let's eliminate all of
that!" She strongly supports a single-payer
system. Observers note that both her position and Biden's on the
issue have solidified during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Education? Kamala attended all-white schools until
she chose to attend Howard University. She passed the bar in 1990
and progressed as a prosecutor to become district attorney of San Francisco
thanks to political muscle from her benefactor, Willie Brown. She
advocates for free college and university education for all — especially for
free tuition at historically black colleges and universities.
Immigration? Even as the daughter of (legal)
immigrants from India and Jamaica, Kamala has repeatedly shown that she makes
no distinction between the rights and privileges of a citizen and an illegal
alien. Benefits, she claims, belong to citizens and non-citizens
alike.
Environment? She joined forces with the socialist
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to require additional
regulations on environmental policies.
3. Kavanaugh Hearings Debacle — The final strike is the
most disgraceful. The way Kamala Harris treated Brett Kavanaugh at
the 2018 confirmation hearings was the most disrespectful and vicious of the
senators. She stood out at the hearings for her deceitful
questioning and the revolting tone of her accusations. She accepted
the flimsiest of evidence in attacking Kavanaugh – for instance, the
implausible and unsubstantiated accusation of gang rape — and praised an
obviously "deceptively edited video" claiming that Kavanaugh opposed
birth control, claiming that it was all about "punishing women."
Her extreme positions were so bad that she was actually
called out by the left. Her attacks — called fear-invoking lies and possibly
attempts at a presidential audition — were acknowledged as false and criticized
by left-wing PolitiFact and her liberal hometown newspapers, The San Francisco
Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times. As President Trump said, she
was, indeed, "extraordinarily nasty" to Brett Kavanaugh.
Guy Benson, Townhall political editor, described her
Kavanaugh performance as "particularly demagogic, cynical and
abysmal." In their excellent book, Justice on Trial:
The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, Mollie
Hemingway and Carrie Severino detailed all the egregious procedural maneuvers
Harris tried in her efforts to get Kavanaugh to commit perjury, as well as the
fawning media coverage.
In a normal election, the veep choice would be relatively
irrelevant, but Joe Biden is not a normal presidential candidate. At
77, "Gaffe-Prone Joe" Biden has said he'd be a
"transitional" president, and it is generally acknowledged that he is
more likely than other previous candidates to become (sooner rather than later)
incapacitated or unable to serve more than one term. Thus, Kamala
must be viewed as a possible presidential contender. She fails on
every measure — significantly! Leadership? She is
obviously, much like Hillary, a ruthless opportunist willing to do or say
whatever it takes to get ahead. Ideas/Policies? She can
be swayed however the political winds are blowing at the time. Even
her friends explain that she is "not ideological," meaning she
doesn't take principled stances on important
issues. Experience? She has dramatically failed
upward! The media have frequently acknowledged her "history of
flip flopping and deceit."
What Kamala Harris offers in the veepstakes is a promise to
promote a grab bag of assorted radical goals of every oddball progressive from
Bernie to AOC to Obama and be an advocate for special constituencies —
pro-abortion voters, instigators of the BLM movement's racism, gun control
activists, and illegal aliens.
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