I'm comparing what life was like 4 years ago because thats the parameter you set.
How do I compare October 2020 to October 2024 without taking covid in to account?
Also Harris got re elected DA. Must have done something right.
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How do I compare October 2020 to October 2024 without taking covid in to account?
Also Harris got re elected DA. Must have done something right.
Given her impressive past I would have her as CEO (Given Trumps past I would have him as bell-boy):
Harris was elected attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, Indian American, and South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history.[56] She took office on January 3, 2011, and was reelected in 2014.[57] She served until resigning on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the United States Senate.
In 2010, Harris announced her candidacy for attorney general and was endorsed by prominent California Democrats, including Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.[58] She won the Democratic primary and narrowly defeated Republican nominee Steve Cooley in the general election.[59] Her tenure was marked by significant efforts in consumer protection, criminal justice reform, and privacy rights.
In 2014, Harris was reelected, defeating Republican nominee Ronald Gold with 58% of the vote.[60] During her second term, she expanded her focus on consumer protection, securing major settlements against corporations like Quest Diagnostics,[61] JPMorgan Chase,[62] and Corinthian Colleges,[63][64] recovering billions for California consumers. She spearheaded the creation of the Homeowner Bill of Rights to combat aggressive foreclosure practices during the housing crisis, recording multiple nine-figure settlements against mortgage servicers.[65][66] Harris also worked on privacy rights. She collaborated with major tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook to ensure that mobile apps disclosed their data-sharing practices.[67][68] She created the Privacy Enforcement and Protection Unit, focusing on cyber privacy and data breaches.[69] California secured settlements with companies like Comcast and Houzz for privacy violations.[70][71]
Harris was instrumental in advancing criminal justice reform. She launched the Division of Recidivism Reduction and Re-Entry and implemented the Back on Track LA program, which provided educational and job training opportunities for nonviolent offenders.[72][73] Despite her focus on reform, Harris faced criticism for defending the state's position in cases involving wrongful convictions[74][75] and for her office's stance on prison labor.[76][77] She continued to advocate for progressive reforms, including banning the gay panic defense in California courts[78][79] and opposing Proposition 8, the state's same-sex marriage ban.[80][81][82]
U.S. Senator (2017–2021)
Election
Main article: 2016 United States Senate election in California
After more than 20 years as a U.S. senator from California, Senator Barbara Boxer announced on January 13, 2015, that she would not run for reelection in 2016.[83] Harris announced her candidacy for the Senate seat the next week.[83] She was a top contender from the beginning of her campaign.[84]
The 2016 California Senate election used California's new top-two primary format, where the top two candidates in the primary advance to the general election regardless of party.[84] On February 27, 2016, Harris won 78% of the California Democratic Party vote at the party convention, allowing her campaign to receive financial support from the party.[85] Three months later, Governor Jerry Brown endorsed her.[86] In the June 7 primary, Harris came in first with 40% of the vote and won with pluralities in most counties.[87] Harris faced representative and fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez in the general election.[88]
On July 19, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Harris.[89] In the November 2016 election, Harris defeated Sanchez with over 60% of the vote, carrying all but four counties.[90] After her victory, she promised to protect immigrants from the policies of President-elect Donald Trump and announced her intention to remain Attorney General through the end of 2016.[91][92] Harris became the second Black woman and first South Asian American senator in history.[93][94][95]
As a senator, Harris advocated stricter gun control laws,[96][97] the DREAM Act, federal legalization of cannabis, and healthcare and taxation reforms.[citation needed] She became well-known nationally after questioning several Trump appointees, such as Jeff Sessions and Brett Kavanaugh.[98]
2017
On January 28, after Trump signed Executive Order 13769, barring citizens from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days, she condemned the order and was one of many to call it a "Muslim ban".[99] She called White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly at home to gather information and push back against the executive order.[100]
In February, Harris spoke in opposition to Trump's cabinet picks Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education[101] and Jeff Sessions for United States Attorney General.[102] In early March, she called on Sessions to resign, after it was reported that Sessions, who had previously said he "did not have communications with the Russians", spoke twice with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.[103]
In April, Harris voted against the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.[104] Later that month, she took her first foreign trip to the Middle East, visiting California troops stationed in Iraq and the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, the largest camp for Syrian refugees.[105]
In June, Harris garnered media attention for her questioning of Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, over the role he played in the May 2017 firing of James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[106] The prosecutorial nature of her questioning caused Senator John McCain, an ex officio member of the Intelligence Committee, and Senator Richard Burr, the committee chairman, to interrupt her and request that she be more respectful of the witness. A week later, she questioned Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, on the same topic.[107] Sessions said her questioning "makes me nervous".[108] Burr's singling out of Harris sparked suggestions in the news media that his behavior was sexist, with commentators arguing that Burr would not treat a male Senate colleague in a similar manner.[109]
In December, Harris called for the resignation of Senator Al Franken, writing on Twitter, "Sexual harassment and misconduct should not be allowed by anyone and should not occur anywhere.
In January, Harris was appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee after Franken resigned.[112] Later that month, she questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for favoring Norwegian immigrants over others and for claiming to be unaware that Norway is a predominantly white country.[113][114]
In May, Harris heatedly questioned Nielsen about the Trump administration family separation policy, under which children were separated from their families when their parents were taken into custody for illegally entering the U.S.[115] In June, after visiting one of the detention facilities near the border in San Diego,[116] Harris became the first senator to demand Nielsen's resignation.[117]
In the September and October Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Harris questioned Brett Kavanaugh about a meeting he may have had regarding the Mueller Investigation with a member of Kasowitz Benson Torres, the law firm founded by Donald Trump's personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz. Kavanaugh was unable to answer and repeatedly deflected.[118] Harris also participated in questioning the FBI director's limited scope of the investigation of Kavanaugh regarding allegations of sexual assault.[119] She voted against his confirmation.
Harris was a target of the October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts.[120]
In December, the Senate passed the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act (S. 3178), sponsored by Harris.[121] The bill, which died in the House, would have made lynching a federal hate crime.[122]
2019
Harris at the 2019 San Francisco Pride parade
Harris supported busing for desegregation of public schools, saying, "the schools of America are as segregated, if not more segregated, today than when I was in elementary school."[123] She viewed busing as an option to be considered by school districts, rather than the responsibility of the federal government.[124]
Harris was an early co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, a plan to transition the country towards generating 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030.[125]
In March 2019, after Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, Harris called for U.S. Attorney General William Barr to testify before Congress in the interests of transparency.[126] Two days later, Barr released a four-page "summary" of the redacted Mueller Report, which was criticized as a deliberate mischaracterization of its conclusions.[127] Later that month, Harris was one of 12 Democratic senators led by Mazie Hirono to sign a letter questioning Barr's decision to offer "his own conclusion that the President's conduct did not amount to obstruction of justice", and called for an investigation into whether Barr's summary of the Mueller Report and his statements at a news conference were misleading.[128]
On May 1, 2019, Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[129] During the hearing, he remained defiant about the misrepresentations in the four-page summary he had released ahead of the full report.[130] When asked by Harris whether he had reviewed the underlying evidence before deciding not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice, Barr admitted that neither he, Rod Rosenstein, nor anyone in his office had reviewed the evidence supporting the report before making the charging decision.[131] Harris later called for Barr to resign, accusing him of refusing to answer her questions because he could open himself up to perjury, and saying his responses disqualified him from serving as U.S. attorney general.[132][133] Two days later, Harris demanded again that the Department of Justice inspector general Michael E. Horowitz investigate whether Barr acceded to pressure from the White House to investigate Trump's political enemies.[134]
On May 5, 2019, Harris said "voter suppression" prevented Democrats Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum from winning the 2018 gubernatorial elections in Georgia and Florida; Abrams lost by 55,000 votes and Gillum by 32,000. According to election law expert Richard L. Hasen, "I have seen no good evidence that the suppressive effects of strict voting and registration laws affected the outcome of the governor's races in Georgia and Florida."[135]
In July, Harris teamed with Kirsten Gillibrand to urge the Trump administration to investigate the persecution of Uyghurs in China by the Chinese Communist Party; in this question she was joined by Senator Marco Rubio.[136]
In November, Harris called for an investigation into the death of Roxsana Hernández, a transgender woman and immigrant who died in ICE custody.[137][138]
In December, Harris led a group of Democratic senators and civil rights organizations in demanding the removal of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller after emails published by the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed frequent promotion of white nationalist literature to Breitbart website editors.[139]
2020
Before the opening of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on January 16, 2020, Harris delivered remarks on the floor of the Senate, stating her views on the integrity of the American justice system and the principle that nobody, including an incumbent president, is above the law. She later asked Senate Judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham to halt all judicial nominations during the impeachment trial, to which Graham acquiesced.[140][141] Harris voted to convict Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.[142]
Harris worked on bipartisan bills with Republican co-sponsors, including a bail reform bill with Rand Paul,[143] an election security bill with James Lankford,[144] and a workplace harassment bill with Lisa Murkowski.[145]
2021
Following her election as Vice President of the United States, Harris resigned from her seat on January 18, 2021,[146] before taking office on January 20
monthly numbers are fine for wonks and people who talk about basis points, but these numbers look really good; unfortunate coincidence that republican presidents saw the two last economic disasters and probably had little to do with the downturns. it's almost like the economy is strong despite all of the nefarious deeds of those "immigrants"
oh, it's almost like immigrants and illegals ARENT taking jobs from Americans...
Its always the 1s you least expect who simp for the rapist.
What I can't figure out is what happens to guys like Pence and Vance. Are they just terrible people, or have they inserted themselves in and then felt too deep to get out? Why can't they just tell the truth about what's happening--do they think it will all go away and people will like them afterwards?
Sure, but Trump made NFTs of himself pictured as a superhero, which he sold to simple-minded incels, so who’s the real success?
I never really paid attention to Pence, but Vance is a horrid person, so im sure he enjoys it all.
Its his Wife I feel sorry for, hes out there daily moaning about immigrants being bad, what must she think.
And those watches, those watches!
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Not at all, i mean he (Shapiro) is a well educated lawyer-politician of the sort the ticket already possesses. The VP pick had to be someone from a non standard political class background who didn’t speak in that way and had actual achievements. Personally I liked Kelly for the role but Walz was also good and needs to go back to honest speaking.
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You have just stolen the job of @Mrtallywacker
And the jobs illegal immigrants are doing won’t just magically fill with citizens if the illegals are all deported
Whoever would have guessed that Truth Social might be badly run?
After all he usually hires the “best people”
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Walk into the company office to be greeted by a grinning reptile like Harris?
A communist reptile? Not sure where that would be appropriate.
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