{"id":6076,"date":"2025-05-02T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:52:42","slug":"vp-harris-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/archives\/6076","title":{"rendered":"VP Harris Weighs In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ex1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size:20px ;\"><em>If you reached this Balkingpoints article by direct external link, stop by the front page for a <a href=\"http:\/\/Balkingpoints.com\"  target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rotating satellite view<\/strong><\/a> of the earth at night<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/div.png\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-api.sharethis.com\/js\/sharethis.js#property=6005a7edc6ae2f001213eb1d&amp;product=inline-share-buttons\" async=\"async\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KH.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As I predicted&#8221;, which she did. About Trump and tariffs.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\np{font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; color: black;}<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nVP Kamala Harris on April 30, 2025 made her first address since leaving office. Of course Media Inc gave it next to no coverage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nIt does spend quite a bit of bandwidth on Dems In Disarray, critiquing response more than it critiques what Republicans are doing. The press, mostly owned now by mega-corporations, seeks to hold Democrats accountable and GOP&#8217;s entitled.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nEntitled to their errors, inertia, benefactor allegiances &#038; other corruptions. The oversight \/ watchdog role of Media Inc when Republicans are in power, has been AWOL since at least the Bush Jr. invasion of Iraq.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nResponsibility is not on Democrats right now and <em>they don&#8217;t need an elaborate counter-attack<\/em>. Their best electoral power derives, from when Republicans are handed the keys and demonstrate yet again their incompetence at governing. Dems don&#8217;t have to do anything actually, except brace for impact when the bus crashes and GOP&#8217;s alienate independents, yet again.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nThe other day, that group which declares no party affiliation, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/27\/politics\/approval-rating-trump-100-days\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">polled Trump at 31% approval<\/a><\/strong>. Quite the falloff from 6 months ago. GOP&#8217;s have to win them back to stay in office, as they roll out the carpet for inflationary tariffs no less. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nThat&#8217;s the ballgame right now. Not much else.\n<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@Balkingpoints\" >Roy@Balkingpoints<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/div.png\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QTvRyRKxoZk?si=_k16wwhNqoSrtC3U&amp;start=2163\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size:18px ;\">Published 2025 \/ all rights reserved<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you reached this Balkingpoints article by direct external link, stop by the front page for a rotating satellite view of the earth at night &#8220;As I predicted&#8221;, which she did. About Trump and tariffs. VP Kamala Harris on April 30, 2025 made her first address since leaving office. 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