The pre$$ is pissing on us and softening us up for the eventual takeover, no doubt, so pucker up:
"Harris takes on ‘hard work’ in 100 days as vice president" by Alexandra Jaffe associated Press, April 28, 2021
WASHINGTON — When President Biden named Kamala Harris as his running mate, there were whispers about her ambition — would a former rival be a loyal soldier to a president she so sharply criticized on the campaign trail?
Fueling those whispers was their relationship — while cordial, it was initially not particularly close, but 100 days into Biden’s term, things look very different. Harris has become one of the administration’s most prominent advocates for Biden’s agenda, standing alongside him at most of his major announcements and building a relationship that aides say is closer than most presidents had with their seconds-in-command.
She is basically his minder and undoubtedly expects to be paid off for the service.
Harris has taken on one of the administration’s toughest tasks — addressing the root causes of migration to the US from Mexico and Central America. The problem has bedeviled presidents from both parties for years and has no easy solutions. Tina Flournoy, Harris’ chief of staff, said the vice president has “taken it on with gusto.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the administration’s greatest challenge during its first 100 days. The public health and economic crisis of historic proportions has forced the White House to work differently from Day One of Biden’s tenure.
The pandemic sharply limited travel by the president and the vice president, which has had at least one silver lining: Because Harris hasn’t been on the move as much as past vice presidents early on, she’s spent more time with Biden, helping to cement their relationship. The two have had lunch every Friday, and on a typical day may spend four to five hours in meetings together, which ensures that her voice is heard and her fingerprints are left on major policy decisions, aides say. They point to the expansion of the child tax credit and child care funding as examples of her priorities.
Harris had a role in developing Biden’s agenda and “the strategy of selling it, both to the American people, and on the Hill,” Flournoy said.
Rumor is she takes the calls from foreign leaders.
Aides say Harris has also shown enthusiasm for some less-glamorous aspects of the administration’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan as she’s been promoting it — such as water issues, with which she had experience during her time as a US senator for California, broadband access, and provisions expanding electric vehicle use.
Being the nation’s first Black, South Asian, and female vice president informs her office in ways both big and small, and she was set to have a prominent place behind Biden on Wednesday as he addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time.
Harris has chosen to champion issues that have been top priorities for much of her career and reflect her own lived experience. She told aides on her first day in office that she wanted to focus on relief to small businesses. She’s also focused on policies that affect women and children, including Black maternal mortality, and she has homed in on the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and sluggish economy on women and people of color.
Harris has decorated her office with small nods to her historic role: a bust of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, donated by her alma mater, Howard University, along with the shoulder bars from the first Black female brigade commander at the US Naval Academy.
Her support for the president and his agenda may have strengthened their relationship, but it’s left some advocates wanting more from her on two major issues — criminal justice reform and immigration.
On criminal justice reform — one of her campaign priorities — Harris has hardly been out front. While she’s spoken alongside Biden in response to recent mass shootings, and at an event announcing his executive orders on guns, the administration as a whole hasn’t made a significant public push on the issue.
That was before San Jose, and the whole thing has the stench of a well-times psyop, what with Biden's nominee for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testifying in Congre$$ the very same day as Texas starts packing and Idaho goes nuts.
Expect to be treated to those ad nauseam on a near daily basis, dear readers, with a growing storm brewing (as they pre$$ tell CVD is nearly at end) and a fantastic false flag in the works
Andrea James, executive director and founder of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls, said that considering Harris is “a woman of color, her history, her pride, and speaking about her mom who was a brave and courageous woman and fought obstacles because of the color of her skin,” they expected to see more from her speaking out on the issue.
As opposed to all the black men she jailed as California AG, and not even a new prison is enough?
On immigration, Harris has been hammered from the left and right as she’s taken on her new role addressing the root causes of migration at the southern border.
While Republicans have criticized Biden and Harris as absent on the issue because they haven’t visited the border yet, progressive immigration groups complain the administration hasn’t done enough to push for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Mine has nothing to with that, her gender, or race.
It's the policies!
Experts and advocates focused on immigration say it’s too early to judge the outcome of her work there. Harris has thus far had conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Guatemala, and is planning her first trip to the region in June.
Some of Harris’ allies have expressed concerns that the problem is so amorphous and intractable that there’s no clear solution, and that Harris will be judged harshly even if she makes progress.
The concern arises in part from a desire to protect Harris’ political future. While Biden insists he plans on running for reelection, many political observers believe he’ll decide against it, clearing a path for Harris.
Dan Restrepo, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who’s been in meetings on the issue with Harris, said “she asks very good questions” and her early move to bring together experts on the migrant crisis “is a really encouraging sign.” He also pushed back against criticism that Harris doesn’t have the experience to tackle the issue. “I think the skill set that she brings to the table, as a successful politician and somebody who gets people, is probably the most important translatable skill,” he said.
Let me think about that for a moment.
That human approach, aides say, shapes her approach to everything from policy to diplomacy.
“She will emphasize that we need to speak directly with the American people, that she doesn’t want to just give rhetoric,” said Rohini Kosoglu, Harris’ domestic policy adviser.
When Harris is briefed before calling or meeting a foreign leader, she wants more than just the political topline, asking about the leader’s hobbies and interests, “so she has a real sense of the person,” Flournoy said. When she spoke with the Japanese prime minister earlier this month, she wanted to know about his love of baseball, and when she swears in new Cabinet members at her ceremonial office in the executive office building across from the White House, Flournoy says, Harris asks them to take a moment to be present, and tells them to think about “all the reasons you’re here and all the work you’re going to do.”
Then she brings them out on her balcony to look at the American flag flying high over the West Wing.....
With all due respect, I find her to be a condescending lightweight and that article came the day after a historic first, Biden flanked by two women as he addressed Congre$$ and said “America is on the move again’' while painting a hopeful vision for the future. because “we’re vaccinating the nation. We’re creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. We’re delivering real results people can see and feel in their own lives. In another era when our democracy was tested, Franklin Roosevelt reminded us — in America: we do our part,” he said, referencing a past president who dramatically expanded the role of government during multiple crises. “That’s all I’m asking. That we do our part — all of us.”
These are the five takeaways the Globe got from the speech. I was also told that the address came as Biden enjoys higher approval ratings than his predecessor, but the next pieces of his agenda could face a tougher road, as some moderate Senate Democrats balk at the expense and Republicans mobilize against his priorities. as “we have all seen the knee of injustice on the neck of Black America. Now is our opportunity to make real progress, an inflection point in history. Think about it, public investment and infrastructure has literally transformed America, our attitudes as well as our opportunities. These are the investments we made together, as one country, and investments that only the government is in the position to make. Time and again, they propel us into the future. Now — after just 100 days — I can report to the nation: America is on the move again. Turning peril into possibility. Crisis into opportunity. Setbacks into strength. It’s time for corporate America and the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans to pay their fair share. There’s no reason the blades for wind turbines can’t be built in Pittsburgh instead of Beijing. We are working again. Dreaming again. Discovering again. Leading the world again,” Biden said, ticking off government-funded accomplishments like the interstate highway system, public schools, the moon landing, and creation of the Internet while inheriting a nation in crisis, in the shadow of a global health crisis, and at the site of an insurrection that revealed the dangerous depths of the nation’s partisanship, where he made overtures to a few Republicans and appeared to connect with both sides of the aisle as he spoke of a push for farmers to plant cover crops to reduce carbon dioxide and once more appealed to unity.
He's obviously living in a dream world, and rumor is the government is paying farmers to plow under their crops while threatening to deny subsidies next year -- in other words, CREATING a FAMINE SITUATION (as the food is shipped off to China?).
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"Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit Rhode Island’s capital city Wednesday with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the state’s former governor, according to a White House advisory. Details of the visit were not disclosed. The trip will be Harris’s second visit to New England in less than two weeks. On April 23, Harris visited New Hampshire. Raimondo has maintained a high profile in her new job, with President Biden assigning her to help lead the effort to approve his proposed $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan, known as the American Jobs Plan. Biden’s proposal has drawn criticism from Republicans and some moderate Democrats in Congress who have questioned the wide scope of projects that would be considered infrastructure. The president has proposed increasing the corporate tax to 28 percent to pay for the plan, but Raimondo has said the administration is willing to compromise."
I'm curious, how did she get here?
"After talks with small-business leaders, Vice President Harris promises: ‘I will keep coming back to R.I.’; On trip to state she promotes President Biden’s economic plans, says she’ll visit Central America to investigate migration issues" by Christina Prignano , Alexa Gagosz, Edward Fitzpatrick, Dan McGowan and Lylah Alphonse Globe Staff, May 5, 2021
PROVIDENCE — While in Rhode Island Wednesday to meet with small-business leaders and promote the Biden administration’s $2.3 trillion economic plan, Vice President Kamala Harris said she’ll travel to Mexico and Guatemala next month for her first trip abroad as vice president.
”Currently, the plan is for me to travel to Mexico and Guatemala on June 7th and 8th,” Harris told a small group of reporters at the end of the day, according to a White House pool report, “and I’m very much looking forward to that trip.”
The dates had not previously been made public, though Harris announced in April that she would travel to Guatemala “as soon as possible” and said plans were in the works for a stop in Mexico.
It's been a month now and nothing.
Harris has been tasked by President Biden with addressing the root causes of migration from the so-called Northern Triangle, a group of Central American countries that includes Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Her trip comes as the United States saw record-breaking numbers of unaccompanied children crossing into the United States this spring, many fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.
We were told by Mayorkas that is not happening.
On Wednesday in Rhode Island, however, Harris’s main focus was on small businesses and big economic plans.
She stepped off Air Force Two at T.F. Green International Airport shortly after 11 a.m. and was greeted by Rhode Island political leaders, including Governor Dan McKee, members of the congressional delegation, and the former governor, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
So what was the shameless carbon footprint on that?
The first stop for Harris and Raimondo was Books on the Square, a bookstore in Providence’s Wayland Square, not far from Raimondo’s home. Raimondo’s son, Tommy, was there, and the vice president told him, “I was wondering where you were.”
“This is my neighborhood store,” Raimondo told Harris as they walked in. “Best place ever.”
The vice president bought three novels and a cookbook. Governor Dan McKee picked up a book for himself, as well — “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” by Kamala Harris.
He paid for it with a gift card?
From there, the vice president and the commerce secretary went to the Social Enterprise Greenhouse, a network of enterprises and business leaders that helps entrepreneurs maximize their social impact, to hear from small-business owners about how they’re making a difference in their communities and to talk about how new federal programs can help put people to work.
They joined all four members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation and SEG chief executive Kelly Ramirez at a “social impact pitch event,” which included “Shark Tank”-like presentations by Dr. Eugenio Fernandez, founder of Asthenis pharmacy in Providence; Sandra Enos, founder of Giving Beyond the Box; Sterling Clinton-Spellman, owner of Incred-A-Bowl; and Philip Trevvett, one of the founders of Urban Greens.
“Keep doing what you are doing, because you are models of the best of what we are doing in the country,” Harris told the business owners. “It’s about helping people see the possibilities.”
Meanwhile, a crowd of about 50 people waited in the rain across the street from the Wexford Innovation Center, hoping to catch a glimpse of the vice president before she attended a roundtable with women business leaders.
LeAnne Drum, a Providence College senior originally from New Jersey, was heading to a physical therapy appointment when she hit the “worst traffic in Providence” that she had ever seen.
She didn’t make it to her appointment. Instead, she stood outside in a light raincoat, waiting for Harris’s motorcade. ”This is way better than physical therapy,” she said.
Liz Hartley, of Providence, waited to see Harris while on her lunch break. She said she was happy to hear that former governor Raimondo was escorting Harris around Rhode Island.
”It sends a good message that she hasn’t left Rhode Island,” Hartley said.
Michelle Walker, also of Providence, who works for the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, said she would wait outside in the rain to see Harris. ”This is a historic moment for people of color,” she said.
Not if it is for, you know.
Jyo Jaishankar, 17, stood with three other seniors from Moses Brown School in Providence.
”I’m Indian. It’s so nice to see some South Asian representation, especially in such a powerful position. She’s probably my biggest idol. I’m just really stoked to see her,” she said, “and I’ll wait here all day in the rain to see her.”
What an appropriate analogy since they are all wet.
Quincy Kizekai, 18, stood beside Jaishankar. They FaceTimed his mom and told her he was about to see the vice president.
”It’s so nice to see someone that looks like me come here, and listen to what the community needs,” Kizekai said.
During the business roundtable, Harris asked female business owners to help make the case to critics in Washington for why infrastructure spending should include investing in child care. She was joined by Raimondo and Jennifer Cavallaro, owner of Beehive Café; Minnie Luong, owner of Chi Kitchen Foods; Christine Paige, owner of Bliss Medical Hair Replacement Center; and Suzanne Ellis Wernevi, founder and CEO of Luna & Stella Jewelry.
Harris said her definition of infrastructure is “things you just need to get to where you need to go.”
“We should not ask women to put their jobs before their children,” Harris said. “It’s a false choice.”
Like all our elections between Republicans and Democrats.
Wernevi said that the pandemic has proven that child care “is a societal issue and a business imperative,” adding that “I literally would not have a business if I did not have child care.”
The deviants and perverts want your kids!
Wernevi urged federal lawmakers to develop comprehensive plans to support children, saying, “Our country will benefit in so many ways if we view as collective responsibility.”
They sure do talk like Communi$ts!
As part of the American Jobs Plan, Biden is calling for Congress to provide $25 billion to upgrade child-care facilities and increase the supply of child care in areas that need it most. He’s also calling for an expanded tax credit to encourage businesses to build child care-facilities at places of work, and $400 billion to expand access to home- and community-based care for older relatives and people with disabilities.
It's all part of the $1.8 trillion families plan that is a “game changer financed largely on the backs of the American taxpayer.”
Biden’s proposal has drawn criticism from Republicans and some moderate Democrats in Congress, who have questioned the wide scope of the projects that would be considered infrastructure. The president has proposed increasing the corporate tax to 28 percent to pay for the plan, but Raimondo has said the administration is willing to compromise.
Not all Rhode Islanders were pleased by the vice president’s visit.
Sue Cienki, the state’s GOP chairwoman, called Harris’s appearance “grandstanding,” said the former governor had “devastated” the local economy, and said it is “being wrecked again by the radical policies of the Biden-Harris administration.”
In a statement, Republican National Committee spokesperson Rachel Lee took Harris to task for being in Rhode Island instead of at the US-Mexico border.
“After 42 days of ignoring her appointment as Biden’s border crisis manager, Kamala Harris ventured over 1,858 miles from the border crisis,” said the statement. “Harris needs to stop playing political games in Rhode Island and go straight to our southern border.”
They are still waiting for her.
She showed up on the coast instead:
"Vice President Kamala Harris focused on the challenges of the pandemic, climate change, and cybersecurity threats during her keynote speech to graduates at the US Naval Academy on Friday, the first by a woman at the 175-year-old institution. Harris, the nation’s first female vice president and the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to hold the office, said the pandemic “has accelerated our world into a new era. It has forever impacted our world. It has forever influenced our perspective, and if we weren’t clear before, we know now: Our world is interconnected. Our world is interdependent, and our world is fragile. This, midshipmen, is the era we are in, and it is unlike any era that came before, so the challenge now, the challenge before us now is how to mount a modern defense to these modern threats. In fact, there have been many warning shots, so we must defend our nation against these threats, and at the same time we must make advances in things that you’ve been learning — things like quantum computing and artificial intelligence and robotics and things that will put our nation at a strategic advantage. I look at you, and I know you are among the experts who will navigate and mitigate the threat,” and described the cyberattack earlier this month that shut down the nation’s largest fuel pipeline as “a warning shot” in what the new Navy and Marine Corps officers will be facing even as a pandemic can spread throughout the world in a matter of months, a gang of hackers can disrupt the fuel supply, and one country’s carbon emissions can threaten the sustainability of the Earth and described climate change as “a very real threat to our national security” in her speech to more than 1,000 graduates...."
She then hopped on her plane and returned home?
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This census precedes the crucial redistricting process that will potentially swing the balance of power away from the Democrats and to the GOP.
Related: Shiny Census Turd
They are already voting with their feet, and now the Globe is worried about gerrymandering and says Massachusetts should move to independent redistricting by independent commissions while Democrats on Beacon Hill retain their grip on drawing the Commonwealth’s political boundaries in this deep blue state(?).
