Evil-Adjacent
By Mitch Berg
I don’t need a lot of reasons not to vote for Kamala Harris next week. I’ve documented many of them.
She’s vapid.
World leaders – the ones that aren’t really just French or British or German version of her, anyway (including the Cartel leaders, who are the de facto leaders of Mexico and are world leaders in a sense in their own right) – have contempt for her, and are clearly drooling at the things they’ll be able to get away with if the American people screw this up.
The policies she does support are disasters, for the economy, liberty and the American republic.
She’s not a lot better at assembling a coherent thought than Biden, or go offscript without screwing up than Trump.
And that’s enough.
But it ain’t everything.
She’s got a pretty tenuous grasp of right and wrong.
The LIttle Girl Who Cried “Hitler”
Out of useful ideas, the Giggles/Piglet camaign is resorting to perhaps the Dems’ most loathsome trope: their opponents are “Nazis” and “Fascists”.
I stay pretty relentlessly civil – but there is nothing more loathsome, in part because it trivializes one of the most evil ideologies in history to try to win votes from stupid people.
For which she should rot.
Then there’s the little matter of her own little problem with authoritarianism.
“My Authoritaaaaaaaaah”
Giggles clearly enjoys the perks – the power – of being in office.
And flexing that power – especially against those who can’t defend themselves against her:
Not that I needed more reasons. But those are more reasons.
October 28th, 2024 at 11:29 am
There just aren’t enough vulgarities to describe this wretched, cackling, evil P O S.!
October 28th, 2024 at 2:06 pm
A hideous woman. A Karen. Treacherous.
October 28th, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Those who have not faced prosecution on weak charges probably don’t quite get the evil of what Harris has done–if in any of those cases, the police and prosecutors had done even a half-hearted investigation, they would have found that the parents were not responsible for their children being gone from school, and would have saved the families thousands of dollars of expense and immense hassle. It is worth noting that a lot of families had to simply “cop a plea” to get bail, or to put it behind them, because even public defenders need to be paid back.
So yes, even the poor get their resources drained by the billable hour, and a fair number of people with convictions are probably not guilty, but rather are the victims of a very weak investigation–and it’s worth noting that detectives average $35 an hour, but a decent lawyer starts at $250/hour. It’s a nasty way of shifting the burden of proof to the defendant.
October 29th, 2024 at 7:45 am
Apples to oranges, bike.
A detective pays no rent for her office and drives a company car. She gets free computer and secretarial support, spends no money on advertising or letterhead or professional liability insurance. She gets subsidized health and dental and retires at age 55 with a defined-benefit lifetime pension funded largely by somebody else. Her time sheets are always promptly paid – she has no “uncollectables.” Comparing gross billing with net pay ignores the cost of running a private business. A better comparison is the public defender, who also gets a modest hourly wage but all the perks of the detective.
Your main point was valid but you weakened it with that unwise comment.
October 29th, 2024 at 10:08 am
Bigman, I’ll grant that. But let’s be serious here; 200 square feet of office, $10k/year for a car, $15k/year for the pension….we’re still talking about maybe $60/hour.
Regarding public defenders, remember they are significantly paid for by their clients, including here in Minnesota. The state tries to claw back the attorneys’ fees from the defendants after the trials are done. OK, similar wage structure, but who’s paying? It’s the defendant, really, even those who are pretty indigent.
So again, when crimes aren’t adequately investigated, it shifts the burden of proof, and a huge cost, to the defendant.
October 29th, 2024 at 1:07 pm
Bike, Bike, Bike (shakes head). I agreed with your main point. I was only commenting that you weakened it with an irrelevant complaint about fees. But you just had to double down so now what do I do?
I’m not going to demonstrate that you know nothing about running a private practice law firm, you’re doing a fine job of that, yourself.
Instead, I’m going to throw the discussion open to the group. Anybody here care to explain to Bike how much daylight exists between “hourly rate” and “take home pay?” Any electricians, dentists, auto mechanics want to weigh in? Anybody?
October 29th, 2024 at 1:51 pm
Clarification.
Anybody here care to explain to Bike how much daylight exists between “shop rate” and “take home pay?” Any electricians, dentists, auto mechanics want to weigh in? Anybody?