VP Harris on 60 Minutes, Trump Flakes

[ivn]

For more than half a century, the major party candidates for president have sat down with 60 Minutes. This year, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump accepted our invitation. Unfortunately, last week Trump canceled.
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- 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 8, 2024
This week on 60

Comments

[gabzillaz]

The work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles.

The principles are genocide and colonization and is going to cost her the election.

[spankmypirate]

They really aren't aware of yet another wave of anti-Americanism currently sweeping the rest of the world, are they? This feels like the Iraq war all over again.

[astrofisica]

No, they’re aware, they just don’t care.

[gabzillaz]

They think they are too powerful to fall. But all empires fall eventually.

This feels like the Iraq war all over again.

It feels even worse tbh, people can watch the genocide on their phones in ways they couldn't back in the 2000s.

[crazylike_afox]

I got my ballot super early! Like on the 27th. So I've been done for like a week now and they already confirmed they got my ballot. Good work, Maryland, get that shit out.

[einodia]

predictably terrible answer about Israel - is it important to stop them killing people? well sure maybe, but it's way more important to keep America's fingers in that real estate! and hilarious tone-deaf non-response about gun control. law enforcement is uh, some of the last people we should be giving guns to, since they're so eager to misuse them.

anyway, glad I dropped off my ballot yesterday so I can be fucking done with the anxiety about my vote. here's hoping we still have a country in 2025! can't do shit about any of these issues if we're all on fire!

[aristobrit]

She carries a gun because she got so many death threats when she was a prosecutor in San Francisco. She prosecuted the most violent criminals, drug cartels and child trafficking gangs. Her life was constantly in danger.

I didn't see that as a gun control question. She's been crystal clear about gun control and wants a new assault weapons ban. She's the person who put cameras on cops and made sure they have to keep them turned on (before her order, cops would turn their camera off as soon as they got out of their cars).

She also created a database in California so that if a cop got fired for being a bad cop, he couldn't just go from Riverside to San Diego and get a job on another police force. She was the most progressive Attorney General California has ever had.

[blahblahcakes64]

Look, I'm voting for Kamala but there's nothing wrong with making valid criticisms of her flaws. It's tonedeaf at best to tout gun ownership all nudge-wink as transparent pandering without acknowledging in the moment the deep problem of gun violence in America and her plans to address it (yes I know she supports gun control). And that's not to mention her lip service to Israel's genocidal actions. People can be concerned about her without supporting Trump or dismissing the clear and present danger he represents.

[aristobrit]

Is this new information? No one with a functioning brain could think the Democratic candidate is going to come out with a foreign policy opinion that contradicts that of the current administration she's part of. It's never going to happen.

People can be concerned and they can also be realistic. I see very little realism in these comments.

[astrofisica]

I’m not voting for this woman either.

[belle_chouette]

who are you voting for, if you’re comfortable disclosing?

[astrofisica]

“None of These Candidates,” lol - I have selections for my local and state initiatives tho. If the Democrats want my support on a national scale, they should earn my vote.

[damaliaraya]

She continues to kill what scant amount of enthusiasm and faith I had in her.