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[Harvey Danger]

Her poll numbers are going to sink like a stone the more the voters see her, and they will have to see her, because she's not decrepit and she's not in office yet.

I would like to point out, once again, the completely craven and brainwashed nature of the Democratic voting base.

Kamala's popularity plummets every time she's in public, because she's an unlikable buffoon. But in the primaries her poll numbers plummeted because the voters had other options. Now, they have no other options for a nominee. The "vote blue no matter who" crowd is not allowed to dislike her any more.

My prediction is she gets a small dip, maybe a convention bounce and maybe not, but it doesn't matter; polling will stabilize in short order. She won't drop below the floor of everyone who automatically votes Democrat every election. The only movement will be independents, but since we're dealing with two well known candidates they've likely made up their minds as well.

It's going to take an Administration blunder to drop her polling below that threshold. Bungling the Israel-Palestine war, a massive economic plunge, a natural disaster handled badly (the opposite of Hurricane Sandy in 2012), etc.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

https://x.com/dillonrpayton/status/1819477245192557003

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Whaaat, Dominoes is busy? On a Friday? In a major metropolitan area?

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I actually think there is an intra-party power struggle over Shapiro right now. With the far left side trying to oust him while they still can. Otherwise why would the mainstream media be giving us this story. NOTE WELL- this is a second, new allegation against his aide Vereb

Ex-aide to Josh Shapiro allegedly invoked Pennsylvania governor's name in threat that left woman 'weeping'
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A one-time aide to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro left a woman "weeping and in shock" after threatening her on a phone call in 2018, according to an email the woman sent to state lawmakers in 2023, five years after the alleged conversation.

The former aide, Mike Vereb, allegedly invoked Shapiro's name on the call, telling the woman that "by the time he and Josh were done with me, I would be worse than nothing," said the woman, who requested that her name not be published, in an interview with ABC News.

"You are going to continue to be nothing by the time Josh and I get done with you," the woman quoted Vereb as saying, telling ABC News that she was left "shaken" by the way in which Vereb "freely" referenced others in power.


"Obviously part of what left me shaken was not just Mr. Vereb's aggressive and unrelenting tone, but how freely he made it seem he was speaking beyond himself," she said.

News of the alleged 2018 incident, which has not been previously reported, comes as Shapiro emerges as a leading contender to become Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket.


There is no evidence that Shapiro, who was at the time Pennsylvania's state attorney general, was aware of Vereb's allegedly threatening call.

The 2018 incident marks the second allegation of wrongdoing against Vereb -- who was once one of Shapiro's closest aides. After bringing him to the governor's office in early 2023, the Shapiro administration settled an unrelated sexual harassment complaint against Vereb last September for nearly $300,000, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Weeks later, Vereb resigned.


Critics say the allegations against Vereb raise questions about whether Shapiro should have known about his alleged behavior and worked harder to prevent it.

Manuel Bonder, a spokesperson for Shapiro, claimed the then-attorney general was not made aware of the woman's complaint at the time and more broadly condemned Vereb's alleged behavior.

"This incident occurred 6 years ago and was not reported to agency leadership at the time," Bonder said in a statement to ABC News. "This alleged behavior would be completely inappropriate and would not be tolerated -- and any use of the Governor's name in this manner is unacceptable."


Vereb declined to comment for this story.

In the fall of 2023, within weeks of Vereb's resignation, the woman transmitted an email recounting her experience to one of Shapiro's deputy chiefs of staff and a group of state legislators, both Republicans and Democrats.

"[Vereb] confronted and threatened me that evening leaving me weeping and in shock standing alone in a parking lot," she wrote of the phone call in the October 2023 email, which was obtained by ABC News. "Then and now I was struck by how he seemed so at ease in threatening me."


She wrote that she had raised the incident at the time in 2018, including to a member of Shapiro's office who "compassionately listened" but later passed away without getting back to her. It is not clear what the employee did with the information before she passed away.

In her 2023 email, the woman -- a self-identified independent who was once a registered Republican -- hinted at the use of the governor's name: She wrote that Vereb was "naming a handful of folks with some power in Harrisburg" and made "some implication of the OAG" -- an apparent reference to the Office of the Attorney General.


The woman, who runs an independent nonprofit advocacy group for abused children, wrote she received the phone call from Vereb in 2018 in the course of a policy dispute between her organization and the attorney general's office.

As attorney general, Shapiro supported a change to Pennsylvania's Child Protective Services Law in the wake of his office's high-profile investigation into child abuse within the state's Catholic church. The woman's organization had pushed back on elements of the pending legislation -- citing potential "unintended consequences," she wrote -- which the woman said precipitated the call from Vereb.

The woman wrote in the email that she felt compelled to come forward again and write the email after news broke that Shapiro's administration had reached a settlement with an employee who accused Vereb of sexual harassment and retaliation, writing that "the recounting of how she felt intimidated and retaliated against resonated with me."


Of the $300,000 sexual harassment settlement Shapiro's administration brokered, a spokesperson said that "Shapiro and his Administration take every allegation of discrimination and harassment extremely seriously and have robust procedures in place to thoroughly investigate all reports," but "in order to protect the privacy of every current and former Commonwealth employee involved, the Administration does not comment further on specific personnel matters."

State Rep. Abby Major, one of the Republicans who received the woman's 2023 email, told ABC News on Wednesday she had previously known the woman through legislative work and was "proud" of her for coming forward last year -- suggesting that even if Shapiro was unaware of this specific incident, he bears responsibility for what she said were Vereb's well-known antics.


"[Vereb and Shapiro] have a history of Mike being his enforcer -- they play good cop, bad cop," Major said. "Mike [was] out doing Josh's dirty work so Josh can be the guy that everybody loves."

Erin McClelland, a Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania Treasurer, appeared to criticize Shapiro's handling of the sexual harassment allegation on X last week.

"I want a VP pick that's secure enough to be second under a woman, is content to be VP & won't undermine the President to maneuver his own election & doesn't sweep sexual harassment under the rug," she wrote.

Other Democrats in the state have defended Shapiro's ability to work with women and his handling of the sexual harassment settlement, which precipitated Vereb's resignation.

"We know that Josh Shapiro would be an incredible pick [as the vice presidential nominee] -- I hope that he is highly considered," state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democrat, said this week. "But obviously, Vice President Harris knows what she's doing."

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

You’re not wrong. Benedict Arnold was the greatest British spy. Yet somehow he didn’t win the war, probably because he was caught and hung from horse carriage.

Benedict Arnold did what he did because he was pissed off that he wasn't in the Cool Kids Club and kept getting passed up for promotions. When the Founding Fathers finally made fun of him one too many times, he switched sides. That's literally what happened.

It also severely fucks with the son. Thats why you can see p frequently sons of single mothers being the absolute worst low T men.

I feel personally attacked.

 

[Dr J]

The country with the best spies has always been the British. MI6 trained CIA and Mossad. I know this upsets those who are Eternal Anglopilled, but it's the truth.

Our spies are fucking useless. Philby really fucked us over and he did it for like twenty years

 

[Mr. Smiley Good Fella]

Benedict Arnold did what he did because he was pissed off that he wasn't in the Cool Kids Club and kept getting passed up for promotions. When the Founding Fathers finally made fun of him one too many times, he switched sides. That's literally what happened.

Let’s be real, those letters date way back before the constitution was written. He was feeding info back which enacted the king to have 2 week update on revolutionary action. If he didn’t have a mission from the getgo I think it would’ve taken longer for transatlantic mailing.

 

[Dr J]

But in the primaries her poll numbers plummeted because the voters had other options. Now, they have no other options for a nominee. The "vote blue no matter who" crowd is not allowed to dislike her any more.

That just guarantees her 40 million votes. She won't poll much better than Joe. She may even poll worse than Joe.

 

[CaddestSlown]

I actually think there is an intra-party power struggle over Shapiro right now. With the far left side trying to oust him while they still can. Otherwise why would the mainstream media be giving us this story. NOTE WELL- this is a second, new allegation against his aide Vereb

Imagine being in the absolutely clownish position of not being able to install a jewish vice president because of the personal attack retards you've groomed and imported from other countries. The ones who hate jews enough to carry around funny haha goof props with the Israeli Prime Minister lynched from them.

You get what you fucking deserve, assholes.

 

[Wherethereisawhip]

That just guarantees her 40 million votes. She won't poll much better than Joe. She may even poll worse than Joe.

It really depends on enthusiasm. And given her unique situation and utter wreck of a performance I have doubts she can bring many out to vote even with them playing their checkbox politics.

 

[Mr. Smiley Good Fella]

@SaidNoOneEver adding on top of my argument which you should believe but honestly take every suggestion with a grain of salt.

Just look at Tom Clancy and video games. Not to go all Tipper but Tom Clancy used the same idea to sell books which inevitably got him tied up with Reagan and Iran. Hell, the US military thought it’d be viable to use nuclear hovercraft in the Nevada desert. That should go to show the power of a retarded idea with just the smallest bit of cognitive propagation.

Don’t believe me? Look at any studies involving backpropagation and cognition. Deep learning has existed since the 60’s, it’s not some newfangled AI term.

 

[STARS158]

The CIA didn't think the USSR would collapse when it did either by the way.

The declassified CIA documents imply to me that Gorbachev and Yeltsin were CIA friendly guys on the inside, as the KGB attempted a coup on them in 1991.

Then when the USSR was broken up, suddenly the former Soviet leaders are doing Pizza commercials for the West

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

I actually think there is an intra-party power struggle over Shapiro right now.

If Kamala doesn't pick Shapiro now she'll lose PA for sure after dropping their favorite son in a day. The entire Dem Party is a clown car.

@SaidNoOneEver adding on top of my argument which you should believe but honestly take every suggestion with a grain of salt.

Just look at Tom Clancy and video games. Not to go all Tipper but Tom Clancy used the same idea to sell books which inevitably got him tied up with Reagan and Iran. Hell, the US military thought it’d be viable to use nuclear hovercraft in the Nevada desert. That should go to show the power of a retarded idea with just the smallest bit of cognitive propagation.

Don’t believe me? Look at any studies involving backpropagation and cognition. Deep learning has existed since the 60’s, it’s not some newfangled AI term.

Sigh. No I won't be studying a video game to learn real, thoroughly documented history. Is a Star Wars or Harry Potter analogy next?

 

[Mr. Smiley Good Fella]

The declassified CIA documents imply to me that Gorbachev and Yeltsin were CIA friendly guys on the inside, as the KGB attempted a coup on them in 1991.

Then when the USSR was broken up, suddenly the former Soviet leaders are doing Pizza commercials for the West

Never underestimate the power of pizza friend.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Imagine being in the absolutely clownish position of not being able to install a jewish vice president because of the personal attack retards you've groomed and imported from other countries. The ones who hate jews enough to carry around funny haha goof props with the Israeli Prime Minister lynched from them.

You get what you fucking deserve, assholes.

It's not just that he's Jewish- he actually served as a volunteer in the IDF.

Have we ever had a POTUS or VP who served in a foreign nation's army before?

https://x.com/Indian_Bronson/status/1819545704018194440

Wikipedo troon jannies are trying to cover it up for him:

 

[God of Nothing]

It's not just that he's Jewish- he actually served as a volunteer in the IDF.

Have we ever had a POTUS or VP who served in a foreign nation's army before?

https://x.com/Indian_Bronson/status/1819545704018194440

Wikipedo troon jannies are trying to cover it up for him:

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goddamn fucking jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeews!
It's beyond parody at this point.

 

[STARS158]

Never underestimate the power of pizza friend.

If only Saddam had sold out to the US. He would've gotten a Happy Meal commercial.

 

[make_it_so]

Did a lot of people just forget that there were so many signs a recession would likely happen this year ? That should've been factored into the prognostications for the 2024 election

It was probably buried by all those hundreds of "Why don't Americans realize the economy is doing great?" articles this administration's ball washers in the media pumped out.

 

[Puff]

I’m putting my tinfoil thinking cap on tonight boys.

Vodka OR kiwifarms on a Friday. Not both.

 

[CaddestSlown]

It's not just that he's Jewish- he actually served as a volunteer in the IDF.

Oh that part is just a bonus to me. I forgot while making the post, but volunteering with the armies that your chimping destruction sluts hate? They are seriously panicking and not thinking things through. There's a good chance a large chunk of those pocket rioters aren't American, they have personal, genuine, loathing for the jewish faith and Israel. They're also probably smart enough to recognize an enemy when they see one while being the current shepherds of the idiot progressive flock. That used to be the trans people, but they got replaced.

Again, the evil people in charge of all of this get what they deserve.

 

[Screamer_2]

It's going to take an Administration blunder to drop her polling below that threshold. Bungling the Israel-Palestine war, a massive economic plunge, a natural disaster handled badly (the opposite of Hurricane Sandy in 2012), etc.

They need to keep her scripted. The fact they're so focused on saying Trump won't debate for not sticking to his retarded Biden debates, to me suggests they won't debate with the normal independent debate schedule. Blame Trump.

I know people who live in such bubbles that when I have mentioned how awful Karine Jean-Pierre is as the press secretary. They have no idea what I am talking about. Never seen footage of her being awful and retarded. Yet would consider themselves politically informed. That'll be the case with Kamala talking like a retard. They just don't get shown it. While every Trump thing is show on loop.

When it comes to Israel, "Trump is worse" because they can't comprehend the horrors the Dems are supporting. They're so convinced they're better and that Trump is worse on everything, including Israel. They are going to vote for Kamala and think they voted a better option for stopping the genocide. Even though they just re-elected those responsible. I've had this argument with people. TDS is too strong. They're political identity is too wrapped up in the good person, the good side. They can't comprehend reality.

The war escalating to Iran and Hezbolla. Direct US involvement. These people may be against it, but they'll still vote for the administration responsible out of their delusion. The real question is, are there enough people like this, or does it just seem this way because of how unbalanced the media and a lot of online is.

I think it's probably in their best interest to get the war going sooner rather than later. Harris will own it more if it's after. They can just Russia Russia Russia Trump to make it harder for him to not support. Throw Biden under the bus for it.