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2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpresdions.md

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+layout: post
+tags: [debate, presidential election, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump]
+categories: [debate, election]
+date: 2019-06-25 13:14:15
+#excerpt: ''
+#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png'
+#description:
+#permalink:
+title: 'Watching the Debate"
+---
+# Watching the Debate — Differences in Facial Expressions
+
+The 'Don'[^11] is displaying the same facial expression that he displayed in his booking photo in New York City, and Atlanta. It was also that scowl sitting at the defense table during his New York false business records that were really bribery payments to porn star, Stormy Daniels. 
+
+Kamala is using facial expressions that displays astonishment, disapproval of Trump's lies and *"facts"*.
+
+On the question directed to Trump about his 2020 election loss, if I were Kamala, I would have looked directly at the camera and ask, "I want to ask America a question. Do you really think that seven million citizens would have conspired to commit voter fraud and risk a felony conviction and a jail sentence? Personally, I don't know seven million people."
+
+Typical Trump. More lies. Moderators keep bringing up actual truth and Trump denies that it ever happened. 
+
+January 6, 2021, is a **block mark** in American history. Trump glorifies violence. 
+
+1. September 11, 2001.
+2. Bombing of FBI building in Oklahoma City. April 19, 1995.
+3. January 6, 2021 insurrection. Storming and vandalizing the U.S. Capitol, assaulting law enforcement officers.
+
+[^11]: 'Don', as in NY Mafia head
+

2024-09-11T1621DayOfRemembrance.md

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+layout: post
+tags: [terroris, al-Qaeda, United States of America]
+categories: [terrorist attacks, remembrance]
+date: 2019-06-25 13:14:15
+#excerpt: ''
+#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png'
+#description:
+#permalink:
+title: '9/11/2001'
+---
+
+I remember the day well. I was listening to the radio when I heard the DJ announce that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Centers; initially, they thought that it was a small airplane. I turned on the TV to watch the second passenger jet purposefully fly into the second World Trade Center. I said to myself, "al-Qaeda." This wasn’t the first time that they attacked America. 
+
+The news media websites were straining from the requests. They had to ditch the graphics and display updates simply as text. I got more information from [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters](https://slashdot.org/).
+
+That night, I was moved by the unity of US Representatives and Senators united on the Capitol steps. It has been and long time since Democrats and Republicans were united. 
+
+- February 26, 1993. Van bomb in World Trade Center parking garage, North Tower. Six people killed.
+- August 7, 1998. Twin US Embassy bombings in East Africa. 224 killed.
+- October 12, 2000. USS Cole attacked. 17 sailors killed[^11]:. 37 injured. 
+- September 11, 2001. 2,977 deaths[^11]. Suicide bombers ijacked passenger jets; flew into the World Trade Centers and destroyed. Pentagon attacked. Passengers overcame the hijackers and prevented another major destruction. 
+
+[^11]: I ain’t counting the deaths of the al-Qaeda terrorists.

2024-09-TheDebate.md

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+layout: post
+tags: [politics, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, debate]
+categories: [Presidential Campaign, Presidential Election]
+date: 2019-06-25 13:14:15
+#excerpt: ''
+#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png'
+#description:
+#permalink:
+title: 'title'
+---
+
+# The Debate: Prosecutorial Logic versus Toddler Jibber-Jabber[^11]
+
+[^11]: My mother taught high school English and she instilled the proper use of English and grammar. As such, I cannot listen to Donald Trump speak and mangle words and grammar. It is like listening to fingernails screech across a blackboard. 
+
+## [Election 2024: What we know about Harris' tactics from past debates / AP News](https://apnews.com/article/harris-debate-approach-trump-matchup-240d0978bd7d38d9757b5d314359b7d0)
+Updated 11:48 AM EDT, September 9, 2024
+By BILL BARROW
+
+ATLANTA (AP) — From her earliest campaigns in California to her serving as President Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris has honed an aggressive but calibrated approach to debates.
+
+She tries to blend punch lines with details that build toward a broader narrative. She might shake her head to signal her disapproval while her opponent is speaking, counting on viewers to see her reaction on a split screen. And she has a go-to tactic to pivot debates back in her favor: saying she’s glad to answer a question as she gathers her thoughts to explain an evolving position or defend a past one.
+
+Tuesday’s presidential debate will put the Democratic vice president’s skills to a test unlike any she’s faced. Harris faces former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, who will participate in his seventh general election debate since 2016 for an event that will be seen by tens of millions of viewers just as early voting in November’s election starts around the country.
+
+People who have competed against Harris and prepared her rivals say she brings a series of advantages to the matchup, including her prosecutorial background juxtaposed with Trump being the first U.S. president convicted of felony crimes. Still, Harris allies warn that Trump can be a challenging and unpredictable opponent who veers between policy critiques, personal attacks, and falsehoods or conspiracy theories.
+
+“That little girl was me,” Harris said in a widely circulated quip that punctuated her story about court-ordered busing that helped non-white students attend integrated schools.
+
+### Landing memorable punches
+Castro said Harris has a good feel for when to strike, a quality he traced to her trial experience. In 2019, as multiple Democratic candidates talked over one another, Harris sat back before getting moderators to recognize her.
+
+“Hey, guys, you know what? America does not want to witness a food fight. They want to know how we’re going to put food on their table,” she said, taking control of the conversation and drawing applause.
+
+When Harris faced Pence in 2020, it was a mostly civil, substantive debate. But she got in digs that framed Pence as a serial interrupter, as Trump had been in his first debate with Biden.
+
+“Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking,” she said at one point, with a stern look. At another: “If you don’t mind letting me finish, we can have a conversation.”
+
+### Finding traps in policy
+Debates have sometimes put Harris on the defensive.
+
+In the 2020 primary matches, Tulsi Gabbard, who this year has endorsed Trump, blitzed Harris over how aggressively she prosecuted nonviolent drug offenders as a district attorney.
+
+That fall, Pence made Harris sometimes struggle to defend Biden’s positions. Now, her task will be to defend not just Biden’s record, but her own role in that record and what policies she would pursue as president.
+
+Short, one of Pence’s top aides, noted that Republicans and the media have raised questions about more liberal positions Harris took in her 2020 primary campaign, especially on fracking, universal healthcare, reparations for slavery and how to treat migrants who cross the U.S. border illegally.
+
+“We were surprised that she missed some opportunities (against Pence) when the conversation was centered around policy,” Short said.
+
+### Timing, silence and nonverbal communication
+One of Harris’ earliest debate triumphs came in 2010 as she ran for California attorney general. Her opponent was asked about his plans to accept his public pension while still being paid a salary for a current public post.
+
+“I earned it,” Republican Steve Cooley said of the so-called “double-dipping” practice.
+
+Harris looked on silently, with a slightly amused look as Cooley explained himself. When moderators recognized her, she said just seven words – “Go for it, Steve. You earned it!” — in a serious tone but with a look that communicated her sarcasm. The exchange landed in her television ads within days.
+
+“Kamala Harris is quite effective at nonverbal communication and knowing when not to speak,” Jamieson said.
+
+The professor said Harris often will shake her head and, with other looks, telegraph her disapproval while her opponent is speaking. Then she smiles before retorting, or attacking, in a conversational tone.
+
+“She defuses some of the argument that Trump makes that she is ‘a nasty woman,’ that she’s engaging in egregiously unfair behavior, because her nonverbal presentation is actually undercutting that line of attack,” Jamieson said.
+
+### Meeting a new challenge with Trump
+For all of Harris’ debate experience, Tuesday is still a new and massive stage. Democrats who ordinarily tear into Trump instead appeared on Sunday’s news shows to make clear that Harris faced a big task ahead.
+
+“It will take almost superhuman focus and discipline to deal with Donald Trump in a debate,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, yet another of Harris’ 2020 opponents, on CNN. “It’s no ordinary proposition, not because Donald Trump is a master of explaining policy ideas and how they’re going to make people better off. It’s because he’s a master of taking any form or format that is on television and turning it into a show that is all about him.”
+
+Castro noted that Trump is “a nasty and crafty stage presence” who makes preparation difficult. And with ABC keeping the candidates’ microphones off when they are not speaking, Harris may not find it as easy to produce another viral moment that hinges on viewers having seen or heard Trump at his most outlandish.
+
+“The best thing she can do,” Castro said, “is not get distracted by his antics.”
+