With the Presidential Election just a few days away, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump presented their closing arguments speech to the voters. Vote wisely America!
A Stark Contrast
Love or hate Trump or Kamala is not the issue when we are selecting the leader of our nation; we have to factor trustworthiness, loyalty, and character. Incidentally, those are the three factors (because they are multipliers) that play a role in attaining, maintaining, and revoking a security clearance. And if any of those get negatively impacted, a security clearance could be revoked.
Yes, you need a security clearance in order to do your job as the President of the United States of America. In fact, you are held at a MUCH higher standard than anybody else in that position. For example, you would have an issue if an Admiral would have problems on their trustworthiness, loyalty, and character, correct? And loyalty is towards the USA, not towards a person.
Loyalty for a person over country does not only negatively impact the loyalty factor, but it also negatively impacts the trustworthiness and character factors.
I’ve included links to both Presidential candidates closing arguments. Kamala’s event was at The Ellipse in Washington D.C., same place where Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally took place on January 6, 2021. Her speech was uplifting and unifying. Trump’s remarks took place at Madison Square Garden in New York, and his speech was what we’ve come to expect from a Trump speech. Before Trump took the stage, several controversial speakers who were the antithesis of Kamala’s speech made headlines for all the wrong reasons – Trump was very much matching those MAGA speeches. You can watch them both speeches at the links below.
Vice President Kamala Harris' Closing Argument Speech to American Voters
Summary: Tuesday, October 29, 2024, at the Ellipse in Washington D.C. The same place where Trump had his “Stop the Steal” rally right before the insurrection on J6. The symbolism was to change the divisive rhetoric America has been experiencing through MAGA in the last decade, and become a welcoming movement for all Americans, to include MAGA. Since then, many more prominent Independents and Republicans, to include ex-MAGA have endorsed Kamala for President.
LIVE: Donald Trump takes over Madison Square Garden with MAGA rally
Summary: Sunday, October 27, 2024, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. For some reason the same place that the Nazi party in the USA held a rally back in 1939. Trump’s claim is that there is no connection, but unfortunately a lot of his speakers had speeches with language that mirrored the time in 1939. The speeches had an accusatory flare against minorities, and anybody non-MAGA. Since then, many MAGA folks have retrieved their endorsement from Trump and voting blue even if they are registered Republicans. Don’t take my word for it, watch it yourself to find out why.
On that note, I was able to easily find the full rally from Kamala on her YouTube channel, after searching all over I was able to find the link for Trump’s. As you watch these rallies, I would like to point a couple of things that will help you understand what the indicators are hidden in plain sight.
Analyzing the rally’s vibe
There are many things that people tend to miss but gives you clear indications as far as what is the candidates trifecta I was speaking about at the beginning of this article… trustworthiness, loyalty, and character.
These tend to go missed, especially under a group mentality. But I have emphasized that there are indicators (or call them clues if you will, but that’s not the accurate term) to understand the psychology of these events. And yes, there is plenty of that. Let’s see how many of these you caught:
- Trump’s podium had on the top line written “Trump will fix it” highlighted in red. It also crammed his slogans, and his branding – and behind him a bunch of people dress head to toe with MAGA merch and several signs reading “Trump will fix it.” Kamala’s podium was the Vice-President’s seal flanked by two American flags and the White House illuminated behind her.
- Kamala started her remarks by affectionately greeting the crowd by saying “good evening” and thanking them for their time to attend. Trump share what seemed like some awkward kiss on the cheek where Melania seemed like she was on a hurry to be leaving Trump’s presence but stayed for a bit longer, and then Trump’s first words were “thank you” to the people and directed the greeting to Melania. He then bragged about how many people are still outside the venue and had to watch from outside Madisson Square Garden.
- Kamala’s speech was a succinct half hour, and it was an uplifting and factual speech you can independently verify everything she stated. Trump speech was about an hour and 20 minutes, and two and half minutes he started his anti-immigration remarks calling it an “invasion.” The grievances went downhill from there. Afterall, his speech started by asking “are you better today than four years ago” – I’ll answer quickly, YES, the USA is much better today than October 2020. Four years ago, we were stuck in a world-wide pandemic he mismanaged with people dying on the thousands every day.
- Kamala did have a few descriptive words against Trump’s character and were focused on the negative impact Trumps’ of how rhetoric has divided to America. However, she did not at any point resorted to name calling or cheap shots. But she was objectively criticizing her opponent – which is expected on a presidential race. Trump’s usual childish nicknames such as “crooked Joe” or mispronouncing Kamala’s name following by “you’re fired” – likely a callback to his “The Apprentice” reality show days. Sure, those resonate with the MAGA folks, but it falls flat with the rest of America.
- Trump went on to make many demonstrably false claims about Kamala’s records and policies and boasted that he would fix the economy. Perhaps forgetting that the economy was in shambles when he left office. I’ll describe it again, Trump’s economy was like maxing up a credit card, and when Biden took over, he had to pay the credit card's bill and interest, and all the aftermath you’ve been experiencing – to include the progressive recovery from that was a massive cleaning effort after Trump’s mess. For the record, Kamala’s tax plan is to have billionaires and extremely rich people pay their fair share of taxes and give tax credits to working class families.
- Trump made many “we will do” promises. He did not ever specify in that hour and 20 minutes HOW he will do it. Many Americans care about the HOW, because you can promise anything with an indefinite plan. For example, I could promise we can go to the moon for a joyride, but unless I tell you how we’re going to do it, that promise has absolutely zero value. By the way, I have no interest in going to the moon at all. But hope the meaning behind the example makes sense. If it doesn’t then Trump’s promises might sound appealing to you. But they are not compelling to a lot of Americans who care about the HOW on a promise.
- You might be surprised to learn that many of Trump’s promises to which his MAGA folks were cheering on, such as no tax on tips, are actually part of Kamala’s plan too. The difference is that she published HOW she will do that and more, and there are no sophomoric nicknames anywhere on that plan.
- Trump pushed again the “drill baby drill” as though it was not happening… when in reality the USA right now is the highest energy producer in the world. Trump wants to end the green energy industry and remain with fossil fuels. It does not take a PHD to know who is paying for that part of the campaign. And by the way, green energy is the way of the future because fossil fuels do indeed cause climate change, but that’s a different can of worms – which by the way, many MAGA folks do not believe or care about, starting with Trump.
- Trump attacked the press, with his usual label of “fake news,” and immediately went onto his immigration tirade citing, “army” of migrant gangs. Specifically citing primarily Venezuelan gangs. He played a very ominous video with tense music that were the hallmarks of fearmongering. He continued over building upon that by saying that the USA is an occupied country, and that he will have a “liberation day” and that on his first day he’ll start the largest deportation in American history. He also said he was going to use the Alien Enemy’s Act of 1798. He continued by citing a debunked and misleading chart on immigration and went on to say he wants the death penalty for immigrants who commit murder. His crowd chanted USA-USA after all that. It did not end there, it got simply worse and called Kamala “grossly incompetent.”
- Trump uses the “nobody, everybody” type language, “nobody respects her,” “everybody knows she is a very low IQ individual” type rhetoric when referring to Kamala. First off, that is a lie on substance and number. A lot of Americans do respect her, and except for some of Trump’s followers, Kamala is praised for her intellect. Also, Trump chickened out to have any more debates with her, because she mopped the floor with him.
- Of course, Trump went on to add the same talking points you have probably heard a thousand times before during a MAGA rally. Here is a quick summary (although I intent do write an article just to clarify these, because there is plenty of gaslighting and missing context to talk about). The rest of Trump’s speech included but was not limited to gripes against climate change, praising of Putin, say that no new wars happened under him (I was in the Navy at the time, and I can tell you there were armed conflict galore during his presidency), played another video with ominous music and incendiary rhetoric against immigrants. He then talked about Elon Musk’s rockets with great admiration for him personally, He then moved to Melania’s book being a best seller, went on a nepotism shot out for family and acolytes. Then said he has a secret to win the election but won’t say what it is until he wins, lied about Kamala wanting to defund the police, and that she would take away handguns, boasted about his stunt at McDonalds and the podcast with Joe Rogan, called the press the enemy of the people, accused the military of being “woke,” said that the left used Covid to cheat, compared himself to Al Capone, pandered to jews and Christians and talked against Muslims, said he would end the war in Ukraine, but didn’t say how, said he would jail anybody burning the American flag, went onto listing the usual wedge topics to include CRT (critical race theory), America first, another hit on immigration, and of course the crowd seemed to love that. Talked bad about allies, said immigration is an invasion, occupation, and gave a few more like descriptions. Said he was debating three people when they fact checked him during the debate, and of course appealed to patriotism and God before leaving.
I can go on, but I hope this illustrates some of the points of contrast between each candidate. This bombastic divisiveness already seemed to be peaking within only 21 minutes into his speech. And I have to tell you, it got boring very quickly. Same old grief-rhetoric you hear at any of his rallies. Tons of promises, never a HOW exactly he’ll do something about these perceived problems, and it is always somebody else’s fault.
I finished watching his entire rally speech – and it was really a chore. And it did not get better. You’re welcome to watch it, that is why I linked it to you. See how long you can take before it drives you nuts. To me was 21 painful minutes, but I watched it all in little chunks.
But I do encourage you to watch both speeches. Afterall, this is what you’re voting for – or against. And you owe it to yourself to see the contrast. If you’re MAGA, see why so many ex-Ultra-MAGA folks jumped ship and are voting blue while remaining proud Republicans. Fact-check their speech with independent sources everything both candidates say. If it is true, then your research will validate it. If it was a lie, well – you will realize that the candidate you loved was not being forthcoming.
I’ve written hundreds of articles about this topic, and I’ve created an educational website www.infoincontext.com as a free resource for you to see what the indicators are to unmask an authoritarian, or an authoritarian wanna-be. With only five days to go, if people who will vote don’t really understand their candidates and their opposition’s actual stances, then we are in big trouble.
There is nothing an authoritarian wanna-be want more than having his base vote without doing their research and plugging their eyes and ears while yapping loudly about supporting their own – but not listening and understanding why the opposition and former followers are jumping ship. When you vote you owe it to the country. Your vote makes a difference and casting a ballot without knowing what you’re voting for or against objectively it is much like signing a blank check.
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Have you done your homework?
I mentioned this in my last article, and it is worth repeating. Before you show up to vote you need to know EVERYBODY on that ballot. Not just what they look like, but what are their policies, what is their record, and objectively assess all that information before you grant your vote. If you just vote for the person “because you like them” but don’t really understand WHY you like them, and WHY they are better than the other candidate, then you’re not voting wisely.
Voting wisely means that you’re understanding the trustworthiness, loyalty, and character of the person. The campaigns are a job application and interview for the highest office in the land, which in turn becomes the highest office on this planet. To me the choice is very clear. I don’t personally want somebody on the top seat on this planet engaging in name calling with sophomoric nicknames to people he dislikes. To me that is already a red flag.
But that is not the only red flag I see. I know that for some Trump’s bombastic, pedantic, and vociferus personality is very appealing. And I also know that some of his supporters might need a dictionary to look up what “bombastic, pedantic, and vociferous” means while accusing me of being an elitist along some other demeaning epithet that would insult my intelligence for using “big words” – despite the fact English is my third language. I don’t know for sure if Trump himself would know the meaning of any of those words. I would prefer a leader who has a wider vocabulary and is better articulated.
And to be honest, I am not alone. Seeing a person like Trump becoming so prominent is not normal for the USA. I know that we’ve seen very dubious politicians throughout history, but as bad as they were – there was some sort of decorum. We saw what a Trump presidency was, it was not normal, it was divisive, and it was full of gaslighting. I know some people think they love Trump – but do they love Trump, or do they love the fact he says things that for maturity and professional reasons are not spewed out loud by functional adults?
The USA, like it or not sets the status quo for the world. Most MAGA folks don’t give a crap about the rest of the world, some might have never traveled abroad for extended periods of time. And no, a quick vacation does not really count. The fact is that under Trump the rest of the world thought we have lost our collective minds. And from there, a lot of opportunistic “Trump-like” candidates used the same tactics and attained power. Some even copied his mannerisms, his double-down on controversies, and even his dead-bleached-road-kill-racoon like haircut. Yes, when you see it, you cannot unsee it.
When you look at the closing remark speeches, listen to their tone of voice, their words, the way they engage with their policies. One of them sounds mature and poised, representative of all Americans. The other has a “screamy” voice, with jarring grief-laced comments and insults. Ask yourself, would you tolerate that person if they were on the OPPOSITE team? For example, would you support Kamala if she was a Republican? Or would you support Trump if he was a Democrat?
Let me answer it like this. If Kamala was a Republican and acting like she does now, I would vote for her too. If Trump was a Democrat and he was acting like the wimp-screaming-man-child he acts now, I would vote against him. This is the same reason why so many Republicans are voting for Kamala Harris. They are tired of Trump’s antics, they are tired of his words, they want to go back to the time when disagreements and debate did not become a childish name-calling event.
In fact, did you know that name-calling is not even tolerated in middle school or high school? Yes, American kids have better standards than some of the people who support Trump’s childish antics. I for one, like many other Independents and Republicans cannot in good conscience vote for Trump. That is why he was defeated in 2020. Last time Republicans voted against Trump but reelected many Republicans in Congress. This time, many Republicans are voting blue down ballot. Why? Because those Republicans in office did not control Trump’s antics. That is why.
I’ll close with this. If you have not heard the speeches, or if you heard them already. After you read this article watch them again and assess for each candidate’s trustworthiness, loyalty, and character. Don’t think about them as the president, think of them as the person you would leave alone with your child. Do you want the person calling childish nicknames looking after your kid, or the one who seems to be a mature person. Vote wisely America. HLC