From Rust to Trust

The way forward in the rust belt: pragmatic plans instead of broken promises.

Harris outlines $100 billion manufacturing plan, vowing pragmatism over ideology (nbcnews.com)

PITTSBURGH — Kamala Harris vowed to govern as a pragmatist who wouldn’t be captive to ideology in an economic speech Wednesday while outlining $100 billion in new investments in manufacturing, a major issue in this battleground state.

Harris proposed an “America Forward” agenda that calls for tax credits to boost investment and create industrial jobs, along with investments in artificial intelligence, science and energy development, as well as supporting American-made products.

“This plan will cost approximately $100 billion and will be paid for by a portion of the proceeds of international tax reform, which seeks to prevent a global race to the bottom and to discourage inversions, outsourcing, or international tax strategies designed by corporations to avoid paying their fair share to the United States,” the Harris campaign said in a fact sheet.

Harris also called for cutting red tape to build in the U.S. and endorsed eliminating “unnecessary” college degree requirements for various federal jobs, mirroring a policy Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro enacted.

“I promise you I will be pragmatic in my approach,” Harris told a tightly packed crowd here. “Because I believe we shouldn’t be constrained by ideology and should instead seek practical solutions to problems.”

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She also said she would “invest in our industrial strength” and counter China’s global strength. She said that includes propping up factory towns — many in this area have suffered economically in recent decades.

She said she would work with Congress and businesses to “reform permitting” and cut red tape to boost job creation.

“My opponent, Donald Trump, makes big promises on manufacturing,” she said. “On Trump’s watch, offshoring went up and manufacturing jobs went down across our country. … He constantly got played by China.”

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  1. Early in the morning factory whistle blows
    Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes
    Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light
    It’s the working, the working, just the working life

    Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain
    I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain
    Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life
    The working, the working, just the working life

    End of the day, factory whistle cries
    Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes
    And you just better believe, boy, somebody’s gonna get hurt tonight
    It’s the working, the working, just the working life
    Cause it’s the working, the working, just the working life

  3. With a multitude of the tRUMPers leaving every rally, I wonder if there will also be some “quiet quitting” in the voting booth. 

  5. Kamala couldn’t help the timing, but this was unfortunate yesterday in the aftermath of an awful hurricane hitting two battleground states. At least try not to release the damn menu to the media!!!!

    Washington Post: “Kamala Harris is at an LA fundraiser with Stevie Wonder, Keegan-Michael Key, Sterling K. Brown, Demi Lovato, Jessica Alba, Lily Tomlin. Alanis Morissette and Halle Bailey performing. Menu: duck egg roll, Goat cheese honey blueberry ball, Beef Wellington, Lobster roll, crab cakes”

    I think donors would have understood if she “ducked” out. I’d rather see a photo op of her on a call to Gov. Cooper about what’s happening, offering help.

  7. Sorry to be grumpy gus this morning but for the first time since this began I’m a little irritated by the campaign’s choices.

    Her schedule is too light, and Walz is not doing any media interviews. Hopefully that changes after VP debate tomorrow. Trump is ramping up his schedule, adding more and more events, while Harris is sticking to big set pieces a couple days apart. Not everything has to be a big stadium-filled rally or policy announcement. Time to flood the zone with appearances and interviews in the battlegrounds.

    And something needs to happen today to stem the emerging narrative that she’s not attentive to the hurricane tragedy. Trump is in Georgia today tossing out water bottles, or whatever.

  8. One more thing, and I’ll get back to exuberance. I was really disappointed she did not jump on the gift Trump gave her yesterday with his telling aside about not paying overtime. The campaign put out the excellent release above but there was no mention in her Vegas rally speech despite the heavily union crowd.

  9. New York Times Editorial Board Endorses Harris

    NYT: The Only Patriotic Choice for President

    It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks.

    Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of the president: his many criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in policy and his increasingly bizarre cast of associates.

    This unequivocal, dispiriting truth — Donald Trump is not fit to be president — should be enough for any voter who cares about the health of our country and the stability of our democracy to deny him re-election.

    For this reason, regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html

  10. One caller asked for help finding her brother. Another needed info about evacuation routes. A third worried if a nearby dam was about to burst. Local radio in western North Carolina is a literal lifeline right now. Kamala really needs to do something useful that’s not phony, no idea what that could be.. https://wwnc.iheart.com/

  12. Harris attending FEMA briefing today. I’m relieved.

    Knowing Trump he’ll toss out his Trump water in Valdosta today, make it a branding opportunity like he did after the train derailment

  13. Seeing many lawn signs for down-ballot Dems.  Taking that as a good sign for Harris/Walz (now 2 signs) since folks may be afraid of their tRUMPee neighbors.  
     
    Walz will do fine in the debate. Coach will be folksy and relatable, but strong on policy.

      JD will come across as hateful, conceited and disconnected.  He is not the droid you are looking for. 

    Do wish the moderators would fact-check live.  The MSM is coddling the fascists, again.

  14. Now Trump needs to be attacked for going to the region too early, his security detail interfering with search and rescue.

    Biden just pointed out at the WH he’s waiting for local authorities the green light a trip there. Good setup to accuse Trump of endangering lives for a photo op.

  16. Walz needs to go on The View.   Need a show that folks who don’t see politics all day will watch.  

    Liked seeing him with young voters at the MN/MI game last weekend.   Too hokey to have him on Game Day pre-game? 

    The media is just NOT doing a good job.  

    Granted, late night has a plethora of rally clips where Adolf says something nutty and/or scary. They do a better job highlighting the crazy and commenting on it, but the evening news needs to cover it, too.  
    Instead of a story of a dog finding its way home  (how is that national “news”?),  cover tRUMPsky’s ties to Russia, Project 2025, or that he actually said he wants police to carry out a violent purge.    Hmmm, maybe they want to cover the actual purge for ratings?

  17. Considering Adolf skipped daily briefings when he was prez, there is no reason for this except a photo op. 

    Walz needs to point out that Project 2025 will destroy NOAA and FEMA.   Heck, why wait.  It’s Melanoma’s jacket all over, again.  “I don’t really care. Do You?” Get that in the socials with some tRUMP-branded water and paper towels.
     

  18. While saving hurricane victims he still has time for grifting… 

    Donald J. Trump

    11:15 AM 30 SEPT

    I promised to Make America Great Again, this time with crypto. @WorldLibertyFi is planning to help make America the crypto capital of the world! The whitelist for eligible persons is officially open – this is your chance to be part of this historic moment. Join: worldlibertyfinancial.com

  20. Ivy, there were 100,077+ at the game – looked to me like Chickenshit threw about a dozen snacks to the crowd. Betcha $5  he didn’t pay for them.  The other 100,065 want their freaking snacks.
     
    Poobah, I agree that Kamala and Tim need to ramp up the appearances. I’d suggest she get down there and get in grubbies and meet with Kemp and whoever Georgia’s head of emergency services is and get a bunch of photos.  And oh, BTW, how is Chickenshit supposed to facilitate the distribution of relief supplies?  Throw out snacks?  Stupid phuck.

  22. I am not deployed, due to the hate, politics and statutes against Transgender people I figured it would be too risky for me and Red Cross to go there.  All it would take is some yo-yo to arrest me to ruin my day.  I have been asked to deploy and am considering it.
     
    That sfb is going in the middle of a disaster zone says more about his campaign then him.  Tell him he would have to eat MRE’s and not cooked hamburgers to drive him back to where he belongs.
     
    The paid, unpaid responders and volunteers for organizations like Red Cross, World Kitchen, search and rescue and all the others are living in the same conditions as are those who are the victims.  Tents, available housing is not used for volunteers. You are working, usually physically on the move, at least twelve hours per day, sometimes twenty-four.  You are eating MREs just like those you are serving, at least until Andre and other organizations get kitchens going, there are tens of thousands of people who need some form of help, even those who live off the grid deep in the woods. Showers are a dream until you get somewhere with water that does not come out of small bottles. 
     
    To have some self-important set of a-oles show up and demand attention does not help.  It would disrupt air rescue and supply operations, no fly when the orange moron shows up.  It would interfere with truck traffic doing cleaning and repairs.  There is no good that comes from those showing up anywhere in a disaster zone.

  24. Trump lies about Kemp and Biden. 

    Trump in Valdosta: “The governor is having a hard time getting the president on the phone. They’re being very non-responsive.”

    Gov. Kemp, before Trump remarks: “The President just called me yesterday afternoon.” 

    “And he just said ‘hey, what do you need?’” 

    “He offered that if there’s other things we need, just to call him directly, which, I appreciate that.”

  25. Yep he went there, I knew he would.. 

    Just now in press gaggle on CSPAN: “I don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of North Carolina going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.” 

    Reporter: “Do you have evidence?” 

    Trump gesturing to debris: “Just take a look”

  26. of course the guy who smiles and gives the thumbs-up on fallen soldiers’ graves is exploiting tragedy for personal gain

  28. Ivy, October will be a tough month.  Not sure how the SEC West will be decided if both Bama and Texas are undefeated in December.
     
    Trump’s a piece of shit.  

  29. to all those pols dissing FEMA for not being everywhere everyplace all at once:  did you add to or cut FEMA budget when you last voted on appropriations? 

    was there adequate funding in the continuing res to address what was already needed for this summer’s catastrophes?  those who turned their heads away from providing the necessary funds should be publicly shamed and not allowed any positive PR. 

  34. Good point. He belongs in the back of a squad car. 

    Picking the lowlight of the past few days isn’t easy, but it’s probably Trump’s suggestion that one hour of widespread, extrajudicial violence by the police would be an effective method of crime control. Perhaps that sounds like a caricature; if anything, trying to convey Trump’s ideas in normal language risks toning them down. Trump was speaking in Erie, Pennsylvania, and was in the middle of a riff about how crime is up (this is false, as I’ve reported), which he blamed in part on the police being prevented from being hard enough on suspects.
    “The police aren’t allowed to do their job. They’re told: If you do anything, you’re going to lose your pension, you’re going to lose your family, your house, your car,” he said. “One rough hour, and I mean real rough, the word will get out and it will end immediately. End immediately. You know? It’ll end immediately.”

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/trump-police-purge-violence-harris-mentally-deficient/680084/

  35. We’ve seen the effects of police brutality on communities, it sends them into chaos and fosters mistrust against police among the population 

    trump’s aspirational “one hour” of extreme brutality would have to become the norm for the authorities to maintain control over a people they had just brutalized

  36. Thanks, Bink. Mr. Ivy and I were newlyweds, so we’re coming up on a big one too. Land of Gorch was and is our favorite bit on the show. 

    LIKE I SAID — CHEER UP, THINGS COULD BE WORSE. YOU COULDA PAID FOUR CHICKENS. NEXT!

    Favog
     
     

    CHEER UP. THINGS COULD BE WORSE.

     
    [ GONG!!! ]

    Ploobis
     
     

    For that, I paid two chickens?

    Favog
     
     

    LIKE I SAID — CHEER UP, THINGS COULD BE WORSE. YOU COULDA PAID FOUR CHICKENS. NEXT!

  39. A little something about FEMA, other than being under funded and understaffed.  During large disasters, current is an example, they bring in people from other federal agencies to help with the massive quantity of people who need FEMA assistance.  Every person applying for FEMA aide will require time, and if you look at the tens of thousands applying for aide and the hundreds available you can understand the need for more hands.

  41. Sounds like a winner. Let’s put P01135809 in the middle of that circle. They can blast the shit out of him. 

    “As church leaders have acknowledged in legal proceedings, Word of Faith relies on a practice known as ‘strong’ or ‘blasting’ prayer. Former church members have described the entire congregation surrounding and screaming at a single member for as long as an hour in an effort to expunge the evil from the person.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/trump-women-church-north-carolina.html
     

  42. Standing on the ruins of someone’s livelihood for a photo op.  Classless. 

     The media falling for it.  Clueless. 

    tRUMPsky DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU.

  43. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/georgia-abortion-ban/index.html
     
    “A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s abortion law, which took effect in 2022 and effectively prohibited abortions beyond about six weeks of pregnancy.”
     

    Dear Media, This is not a “win,” as this shouldn’t even be necessary. Countless women have suffered, and many more will do the same when this ruling snaps back. It is happening because of tRUMPsky and his corrupt SCOTUS justices who LIED UNDER OATH during their appointment hearings. All in tRUMPsky’s circle are corrupt. Again, this ruling shouldn’t have been necessary.
    This isn’t a fix.

    “Amber Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat complications she experienced after taking abortion pills, ProPublica reported. The case is the first publicly reported instance of a woman dying because her care was delayed due to a state abortion law, according to the news organization.”

    ProPublica also reported on the death of Candi Miller, a woman with lupus, diabetes and hypertension who took abortion pills she ordered online. An autopsy found fetal tissue that hadn’t been expelled and a lethal combination of painkillers, ProPublica reported. The state’s maternal mortality review committee found that Miller’s death was not caused by the abortion medication and, like Thurman’s, was preventable.”

  44. Vice President Harris: “We will do everything in our power to help communities respond and recover. I plan to be on the ground as soon as possible without disrupting any emergency response operations. So far, more than 3,300 federal personnel are on the ground to assist with recovery efforts. They are deploying food, water, and generators and we continue to work with teams on the ground to restore water and power as quickly as possible”.. https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1840863566280224941?t=mnR0B_GXsYvgqFwMpD3L5g&s=19

  45. People tend to resent government until an incomprehensible disaster, and then they want government to perform miracles, like restoring utility service while an entire town is underwater
     
    gotta get rid of the water first 

  46. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/vance-obamacare-pre-existing-conditions/index.html
    JD lies:
    “Vance’s promise to cover people with preexisting conditions”
    “One example Vance gave in the NBC interview, which he repeated at a North Carolina rally a few days later, is allowing insurers to separate people into different risk pools. While placing healthy people into one risk pool would most likely reduce their premiums, doing the same with sicker consumers would almost certainly cause their premiums to skyrocket.”
     
    What we need to do is follow Denmark’s model. If our tax dollars actually went to giving us ALL health CARE instead of insurance, maybe by taxing Elon and his ilk, and maybe by spending less on killing machines, and by not subsidizing non-food companies masquerading as food humans should eat to stay healthier.  IDK, prolly something in there would work better than what we’re doing now.  Definitely the thing about taxing billionaires, though.

  47. the problem with American healthcare/insurance is predatory pricing, full stop

    someone who needs care is almost never in a position to haggle or compare, and don’t you dare question medical staff if you want responsiveness, there’s a line of suckers down the block who will take your appointment

    Very recent advice to me from a practicing nurse when i remarked on the difficulties of finding and receiving competent, empathic care:

    “don’t get sick”

  49. Here’s a Climate Power link to Trump’s feckless response to hurricanes during his four years screwing things up on the WH.  Took a year to get power restored to the entire island in Puerto Rico following Maria’s visit there.  He tossed out paper towels.  But worse…

    A George Washington University Study Revealed That Hurricane Maria Led To A Spike In Mortality, With An Estimated 2,975 Excess Deaths Six Months After The Storm Made Landfall, Attributing Them To Power Outages, Water Insecurity, And Inadequate Infrastructure. According to the Washington Post, “Hurricane Maria’s devastation in Puerto Rico led to a spike in mortality across the U.S. territory, with an estimated 2,975 excess deaths in the six months after the storm made landfall in September 2017, according to a sweeping report from George Washington University released Tuesday. The government of Puerto Rico on Tuesday embraced the GWU estimate as the official death toll, ranking Maria among the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history […] The spike in mortality came as the territory dealt with widespread and lengthy power outages, a lack of access to adequate health care, water insecurity and diseases related to the crisis.” [Washington Post, 8/28/18]

    A Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health Study Estimated That There Had Been Between 800 And 8,500 Excess Deaths Related To Hurricane Maria. According to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “After Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico in September 2017, officials initially said that there had been only 16-storm related deaths. But Harvard Chan researchers, along with colleagues in Puerto Rico, estimated that there had actually been between 800 and 8,500 excess deaths related to the hurricane through the end of December 2017.” [Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Accessed 2/28/20]

    What did CS do to address that? 

    Trump Disputed Official Findings That Nearly 3,000 People Died In Puerto Rico. According to the BBC, “US President Donald Trump is disputing official findings that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of last year’s storms. ‘3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico,’ Mr Trump wrote on Twitter, without offering evidence for the claim. He accused Democrats of inflating the official death toll to ‘make me look as bad as possible.’ The official figure was released last month after an independent study. On Thursday, Mr Trump tweeted that Democrats were attacking him ‘when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico.’” [BBC, 9/13/18]

    Great job P01135809 .  Asshat.

  50. Not a big Stephen Sackur fan, but this episode of “Hard Talk”’caught me up to speed on the political situation in Venezuela, looks as if Maduro has created the template for republicans to follow for a fascist takeover here:
     
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023c07

    “María Corina Machado – Venezuelan Opposition Leader
    HARDtalk
    Stephen Sackur speaks to the de facto leader of the Venezuelan opposition, María Corina Machado. Have hopes for change again been thwarted in Venezuela?“

  52. Everyday in every way, it becomes necessary to warehouse sfb, the delusional former guy.  My grandmother devolved into hate mongering to the point my sibling was called by the hospital for a night conference.  Either she leaves with them immediately or there is the possibility my grandmother would not make it the night.  She was mean, racist and nasty.  Just like sfb.  It is time for someone in its family to step up and put it in a home for the mentally nasty.

  54. rip Charlie Hustle

    Bart Giamatti screwed him good an now sports gambling is a national religion.

    Any ethical argument that could be made against Pete is moot, now

    If you didn’t know, all these enormous TV contracts are a consequence of sports-betting addictions, the degenerates need action

  55. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/jimmy-carter-presidents-what-matters/index.html
    “Jimmy Carter sets a new record on October 1, his birthday, when he will become the first American president to reach triple digits.”
     
    “In the nearly 44 years since he left office, Carter helped essentially eradicate Guinea worm, a parasite that infected around 3.5 million people in the mid-’80s and just 14 in 2023, according to The Carter Center.”
    “It’s been 22 years since he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, just as the US was preparing for war in Iraq. Carter also paid a landmark visit to Cuba that year.”
     
     
     
     
     

  56. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/30/georgia-abortion-ban-overturned

    “In a 26-page opinion, the Fulton county superior judge Robert McBurney ruled that the state’s abortion laws must revert to what they were before the six-week ban – known as the Life Act – was passed in 2019.”

    ”When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then – and only then – may society intervene,” McBurney wrote.

    “For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability,” McBurney wrote. “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.”

    “In a footnote, McBurney added: “There is an uncomfortable and usually unspoken subtext of involuntary servitude swirling about this debate, symbolically illustrated by the composition of the legal teams in this case. It is generally men who promote and defend laws like the Life Act, the effect of which is to require only women – and, given the socio-economic and demographic evidence presented at trial, primarily poor women, which means in Georgia primarily black and brown women – to engage in compulsory labor, ie, the carrying of a pregnancy to term at the government’s behest.”

    While I applaud the judge’s ruling and thoughtful opinion, it’s not a fix. 
     

    “Georgia’s attorney general, Republican Chris Carr, could appeal the case to the state supreme court and ask it to reinstate the six-week ban. The supreme court previously let the ban take effect at an earlier stage in the case.”
     
     
     

  57. Missouri has an ad to vote for sports betting to pay for public schools, with a note that the money would be constitutionally protected from being used for anything else.   Property taxes are sky high everywhere.  Isn’t that where the money for schools was supposed to come from? 

  58. …a bit of the old “robbing from Peter to pay Paul”
     
    ban private schools and vouchers 
     
    that will never happen, of course, enjoy the resulting ever-widening income disparity, America!

    Sorry, i tried to watch “TV” like a normal person tonight, got overwhelmed by thousands of thumbnails of inane shit

    it seems like most TV now is very attractive people pretending to do jobs

    BezosTV actually has a lot of good nerdy stuff but i’ve seen it all

    The good news is i’m politick’d out, bring ‘er on home, Mr. C, save my troubled land 🫡 🇺🇸

    Oh, i enjoyed your baseball tales, Dex, thanks 👍

  59. What a time to be president.  A massive hurricane, my guess is it will overtake Katrina in many ways.  Now the first longshoreman strike in almost fifty years, 1977 was the last one.  I am happy Biden and Harris are in office.

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