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Bootleg Trunks
Jun 12, 2020

-She supported a law that forces schools to turn undocumented students over to ICE, separating them from their parents. source:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-san-francisco-immigrant-policy_n_5c758153e4b0bf166204509b

-Supported and funded a bill that would criminalize truancy, disproportionately harming single parent households, the poor, families of color and homeless mothers. source:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1089974205284798464?s=20

-Declined to prosecute Steven Mnuchin after his bank’s predatory lending and foreclosure fraud broke the law “over a thousand” times and ruined the lives of thousands of homeowners. source:

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/03/treasury-nominee-steve-mnuchins-bank-accused-of-widespread-misconduct-in-leaked-memo/

...he later donated to her campaign source:

https://www.rollcall.com/2017/02/14/harris-was-only-2016-senate-democratic-candidate-to-get-cash-from-mnuchin/

-She spent years jailing disproportionately black nonviolent cannabis users source:

https://afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-has-been-tough-on-black-people-not-crime/

she then tried to pander by admitting to smoking herself despite prosecuting others source:

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/kamala-harriss-snoopgate-is-what-a-political-marijuana-controversy-looks-like-in-2019/

-Stopped the release of a man serving 27 years-to-life after being wrongfully convicted of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported. source:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general

...and when civil rights groups and nearly 100,000 petition signatures got him released after 14 years she took him back to court again for a crime he didn’t commit source:

https://www.scpr.org/news/2013/07/31/38460/san-fernando-valley-man-s-freedom-hangs-in-appeal/

-Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law, which is the only one in the country to impose life sentences for minor felonies and incarcerates black people at 12x the rate as white people source:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reforming-three-strikes/

...she opposed the law THREE different times source:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reforming-three-strikes/

-Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal source:

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kamala-harris-san-francisco-catholic-church-child-abuse/

-Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons. source:

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/05/05/harris-renews-effort-to-block-gender-reassignment-for-trans-inmate/

-Stood by silently as $730 million was spent on moving inmates to for-profit private prisons source:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/08/29/mercury-news-editorial-kamala-harris-needs-to-tackle-prison-standoff/

-Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions source:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/06/06/guess-who-else-voted-against-federal-funding-for-abortion-443667

-She supports Trump escalating war in Syria source:

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/bipartisan-war-congress-trump-syria-iran-russia-hezbollah/

-Voted to give Trump increased military spending source:

https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/23430/61033/120012/national-defense-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2018#.XQQgLtNKifQ

...she did that TWICE:

https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bil...19#.XQQhV9NKifQ

-Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails” source:

https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1090067362907340800?s=20

-Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times source:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article226975319.html

-Opposed legalization of sex work source:

http://www.laweekly.com/a-new-movement-to-legalize-prostitution-faces-a-fight-with-kamala-harris/

...endangered sex workers source:

https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a52334/backpage-shutdown-make-sex-workers-less-safe/

...and oversaw people being charged for prostitution without even agreeing to sex source:

https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/stung/Content?oid=2177526

-Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud source:

https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harris-accused-of-letting-company-exploiting-latinos-off-the-hook/

...and, conveniently enough, later received donations from people connected to the corporation source:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/documents-show-san-diego-prosecutors-told-kamala-h/

-Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/pge-california-politics.html

...and now its consultants are running her campaign source:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/21/kamala-harris-2020-campaign-1116076

-Is a latecomer in endorsing Medicare for All and already appears to be backtracking on it source:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/politics/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all-eliminate-private-insurers-backlash/index.html

-Supports foreign right-wing influences Netanyahu and AIPAC

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kamala-harris-israel-aipac/

-Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal source:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...9d15_story.html

-Co-sponsored the bill that let Trump impose sanctions on Iran source:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/722/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded

...which violated the nuclear deal and lead to the currently rising tensions source:

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/media-outlets-lawmakers-us-violated-iran-nuclear-deal-5907a0e5743a/

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Bootleg Trunks
Jun 12, 2020

misadventurous posted:

hard to say, i get almost exactly the same vibe of absolute seething disgust for anyone they’re talking to behind the fake laughs

remembering that interview where she stared daggers at the sick guy who dared question her

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