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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Seriously what’s with the spelling of the nicknames lol that seems new for him but now he does it all the time

[–] NegativeInf 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's all about branding. Gotta TM that Laffin' Kamala for t-shirt purposes.

To be frank, if he ran with Bitchy Kamala, I would hope Harris co-opts it to Bitchin' Kamala. Because I would wear the fuck out of that shirt.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Minnesota State Fair is in a couple weeks and the DFL booth always brings the fire with their shirt selection. I’ll definitely be buying a few this year.

Examples: https://store.dfl.org/tees/

Land of 10000 rights - https://store.dfl.org/land-of-10-000-rights-unisex-white-tee/

OMGGOPWTF - https://store.dfl.org/omg-gop-wtf-unisex-white-tee/

Thoughts and Prayers - https://store.dfl.org/thoughts-prayers-unisex-navy-tee/

And my favorite so far, Madam President- https://store.dfl.org/madam-president-unisex-black-tee/

[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Okay. I love how they made the pride flags into a mosquito.

Edit : it’s just the compression. On a second look…. Eh… not so much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Dead Milkmen would undoubtedly approve.

[–] proper 3 points 3 months ago

I’ll vote for anyone in a camero

[–] Today 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I saw my first "Midwest princess" hat in the wild today. At a beach in Florida.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not about the spelling... Trump has trouble reading so he always sounds things out that he doesn't quite understand or when he's unsure of himself. It's a pretty standard coping strategy for people who are still learning to read.

He does this constantly: Whenever he slows down (weirdly) during one of his endless rants it's usually before a word he has difficulty with. Examples of words he regularly has trouble with: China nuclear, Venezuela, felony

In the past he's said, "United Stage", "respectered", and often starts making noise sounds like, "ding!", "boom!", and "bam!" to distract from his mistakes... Like some elementary school kid in class that's been forced to read out loud.

My personal estimate is that he has somewhere around a 4th or 5th grade reading level. After reading this, if you hear one of his speeches it will suddenly become so obvious that he has trouble reading that you'll wonder how you never noticed before.

Everything that's ever appeared on his teleprompter is the simplest words possible except in cases where avoiding complicated words is impossible. I'm certain he practices these special words with his handlers regularly and tries to repeat their emphasis of certain parts of words which is why he says some words strangely (e.g. whenever he says "China").

[–] atx_aquarian 4 points 3 months ago

I thought it was because he’s afraid he sounds like he's saying "lion" instead of "lying", and he doesn't want to risk sounding complimentary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Seriously what’s with the spelling of the nicknames lol

He loves the poorly educated so much that he has to go to extra effort to make sure they can understand his extra bigly smart joke.