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Republicans took to the airwaves Sunday to criticize a surging Kamala Harris, calling the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a “dangerous liberal” as US conservatives’ lines of attack on the vice-president began to solidify.

In appearances across CNN and Fox News, senior Republican figures Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham and former presidential candidate Ron DeSantis each attempted to paint Harris – who is typically seen as a centrist Democrat – as having far-left politics.

Those remarks came after Trump sought to insult Harris at a rally on Friday night. The ex-president appeared to deliberately mispronounce Harris’s first name, claimed she is “the most incompetent, unpopular and far-left vice-president in American history” and stated: “She was a bum three weeks ago.”

Speaking to CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Cotton, the US senator from Arkansas, said: “For four years things were good” during Trump’s presidency. He argued that after Joe Biden took the White House in 2020 with Harris as his running mate, “everything has gone to hell”.

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[–] [email protected] 171 points 4 months ago

I wish the Democrats were half as liberal and as effective as the Republicans claim they are.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 4 months ago (1 children)

funny how the party that attempted to overthrow the government is calling anyone "dangerous"

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

hhaa right! theyre running a convicted felon and court validated sex offender, but no its the dems running a current vp thats the problem

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

But she's a woman! And not white! That makes her dangerous!

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 85 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Trump is scared shitless of her, isn’t he?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

she's a prosecutor. he's a convicted felon. whatever they're paying his diaper changers, it isn't enough

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 32 points 4 months ago

If this was a season of The West Wing twenty years ago, people would think it was too unbelievable.

[–] uberdroog 10 points 4 months ago

These people were so broken by a black man becoming president. They may just have the vapors so hard it's like a jim jones convention across the country. We seriously need to invest in mental health in this country.

[–] shalafi 4 points 4 months ago

He's scared, are as his aides and the GOP.

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 4 months ago

Well. Yes. And no.

That’s what diapers are for. So he still has his shit, but yes. He shits himself every time she gets mentioned around him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah, them depends be working overtime

[–] hperrin 51 points 4 months ago (2 children)

She’s a radical leftist and a dangerous liberal? I’m beginning to think Republicans just use these terms without understanding them…

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

They don't understand much besides following their orders from fox "news".

[–] yourgodlucifer 10 points 4 months ago

They think they are the same thing

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Democracy won't survive a Trump presidency. The christofascist ideology may not survive a Harris presidency, or at least remain as strong as it is today. I wish everyone that wants to live under authoritarianism would just move somewhere else. There are a lot of choices to choose from.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is an incredibly important and serious concept being shared by PenisDuckCuck9001, and I hope everyone read it carefully.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I read PenisDuckCuck9001's comment, and who can really argue with what PenisDuckCuck9001 is saying?

[–] Sarothazrom 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Does Lemmy have a Rimjob Steve yet? Lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Someone needs to get on this asap

[–] SmackemWittadic 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I feel like we should name it after the legendary @SatansMaggotyCumFart

[–] superminerJG 1 points 4 months ago

i searched it up, we have c/rimjob_steve

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

She should use "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins in campaign videos moving forward.

[–] Ghostalmedia 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] ripcord 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Trump is sort of like a way worse caricature of Judge Smails so it would make sense.

Edit: It certainly wouldn't be "Nobody's Fool", the theme from Caddydhack II.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom 4 points 4 months ago

¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't want people to start calling her a maverick. That doesn't usually go well for candidates.

[–] Bonesince1997 3 points 4 months ago

Goose then?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why is the Harris campaign not selling t-shirts that say "dangerous liberal"? Because I would buy five of them.

[–] Bonesince1997 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'd buy that and make them gifts for all my conservative family members.

[–] MapleEngineer 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does snearing the word, "liberal", have any effect on anyone who isn't a magaloon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah tbh some instances come to mind

[–] 8ender 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So that’s it? That’s the solidifying attack? She’s dangerous? Liberal? Jesus they’re screwed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't count your chickens before you've...

Watched all of that guy that went to interview at the Trump rallies

[–] ripcord 1 points 4 months ago
[–] Myxomatosis 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The usual stale bullshit from the GOP, I see. They’re scared because they have nothing and expected an easy win with Biden.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm actually proud of them for at least putting in the effort to get farther than "black and woman"

[–] Myxomatosis 3 points 4 months ago

Just give them time. They’ll come up with some new racist dog whistles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Just you wait until those lines are fully solidified, good sir

[–] blazera 16 points 4 months ago

“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.”

Is the only response Graham gets for the rest of his life

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oh no, I'm devastated

although shes not really liberal. Maybe when compared to fascist.

[–] Eldritch 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Love how they claim limiting price gouging would have caused shortages... Why? How? What an unsupported claim.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

As are all of the GOP claims.

[–] Hikermick 8 points 4 months ago

Next she will be "Far Left Radical" I'll bet. The GOP is out of ideas and repeating themselves. 2016 was full of broken promises. This is a rerun of 2020 and they will lose

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I'm willing to risk it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

She is very dangerous to you getting owned in the polls GOP.

[–] peopleproblems 7 points 4 months ago

I mean for him? He's not exactly wrong. He's facing a lot of felony charges, including some RICO.

Everything has gone to hell for him. As it should. The rest of us? If Barely scraping by is the definition of going to hell, a large amount of us (not me personally, but my generation) has been scraping by since... At least 2007.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

makes them sound afraid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

And? Why is this news? It's par for the course