Dare I say that it’s starting to feel like Trumps campaign is unraveling. A bit.
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I don’t know, man, I honestly think this is about as raveled as his campaign has ever been.
It kinda feels like both. We are seeing his campaign machine at full speed, but for some reason it feels a bit broken. I guess we’ll see where everything is in a month or so.
a dam has been broken... the dam that was joe bidens terrible idea at running. you had millions of people resolved to picking the older guy by default because fascism. they werent voting for president, they were voting against trump.
harris has enabled a metric fuck-tonne of people to stand up and get energized for a capable human being.
at the same time trumps campaign has been squarely focused on intimidating/making fun of biden. they are hopelessly lost in re-grouping n an attempt to attack harris. lets hope it stays discombobulated
AND then theres the Weird thing, which is sticking for some reason. awesome!
Love the "weird" thing. People don't make decisions using logic, almost always emotions are the key. Every salesman and politician knows this, though liberals seem to have missed the memo.
Democrats are finally hitting Trump voters where it hurts, right in the emotions, with not much of a way to spin it. Calling Trump a fascist rolls right off their back. "Of course libs would say that!" But "weird" resonates in some way I can't put my finger on.
its their own level! most conservatives couldnt define fascism if their life depended on it.
but weird... weird is a term they use and understand. as you point out harris is finally speaking to them on their own simplistic, emotional level.
theres also the stronger rhetoric biden would never use like threatening to showing up to a debate alone or telling him to 'say it to my face'.
It also helps that their attempts to redirect back mostly serve to highlight their weird preoccupations.
Things are happening like a former Trump speechwriter posting "Emmett Till was weird" on Twitter because they can't comprehend just how unhinged and generally weird saying something like that is to a normal person.
Or they think they're being clever flipping the script and ranting about "boys saying they're girls is weird." "Why do you spend so much time obsessing over what children have in their pants? That's really weird."
It all puts them in a bind. If they try to defend what they're saying as normal, it's very clear that it isn't. If they try to deflect with what they think is weird, it just shows how detached they are from normal reality. It's a surprisingly effective line of attack that largely neutralizes their normal gish galloping.
I've been enjoying the use or weird lately. I've had some strong personal opinions on language lately. A lot of it comes with a huge increase of new words that sort of seem abstract from it's meaning.
I think with how rapid information can spread to large groups of people, it's just too fast for my mind to keep up. All of a sudden I feel like I'm in a war with words and who knows which landmine of a word will get you in trouble. It causes me even more anxiety when someone comes at you with manipulative intentions in order to control the direction of the discussion.
I think weird works because it's an almost basic word. It's simple and descriptive. It's not a newer, more specific word that requires a deeper understanding of a broader topic. It's understood by more people. People with varying degrees of language knowledge including people whose native language is not English. It's easier for more people to understand.
It's a lot easier to understand someone is weird compared to someone being a fascist.
It's sticking because it's true.
Democrats don't act like the Republican party is a threat to democracy, so their attempts to play up that line of rhetoric always fall flat.
However, Democrats are happy to work with weird people like the Republicans, making this line of attack much more impactful because it's the first honest bit of propaganda in years.
Its feels like its got a small crack in the engine block. Like its not quite affecting it yet but you can still hear something is wrong with it.
Honestly. I see so many people saying Trump and republicans are falling apart and they're terrified, but I'm like, this is the exact same rhetoric we've been getting from them for 8 years.
i wouldnt say falling apart... i would say 'stumbling'. i do think the stumble is worse now than hes ever experienced.
- attendance is down at all his rallies.
- the negative press is increasing for a now convicted felon running against a prosecutor can only get sweeter.
- he picked a vp that is a revolting couch-fucker compared to the chaste previous incarnation.
- hes about to have to pay 450 milllion dollars.
- he is now saying the fascist dictator plans out loud.
thats just off the top of my head.
... and then theres the other side.. harris is rallying people in volumes we havent seen since obama
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Even his campaign thinks so. It was so bad they pulled him offstage before the final question about Project 2025 could be asked.
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Weird creepy old man completely fails to read the room and says stupid shit. More news at 10
Didn’t you mean to say Donald Trump is a weird creepy old man?
I’d hate to have search indexers fail to connect the dots in your very true statement that Donald Trump is a weird creepy old man.
Donald Trump is in fact weird, creepy, and old all at the same time.
And gender fluid.
Whoa, cut him some slack. Reading does not come easily to him.
mods, can we tag this as [WEIRD] for those of us at work?
Old white conservative confused by person being multi-racial, and GOP egotists can't stand being called "weird", this and more news at 11.
Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”
-- Donald Trump
I can't believe I actually have to refute this shit.
-- PolitiFact employee, probably
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Someone should look into that? What is it with this guy making weird requests against his opponents. He is so used to giving direction this way like a gangster. Removes any personal responcibility from his statements.
It's a gish gallop with a flourish.
I do hope that someone has the foresight to ask him when he turned white.
Calling him white denigrates the orange race. They deserve to be seen.
I don't know, but I am guessing it was when he saw the shit Winston saw.
So that would have been in 1984.
He probably asked the question because he regularly turns orange.
So this event went exactly as well as anyone with any common sense at all would assume it would go? 🤣🤣🤷♂️
Deciding to turn black ? What is wrong with this man ?
He's really weird.
have you seen his tiny little hands?
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Looks like Trump is finally coming out as a racist! How brave! /s
Interesting that he puts it this way. Surely he knows that once you go Black, you don't go back?
Fucking weirdo. Who says that.
Narcissists. This is a textbook smear campaign.
The smear campaign is born out of a combination of factors, including the need to be right and have his or her “truth” become the prevailing script, retaining status and standing (making sure that his or her inner hidden shame doesn’t become public), and maintaining control of his or her image. The woman or man high in narcissistic traits curates her or his public persona very carefully; appearing successful, accomplished, and together is all-important.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-support/201906/dealing-the-narcissists-smear-campaign
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Yes, much like John Howard Griffin or that dude in the 80s movie Soul Man, Kamala Harris turned black.
I think we as a society have collectively repressed the memory of that movie
It was in heavy rotation on one of the movie channels for a while when I was a kid (my dad was a movie historian, so we had HBO, Cinemax and Showtime so he could tape movies to show to class) and also Rae Dawn Chong is in it and I was horny and like 12.
also Rae Dawn Chong is in it and I was horny and like 12.
Sounds like our ages are within a few years of each other. She was not the only reason I liked Beat Street, but it didn't hurt.
FWIW, I rewatched Beat Street a few months ago, with a little bit of fear that I'd find one of my old favorites was actually unwatchable drek.
Nope. I know it wasn't an oscar winner, and maybe I'm one of like 15 people who think this, but that movie still slaps, and I appreciated some of the commentary far more deeply with a few more decades behind me.
Also Rae Dawn Chong.
I wanted them to say something along the lines of "Mr. President, that's racist! The words you are speaking are racist!"
Once you turn black...
What a fucking disaster. He acts like someone who has this election on lock.
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