Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

Why are they wearing hardhats behind him? Who's working overhead in the middle of a presidential candidate speech?

If Biden phoned into CNN and rambled on aimlessly for 45 minutes until the hosts cut him off, like Trump does regularly on Fox and other right wing news channels, then he'd be crucified for it in the right wing press.

Of course, the hypocrisy isn't a bug, its a feature.

The MAGA types are indoctrinated into a cult. In a cult, you are expected to be able to demonstrate extreme cognitive dissonance. Everything your leader does is good, everything they say is true, even all the things that contradict all the other things, and everything people outside the cult say about you is a vindictive lie because they are trying to prevent you from performing your mission.

The Democrats allow the conditions that caused this to happen because they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo in a 2 party system. They tolerate and enable the trumps and tea parties because to break up the duopoly would be their own demise in the medium term

It is what it is, a very slow motion car crash . It only takes one more slip by the DNC and actual fascists can overthrow democracy in the USA (and if Biden was still running, that would be much more likely this November, thats how close we are)

Can't you tell he's being sarcastic/telling a joke??

I have a video on my phone of when my son was 3 and he tried to tell me a joke that he made up himself, but didn't understand how jokes work, their structure, or context, or the concept of a punchline.. It was hilarious but not for any of the reasons he thought it was funny

I've become quite cynical with respect to the media 'mindset' which influences the journalists and presenters who work for particular organisations.

In the last 12 months we've seen a massive amount of evidence that a structured narrative is provided from organisation leadership with how the conflict in Gaza has been reported. Even the BBC has been significantly influenced by this I feel.

In the US, I think they've long fallen guilty to the mindset of 'What plays well for us' in terms of narratives that drive engagement. Maybe that's an easy accusation from someone completely on the outside.

There have been Nazi elements within the American government right back to operation paperclip. The bit that most people know about is the NASA stuff, but they imported SS types into the CIA on mass due to their perceived expertise on Russia. They never stopped been Nazis and it's not hard to find the long standing sympathies to Nazi ideology within high up elements of the Republican party.

Agreed, there is a degree of group planning in MAGA talking points, which was alot easier for them when they could successfully chip away at the perceived slowdown and decline of Biden. That was the entire plan, and then Joe ends up ruining all of that by dropping out for a younger candidate.

MAGAworld clearly didn’t have a Plan B for this, and don’t seem that good at forming an attack with the same universal reach as calling out Biden’s age. Instead they go in on her ethnicity, and in some cases her gender. There was a lot of referring to her as “Communist” or “Comrade”, and the problem with all of that is that it only plays well with people who were going to vote Trump anyway. They have no convincing argument for the middle ground voters, beyond leaning into another old chestnut; immigration.

This is despite immigration being easily thrown back at the MAGA crowd due to Donnie pressuring the GOP to block a bi-partisan bill to sort out the border. It is made known, that Donnie selfishly nerfed a measure to secure the nation, for his own selfish ends, meaning that the only attack they think they can use against her simply highlights how unsuitable Trump himself is for the role.

So we go through the daily Magic Roundabout of having to endure MAGAbots and re-regs scrambling to find some credible issue to target Harris on, and usually just end up highlighting their own blatant hypocrisy.

I’m curious how they will adapt after the debate. If Harris does at least an OK job against Trump, we may find them double-ing down on something else, or like with the “ear-piece” bombshell in the interview, they’ll invent total fiction and just run with that.

So what batsh1t lunacy has the orange cockwomble come out with in the last 24 hr?

Seems to be a daily occurrence now.

Now, try since he first signed up to social media.

Trying to make it appear like he has inflated support with unions and blue collar workers.

I watched him for 5 minutes last night.

He said that nobody knows what Kamala Harris's last name is.

It's beyond weird.