Kamala Harris gets it. Yes, we should fear Trump—but we should also mock him mercilessly, because it drives him nuts.
Donald Trump is in free-fall. Read this description from Sunday’s Washington Post of how the GOP nominee spent last week: “[A]ides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry, and then just golfing all day and stewing, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions. Trump also had grown annoyed with the news coverage that depicted him as not working as hard as his opponent, one person who talked to him said.”
If you didn’t know that the article was about Trump and you just read it cold without knowledge of the context, you might think it was a description of parents trying to figure out how to handle an ungovernable four-year-old. So they convinced Trump to get out of Bedminster and hit the road, trading suck-ups with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the past, Trump has called Kennedy the “dumbest member” of the Kennedy family and a “radical left lunatic.” Kennedy has calledTrump a “terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath.”
I feel like there’s an old school, ancient parable about laughing at the monster to make it go away that I’m trying to remember
It was something on the Vikings’ radar. They often used to settle differences with a slagging match. I think they also had guys who would mock the enemy prior to battle to affect morale.
The Vikings invented rap battles?
Yep, look up “Flyting”
They invented lots of battles
I hear if you splash water on him he melts.
But he’s orange, not green.
Yeah, but it’s just paint.
So throw “The Dip” from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” at him.
He doesn’t have enough of a sense of humour to be a toon.
but he’s salty
We’ve known this all along, but these are Democrats we’re talking about, so they have to try all the overcomplicated ineffective shit first.
It would be nice if it didn’t take all this time to go on the offensive lol. Dems always let the GOP position themselves as rational no matter what.
We should be paying far more attention to picking candidates who are able to attack and defend themselves. We focus on their history and what they say about what they’re going to do which of course never actually happens not holy their own fault though. We need to pick our candidates more like picking lawyers.
but we’ve been doing that since 2016
Why are they a month late? I feel like it has been a thousand years since we learned that calling the chuds “weird” was the magic bullet.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/185270/democrats-harris-trump-achilles-heel-ridicule
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/24/trump-energy-campaign-harris/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/24/kennedy-trump-endorsement-environmental-issues/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/08/23/rfk-jr-endorses-trump-after-calling-him-sociopath—his-reversal-explained/“Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated… but we are initiated, aren’t we Don?”
“Stop calling me that!”
Crybaby bitch.
Christ. He’s so obviously bald up top, what a fucking ridiculous combover.
“She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate—a contained island after scalp-reduction surgery—surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-reveals-the-truth-about-trumps-hairand-mocks-it-too
“Bury her body on my golf course and let the grave become overgrown.”
She often described the mechanics behind it to friends
I’m gonna choose to believe that was a misattributed source. Description of the hair? Not an expert but doesn’t sound wrong. Her daughter frequently describing the hair? Uhhhh
It actually looks more normal of late. Still obviously fake but not in such an absurd style as it used to be.
“The news is saying I don’t work as hard as my opponent. You know what I’ll go do? Golf some. That will show them how hard I work.”
Every time i have a dumb idea i just have to remember there is always a bigger idiot in the world. That always makes me feel better.
Mockery is a bad thing except maybe against actual totalitarian dictators (but then maybe their danger should be shown honestly, not mocked). Mocking people overrides rational arguments.
Also they mock whole nations when those are under threat. A lot of Nazi propaganda was mockery. A lot of Azeri propaganda is mockery of Armenians (when it’s Azeri-bought Russian and Ukrainian media, direct Azeri propaganda is more about threats and gloating than mockery).
A two-edged sword. In a situation where Trump can’t win an election, maybe they shouldn’t use such poisonous means.
Nah. Democrats’ “mockery” are but gentle ribbing compared to the cuntish shit Trump spews daily.
Trump’s output is just sewage, which makes it less harmful than something which is interpreted and repeated by rather intelligent people.
Let’s please remember that the Republican party was responsible for a pole of actually valid ideologies (something like “RFK minus mental impairment”), the worst effect they have is that those ideologies are not represented by anyone practically electable. What they replace them with is the second worst effect.
Mockery by its essence may very easily spill at those ideas.
Discourse in politics should be respectful. Even if it’s not that now. That’s not touching upon the possibility of degrading into a single-party system, seeing how GOP is sinking.
We tried that, and it is failing. We need to point out how incompetent and disgusting the GOP has become.
What’s failing? Polls tell us otherwise.
And by the way, maybe they are competent. Maybe they are just fine with Dems winning the election.
Back in 2016 it was “Trump is dumb, and there’s no way Republicans would vote for him”. We mocked him while underestimating his dumbass fanbase. Now we need to directly mock Trump’s policies and attitude toward the presidency and those who support them, and not make them appear as some powerful threat (even though they are).
There was an unaccounted fanbase, yes.
What catalyzed it was them not being welcome anywhere they could blow off steam.
So maybe, again, mocking them is not the way, but on the contrary, almost a repetition of that.
Wait, you’re telling me that the man that constantly calls people names and ridiculed his Republican presidential opponents can’t take the heat?
They are just now learning this
Dems are just now learning to be mean like their opponents have been for decades
I could have told them that 10 damn years ago. Clearly these politicians were never bullied as kids.
Right? The guy is one of the most predictable people on earth because his entire being is a sucking hole of narcissism.
