My bold, but it’s probably a better description than an institute of higher learning.
As a general matter, I’d suggest she steer clear of too many specifics. Should be sufficient to say expect to continue the current programs, and adapt to changing circumstances. Unless there are specific distinctions she really wishes to draw.
Offering specific proposals simply gives clearer fodder for attacks, and subsequent criticism when they are not achieved. Stick to a general message of positivity, inclusiveness, and forward-looking, and emphasize how that contrasts w/ the Repubs.
Whereas I keep hearing The Road to Shambala.
That’s the WiFi password.
I thought that Kamabla was short for KamaBLACK she’s BLACK and we can’t vote for KamaBLACK! But maybe he isn’t as disgustingly racist as I think.
He is. I mean, this was still likely just a typo, but he’s definitely racist.
No, he’s clearly doing it on purpose. I can’t imagine why he thinks it’ll be effective, other than hoping he can make the election be strictly about her ethnicity, and harp on whatever DEI transgressions he can capitalize on with the electorate.
Our ensemble plays 10 miniature by the composer Chaminade. Every time someone suggests we play them, “How does your light shine” goes off in my head.
I think that to the extent there’s any thought process about it at all, it’s “She has a weird name! That name isn’t a “RealAmerican™” Anglo-Saxon name! I want to call attention to how Other she is!”
Though, as a businessman, it’s bizarre that he keeps repeating it.
It’s more strange than insulting, and repetition is a major key to advertising.
The “Barack Hussein Obama” bit was effective because they didn’t need a lot of effort associating his middle name with something foreign.
For anybody susceptible to that sort of thing, there’s not any effective difference between Kamala and Kamabla. Otherwise, it looks more like a repeated typo than deliberate name calling.
Polling is better, but I would not say “good”.
There is a pro Harris song on Youtube to the tune of Shambala.
Kamabla sounds like how a drunk would say Kamala.
That’s a point.
Maybe what he’s trying to get across is ‘her name’s too strange to pronounce’?
Though in that case you’d think he’d keep changing the pronunciation.
Maybe he just got it wrong, and all his followers are mindlessly following as he makes less and less sense; like the followers of Nuggan in Pratchett.
I begin to wonder whether the Individual-ONE campaign’s strategy of 10 days of silence after the debate while the Democrats roiled over the condition of Joe the President was an extremely bad move. For a week and a half, everyone was talking about the Democrats, basically ignoring Individual-ONE. Then the shambling farce of the Republican convention took place, and right on its heels, Joe dropped the big one on them. That long vacuum ahead of the convention muffled any bounce it was going to get, and then the Republicans got hit, and hit hard.
This is a thing the Harris/Walz campaign absolutely must pay attention to. Do not give the opposition any space that way. They have to keep this thing moving forward, hard. It is the only way for them to pull in more support.
A thought I’ve had several times recently is that the dems should make more hay of the number of Trump insiders/cabinet members/etc who are actively opposing him. I think that’s the kind of fact that could really get through to the (small number of bafflingly) undecided voters. Like, anything positive that we can say about Harris/Walz, or anything negative we can say about Trump/Vance, can just be waved away as partisan nonsense. And, honestly, it makes some general cynical sense to have an attitude like that, in general, although it’s misplaced here.
But… the people who actually WORKED with/for Trump know him in a way that transcends both-sides-talking-heads.
I’m sure it’s in the works or already on the shelf, waiting for the best time. Start with Trump saying he’ll hire only the best people, then have one after another saying he’s a fucking moron, etc.
And she didn’t even have to tell the audience to beat them up!
Not really, if you remember he’s a terrible businessman who can’t even make a casino profitable.
Figure out what a good businessman would do, he won’t do that.
Can’t watch it now-can you summarize?
She cuts off a heckler with “If you want Donald Trump to win, then go ahead, but rigbt now I am speaking.”
And the crowd goes wild.