Reminds of a meme that I saw during the Trump presidency:
“This whole thing could have been avoided if someone had told Trump that Obama could hold his breath for 20 minutes.”
Well, sure, it makes OTHER people suckers and losers. But when HE does it,* of course it makes HIM a Winner and a Hero. (Why would you even question this?!?!??)
* if he did it, that is—instead of, possibly, being grazed by a piece of glass or something even less heroic.
Because they have nothing else to enrage the voters.
I was thinking more of a rusty hacksaw I could lend him.
FWIW, I heard Harris can hold hers for 22 minutes. Walz said he’s made it to 15 minutes. I bet loser Trump can’t even hold his breath for 10, because he’s a loser.
Now I’m having flashbacks to Ben Kingsley in “Lucky Number Slevin”. Or was it “House of Sand and Fog”? No wait, it was both!
As good as the movie is, the novel is even better. /hijack
Ok, what piece of pop culture did I miss?
Yep. More than one thing can be true at once.
It’s true that the conservative media’s attempt at a talking point that Kamala just speaks in word salad and platitudes is in bad faith given that:
- Their chosen candidate is far worse of course
- They have had to dishonestly edit Kamala’s responses to questions, cutting out the bits where she gets to the specifics
However, it’s also true that when she’s asked for her specific policies on the economy, she should not start her response by reciting her story about where she grew up verbatim.
Yes, she got to the policy specifics eventually, but she has to be a bit more savvy about she answers such questions in future.
Or at all. I thought it came across as contrived during the debate, and IMO it’s just a distraction. YMMV.
When I go to the grocery store, I swing by (what passes for) the newsstand to check the headlines on the few newspapers they carry. There was one just above the fold of the Wall Street Journal that said something like “Trump, Harris Economic Plans Set to Add to Deficit”. A few paragraphs in, it mentioned that Harris’s economic plan includes tax increases and cuts to other programs to pay for the spending she is proposing, and Trump’s doesn’t.
So apparently the specifics are available, and not being reported fairly.
Yep. To be clear on my position: personal stories are fine – connecting with an audience is a necessary part of campaigning, even if some of us don’t need it. But, not verbatim, not at the start of a response and not so often.
Yes and I’ve been stunned by the dishonesty even if I should be used to it by now.
On Megyn Kelly, they didn’t do something as minor as picking a misleading excerpt of Kamala’s response to a question on the economy… They actually spliced together 4 or 5 pieces, from one response, knowingly cutting out the bits where Kamala gave specific data and proposals, to then run a segment about how she just speaks in vague platitudes.
That should be illegal.
When I’ve been shown those types of things, I’ve responded “ya know that wasn’t some secret interview, you can watch the whole thing on youtube and see what he* actually said”.
*Until now, this was usually about Biden or Obama.
All of us in this thread are politics junkies. Harris is not talking to us. She’s talking to people who listen to a politician somewhere between rarely and never.
I think her tactic is perfect for them–she needs to make a “personal” connection, that she is similar to the listener, first and foremost. Specific policies are important only in the sense that she’s thought about them and they sound helpful to the listener.
This. Most people, if they hear her at all, only hear her a couple of times in passing. If she happens to say the same thing both of those times, that’s good. That’s consistency.
It’s called a stump speech. A candidate says the same speech to people who haven’t heard the speech before. It’s been a thing since candidate literally stood on a tree stump to give the speech then ride a horse to the next town.
Its similar to the teleprompter ballyhoo. Take something every candidate does, including your guy, point out that their candidate does it and say its a bad thing.
Trumps love, Kim Jong Un could help him ‘train’.
Governor Dewine of Ohio did an op-ed this morning in the NYT. He defended the Haitian community admirably, then ruined the entire column by saying that he and his wife are Trump/Vance supporters. What a fucking coward. Comments on the piece really raked him over the coals for being a wimp and kowtowing to Trump instead of completely disavowing his agenda.