• @rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    His campaign managers are concerned he would say that publicly? Why?! Why do we still act like his cultists would be bothered? Why do we act like they have a fraction of humility and demeanour left in their bodies? They would love to hear that. Where the fuck have you been the last 8 years? Did you pay any attention?

    • @grte@lemmy.ca
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      The issue they have is, Trump can’t win with just his base. He needs to appeal to at least some percentage of voters outside of that group. It seems like he’s been doing everything he can to push anyone who isn’t already all in on him away since Biden stepped down.

      • FundMECFSOP
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        629 months ago

        And yet Harris is only 2% in the lead.

        America is a fucked up country. I pray for y’all.

          • FundMECFSOP
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            According to an interesting book I read a couple years ago called american nations, more like 9

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                I used to be in favour of a federal europe until I saw America go to shit with Trump elected in 2016.

                Now I’m more ambivalent. The confederation model sounds better…

                (Confederation is an alliance where members retain sovriginity) Not talking about the US confederacy

                • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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                  Half the reason Trump succeeds as much as he does is due to designed corruption at the state level. Republicans grabbing local elections and using them to upend the system. From psychotic school boards to regressive judges to grandstanding attorneys general.

        • nifty
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          159 months ago

          Trump has never won the popular vote, his 2016 victory was based on highly gerrymandered areas with low populations and a high number of electoral votes. America is being held hostage by wealthy donors.

          • FundMECFSOP
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            Yet he was leading in popular vote pols for a solid 9 months before Biden dropped out. If Biden had stayed, he would likely have won the popular vote.

            • nifty
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              We’ll never know, the only “poll” which matters is the election.

              • FundMECFSOP
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                A poll is just an estimate. Obviously we will never know. But were the election held a couple months ago (vs Biden) Trump would have about an 85% chance of winning according to the best statistical models. (Source: used to work as data scientist for a major pollster and obsess over this stuff for fun)

        • don
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          I pray for y’all.

          The US already has millions of Christians.

          • FundMECFSOP
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            Well Biden was 2 points behind if you want to compare

    • tate
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      They aren’t worried about alienating his base. They don’t want to galvanize hers.

    • Orbituary
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      129 months ago

      They don’t care if he says it. They just care if he gets caught saying it. Big distinction. They know their candidate is a racist shit bag.

    • Riskable
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      109 months ago

      “That is not language President Trump has used to describe Kamala, and it’s not how the campaign would characterize her.”

      The most interesting thing about this statement is they have set Trump up to fail. Because you know he’s going to say that into a microphone at some point during this campaign.

    • @Wiz@midwest.social
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      109 months ago

      “It’s ok. He says negative things about a lot of people.”

      This is the excuse I got when I pointed out video of TFG mocking the disabled reporter to a die-hard Trumper. Also, she has a kid with Downs. Still didn’t break the Trump spell over her. She used to be normal.

  • @originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
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    The GOP openly accuses the left of being literal demons who sacrifice babies to Satan. J.D. Vance wrote the foreword for a book called Unhuman that, again, accuses democrats of literally being demons. We’re past the point of decorum.

  • Flying Squid
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    Well sure. He wouldn’t have called her the N-word yet. She just became black.

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        Doctor delivering a black baby: “Well ain’t you just the cutest little fella!”

        A timer goes off in the background.

        “Get a job, n-!”

  • jay
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    549 months ago

    So, should Kamala play into this by walking out to the podium at her next rally to Meredith Brooks’s “Bitch” to troll Trump?

  • magnetosphere
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    289 months ago

    Since this was said “in private”, it doesn’t seem like a very big deal (especially compared to things he’s said in public).

    I would imagine that every candidate in history has insulted their opponent in private.

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      Probably yes, and I don’t necessarily blame them, everyone has to blow off steam

      But the choice of language is worth considering

      Maybe I’m more politically correct than I like to give myself credit for, but I curse like a sailor, and I still don’t tend to call anyone a bitch, male or female. I’ll call them a asshole, moron, idiot, motherfucker, piece of shit, lazy, a fascist loofah-faced shit-gibbon, worthless low-down good-for-nothing greedy bastard, waste of space/oxygen/carbon, dirtbag, sleazeball, whiney, shit-head, coward, dumbass, creep, weirdo, pervert, dumb, two-faced, spineless, and countless other insults, they’re all on the table, and I’ll wish all kinds of unpleasantness on them up to and including death.

      But bitch (and also cunt) is kind of an inherently gendered insult. I don’t consider being a woman to be a bad thing, so I don’t use those words, even behind closed doors. Same way I don’t use slurs against LGBTQ people, different races and ethnicities, people with disabilities, etc. those don’t ring true to me as insults so I don’t use them as insults.

      And I think the fact he does use that kind of insult shows a lot about how he thinks.

      • magnetosphere
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        True. When it comes to Trump, though, my expectations are already incredibly low. He called members of the KKK “very fine people” while he was serving as President. The bar is on the floor when it comes to this guy.

      • Kinda maybe.

        Bitch & bastard are gendered insults, but does using them make one sexist? It’s subjective and dependent on the intent of the user.

        We already know that Trump is misogynistic, as well as a litany of other traits and circumstances that make him completely inappropriate to be POTUS.

        We should focus on those factual issues rather than engage in supposition about Trumps intent regarding something he may have said in private.

    • Pandantic [they/them]
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      79 months ago

      At his Mar-a-Lago news conference on Thursday, he asserted Harris is “not smart enough to do a news conference.”

  • DrSleepless
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    279 months ago

    “Bitchy Kamala, that’s b-I-t-c-h-y Kamala thinks I’m weird. “

    • Flying Squid
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      109 months ago

      Oh, I’m sure he has plenty of other disgusting, misogynistic terms.

  • nifty
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    89 months ago

    Just sounds like narcissistic rage to me, Harris should respond by telling Americans that they deserve a leader with better judgment and impulse control