When your only game plan is smearing with little thought for other ways of getting elected like...established policies, actions to favour the majority of the common voter, and long-term progressive planning.
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For some reason, whenever they talk about their actual plans and policies, the people don’t vote for them. How strange!
Attacking the other side is the only thing Trump’s camp has left.
Very different for Dems. No matter who the GOP candidate is, we know they are bad for reproductive rights, want to slash Medicare/Social Security, and cut taxes for the rich. Much easier to attack the party, rather than the person if necessary.
casting her as the puppet master in the Biden administration
Wait hold on, a couple days ago I was being told how Biden personally allowed the "illegals" to come in and steal all of our jobs. Weird.
Yeah he went from being a senile old grandpa who could barely string a sentence together to the mastermind behind a presidential assasination and back again within the space of a week lol.
Good old #8 on Umberto Eco's definition of fascism.
'Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak"'
That's why they have to question her birth certificate
Joe Biden was too old. Kamala is too black woman!
Is too not a rich white man
...casting her as the puppet master in the Biden administration.
I hate knowing these people so well... I already joked with my coworkers about how I "can't wait" to see them all act like she was actually the one doing everything they were mad at Biden for...
So I know logic isn't even a word in their vocabulary, but shouldn't they feel lied to if Republicans knew this whole time it was actually Kamala and they were blaming Biden? It's a dumb question I know. Even if they picked Elizabeth Warren, they'd say the exact same thing about her.
Look at it the other way, it's a loyalty test, just like The Emperor's New Clothes.
They're in a cult, part of that is the continual reinforcing of their own "reality". The enemy is simultaneously very weak and incredibly strong. Biden is calling the shots and Harris is running everything from the shadows.
These people thrive on cognitive dissonance, it's the only way they can tell if they still have neurons left firing.
We already know the response will be misogynistic and racist. They're scrambling because the game plan is predictable, old, and as tired as the GOP candidate himself.
At least they finally have to crack open the war chest on this.
It will distract them from posting his legal fees.
Old men fail to pivot quickly.
Retire, diaper Donnie. You don't belong on the stage being so frail.
Remember when politicians spoke about politics in their campaigns?
God I miss when politics were boring.
Redirect conversations about personalities, talking points, and demagogues to policy, procedure, and bills, we can make politics boring again.
Even if he loses, he won't say he lost. That alone should've disqualified him and any of his disgusting toadies from being in any election. Who would want to play any game with an opponent who said that going in?
I mean either way he's going to get placed as president. If the Supreme Court is this corrupt now and they ruled in favor of Bush in 2000, why the ever living fuck would they not now?
I genuinely believe that either the speaker will refuse to certify a Democrat winner or the Supreme Court will pull some absolute bs. Or the classic electoral college of course will pull a 2016 again.
The Lincoln Project went fast and hard on Trump LP ad
I haven't agreed with everything the Lincoln Project stands for and the presentation of some ads, but Harris is an excellent pick for both centrists and progressives and LP does well here to highlight it.
Cops are bastards but the former AG would be a much better alternative than actual convicted criminals running the country. And she ran in a state that had much better ideas on what criminal justice means than other states.
For the moderates: How can someone whose entire enterprise is the crime, be tough on crime? How can anyone who has uttered the words "rule of law" in the past 4 years want someone who has spent much of their life dodging the law over someone who had a career in enforcing it?
How can anyone who has uttered the words "rule of law" in the past 4 years want someone who has spent much of their life dodging the law over someone who had a career in enforcing it?
You misunderstand. Republicans won't come out and condemn her as "too tough on crime" directly; they'll fund attack ads and troll farms that will present her as "not progressive enough" as a way to depress progressive voter turnout.
It's not about trying to sway centrists, because even Republicans can recognize that that would look hypocritical and contradictory. It's about encouraging infighting among leftists and liberals
Finally conservatives doing something sensible and contributory
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump is scrambling to pivot his campaign against Kamala Harris, with attack ads hitting her current record in office and her past in California, according to two sources familiar with the matter, after Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 race on Sunday.
The Trump campaign is viewing Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee, especially after Biden gave his endorsement, and started preparing opposition research dossiers against her in recent weeks.
Trump-aligned political action committees such as MAGA Inc will unleash a wave of attacks against Harris, including a $5m television ad in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona, casting her as the puppet master in the Biden administration.
Harris has been vocal on abortion rights, an issue that Trump has told advisers he thinks is an electoral loser after Republicans greatly underperformed in the 2022 midterms following the US supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade.
And Harris’ past work as a prosecutor could negatively highlight Trump’s recent criminal conviction in New York on 34 felonies of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money scheme to influence the 2016 election.
Some Trump allies, including people at the influential MAGA Inc and Save America Pacs, have also noted she can be humorous at times; clips of her quirky phrases – “did you just fall out of a coconut tree” – have gone viral on TikTok and other social media sites.
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