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I'm so fucking confused. Trump usually has good insults that actually stick. But literally nothing is sticking. All of Trump's insults vs Kamala though are so lame.
I'm pretty happy about this though. Trump workshopping insults and shot gunning his incompetence and inability to actually pull Kamala down is great for everyone.
"Lying Ted Cruz" worked fine. Except "Lying Kamala" is obviously just recycling an old insult and speaks more to Trump's limited vocabulary rather than something good. Etc. etc. etc. I'm sure Trump will eventually find something and run with it, but... crazy to see him fail at workshopping a response when he's literally had years to prepare an obvious insult for Kamala.
Making fun of name pronunciation makes it sound like Trump is a 78 year old who can't learn how to say a name. This is NOT the path Trump wants to go. Kamala isn't even an exotic or difficult to say name.
I'm honestly surprised he has so little. I mean, not to give that piece of shit ideas, but "Commie Kamala" is right there. Even "Crooked Kamala" would work better than what he's tried.
I saw a clip of him where he called her "Laffin' Kamala" and then stopped to specify that he was spelling it L-A-F-F-I-N-apostrophe. It's hard to remember last time I felt so much cringe.
As much as everyone was making fun of Bidens loss of function (which... Biden always tripped up over words. He always was a bad speaker)... Trumps wit has visibly declined over the recent years.
It's possible that Trump just can't come up with a reasonable insult due to his advanced age. IMO, Trumps signs of aging are worse than even Bidens.
Crooked was Hilary Clintons nickname. So same problem as Lying: it is proof of Trumps small vocabulary if he recycles an insult.
To be fair, he thought he was spelling it correctly.
Unfortunately the (lack of) cleverness matters little when his zealots/cultists started wearing adult diapers in public because "real men wear diapers" or something.
We don't need to target the zealots.
All that matters is changing the mind of the 10% or so independents. And secondly, making sure there is enough enthusiasm for the Democrats to actually come out and fucking vote.