NYT op-ed: To close the deal - Kamala needs to add housing affordability & healthcare to her joy layer cake, keep using influencers & entertainers as joy proxies, & let the folks get to know her more. (hexbear.net)

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Opinion | ‘Joy’ Is Working for Harris, but Can It Close the Deal? - The New York Times

By Charles M. Blow

It must be awesome to be a NYT columnist. You brain shart out any old shitpost every couple weeks to build your brand, go on MSNBC to build your brand, appear in other media (podcasts?) to build your brand, write a book to capitalize on your brand. Repeat.

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[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Harris has run a remarkable race, one truncated by the historic route by which she became her party’s nominee. But now she must finish it in the way many longer campaigns begin: by prioritizing retail politics that win over the reluctant.

historic route? you mean the whole country and world watching the sitting president and incumbent candidate have his brain be shit out of his nose and ears on live television? and then him throw geriatric tantrums about dropping out for weeks until their billionaire financiers pulled their funds, and her being jimmied into his place so they wouldn't run afoul to campaign finance laws?

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago

I have MSNBC family and the amount of denial they had over Biden until the debate was incredible. And I kept pointing it out and they'd tell me it wasn't that bad. While he's out there getting petulant and belligerent with journalists asking slightly difficult questions and the infamous "whywhywhywhywhy" moment. And they're not stupid people my mom was a teacher for Christ's sake. But they're misled and informed by media cretins exactly like this fucker here. They see him visibly deteriorating and sputtering like an old dog with hip dysplasia. And then the debate and he gets whisked away and Harris can be the savior. And my folks were talking about it and saying "wow Joe has gotten worse" gotten? He's been worse! He just finally fed to you as something more than a 19 second clip where he still has trouble with words to "deficit" but they cherry picked it

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Even Nancy Pelosi was pushing him to drop out. I don't know how anyone could ignore it with that too.

And my folks were talking about it and saying "wow Joe has gotten worse" gotten? He's been worse!

Gotta love the liberal ability to situate themselves firmly one one side of an issue then when it becomes unignorable they were on the wrong side of it to pretend they weren't on that side or even pretend they were on the other side of that issue the whole time.

Also fun fact the imperialist Trilateral Commission ghoul behind the proxy "Afghanistan trap" against the Soviets Zbigniew Brzezinski's daughter is on MSNBC's Morning Joe talking to everyone's mom (or for a long time was, idk I don't watch it). She brought him on once to celebrate his "achievements." His son is also Biden's ambassador to Poland during this Ukraine proxy war (funny that)