Reminds me of this, when the insult is too funny to garner sympathy

A secret trick that dumb liberals who performatively denounce "mud-slinging" overlook is that if your insult to your opponent is undeniably funny or resonant, they cannot repeat it to shame you because it will get more people to laugh at them than to be outraged on their behalf.

The RNC recently tried to attack Kamala by showing a clip of her laughing at Trump being called the r-slur, but too many people get why Trump would be called that, and the "how dare she" responses were overpowered by responses saying "based."

This is also why the Vance couch cushions bit is effective, there is no way to condemn that insult by name without humiliating yourself more than you shame your insulters.

I have never rooted for two people on TV to kiss until now

Damn Amber Rose going from being in the Mask Off video to this is like if The Rock started doing that slap fight show.

Edit: The hiphopheads reddit is not feeling it https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/1drhswp/mayor_of_magaville_trump_trump_baby_starring/

If Trump is an existential threat to democracy and minority groups, maybe betting on stopping him through procedure amidst the courts he himself rigged is a stupid and short sighted plan.

The smart thing Democrats won't do now is only ever mention that the shooter was a Republican in unison on every media appearance and have their framing be that Trump's rhetoric is so dangerous it's even hurting him. Dems are too scared of doing things like this that actually work and would force the GOP to exhaust their resources trying to counter message on an issue unrelated to actual governing.

I want to punch the Twitter sycophants who will inevitably say something like "he simply meant he was proud to nominate the first black woman Supreme Court justice and serve as VP to the first black president."

The ability to communicate with absolute clarity and avoid being taken out of context by a sensationalism-hungry media is a mandatory skill for a politician, and to expect any benefit of the doubt for any elected official is amateur hour and means you have already lost your fight.

They cut a bunch of her stuff out of the doc, they just wanted to use her as a trans millennial face

Holy fuck why would they allow this to leak out about a guy their opponent has been calling "Sleepy Joe" since 2019

This is what West Wing brain gets you. The behind the scenes report about Biden was that he said he was going to help Israel without any consideration for how it would hurt his approval ratings, or whether Netanyahu would even show gratitude, because it was The Right Thing to Do ™. He probably pictured himself as Jed Bartlett and came his slacks while saying that, and now he's finally in a refractory period, sitting in the mess he's made on himself.

Trump: So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and he said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’ By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that, a lot of sharks? I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what who she was.’ These people are crazy. He said there’s no problem with sharks. ‘They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now.’ It really got decimated and other people do a lot of shark attacks. So I said, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.” I said, ‘I think it’s a good question.’ I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water. But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that.

Biden: leans forward, causing an eyeball to fall out

I may sound a bit chauvinistic here, but the Democrats seem like they have completely stopped factoring in how weak this ordeal has made Biden look in the traditional sense. Although in an ideal world we would not ascribe so much value to perceptions of dominance and "alpha" status, in the eyes of non sycophant general voters this ordeal of Biden moving heaven and earth for Israel only to have Bibi still attack him for not doing enough absolutely makes Biden look bitchmade, and therefore unfit to lead.