1y ago

This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared

www.theatlantic.com

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All those young women who didn't want to choose between old white guys now have a choice: someone who stands up for choice.
And you're going to have to debate a prosecutor.
You're going to look so weak and whiny either way.
You just had your best month.
It's all downhill from here.
And someday, not soon, but sooner than you want, you're going to hear more Guilty verdicts.
And despite the bandage on your ear, you're going to hear that loud clang when the cell door shuts.
Best of all, you'll be on the hard, small side of that door.
Alone.
- I'm amused at the notion that Trump's "best month" includes getting shot at. I hope you're right and that all the rest of his months are worse than that!
  
  Trump getting shot is the literal high point of his campaign. There will not be another event that had so much potential to turn his campaign around. If that demented diaper shitting fucknugget can't even get a sympathetic bump from getting a ballistic ear piercing, his campaign is doomed. Especially since his rhetoric change didn't last 20 minutes.
- Reading this gave me good feels, thanks for the morning endorphins.
- Kamala does seem like the type that would go hard on those fuckers if she gets in. Lets hope.
  
  As hard as she went on the prisoners she refused to release when their time was up? Or as hard as she did on truancy?
- Oh my lord. That was beautiful.
- And you're going to have to debate a prosecutor.
  Everyone seems really enthusiastic about the prospect of another debate, but I don't think Trump agrees to another debate. Why would he?
  
  Harris just needs to tell everyone he's afraid to debate her.
  His ego won't take it.
  
  Yeah, he won't. The question is how much and in what way he bluffs. I'm sure his campaign is calculating how long he can wait to cancel before the debate time, without TV stations running the time slot anyway with just Harris.
  
  I'd like to see it personally. But you're right, it might not happen, he's already whining that he won't do it unless the venue is changed from. ABC to Fox News. We'll see what happens though.
  
  It’s already on the books for Sept 10. If Donny turns tail, Kamala just gets an open platform with the whole country watching to lay out her platform and point out Trump isn’t there because he is incapable of forming a plan he can stand up and defend.
  It’s a win-win for her, no matter what he does. His only hope is to play the game and not look like a fool…. Is that possible?
  
  Ego.
- Should we review her record as a prosecutor?
  
  As Putin would have it, it shall be done
- someone who stands up for choice.
  The someone who failed to codify roe when he had a majority and has done fuckall except campaign on it since?
  debate a prosecutor.
  Trump's staff would never agree to such a debate, they have to know his brain is nearly as mushy as Biden's. Then again, I'm usually only surprised by malice or incompetence, which isn't exactly in short supply over there.
  It’s all downhill from here.
  The dems barely scraped by in 2020, and that's with everyone thinking they're gonna get the most progressive president since FDR.
  Instead they got an end to covid protections, quadrupling child poverty, more immigrants arrested than Trump, a genocide, and kids beaten up for protesting that genocide, each of which will decrease turnout among democratic constituencies.
  Best of all, you’ll be on the hard, small side of that door.
  When you were a kid, how many years did you watch scooby doo before figuring out that the monster is always some guy with a mask?
  We been hearing this story for literally 10 years at this point. It always plays out the same, trump is either found innocent or gets a slap on the wrist and it has no effect on the right-wing's political influence.
  If they were gonna lock him up to stop him from campaigning as effectively, the time to do it was months ago
  
  I have to say I was against replacing Biden, but seeing how salty some of the want-to-kill-America crowd is getting about it, I am starting to warm significantly to Harris
  
  failed to codify roe when he
  mushy as Biden's
  Looks like somebody didn't get the updated script yet.
  
  "Awfully skittish, Toombs."
  Truly, this copium gives me even more hopium. Thank you.
  Anyways bystanders observe the immediate tactical pivot to sowing apathy and defeatism.
  
  Everyone thinking we'd get the most progressive president since FDR?! What are you smoking. I don't know a single progressive that thought Biden was a progressive
She'd better start at 150%, going out the gate guns blazing, sights focused on being louder than the Republicans are used to.
The Dems are too soft spoken; they need to be more fierce, especially against the trump party of the last few years.
- I hate to engage in stereotype, but I really hope Kamala Harris plays up the black woman trope of being vocal and adamant about calling out the bullshit they know everyone can see. We've had too many white male presidents who embody the white male trope of failing upwards.
  
  That would be really interesting and fun to watch. But cue the "You see this angry black woman 🖐️, typical black woman, we all know it 🫲🫱, totally unhinged👌, imagine the damage she would do, clearly 🫲🫱 unfit to be president."
  
  I think in this case it would be flexing her DA skills.
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- the messaging, the advertising, the microtargeting, the ground game, the mail pieces, the digital engagement, the social-media maneuvers—was designed to defeat Joe Biden. Even the selection of Ohio’s Senator J. D. Vance as Trump’s running mate, campaign officials acknowledged, was something of a luxury meant to run up margins with the base in a blowout rather than persuade swing voters in a nail-biter.
  The mentality of this Trump campaign, LaCivita once told me, is to spend every day on offense. The team wants to shape the pace and substance of every news cycle and force Democrats to react, ensuring that key battles are fought on the GOP’s chosen terrain. It worked so well that Biden was ruined before his party’s convention. Now the Trump operation is vowing to destroy Harris—if, in fact, she becomes the nominee—in much the same way.
  And yet, for a campaign that went to bed Saturday believing that it would dictate the terms of the election every day until November 5, Sunday brought an unfamiliar feeling of powerlessness. For the first time in a long time, Trump does not control the narrative of 2024.
- Here ya go.
Good. Fuckem. Live in fear, and hopefully, in a supermax in the near future.
Man, I hope he falls back into his victim role and can't get out anymore. 100% of this man is charisma for some reason.

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