Heather Cox Richardson points to what the Harris campaign says as Trump tries to weasel out of debating Harris:
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to JohnW on last edited by
@the_Effekt I do continue to think that our throwaway society is especially savage when it comes to elderly people, who can have so much to offer all of us, when they're valued and their lives are made secure and comfortable in their senior years.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by [email protected]
"I don’t think that even the outlets that recognize the troll are giving the Kamala Harris campaign enough credit for the jujitsu they’re engaged in with the debate. …
Because of a decision Joe Biden made, Donald Trump has lost the ability to choose whether he wants to face someone like Kamala Harris."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate
/6Kamala's Campaign Pushes Trump's Impulse Control Problems - emptywheel
Kamala Harris' campaign has started to play with Trump's impulse control. The debate over the debate is only the latest example.
emptywheel (www.emptywheel.net)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
"And he’s stuck: The thing his MAGAts like about him is his spontaneous riffs, many of which rely on the humiliation of others. But if he calls the Vice President the N-word or bitch publicly, it’ll further sink him in the polls.
At least from the moment that Kamala started to put on campaign events that Trump would love to pull off, the campaign has been damaging Trump’s ego."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
"Undoubtedly Michelle and Barack Obama (among others) made that worse at the DNC. And all that makes some outburst that could doom his campaign more likely."
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Guitarsophistreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy I think we have already learned that nothing Trump says or does can doom his campaign. His only possible sin for MAGA is to be boring. That might be happening, but right now it is only happening for his rally goers. If he falls asleep at the debate, that might move the needle a little. If he uses offensive words, that might excite the base a little because it's not boring. Yet.
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🇺🇸My Head’s Exploding🤯replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to 🇺🇸My Head’s Exploding🤯 on last edited by
@leswarden Let's hope! A good analogy.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Guitarsophist on last edited by
@jredlund I think the people the Harris campaign is strategizing to win, if possible, are the so-called "undecideds."
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RoundSparrow 🐦replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy "Trump seems to have little interest in doing the actual work of campaigning, instead swinging between grievance-filled rants and flat recitations of his apocalyptic worldview, trying to stay in the center of public consciousness"
Here we are in 2024 & people still can't make sense of how hard Trump compulsively engages Kremlin Surkov style of media. #PeterPomerantsev has books since 2014 and we still act as if Russia #KremlinMediaTechniques don't exist
The Hidden Author of Putinism
How Vladislav Surkov invented the new Russia
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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RoundSparrow 🐦replied to RoundSparrow 🐦 last edited by
@wdlindsy Trump does this all the time since 2013, his #SurkovShuffle of back and forth emotional keyword flinging isn't ONLY during election years. It is every single year he walks up to any media platform, be it video verbal or Twitter Unicode messaging!
It also is not only Trump, there are millions upon millions of people in USA who can not deconstruct the mechanics of #QAnon - nor Rupert Murdoch media and how #ElonMusk is operating X! It isn't just a single person engaging these techniques.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to RoundSparrow 🐦 last edited by
@RoundSparrow You're correct.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to RoundSparrow 🐦 last edited by
@RoundSparrow I suspect there's far less rationality and planning in Trump's constant tirades of verbal diarrhea than this might suggest.
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RoundSparrow 🐦replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy "I suspect there's far less rationality and planning in Trump's constant tirades of verbal diarrhea than this might suggest."
Are you confusing the author / screen play writer with the person under the influence? I'm not saying Trump is a mastermind. Nor are his millions of people who are in a media cult, a cult of media messages.
Trump is the local Status Symbol, he is the disco ball that spins around, but the influenced are in the (hundreds of) millions of people, not his family.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to RoundSparrow 🐦 last edited by
@RoundSparrow Thank you for clarifying your point. I had misread what you wrote, as you suggest.