Good 🧵from @emptywheel: 1/..
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Good 🧵from @emptywheel: 1/..
I'm trying to decide whether it's fair to use the term "dick-wag" w/VP #Harris.
Headlines, "Harris accepts CNN debate invite" are as wildly inaccurate as headlines, "#Trump accepts Fox News invite," were.
Accurate headline would be: "Harris goads Trump to do CNN debate."
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@emptywheel 2/ This effort is being led (well) by Brian Fallon. When he was similarly doing negotiations for the ABC debate, journos couldn't shake their Trump-centric View of All Things to report accurately on what Fallon was doing, and so missed it.
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@emptywheel 3/ But this effort is similar (and Fallon is playing the press just like he did before).
BIG HEADLINES: KAMALA AGREES TO ADDITIONAL DEBATE.
Trump: We can't debate, I'm a chickenshit too busy trying to change the rules, so I'll say votes are already being cast.
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@emptywheel 4/ Thing is, and this is what Trump-centric View of All Things is incapable of reporting: Goading has no downside.
Either you get a 2nd debate (unlikely, bc Trump might lose even worse), or you make Trump look weak, which leads him to do Stupid Things.
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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊replied to Laffy last edited by
Perhaps one of my favourite parts of all this is that, when Biden was the presumptive candidate -- being the incumbent and all -- a debate was a no-win for him. Trump would clomp onto the stage and fling shit, and Biden's calm responses would be decried because of a stutter or his age. In contrast, Harris' fire, smirks, and thinly-veiled taunts render this a no-win for Trump, a man whose bluster and bluff no longer cover up the clear fact that he's a weak, ineffectual, incompetent puppet.
The Harris campaign's message right now is attack, ridicule, belittle, and educate -- and it's working very, very well. The Republicans, coming off a diet where the Democrats are always 'above reproach' in their game, don't know what to do with someone else wearing rhetorical brass knuckles.
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 last edited by
@theogrin @GottaLaff @emptywheel
Well said