Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump’s political oxygen

[Billiejeens]

LOL No wonder you love Harris - a convoluted word salad without a single point.

Gator has morphed into the internet's worst troll.

 

[Rawley]

Gator has morphed into the internet's worst troll.

Though s/he might try to even explain the "suck the oxygen out of the room" line. Didn't even try. Perhaps s/he doesn't even know what that means.

 

[Mac1958]

Aaron Rupar outlines how Harris has neutered Trump through adeptly learning from the failures of those before her. Basically letting Trump self destruct and refusing to let Trump or his unwitting dupes, the press, drive the narrative with silliness. Her campaign has been masterful. She has stayed above the fray and has let her witty social media accounts do the trolling.

Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump’s political oxygen

She's also not taking the bait from the press.

open.substack.com

Kamala Harris is succeeding in accomplishing something none of Donald Trump’s adversaries have since 2016: Turning off his political oxygen supply by refusing to engage with his manufactured spectacles of insults and taunts, or with the often wholly substance-free issues that preoccupy the press.

As last Thursday’s CNN interview of Harris and her running mate Tim Walz made clear, she’s resolutely unwilling to let the press — or Trump himself — set the agenda for her presidential campaign. In the process, she’s managed to blunt the tools Trump has repeatedly used to undermine his opponents: drawing them into responding to his schoolyard slights, and turning the media’s pursuit of purportedly “legitimate” questions about his opponents — many of them formulated by GOP partisans — into political weapons.

Harris’s refusal to engage with Trump on his terms represents a break from how Democrats traditionally have dealt with him. In related news, her favorables continue to rise while an obviously flustered Trump flails at ghosts and searches in vain for a smear campaign that will allow him to regain the initiative.

It’s hardly a coincidence that over the past several weeks, the power of the press to impact the tenor and focus of the presidential campaign — and the power of Trump to do the same — has been suddenly thrown into question. By refusing to engage with Trump’s taunts or play by journalists’ rules, Harris has upended presumptions about politics that have dominated during most of the past decade. And that’s a good thing.

Bullies thrive on getting reactions from their targets because bullies are so weak. Reactions validate them. By not engaging him in the mud, she looks like the adult in the room (which, admittedly, is not exactly a difficult task).

If she can do that, and if she can stay focused and not spiral into verbosity, she'll look pretty good. I suspect the few remaining undecideds are just hoping for a normal, decent, young enough adult for a change. Enough junior high drama.

 

[g5000]

They have been trying. As much as the press say they dont like Trump, they love him for his ratings drive.

Yep. They cannot stop themselves from feeding the troll.

 

[g5000]

My take on Trump's solution for food inflation is to lower the cost of energy and to deport millions of freeloading hungry mouths.

Yes, blame the darkies for every problem like you and Trump always do.

What incredible ignorance.

 

[candycorn]

Aaron Rupar outlines how Harris has neutered Trump through adeptly learning from the failures of those before her. Basically letting Trump self destruct and refusing to let Trump or his unwitting dupes, the press, drive the narrative with silliness. Her campaign has been masterful. She has stayed above the fray and has let her witty social media accounts do the trolling.

Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump’s political oxygen

She's also not taking the bait from the press.

open.substack.com

Kamala Harris is succeeding in accomplishing something none of Donald Trump’s adversaries have since 2016: Turning off his political oxygen supply by refusing to engage with his manufactured spectacles of insults and taunts, or with the often wholly substance-free issues that preoccupy the press.

As last Thursday’s CNN interview of Harris and her running mate Tim Walz made clear, she’s resolutely unwilling to let the press — or Trump himself — set the agenda for her presidential campaign. In the process, she’s managed to blunt the tools Trump has repeatedly used to undermine his opponents: drawing them into responding to his schoolyard slights, and turning the media’s pursuit of purportedly “legitimate” questions about his opponents — many of them formulated by GOP partisans — into political weapons.

Harris’s refusal to engage with Trump on his terms represents a break from how Democrats traditionally have dealt with him. In related news, her favorables continue to rise while an obviously flustered Trump flails at ghosts and searches in vain for a smear campaign that will allow him to regain the initiative.

It’s hardly a coincidence that over the past several weeks, the power of the press to impact the tenor and focus of the presidential campaign — and the power of Trump to do the same — has been suddenly thrown into question. By refusing to engage with Trump’s taunts or play by journalists’ rules, Harris has upended presumptions about politics that have dominated during most of the past decade. And that’s a good thing.

Well, on one hand yes..congrats to the Harris team for playing it perfectly. Trump’s all-anger/all-the-time strategy has a key flaw. If you’re running that offense against Mitt Romney or Joe Biden it does well. Entitled (or seemingly entitled) rich white guys are good foils for the populist message and he can call them every name in the book. You portray yourself as “average” and for the working class. And his supporters eat it up.

Trump can’t run the offense (pun intended) he wants to run against a black woman. The misogyny and racism he (and most of his supporters) want to unleash can’t be explained away. And, what’s worse for the blob, is that if you want to say Joe Biden is on drugs, you can get surrogates to do that for you:

https://jackson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2110

You’re not going to find too many surrogates who want to start hurling the racial slurs or saying degrading things about women. They have their own careers to think about.

On the other hand...

Nothing else has worked for those who have engaged with the blob--regardless of party or profession. Megan Kelly said fact checking the blob is like trying to nail jello to the wall. Somehow she still supports him....because there is no where else for her to go. So kudos again to the Harris team but really--the strategy was pretty self evident.

PS: It’s also saving them a lot of money and lets them stay on message to not get into the mud with Trump.

 

[g5000]

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So you disagree with facts that even NBC, LA Times and CNN have acknowledged.

'Ghost criminals': How Venezuelan gang members are slipping into the U.S.

Cases linked to Tren de Aragua, including sex trafficking and a shooting, show how hard it is for border agents to vet migrants from nations that won't provide criminal background info.

www.nbcnews.com

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/09/us/tren-de-aragua-venezuela-gang/index.html

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U.S. sanctions Venezuela gang for spreading criminal activity across Latin America

The U.S. is offering a $12 million reward for the arrest of the leaders of Tren de Aragua gang it deems a transnational criminal organization.

www.latimes.com

So long as Americans keep demanding drugs, criminal gangs will be happy to provide.

Yet we didn't jail a single American pharmaceutical executive responsible for kicking off the opioid crisis.

Instead, Trump hired a guy who disarmed the DEA's fight against opioids as his drug czar!

Those darned Venezuelans!

 

[g5000]

the economy didn't crash before they got here, so it won't afterward

They have always been here.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

More Aware If You're Right There

The Donald backs up his statements with anecdotes about them that he's actually experienced in person rather than reading shallow second-hand accounts about the real world. He's showing that he's actually been around in high places rather than having experiences derived from the Beltway echo chamber and superficial media interpretations of reality.

Too bad I can't believe a word out of his orange gaping maw.

 

[kyzr]

Yes, blame the darkies for every problem like you and Trump always do.
What incredible ignorance.

1. What "darkies"? I'm blaming illegals who are being "kept" in luxury hotels with our tax dollars.
2. I blame Biden and Kamala for breaking US immigration laws.
3. Ignorance is thinking that letting 12,000,000 illegals into the US will end well.
4. Tell these "darkies" to suck it the fuck up

 

[g5000]

More Aware If You're Right There

The Donald backs up his statements with anecdotes about them that he's actually experienced in person rather than reading shallow second-hand accounts about the real world. He's showing that he's actually been around in high places rather than having experiences derived from the Beltway echo chamber and superficial media interpretations of reality.

See, this is precisely the problem. Trump does not provide EVIDENCE. He just makes shit up, and you weak-minded rubes drink it all in.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

What "darkies"? I'm blaming illegals who are being "kept" in luxury hotels with our tax dollars.

Well there's a stupid lie.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I blame Biden and Kamala for breaking US immigration laws.

And there's another stupid lie.

 

[g5000]

We disagree. Most illegals don't work or pay taxes. They probably steal more than they buy.
Deport them and grocery costs drop, less demand.

I'm sure in your shriveled little mind, this is all true.

Sadly for you, out here in the real world, it is complete bullshit.

If you stopped to THINK for two fricking seconds, you would realize the last thing an illegal immigrant wants is to come to the attention of authorities.


Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2014704117

Adding Up the Billions in Tax Dollars Paid by Undocumented Immigrants​

Often lost in political and policy debates about undocumented immigration is a simple yet crucial fact: undocumented immigrants pay taxes. Like everyone else in the United States, they pay sales taxes. They also pay property taxes—even if they rent. As a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) points out, “the best evidence suggests that at least 50 percent of undocumented immigrant households currently file income tax returns using Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs), and many who do not file income tax returns still have taxes deducted from their paychecks.” The end result is that undocumented immigrants are paying billions of dollars each year in taxes.

 

[22lcidw]

Bullies thrive on getting reactions from their targets because bullies are so weak. Reactions validate them. By not engaging him in the mud, she looks like the adult in the room (which, admittedly, is not exactly a difficult task).

If she can do that, and if she can stay focused and not spiral into verbosity, she'll look pretty good. I suspect the few remaining undecideds are just hoping for a normal, decent, young enough adult for a change. Enough junior high drama.

She is not that good. Her history is there to see. Some people that run for office lose even if better. Every race she won her opponent was better. Party politics and control of areas has usurped the quality of many candidates.

 

[g5000]

Study says undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion in taxes[/url]​

A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund.

 

[surada]

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So you disagree with facts that even NBC, LA Times and CNN have acknowledged.

'Ghost criminals': How Venezuelan gang members are slipping into the U.S.

Cases linked to Tren de Aragua, including sex trafficking and a shooting, show how hard it is for border agents to vet migrants from nations that won't provide criminal background info.

www.nbcnews.com

**********​

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/09/us/tren-de-aragua-venezuela-gang/index.html

**********​

U.S. sanctions Venezuela gang for spreading criminal activity across Latin America

The U.S. is offering a $12 million reward for the arrest of the leaders of Tren de Aragua gang it deems a transnational criminal organization.

www.latimes.com

Venezuela doesn't grant visas to convicted felons or sex crime felons.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Study says undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion in taxes[/url]​

A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund.

Yep.

Sales tax

Property tax paid by rent

Etc.

 

[surada]

She is not that good. Her history is there to see. Some people that run for office lose even if better. Every race she won her opponent was better. Party politics and control of areas has usurped the quality of many candidates.

She should ignore Trump.

 

[g5000]

Positively schizophrenic.

"Immigrants are stealing our jobs!"

Most illegals don't work or pay taxes.

.