‘I Approve This Message’: Kamala Harris Instantly Uses Trump’s Own Words Against Him
2 years ago by blorbo [he/him] to c/politics
Honestly, same. That was scary as hell. Then she raised 81 million dollars immediately, started beating him in the polls immediately, started listening to Bernie Sanders, and I'm stoked.
Obviously she's not Bernie Sanders, but apparently she voted in-line with him more than any other senator. I've been a huge Bernie fan for years, but I didn't know that...
She performed terribly in the 2020 primaries and has been very quiet as Vice President. It makes sense you'd be worried. She seems to be rising to the occasion, thankfully. I hope she wins, for America's sake!
has been very quiet as Vice President
This was my biggest concern, honestly.
I'm glad to see she's going right in strong, Biden stepping down had me incredibly nervous.
Same. Apparently she was being very careful to not steal Biden's thunder.
Never before have I been so happy to see the "sassy black woman taking no shit from anyone" stereotype prove itself true
It's not just her, it's been her support team so far. Quick fire responses to conservatives and hopping on gen z memes. It feels like her and her team aren't afraid to ruffle feathers, and it's about time.
Your candor is refreshing to see on an online forum, thank you for that.
Everyone on the democratic side, Biden fan or not, likely had known that the move to have him not run again had a lot of inherent risk of plunging the whole party into chaos. What I and others didn't realize was that this debacle was obscuring what everybody clearly wanted to avoid, an authoritarian Trump presidency, leaving us all in despair. Having someone who could get ol' Don's knickers in a twist will be a great uniting force for the party and democracy lovers everywhere, and is a source of hope we were all long overdue for.
This is what I was afraid of too, all the calls for Biden to drop out but no one was talking about next steps. Now possibly, for good reason, they were already in the works behind closed doors and already had this plan. That being said, I was nervous as hell right up until all the fundraising numbers came in and the jabs started.
Better to eat crow than the shit we'd be forced to swallow in a second trump term! Forreal though, thank you for coming out and saying it.
Nobody needs to say "I told ya so" but clearly things are moving in an energetic direction, and those of us that are sane in this country should all be pleased! Keep dunking on the fascists and speaking the obvious truth to these morons!
Eating crow is a colloquial idiom that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.
Same, I was mostly worried about doing it so close to the election, but Kamela is knocking it out of the park so far
from Vice President Kamala Harris’s rapid response team.
Love to see it lol, she knows what she's doing
Yep, same position from me. I was wrong. Kamala is looking great. I'm still really fearful and there's an awful lot of misogyny and racism to overcome yet, but she needs Democrats to turn up and vote and independents to switch to her in swing states and that's how she's can get it. The racists and misogynists weren't ever going to vote Democratic anyway, Trump is their guy through and through.
Honesly one reason kamala is more acceptable to me after biden is she has been part of the administration that put out such a great term and I think one reason it was great was from lessons biden learned from being obama's vp. I don't view it as eating crow because I was not zealotly against his stepdown just basically against it. Whats done is done and move ahead. Don't pick my gov for vp though as we need him in the state and he is to good and im scared to gamble on not getting someone as good to replace him.
Biden had a job to do. Stop the boat from rocking. And he did a pretty damn good job of it. I wish he had been able to "job done" and step aside so the Dems could have had real primaries. But wishes ain't nothing. This isn't the worst result of that target fixation.
This sudden move has created such a surge in interest that the results may turn out better than if a normal primary happened. (As far as not watching a fascist dismantle our government)
Yeah, in a way, Kamala coming out winning already and fighting has saved all the arguments and Dem on Dem fighting that would have come had Biden stepped down earlier in time for the primaries. It has focussed minds and they've been united pretty much instantly.
Can I borrow some of that crow? I was CERTAIN that despite his obvious issues and steadfast refusal to even address them, that Biden stepping out of the race would be the death knell for the US.
Yet here we are and I feel HOPE for the first time in a long time. Kamala feels like she'll be more than just a gatekeeper against fascism in the short term. I'm still nervous because... politicians are still politicians. But her record has been almost overwhelmingly good, even saying back to her time as AG of California.
I hope Republicans get absolutely crushed to the point that it becomes clear catering to the extremists and conspiracy theorists is not tenable. Then they have 4 years to try to rebuild from the ashes and try to present a reasonable platform instead of something insane.
For sure, though I said the same thing in 2020 and was disappointed at how close it was. Really a terrible reflection on the country.
I hope they are crushed, learn nothing and double down on it by running with Trump again, this time fully campaigning from prison.
Looking forward to 82 year old trump vs Harris 2028
Followed by 86 year old Trump vs, I dunno, Kelly maybe?
Trump is there to stay as long as they continue to embrace fascism.
I prefer the Republicans offer a reasonable alternative so that Democrats can actually be held accountable. Currently Democrats can engage in insider trading, pass laws that help their stocks, continue to give weapons to war criminals, and you still have to come out in droves to vote for them or the country becomes a Dictatorship.
If Republicans are forced to rebuild and offer someone that isn't going to run the country and everyone's freedoms into the ground, (or better yet completely crash and burn allowing an actual leftist party the chance to be the 2nd party) then Democrats can actually be held accountable if they pass shitty laws.
You want the Republican party to compete with the Democrats by attempting to make things fairer, less corrupt and more honourable than the Democrats?! It's like expecting Biden to be the youthful candidate, Trump to be the honest and rational candidate and Bernie to be the corporate shill all in one.
https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/...
I like how you disengenuiously phrase everything. Oh Lordy, I wish the Republicans could force those filthy Democrats to stop their cheating ways, or I swear I'll faint!!
Meanwhile, there are already Democrats who ARE proposing fixes to your little list. LOL, we don't need Republicans to hold Democrats accountable, we need them to vote with the Democrats trying to fix the problems. But good luck with that
I prefer the Republicans offer a reasonable alternative so that Democrats can actually be held accountable.
I used to say (and believe) things like this. The fact is, it cannot exist. Reasonable people don't run for office as a Republican, full stop.
I prefer the Republicans offer a reasonable alternative so that Democrats can actually be held accountable.
What color is the sky in your world?
Let the Tories in the UK be a terrible warning for them.
Let the American voters follow the example of the UK's voters this year!
They haven't been reasonable since Nixon
I think the party would destroy itself long before they become introspective enough to straighten their shit out.
This isn't just a political party we're talking about, it's essentially a cult. Maybe not every Trump voter is in that deep, but enough are to cause a serious schism in the party.
I just hope that this time, the allegedly anti-Trump Republicans have the balls (or lady-nuts) to actually say/do something rather than falling in line and kissing the ring.
Unless we're still talking Russian kompromat... If that's the case, whatever they have on these people must be truly horrific.
Who fits that description that they would have even considered nominating?
I agree in general about nominating someone awful, though.
And I'm also happy to see that not only is she doing much better so far than I thought but all the energy she seems to have brought and seeing people get amped up. Haven't seen that for a very long time.
Yeah, that would have been terrible messaging. I think of the top contenders, Cooper is the oldest at 67. For that reason, I hope they go with one of the others. Kelly is 60, Shapiro is 51, and Beshear is 46.
I guess you didn't see the article about her statement regarding Israel/Palestine.
Already got the "totally a progressive who wouldn't vote for Biden because they just learned Palestine exists" concern trolls to make sure everyone knows that she lost their support already 🙄
What could go wrong now? The left is notorious for abandoning its leaders for the smallest mistakes.
Could it happen?
I'm just a normal human being that uses words in normal human context and not like a demented psychopath that needs to define each meaning for every possible dumbass who thinks they are smart.
No I don't think they are particularly left, but they are left in relation to the other party and they are considered to be the left for that very reason (at least!).
Again, you are embarrassing yourself with comments like that. You are like a little child that listens to a teacher and tries to find bizarre situations in which what the teacher says is not true. Its pointless and dumb.
Bye.
My left nut dumbass.
Looks at Clinton.... Looks at JFK.... Looks at Jimmy Carter...
What the fuck are you even talking about? I can think of a lot of small mistakes that could have ruined any of the examples I provided but they are all LEFT heroes.
I'm sorry you are offended and agitated for some reason, I have no idea why. There is even a saying that the far right is the leftist second biggest enemy, right after another leftist they only share 95% of opinions with.
Gentlemen, this leads me to my next point. Don’t smoke crack.
Urgh, articles about tweets.
“So think of it: They get me to that position, and then their campaign says, ‘I’m the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon.’ That’s their campaign,” Trump said. “I don’t think people are going to buy it.”
"We approve this message"
That's it. Don't reward a newssite for this shit.
I took one for the team and went to the article, so no-one else had to.
I approve your effort.
How quickly people forget the Dark Brandon clapbacks
They didn’t seem too successful in the news cycle. I still think it would be worth a try if Harris only referred to Trump as “the convicted pedophile”. Like, 1-up the orange Mussolini at his own stupid tactics.
I still think it would be worth a try if Harris only referred to Trump as “the convicted pedophile”.
He hasn't been convicted of being a pedophile yet. Best we can do without walking the line as regards defamation is something like "convicted felon, found liable for rape, GOOD FRIEND of Epstein who is currently fighting for your vote because it's the only real chance he has to escape the law and he knows it."
her clip is pretty good though:
Trump: And then their campaign says I’m the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon-[CUT] Harris; "I am Kamala Harris and I approve this message"
it's a nice truncation.
Amazing. I respect Joe Biden and think he had a pretty good term overall, but stuff like this shows just what's been lacking.
On a related note, please let Trump be dumb enough to accept a debate with Kamala.
He comes from the era when politicians were civil to each other even if they vehemently disagreed. Well before Newt Gingrich started characterizing Democrats as evil.
Plus Harris is from California and we have a pretty good vicious streak on a cultural level. Its just not really highlighted cause it usually manifests in weird or quiet ways. A good example is that in my area quite a few people became anti-anti-gay marriage because the Mormons bussed in folks from out of state for some rally which was pro prop 8(?). The insult came about because fuck folks who dont even live in California affecting our internal politics, Californian pseudo nationalism at its finest.
If Trump were a Palestinian child he'd be all over it though.
Joe Biden is "civil" in the most meaningless, useless sense of the war. I don't know why people are being precious about his legacy.
Preach. Having someone call Trump on his bullshit and is so god damn refreshing. Biden just wanted to brag about his record. He did a lot, that’s great, but the campaign needs to highlight what Trump’s policies are and what is at stake.
It's so sad these elections are no longer about what policies each candidate promises to apply if elected but about attacking the other candidate.
But the Democrats have to play by the current rules. Taking the moral high ground on the campaign trail was not going to get them elected. One can argue that the moral obligation is not to let Trump and his cronies win so that more reasonable policies can be put in place.
It's so sad these elections are no longer about what policies each candidate promises to apply if elected but about attacking the other candidate.
'Twas always thus.
When we first got cable TV and access to US channels, I was shocked that US campaigns were almost entirely "my opponent is a crook, so vote for me" attack ads. At the time, Canadian politics was still biased towards making promises (that the politicians never kept).
That was 1981.
Honestly, I'd be just as fine with him running with his tail between his legs. Tells you all you need to know either way.
The problem is getting voters in swing states who don't like Trump to the polls. If all of them voted, he'd be utterly destroyed.
They just need this team to keep hitting the Trump campaign quickly all day, everyday. He pretty much can't stop embarrassing himself.
The return on investment here I don't think is getting the right attention. That posting on 🐦 was probably 5 minutes of actually work When I found it a few hours later, it's at 2.1m views. AND she's setting funds raising records.
That post is amazing in so many ways
Agreed. If Trump has taught us anything, it's that politicians need to have a stronger digital presence to compete. It doesn't matter that you're a better person with better policies if your opponent is all over the Internet lying and trash talking about you. Responding only via press releases is too late in the cycle to correct misinformation. That needs to be nipped in the bud immediately. Harris's team needs to refute his lies the same day he posts them, ideally the same hour.
She's bringing a lot of very needed fire.
I'm not complaining but I'm genuinely wondering if the dnc has been holding this woman back. I feel like I haven't seen this fire coming from her before and I'm loving it.
I'm starting to think this was a pre-planned bait and switch. Let MAGA and the Russian trolls waste thier energy and money going after Biden, painting him as old and senile. Then Kamala comes in and goes all scorched-earth on Trump.
Whether it was planned or not is not all that important though, the result is a thing of beauty.
It may be comforting to think that, but I reckon it genuinely took them by surprise just how unable he was to perform under pressure. He may be able to hold a normal conversation in a small room with a couple of people, but get the lights on him, him own voice being amplified around and a live broadcast, and the man just wasn't able to compete. He looked weak and old.
While Trump lives for that. He's a fucking gameshow host. His ideal dinner date would be himself, but louder. What he actually says is incoherent nonsense, but he's loud and aggressive and the MAGA hats lap that shit up.
Don't think that was pre planned. But I think waiting for Trump to officially accept the nomination as republican candidate was a deliberate move. The timing was almost too on the nose, and it seems some people already knew Biden was going to drop out before that.
Maybe this shit was all stewing in Kamalas head for years and she's just unloading off her chest lmao. But in truth I hope thus is the result of a competent team, cause I want this to keep coming. Fucking tired of being nice to Trump supporters after they acted like absolute pieces of shit for years.
I don't think it was pre-planned until the terrible debate performance.
Having said that, I definitely think they timed his dropping out to be after the GOP convention, and even after the Sunday political shows. That timing was just too perfect to be a coincidence. The GOP spent the entire convention focusing on the wrong target. Then the Sunday politics shows happened. Then immediately after that came the announcement he was dropping out, and almost at the same time he was endorsing Kamala.
I suspect he knew he was dropping out weeks before he announced it, mainly because the way everybody endorsed Kamala has been so seamless. The democrats are famous for looking disorganized, and having their fights in public. I strongly suspect they went to many key democrats and did whatever wheeling and dealing was needed for them to endorse Kamala when Biden dropped out, while making sure to keep it quiet.
Because it's hard to keep secrets, it was probably a relatively small group of people who knew. But, I'd guess that at least 10 key democrats were informed early and brought on board.
I just had that thought yesterday because it surprised me how well this played out. Glad I am not the only one :)
My assumption is that they wanted to keep Biden's "Centralist" persona. Biden probably wants to work with MAGA.
Kamala doesn't, for good reason.
Why work with mofos who proudly wear shit like this?
Of course they were holding her back. I don't think there's any argument they weren't.
If she had been out and doing town hall events, it would have drawn attention to the fact that Biden wasn't doing those things. Normally an energetic VP is a great partner who can double the number of events a candidate can do. But, the Biden campaign was too worried about her making him look old and feeble.
Actually, now that I think about it, Pence is the only other VP i can think of in the last few decades that got as little attention as Kamala. Biden and Cheney were both more on the radar when they were VP. With Gore, I'm not sure, since my biggest memory of him was running against W.
Biden didn't get as much attention as Cheney, but had his moments because he kept swearing and making weird remarks.
also he jumped the gun on marriage equality while Obama was dancing around civil unions so forced his hand into supporting gay marriage...
but still no one really cared about him making speeches, especially since the president was Obama, one or the best orators in our lifetime, regardless of what you may think of his policies.
which reminds me, Harris does seem to be drawing from his style a bit. not as obviously as buttigieg tries to, but she seems to be subtly using some of the rhetorical devices. her speech that "we're not going back" was pretty good. she also said (i think in another speech) that "we want to ban assault rifles; they want to ban books". she's getting good at it.
there's no reason to engage in conspiracy theories. she's been a VP to a walking corpse for 4 years, and she's probably been getting ready for this the entire time... they say VPs are "a heartbeat away" from presidency for good reason, and Biden at his best didn't look like he had many of those left.
she's always been personable in interviews, but her podium speech needed work. she's probably been working on it, and mind that she's been campaigning and speaking this whole time; it's just that the media never cared because she was just a VP... 4 years of practice can do a lot of good.
Back the blue might have a double meaning now.
Lol, my neighbor across the way put one of those up in 2020, we chit chat so while watering the garden I said "man I wasn't going to vote, but because of your sign yeah, go Biden". I mean I was... But anyway he took down the sign lol.
Haha! Nice!
"Back the blue, no matter who?" I mean, I'm not going to put it on a Punisher sticker or anything, but...
Clever
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Sheldon!
Moderates love that stuff.
What a fucking troll. I love it.
Hire a bunch of god tier TikTok meme shorts creators, and just start churning out shorts ridiculing him.
Her and the team need to go hard and fast. She's not charisma 101, though she has some. Her real strength is her ability to disseminate and spread information as someone whose career was to become an expert on any information presented, when used alongside existing resources. What does this mean?
She will continue to tarnish Trump's image in the eyes of all the doubtful while increasing her own standing across the board with the exception of the staunch Republican and MAGA supporters. This means hop in the truck and proceed at ramming speed. Every single historically idiotic thing Trump has said. Every piece of racism his team puts out. All the sexism and all the calls to violence against certain groups. Call them out. We can all agree that bipartisanship was the game for a long time, back when the Republicans still had some spine and integrity left here and there. What the Nation needs right now is exactly what she can almost uniquely bring, and we are seeing what I suspect is just the beginning of this little war.
Case in point, I had rarely heard of any of the good things Biden did during his presidency, even though he's had some good policies. It really felt like radio silence from him except when Trump was involved. It was so frustrating that our country's in decline and it just felt like getting stonewalled by the guy supposed to fix it.
Meanwhile it feels like Kamala's actually trying. I'm hearing good things about her left and right. She's only mentioning Trump when it's a direct attack to pressure him for all his evil actions.
Image is everything. Charisma bolsters and protects image. The shitty thing is that Biden has done a TON. Yet so many people aren't aware he has done much at all. This isn't some humblebrag situation, he needed to speak out loudly about those accomplishments.
Anyone want to wager that Trump refuses to take part in another debate?
Already did
There’s no way in hell they allow him on stage with an adult that can string together a complete sentence
Meme reads both ways. Also making fun of us men with "every woman has bigger balls than men do"
You didn't respond to me with the comment you are probably referring to. :) However, I read that as not such a bad outburst.
That's good. The left and Democrats have been criticised for being "bleeding heart" and has constantly been up ended by the right. You can't always be on the high horse when the opponent is playing dirty and not following the rules. Sometimes, it's perfectly fine to dip your hands into the mud once in a while.
I'm definitely of the James Carville alignment of fighting fire with fire. No disrespect to Michelle Obama, but "When They Go Low, We Go High" doesn't work in our media landscape, and it really didn't work out all too well for Obama. I've said that the first candidate who actually spat fire back and pushed the bully back would do well. Let's not be tolerant to intolerance.
A little louder for the people in the back:
Let's not be tolerant to intolerance.
I agree that you may need a violent revolution but it is on a case by case basis.
I'm referring more to being Machiavellian politically. Franklin Roosevelt is the one I think more, who is able to make significant and lasting changes while operating along the system. In fact, he reshaped the system!
His cousin Teddy also did some big changes to the system.
Here's the tweet to save you a visit:
Much rather a screenshot. Going there started cancer on my phone.
Edit. Actually, the article was far far easier than that Twitter link
Yes I know. I've obviously seen it, hence my edit.
People here are weird, man. Huffpost is known to be one of the most heavily ad cluttered mess of a website in existence. There was an auto-playing video at the top, that paused itself after a few seconds for an auto-playing ad. Then I had to scroll past 4 other ads and a tweet that was not the tweet in question. I eventually got to the actual tweet after more scrolling.
And again, it's a tweet in the article. From Twitter.
But people are acting like since I posted directly to the tweet to save them all that, that I am somehow doing them a disservice while personally blowing Elon Musk and cupping his balls. The Fediverse is a weird place sometimes.
Might just be that people whom are willing to use relatively niche social media platforms are also very likely to disagree with popular social media platforms, and also have competent online protection systems.
Some of the largest communities here are about free software, circumventing the will of large corporations, and extreme computer literacy. But we are on a political post, so who knows how much overlap there is.
The article literally has the video in it.
That doesn't make any sense. The link it just to an article that has text and a couple videos.
Haha she's awesome
Well now. That's the burniest burn that I've ever seen a politician burn.
Why are these idiots still using Twitter? I'm not clicking a Twitter link.
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Man, I'm so happy with the way this is going so far. I sure hope she wins the election.
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