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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 69 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"Basket of deplorables" vibes.

[–] Bobknock@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was true then, it’s true now.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bit counterproductive when you're trying to get some of the ones on the fence to vote Harris.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If this is on the fence I hate to see the other side

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

For real. I'm at the point where I've lost my tolerance for this whole situation. If we can't collectively decide that this is a fucking ridiculous place to be as a country and make the only choice that has even a chance of getting us out of this mess then we need to hurry up and get the collapse over with. It's utterly asinine that we are even having this conversation.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I heard a Trump leaning voter say on TV that the Trump rally joke about Puerto Rico made them switch to Harris. Yes something died inside me. Still there's so much riding on this that I don't care where the votes come from, as long as Harris goes over the line. 🥹

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Nobody is on the fence about this. It's all about mobilisation.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Exactly my thoughts. True though it may be, denigrate the leader, not his followers. Kamala didn’t fall for that obvious trap in her Fox interview, and now Biden’s made up for that. You never call voters stupid. Especially when they very much are.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, surely a party that calls their opponents criminals, pedophiles, paid actors, and cheaters repeatedly in every rally would be making a dire mistake that would remove them from any reasonable chance of contention.

Maybe civility politics is just a stupid illusion.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That’s one advantage Biden has right now: since he’s no longer running, he can speak the truth without it impacting his campaign.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

You just say they must have been born from a collapsed star?

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Y’all are forgetting that this whole thing is graded on a sliding scale. If Harris did 1 of the crazy things Trump does every damn day, this wouldn’t even be a close race. So yeah, Trump gets a pass for calling American citizens “trash,” but Harris would be torched for anything remotely similar.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hillary was wrong by 50% on that one.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cue endless amounts of pearl clutching by the corporate press.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

POW!!! Right in the double standards!

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Slams downvote button every time

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Accidentally said the true part out loud.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

My guess is Biden meant Trump donors given Biden has always been friendly to Republican voters from the general public, there was an example of that recently.

Though wtf, why is Biden saying this such an issue and Trump literally said he’s going to send military against “enemies of the state”. Such bullshit double standards