The Oldest-Ever Presidential Candidate Is Trying to Attack Kamala Harris
for Laughing
It appears the best that Trump and the GOP can throw at Harris is�mocking
her laugh??? Oh no, not a president who laughs! Anything but that!!
By Kylie Cheung | July 22, 2024 | 12:45pm

On Sunday afternoon, the news hit like a falling coconut to the head:
President Joe Biden announced he was suspending his bid for president.
Minutes later, followed by large swaths of the Democratic establishment, he
endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to top the ticket. With Harris as the
presumptive nominee, everything�s changed for the Trump-Vance
campaign�their go-to strategy of attacking 81-year-old Biden�s presidential
fitness and, err, aliveness is no longer on the table. Now, just a few
months out from election day, they�re being forced to pivot to attacking
Harris. And it�s not going well for them so far.

Hours before Biden�s announcement, as the walls seemed to be closing in on
the president�s candidacy, Trump tested the waters by attacking Harris:
�Kamala, I call her laughing Kamala,� he said at a Michigan rally on
Saturday night. �Have you ever watched her laugh? She�s crazy. You can tell
a lot by a laugh. She�s nuts. She is not as crazy as Nancy Pelosi.� On
Sunday, when Harris emerged as Democrats� likely nominee, right-wing
influencers like Libs of TikTok shared a supercut of Harris laughing and a
clip of her stating her pronouns. Fox News� Sean Hannity similarly went
after Harris for her penchant for joyful outbursts. Oh no�not a president
who laughs! Anything but that!

Additionally, popular right-wing influencers are now pushing the sexist and
misogynistic nonsense that Harris should be disqualified because she�s an
adult woman who doesn�t have biological children. (Harris, through her
marriage to Doug Emhoff, is a stepmother.) Other desperate right-wing hacks
like Milo Yiannopoulos (who is, A. British, and B. has literally endorsed
pedophilia) have also tried to weaponize rumors about Harris� dating
history against her, as if Trump hasn�t famously cheated on all of his
wives, including allegedly with an adult film star while Melania Trump was
pregnant.

The official Trump campaign Twitter account has also shared videos of
Harris repeating her famous, increasingly beloved line calling on us to be
�unburdened by what has been.� Reports surfaced that Trump wouldn�t agree
to debate Harris, planning to write her off as an illegitimate candidate
(?). And by 6 a.m. on Monday morning, Trump was busy posting away on Truth
Social about how cheated and wronged Biden was, claiming the Democratic
Party had stolen �the race from Biden after he won it in the primaries.� In
a subsequent post, he switched back to mocking Biden: �It�s a new day and
Joe Biden doesn�t remember quitting the race yesterday!�

Of course, this line of attack�that Harris isn�t a �legitimate candidate�
�is entirely nonsensical. Biden wasn�t officially nominated before stepping
down. As it stands, with Biden suspending his candidacy, Democrats are set
to �undertake a transparent and orderly process� to nominate a replacement,
DNC chairman Jaime Harrison said on Sunday. The delegates Biden earned
during the primaries throughout this year are non-transferrable, meaning
Harris will have to win her own. And Harris is absolutely on track to do
so. The vice president vowed to �earn� the nomination and, as of Monday
morning, she�s already accumulated over 500 of the 1,986 delegates needed
to secure it. Biden�s campaign has coalesced around Harris, and the
Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue shattered records once Harris
emerged as the presumptive nominee, raising close to $70 million in a
single day on Sunday, breaking a previous record from 2020.

While Harris could still face primary challengers, as of Monday morning,
every possible, viable challenger�namely Midwestern governors like
Illinois� J.B. Pritzker, Kentucky�s Andy Beshear, Michigan�s Gretchen
Witmer, and North Carolina�s Roy Cooper�has endorsed her. It�s doubtful
that any Democratic politician with presidential aspirations will sabotage
their future campaign and go against the establishment by challenging
Harris right now.

The Democratic National Convention takes place next month from August 19 to
22. Between now and then, the DNC could host a virtual vote to secure a
nominee prior to the convention�or, the convention next month could be an
open convention, where candidates enter their names and try to secure the
most delegates to win the nomination on the spot.

In any case, Harris is now the likely Democratic nominee. It�s stellar
timing for Democrats that Biden stepped down right after the Republican
National Convention wrapped last week: Republicans spent the entire
convention attacking a man who�s no longer running for president. Any
attention and momentum the GOP built coming into this week is gone.

Harris lacks most of Biden�s key vulnerabilities, like age and
ineffectualness: She�s young�decades younger than Trump. She�s proven to be
an expert, highly effective communicator on reproductive rights, which is
the Democratic Party�s biggest strength and Trump�s biggest weakness. She
has some amount of distance from Biden�s disastrous, widely unpopular
policy decisions on Gaza. And while progressives may not be thrilled by her
record as a prosecutor, it�s a sharp, effective foil to Trump being
convicted of 34 felony charges. As Sunday�s ActBlue donations show, she can
effectively rally and energize the Democratic base. But perhaps most
importantly, she isn�t Biden.

Still, the next several months are likely to be an uphill battle leading up
to election day, with Trump�s poll numbers holding strong and the
Democratic Party coming out of weeks of chaos and infighting. But if all
Trump and Republicans have on Harris is laughter and mirth, well, good luck
to them!

On 2024-07-24 02:15:38 +0000, Rybab said:

> The Oldest-Ever Presidential Candidate Is Trying to Attack Kamala Harris
> for Laughing
> It appears the best that Trump and the GOP can throw at Harris is
> mocking
> her laugh??? Oh no, not a president who laughs! Anything but that!!
> By Kylie Cheung | July 22, 2024 | 12:45pm

Ever see Trump laughing? He's pissed off all the time.

Must be an unhappy childhood even with all that money.

On 7/24/24 11:07 PM, super70s wrote:
> On 2024-07-24 02:15:38 +0000, Rybab said:
>
>> The Oldest-Ever Presidential Candidate Is Trying to Attack Kamala Harris
>> for Laughing
>> It appears the best that Trump and the GOP can throw at Harris is
>> mocking
>> her laugh??? Oh no, not a president who laughs! Anything but that!!
>> By Kylie Cheung  |  July 22, 2024 | 12:45pm
>
> Ever see Trump laughing? He's pissed off all the time.
>
> Must be an unhappy childhood even with all that money.

Of course he's pissed off, obviously he's seen himself naked.

On 2024-07-25 09:32:05 +0000, trotsky said:

> On 7/24/24 11:07 PM, super70s wrote:
>> On 2024-07-24 02:15:38 +0000, Rybab said:
>>
>>> The Oldest-Ever Presidential Candidate Is Trying to Attack Kamala Harris
>>> for Laughing
>>> It appears the best that Trump and the GOP can throw at Harris is
>>> mocking
>>> her laugh??? Oh no, not a president who laughs! Anything but that!!
>>> By Kylie Cheung  |  July 22, 2024 | 12:45pm
>>
>> Ever see Trump laughing? He's pissed off all the time.
>>
>> Must be an unhappy childhood even with all that money.
>
>
> Of course he's pissed off, obviously he's seen himself naked.

That explains why Melania never laughs either.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:32:05 -0500, trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:

>On 7/24/24 11:07 PM, super70s wrote:
>> On 2024-07-24 02:15:38 +0000, Rybab said:
>>
>>> The Oldest-Ever Presidential Candidate Is Trying to Attack Kamala Harris
>>> for Laughing
>>> It appears the best that Trump and the GOP can throw at Harris is
>>> mocking
>>> her laugh??? Oh no, not a president who laughs! Anything but that!!
>>> By Kylie Cheung  |  July 22, 2024 | 12:45pm
>>
>> Ever see Trump laughing? He's pissed off all the time.
>>
>> Must be an unhappy childhood even with all that money.
>
>
>Of course he's pissed off, obviously he's seen himself naked.

Melania's eyes are so small because she's seen it too.

Swill
NP: Led Zeppelin - Boogie With Stu

On 7/24/2024 9:07 PM, super70s wrote:
> On 2024-07-24 02:15:38 +0000, Rybab said:
>
>> The Oldest-Ever Presidential Candidate Is Trying to Attack Kamala Harris
>> for Laughing
>> It appears the best that Trump and the GOP can throw at Harris is
>> mocking
>> her laugh??? Oh no, not a president who laughs! Anything but that!!
>> By Kylie Cheung  |  July 22, 2024 | 12:45pm
>
> Ever see Trump laughing? He's pissed off all the time.

At most, he'll give a sophomoric smirk.

>
> Must be an unhappy childhood even with all that money.
>