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Trump persists in questioning Harris’s race as his campaign flounders since shooting: ‘I think I was right’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[-] protist@mander.xyz 180 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Trump has also fielded calls from donors who are upset about his running mate, JD Vance, and the Ohio senator’s previous comments including referring to Harris as a ‘childless cat lady.”

Trump dismissed calls for Vance to be replaced on the ticket, but he also asked advisers if they were aware of the comments before Vance was selected.

At the Hamptons dinner, Trump also downplayed the Democrats’ strategy of painting the GOP as “weird.”

“Not about me. They’re saying that about JD,” Trump said, according to the Times.

Oof. Incredible lack of self-awareness while also throwing your running mate under the bus lol

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 83 points 3 months ago

Oof. Incredible lack of self-awareness while also throwing your running mate under the bus lol

Trump whipped a violent mob into a frenzy ready to actually lynch his last running mate. JD just needs to look at Pence to see what his own future holds.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 34 points 3 months ago

If they win, they are going to 25th Ammendment Trump. Then it will be Peter Thiels puppet in charge.

Make no mistake about it.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

It would be funny to see Donald stroke out with rage from that. But it would be even funnier to see him stroke out with rage if he is defeated by a black woman. Also it wouldn't be a fascist dictatorship, so I'd greatly prefer the latter.

[-] aquinteros@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

lmao he genuinely thinks people don't find him weird. what a weirdoooo

[-] ech@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

If by "genuinely thinks" you mean "is in denial", sure. It's not so much a matter of believing it or not, he just says what he wants to be true, simple as.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

"They don't hate me, they hate my VP." What a dimwit.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

I feel like it was the kind of thing that worked better before articles were written about it and then literally every article and comment since then has included the word.

Openly talking about it as a strategy feels like it’s turning it into our version of “Let’s Go Brandon” in a way.

[-] machinin@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

I thought the same thing, but it has sparked a huge discussion about if the word "weird" is a good label for Trump, Vance, and the most fervent MAGA supporters. When you're fighting a cult, I have a feeling it works.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Fair point, I see where you are coming from. This is definitely one of those "I'd rather be wrong" opinions on my end.

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[-] b161 68 points 3 months ago

Lmao does anyone else remember the shooting? Everyone seemed so convinced his win was in the bag after that “iconic” photo. Now it’s a big whatever.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago

that's one of the reasons why the dropout was a good idea. it came so soon after the shooting and made such waves that it completely drowned the shooting.

it helps that a. he didn't really get hurt and b. he's super unpopular, so the reaction from people who weren't already in the maga cult ranged from "don't give a shit" to "you had one job".

i think he's super demoralized so he doesn't even feel like campaigning. the press conference was probably people around him telling him that Harris has been dominating the media and getting ahead in the polls so he had to show his orange mug before people completely forgot about him (ah, we should be so lucky).

mind that one of the factors in 2016 was that he was so outrageous that he got billions of dollars worth of free advertising. now people are talking about Harris, walz and couches.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

Not even Donald's ear remembers the shooting. It was back to regular condition just days later.

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[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Joe leaving the race effectively wiped out anything from that event. Trump for once is the victim of the mass adhd that is our current media and cultural environment. I myself have forgotten several times that he was even shot at, and he's not good at keeping it front and center in anyone's mind either.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

Too busy insisting Kamala isn't black, keeping her front and center.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 67 points 3 months ago

It's a dog whistle. He just wants to constantly remind his racist cult that she's black, so they won't focus on him being senile, belligerent, and stupid.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

let him spend his energy on people who will anyways vote republicans no matter what even if he is 105 years old

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[-] cynthorpe@discuss.online 56 points 3 months ago

I live in a blue state. Almost all of the kids I see nowadays are mixed race. This sort of shit is almost over. As soon as the boomers die out, there won’t be a majority white voter.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

In some far future utopia we will've all interbred and evolved to a nice caramel/olive skin and our descendents will imagine us as cavemen. If we mange to make it that long.

[-] cynthorpe@discuss.online 18 points 3 months ago

Mama? Did those white people glow in the dark?

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago

I pretty much do :(

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I gotta say this is actually something I'm disappointed by.

Not because I want white people to survive forever or think any race is better than the other but because I like the idea of living in a world with other races. Like a fantasy setting with different types of elves or whatnot.

I like the diversity and would love to see just how different each race could become while still being the same species.

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are some Frank Herbert books you're gonna love.

And Seveneves.

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[-] rustyfemboy 34 points 3 months ago

This won't go well for him. Even after the meeting the Republicans had when they were told not to be racist and misogynistic against Harris they still can't help themselves.

[-] Rustywhims@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Saying it got him attention. He is gonna keep saying it as long as it gives him attention.

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[-] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 months ago

In his mind biracial doesn't exist so he'll keep going; one day it'll stop just not today.

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago

His mind also can't admit he made a mistake. That quote is just way too perfect "I think I was right"

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

My first reaction was to wonder why anyone would care what her race is. It is the least interesting or important thing about her

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

Racial Colorblindness is still racism. Kamala Harris, like anyone mixed race or nonwhite, has had a measurably different experience living in America than her white peers.

Fixating on her race the way Trump and Republicans are doing is absolutely racist.

But hand waving her racial identity away like it is irrelevant is also quite a racist thing to do.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

In what ways is it relevant to judging someone's capability to be president?

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Having certain experiences means intimately knowing the problems affecting others in a similar situation, and that puts you in a better position to fix them.

[-] Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

She might know a little bit of the struggles the non-white community in the US have to go through, possibly experienced it first hand one way or the other. That might lead to a more inclusive presidency than what Trump would do.

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[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

What the hell does "racial colorblindness is still racism" mean?

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

it's mostly a problem in the situation where a person goes "Racism is over, you shouldn't complain"

You can't dismiss the power that race has in people's lives to this day because institutional racism still exists, and the consequences of the more overt institutional racism of the past are still in effect.

[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 12 points 3 months ago

When you say something like "I don't see color" or "I don't see race", you're actively dismissing an immutable part of a person's identity, which is insulting. You can acknowledge and appreciate someone's race without treating them differently because of it.

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[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 24 points 3 months ago

Because it's all he's got. Childish name calling and racial slurs.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

So uhh when's he just going say the gamer word that sounds like neighbor?

[-] Negligent_Embassy@links.hackliberty.org 9 points 3 months ago

The category is people who annoy you

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 3 months ago

I hope he keeps it up. It's a losing argument and I want him to go all in on it 1000%.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

He looks so much more pathetic than usual.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

The human race is an unscientific way of saying single species of human called homosapiens. There aren't more, just us multicolored assholes. Now replace "race" with the real thing... "Trumpfus persists in insulting Harris by calling her a fake black person as his campaign flounders since shooting: 'I think I'm fucking racist"

In added fucking. He didn't say fucking.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

I think he's entirely too far right, which is the problem.

[-] norimee@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Of course he does. Racism is what carries his campain. He has nothing else to show for.

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