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The pictures of Biden wearing the Trump hat are gold but I just caught the clip on TV and the secret service guy dipping out of the way when he realizes he's on camera with Biden wearing a Trump hat is amazing. It's like he knows Killary will be after anyone involved with letting that happen
 
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The full Kamabla interview with the reporter in Philadelphia.
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I'm not even exaggerating when I say listening to this interview simultaneously gave me a headache and heartburn.

It's fucking infuriating to constantly hear a very clear and well stated question be answered with fucking nothing rambling for several minutes straight. Every single time.

The only policy she supports is "uhhhh give people more gibs?" Also loved her saying increasing tax credit for kids is a "new approach" when it was blatantly copied (in a worse form) from Vance.

The gun part is a joke as well. "I support the second ammendment, I'm not taking anybody's guns away" then two seconds later "I support an assault weapons ban"

Is an "assault weapon" not a gun you vapid cunt?

Even if I didn't like Trump, I would hope he would win in the hopes of seeing her rage and cry after seeing orange man back in office. She is so hateable. She also sounds either drunk or drugged up. Constantly slurring and speaking like she has teeth clenched or she's about to vomit or something.
 
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It blows my mind she can say “I’m not coming to take your guns” and “we’re going to ban assault weapons” in the same fucking sentence. It really demonstrates how dumb she is, and how stupid she thinks the electorate is that she believes she can get away with such blatant lies and flip-flopping.
 
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Yeah, I don’t buy Trump banging Loomer. The only evidence thus far is just him and Loomer standing close together. It’s shipper tier where two characters that stand together in any capacity are assumed to be a “couple.” That said, I really wish Loomer would at least get more PR and media training if she insists on helping Trump. Her biggest shortcomings involve not knowing when to stop speaking, in addition to lacking situational awareness. Her association with people like Milo doesn’t help either.

Unrelated, but she really should get her filler dissolved. It doesn’t fit her face, and in my opinion, looked a lot better prior to surgery. Not all women look good with big lips, and the size she has makes her face look unbalanced.
 
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I wasn't aware salon's still a thing
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Despite the ongoing excessive whining in the press about Kamala Harris not doing interviews and MAGA's laughable insistence that Trump won the debate and that it was rigged by ABC moderators, the truth is that the vice president is running an exceptional campaign. At every important juncture, she has met the moment and surpassed it. Personally, I never understood the widely (but not deeply) held belief that she was a mediocre politician. As a Californian, I have followed Harris' career pretty closely from the time she made a name for herself as the San Francisco district attorney and then state attorney general. I happily voted for her for the Senate. She always struck me as a talented politician who was very likely headed for higher office if the breaks came her way.
She took a shot for president in 2019 and had a bad primary run, but she's hardly the first presidential aspirant to flame out in their first run. Joe Biden ran twice before he finally got the nomination. Even the sainted John McCain and Ronald Reagan failed in their first attempts. But even though she ended up being chosen as Joe Biden's vice president it seemed as though her failure in the Democratic primary was seen as possibly fatal and that dark cloud followed her through her first couple of years in the job.

Needless to say, a lot of this was fed by the right which went to great lengths to demean and demonize her. It is something they do to all Democratic women, particularly the Black ones. As vice president they knew she would run when Biden's term was over and their crusade to degrade her eventually seeped into the beltway ether.
The last two years were quite a bit better as she was featured more in roles that got a lot of attention and it was clear that she was an effective communicator and advocate, most especially on abortion rights about which the president was notoriously uncomfortable. But even with that, when it became obvious that Joe Biden's re-election campaign was in trouble many Democrats and members of the media were convinced that she was not up to the job. That frenzy to create a "mini-primary" or some kind of Rube Goldberg mechanism to pick a candidate was largely based on that knee-jerk opinion.

Luckily, Joe Biden knew better and he immediately endorsed her as many of us desperately hoped he would do. And the Democratic establishment fell in line relatively quickly, thank goodness.

The campaign rollout was simply exceptional, one of the best I've ever seen. Harris personally worked the phones to get the party lined up behind her. They figured out a process to secure the nomination without any hiccups and with almost no time to prepare. They smoothly transitioned the Biden campaign apparatus (which was obviously very good itself) into the Harris campaign and immediately went to work.
Those first few days with her appearance at campaign headquarters taking a call from Joe Biden on camera were perfectly choreographed. The hurried search for a running mate and final choice of Gov. Tim Walz was pitch perfect and their first rally appearances together were raucous, exciting events that radiated optimism and confidence, something we haven't seen for quite some time in this country. I don't know where the "joy" meme originated but it felt real and was a breath of fresh air.

And then there was the convention, which was hastily retooled from a Joe Biden re-election celebration to a "change" candidate introduction. It was a love fest, with ecstatic receptions for every faction of the sprawling coalition Harris was bringing together. And when the nominee took the stage on the final night she looked and sounded like a president which is no mean feat for a woman in American politics.
Since then she has gracefully and graciously accepted the endorsement from some of the most conservative Republicans in the country, including none other than former Vice President Dick Cheney. So far she's doing something that is very difficult to pull off, but if she does it will be legendary — she's trying to excite the base while also expanding the coalition from Bernie Sanders to Dick Cheney. (Trump, on the other hand, seems determined to shrink his coalition to the most extreme MAGA fanatics. )

Harris didn't do it all herself, of course. As NY Magazine's Rebecca Traister chronicles in this fascinating feature about Harris and her campaign, grassroots organizations, many of them having evolved and matured over the past few years from the women-focused Resistance groups that formed in reaction to Trump's upset victory in 2016, lurched into gear immediately to help jump start fundraising and organizing on the ground. It started with Black Women for Kamala which has inspired dozens of others. Just this week there was "Paisans for Kamala" featuring Nancy Pelosi and Robert De Niro.


The campaign itself has a kick-ass social media team that's churning out memes, TikToks, tweets and Instagram stories that are clever, pointed and tuned in. The outreach to younger voters using these platforms is revolutionary in a presidential campaign. The campaign is wisely allowing them to run unfettered and if the youngs come home to the Democrats and vote in large numbers, this team will deserve a lot of the credit.

And what about this fundraising? The unprecedented massive war chest that's been assembled by the campaign in such a short time is simply mind-boggling. The campaign raised more than $310 million in July, driven by a record-breaking $200 million in the first week. In August they raised another $361 million, tripling Trump's haul. They took in another $47 million in the 24 hours after the debate this week. Most of it has come from small donors which reflects the enthusiasm that's palpable at the Harris and Walz events. She absolutely dominated Trump in the debate this week and the campaign (which always stays on offense) immediately challenged him to another one. Trump is refusing, lamely insisting that he won, to which Harris adviser David Plouffe tweeted that we'd finally discovered Trump's spirit animal: the chicken.
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JambledUpWords said:
Yeah, I don’t buy Trump banging Loomer. The only evidence thus far is just him and Loomer standing close together. It’s shipper tier where two characters that stand together in any capacity are assumed to be a “couple.”
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Why are you surprised? The poster whose post was highlighted is on record as getting anxious over Trump tweets and not-so-subtly calling for a personal army on KF.

It's not shocking they would engage in shipper-tier logic with actual people, one of them being an old man.
 
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X Prime said:
And here I was wondering what my sex life would be like when I'm in my 70s, on account of whether I will be able to maintain an erection.

If a guy like Trump can do that for something like Loomer, Viagra must be amazing.
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He's 78, so LATE 70s. Viagra must be fucking incredible. Viagra can cure cancer if it can turn a 78 year old into a 20 something sex fiend
 
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