Trump thinks mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ name is a good attack route.

  • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I want her to treat this as if he is doing it on accident, and correct him like he is a little child. Really humiliate him.

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      9 months ago

      Yup. Then, when he’s still mispronouncing it, pivot to him not being able to remember how to pronounce it correctly being another sign of his mental faculties failing.

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    9 months ago

    I’m so fucking confused. Trump usually has good insults that actually stick. But literally nothing is sticking. All of Trump’s insults vs Kamala though are so lame.

    I’m pretty happy about this though. Trump workshopping insults and shot gunning his incompetence and inability to actually pull Kamala down is great for everyone.

    “Lying Ted Cruz” worked fine. Except “Lying Kamala” is obviously just recycling an old insult and speaks more to Trump’s limited vocabulary rather than something good. Etc. etc. etc. I’m sure Trump will eventually find something and run with it, but… crazy to see him fail at workshopping a response when he’s literally had years to prepare an obvious insult for Kamala.


    Making fun of name pronunciation makes it sound like Trump is a 78 year old who can’t learn how to say a name. This is NOT the path Trump wants to go. Kamala isn’t even an exotic or difficult to say name.

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    9 months ago

    Am I the only one that thinks Kamala is a beautiful name? It’s also not a name you hear every day.

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    9 months ago

    I don’t get it. I mean shit, probably I pronounce it wrong, but then so does every other Minnesotan.

    Why are they trying to be dumber than they are? That makes it like less weaponized stupidity and more… The stupidity that gets you in detention?

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    9 months ago

    When asked why, the Trump campaign, in a statement to ABC News, said “race and gender have nothing to do with why Kamala Harris is the most unpopular Vice President in history.”

    Citation, motherfuckers?

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      9 months ago

      You kind of need to start assuming that anything coming out of his mouth is a lie. They are right less than 50% of the time.

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    9 months ago

    Some people are suggesting Harris starts name calling in her campaign. I really think if she wants to slam him in a campaign, just list the issues Trump never wants to talk about. Even some conservative states were fighting for abortion. Stop making these elections a joke and the people will come.

    Fight back by compromising less, not name calling.

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    Man, I really didn’t realize how bad people were butchering her name on purpose.

    I’ve seen plenty of clarification on the subtleties of “kama-la” (correct) vs. “ka-ma-la” (incorrect) vs. “ka-mala” (incorrect), which helped me get her name right back during the 2020 primaries.

    But these racist fucks are pronouncing it like “camel-ah”, “karma-la”, or just saying her name with a weird fake pseudo-african dialect.

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      9 months ago

      They can say Barrack Hussain Obama again while they’re at it. For all the good that ever did for them.

      It just proves them to be the racist party if they can’t even say a name right

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      9 months ago

      Kamala seems to be going with ‘weird’.

      Which is… actually really good. It’s one word that works with Trump, JD Vance, Crypto ros, Elon Musk, and the whole slew of supporters / Trumps base.

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    9 months ago

    Typical elementary schoolyard bully boy shit by Drumpf. Sadly his cult loves that type of low-hanging rotten fruit.

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    9 months ago

    Well, I understand why he would feel like a small man running against a freaking hindu goddess

    Not being an american*, i know nothing about her, but she does have a pretty strong and cool name.