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Putin’s Pals Panic That Trump’s Opponent Is No Longer Old, Sick Guy
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Only true assholes mock someone for how they sound when filled with joy. To take something as innocuous as a laugh and assign value to it only serves to make people self conscious of their own laughter and seek to change it to some imaginary perfect laugh. Let people feel joy for fucks sake. These arguments are so gossamer thin at this point that if a competent human got up and gave an actually rousing speech, all of politics would fucking collapse.
Either way, I'm voting Kamala or whoever ends up blue, but Prosecutor Kamala vs 34 time Convicted Felon Donald Trump is as good as any other we could conjure in the next 107 days.
Well the article did say it's US conservatives and Russia…
There's the sexism and racism worry in my mind. Americans have voted for Obama before though.
Kamala seems like the right person to step up to the plate though. I think her performance in 2020 VP debates was underrated and that on the national stage she will outperform expectations. But its also important to note that Kamala hasn't taken charge yet. We still have to wait and see how she comes out of this.
Democrats are doing the right thing by building support and hope for her. Its up to Kamala to deliver here on out. A relatively young lawyer + experienced Attorney General gives the right credentials for the job however.
Even with the convention being open, she has the California delegates on lock. Which is like 12% of delegates. With the bone fides of being former vice president and no one other than Marianne "Crystal Huckster" Williamson, I think she will do fine in the convention and hopefully be the woman we need her to be. Some of the more recent campaign events with her have been very rousing.
But we do gotta show up and show out for her. Knock doors.
Does Trump even laugh? I don't recall ever hearing him do it.
Trump doesn't laugh because he's a fucking psycho.
Joker disapproves.
The closest I've ever seen is that muppet/froggy grin he does when he thinks he's getting away with something. I think he has a joy deficiency.
He probably barks out a "ha" sometimes but joylessly. I mean maybe be if he screwed over some orphans we get a belly laugh?
Good.
Holy shit, I hadn't even realized it. I can distinctly remember each recent president laughing (at least mildly), except for Trump.
It would be horribly unsettling to hear him do so. And the rare Trump laugh would be at the most awful, evil thing, I'm sure.