AppleyOrange
2mo ago
Here is an interesting development: Kamala Harris is now demanding unmuted microphones for her debate with Donald Trump.
You think that was a demand?
The full text of the tweet is:
Donald Trump is surrendering to his advisors who won't allow him to debate with a live microphone. If his own team doesn't have confidence in him, the American people definitely can’t. We are running for President of the United States. Let’s debate in a transparent way—with the microphones on the whole time.
I don't think "Let's [do thing]" would be a demand if Trump was saying it, and I don't think this is a demand.
And I think that without those blinders, it is pretty plain to see that she is trying to taunt him.
AppleyOrange
2mo ago
Why Democrats are even bothering this time is totally insane to me. Lucy and the football vibes.
Seems like a pretty expected response to the attacks on Walz for saying he carried weapons in war. Goose, gander, and we all get stupider.
AppleyOrange
2mo ago
I am not able to find the source I saw last night saying that the private photog was an issue in the law, but for what it's worth Trump's campaign made it a point that their photog was allowed in.
"The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony," Cheung said in the statement.
I doubt very much this issue actually gathers any steam. But if it'd did, I'm guessing a lot of the juice would be around the permission Trump's campaign has claimed to have gotten.
AppleyOrange
2mo ago
I'm also stuck in this world, where politicians taking media from military cemeteries for political ads has both long been tolerated
The link you provide shows an image from a video, and when you watch the video it has in a tiny font a disclaimer that the use of DoD images does not inply any endorsement.
From what I understand, Bthe law prohibits use of private photogs for campaign activities on the cemetary grounds.
So it seems that there is a minute, and trivial difference.
I wonder why Trump didn't just use the DoD footage from all the times he visited Arlington as president?
AppleyOrange
3mo ago
I was unaware of that. Thanks.
AppleyOrange
3mo ago
What would our “cultural elites” (D) say if Republicans went all-in on a story about Kamala Harris violating the intern’s Oval Office laundry machine? Or that she used a priceless piece of White House memorabilia as a dildo without cleaning it off after?
What is the point of your little embellishments here? Is it part of the Vance couch story that it was an intern's couch? Or that he didn't clean up the couch afterwards?
A terrible dereliction of their oaths to support the constitution, on the part of the democrats who support all this, and revelatory that all their claims about the importance of protecting our system of government and its norms has the enormous asterisk that they'll destroy it all, if they're inconvenient.
If 2 Term Obama had gotten his third pick, rather than 1 Term Trump getting 3 picks, I doubt this would be a discussion.
Edit: Or One man's dereliction of Oath, is another man's constitutional hardball.
That was my initial reaction to the first attempt.
I was then horrified at the lack of interest and muted reactions on the left.
I then recognized the lack of interest as analogous to the lack of interest and muted reactions by republicans after a school shooting.
Both sides are disgusting.
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