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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024

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My first thought is that I doubt Kamala picked him. My second thought is that he's a diversity hire just like Kamala. Whether you like or dislike Trump, if you vote Trump, then you are getting President Trump. If you vote Kamala, then you're getting a figurehead. This VP pick further drives that point home to me. Perhaps the president has been and should be more of a figurehead. Maybe that's what people want.

People have been begging the past 8 years for a 'return to normalcy' and believe that Kamala, whose sycophants are scouring the internet in an attempt to rebrand her as a moderate Democrat, will most likely represent this return. Trump can never brand himself as status quo by the sheer nature of his personality. The media is guaranteeing that upon reelection the media is promising 4 years of obsessive hatred and hit pieces against the man.

The best thing Kamala can do is shut up, hide, and let the Democratic machine work their propaganda. The less she says and the less she's in the spotlight the more likely the strategy can work. As soon as she comes on stage and exposes herself the jig will be up. The Democrats only hope is that their spin overwhelms anything she the person excretes.

I don't really understand the line of attack claiming Kamala is hiding? She's been speaking constantly, to far larger crowds than Trump, and Trump is the one who backed out of the pre-arranged debate.

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Has she taken any questions during these appearances? Any non-screened questions? Any tough questions?

Besides the event where Trump said Kamala wasn't black, has he? He's the one backing out of the debate, not Harris.

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Notably, at that event, it was Harris who didn't show up (and had been scheduled to).

This is almost bad faith.

A agrees to X with B.

C now claims A is backing out of X because A isn’t doing X with C.

Formally, the agreement was for a debate among all candidates who had broken 15% in certain polls in a certain time window. Maybe Trump assumed his opponent would be Biden but that was not part of the actual terms.

I don't think Trump has an obligation to stick to the planned debate. But I don't think you can say Kamala's the one trying to stay out of the spotlight either. If Republicans want a spotlight on Kamala to put the screws to her, all they'd have to do is stick to the original planned debate.

Trump offered her a debate and she said stick to the one you negotiated with Biden but substitute me. I’m sure they’ll both cave somewhere in the middle.

Probably what will happen. But if either felt they were at a big advantage from more debates, they'd just demand multiple debates under a variety of conditions

Oh other than the 1 hour absolutely hostile interview he did with 2 people who despise him and a crowd of people who probably despise him?

That's a big deal, and that is the exact type of thing I would like to see Harris do.

He did a podcast interview with Adin Ross, but that was a friendly interview. So that makes two, one friendly, one tough. But more importantly, Trump has also been campaigning a long time as being top of the ticket, and has done many interviews, both hostile and friendly. Kamala has an obligation to now speak for herself and represent herself to the American public, now that she is not under the obligation of supporting Biden.

Also, has far as I can tell, Kamala has never done a tough or hostile interview during her entire time running for VP, as VP, or running for president. (If you can find an example, I'd like to see it.)

Trump has an interview with Elon musk coming up Monday as well.

This lacks context. Biden got Trump to agree to absurd debate conditions that Kamala wanted to hang onto.

I'll powerlift against @practicalromantic anytime anywhere, if @Walterodim wants a foot race I'll ask for conditions.

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