Regarding the self-contradictory messaging on Kamala Harris from the Trump campaign: this reminds me of something common when I was on my high school debate team. If an opposing team was entirely unprepared for the argument introduced by our team, and responded all over the place like the Trump campaign, we'd say they're "just throwing a…
Regarding the self-contradictory messaging on Kamala Harris from the Trump campaign: this reminds me of something common when I was on my high school debate team. If an opposing team was entirely unprepared for the argument introduced by our team, and responded all over the place like the Trump campaign, we'd say they're "just throwing all their cards at us", since the talking points and scraps of information used by high school debaters were usually kept on index cards. The Trump campaign has no idea how to parse through the Harris nomination and its ramifications, so they are just throwing things to see if they stick. (The index card was the information retrieval method commonly used back in the pre-Cambrian age when I grew up. No judgment, please.)
But I think this also points out something about Trump and his team: they are exclusively interested in power, and not really in policy except insofar as it keeps them in power. They never had a coherent policy point-of-view, not to mention political philosophy. It was about winning, and keeping the base well-fed with propaganda. It's the "Southern Strategy" Prof. Richardson talks about in her book: the oligarchs/plutocrats want their aristocratic libertarianism to prevail, so they convince poor/working class/middle class/suburban white people that the "others" are stealing their cookie-crumbs and messing up their pretty suburban lawns, and thus get them to buy into the cults of wealth and whiteness that keeps them on top.
I think that the women falling into this broad "white, non-one-percenter" category are beginning to see through this ruse, if not the men. That's why, given a free and fair election, Trump is toast. So it's the "free and fair" part we need to look out for with an eagle-eye. That and any post-November-3 antics that Darth Realtor and his imperial storm-troopers might have in mind.
Regarding the self-contradictory messaging on Kamala Harris from the Trump campaign: this reminds me of something common when I was on my high school debate team. If an opposing team was entirely unprepared for the argument introduced by our team, and responded all over the place like the Trump campaign, we'd say they're "just throwing all their cards at us", since the talking points and scraps of information used by high school debaters were usually kept on index cards. The Trump campaign has no idea how to parse through the Harris nomination and its ramifications, so they are just throwing things to see if they stick. (The index card was the information retrieval method commonly used back in the pre-Cambrian age when I grew up. No judgment, please.)
But I think this also points out something about Trump and his team: they are exclusively interested in power, and not really in policy except insofar as it keeps them in power. They never had a coherent policy point-of-view, not to mention political philosophy. It was about winning, and keeping the base well-fed with propaganda. It's the "Southern Strategy" Prof. Richardson talks about in her book: the oligarchs/plutocrats want their aristocratic libertarianism to prevail, so they convince poor/working class/middle class/suburban white people that the "others" are stealing their cookie-crumbs and messing up their pretty suburban lawns, and thus get them to buy into the cults of wealth and whiteness that keeps them on top.
I think that the women falling into this broad "white, non-one-percenter" category are beginning to see through this ruse, if not the men. That's why, given a free and fair election, Trump is toast. So it's the "free and fair" part we need to look out for with an eagle-eye. That and any post-November-3 antics that Darth Realtor and his imperial storm-troopers might have in mind.
I judged a high school debate tournament two years ago. They still use index cards. ;-)
I think you meant Darth Vader but I’m liking the image of Darth realtor!
No, I meant Darth Realtor. My euphemism for 45. I think it fits!