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When it’s her turn to respond, Harris should turn the tables on Trump by calling him out as a liar without bothering to refute each lie and refocus the audience on her own message
Exactly. Just call him what he is and don't address anything he says. "That's a pack of lies."
It's a wild time.
The Republican candidate is a legit insurrectionist, proven pathological liar, impeached multipled times, and has collected indictments like Halloween candy. None of this, presumably, has changed the minds of the 49% who vote Republican obediently and robotically every two years.
The Democratic candidate, meanwhile, has taken no documented public positions and is answering all of this with memes. (And if you don't believe me, go try and find a public platform on her website.) Her position is: "Just trust us," which I imagine is hard to do in a time when your party just held the presidency for four years and Congress for two, and nearly everyone is vastly poorer or working harder for the same pay.
It really is the Giant Douche vs the Turd Sandwich.
I'm enjoying a limited podcast series, Master Plan - An investigative podcast series exposing the 50-year plot to legalize corruption in America. I was just opining to my partner at how successfully the right has capitalized on culture war to distract their constituents. Instead of asking why someone like Lonnie has incredible wealth and they have nothing, they ask what genitals you have and which bathroom you're using. Astounding.
Sorry to always respond, but it seems you are working really hard to discourage voting for Harris.
You forgot to mention out the part how Trump has continually legitimized and empowered violent white nationalists, and is actively working to turn America into a social conservative dictatorship. (throwing out human rights for women and LGBTQ people, worker safety, medicare, education, planned parenthood, women being able to travel freely or seek medical treatment etc etc)
Harris using memes and being vague about her platform makes them equally bad in your opinion? You think people shouldn't vote for her when the stakes are so high?
You can respond as you like (provided you're not going to be an a-hole), but understand that if you don't like my point of view, you do have the option to block me. If you've decided, over the course of seeing lots of my posts that you don't like what you have to say, then you probably should.
With that said, my point of view on this is informed by history and poverty. I grew up poor and have had some lucky breaks the last few years, but even so, I have 80 year-old parents driving for DoorDash, using my car, so I am less focused on social issues than I am on the widespread poverty evident in this country. They'd be destitute and starving if I didn't have a car to loan them, in Joe Biden's America, and potentially Kamala Harris' America.
With those precarious circumstances a daily part of my life, Trump isn't particularly scary. What's scary is the knowledge that no matter who we elect, I can trust nothing meaningful is going to be done to help my elderly parents survive.
What makes them equally bad to me is that they have bipartisanship in the worst ways for majority of the US population, and I can see it every single day when my parents are out delivering people's food.