Kamala Harris gets it. Yes, we should fear Trumpā€”but we should also mock him mercilessly, because it drives him nuts.

Donald Trump is in free-fall. ReadĀ this descriptionĀ from Sundayā€™sĀ Washington PostĀ of how the GOP nominee spent last week: ā€œ[A]ides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry, and then just golfing all day and stewing, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions. Trump also had grown annoyed with the news coverage that depicted him as not working as hard as his opponent, one person who talked to him said.ā€

If you didnā€™t know that the article was about Trump and you just read it cold without knowledge of the context, you might think it was a description of parents trying to figure out how to handle an ungovernable four-year-old. So they convinced Trump to get out of Bedminster and hit the road, trading suck-ups with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the past, TrumpĀ has calledĀ Kennedy the ā€œdumbest memberā€ of the Kennedy family and a ā€œradical left lunatic.ā€ KennedyĀ has calledTrump a ā€œterrible human beingā€ and ā€œprobably a sociopath.ā€

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      Spy magazine used to have an annual ā€œTop Ten Worst People, Places or Thingsā€ feature in the late '80s and early '90s and Trump always made the list. Year after year, his only mitigating factor was ā€œat least heā€™s not in politicsā€. One year Trump also offered to pay for the funeral of a child killed by a bear - which promise he almost certainly reneged on.

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        23 days ago

        I checked, and no I did not.

        The decades long overreaction was known in 2016.

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          23 days ago

          You are reacting to deleted comment, because deletion unfortunately sometimes does not propagate very well to other instances.

          Yeah, I have misunderstood the grammar of your sentence.