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€

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    Bully the bully requires unity among their victims though, and if thereā€™s one thing bullies do well, itā€™s sow discord.

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      I mean, back in my country, I used to beat the shit out of the fuckers and they straighten up after that. Doesnā€™t work that way in the USA unfortunately. Lol

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          I donā€™t even know what that means honestly. I didnā€™t go to school in the US.

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            Iā€™m saying that the tactic you described works against bullies in the US, if we are talking about bullies at the schoolyard level.

            Not sure what was unclear about my response?

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              I see, I was confused with the ā€œschoolyardā€ term. Sorry, English is my second language. So, you mean itā€™s in US schools, too?

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                Ah now I feel bad lol. No worries.

                Yeah thatā€™s basically what I meant.

                There are bullies at all levels of society, and unfortunately, the US allows many of them to not only get away with it, but itā€™s often encouraged.

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                  No need to feel bad. We communicate and understand things. Thank you for explaining it.