Summary

Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance faced intense backlash after calling Vice President Kamala Harris “trash” during a rally in Atlanta, a comment that MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace described as a major misstep.

Wallace and other commentators noted that such rhetoric, following Vance’s past controversial remarks about “childless cat ladies,” could alienate female voters—a demographic the Republican ticket already struggles with.

The “trash” comment is part of a broader trend among Trump’s supporters, who have recently used “garbage” imagery in their rhetoric.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    The votes are coming in right now. They’ve BEEN coming in for over a week. The people going to vote today are not going to hear about this story before they go vote. The people who hear about this story are not going to listen. Where was all this “you just effed up” rhetoric weeks ago, months ago, YEARS ago WHEN THESE CHUCKLE-FUCKS ALREADY DONE BEEN FUCKING UP???

    I’m glad you got your headline, but fuck you all for pretending like Trump and Vance had any qualities or qualifications to occupy the Whitehouse. Even if Harris wins, if it’s by anything less than a 25 point lead, then our country is still fucked from all the people who have been given the room to believe that Trump was ever an option.

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      8 days ago

      I get your point, but the folks at MSNBC have been consistently more critical of Trump than the other networks.

      And you’re not wrong that the USA is fucked for even entertaining the idea of Trump, but you’ll be waiting a long time if you’re sitting around hoping people become less dumb, selfish and would cut off their nose to spite their face. Try not to lose sleep over it, but at the same time if you were able to get even one person who was Trump supporting, undecided or uninterested to vote for Harris that is a positive thing.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        but you’ll be waiting a long time if you’re sitting around hoping people become less dumb, selfish and would cut off their nose to spite their face

        This wouldn’t even be a problem if Republican leadership hadn’t been laser-focused on destroying the American public education system for decades. Americans as a group are stupid, and it’s on purpose, engineered by Republicans.