Now that she's the official nominee, is anyone else excited about Kamala Harris's chances?

I should say I read that it was in the hardback first edition. Removed from later editions and paperback. Also updating to say I haven’t read it though.

Haven’t read the whole thread but I’m glad the couch fucking thing has resurfaced. I vaguely remembered a US politician admitting to fucking a couch years ago because it was so crazy.

He had the admission removed from the paperback and later versions of his book. Thank goodness someone had a copy of the first version hardback. What an absolute freak.

He also gives me massive incel vibes. He’s obsessed with controlling women. He even demanded to debate Harris last week. Does he think he’s running for President? I bet Trump seriously regrets taking Musk and Thiel’s man as VP, but he’s so greedy he just wanted their money.

Not a couple of years, he’s always had a long distance relationship with the truth.

He knows that he just needs to put the lies out there and a load of people will lap them up without question.

What’s the name of his media platform 😂

Geez, he's doubling down on the helicopter story.

It's amazing how regularly he, completely needlessly, makes an absolute twat of himself.

I know Biden came across as more frail but it's astounding how Republicans continue to give him a pass when Trump has been incapacable of getting a truthful and coherent sentence out of his mouth for at least a couple of years now.

On the positive side, nice to see Kamala is ahead in all of the betting markets now.

Just in the name of accuracy, the couch fucking thing isn't true. I mean, he might have, but it wasn't in the book. If he did, I'd still vote for the cushion before I'd vote for the Trump/Vance ticket.

Good to see another January 6 rioter (who struck police officers with metal polls, stomped on 5 officer's heads, bear-sprayed others and committed various other acts of violence) getting sentenced to 20 years today, after pleading guilty.

Not a word of it on Fox "it was a peaceful protest" News, of course.

That Trump says he would consider pardoning each and every one of these violent thugs is beyond deranged but, based on yesterday's helicopter story, it's probably just the case that Trump's brain has completely failed him at this stage.

Hard to tell if he should be locked up in jail or a room with padded walls at this point.

Still, Kamala's weird laugh eh?

If other politicians like Elizabeth Warren (I believe) did better than Harris in the primaries, should they not have been selected? I cannot understand, given technology, why the Democratic party could not have had a re-vote to choose a candidate. Can anyone explain?

Also, would Hillary Clinton not have been a prospective candidate? Or has she completely withdrawn from wanting to be president?

Someone explained that the selection of Harris was done to the satisfaction of the Democratic party as evidenced by the roll call/vote that chose Harris after Biden dropped out, but I don't think they quoted the actual vote numbers (winning percentage?). Or was it just a single-candidacy vote?

FWIW I think Trump IS weird. Not as weird as his running mate, but definitely weird.

Weird as in, he appears to choose that shade of skin, but be happy leaving his eyes and hairline white. Weird as in, he seems to have a weird way of thinking about his daughter. Weird as in, he doesn't appear to care everyone knows he's lying all the time. Weird as in, his line of thought seems totally off kilter.

I mean, not weird as in fucks a couch, I grant you. But he is weird to me. Always has been and I guess that weird got him slots on comedy shows and films and helped him there. Like Boris' weird did here.

Vance is the one saying it... but he's not going after his boss' record now is he? It's hypocrisy no matter which one of them says it. By any measure, Tim Walz served longer and outranked JD Vance, and promotions past a certain point are very much not automatic. I can't remember if the NG has the same "up or out" policy as regular army.

This is such a typical Republican move - to try to sully someone's military record

This pic tells us all we need to know about the Republican nominee. They should STFU

Indeed, he should be awarded the Medal of Honor

It’s Vance going after him

Someone with Trump's record going after Walz for retiring from the NG instead of going to Iraq is showing a shocking level of self-unawareness, and so is anyone trying to defend that.

What's next? Complaining about Walz winning the Minnesota Congressional Hotdish Cook-Off?

The GOP is completely adrift right now. It's too clear that Trump just has boilerplate shtick.

Trump did get shot at though which is more than Walz did

I'm pretty sure @Viviennemary likes him more than Melania does.

Unfortunately I just don’t think she is a good choice. Obviously Biden had to go, he’s infirm and has lost all semblance of mental acuity. Perhaps if a much earlier decision had been made not to field Biden for re-election a better candidate could’ve been found,

Harris just doesn’t seem to have enough presence and character to carry the electorate with her. Rightly or wrongly the impression given is she’s done little as VP and was picked as a running mate principally to tick a couple of diversity boxes. She may be great, but she’s not sold herself as leader material to the public and that’s what she’ll have to do to get over the line. Maybe things will change as the campaign ramps up but they better get a move on or it’ll be too late for the Democrats.

That was meant to quote your fact check post

They just back up my claim the he said he was on the battlefield when he wasn’t 🤷‍♀️

You can scream black is white all you want

As well he should. The AR-15 was invented for military use, to compete with the AK-47. I dare say you'll find few people on a predominantly British website who think civilians should own one. The manufacturers hugely promoted AR-15s as sport weapons.

also, no Trump supporter should be complaining about word salad.