• takeda@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      With Biden they had nothing on him except age so they were using his son.

      With Kamala looks like they have only her laugh.

      The whole coconut tree meme makes her look like she is insane, while it is taken out of context… It is something what her mother used to say when she was little:

      During a speech at the White House in May 2023 at an event for expanding opportunities for Hispanic Americans, Harris leaned on something that her mother used to say. “My mother … would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?'” said Harris, who then chuckled. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

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        It doesn’t make her look insane, it makes the people making some sort of deal about this look insane. Because I had to look it up and I still didn’t get it and multiple people have since told me it was the same for them.

        If you want to make fun of someone during an election, maybe picking some obscure moment from a speech no one listened to isn’t the best tack.

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        4 months ago

        I’ve never been a Harris fan, but her laugh is just kind of “normal human aunt” sounding to me.

        I guess it sounds weird to Republican ears because it’s not hyper-repressed and rigid? When a conservative tries to bring up weird laughs all that comes to mind are the likes of DeSantis or Tucker Carlson who laugh like they’re having the wind stomped out of them with a steel-toed boot.

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          I guess it sounds weird to Republican ears because it’s not hyper-repressed and rigid

          Feminine joy is something they’ve never experienced before, and it scares them.

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          They did the same thing with that video of AOC dancing from her college days, so I think Republicans are just incapable of understanding expressions of joy.

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        The only have her laugh for now. They will literally pick anything and try to make it a big deal. Obama was for wearing a tan suit, eating Dijon mustard on a hot dog, and terror fist bumping his wife.

        Such little snowflakes that care about stuff that doesn’t matter.