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Trump's Type
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said recently she “knows” Donald Trump’s “type.”
Considering his taste in wives and mistresses, one would think everyone knows Trump’s type. But Harris was using the term slightly differently, and very definitely derogatorily.
The type she was referring to was the slick amoral businessman type, the kind of person who gets in a revolving door after you and somehow gets out before you, typically after either stolen your wallet or pinched your butt.
Now, Trump is a real estate developer and therefore a committed fabulist. Convincing people to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a series of “maybes” does not typically involve telling the strict truth.
While a throwaway line, it can be seen as precursor to one of her campaign’s main tactics: the smarm factor. Trump backers love him, his opponents hate him, but there are some folk in between and that is where Harris is hoping the oily insult will land and land specifically with women. The line is directly aimed at suburban women, all of whom have dated or even married an actual sleazebag.
We’ll see if it sticks the landing.
Speaking of sticking the landing, Harris is about to announce her vice-presidential pick. Apparently it’s down to Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
It will be Kelly. As noted previously, it is widely rumored in DC that Kelly was actually supposed to be the presidential nominee until Biden torched that with his endorsement.
Kelly helps in Arizona, obviously, and that could be a very big deal. The polls show Harris a bit closer to Trump than Biden, but ensuring Arizona’s “blueness” must be a key focus of her campaign. Looking at the electoral map, if Harris can keep Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin she could squeeze in and Kelly’s “type” could also help carry those two states.
Speaking of carrying, I have noticed a few Tesla CyberTrucks (I think that’s the official name…whatever) on the roads of late.
They do draw the eye, that is true, but something very noticeable is a bit off about them: they never have anything in the truck bed, they are never towing anything, and they are always spotless.
In other words, the people buying them are not buying them as pick-up trucks but as personal statements.
We all knew that, but if someone just wanted a stainless steel car they can buy a used DeLorean.
Speaking of the 1980s, did you know that Kamala Harris is not the first “Kamala” of national notoriety? You see, there was a wrestler who competed under the name “Kamala.”
And here he is:
And from a different angle:
Kamala’s wrestling career spanned thirty years and, even though he hailed from Mississippi, he was nicknamed "’The Ugandan Giant’, Kamala portrayed a fearsome and simpleminded Ugandan.”
While not a wrestling fan myself, I am quite surprised this hasn’t popped up before.
I wonder why.
This week’s thank you epigram is yet again not an epigram but a wonderful line from a recent Spectator story on how Hollywood can’t even get the big dumb remakes and reboots and prequels and sequels they make right:
“The reboot of today is not so much about elevating the previous telling of a story; it’s more like Ed Gein digging up existing IP and parading around in its skin.”
It puts the acetone on the film stock…
Bravo, Shane Cashman of the Spectator!
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The latest Oppo research suggests it won't be Kelly. That Chinese video of him riding in on a motorcycle with American and Chinese flags in China to hawk the pyramid-schemed Shaklee company was something else—that, and his interesting divorce records. None of the rumored finalists will ultimately prove to help Harris any more than an estimable US Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) helped Michael Dukakis in 1988.