Kamala Harris's Statement On Trump's Twitter Interview

I was not expecting the "self-obsessed rich guys [...] who cannot run a live stream in the year 2024" 😂🤣😂🤣
I love this.
- also "whatever that was on [twitter]"
  perfectly dismissive. the campaign team is some of the best we've seen from democrats. they know how to speak to people without making it robotic and boring like democrats usually do. that's why this weird thing has been working too.
  
  And I’ve been noticing it’s shifting how I think of these people. There’s a guy in the periphery of communities I’m a part of who has been a real creep to multiple friends of mine and is a right wing gun nut. Before this change in tone I’d been thinking “lunatic” but since I’ve been thinking “pathetic”. Not sympathetic pathetic, but like “grow the fuck up, you’re a grown ass man who can’t move on when a woman you like doesn’t like you back”. I’m not seeing him as any less dangerous, but before the fact that these types were losers was secondary to the fact that they’re dangerous but it’s flipped to me. They’re losers who make their issues everyone’s problems.
  
  So refreshing if she wins and that country goes back to the old status quo of center right vs far right, but none from far far far right with dictator wet dreams.
  No sarcasm, I'm just tired of orange man politics in my country news and lemmy feed. After hearing the same old jokes 100x they wear out.
- I honestly think Trump will see that and be happy that "at least she said I'm rich".
  
  I’m pretty sure he’s happy anytime his name is in print somewhere because he’s got a bit of an attention addiction.
- As much as I wish politics could be more civil, I'm glad that Democrats are finally playing the same game as Republicans and getting a bit rude.
- That line had me rolling! It was more of a bash against Musk than Trump, but that’s the point! Musk is Trump’s target audience.
- She’s saying the shit on letter head (more classy this way?) that Trump is saying on Truth Social (and now X-Twitter again?) with two differences:
  It’s mostly factual, with some opinions.
  Those opinions are extremely relatable. It’s actually what many of us have been thinking, and posting, for some time now.
  I think it’s about time the Dems stop playing nice and start “speaking plainly” like the GOP does. Grow a backbone and stand up for yourself. Sometimes, ignoring the bully isn’t enough.
  Also, just when I think the Dems should pull back on the Couchgate rhetoric, I remember all the bullshit GOP has said about Dems just because someone on the internet said it. In fact, Donald Trump just did that with the AI scandal. At least the Dems thing is funny!

- "Facts don't care about your feelings." - Conservatives
  
  "Fuck your feelings" - Conservatives
  
  Notice the word “your”. They’d never say “our”.
- Why is this image being used? That punk likely doesn't give a shit about what most white guys think.
- Is this something that happened in the livestream? 😂

Ooh. She hit him with the "I don't even know what that was!"
That was the nail in the Trump Biden debate. So it's gotta sting a bit for the old weirdo.

what happened with the livestream? i did not (and will not) watch it but I'm curious what problems they had
- The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed immediately and didn’t begin until 42 minutes later.
  [...]
  18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned.
  The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack
  https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes
  
  claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack”
  That's such a stupid lie too. A much better one would be "so many people were trying to watch it and it crashed!"
  With all the bullshit these people spew on a daily basis you'd think they'd be better at it...
  
  When you’re an idiot, a DDOS attack and actual web traffic are indistinguishable.
  
  What, Musk lying?? How unusual.
  
  “massive DDOS attack”
  "by the Dems" of course. It's not precise unless you're creating an enemy. With followers adding on crazy shit like "must be the FBI and CIA".
  Couldn't be that Musk doesn't know how to run Twitter. No. A conspiracy makes much more sense.
  
  Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack”
  Me: Please be the gay furry hackers!
  Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack
  So you’re saying there’s still a chance?
- Ever since Elon bought Twitter, he massively fired anyone involved in making it work. Now it runs like shit, and spews, mostly, shit.
  It’s no shock that such an event (a widely-viewed like video event) would immediately cause it to crash, since anyone who knew about how to make this work left or was fired long ago, and the goose-steppers who stuck around for shit pay and worse treatment can’t do any better than this.
  ¯(ツ)/¯
  
  Don't forget the time he barged into Twitter HQ and just started unplugging racks because the team was moving "too slow".
  I respect that the tech contractor noped out and refused to help him move the racks. Musk had to get security to help him 🤣
- to a layman, it was an interview where trump layed out some of his economic plans and what he thinks are some problems, while musk tries to force his narrative to change his POV (e.g Trump doesnt care about climate change, Elon wants to shift his plans so that you invest in future technology that he down the line or already has companies in). Generally speaking its a lot of boogeyman stuff (especially on how he claims leftists want to release all people out of jail, and that the people in jail are primarily gang migrants).
  of the several things I personally don't agree with, theres like one thing I do agree with was his stance on Nuclear (which he believes ultimately is a good thing for energy) and that someone should rebrand Nuclear so that public acceptance of it is better.
  
  Except that Trump thought Elon was talking about nuclear weapons.
  Was that the part where Trump claimed to have done "the most deregulation and restrictions"?
  
  It is weird how overlooked nuclear is in the US. I imagine both sides could get in on it if it either had better lobbying or at least didn't have to compete with the respective oil/gas lobby on the right or the solar lobby on the left. (It's certainly a left leaning option if people weren't spooked by it).

:: chef's kiss ::

Can you imagine what it’s like for a Trump staffer who still has a brain? “Please quit doing the Nazi thing. Please anything but more public Nazi shit.”
But Trump can’t help it. He is who he is.
- Problem, I don't think many of said staffers do as evidence by this brilliant response to a journalist asking about why trump suddenly had a lisp in this interview
  In an emailed response to an inquiry about the lisp from a Huffington Post reporter, the Trump campaign said, “Must be your s****y hearing. Get your ears checked.”
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-elon-musk-interview-x-stream-lisp-b2595384.html
  The lisp was present throughout and takes like 2 seconds to find clips of it and hear it
  
  That "lisp" sounded precisely like dentures sound when the adhesive wears off. Trump's teeth were coming loose and he was clamping down on the back of his mouth whenever he made an "S" sound so they didn't blow out of his mouth mid-sentence.
  It is a well-known elderly person sound that even kids imitate when they are pretending to be elderly. I'm surprised it's not headline news. It was the weirdest and most comical part of the shit-show.
  
  Fellas, is it gay to have ears?
  
  Are you saying Trump went on Twitter and had a stroke?
  Or that trump had already had a a stroke before he went on Twitter?
- Elon seems to be ideologically fascist -- not Nazi specifically, but some kind of fascist -- but Trump is just kind of saying shit. If we assume this was a strategic mistake, the mistake was putting him in a room with Elon.

The unspoken "weird" is just like that punch that Muhammad Ali did not throw

Is KamalaHQ officially associated with her and is this an official statement? I see their TikTok page a lot and its very memey/jokey. It feel an like it's adjacent (run by an intern or campaign staffer or something), but I'm not sure if this is really "Kamala Harris's Statement".
- I opened the threads profile, it says it's official
  
  Thanks! I still think it's a statement by her campaign and not her, but I guess that's splitting hairs.
  
  That's not fully correct. @VP seems to be her official threads, while the OP says
  official rapid response page of Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign
  whatever that means. So I'm still not fully convinced this is an officially statement from Harris herself.
- Not sure. I think Kamala would be smart enough to call the site Twitter.

Would have been a thousand times better if they'd called it Twitter
- Xitter
  
  Nah, that's still giving an inch. The real answer is to leave the platform completely. Let it turn into another Parler

Now that is beautiful, spoken dynamite in plain and clear terms.
- After all these years of bemoaning the spineless Democrats, I finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
  Been screaming for years, "Drop the high road shit and start hitting back!"

It was deeply boring. One billionaire sucking off another for getting shot at for what felt like a full hour, then Trump rambling on with Musk going "uh huh" "yeah" every minute or so.

I’d say I’m sorry I missed the shit show, but I just spent the evening playing the wildest (and longest) game of LOCOfficial! With my boys. No regrets.

<3

Punctuation really is optional nowadays, huh.
- I see some periods and commas and an en dash in there but yes it is optional and Im disappointed you think otherwise whitespace will free us all

What is the Harris economic plan? Nobody knows. How will she "help the middle class"? Nobody knows. You can disagree with Trump and say he has a flawed plan but at least he has a plan.
- What's Trump's economic plan? Less taxes for the rich and let the oil companies drill everywhere. Harris-Walz is going to be the opposite of that.
  
  I think he specifically said to eliminate all income tax and raise the revenues with tarrifs, which gets every American with two brains cells on economics to think "uh yeah... that makes sense" but every economist to scream "oh God no!". I think every economist who has commented has gone hard against him in that.
  
  It will be a repackaged form of Bidenomics, with a new name. Come on man.
- I love how people are still playing the fiscal conservative card as an excuse to support this shit, what was the last thing Republicans did for the middle class financially?
- The Republican economic plan is gonna be shut down everything and privatize it for kickbacks, the model that costs the middle class the most, on top of the fascism. Republicans can go fuck themselves.
- Dismantle the EPA and give big oil whatever they want for as long as they keep current on the bribes.
- Whatever it is, I know it’ll never be progressive enough for me, just further perpetuation of the neoliberal world order. But who tf cares we are trying to avoid literal fascism here.
- Trump has a plan?
  I want what you're smoking.
- Convicted Felon and Sex Offender Treason Trump's plan is Project 2025. It's not a good thing he has that plan its a very very bad thing.
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-economic-plan-presidential-candidate/
  Harris is expected to announce that she will make tackling inflation a "Day One" priority, as well as outline a plan to lower costs for middle class families, take on corporate-price gouging and an overall focus on lowering costs for Americans, according to details shared by Harris-Walz campaign officials. "When I am president, we will continue our fight for working families including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers," Harris said while speaking to rally attendees that included Nevada Culinary union members. "When I am president, I will continue that work to bring down prices," Harris said at a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday. "I will take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging. I will take on corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents on working families. I will take on Big Pharma and cap the cost of prescription drugs for all Americans. Harris promised the over 15,000 attendees adding, "unlike Donald Trump, I will always put the middle class and working families first."