This Is Not a Pipe
professional-grade gaslighting
Kamala Harris laughs. Her laugh is very good. Her laugh is WONDERFUL! Her laugh is rich and warm and authentic and robust, and only vicious misogynists say that it isn’t.
Jennifer Rubin, op-ed columnist at the Washington Post, a person whose deep insight and exceptional experience of the world qualify her to explain life to us:
“Her laugh is too robust.” That’s the leading criticism of Kamala Harris, you see. The MAGA trash are all horrified that she’s so wonderfully strong and vigorous. Imagine being upset by that!
Similar deep thoughts from The Atlantic, the catch basin for Current Thing™:
Count the bad-faith maneuvers in this short excerpt:
“Caught short by the disorienting speed with which Vice President Kamala Harris has become the presumptive 2024 Democratic nominee for president, Trump has struggled to come up with attack lines against her.” This is a naked lie, sleazed into print two full days after everybody else reported the unsurprising news that the Trump campaign has been planning to run against Kamala Harris for months:
Biden dropped out on Sunday. The Trump campaign released its first attack ad about Harris on the same day:
Then the dimwitted propagandist prostitutes at The Atlantic, the laziest publication in America that isn’t called The Bulwark, waited two days to get a piece into print claiming that the Trump campaign has been “caught short” by its shock at a development that wasn’t shocking.
Note also that the piece analyzing feminist theory about right-wing reaction to Kamala Harris and her warm, wonderful laugh don’t mention — at all — the single most obvious point about that reaction, which is that Estee Palti has earned minor celebrity simply by nailing an impersonation of the vice-president’s obviously forced and awkward cackle.
And look closely at this extraordinarily baldfaced piece of bullshit from the piece at The Atlantic: “In insisting that Harris’s laugh is somehow a sign of psychological depravity or narcotic-induced lack of inhibitions, conservatives are doing their best to couple Harris in people’s subconscious with a specific reaction: disgust.”
Rubin and Sophie Gilbert use the same maneuver, redefining the reaction to Harris so they can fake-refute their strawman. The right is very upset that Harris is so robust! The right is saying that women who laugh are psychologically depraved!
Harris laughs like a person who’s cosplaying a role she wears awkwardly. It’s inauthentic. Everyone sees this. It’s crushingly obvious reality. So a bunch of extremely unprincipled and not-terribly-bright professional narrative-reciters have been given the task of trying to tell you not to believe your own eyes and ears. Journalism, 2024. Pathetic.
The frightening piece of all of this is how effective it is.
I was dog watching for a friend a few mornings ago. We’ve been neighbors for 25 years. Helps with our race, long time friends. They are lesbian, married sometime after 2014–we gave them gifts etc like any friend would to anyone getting married.
They have known us well for 25 years. This woman has often said (I only know because she’s said it in front of me me numerous times and to me directly), “They (me and my wife) make me want to be a better person..”
High praise, no doubt, and I know she means it.
She’s an ignorant leftist. I do not write this with vicious malice, but truthfully. Only watches MSNBC. Most friends are LGBT. Mainstream media her entire life. Incurious.
So when she returns from her errands she brings up politics. This is after assassination attempt.
I answered her volley with, “47 state landslide. Won’t even be close.”
She answered, “it is going to be all the white men conspiring to keep the black and brown down…”
I said, “What?!?! Lisa?!? What in the fbomb are you talking about?!? You’re taking about me! Do you think I call all my white male friends and we conspire to hold others down?!?!”
She looked down and sheepish—knowing she was just parroting a line from Rachel ‘I hate all men, but dress like them anyway’ Maddow.
This shit works. It gives the mindless a narrative to tell themselves and each other. It is dangerously effective.
bsn
It's so weird how all of the media outlets who felt SO BETRAYED by the White House's 'coverup' of Biden's condition didn't even bother to ask the sitting VP when she realized that maybe Biden couldn't do the job.
Also, check this out from today -- Jen Rubin vs. a known troll:
https://x.com/tylercoward/status/1816206719048884424
Troll by TKO