Summary

Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance faced intense backlash after calling Vice President Kamala Harris “trash” during a rally in Atlanta, a comment that MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace described as a major misstep.

Wallace and other commentators noted that such rhetoric, following Vance’s past controversial remarks about “childless cat ladies,” could alienate female voters—a demographic the Republican ticket already struggles with.

The “trash” comment is part of a broader trend among Trump’s supporters, who have recently used “garbage” imagery in their rhetoric.

  • @fluxion
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    3918 days ago

    This is about undecideds. Nobody in their right mind is trying to court neo-Nazis to vote for Kamala.

    • justhach
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      7218 days ago

      If someone is undecided at this point, they’re either disingenuous and embarrassed about their support for Trump, or they’re a moron.

      • ElcaineVolta
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        2318 days ago

        you’re right, but there sure seems to be a lot of morons in the electorate, so…

        • themeatbridge
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          1918 days ago

          Nobody ever failed because they overestimated the number of morons in America.

          • jrbaconcheese
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            818 days ago

            I think George Carlin said it, and I’m paraphrasing poorly:

            Think about how dumb the average person you know is, then remember half of people as dumber

      • @[email protected]
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        1917 days ago

        You have to remember these are just simple farmers.
        These are people of the land.
        The common clay of the new west.
        You know…
        Morons

        • @BassTurd
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          517 days ago

          Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded…and cattle raped.

          Now the time has come to act…and act fast.

          I’m leaving.

      • @Okokimup
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        618 days ago

        A moron’s vote for Harris counts the same a genious’ vote for Harris.

      • @neanderthal
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        218 days ago

        I had a random conversation today with someone that knew absolutely nothing about politics and wasn’t sure about voting. I would guarantee you that if Harris herself talked to this person they would go vote for her.

        Here we have some serious selection bias. Not necessarily right vs left, but interested enough to be commenting about it on the fediverse.