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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Kamala Harris busts out laughing at Norah O'Donnell's question if she presents a 'Socialist...
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still_one
(92,454 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,811 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,662 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,170 posts)BootinUp
(47,201 posts)Demonaut
(8,931 posts)BootinUp
(47,201 posts)interview there are better ways.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)people and we start day one. Here is what we will do because the people are ready, voting and needing govt.
But, I like the way Harris took it too. She is looking it as Biden saying, tell me your experiences, so was talking on a personal level with Biden. The question was silly in that context and why Harris addressing it as she did reflectively was very good. It was interesting. I am going to watch again. Harris can smile. Both her and Biden live their lives in the moment. I just watched 2 minutes of Biden granddaughters.
underpants
(182,949 posts)Socialist?
live love laugh
(13,156 posts)Illumination
(2,458 posts)reACTIONary
(5,789 posts)"One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent."
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,446 posts)basically supposed to be interpreted as Communist? I feel like ever since Obama, right wingers want to tar Democrats with that label but nobody seems to have a good idea what it actually means. Just that its a bad thing. Right wingers want to call any and all Democrats socialist, whether or not the label is accurate. As of the moment, Bernie Sanders is the only self-described Socialist.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)One of the big successes of conservatives has been mainstreaming a wildly-expansive definition of socialism that used to be the provenance of ideological zealots, guys in country-club bars muttering over their gin & tonics, and assorted other ranting cranks. If they don't like it, it's "socialism."
There are times I'll call myself an "Eisenhower socialist" just to make a point about how this absurdity has been normalized. By that definition, the US was a "socialist country" during WW2 and the Cold War.
It's nuts, and the only thing that's more nuts is the fact that it doesn't get any pushback.
Aussie105
(5,444 posts)Best protection against those 'gotcha' questions, if you can't be bothered to answer them.
Interviewer: Can I stick a label on you, then hit you with a whole list of negative associations for that label? (*)
Kamala: No, you may not!
(*)
Progressive = unpredictable, disruptive.
Socialist = steal peoples' Constitutional rights!
Illumination
(2,458 posts)dflprincess
(28,086 posts)if they can see Norah O'Donnell.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)Kamala did an excellent instant reframe with that laugh........ ........
KY
Dem2
(8,168 posts)And completely botched the insertion point. I'm glad Kamala laughed out loud, the timing of that question was not good.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,839 posts)question rightfully backfired as it was actually neither intelligent or enlightened. I probably would have laughed too. Kamala has a great laugh. Having her as VP is going to be really refreshing. I can't wait!
Thanks for sharing this, demmiblue.
❤ lmsp
moondust
(20,016 posts)if they present a "fascist or autocratic" perspective?
We're waiting...
Aussie105
(5,444 posts)A question that needs to be asked of all of them!
(Start with Trump.)
LiberalFighter
(51,170 posts)MontanaMama
(23,352 posts)yeah I know..but weve made it 25 years. Anyhoo...he watched the interview...and he was all WTAF does this ODonnell person think he is proving in this interview? This is awful.
Thats all I got.
davekriss
(4,628 posts)Response to demmiblue (Original post)
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Poiuyt
(18,131 posts)There's a big difference between a socialist and a left-wing, progressive politician.
I'm getting really sick of Republicans calling left wingers, "socialists."
former9thward
(32,097 posts)And he has been very serious.
Poiuyt
(18,131 posts)He doesn't advocate doing away with free market capitalism for state ownership of the means of production and distribution, which is what socialism is.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Them NOT asking them about all the easily spotted corruption and seeing what happens is irresponsible?
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Aussie105
(5,444 posts)wafting though the empty caves that are the minds of Repuglicans.
May there be 8 years of her laughter and sharp witted intelligence in the White House and on our screens.
Joe, you chose well.
canuckledragger
(1,670 posts)The replies to the tweet are showing a ton of idiots trying to smear her...with most of those accounts created just this month, Oct 2020.
Putin's troll farm is full of fucking idiots that are too stupid to cover their tracks it seems.
ffr
(22,674 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Sen. Harris gave the only possible response to ODonnells absurd question.
JI7
(89,279 posts)and bringing on panels of dumbasses and just reporting what they say.
Instead of actual investigative reporting.
Fucking INfotainment nonsense. Glad Kamala Harris laughed rather than treat it as a serious question.
Joinfortmill
(14,480 posts)Greybnk48
(10,177 posts)She seemed angry and aggressive for no apparent reason. She was completely out of Harris' intellectual league and it showed.
calimary
(81,527 posts)We HAVE TO do some better messaging to beat that one back.
And beat it ALL THE WAY DOWN!