I feel like I recall him quietly giggling at his own lame “jokes” mid speech

I honestly feel sorry for Trump. I mean don’t get me wrong he deserves all the bad things he gets and more, but he must be fundamentally very unhappy and lonely. I can’t imagine seeing everything, even his “friends” and family, transactionally. He bought his wives (maybe only metaphorically?) and he pays to cheat on them, his business ventures are all frauds and grifts that are waiting to catch up to him.

There are some wealthy people I feel a little twinge of jealousy for from time to time (especially being 4 months unemployed), but Trump isn’t one. I will always consider Trump to be worse off in life than I am. He’s like Gollum, a spiteful creature who can’t help but destroy himself in pursuit of a treasure that drives all happiness from his life.

I am dreading seeing some of the bullshit they’re gonna cook up to attack her.

It’s gonna be a horrible mix of racist, sexist and God knows what else.

This is a stupid link to it but here you go: https://youtu.be/ZiRSLYV1X4A?si=kwAusX_Q-6cZig6d

I, too, have been atomically dissecting that meme to find the racism, and you know I won’t rule out that when the GOP makes a joke about that actually is what they mean, but it appears to be a thing fans of Harris also meme about.

She was telling a folksy story of growing up and she recounted how her mother had asked if the kids had just fallen out of a coconut tree. It’s a cute alternative to “were you born yesterday” or something like that.

I dunno, it has big “what doesn’t everyone say ‘porch monkeys?’” energy.

I looked it up this morning and I still don’t get it. She said something kind of weird about coconuts in a speech once and… that’s it?

This short video explains the coconut reference.

Basically, it comes from a speech she gave in May 2023 at a White House event about Hispanic excellence. In her speech, she also touched on how the democratic party can better support young leaders by understanding the context they grew up in.

This led into her personal anecdote from her mother, saying:

“My mother, she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?! (Laughs) You in exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.’”

This basically took off and got mixed up with the whole “pill meme” terminology. Those that wanted Biden to pass the torch to Kamala started saying they were “coconut-pilled” and the rest is history.

A Sri Lankan origin comedian explains the slang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DhmqxJgJFo

Nope, but I’m older.