Kamala Harris gets it. Yes, we should fear Trump—but we should also mock him mercilessly, because it drives him nuts.

Donald Trump is in free-fall. Read this description from Sunday’s Washington Post of how the GOP nominee spent last week: “[A]ides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry, and then just golfing all day and stewing, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions. Trump also had grown annoyed with the news coverage that depicted him as not working as hard as his opponent, one person who talked to him said.”

If you didn’t know that the article was about Trump and you just read it cold without knowledge of the context, you might think it was a description of parents trying to figure out how to handle an ungovernable four-year-old. So they convinced Trump to get out of Bedminster and hit the road, trading suck-ups with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the past, Trump has called Kennedy the “dumbest member” of the Kennedy family and a “radical left lunatic.” Kennedy has calledTrump a “terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath.”

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“The news is saying I don’t work as hard as my opponent. You know what I’ll go do? Golf some. That will show them how hard I work.”

Every time i have a dumb idea i just have to remember there is always a bigger idiot in the world. That always makes me feel better.

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Christ. He’s so obviously bald up top, what a fucking ridiculous combover.

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“She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate—a contained island after scalp-reduction ­surgery—surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-reveals-the-truth-about-trumps-hairand-mocks-it-too

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She often described the mechanics behind it to friends

I’m gonna choose to believe that was a misattributed source. Description of the hair? Not an expert but doesn’t sound wrong. Her daughter frequently describing the hair? Uhhhh

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“Bury her body on my golf course and let the grave become overgrown.”

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It actually looks more normal of late. Still obviously fake but not in such an absurd style as it used to be.

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112 points

Well no shit, Sherlocks. Ever heard of “bully the bully”? Glad they’re finally catching on. Took too long.

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Bully the bully requires unity among their victims though, and if there’s one thing bullies do well, it’s sow discord.

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I mean, back in my country, I used to beat the shit out of the fuckers and they straighten up after that. Doesn’t work that way in the USA unfortunately. Lol

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If you’re talking at the schoolyard level, it definitely works in the US.

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Trump had a known decades long overreaction to some reporter calling him a short fingered vulgarian when he ran in 2016.

Congrats on the Dems for finally using that to their advantage I guess.

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When they eventually hit on what his father used to call him, hoo boy

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His father called him a short fingered vulgarian?

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> decades

> 2016

I am not sure that 8 years qualifies as decades

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In an article from 2016 that makes the age clearer:

Nearly 30 years ago, Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair magazine, described Trump in Spy magazine as a “short-fingered vulgarian.”

The short fingered vulgarian quote is now almost 40 years old.

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Decades long? 2016 was approximately 0.8 decades ago

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The grudge had existed for decades in 2016. It didn’t start then.

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the effective responses for bullies are either ignore or bully back

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Toxic masculinity always hates being laughed at. It’s that Margaret Atwood quote all over again. Too applicable when you consider complete abortion bans and project 2025.

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