Because Kamala

[sunday]

1 hour ago, Stargrunt6 said:

Ditto here.

This slaps. Too bad the latin press did her dirty.

 

Nice voice!

[rmgill]

So, Kamala is trying to rebrand as a border hawk. I wonder how that's going to work even with the media trying to use more gaslighting than Victorian London...

[Ivanhoe]

6 hours ago, rmgill said:

He's personable. But he's utterly incompetent. He couldn't fill potholes in the town he was mayor of. How he was posted to Sec Trans is beyond me, unless you just look at the intersectional vote. 

Recall that he was getting a decent percentage of votes during the 2020 primary. A dept Secretary position was surely offered as a bribe to get him to quit the race early. Where do you slot someone with no relevant abilities? Transportation.

[Mr King]

Kamala took some lessons from Hillary and found her black accent. I wonder if Kamala is going to also pull out a bottle of hot sauce while being interviewed by black radio hosts to help clinch the black vote.

 

 

[rmgill]

She'll probably pull something made in New York City. 

[Josh]

1 hour ago, rmgill said:

So, Kamala is trying to rebrand as a border hawk. I wonder how that's going to work even with the media trying to use more gaslighting than Victorian London...

Probably just as well as Trump branding himself the best president for the black community since Lincoln.

[Josh]

39 minutes ago, Mr King said:

Kamala took some lessons from Hillary and found her black accent. I wonder if Kamala is going to also pull out a bottle of hot sauce while being interviewed by black radio hosts to help clinch the black vote.

 

 

Pandering is what presidential candidates do, to varying levels of success. Trump claims to be a Christian anti abortion Republican, despite provably not being two of those things two decades ago.

[Skywalkre]

1 hour ago, Ivanhoe said:

Recall that he was getting a decent percentage of votes during the 2020 primary. A dept Secretary position was surely offered as a bribe to get him to quit the race early. Where do you slot someone with no relevant abilities? Transportation.

He won Iowa and got second in New Hampshire but then got absolutely buried in South Carolina.  He was facing Super Tuesday against opponents with lots of money to spend and his own campaign running out of funds.  His campaign was dead in the water, and for various reasons (donors wanting moderates to coalesce so Bernie didn't win, wanting to stay in good graces with D establishment, etc.) he dropped out of the race.

[Mr King]

24 minutes ago, Josh said:

Pandering is what presidential candidates do, to varying levels of success. Trump claims to be a Christian anti abortion Republican, despite provably not being two of those things two decades ago.

Trump should totally affect a black accent at his next rally.

[Ivanhoe]

[DKTanker]

A meeting of minds, the pimp and the hoe.

[17thfabn]

3 hours ago, Mr King said:

Kamala took some lessons from Hillary and found her black accent. I wonder if Kamala is going to also pull out a bottle of hot sauce while being interviewed by black radio hosts to help clinch the black vote.

I seem to remember Al Gore channeling his inner black minister at one time also.

I've known black people who grew up in suburbs who don't typically talk "black" lay on the inner city vibe when they are with other blacks. 

I've known city people to use a southern or country accent when around those groups.

[Josh]

5 hours ago, Mr King said:

Trump should totally affect a black accent at his next rally.

Oh that would be fun.

Tell me, what does a black accent sound like?

 

 

Edited August 2, 2024 by Josh

[Mr King]

6 hours ago, Josh said:

Oh that would be fun.

Tell me, what does a black accent sound like?

 

 

 

Never been around black Americans? That's not surprising.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_English

 

Here is a good video demonstrating the common difference between the accent of whites and blacks.

 

 

[Mr King]

[rmgill]

8 hours ago, Josh said:

Oh that would be fun.

Tell me, what does a black accent sound like?

African American vernacular is derivative of Cornish English. 

Edited August 2, 2024 by rmgill

[Josh]

1 hour ago, Mr King said:

 

Never been around black Americans? That's not surprising.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_English

 

Here is a good video demonstrating the common difference between the accent of whites and blacks.

 

 

I lived three of five boros; I’m familiar with most every accent. Though I admit to difficulty discerning Saudis from Russians at the strip club for reasons I cannot fathom.

[Mr King]

12 minutes ago, Josh said:

I lived three of five boros; I’m familiar with most every accent. Though I admit to difficulty discerning Saudis from Russians at the strip club for reasons I cannot fathom.

All that and I still need to explain to you one of the most common accents in America.

 

[Mr King]

[Ivanhoe]

12 hours ago, 17thfabn said:

I've known black people who grew up in suburbs who don't typically talk "black" lay on the inner city vibe when they are with other blacks. 

I've known city people to use a southern or country accent when around those groups.

Known as "code switching." There's a whole academic sub-industry of linguists and sociologists writing about it. Most writings about code switching make it sound like its caused by systemic racism. To wit;

https://www.popsugar.com/identity/black-students-code-switching-49378911

 

[Josh]

1 hour ago, Mr King said:

All that and I still need to explain to you one of the most common accents in America.

 

Apparently I have to explain sarcasm to you.

[TonyE]

Some premium level kamalaing here, Ol'Joes "lights on but no one home" expression really sets the scene:

 

[Murph]

Kamala Harris in a nutshell:

 

 

[Mr King]

4 hours ago, Josh said:

Apparently I have to explain sarcasm to you.

Sorry, that's the problem with text based communications. It's hard to tell the difference between someone pretending to be an idiot and them actually being an idiot.

[Josh]

9 minutes ago, Mr King said:

Sorry, that's the problem with text based communications. It's hard to tell the difference between someone pretending to be an idiot and them actually being an idiot.

I would think the comedic video link in the same post would make it clear I was joking.