It still amuses me greatly how something as low effort and 'non-presidential' as sitting and doing a podcast has had effect on this election.
Like, of all things, the podcasting tours did the best comparison between the two that wasn't behind a veil of media and obsfucation. Trump/Vance showed up on highly popular podcasts everyone knows and just shot the shit like normal people (massively undermining their Nazi labels), while Harris went on a bunch of wierd niche shows with awkward names and came across as unlikable and stupid as always.
This just further shows how much they knew that was the case, and wanted to desperately control it.
People are not necessarily good at judging policy (otherwise socialism would never have worked).
BUT, they do tend to have a "bullshit detector" or "psycho detector" that they've developed over their lives. This is why Amber Herd was doing so well against Johnny Depp until her trail got televised. Then everybody saw through her bullshit almost instantly. This is one of the reasons why so many courts fight to guarantee that juries physically see people testify in front of them, not even over videos or recorded statements.
Not talking about topics allows people to gather an intuition on somebody who is no longer trying to hide who they are, because they don't think the topic is important. You can tell a lot from somebody who is talking off the cuff about something they care about.
But people like Harris can't do that because they are fake people. She's a complete fraud, and she knows it, and she's so insecure that she requires constant affirmation and is wildly intolerant of anyone who doesn't placate her. Or worse, like Walz, they fucking crazy. I maintain that Walz is extremely violent. The little reaction he gave to his disabled kid on stage was something I've seen in a hundred abusive parents. His, dumb, plucky, middle-school football coach act wasn't going to fool me after that. That's a dude who throws chairs at walls when he gets angry. His nearly shaking & red with rage response in the VP debate had me fucking nervous for Vance's safety.
It still amuses me greatly how something as low effort and 'non-presidential' as sitting and doing a podcast has had effect on this election.
Like, of all things, the podcasting tours did the best comparison between the two that wasn't behind a veil of media and obsfucation. Trump/Vance showed up on highly popular podcasts everyone knows and just shot the shit like normal people (massively undermining their Nazi labels), while Harris went on a bunch of wierd niche shows with awkward names and came across as unlikable and stupid as always.
This just further shows how much they knew that was the case, and wanted to desperately control it.
People are not necessarily good at judging policy (otherwise socialism would never have worked).
BUT, they do tend to have a "bullshit detector" or "psycho detector" that they've developed over their lives. This is why Amber Herd was doing so well against Johnny Depp until her trail got televised. Then everybody saw through her bullshit almost instantly. This is one of the reasons why so many courts fight to guarantee that juries physically see people testify in front of them, not even over videos or recorded statements.
Not talking about topics allows people to gather an intuition on somebody who is no longer trying to hide who they are, because they don't think the topic is important. You can tell a lot from somebody who is talking off the cuff about something they care about.
But people like Harris can't do that because they are fake people. She's a complete fraud, and she knows it, and she's so insecure that she requires constant affirmation and is wildly intolerant of anyone who doesn't placate her. Or worse, like Walz, they fucking crazy. I maintain that Walz is extremely violent. The little reaction he gave to his disabled kid on stage was something I've seen in a hundred abusive parents. His, dumb, plucky, middle-school football coach act wasn't going to fool me after that. That's a dude who throws chairs at walls when he gets angry. His nearly shaking & red with rage response in the VP debate had me fucking nervous for Vance's safety.
Paulie walnuts throwing a chair at a window "fucking queers".