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House Republican leaders told lawmakers to focus on criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ record without reference to her race and gender, following caustic remarks from some Republicans attacking her on the basis of identity.

During a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning, chair of the House GOP campaign arm Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) and others issued the warning after a series of comments by their members that focused on Harris’ race as well as claims she is a “DEI” pick, according to two people in the room.

In the 48 hours since President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Republican leaders have tried to train their criticism of the presumptive Democratic nominee on her handling of the border and her plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress.

But several Republicans immediately took the criticism in a different direction. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Monday that Harris was a “DEI vice president” and Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) over the weekend questioned if Democrats are sticking by her “because of her ethnic background.” If nominated, Harris would be the first Black and South Asian woman to be a major party nominee.

so nerds how many days until a chud politician calls Kamala the n-word live?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They've gone all in on DEI. Is woke out now? Maybe because they could never define it when asked

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago

woke wasn't explicitly racist enough

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Of course they would focus on her ethnicity instead of her all-round awfulness

It's like asking a european to not fellate american boots. Mindless dogs can't help themselves

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

They can't focus on that because cops and ”tough punishments for criminals” are some of the things they love the most.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Imagining a major European center-left party nominating a Romani candidate for PM/President and the reactionaries shitting the bed so hard raging about it that they get the Romani equivalent of Keir Starmer elected

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

It's pretty hard to imagine a level of racism towards Roma that Europeans would consider too much, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

But remember, the facts don't matter that much!

They could recast her as a progressive prosecutor and just generally incompetent. The have all the talking points lined up for the first part from campaigns against Larry Krasner, Chesa Boudin, etc. For the second part, they could just cherry pick a few cases someone in her office messed up (or just had an egregious result, regardless of what her office did) and spam coverage about those (like the old Willie Horton ads).

It'd rile up the chuds and make Harris have to figure out how to present her record to Democrats who have pretty varied opinions on how DAs should act.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Everything that makes her genuinely awful is something that appeals to their base and themselves. Every bad thing she did as AG is fucking awesome to them. This is all they have.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Some obscure 19th century racist word will be said on a hot mic before Halloween 2024

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, some Senator whose parents were Civil War veterans is going to call her a "trolley howler" or something that everyone will have to look up, but will turn out to be worse than the n-word.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

I can't believe you just dropped that with a hard "T." Mods! Mods! i-spil-my-jice

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

It ends up being Biden

lathe-of-heaven

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

lathe-of-heaven

JD Vance forced to drop out and replaced by Vince McMahon after calling Kamala a "swarthy quadroon"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Your latheing skills are too powerful because you already made it happen!

CW: slur in article

(https://moco360.media/2024/03/25/rep-david-trone-apologizes-for-accidentally-using-racial-slur/)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Holy fuck he actually did use a Ruckus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Goddammit. Sometimes I regret having these awesome powers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

EDIT: wrong reply

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Ironically Kamala is indeed “forced diversity.”. You will never convince me that Dixie Joe knew who she even was and willingly picked her before accidentally promising to choose a black woman as VP. For fuck’s sake she dropped out before it even began.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think Joe would definitely remember the "that little girl was me" from the debate. His brain may have been melting but anything that hurt his massive ego would stick for sure.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Man I forgot the joe Biden that was in the election, that was an entirely different world.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

how do you think Joe Biden became president? he won the 2020 nomination solely because of his association with Obama, and he was really only appointed VP because he was a segregationist old white man who could appeal to casually racist white moderates. Biden's polls peaked only around 3-4% in the 2008 primaries, Kamala at least peaked up to 16% in her run

strategically obama would've never picked a woman or another poc for the ticket. so you can reasonably say biden only got where he is for his race and gender

also, harris was probably also pretty calculated, not just a pity pick. having a woc perceived as being progressive while not actually believing in anything was perfect for pulling naive progressive libs. a white male + white male ticket wouldn't have done him any favors and she was assertive while more human-seeming than the other candidates

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

They can't help themselves

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If anything loses them the election its going to be this. 100% the racist freaks in the GOP are not going to be able to stop themselves from doing endlessly misgynoir, to a point that normal people (who are still racist, but they dont usually like it to be so overt) are going to be offput.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Average racists when they hear Republicans talk about Kamala

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

GOP gonna alienate the silent majority of their base that fully agrees with all the tenants of racism except for being loud and annoying about it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Failing the crucial “be normal” rule

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The kind of crackkkers that get kicked out of a klan rally for being too racist.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

You'd think Republicans would understand there are plenty of class traitors that are also not white or straight and it wouldn't be an issue anymore for them, but then they would have to stop scapegoating and actually have to do something for the people. collusion

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

spongebob-i-fucking-love I CANT DO IT

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Somebody is going to perform the entire Uncle Ruckus litany at that woman

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I feel like they're going to figure out how to do it as overtly as possible with some amount of plausible deniability. The word "removedrdly" comes to mind from the whole public debacle 20+ years ago.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

removedrdly

frothingfash nooooo sremovedhorpe strikes again!!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It's must be the Dew