Exhausted much, Donald?
  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    2371·
    9 days ago

    Once Biden stepped aside and endorsed Harris, Trump’s entire campaign strategy was upended, making him the oldest candidate on the campaign trail and exposing faults in his logic.

    Wtf, “exposing faults in his logic”? Why do the media continue to do everything they can to portray Trump as a reasonable man making logical plans for how best to govern?

            • stoly@lemmy.world
              211·
              8 days ago

              Because this is common knowledge and you can google the information for yourself. You’re attempting to interject doubt into the conversation using a dog whistle.

                • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
                  41·
                  8 days ago

                  Concern trolling is the most annoying troll, too. “I’m just asking questions” and circle arguments over and over.

              • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
                31·
                8 days ago

                That’s not a dog whistle, a dog whistle is a phrase or word that has a special meaning to group its intended to been received by. I.e. something that will only be noticed and picked up by them.

                • stoly@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  8 days ago

                  That’s where the concern trolling comes in. The troll is the concern part, the dog whistle is what is behind it.

              • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
                121·
                8 days ago

                I don’t know if OP is a republican but I find their response strange, almost like they got caught chatting shit.

                As far as I can tell comicsands.com is associated with George Takei which seems to refute their assertion that it’s some far right publication.

                • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  61·
                  8 days ago

                  I wouldn’t assume they’re a republican, just that they assumed you were sealioning when you weren’t.

            • jaemo@sh.itjust.works
              41·
              8 days ago

              Heigh ho. Have another downvote! Collect enough and maybe you can get a discount on that sanewashing detergent. You’re using it at an alarming rate.

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              41·
              8 days ago

              Because it’s not the job of random internet strangers to do research of widely available information for you?

              • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14·
                8 days ago

                So the concept that if you state something as a fact you should be able to prove it, that’s just not something we do here?

                • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  31·
                  8 days ago

                  So if we were having a discussion about WW2, and I mentioned the Holocaust, you would make me prove to you that it’s real before continuing the conversation?

                  Or… Is it something that has been thoroughly researched, with a general consensus among experts about the specifics so therefore doesn’t need to be proven every time it’s mentioned?

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          162·
          8 days ago

          Bullshit, that’s a well-known fact at this point. You’re sealioning.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      191·
      8 days ago

      A combination of “The owner of the company is a right winger” and “We need to make both sides look equally incompetent, even when one side is shitting himself and the other side has actual policy.”

      Used to it was just the latter, now we also have the former.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    902·
    9 days ago

    OK so I don’t have Twitter and I have social media blocked basically so I wanted to see the ad, right? I went to YouTube to pull it up.

    It was really bizarre - if you search for “Harris ad trump sleeping” you get about 100 - OK 20 of the exact same clip from any number of local TV stations (most of the Fox) where Trump claims Harris is sleeping. And one - exactly one - MSNBC clip, which runs for 12 minutes talking about “exhausted” trump, and doesn’t even show the Harris ad. The Harris ad did not appear in the search at all.

    Now I’m not “signed in“ there, I don’t have cookies or anything so I’m just some random browser showing up asking to see the Harris ad and seeing 90% Trump ads.

    I don’t know what else going on at YouTube, other than it’s awful and worse than ever, and appears to be subsumed with Trump crap.

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
      45·
      9 days ago

      I tried finding the Harris interview on Fox there, and just like you, there were so many videos uploaded by randos that could have easily been manipulated, so I just went to the actual Faux website to watch it. Google wants Trump to win so they can buy their way to total dominance.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        191·
        9 days ago

        Not just that, but I was watching some video about i dunno, some kinda hardware, or something - nothing even particularly recent or popular - and the comments underneath it were so obviously and horribly bots. They all used the exact same words, they all used the exact same phrasing, and they all had different user names. Just one after the other, probably 100 of them

        So I think YouTube has abandoned attempts to make it good - or even usable - probably for profit reasons. Enter russia4trump

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        21·
        8 days ago

        Good point - but it didn’t work in my mastodon app (it linked to the tweet but as I say I have that blocked). I did read up on the Kamala tag though, so thanks for the pointer!

    • JWBananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      The video was a tweet. You won’t find it searching for an ad. It was embedded in the article.

  • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
    24·
    8 days ago

    I have occasional narcoleptic spells. I’ll just nod off for a few seconds at a time.

    But I’m not running for president while pretending that I’m the healthiest person to ever have been healthy.

        • Deadful@lemmy.world
          9·
          8 days ago

          Sleep technologist with 18y experience here.

          I don’t mean to nitpick, but you’re likely just sleep deprived. You probably don’t get enough sleep or the quality of your sleep just isn’t very good because of an issue like sleep apnea. When your sleep sucks, a simple bump in blood sugar from lunch is enough to throw you into a neck-breaking tailspin. The more you know… 🌠

          • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
            4·
            8 days ago

            Huh

            Bloody hell, from making a joke to actual advice. Sleep quality might be the issue, because I’ve tried various sleep lengths, no caffeine, no hectic stimulation or all the other advice you’ll read online. I’ll have that checked out. Thanks for the tip!

            • Furbag@lemmy.world
              6·
              8 days ago

              If you’re being for real, see a doctor. You most likely have sleep apnea, it’s way more common than people think and infrequently diagnosed. The doctor will probably set you up to do a sleep study, which is far less troublesome than it used to be a number of years ago. Before they would have you go into a facility, strap you into all their probes and monitors and sensors, and then you attempt sleep there while someone monitored you throughout most of the night. These days, they send you home with a little finger clamp and you can do your normal routine. You drop it off the next morning and then you get your results like a week later.

              As troublesome as it is being on sleep therapy with CPAP, the quality of sleep I get now that I’m on it and used to it is night and day better. I sleep soundly throughout the whole night, I have vivid dreams again, I don’t wake up to pee at 3am anymore, and I don’t get headaches or migraines anymore when I sleep in on weekends. Most of all, I’m not nodding off during the day or getting road delirium/drowsy driving which is what drove me to seek help in the first place.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    102·
    9 days ago

    She should hit Trump back with some nicknames like what Trump does to other people.

    Sleepy Don. Meatball Don.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    211·
    8 days ago

    By contrast, Joshua R. Simmons, Harris’s White House doctor released

    I love how the grade-school English gaffe by the ‘professional’ writer reads as if he’s calling us Joshua. The American ghost-comma strikes again, delimiting the subclause in spirit only.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      For the haters, that sub clause should be Harris’ White House doctor. That’s the side context they’re trying to bring in. They also could have just not named the guy.