The unfortunate signage gaffe came on the same day Harris announced her VP pick.
J.D. Vance delivered a rally speech Tuesday in Pennsylvania with a backdrop that made it appear he was campaigning for his arch nemesis, Kamala Harris.
The unfortunate signage appeared to stem from the event’s advance team not accounting for its crowd blocking half of a gigantic poster that sat directly behind Vance, which appeared to read in full, “KAMALA CHAOS.”
For those watching on Fox News and other broadcasts, however, the only words clearly visible—in white text on a blue background, in all caps—was simply “Kamala.”
The apparent gaffe quickly went viral on X, where many joked that Harris’ VP choice in Tim Walz, which was announced just prior to Vance’s rally speech, had convinced Trump’s running mate to switch teams.
TDS was always projection from the right. They claimed their opposition was deranged for paying attention while the actual deranged people were frothily defending him against every applicable accusation.
Not as weak as when Trump called her "Lyin' Kamala" and felt obliged to spell out "Lyin'" (including the apostrophe) so that his kultists would get it. I guess he was worried they'd think he was saying "Lion Kamala".
Imagine an animated campaign commercial with a bunch of panicking ragdoll caricatures of Republican ghouls descending into hellfire as a gigantic Kamala Harris rises up in the background taking over the White House, and the words "KAMALA CHAOS" appears on the screen in exactly the same typeface as what's behind J.D. Vance.
The VP debate is gonna be great fun - that is, if Vance can manage to pull himself away from his couch.
But this can also be a teaching moment. In the event that Vance needs some reference material on how one is intended to use a couch, the following may prove useful:
Remember how they were just so sure that little-t was going to win, because....rabid little-t fans were....more enthusiastic and Biden was...campaigning from his basement or whatever? It's still one person, one vote, not like some kind of applause-o-meter is counting the votes...
These same people of course pointed at barking seals at little-t's Nuremberg Rallies, oops, I mean, riling up the rubes in flyover country as some kind of evidence that the election was "stolen".
But it's on target based on the severe chaos of the Biden/Harris administration compared to the smooth, quiet efficiency of the Trump/Pence administration. (Do I need a /s?)
I love how conservatives go out of their way to play identity politics by ensuring there's a token representation of their opponents in the background of every picture. Like, "look one of you is supporting us! So should you!"
The apparent gaffe quickly went viral on X, where many joked that Harris’ VP choice in Tim Walz, which was announced just prior to Vance’s rally speech, had convinced Trump’s running mate to switch teams.
I want to call this accidental subversion, but I feel like that's still ascribing far too much credit to Vance. There was never an ounce of thought about it, it was probably a phrase he saw on twitter a few days before and ordered it for the press conference without even the notion of a thought to how it would appear on tv. Subversion, even accidental, requires some kind of consideration. There was none. If the amount of thought he put into this were an ecosystem, it would be a barren wasteland.
"Kamala Chaos" was what they were calling it when the Stock Market shit the bed, but had to walk back when the market took back most of the loss the next day (as the market tends to do)
Legit… the idea that he’d ever be caught on camera standing in front of a sign that had anyone else’s name besides his own or his running mate’s is just brain dead branding.
I don't think I'd be campaigning for Trump with the word "Chaos"...that is really something that calls back to Trump tweeting nuclear threats against North Korea, hiring Mike Pompeo and firing Rex Tillerson in one tweet publicly before informing them, the Covid mishandling ("re-open by Easter 2020")...on policy folks might just disagree but it's standard politics. The Chaos of the Trump presidency was uniquely of his own making.
Pretty sure JD isn't a fan of Plan B. He wavers, at best:
“There is something sociopathic about a political movement that tells young women (and men) that it is liberating to murder their own children,” he wrote.
“I genuinely feel bad that for days—maybe even weeks—the guy actually had to run away from his Jewish heritage,” Vance said. “I think that’s scandalous and disgraceful.”