At the top of his first speech as her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz turned to Vice President Kamala Harris and declared, “Thank you for bringing back the joy.” The next day, Harris took the theme a step further, branding the Democratic ticket “joyful warriors.”

Contrast that with former President Donald Trump, who opened a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida a few days later by saying, “We have a lot of bad things coming up,” and predicting the U.S. could fall into an economic depression unseen since the dark days of 1929 or even another world war.

“I think that our country is, right now, in the most dangerous position it’s ever been in, from an economic standpoint, from a safety standpoint,” Trump said Thursday.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    44·
    3 months ago

    I don’t get the impression Trump has experienced a single day of actual JOY in his whole life.

    The closest I can imagine is Smug Satisfaction:

    • Closed a big real estate deal?
    Smug Satisfaction

    • Won a golf game (with or without cheating)?
    Smug Satisfaction

    • Successful Tax Evasion?
    Smug Satisfaction

    • Fathered a child?
    Smug Satisfaction

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      3 months ago

      Won a golf game without cheating?

      Yeah I’m not convinced he’s done that. This weird asshole cheats every chance he gets, even if the outcome is already a given.

      • Ack@lemmy.ca
        111·
        3 months ago

        I had the same thought. It should be:

        Won a golf game and they didn’t see me cheat?

        Or maybe:

        Won a golf game and they were too intimidated to complain when they saw me cheat?

        • thefartographer@lemm.ee
          6·
          3 months ago

          I’m pretty sure I remember reading an article about one of his butt-sniffers praising Donald Trump for being such a comedian and a genius because of how much he cheated in his round of golf just to win

    • Delusional@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’m sure he gets some joy out of stealing money from cancer charities or cheating on his wives with women who look like his daughter. He probably also gets joy from lying to millions of people daily and them believing his dumbass lies.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    101·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know if Harris is pushing joy, but enthusiasm and relief on the part of supporters is palpable.

    Trump? That’s the conservative MO. Everything is fear. Fear of immigrants, fear of government, fear of their own god, fear of anyone not resigning themselves to their station, fear of anything that questions their religion, fear of being questioned with actual logic, fear of LGBTQ, fear of anything that doesn’t conform to their selfish and myopic worldview… and that’s how they keep people in line. If you don’t conform to those fears, you’re out. Exclusion is another fear.

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    411·
    3 months ago
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  • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    327·
    3 months ago

    Nothing has changed but the face, she has no policy in place so we are to assume she’s keeping Biden’s, which has been a disaster. People are getting excited about keeping things the same.

    • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      The Biden administration was incredible on everything except Gaza, with Harris being even further left so far with a full endorsement of the PRO Act, there’s lots to hope for with Harris.

      • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        119·
        3 months ago

        There is nothing to hope for with another democrat. We’ve seen them pull back the football for decades. They can’t be trusted

        • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world
          61·
          3 months ago

          Oh a Third Partyer? Have fun joining the crowd of people who have been trying for the past century. If you’d actually like to engage in good faith political analysis you would see that both parties are incredibly different than a century ago and can be changed.

          • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
            110·
            3 months ago

            Imagine trying to call out 3rd party voter as trying for the past century, while being a Democrat that keeps doing the same thing over and over and wondering why they keep failing

            • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world
              41·
              3 months ago

              a Democrat that keeps doing the same thing over and over and wondering why they keep failing

              I haven’t been failing though? The party is much more progressive than the era of Clinton and Carter, Sanders even running in the Democratic primary would’ve been unimaginable a few decades ago, let alone him almost winning to the point where corporate dems had to pull out every single trick to try and stop it.

              Even with them trying to stop Bernie, he’s the most popular politician, and his supporters now make up a large percentage of the Democratic supporters and activists.