95 points

True dickheads make fun of how other people laugh. Laughter is a pure form of human expression, a way for people to open up and connect to each other. It is a low-hanging fruit to use when insulting someone.

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16 points

This is a dog whistle. She laughs like a woman (of color). I don’t think white men laugh in the same way, so every time you point this out, you effectively say that she’s not a white man.

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72 points

Yes. Keep talking about this, Republicans! This is the perfect thing to show everytime right wingers come up with some stupid slander:

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7 points

Looks like trump is melting.

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70 points

Out of curiosity, I clicked the “Kamala Harris laughing compilation for 2 minutes straight” Twitter link. Her laugh doesn’t seem particularly objectionable to me, or even unusual. It’s just a woman having a good time. If anything, it made me smile.

What an odd thing to criticize. It says a lot more about him than it does about her.

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They’re bullies. Like, actual, factual, grade-school bullies.

*Also, here’s a non-twitter link for everyone: https://files.catbox.moe/dtcdcr.mp4

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6 points

Thank you for the catbox file! Seriously, she sounds fun and perfectly normal. However, to the repressed conservative, I can understand their scorn. If they can’t laugh without going to hell then no one can!

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39 points

I believe the joke here is that he has literally never seen a woman laugh or have a good time in his presence

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Anyone who doesn’t find that video endearing has something seriously disturbed going on in their head.

This is the first time I can recall having someone so human and genuine run for the presidency. Obama was close, but he was also so polished and reserved, probably because he felt he needed to be as the first black president. Kamala seems like someone who’s really speaking from the heart, and I think that’s what America needs most right now.

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19 points

There’s nothing special about her laugh… Republicans must have a very boring life if they never laughed like that…

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17 points

He doesn’t want her to have a good time, or for her to show she’s relatable.

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13 points

It could very well be as simple as that. He doesn’t necessarily hate her laugh. He hates the fact that she’s happy.

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8 points

Nah it’s just bullying. The way you make someone stop doing something is to make fun of it.

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16 points

Thanks for sharing that. Watching it made me happy. Her laugh is fun.

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14 points

I feel like they’re desperately trying to replicate the Dean Scream to invalidate her.

Problem is, I feel like condensing a quirk into a memeable video nowadays would only accelerate a campaign. Memes are so good at marketing that brands have been trying to harness them for a while.

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9 points

There’s not enough footage to make a video of Trump laughing for two minutes. Man has no sense of humour.

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6 points

They also made fun of AOC for dancing like a normal human being.

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53 points

Make America Laugh Again

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28 points

Ka-MALA

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40 points

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3 points

Also, do it in an ugly Ford.

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15 points

Now THAT’S a campaign poster.

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11 points

Keep Awesomely Making America Laugh Again?

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40 points

…while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

-Nate White, on why British people don’t like Donald Trump

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To be honest, as a brit, when he first started running the first time I thought he was a ( literal) joke candidate. Like a US comedian that did absurd characters along the lines of Sacha Baron Cohen.

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As did many of us. It’s still hard to believe those four years were real, but it seems like we’re still recovering from some unfortunate overdose of some drug we still don’t understand

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This is the GOP throwing a fit in their death throes. Either take down the country in their fit or their party dies forever. It was fitting they chose this child to throw their tantrum for them

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