2020 Democratic presidential primary

To 90% of white people "Kamala" just reads as "a black lady name."

OTM

Whipped cream pouring like waterfalls!

shit I either didn't realize or just totally forgot that I am older than Tulsi. she comes across at least a decade older than Mayo Pete, which speaks more ill of him than well of her.

...post 1960s black lady name, unless you've been to Phuket, Thailand. I could easily believe it was the original name of Kampala, Uganda.

xp Really? For me it's the opposite & Buttigieg seems 10 years older than he actually is. Maybe Gabbard's desire to tear down the establishment vs. Buttigieg's desperate mission to emulate the worst parts of the establishment is influencing how I see them.

Is "Kamala" a common African-American name? It's (also?) a Hindi name, derived from a Hindu goddess. I'd no idea it was common for people without a Hindu background. Kamala Nehru is probably my first association with it.

https://nameberry.com/babyname/Kamala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala#Given_name

i think it just codes as "other" to a lotta white folks which is close enough

I would have assumed South Asian of some kind, whether Indian or other. In the comics, the current Ms. Marvel is Kamala Khan, a Pakistani immigrant.

Is "Kamala" a common African-American name?

Not at all. But to a middle-aged white American ear, it just sounds "black" like Tonisha, or something. Which I want to be clear is entirely down to the narrow life experiences of the listener.

uh don't forget this dude
https://i.imgur.com/UushyvB.jpg

http://starwrecked.com/contents/celebs/large-pics/Famke-Janssen-as-Kamala-TNG-The-Perfect-Mate-12.jpg

another famous Kamala

It might just be my perception, but it seems like she downplays her Indian roots a bit vs representing herself as a black American.

Is "Kamala" a common African-American name?

It can be read that way if you assume it's pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable (which I did at first).

representing herself as a black American.

Not that it matters to the presidential campaign any more, but growing up in America she would have experienced being treated like a black American far more often than being treated as a south Asian.

Yeah I mean... she IS a black American. The fact that one of her parents is Indian doesn't make her look any less like one of my cousins.

Oh absolutely, I'm not suggesting otherwise, only pointing out that I don't see her Indian heritage discussed nearly as much, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people weren't aware of it.

_Is "Kamala" a common African-American name?_


It can be read that way if you assume it's pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable (which I did at first).

Kamala is also a street and elementary school in the city I lived in (Oxnard, CA).

Dropping out means we'll be deprived of a new Camelot - Kama-lot.

I am not the audience for this ad, but I hope it's being rolled out on TV and not just online. It's not about getting people out to vote for Joe Biden; it's about bumming Trump people out so they stay home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSdf-_xmJg

ah yes that thing Trump voters definitely care about, the opinion of the international community

it's about bumming Trump people out so they stay home.

it won't work - the hilarious thing about the rest of the world hating trump is that conservatives don't WANT the rest of the world to like him. They hate europe, they think the UN is a conspiracy. they don't want to see trump getting along with other world leaders. it doesn't matter that the other world leaders make fun of him - that's because he's a genius and they're jealous, etc

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they voted for a guy who endlessly promised to regain the respect of the world. he's a laughing stock instead. it's very much worth underlining.

plus it'll piss him off and he'll react accordingly.

lol no, half of Americans would prefer the French hate us and the rest of the world genuflect at our might. They don’t give a shit about respect.

it very much looks like the servants laughing at their clueless employer

sadly otm

America has been a laughingstock for decades, kinda like Ted Bundy

half of Americans

again, not half

yeah idk if that ad is gonna be effective, Trump's whole thing is that he pisses off elites and really anyone with a functioning brain which is what conservatives love about him. but it's definitely gonna piss him off so I'm glad it's being run

Not half because the actual percentage is higher. Most Democrats don’t even give a damn what the French think of us.

t won't work - the hilarious thing about the rest of the world hating trump is that conservatives don't WANT the rest of the world to like him. They hate europe, they think the UN is a conspiracy. they don't want to see trump getting along with other world leaders. it doesn't matter that the other world leaders make fun of him - that's because he's a genius and they're jealous, etc

― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone),

It's as if people forget the Bush II era.

oh, for the days when we ate freedom fries because conservatives wanted france to take the US seriously

Today in fuuuuuck Pete Buttigeig:

“My party’s not known for worrying about the deficit or the debt too much but it’s time for us to start getting into that,” Mayor Pete says in NH town hall in response to voter anxious about debt. Says everything his campaign has proposed is paid for.

— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) December 5, 2019

It's not about getting people out to vote for Joe Biden

Nah, this kind of shit is *exactly* why some people want to vote for Biden, and in that sense it does work as a primary ad

If I were running a Democrat’s campaign I wouldn’t spend a penny trying to persuade Trump-leaning voters of anything.

Pete has really turned out to be one of the most disgustingly cynical candidates of my lifetime. He really will say ANYTHING to get you to pat him on the head and call him a good boy.

The McKinsey Manchurian

He's not clever enough to be cynical. In my view he wants to put over inspirational puff clouds of nothingburgers for frightened white people and their lib Cuban American cohort.

it doesn't matter that the other world leaders make fun of him - that's because he's a genius and they're jealous, etc

sadly and predictably, looks this has already come to pass, this morning:

Conway then argued that she thought that the video from NATO was “a very childish, churlish exchange” given how “they were hardly denouncing him.”

Conway added that the video going viral demonstrates how “people looked at this as they usually do on social media with outsized attention.”

“Oh my god, look what they’re doing — what was it really about?” Conway sarcastically said, before arguing that the world leaders mocked Trump because they are “jealous.”

“It was about the fact that President Trump commands the room and he does,” Conway said. “And maybe that makes a couple of people jealous, and certainly churlish.”

John Kerry has endorsed Biden. I don't know if I'd want to be linked with someone who failed to unseat an unpopular idiot president, but hey...

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commands the room so much that he left early and blew off his press conference.

"I'm not sedentary," Biden said, growing agitated. "You want to check my shape man, let's do pushups together here, man. Let's run. Let's do whatever you want to do. Let's take an IQ test. OK?"

Says everything his campaign has proposed is paid for.

turns out "nothing" is free

Kamala Park in Oxnard is named after a park in Mumbai, India: https://www.latlong.net/place/kamala-park-oxnard-ca-usa-810.html

(which was itself named after Kamala Nehru)

Kamala Park in Oxnard

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“My party’s not known for worrying about the deficit or the debt too much but it’s time for us to start getting into that,” Mayor Pete says in NH

hahah holy shit you little fucking worm