Fakala? Have Republicans Finally Come Up With A Brand For Kamala?
JD Vance: “She’s fundamentally a fake person who changes her tune depending on what audience she’s in front of.”
So I’m minding my own business, scrolling through my X feed, and I see some video clips of JD Vance swatting away cheap shots from Jon Karl (ABC) and Dana Bash (CNN). He also was on CBS Face the Nation, but I haven’t seen any clips of that.
He did really well, but that’s not what’s most interesting to me. It’s the conduct of the interviewers, constantly interrupting and talking over Vance and arguing with him.
.@JDVance: We have a wide-open border because our border czar set open border policies.
FAKE NEWS @JonKarl: *repeats lie that Kamala isn't border czar*
VANCE: That's what the media called her. She assumed the title. She had control over a lot of our border policy at a time when… pic.twitter.com/We510RVbpM
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 11, 2024
Vance: Dana, do you think it is a problem that he said he went to war but he did not actually?
Bash: Well, they have corrected that.
Vance: They corrected it by admitting he lied.
Bash: Let’s move on.
pic.twitter.com/lVX9f4IgQu— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) August 11, 2024
But this one really caught my attention, Vance making the point that Kamala is not running a campaign, she’s making a movie, she’s fake.
Kamala Harris isn’t running a presidential campaign. She’s producing a movie. Everything is scripted everywhere she goes.
She’s fundamentally a fake person who changes her tune depending on what audience she’s in front of.
Kamala Harris isn’t running a presidential campaign. She’s producing a movie. Everything is scripted everywhere she goes.
She’s fundamentally a fake person who changes her tune depending on what audience she’s in front of. pic.twitter.com/HrCKF9XXSM
— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 11, 2024
To brand someone effectively, there has to be some truth in what you say. That’s why “Low Energy Jeb” was so effective – people heard it and laughed and thought, yeah, he is low energy. You have to exploit what people already are inclined to believe.
So is being a fake Kamala’s brand? Certainly there is plenty to paint that picture, such as her varying accents depending on the crowd, her empty suit intellect, and changing almost every major policy position she had just a month ago. There’s a truth there to her fakery, and it easily could be turned into her brand.
Then I read this tweet from political consultant Alex Castellano. It’s long so you have to click on the tweet to read the full text, but he’s arguing that Trump needs to find one theme against Kamala and stick to it, and Kamala being a faker is it. Here’s the key part:
Then, in an unfortunate prisoner exchange, Joe Biden lost his job — and the Trump campaign lost its focus. Though the election has changed, and Trump’s old adversary has left the building, Trump is still running against Joe Biden. He is not running against the new candidate in front of him.
Harris has many debilities, but she is not Joe Biden. She is not perceived as part of the old, self-serving Washington establishment whose opposition breathes life into Trump.
Harris does not look like the past: She offers the promise and possibility of a new generation. She does not look like the Washington establishment: She’s the first black and the first woman to gain the presidential nomination of either party.
More importantly, Harris killed the King. She slayed the reigning figurehead of the tired, old Washington establishment. Regicide, along with race, youth, and gender, now make her a political outsider – an equal, in that aspect, to her opponent.
Trump could claim Biden was exactly what he appeared to be: a dangerously weak, liberal failure. To stop Harris, the Trump campaign must explain the opposite: Harris is not what she appears to be at all…..
The best campaign Trump can run against Harris-Walz has the fundamental structure of a horror movie: These two radicals claim they are like you? It’s a trick! The call is coming from inside the house! Watch out for the axe! Whack!
The contrast between what Kamala Harris is trying to become 90 days before an election and her beliefs three short weeks ago is emotional dynamite, providing tremendous dramatic power. Trump has time to turn this election around.
But Trump must stop running against Joe Biden and run against the fake, new Kamala Harris.
Don’t Let Kamala Fake You
At this pivotal moment in the campaign, I hope you’ll allow me to don my old consultant hat and share a lengthier collection of thoughts…
How does Donald Trump beat an opponent who is so ethically flexible that she is even capable of doing the right…
— Alex Castellanos (@alexcast) August 11, 2024
Low Energy Kamala? Nah.
Fakala?
UPDATE (08-12-2024)
Leave it to the NY Post headline writers to come up with something good.
Today's cover: Kamala Harris is being recast as a centrist Dem — but the radical truth is plain to see https://t.co/feOtpuI9D3 pic.twitter.com/EDNlM799VS
— New York Post (@nypost) August 12, 2024
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Finally?
Wasn’t it obvious that this was the theme from day one?
Fake race.
Fake border czar.
Fake nomination process.
Fake position on fracking.
Fake AI-generated crowds.
Fake accent.
Fake position on taxing tips.
It’s all fake.
Fake running mate
And completely enabled and supported by the CORRUPT US media.
If Fakala is adopted and pronounced in the same way we are admonished to pronounce Kamala, it will sound very dirty indeed. Dirty and apt.
Shamala.
Conala.
Fakamala. Works better than Fakala, as there is no confusion or doubt about who is being talked about.
“Fakala” sounds too much like “faygala,” pidgin-Yiddish for a gay man. Also the long “a” sound is not found in the pronunciation of Kamala’s name.
“Obamala” not only repeats the “ah” sound in Kamala but also accurately reveals the true nature of the candidate, her patron, and actual authority should Kamala be elected as the nominal president.
Barackala. Sorry.
Count Barackala…?
“Faygala” is real Yiddish. I believe it means “little bird”, which is why it was applied to gay men.
Yes, at least if you speak Yiddish with a Litvish accent, a feigel (like bagel) is a bird, so a feigele is a little birdie. With a Polish, Galician, or Hungarian accent it would be foigel and foigele.
I got what little Yiddish I have from my Bubby. Her family came from around Kiev, or so I was told. She was the first in her family born here but spoke Yiddish at home. Mostly, I just learned the Yiddish curses, which she would yell at us when we broke things and made messes.
My mother understands Yiddish (though she doesn’t speak it) but it was pretty much lost by my generation.
Kiev was kind of a border area as far as Yiddish accents were concerned. People in that area might have pronounced that first vowel to rhyme with “kale”, “coil”, or even “cole”. So feigele, foygele, or fowgele.
Yeah, a lot of people in my grandparents’ generation only used Yiddish to discuss things they didn’t want their kids to understand, so a lot of people in my parents’ generation never learned it.
Wouldn’t Galicianer be feigeleh but with the ei pronounced like the i in bicycle?
No, the vowel in question is not a tzeireh but a cheylom, or as Galitzianers say, choilom. The original German word is “Vogel”.
At least, I think that’s correct. I’ll have to ask some Poilishe how they pronounce it.
Interesting about the cheylom. The name fayge (bird) is usually spelled with two yuds, which is a tsere, so I just assumed the spelling would be the same.
Make it sound like momala.
Sad to say, many people have a high opinion of BO!
Even a lot of Republicans, and I cannot understand why. Barky was an inept incompetent who was unable to do anything. It was only lucky for Barky that destruction takes little skill. And Barky’s Indonesian sensibilities allowed him to be totally disconnected from America and American culture so that he was fine pushing everything to the breaking point and past – as with BarkCare, that was shot down 6 or 7 times, where all of the American leftists even had assumed that it was finally dead. The rest of the left learned that lesson – ignore everything and keep pushing until you get it or everything breaks (because no one on the left ever suffered any punishments for these actions)
Obamala sounds too much like the Yiddish affectionate diminutive form of Obama, tatele.
Rabbi Tuckman agrees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GXrZLoH_q4
I don’t think this will work. She is not going to anger enough people in her base to cause a significant defection. More importantly, swing voters and conservatives that really don’t like Trump and are looking for a reason to vote the other way might see this as a sign that Harris is willing to move towards the center on policy instead of being totally loyal to the crazy leftists. She is a flip flopper but *news flash* she is a politician trying to win. I just don’t think enough of the right people will care, and some may actually be encouraged.
It’s not for her base, but to communicate to people being manipulated by her dissembling and genuine lack of authenticity. It’s how to counter the joy of it all, by attacking it and her team as intentionally hiding the truth about who they are and what they will do.
But I think it works the other way, too: Kamala’s willingness to flip flop her way to the center is also a signal that when she says a bunch of leftist nonsense, it can be at least partially dismissed as just red meat for her base that she has no intensions of following through on. Essentially it actually makes her less scary to the people she needs to vote for her. I do not think Trump and Vance are doing a very good job of showing people how left she is or has been and it is more likely that the Harris campaign is going the have more success at easing anxiety over her past. I don’t like her or her politics but it appears to me that she is willing to play a smarter game and therefore it is more likely that she will win.
Kamala is no producer. She’s not a director. She’s not even an actress. Kamala is an extra who hit the casting couch with Harvey to get a couple of lines thrown in.
She has reportedly slept her way almost to the top!
How about something simple … like “Dingbat”?
JD Vance comes across as a very credible, disciplined, insightful, articulate leader – I’m very impressed and this speaks to Trump’s judgement. He keeps making the Walz lies, not about Walz but about the judgment of Harris for picking a b/ser. He is in his stride. Mike Pence would not have pulled this off this performance. If the Trump Vance ticket wins, some credit should accrue to JD.
Fake-a-mella
skamala
Kamaliar
Good info from the Professor and Castellanos. I think Fakamala is pretty good, although I don’t think nicknames win elections.
I think of her as Commie La Harris.
“More importantly, Harris killed the King. She slayed the reigning figurehead of the tired, old Washington establishment.”
Bullshit. She was coincidentally in the same city when it happened, that’s as close as she got to it.
Diamond & Silk coined “The Fraud Broad.”
I think KamaChameleon works just fine.
A tune’already written needing just a few lyric changes.
Yeah, if you’re ancient. That’s from the ’80s; you do realize that was 40 years ago, right? You only have to be 18 to vote; the twentieth century is ancient history to them. The 80s might as well be the 40s to them or the 1800s.
For us, sure, it’s fine. But it’s not going to resonate beyond us old timers. 😛
Boy George was ahead of his time. Posted further down but want to make sure someone sees my latest flash of brilliance. The entire Presidential race could be labeled Trump/Vance vs “The Weasels”. I googled weasel after my post and the definition fits them both perfectly
Whippersnapper.
Hee!
I kind think The Original Hawk Tauh Girl works. HTG
Looks like kneepads and assuming the position will only get a fake person so far. This time, to the Vice Presidency.
SCAMALA!
Just this morning I was thinkin’ bout how Walz got out of his Iraq deployment. He weaseled out. Then I thought how “Weasel Walz” would perhaps be a more socially acceptable moniker than “No Balls Walz”.
Back when I was a kid, “Weasel Waltz” would have been a tune and a dance fad.
I completely disagree with this name calling. I said in 2017 that Trump would never be reelected if he did not become “Presidential”. I have not changed my view. Trump needs to articulate specifically what the Biden-Harris policies have been for 3.5 years, what he delivered as President and that he would repeat what he has already done. Harris should not be allowed to escape “Border Czar”, the resulting Laken Rileys, or the fact that she cast the tie-breaking votes in the Senate for the two major Biden-Harris administration spending bills that caused all the inflation. It was her policy and her vote that gave us that. I have not seen the latter mentioned even once by Trump or Vance.
The Fakin’ Jamaican
Descended from a slave holder no less, according to her own father.
Many have commented that Kamala’s tie-breaking Senate votes on major administration spending bills have caused the inflation we’ve observed since 2021-22. Do people really believe that she made her own decisions on those tie-breaking votes? She was only doing what administration puppetmasters told her to do. She may not even have read the summaries of the bills she was voting on. Such is her exposure to the nuts and bolts of legislating. It’s all part of the marketing/movie-making deception that is Kamala Harris.
If “she was only doing what administration puppetmasters told her to do”, and avoids any accountability, then she is not qualified for the job of President. By the way, Biden has been in the same boat since 2020.
Chewbakala?
I’m happy with just calling her Kamala.
Look up the Finnish translation of her name.
Good enough for me.
Kamala is absolutely kamala!
What a horrible name for a child.
It’s very hard to use her name in a meme. Any meme’s created by President Trumps or his digital team will be called racist the minute it hits internet. Just stay on the economy, border, out of control spending. In fact, just call her Ms Harris. She won’t know what to do about a courteous addressing of her name. Now the rest of us….call her what she and waltzing Matilda are, COMMUNISTS! FKH
I prefer Comrade madame vice prostitute.
Yeah, let’s call our opponents names….that’ll get them!! 🙄 Queue theme music from Titanic.
Big ship sinking fast.
sounds like a middle eastern dish
Troubala. She eclipsed Trump in the polls last week (I haven’t checked Monday). And we all know that a ‘statistical tie’ in a state run by Ds will somehow tip in their favor.
Branding a politician as a ”flip-flopper” is actually complimenting her on being a good politician. I think Rs should continue to hound her not only on the top polling issues of Economy and Immigration, but keep mentioning that KH wants men in the ladies room, riots, and people judged by their skin color. The latter issues are where a lot of Ds hate their own party.
How about the name “Chicken Little” for Walz.?
I like to call her Kama-ooh-la-la, but I agree name-calling dilutes the message about her character and the job she has done as V.P.
Speaking of politics … I love Trump but I am sick, absolutely sick, of the Republicans constant texts. It is 3:00 pm on a Wednesday, and I’ve already received 10 political texts from the darn Republicans. A family member is having a baby, but, hey, their texts are likely to get lost in the barrage of Republican texts. Friends are trying to organize a dinner … but the RNC doesn’t care. They just inundate me with their damn propaganda. Make that 11 texts by 3:07 pm. May they rot in Hell.