Via The Daily Beast: J.D. Vance’s Backdrop Makes It Look Like He’s Campaigning for ‘Kamala’.
Oops.
The sign says “Kamala Chaos” but I guess no one remembered that people would be standing there.
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@Not the IT Dept.: Ha!
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Oh, lord. Someone is in a lot of trouble…
These things are bound to happen every once in a while, but professional campaign staff are tasked with thinking four steps ahead (my family thinks this is why I have a tendency to catastrophize) and should be able to visualize how things will look on camera or in a photo. This is an amateurish mistake.
One might almost say this is the type of mistake that happens when one decides to gut the RNC of most of its experienced staff.
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@Jen:
One might almost say this is the type of mistake that happens when one decides to gut the RNC of most of its experienced staff.
One might, indeed.
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Right! One of my dislikes of Kamala is that she seems too centrist for my taste, this makes her sound bad ass.
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@wr:
I hadn’t heard about the IA statement, but a friend of mine who is a union rigging foreman,told me that it’s all the talk among the Philadelphia union riggers.
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@EddieInCA:
I missed saying this yesterday, but I saw your note about taking a break and totally wish you well and think it’s great you are doing things to help your mental and emotional health! -
@Jen:
professional campaign staff […] should be able to visualize how things will look on camera or in a photo. This is an amateurish mistake.
They were busy finding every brown person in attendance and putting them behind JD Vance.
I am 100% positive that the crowd behind him does not look a lot like the crowd in front of him.
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@EddieInCA: Wow! I thought the union statement was just a little joke on wr’s part, and almost responded that it would be a great idea to actually make that statement! Good to see someone in Union leadership with their head screwed on tight.
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@Bill Jempty: Looks like they missed it by *that* much..
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Apparently the Vance crowd was also given signs saying, “Lyin’ Kamala, You’re Fired!” Except “Lyin’ Kamala” was written in a small, light colored font that is barely visible against the white sign. So when the crowd waved them, it looked like they were telling Vance “You’re Fired!” in big, dark blue letters. Link
It almost seems like a deliberate attempt to sabotage Vance by someone on the Trump team!
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@MarkedMan: ” I thought the union statement was just a little joke on wr’s part,”
No, there was actually a tweet! I saw it somewhere and would post a link, but can’t remember where it was!
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@Monala: That is another really, really basic mistake.
I wondered WTH the “you’re fired” signs were when I saw them being waved around.Sign design has pretty clear rules: signs must easy to read from a distance, use bold lettering and pay attention to things like potential acronyms if you line up the text (for example, don’t line up Schools Have Infinite Time on a sign), and make sure that any messages aren’t lost due to font or color choices.
I am starting to wonder if this is less a case of gutting the RNC than the ones left in the wreckage trying to exact some revenge (or, have some fun?).
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@Jen:
Sign rules:
There is a neighborhood near me that has streets signs posted. No idea what they are about, because the text on it is essay-length. To read it all, one would have to get out of their car.
I’ll snap a pic next time I see it.
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Not to defend JD Vance and his campaign staff, but it is not impossible that every white person in attendance was standing behind him as well…..
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It just occurred to me that every campaign, D and R, has wranglers that pick out likely looking folks from the crowd to populate the background for photo ops.
That’s kinda fucked up.
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I got a fund raising letter from Trumo and the RNC today in the mail.
He spent money mailing to me. A San Diego registered democrat.
And the letter was all about saving the country from Joe Biden. No mention of future president Harris at all.
This is the level of competence we saw in Trumps management of Covid too.
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@de stijl:
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@Tony W:
I get unskippable video ads for politicians all the time *for states I don’t live in*! As in, many, many hundreds of times.
Google/YouTube can’t figure out what state I live in. I get candidate ads for Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, South Dakota, Wisconsin. Everywhere but the state I actually live in. It’s baffling.
I prefer it. Political ads for candidates you can’t vote for or against are a lot less annoying. And it’s edifying. SD ads are the least aggro, MN, too. MI and IL are hard-core bordering on downright rude. If I lived in Michigan I would definitely vote “No” on Prop. 3.
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@Tony W: Please tell me it has a postage paid return envelope 😉
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@Franklin: If only! I would have returned a nice rock from the yard to RNC headquarters.
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