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28 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Ain’t nobody voting for that bish

Harris earned my respect. Not that my respect carries much weight. I’d vote for Harris again, but not in a gubernatorial election against Katie Porter in 2026.

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She kicked ass.  She's had it with stupid questions.  

And I have to say the "Everyone else has answered this" is akin to "all your friends are doing it."  Frankly I was surprised a major network hired such a dumb interviewer.

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1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

a bit cunty here

 

 

She was famously unpleasant even by DC standards and she was an only a two term D rep from California and so didn’t have the clout to get away with it. There are plenty of data point here and her sometimes appealingly pugnacious style for the cameras wasn’t an act; conflict follows her around professionally and interpersonally. 
 

And that shit will catch up to you in politics. You need to make some allies. Again, unless you’re so juiced that everyone will just tolerate you. 

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My read on that video clip: The interviewer is a trollish idiot, and Katie Porter is completely unprofessional. Bad look for both, worse for Katie Porter.  Huge red flag. 

 

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The reporter isn’t a troll or idiot, she’s pushing on Katie because of the possibility (not necessarily probability) that two Ds advance to the general.  This has happened in statewide races in CA, and the field is crowded for governor. 
 

Katie doesn’t want to explore this possibility and then gets super snitty and evasive when pressed even though she walked into it by saying “I don’t intend to let that (two Democrats in the general) happen.” Because in her senate run she threw a tantrum about Schiff helping to elevate an R to the general over her and called the election “rigged,” and now that shes the presumptive top D vote getter in the primary she may need to do something similar to guarantee a D-R general she can win.  This is all a perfectly legitimate place to probe. Katie is upset and tells you why— “I wanted to come have a pleasant conversation.” LOL. 

I WILL fully concede that the reporter sees the flailing and terrible optics and decides to needle and see where it goes. There’s not a journalist on the planet who won’t press when an interviewee for a big race seems to be on the verge of crashing out.  It’s really their job, and it’s the candidate’s job to be media trained and poised and not crash out. Because at some point you’re gonna get asked to justify something that you’d rather not talk about.
 

All she has to do is get out a decent answer “Well Julie, what we plan is to make our case and tell the democratic voters of California how a Katie Porter governorship will benefit them, their families, and the entire state. We plan to win on values and policy and I am the candidate who reflects the Democratic electorate.  And once they hear our message  I’m confident that I’ll be the decisive Democratic vote-getter and move on to put away a GOP opponent easily in a general election.”

 

Instead she comes in hot and bothered with some word salad about being from Orange County, argues over the question wording like a too-smart lawyer, and spills blood in the water. 
 

And yes— this is a double standard because Trump can do all this stuff and is Teflon with his voters. He also has a legit talent to be the one who makes reporters feel defensive and flustered and off-center and that works for him. 

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15 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

My read on that video clip: The interviewer is a trollish idiot, and Katie Porter is completely unprofessional. Bad look for both, worse for Katie Porter.  Huge red flag. 

 

Well considering that our SCOTUS cries/rages during a job interview, our department of defense leader is a drunk, and the only republican trying to help olds out is an idiot who believes in jewish space lasers, I think you should recalibrate what professionalism is in politics.  The president mocked handicapped people and blew a microphone, and another politican jerks off her boyfriend in public while offering booze to pregnant women.   But hey, Katie Porter got irritated!

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6 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The reporter isn’t a troll or idiot, she’s pushing on Katie because of the possibility (not necessarily probability) that two Ds advance to the general.  This has happened in statewide races in CA, and the field is crowded for governor. 
 

Katie doesn’t want to explore this possibility and then gets super snitty and evasive when pressed even though she walked into it by saying “I don’t intend to let that (two Democrats in the general) happen.” Because in her senate run she threw a tantrum about Schiff helping to elevate an R to the general over her and called the election “rigged,” and now that shes the presumptive top D vote getter in the primary she may need to do something similar to guarantee a D-R general she can win.  This is all a perfectly legitimate place to probe. Katie is upset and tells you why— “I wanted to come have a pleasant conversation.” LOL. 

I WILL fully concede that the reporter sees the flailing and terrible optics and decides to needle and see where it goes. There’s not a journalist on the planet who won’t press when an interviewee for a big race seems to be on the verge of crashing out.  It’s really their job, and it’s the candidate’s job to be media trained and poised and not crash out. Because at some point you’re gonna get asked to justify something that you’d rather not talk about.
 

All she has to do is get out a decent answer “Well Julie, what we plan is to make our case and tell the democratic voters of California how a Katie Porter governorship will benefit them, their families, and the entire state. We plan to win on values and policy and I am the candidate who reflects the Democratic electorate.  And once they hear our message  I’m confident that I’ll be the decisive Democratic vote-getter and move on to put away a GOP opponent easily in a general election.”

 

Instead she comes in hot and bothered with some word salad about being from Orange County, argues over the question wording like a too-smart lawyer, and spills blood in the water. 
 

And yes— this is a double standard because Trump can do all this stuff and is Teflon with his voters. He also has a legit talent to be the one who makes reporters feel defensive and flustered and off-center and that works for him. 

 

in response to "what do you say to the 40% of CA voters who voted for Trump," the easy, and correct answer is "who gives a shit?"

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I would be stupidly irritated if I answered a question like that accurately, which Porter did, and then the reporter started turning that into me saying something different than what I said, which is what she did. But, I am not a politician and if I was I would not be stupid enough to say something that could be construed as suggesting that I don't give a fuck about the Trump voting 40%, and then I wouldn't throw a piss fit when doing that panned out predictably.

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35 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

If Katie Porter had a penis nobody would give a shit about that interview.

Abso-fucking-lutely agree.  

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

If Katie Porter had a penis nobody would give a shit about that interview.

Disagree, that would reflect really poorly on anybody. I’m all for pushing back when reporters ask stupid or bad faith questions. That was neither. Porter was being an asshole in the beginning and a baby at the end. We already have enough shitheads. 

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1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Disagree, that would reflect really poorly on anybody. I’m all for pushing back when reporters ask stupid or bad faith questions. That was neither. Porter was being an asshole in the beginning and a baby at the end. We already have enough shitheads. 

That has absolutely no relevance to what I asserted.

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

That has absolutely no relevance to what I asserted.

Ok, but I disagree with what you asserted, and part of why we know that is that we’ve all seen interviews with male politicians go viral when they melt down that way. 

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43 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Ok, but I disagree with what you asserted, and part of why we know that is that we’ve all seen interviews with male politicians go viral when they melt down that way. 

I was being a bit hyperbolic, to be sure.

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The news station has the full segment up. It’s a bog standard political question.  All the other candidates manage to get through it. The journo does phrase it slightly differently based on the flow of conversation (expected, as a media coach would tell you) although more than one of them get the same “that you need” clause which sent Porter spiraling. All she had to do was deliver her prepped answer. 
 

It’s clear that upset her, and it’s because she had the questions in advance. She at one point directs the reporter to ask them “as written.” 
 

She takes the same approach to this reporter that she does to House witnesses, trying to rake her across the coals.  It’s just not going to play as well (or at all) in front of a pretty congenial interlocutor. 
 

She’s trying to “win” the exchange and that’s just bad media prep or ignoring the prep. Many such cases with smart lawyers who are used to asking the questions.  

 

 

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3 hours ago, Nivek said:

Well considering that our SCOTUS cries/rages during a job interview, our department of defense leader is a drunk, and the only republican trying to help olds out is an idiot who believes in jewish space lasers, I think you should recalibrate what professionalism is in politics.  The president mocked handicapped people and blew a microphone, and another politican jerks off her boyfriend in public while offering booze to pregnant women.   But hey, Katie Porter got irritated!

This.  What happened to "Dems need to be tougher and call bullshit when they see it."  

YES, Gavin would have done it differently but he's a man and gets measured on a different scale.  Authentic > Likeable

(Edit: don't forget she got finessed by Adam Schiff in the senate race.  She's probably still stung by that).

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I think she's also stung by the fact that the electorate has pretty emphatically said it fucking hates condescending, educated women. The worst thing you can do is emulate or even remind people of Hillary Clinton's aesthetic, approach to politics, or platform. That is why Katie Porter shouldn't even make the CCG.

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On 3/14/2025 at 12:02 AM, Hefeweizen said:

Everyone in California is sick of Gavin’s shit.  Go away douchenozzle.

Really?  What is that, exactly?

 

15 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Oppo teams are releasing the hounds. 

 

Some of you guys wouldn't last a week at my firm.

 

24 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

I think she's also stung by the fact that the electorate has pretty emphatically said it fucking hates condescending, educated women. The worst thing you can do is emulate or even remind people of Hillary Clinton's aesthetic, approach to politics, or platform. That is why Katie Porter shouldn't even make the CCG.

Conference Championship Game? 

2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Ok, but I disagree with what you asserted, and part of why we know that is that we’ve all seen interviews with male politicians go viral when they melt down that way. 

Bozo once again with his "standards of perfection" high jump.

 

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