{"id":133065,"date":"2024-08-15T09:10:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T06:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/why-kamala-harris-laugh-is-a-secret-weapon\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T06:10:52","slug":"why-kamala-harris-laugh-is-a-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/why-kamala-harris-laugh-is-a-secret-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kamala Harris\u2019 laugh is a secret weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133065\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Laughter seems to be an intrinsic part of Harris&#8217; presidential campaign. Her humor is turning into quite a useful weapon, much to the chagrin of Donald Trump. Donald Trump couldn&#8217;t resist the temptation of bringing up Kamala Harris&#8217; laugh last month, shortly after the vice president stepped up to be the likely Democratic presidential nominee. &#8220;I call her laughing Kamala,&#8221; Trump said at a recent rally in Michigan. &#8220;You ever watch her laugh? She&#8217;s crazy. You can tell a lot by a laugh. No, she&#8217;s crazy, she&#8217;s nuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217; rival for the US presidency never tires of denigrating the incumbent US vice president. He makes fun of her both as a woman and as a person of color. His online followers join in, spreading insulting memes and fake videos. But Harris and her campaign team have parried these attacks by turning the tables. Supporters join in online, especially on TikTok. Channels that normally focus on showbiz celebrities are stylizing Kamala Harris as a pop icon.<\/p>\n<p>And time and again, the focus is on a cheerful Kamala Harris who can laugh heartily at herself, lets the nasty campaigns bounce off her and sometimes hits back. For example, she has said that as a public prosecutor she had to deal with criminals of all kinds: &#8220;Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump&#8217;s type.&#8221; By referring to Trump as &#8220;weird,&#8221; she drives him up the wall, only to then devote herself to her difficult campaign issues with the necessary &#8220;statesperson-like&#8221; seriousness.<\/p>\n<p>Harris can score points with this tactic, together with her equally humorous running mate Tim Walz, according to humor researcher Eva Ullmann. &#8220;The US election campaign is not just about humor. The Harris-Walz duo have a clear political line, they can assert themselves and have a high status. They are not cabaret artists, they don&#8217;t want to compete as such, but their humor has something very heartfelt and down-to-earth, something inviting, and that is very disarming,&#8221; Ullman says.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ullmann, the big advantage the two have over Trump in terms of humor is that &#8220;they are nowhere near as disrespectful. But this is precisely what now seems to be backfiring on Trump and his entourage, because society is saying: &#8216;Nah, we&#8217;re not up for this anymore. We&#8217;re fed up with this eternal belittling, shaming and hating, we don&#8217;t want this form of humor anymore either&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a very long time, humor in positions of power was associated with an aggressive form of humor, such as that practiced by Trump,&#8221; she explains. &#8220;That is not enough to manage employees well. This discovery that there is also humor that can make others look good, that doesn&#8217;t embarrass others, is actually a new development in the boardroom. The biggest fear of humor among people in positions of power is that they won&#8217;t be taken seriously, they are afraid of making a fool of themselves, of turning into a clown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/why-kamala-harris-laugh-is-a-secret-weapon\/a-69935477\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/why-kamala-harris-laugh-is-a-secret-weapon\/a-69935477\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/why-kamala-harris-laugh-is-a-secret-weapon\/\">Why Kamala Harris&#8217; laugh is a secret weapon<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[13650,15706,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kamala-harris","tag-laugh","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}