It looks like one line of attack the Republicans will be taking is to disparage her laughter. This is a collection of clips compiled by the Daily Mail, so you know it’s a stupid complaint.
What’s wrong with that? It’s a hearty, energetic laugh, and I like that she can find something to laugh at nowadays.
Who is turned off by that perfectly normal laugh?
Now I’m wondering…what does Donald Trump’s laugh sound like? I don’t think I’ve ever heard it.
It’s not exactly an annoying laugh. Hopefully she laughs like that after defeating Trump in November and at her inauguration.
This looks like a concerted effort.
Sean Hannity claims voters “detest” Kamala Harris because of her laughter
Trump mocks ‘Laughing Kamala’ Harris amid rumors she’ll replace Biden atop ticket
That’s what they choose to focus on? I’d say they got nothing.
I can only imagine Trump’s laugh as the sound of a sneer (as a boot stamping on a human face forever.)
If laughter humanizes, it’s no wonder they have a problem with it.
Again, they screeched for weeks about Old Biden, now they have nothing on her because the actual bad stuff she’s done is stuff that they’re super on board with.
This is a good sign.
Like seriously, “I don’t like the way she laughs” is the best they got.
They are scared.
Voto Latino pledges $44M to support Harris
Small-Dollar Donors Give $46.7 Million to Back Kamala Harris, ActBlue Says
Have a good laugh over that, fasicsts.
There’s also the misogynists who don’t want women to be able to laugh at them. Here it’s the behavior version of body shaming. So what if someone doesn’t like her laugh? They want to police the laughter and a different bigotry or another version of the same will be used next.
We could do with some more laughter.
Trump is more the smug smile type. (You’re right, I can’t recall him laughing. But so, so many smirks.)
Really, is this all they got? I was concerned the GOP would resort to racist and sexist comments but then remember that they should do that to expose themselves for who they really are. Or the alternative, do stuff like this to make them look desperate. Or both. It’s not going to help them.
You are not the only ones to be repelled by Tr*mp.
Farron Cousins:
“Trump’s Odds Of Winning Election Drop After Convention”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=uKm8xP5Cx6M
(NB there is a difference between “odds” and “polls”. Odds are more about trackning people’s reactions in the moment)
Me: (evil, demented laughter)
I can’t wait to see t-shirts and memes:
• Laughing all the way to the White House
• Laughter — the best cure for Trump
• Laughing while you weep
There isn’t a thing wrong with her laugh. We could use a lot more of it.
Rethugulans are running scared. They’ve invested everything on attacking Biden over his age, being sleepy, lacking health, etc, and now that he’s out they realize that Trump is the old, tired, unhealthy person in the race.
@13. I’m still a huge Doomer about everything but this guttural reaction from Republicans sure looks eye-opening. A very curious thing.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Trump laugh either: laughing requires a sense of absurdity, of not taking every aspect of life seriously, of recognising your own quirks and absurdities. In short recognising that there is a whole world outside your own ego.
Trump is capable of none of that.
Laughter requires empathy
After watching various Republican talking heads, this is my reaction:
Kellyanne Conway seems to use botox, which distracts from her faux outrage.
Stephen Miller is possibly an alien that has learned to emulate anger while failing to simulate other emotions. None of the people at Fox appears likely to laugh very much.
Anger and making old people scared is their complete skill set. As undecided voters have proven immune to them so far I am cautiously optimistic.
Personality matters in an election.(see Al Gore) so does the noises people make(see Howard Dean) it feels like a cheap attack because it is, but it’s also shown to work.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump hasn’t laughed in decades.
I call it a bird whistle. I wish I could think of a better name for it. It’s a cue to train wingnuts to foam at the mouth whenever used. They pick a word, phrase or meme and teach their faithful to shut down their brain and spout nonsense when they hear it.
They chose Harris’s laugh because, as Margaret Atwood said, “Men are afraid of women that women will laugh at them.” They’ve got nothing else (yet) to criticize her, so that’s what they’re going for.
Trying to create a Dukakis “HEYAAAAHHH!!” moment?
Wait…that wasn’t Dukakis. That was Howard Dean
drksky
Dukakis was the guy in the tank photo op I think.
“Donald Trump Is Losing Tremendous Amounts Of Support From A Group He Needs…”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUHVZJ6cxik
Talking trash about Harris’ laughter (and calling her stupid, as Tr*mp just did) will not help.
BTW Farron Cousins has a healthy laugh, despite having to live in Florida under deSantis.
Kamala’s laugh sounds real. That is why the Republican’s don’t like her laugh, they’re only into fake things. Trump has never laughed. Highlights his limited personality.
@20 Oops that should have been “They chose Harris’s laugh because, as Margaret Atwood said, “Men are afraid of women will laugh at them.” They’ve got nothing else (yet) to criticize her, so that’s what they’re going for.”
A comment from Harris shared by my partner:
Trump’s laugh is probably something like this:
He wants to be a supervillain/Bond villain, but he just doesn’t have it…
Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/kamala-harris-us-president-racist-sexist-tropes/104127680
.* Headline -one of two also titled ‘How Kamala Harris’s run for the US presidency has reignited old racist and sexist tropes’ i like that top one better. Emphasis on the falseness of them.
I’m going to assume any genuine laugh by Agent Orange is adequately captured by at least one of the various screen depictions of Baron Harkonnen, except for an underlying note of deep seated and insatiable insecurity in Trump’s rendition.
It seems like “Harris weird” might be what they’re going for right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljwIvB9hpFA
TL;DW: They are afraid to challenge her on policy because they don’t have any.
Hatchetfish @ 30
Baron Harkonnen’s failed brother !
The MAGA crowd sure seems to hate it when other people express joy or laughter.
Via Aussie ABC news :
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/kamala-harris-donald-trump-us-presidential-campaigns/104129562
Thanks for the link, StevoR. Helped me get a bit more context, along with a few related articles.
Scientific American weighs in on Harris: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kamala-harris-record-on-abortion-rights-shows-strong-support/
Harris picks up enough delegate support to win nomination on first full day of her campaign
I still remember the UK 2015 election when the right wing press successfully labelled Labour Leader Ed Milliband ‘weird’ because they had a photo of him struggling to eat a bacon sandwich. These people will try ANYTHING to slime someone.
There’s even a wikipedia entry on the bacon sandwich incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Miliband_bacon_sandwich_photograph
Kamala Harris’ campaign says it raised more than $100 million after launch
Ah, the quaint old days when it would’ve been unthinkable that one of the leading candidates for president was a convicted felon and civilly-liable rapist. Times change.
Harris earns $231 million in donations on first day of presidential campaign
House Republicans say Biden must resign after ending reelection campaign
This is completely stupid and without logical basis. If this principle held, this could never have happened:
Somehow, I get the impression this is a stupid ploy to avoid a Harris ’28 term.
Beyoncé Gives Her Approval for Kamala to Use ‘Freedom’ as Campaign Anthem
It wolud be a very stupid ploy, because it wouldn’t avoid a Harris ’28 term. If someone succeeds to the presidency more than halfway through a term, they can serve two full subsequent terms. Hence LBJ could have served the 1968-72 term if he had run and won in 1968. It’s just an attempt to keep the focus on Biden’s incapacity (and in my view, he probably should resign, both because I don’t believe he’s in sufficient cognitive health to continue to serve, and because it would help Harris).
I knew about that, but I figure I know more about law than most Republican voters. And even then, they’re not likely to care about what the law actually says.
I dunno what the GOP is playing at, but it does seem a reasonable bet that, if they want it, we shouldn’t do it. One possibility is that they just want to saddle Harris with both being and running for President at the same time, each of which is easily a full-time job by itself. (And yeah, most incumbents face that, but at least it’s towards the end of a full term.)
More on our side, Allan Lichtman of the 13 Keys had said that if Biden dropped out, he should also resign, in order to preserve the “incumbency” key. I dunno. One thing that occurs to me is, there may be a handful of voters — not many, because most people who think this way will be voting Republican anyway — who still balk at electing the first female President. If Biden resigned, Harris would then already be the first female President, so that barrier would be broken, and maybe that would make a difference to some. Maybe.
Omg KG, how about you stop hating on Biden? Every single thread is full of your myopic nonsense.
He is obviously perfectly capable of serving out his term despite your inability to notice anything but his poor debate. You aren’t even an American voter.
Why would we give those MAGA idiots in the House any voice or opportunity to throw monkey wrenches into the process?
Debating a narcissist is like trying to have a meaningful discussion with a pig. It’s not a reflection of his ability to be POTUS and do the job that “We the People of the United States of America elected him to do.
According to the right, the left’s “obsession” with “doom and gloom” issues — all existing in our imagination, of course — of injustice and environmentalism has made us dour and humorless. Therefore, someone on the left who is laughing MUST be deranged or evil because, unlike the right who is all joy and optimism, we should have nothing to laugh or be happy about.
Balderdash. Continuing to pretend that Biden is cognitively intact is just stupid. It’s not just the debate, it’s his subsequent performances and some of his earlier ones, it’s the reports of people who have met him recently like George Clooney (or maybe you think he’s in the pay of Trump?), its the reports reports filtering out that he can only function reliably between 10am and 4pm, and had to miss a meeting with the Chancellor of Germany and send Blinken instead because he needed to go to bed.
Well now, that’s a particularly convincing argument I must admit – you’ve really got me there! Seriously, if you have to resort to that sort of nationalistic crap, it just shows that you know what utter tosh you’re coming out with. The ability of the US president to function whenever required is relevant to the whole world, because he (or hopefully soon, she) is in charge of weapons that could destroy civilization and most of humanity. Grow up.
And that’s a particularly stupid excuse for his hopeless and embarrassing performance. He should have been able to get his own points over succinctly, and nail the most egregious of Trump’s lies. And if it was stupid to try and debate Trump, why the fuck did he (or those around him) insist on doing so?
BTW, any hatred I have for Biden is not because he’s in the early stages of dementia – indeed, that could be regarded as something of a mitigating factor for his enabling of genocide.
@KG
You hate Biden for things. That’s gossip by non-professionals motivated by who knows what. Those aren’t diagnostic criteria by someone familiar with Biden’s medical history. I can’t even tell what cherry-picked observations go into what specific claim, and it wouldn’t be anyone’s job to take the claims and observations seriously, it’s all on the people with the feelings about Biden.
And stupid is a nonsense word, history’s failed mental terminology.
Should be “You can hate Biden for things.” At the start of my 52.
Trump doesn’t have a sense of humor. He doesn’t laugh. He smirks. His smirks are those of a bully showing his superiority over who he bullies.
House Republicans say Biden must resign after ending reelection campaign
If Biden did that, then the VP slot would be vacant, and Harris would have to appoint a VP — whom House Republicans, at least, would refuse to confirm. That would leave us with no VP, so any bunch of armed Christofascists would be able — if not INVITED in a wink-wink-nudge-nudge sort of way — to take a shot at Harris and thus make House Speaker Johnson our next president.
KG: I’m pretty disappointed at Biden’s response to Ivanyahu’s recent genocidal actions too — but what, specifically, could he do to stop it? It’s not like Ivanyahu really listens to American criticisms.
This Republican Rep Is Already Trying to Impeach Kamala Harris
The GOP is the world’s biggest clown car.
Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn’t ‘subscribe to cult of personality’
A hilarious interaction between two rich assholes famous for not paying their debts.
Some people’s laughter gets on my nerves; but not Harris’s, at least not the part of that video I listened to. It basically sounded like a normal woman laughing normally. ANYONE’s laughter would probably be irritating to me, if I had to listen to many clips of it strung together, out of context, into an audio track lasting much longer than most people normally laugh. I wouldn’t want to hear such a compilation of my laughter, and I’m guessing Harris wouldn’t want to listen to the video above any more than she has to.
Elected Republicans Start To Back Off ‘DEI’ Attacks On Kamala Harris
In which racist, sexist douchebros start to realize that their dog whistle is a little too in the clear. Look for ham-handed attempts to be more subtle in their bigotry.
I confess, I’m not a fan on the Dem’s militant centrism and opposition to giving capitalism the heave-ho. I was only voting Democrat because this capitalist shithole of a country doesn’t have a viable socialist option. Also, I thought that dropping Biden this late in the election year would be the end. However, given the reaction she’s received so far, I’m genuinely feeling better optimistic about the prospect of a Harris victory.
Of course, there’s always a chance she’ll eventually disappoint me like Obama and Biden eventually did, but at least her foul ups won’t endanger civilization as Trump’s would.
@23. Hemidactylus : “drksky – Dukakis was the guy in the tank photo op I think.”
Correct :
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis#Tank_photograph
Of course, we’d later see Dubya the Lesser Bush flying a jet plane in to say “Mission accomplished” in Iraq.
^ .. which also got some ridicule but not nearly as much as it deserved – especially in hindsight. Of course he was already POTUS then. The banner deservedly perhaps got more.
@35. Recursive Rabbit : Cheers! Now owrrries and glad to hear that.
@47. Nemo : “More on our side, Allan Lichtman of the 13 Keys had said that if Biden dropped out, he should also resign, in order to preserve the “incumbency” key. I dunno.”
I dunno either but I have recently discovered Lichtman & his methodology her e has a very impressive record and IMHON makes him well worth listening to. He’s got a new clip here Can Kamala Win??? | Lichtman Live #60 which goes for an hour and ten minutes and which I haven’t yet had time to see myself FWIW.
Brony,
With or without the correction @53, your #52 makes no sense. And the meaning of “stupid” is quite clear. Like to try again?
Cut off arms supplies. Indeed, he is, as I’ve pointed out before, legally obliged to do so: US law does not permit supplying arms to any state that is obstructing American humanitarian aid, which Israel has been doing since the start of its campaign of destruction and starvation. He could also sponsor a UNSC resolution condemning Israel’s genocidal actions and calling for economic sanctions.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R6sc411Ve5M
@KG
No. Stupid is history’s failed mental terminology. It’s descriptively useless. Stupid, idiot, moron…all history’s failed mental terminology. And I won’t be explaining the rest as you don’t appear to have grappled with it.
No it isn’t. And if you’d bothered to read my #50 with attention, you’d have noticed that I applied it only to actions and arguments, not to people – although there are circumstances in which it is reasonable to do the latter. And you won’t be explaining the rest because it’s so incoherent you can’t.
‘Haley Voters for Harris’ PAC Ramps Up Kamala Support After Cease and Desist
@20 & 26: There’s a little more to that quote: Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them.
KG
I could quibble with this claim, but whatever. It’s beside the point that it would be incredibly stupid for Biden to resign three months before the election. (The current process is ridiculously long, slow, and desperately in need of progressive reform, but we’re stuck with it for now) Freeing him from the grueling process of campaigning so he can focus on sailing the ship of state is a good thing. It is preposterous to claim that he might go megalomaniac and unleash nuclear warheads on a whim.
Resigning would give the most repulsive members of Congress an opportunity to turn the next three months into yet another episode of MAGA-circus sideshow, while Harris would have to assume office, choose and get a VP through both houses of Congress, and run for POTUS.
Biden has enough acuity to acknowledge that he isn’t up for another four years and step aside, and I trust the judgement of his administrative staff that he is fully capable of handling his responsibilities as POTUS far more than the opinion of actor George Clooney.
The energetic response of the American public to Harris for President is a welcome change from the sexist garbage that characterized the 2016 elections.
Tethys@70,
Go on, quibble all you like – you’ll just make a further spectacle of yourself.
Which is why I made no such claim. That you have to put words in my mouth shows the weakness of your position. The problem is rather that he may not be able to grasp the details of a dangerous situation (say in a further rise in violence in the Middle East) and respond appropriately. Once full-scale war between Israel and Iran broke out (for example), who knows what might follow. I don’t want someone who is only fully functioning half the time in charge in such dangerous times.
It would also give Harris the opportunity to show her presidential qualities. And the most repulsive members of Congress are going to turn the next three months into yet another episode of MAGA-circus sideshow in any case. And if they refused to ratify a VPOTUS, I’m confident Harris could turn that against them – particularly as they are demanding that Biden resign the presidency.
That’s the same Biden, and the same administrative staff, who were convinced up until a few days ago that he could beat Trump and serve another four years (or if they weren’t really convinced of that, they had no business putting him forward as candidate). I have no confidence in their judgement at all. Biden eventually stepped aside because he had lost the confidence of the Democratic leadership and other members of Congress; if he had stayed, more and more of them would have come out publicly urging him to step aside.
It is indeed; and I was saying Biden must stand down and hand over to Harris as candidate while most commenters here were saying the opposite.
KG
No, it would hand the assholes in Congress that invited /just stood up and applauded Netanyahu a chance to create mayhem with the election.
You did in fact state that Biden needs to resign because he might use nuclear weapons back at 50, so stop claiming that I’m putting words in your mouth. The further fact that you are pushing the MAGA narrative of Biden might be a clue that it’s a really stupid idea.
Speaking of weakness, your insistence on proving your dominance rather than owning your tosh is noted.
None of us really know, but I honestly think Biden’s fine. I think he sometimes doesn’t present as fine. He had a stutter, he’s never been especially eloquent, and he’s always been prone to verbal gaffes; and his age, a grueling campaign schedule and the associated pressures, and being sick recently made all of that worse. (As others elsewhere have pointed out, Trump’s actual cognitive decline is exacerbating his dark triad traits, which are vastly more dangerous than any of Biden’s issues.) He’s also very thin and his gait has become stiff. But none of this is strong evidence of real cognitive issues, and there are other data points. So I don’t know, but I’m not convinced he’s “only fully functioning half the time” or can’t do the job.
But I could be wrong. :)
(FDR was dying during his 1944 candidacy, incidentally.)
Nearly 40K new voters registered in 48 hours after Biden’s exit
(I should note that I didn’t watch the debate, or really even see any clips, while I did watch the SOTU, his NATO press conference, and a prepared speech after that, so I could well be underestimating how bad that event was.)
Trump as an unintentional comedian.
I do not recall any news clip, any televised appearance, any series of photos, anything that includes Donald Trump engaging in laughter.
He smiles every once in a while. Even then, it is a grin of triumph, a smug appreciation of victory in his own zero-sum world, the smile of a winner who has forced someone else into losing.
Tethys@72
It’s absolutely fucking bizarre that you choose events involving Netanyahu for your example, when it’s obvious to anyone not determined not to see it that Netanyahu has Biden wrapped round his little finger. Harris might (I emphasize might) stand up to him, tell him he agrees an immediate ceasefire or arms supplies and diplomatic cover stop. It’s clear at any rate that Biden won’t do any such thing.
No, I didn’t. I said because he’s in charge of those weapons. The words you put in my mouth were:
I said nothing of the sort. There are many other reasons than that he might use them that it’s vital the person in charge of such weapons be fully cognitively sound. If he’s not, he might threaten to use them at a point where that would greatly increase the danger of another power using them, someone else might seize control of them while he’s incapacitated, he might compromise security around them so non-state actors could get hold of them…
So, stop putting words in my mouth, and lying about it afterwards.
You do realise that the fact that it’s a “MAGA narrative” does not actually mean it’s false, I hope. But in any case, plenty of non-MAGA people, including Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, who says Biden failed to recognise him despite knowing him well, have drawn attention to his problems – which are in any case obvious to anyone who isn’t determined not to recognise them.
SC@73,
I watched as much of the debate as I could bear to, his NATO press conference, and the interviews with Stephanopoulos and Holt. In all the last three he got involved in complicated, wandering sentences and failed to finish them, trailing off and ending with “Anyway…” as he lost his train of thought. The president of the USA needs to be able to hold complex thoughts in mind, and express them clearly, in a reliable way. Biden was able to do that in 2020 (although there were already comments that he was not the man of a few years before that). You can see the Biden of the 2020 campaign being interviewed here – go to 5.30.
@KG
And yet “Biden needs to step down because argylbargl Iran and nuclear weapons” is your argument, so I will continue to tell you to pipe down. Your opinion doesn’t actually matter, my vote does. You think Harris should assume office and campaign simultaneously to prove herself to fascists? Are ye daft?
Biden is wrapped around Netanyahu’s pinky is an especially stupid claim, but what can be expected from a crabby old man who insisted that Treaties aren’t legally binding.
Tethys@79,
You just can’t stop lying, can you? Unlike Biden, I am able to express myself clearly, and have done so. But leaving that aside, are you:
1) Claiming Biden is in fact fully functional cognitively.
or
2) Admitting he isn’t, but saying it doesn’t matter?
If (1) I’d say you’re deluding yourself. Have you watched the extract from his 2020 interview which I linked to @78? Because the contrast with any recent unscripted appearance is huge. If (2), I’d be interested in how you defend that bizarre opinion. In fact I suspect the answer is:
(3) You are avoiding commiting yourself to either (1) or (2), because you know you can’t defend either.
Again the “I’m an American, strut strut strut” nonsense. But if my opinion doesn’t matter, why are you arguing with me?
I clearly have considerably more confidence in Harris than you do. But the people she’d be proving herself to are those who either might or might not vote for her – fascists will not be doing so. She’d have the opportunity to look presidential.
So, show me an instance where Netanyahu has refrained from any course of action he intended at Biden’s bidding, or been punished for not doing so.
Of course, Kamala Harris, as a black woman prosecutor, does not have the reich kind of laugh; only reich wing perpetual moron Tucker Carlson knows how to laugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6gvuaeMHyc
/S (for the perpetually perplexed, although they will still be unlikely to understand)
KG @ #78:
Hm. In the press conference, his answers were mostly lucid and clear. I have noticed the “Anyway…” thing over the past year or so, along with “No, I really mean that” and other repeated phrases. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on. I think they might be verbal tics that have emerged as he’s become more self-conscious of his verbal issues in high-pressure situations. Over the past few years, he’s said things somewhat rashly to reporters and then almost immediately apologized. I think he’s trying to be so careful about not being reactive or going off and saying the wrong thing that he becomes more nervous and then speaks less well which makes him more nervous and self-conscious, in a sort of vicious cycle. Or he could be losing his train of thought – it’s possible.
Yes.
Meh. I give people much more slack on verbal fluency. It’s not really a skill presidents need that much on the job, and just in general – as someone who’s not a terrible speaker but a much better writer (in English, not to speak of other languages!) – I’m much more oriented to writing than speaking.
I only watched a bit from 5:30. There’s a difference between then and now in his speech and manner, for sure. As an examination of his alleged cognitive decline, though, it’s not worth much. First, cherry-picked clips aren’t convincing: I could pick some clips from the NATO presser (and definitely from the SOTU) and they’d be as coherent as the one they provide from 2020.
Second, I don’t like that they’re claiming he said “the goodest job.” It’s evident to me that he was saying (or trying to say) “as good a job.” That plainly makes sense with the rest of the sentence: “…as good a job as I know I can do.” (Indeed, the post he has up at 7:08 has transcribed it that way right above the video!) It’s just extremely ungenerous, to the point that I don’t trust their presentation. Biden’s voice is much weaker, and there were moments last night when it was mumbly and soft (he’s also recovering from COVID!) and I couldn’t immediately understand what he was saying, but I did a few seconds later.
I guess I’m waiting to see how he is at the convention, when he’ll (with any luck) be healthy, be less stressed and probably less self-conscious, and be in a more social environment (more like the SOTU) where he tends to be at his best. Speaking of which, I don’t think he has so many problems in, like, his conversations with his aides or with world leaders. I can’t imagine that if he did his staff would have been so eager for the June debate. I’ll also say that his sense of purpose and response to data in this episode argue for cognitive wellness. (I read a comment at Daily Kos that said something like “Biden recognizes the stakes of this election, unlike tens of millions of Americans,” which is absolutely true. I would rather have someone with consistent humility and moral and political clarity than someone verbally dexterous without them.) As does his handling (also an emotional marvel) of this withdrawal from the race and passing of the torch. It’s one of the most impressive political feats, if not the most, I’ve ever seen – it exceeded my wildest expectations of how any of this could go down. And there were some allegedly cognitively able pundits and politicians offering amazingly stupid suggestions for what the Democrats should do!
But as I said before, I could be wrong and there’s cognitive decline. I don’t know.
SC@82,
Surely interacting with foreign leaders (particularly those who speak fluent English, as many do) is an important part of the job, as are press conferences. The president needs not only to be on top of things, but to give the impression of being on top of them.
Incidentally, having listened to the passage again, I agree Biden didn’t say “the goodest job”.