Harris campaign drops border-focused ad featuring ex-Trump administration official

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

10/01/24 3:00 PM ET


Vice President Harris’s campaign unveiled an ad Tuesday focused on the nation’s southern border, featuring Olivia Troye, ex-national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence.

In the ad first provided exclusively to The Hill, Troye talked about her time working for the Trump administration and argued in favor of Harris’s border security plans.

“Kamala Harris is a leader we need to keep our country safe and strong,” Troye said. “As a homeland security expert, I trust her to protect the border. Kamala Harris’s plan will strengthen our border security and crack down on drug smuggling and human trafficking.”

The 30-second ad, titled “Protect,” dropped on digital platforms just before the vice presidential debate. Harris visited the border in Arizona on Friday and pledged to sign a new version of the failed bipartisan Senate border deal and to further strengthen the asylum restrictions that have played a part in reducing border crossings since May.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4909649-harris-campaign-border-ad-troye/

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(Slang note - "DROP" = "RELEASES" )

[Mysterian]

1. Kind of confusing when they say they dropped it

Maybe I'm old fashioned but that means they stopped running it to me.

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. I must be as old fashioned as you are

I thought the same thing!

[Foolacious]

9. Me too.

But that is the headline of the article in the Hill; our DU poster didn't choose it.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. It's Millennial-speak

"Taylor Swift 'drops a new track' from her album for her fans", etc.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. GenX BRDS!

Tupac's new track just dropped on WDKX.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Maybe the youngest GenXs

Tupac was a GenX but was shot at the end of the Millennial (birth) era in 1996. And it's all GenZ knows to use...

[JustAnotherGen]

14. He was my 'voice'

Him, Alannis, En Vogue etc. etc.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. They were the "tail end" of my listening before I lost track

(as a tail-end boomer)

I.e., I left off at some of the "peak" early '90s people like SWV, En Vogue, TLC, Kris Kross, and dipped into Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Ice-T, Ice Cube, etc., but after that... I started listening to my "old school" again.

[babylonsister]

4. Same here! nt

[ananda]

5. I know, bad choice of words. confused me too.

...

[riversedge]

6. I agree!!

[JoseBalow]

7. I brought a dish

[eppur_se_muova]

8. I've complained about this, to no avail. "Drop" in this sense should be only used intransitively.

"This ad dropped recently" suggests a dropping into place.
"They dropped this ad" suggest they dropped it like a hot potato.

The first case (intransitive) has no direct object.
The second case (transitive) does -- "this ad".

It makes all the difference.

It would be better if this type of usage had never been introduced, since it's based on an inobvious metaphor. If people are going to use it, they should think about what they're trying to say, and realize that only the intransitive construction works for them.

Or just drop "dropped", and use "introduced", "debuted", etc.

[iemanja]

11. I had the same reaction

Took me a minute to figure it out. I’m also old.

[slightlv]

10. I think there's going to be more of this confusion with words,

but it happens every generation or two. It's frustrating to us older people who grew up with words and phrases that meant one thing, only to find the younger generation turning the meanings on their head. But, we've been here before many times, and we'll be here again many times in the future. But it is confusing! I thought at first reading of the headline that Harris' campaign had decided not to use the ad for some reason. That's the definition of "drop" I grew up with. I also understand the "drop" meaning from the younger generation. This is just going to be one of those things we get to gripe about, like our parents griped about our language as we turned into older teens. I kinda look at it like a privilege... I lived long enough to get to this point! (LOL)

[jcgoldie]

16. noticed JD Vance had no reply for Trump killing the border bill

He went full on weasel trying to slide out from under that one.