Well this is weird: the Cackle™ has now been officially renamed "JOY", and the flying monkeys of the press have rushed to conform.

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Legal Insurrection has the tail:

Media Parrots Harris Campaign’s Ridiculous Claim That it’s All About ‘Joy’

“it is no accident that joy — a battle-tested version of it — has become the backbone of Ms. Harris’s campaign in recent days”

If you’ve been following news about the election, you have probably heard the word ‘joy’ repeated over and over. This is not a coincidence. It’s a talking point from the Harris campaign, and the media is doing their very best to play along.

“Joy” is apparently the new hope and change, and the use of the term is not even close to subtle.

You can see it used in this report from Axios:

Harris vs. Trump: America’s mood-swing election

This election is about more than two very different ideologies. It’s about two very different moods: joy vs. rage.

Why it matters: The conflicting rhetoric reflects the conflicting calculations of how to win in 2024 — and how Americans are really feeling about the state of the nation.

Former President Trump sees fear as the primary motivator — fear of illegal immigration, crime, inflation, a declining America. He believes swing voters will embrace his darker view and demand protection, even if they don’t love his style.

Vice President Harris sees hope (or conflict exhaustion) as the primary motivator — hope to move beyond Trump and fighting, hope in a rising/rebounding America. She believes voters are tired of doom-and-gloom.

The New York Times is downright comical in this piece:

Harris Used to Worry About Laughing. Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign.

There was a time, early in her vice presidency, when Kamala Harris, aware of reams of conservative news coverage criticizing her laughter, privately wondered to confidants whether she should laugh, or show a sense of humor, at all.

They reassured her that she should, according to two people familiar with the discussions at the time. Still, Ms. Harris proceeded gingerly, embarking on a run of tightly controlled appearances. She focused on issues like abortion rights and worked to bolster her foreign policy chops. She took emotionally resonant trips during which she carefully honed her image. Along the way, laughter never really left her.

I couldn’t possibly hate the lickspittles of the press any more than I do already, but I’m still astonished at how these arrogant morons still claim some sort of moral and intellectual superiority to the masses they’ve been instructed to manipulate.

That’s not sad, it’s pathetic.