09/10/24 Debate play by play thread

Vance is on CNN spinning away.

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Arriving late here as i had to be a group watch situation. The most local things from that are that the ~third who had great misgivings about how the Harris would do in the media pretzel came away declaring that she did ā€œgreatā€. i humbly think she did damn great; and perhaps more important trump did actually worse than we thought heā€™d do and we thought heā€™d do badly. i hate political ā€œdebatesā€ but i loved this one. hu-@#$!@!!!zah!!! and Taylor Swift for icing on the cake!!

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Naw, he asked the question of whether this would happen there or an as-yet-to-be-determined here! You made it happen! Screw Jefe! (just kidding, @FloridaManJefe, Iā€™m a little buzzedā€¦CHI-na!)

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Oh FFS the rightoid talking heads on CNN are literally saying this ā€” complaining how unfair the moderators were.

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Yes! Thank you, @KathyPartdeux and @FloridaManJefe!!

I think this is the only way I can survive listening to Dump. :nauseated_face:

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Vance is defending eating pets, he says they have first hand accounts from people that think itā€™s happening.

Also, HIV has skyrocketed in Springfield Ohio.

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I wish theyā€™d stop just long enough to ask ā€œThese people eating petsā€¦are they in the room with us right now?ā€

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I sincerely hope that legal-immigrants-in-Springfield-are-eating-pets is what they decide to leverage their campaign on. Fucking (racist) weirdos.

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Emphasis mine. Heā€™s carefully couched that defense.

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Pictures or it didnā€™t happen.

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The couching or the pet-eating?

Narrator: nobody wants pictures of the couchingā€¦

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Either would be too repulsive to unblur.

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ETA:

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I know, itā€™s Twitter, but I snorted:

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So, it sounds like Harrisā€™s plan for the debate was to make Trump look like a weird, incoherently ranting old man who has no plan and no answers, while presenting herself as the normal, calm, competent choice.

And then Trump obliged her by stepping into every rhetorical trap and getting triggered by her every poke.

Going by the comments here and in a couple of other places on the net, this was a clear win for Harris, and a big, largely self-inflicted LOSS for Trump.

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His supporters wonā€™t see it that way, but there are fewer and fewer of them.

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I think that every humiliating spectacle like this causes more supporters who donā€™t have their lawns plastered with unhinged MAGA signs to slink away into the undecided, probably-not-voting block.

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I must have missed it, but I never heard about Harrisā€™ golf handicap so Iā€™m still undecided about who I should vote for

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Capital ā€˜Sā€™ sarcasm on that one

That was brutal - in the sense that trumpā€™s verbal vomit/diarrhea was unhinged, AND that Harris made him look even more of a buffoon than he made himself

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I hope youā€™re right about there being less. Itā€™s endlessly frustrating and disheartening that Trump can show himself to be weak, stupid, bigoted, incompetent, criminal, ignorant, demented, fascist, traitorousā€¦ the negative traits and the evidence to support them just keep piling up and his supporters DO NOT CARE. How is this even a contest any more? Even taking into account being disproportionately represented by our broken election system, how are SO MANY of our fellow citizens utterly reprehensible monsters? And even after Trump is gone and even if Harris is victorious, how are we as a country ever going to get back to a point where weā€™re not a single bad election away from a fascist takeover and the end of democracy? I really hope Trumpā€™s decline spells an end to this madness, but I have yet to see any evidence of that.

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