09/10/24 Debate play by play thread

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Well, to be fair, he is full of… fertilizer.

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They’re just jealous because it wasn’t THEIR moderators.

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Whimpy whiner. Not a good look, Donny!

If he’s the powerful leader he claims he is, he should’ve been able to master any “rigged” debate situation.

I’m surprised he’s not claiming he did. That he’s basically admitting he lost shows what a total knockout Harris delivered. :boxing_glove:

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Do they ever say HOW the moderators were unfair?

I mean, I’ve heard them complain generally that live fact-checking is unfair. (Which, WTF??)

But I’d love these RWNJs to cite an example of the unfairness, and defend their position.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/us/politics/trump-harris-debate-who-won.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J04.q68j.zTSvAzGT2J8M&smid=url-share

“Perhaps men are too emotional to be President,” said Justin Wolfers , a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan.

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Pop Tv Burn GIF by Schitt's Creek

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Stealin’ that… it’s going in my Vault of Understatements, opposite the Whine Cellar.

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For my own well being, I just watched the highlights this morning and read the comments here; thanks everyone.

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Because they kept asking Trump follow up questions and fact checking him? It practically became a meme - Trump won, despite the terrible and biased moderators. :roll_eyes:

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That’s why I was tempted to skip it too, but I’m glad I didn’t. It was great to watch her master all aspects of her own performance while ALSO manipulating the hell out of Grampa Tromp. I had a great time for once, and even LOLed several times.

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I apologize if anyone has posted an updated link already - but the original PBS simulcast link now goes to some post-debate commentary. As far as I can tell, this is now the link to the debate:

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He and his partner were my comfort on CNN during the height of Covid-19. I don’t watch CNN anymore since they became right of center, so I miss hearing his expertise. I did see that he made an appearance on MSNBC within the last couple of weeks, so I hope I see more of him there.

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I have to moderate my controllable stress levels; it has a direct physical impact on my injured muscles and tendons.

Even listening to 45 for more than a few seconds makes my neck muscles start to clench, exacerbating my existing condition.

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I watched about 10 minutes and ended up not sleeping well. Even watching Harris kick his ass was stressful. I was yelling at the moderators to mute his mike within 30 seconds.

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The only thing I can control is how much I allow myself to be exposed to needless stressors.

I’m very glad/relieved that Harris did what needed to be done and prevailed, but trying to watch blow for blow would have been a terrible idea.

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The “biased” moderators somehow granted Trump every opportunity to use extra time with unscheduled rebuttals to the point where he got some 10 more speaking minutes than Harris did. At the very least I can say that didn’t help him in the slightest. On the flip side, Harris asked for extra time and was denied.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if a part of her strategy was to give Trump every inch of rope he needed to hang himself at every opportunity, which he of course did.

One moment that really stuck with me was when Harris tried rebutting Trump, and he said something like, “excuse me, I’m talking here <beat> sound familiar?” It only served to make him look small, weak, and petty. Clearly for this tall and brash man it must sting to get so rattled by this small and calm woman.

Clearly she wasn’t the one who needed “boxes or artificial lifts” to look like the bigger person throughout the debate.

And for all the “undecideds” who are like, “she still didn’t give enough details about her policy”, I don’t know what to tell you fucking people. A debate is not the time or place to go into deep policy proposals given the very short amounts of time available. Besides, did Trump outline a single bit of detail? No. Of course he didn’t. He just repeated the same points he’s been repeating for years now (repeat after me: “talking points are not policy”).

He couldn’t even answer a simple fucking yes/no question about if he wanted Ukraine to win against Russia despite being asked 3 times. He spent several minutes trashing the ACA and then when asked (repeatedly) if he had a plan to replace it the best he could come up with was something like, “we are looking at options” as if he hasn’t had over 9 fucking years to come up with something. When asked how he’d deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, he couldn’t even answer that – instead he went off on (yet another!) tangent about how “immigrants are destroying the fabric of the country”. Cool story, Donny. The question was how will you do it? The moderators practically spoon fed him a list of multiple choice options he could have ran with.

But, I guess because he fucked up every question he was asked it was the mdoerators’ fault?

I’ll tell you, I don’t think I like that guy very much.

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A review:

best friends lol GIF by iOne Digital

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