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      3 months ago

      I laughed a lot at some of the absurd things he has said during this, but that claim so far has been the funniest. It’s phrased like he just ended a game of Clue but he can only communicate via conservative buzzwords.

      Kamala just got a laugh out of me when she was talking about Trump inviting the Taliban to Camp David and she’s talking and then chokes on her words to look him up and down to try to find a PG-rated descriptor of him and ended up just saying “and this……… former president”.

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      Clearly a sentence from a perfectly sane man and not a rotten brain kept alive through shoddy dark magic inside a barely functioning zombie

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      I love where he implied that because he’s not president he didn’t have to have a plan.

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      I’m definitely going to use that tidbit ol in one of our development change logs

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      My favorite part was when he said “if we come up with a better plan, we will replace Obamacare at that time.” Which is as close as he can get to saying he has tried (because he was president for 4 years) and failed to come up with a better plan than Obamacare (because he never did replace it or even announce that he had a plan and yesterday admitted that he doesn’t have one). So essentially, he endorsed Obamacare as a better plan than anything he or his team could come up with in the past 9 years.

      I loved that confession.

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        3 months ago

        Iirc, he dodged it twice. Like, how the actual fuck do you think you’ll remove 11 MILLION people from the country.

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      When asked how he would handle Israel differently he said “It would never have happened, how Russia invaded Ukraine” sir, that’s not what we’re talking about

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        he did have one answer to the obamacare question he had the “concepts of a plan” which is almost as stupid/funny as saying “my dog ate it”

        It would have been the funniest thing in the world if Harris had latched on to that and been like "Maybe you should take another 6-10 years to golf and think about it then come back. "

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        3 months ago

        He wants to be friends with Putin.

        He’s scared of Putin.

        Did you see the look on his face when Harris said that Putin would eat him for lunch?

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      They even asked him a second time even more directly, “Yes or no: do you want Ukraine to win in the war against Russia?” And he still wouldn’t just say yes or no. It’s like the easiest softball question you could ask for and he whiffed.

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        They even asked him a second time even more directly, “Yes or no: do you want Ukraine to win in the war against Russia?” And he still wouldn’t just say yes or no

        All he did was reinforce my suspicion that Putin has some pretty strong leverage on Trump.

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    These hosts are absolutely awful. Every time he rambles and lies, they give Harris a new topic. Occasionally they ask a question and barely point out that he didn’t answer it.

    The hosts need to hold him to a debate, not let him play it like a Trump rally.

    Harris is doing fantastic.

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      Oh look, Harris wanted to respond out of turn one time and the hosts shut her down after letting Trump interrupt all night.

      It really deems like he has been allowed to talk for twice the time as Harris. Anyone keeping track?

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      This is the first time we have seen moderators actually fact check Trump live. I’ll take that in spite of the interruptions.

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        They were meek and let him talk over them. I guess more than zero is better than nothing, but it is a pretty low bar.

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        It’s almost like they were prepared with researched facts based on his most commonly repeated blatant lies.

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      It’s really infuriating. Every time he’s asked a question, and she gets a rebuttal, he just starts rebutting her rebuttal and they just let him. And half the time what he’s says has nothing to do with the question that was asked. They cut Kamala off pretty much every time.

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    The difference in America between commercial and public media: PBS’ stream is letting two political experts answer viewer questions. NBC is interviewing three undecided voters in Pennsylvania.

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    Why hasn’t Vice President Harris fixed everything already, she’s the Vice President already so she should fix it.

    So says the man that tried to get his VP hung when he dared disagree with him.

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      You could see part of Harris’ teams strategy was to bait him with things to make him mad.

      There was the statement about him losing 400 million dollars, the statement about other western leaders laughing at him, the rally size comment. Probably a few more.

      If he was smarter he would have seen what they she was attempting and changed how he responded

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    Dana Bash from CNN actually stating what should be obvious. Paraphrasing:

    We’re covering this because it’s racist. We’re talking about memes that say people of color will eat your pets. That’s racism.

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        Honestly, that’s one area where I feel that we’re kind of weak in terms of political dialog. From what I’ve seen, the Brits have a stronger tradition of expecting politicians to field questions and having interviewers not let them dance their way out of questions.

        I don’t know if it’s definitely a major benefit to do that, hard to quantify – I’m also not sure that being able to come up with slick answers on the spot is always the best metric of a policy, would kind of prefer written questions and answers with time to respond, myself – but I kind of do think that it would help in some cases.

        But unless that becomes an expectation, nobody’s going to willingly do that.

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    I keep quoting this bit from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the hopes that it will happen to Trump. It hasn’t happened yet, but if we’re lucky tonight…

    his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.