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[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 135 points 2 months ago (6 children)

This shit is incredible. He used to tone it down when he wasn't speaking directly to his base, but he came out of the gate with post birth executions. Now we're onto Haitians eating cats and dogs, wtf?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be great if the hosts stopped giving him the floor every time he interrupts Harris and the hosts.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think that's actually beneficial. It allows him to lie again, the moderators to fact check, and then Kamala to respond again. He looks dumb and flustered right now.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It makes him look bad to reasonable people, but it also let's him bluster his way through more and more lies that the brainwashed fox news folk will eat up and consider it him "dominating" over Kamala. Cut the fucking mics ABC, Jesus.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kamala and co purposely allowed open mics because he polled much more poorly when he whines over the open mic constantly

[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The issue wasn’t that the mics were open, it’s that his wasn’t open during her responses and she would be cut off from responding to his lunatic interruptions. Still made him look bad, but true open mic debate would’ve been way worse for himz

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Fair enough, I suppose it's a bit of a line.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Muting him, correcting the lie, and moving on would be far better than letting him interrupt and ramble about immigration for the 1000th time.

[–] ChaoticGoodHeart 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Then the complaint is that he's not given a chance to speak. Facts and reason didn't get us into this mess and they won't get us out either. At this point we have to hope for a McCarthy moment where the spell just collapses. Letting him ramble brings that closer.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Cool, so pander to the weird jackass while shutting down Harris the ONE time she tried to interrupt.

Giving him time to ramble is just giving him time to pander to his base and acting like it is a reasonable thing to do at a debate. Anyone who watched his allotted time had plenty of time to see him ramble, he didn't need EXTRA time.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Trump has been the wildcard and basically gone against every norm for someone running for office. In 2016 that was more unexpected and the electorate had a clear anti-establishment candidate they could get behind (even though he lost the popular vote).

I think the trick has worn off and we now know how to deal with his antics, plus he's aged and less coherent. Also he was the establishment for 4 years, and can't be the wildcard candidate he once was.

I think Vivek Ramaswamy was trying this playbook during the Republican primaries but failed to account for the cult of Trump and the racism in the party. Maybe it would have worked against someone who wasn't a former president or if Trump was sent to prison sooner.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget transgender surgery on illegal immigrants. He can't even keep his strawmen straight.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 40 points 2 months ago

Yeah, if our country was just handing out gender affirming care, the trans community here wouldn't be in such turmoil.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago

He's scared and doesn't have anything left to lean on. The hardcore didn't care what he said anyway, they were gonna vote him anywah

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I honestly had to turn the thing off because I’m so sick of hearing this guy’s blatant bullshit. He doubled down on abortion rights advocates wanting to kill babies in the delivery room. What a fucking lying piece of shit.

I hope we can make this guy go the fuck away.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've mostly been avoiding his bullshit, at least directly, since he left office. I had to tune in here because I think this is crucial given how this campaign has played out. I truly believe if he loses here, he won't make it to another run.

[–] bluemite@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You can't just believe it. People need to actually vote accordingly.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think I have 30m to 1h left. I started late to watch at 2x speed but I honestly think that made it more stressful. Hearing Trump's bullshit at twice the frequency is really annoying. I can imagine how Harris felt. She's handled it well from what I've seen, but does that move the needle? Is anyone who was considering Trump or abstaining really going to be bothered by the total bullshit? I hope so, but we'll have to wait and see.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I'm just glad to see she can handle being near a stressful moron and keep her rhythm regardless of what vile nonsense was getting regurgitated.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

When neither magas nor Republicans have any policy positions... all you have left is culture-war lies and bullshit.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

You forgot projection and name-calling. Probably a few more. Tuned out after Kamala triggered him. Can't stand to listen to his insanity.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I only watched the beginning, kind of hopeless that people might think he did well. I didn’t even know kept to watch: just lie after lie, told with complete confidence, and without following any theme or logic.

At least when he repeated the thing about Haitians eating your pets: surely no one but hard core racists can agree with that, right?