Was tempted to call this “Debate 2: Electric Boogaloo” but a) A lot of Lemmy won’t get the OG reference. and 2) “Boogaloo” has been co-opted and carries an unfortunate connotation these days.
Also, while it’s Trump’s 2nd debate of the season, it’s Harris’s first…
It’s being run by ABC News at 9 PM Eastern time, 6 PM Pacific, I see MSNBC starts their coverage TWO HOURS EARLY. That’s a lot of air time to fill, guys. Good luck!
Live updates, how and when to watch, debate rules, etc. here:
Link to the first debate thread here:
https://lemmy.world/post/16973660
That’t it! Thanks for hanging with it everbody!
This wins the night…
OMG Trump is off the rails and i absolutely love it!
Moderator: "Just to be clear, you have a plan? "
Trump: “I have concepts of a plan?”
In the post debate interview, Tim Walz just referenced Trump as an old man yelling at clouds. I love it.
“I have the concepts of a plan. I’m not president right now!”
Holy shit, dude. You biffed that one hard.
“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.”
— Former President Donald J. Trump
“i’m a gun owner, we’re not taking guns away.” strongest opinion from a democrat i’ve heard on this topic.
So here are my thoughts:
- First, the obvious: Harris won handily. She was in her element, and just thoroughly excoriated Trump at every turn, while maintaining an optimistic tone.
- But at the same time, Trump is probably not losing any of his base over his abysmal performance. Most of them probably didn’t watch, and the few that did probably tuned out in favor of reading conservative bloggers’ desperate spinning about halfway through.
- The real question is how off-putting he’s been for undecideds. He was pretty bad, but I’m aware enough of my own biases to wonder exactly how bad his behavior looks to undecideds.
- On the issues, Harris didn’t really have a stumble. I was pleasantly surprised by how well she handled the issue of Israel/Palestine, for example.
- The moderators get a B for following up questions, a C- for mic handling, and an A- for calling it out when Trump’s bizarre, rambling bullshit failed to even vaguely resemble an answer.
All in all, I didn’t hate this (other than the sound of Trump’s face hole).
“Donald trump was fired by 81 million people”
Throwing his catch phrase against him!
From where I was sitting, it seemed like Harris beat the ever-loving-shit out him. He took every piece of bait she laid out. I’m not the target though, so I hope undecideds saw what I saw.
Harris exceeded high expectations and Trump failed to meet incredibly low expectations.
Let the spin begin, but I saw what I saw.
This… former President…
That pause. 👏
The take aways, there are illegals getting sent to jail for trans surgery that are then sent out to eat cats and abort born children near the Keystone Pipeline so that billions and millions and trillions of illegals can enter everyday.
Honestly, this comment is a bit crazy and stupid, but then I remember what I just watched and heard.
“I AM RESPOND!”
“No sir we need to get to the next quest…”
“I AM RESPOND NOW!”
“No, Mr. President we need to…”
“I AM RESPOND!”
“Oh OK.”
“THEY WEAK ME STRONG! HONK HONK!”
HE’S GOT CONCEPTS OF A PLAN, KIDS, SHIT I’M ALL IN
Trump claims he only used to be racist 40 years ago
