CBS News, hosting vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz for the general election campaign’s third debate next week, says it will be up to the politicians — not the moderators — to check the facts of their opponents.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 hours ago

    Extremists (hint: not Tim Walz) will be able to just spout lies the whole time, and rational, honest candidates: (hint: not JD Vance) will have to either let them get away with complete bullshit assertions, or spend part of their time doing the job of the moderators… This is why no one believes in Journalism these days…

  • @OldChicoAle
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    51 hour ago

    Is the journalist in the room with us?

  • FuglyDuck
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    152 hours ago

    *CBS is announcing that it will allow the Couchfucker to Gish Gallop.

    Fixed that title for you.

  • @NatakuNox
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    203 hours ago

    Ya this is a dumb move by CBS because it compromises the legitimacy of the debate… But I know Tim Walz is going to wipe the floor with this couch fucker.

  • @NotMyOldRedditName
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    Waltz: Vance I heard you fuck couches for fun.

    Vance: NO I DON’T

    Waltz: That’s not proof. If you’re gonna fact check me you gotta provide proof! Clearly you fucked couches!

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      Walz would be way more subtle than that.

      hey. So glad you got off the damn couch.

      And

      Oh. Meant to ask you. How was the tour of Ashley Furniture? Find any attractive couches?

      Edit:

      didja get any good recipes from RFK?

  • JDPoZ
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    244 hours ago

    Fucking candy asses. Call Kyle Clark. He will show those absolute wieners how it’s done.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 hour ago

      I’m glad Amanda is for Democracy… But why is she (apparently) for embedding a landscape video inside her portrait video that doesn’t fit on my screen, so now it’s scaled down to 1/9th my TV’s viewable area?

      • Cethin
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        The whole intro part didn’t add anything anyway, so it just made the viewing experience worse for no reason. That was frustrating. Still, every debate should be like that one.

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    Fucking cowards. We saw how quickly fascists crumble when you fact check them. Why won’t CBS want to do that?

    • FuglyDuck
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      92 hours ago

      Because they want to help the fascist.

      Something about ten dudes at a diner table with an eleventh who is a nazi.

  • @[email protected]
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    215 hours ago

    So Walz will try to find the lies and Vance will claim everything is a lie since they can’t stop him?

    • @[email protected]
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      123 hours ago

      Yeah, this system makes no sense. How are they supposed to fact check each other?

      “That’s a lie.” “Not uh.”

      • @[email protected]
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        11 hour ago

        You see, one party lies with every breath. So they are not supposed to fact check “each other”…

      • RuBisCO
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        Hey, let’s get Stephen to do the live fact-checking!

      • @proudblond
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        237 hours ago

        If CBS suddenly disappeared, Colbert could go anywhere he wants I bet.

        • EleventhHour
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          No bet. Colbert would be juuuuust fine.

  • @carl_dungeon
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    185 hours ago

    Walz should just bring a fucking airhorn

  • @Hayduke
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    Would they really have the time to fact-check the gish-gallop Vance will ejaculate on them? That’s just not even feasible to get through the more egregious lies. He already said he just makes shit up. This will be the largest public face-time he will ever have (hopefully) and it all but guarantees he will shamelessly dial the horseshit up, if not just for sound bites.

    And yeah, I decided to use that word.

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    Vance isn’t Trump. He’s a wet noodle who can barely work his way through a sentence. Walz is an adorable teddy bear with claws.

    It’ll be the cutest bloodbath we’ve ever seen, and we’ll all laugh about how the old guy from Minnesota made the dude wearing eyeliner get scared of giving trans school kids free lunches.

    Edit: I can’t wait!

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      He’s ok with pushing outright lies, and it’s hard to keep up with all the right wing lies that are floating around. I hope Walz just starts calling them the liars they are instead of avoiding ‘name calling’.

      • EleventhHour
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        Vance isn’t much of a public speaker, and, up against a debate opponent like Walz (who is a great public speaker), Vance is pretty much fucked. He won’t have much of a defense but to pivot when confronted, and Walz is both clever and persistent. He’s also extremely charming, which Vance extremely isn’t, lol.

        • @proudblond
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          You’re making me look forward to it. Kinda. Let’s say I’m looking forward to the instant replays by the Daily Show.

          • EleventhHour
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            Well, it’ll probably be more policy-focused than anything with Trump, which is always just a clown show because Trump only knows how to be a clown. Vance will, at least, try to debate Walz, but it will quickly just be a timed trading of canned campaign jabs. How each plays it will be interesting to see, and - personally - I think it will be fascinating for 3 reasons:

            1. again, Vance’s relative terribleness vs Walz’s very goodness will be awesome to watch. Walz will kick Vance’s ass easily

            2. more than that, this debate will be far more substantive than the last debate, which was, basically, Kamala baiting Trump into crazy-shouting one crazy lie after another while Kamala just laughed and laughed.

            3. Tim Walz is, quite possibly, the most lovable guy to ever exist. JD Vance is, quite possibly, a new form of venerial disease.

    • @[email protected]
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      66 hours ago

      Vance isn’t Trump. He’s a wet noodle who can barely work his way through a sentence.

      But what is Vance?

      • Arsecroft
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        He only isn’t things. The absence of morals and personality. Pure lack.

    • @paf0
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      Vance is like a Dollar Store version of Trump. He looks like the same product, he tells the same lies, but the parts aren’t all there. He’s a grifter but he’s not in the same league as The Donald, he even looks like he’s in pain when he lies.

      • EleventhHour
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        The fucked up part is that, since you can’t get cheaper than Trump, the knockoff is actually more expensive. Worse, Vance is also (somehow), dumber, poorer, less-popular, and more insecure. He’s also - unbelievably- worse with interactions with the public and with public speaking.

        And we’re about to find out how bad he is at debate against a real politician.

        • @[email protected]
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          Vance at least looks like an actual human, the Toupee’s human disguise was created by a sentient pile of excrement that only once glanced at a human from a distance.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      It’ll be the cutest bloodbath we’ve ever seen

      When you wrestle the pig, you both get muddy but only the pig likes it.

      • @AbidanYre
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        They both look pretty happy to me.

      • EleventhHour
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        Helps when the pig is both extremely popular already, and the pig’s opponent is… lol… well, JD Vance lmao

        Seriously, the guy lost a debate against the opening staff at a donut shop. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

  • SolidGrue
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    868 hours ago

    Weak.

    C’mon, CBS. The ghost of Cronkite might have to visit you.