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Moderators keep letting trump interrupt & talk over them. Bro just grow some balls & tell him to shut up & mute his shit
I have been disappointed by that as well but this has been astoundingly good as far as debates have gone. The immediate fact checking is long overdue. And frankly I look forward to pointing at Trump's extra speaking time as a bulwark against the "iT wAs BiAsEd By ThE lIbErAL mOdErAtOrS" complaints.
I’ve been genuinely impressed by their real-time fact checking. They’re swatting away every wild thing he says calmly and with specific examples of the truth. These moderators are incredibly well-prepared.
Hopefully that's the standard from now on. Unless Donny finally kicks the bucket we're probably gonna be seeing more of him even if he loses in November
There's no way the GOP will give him another chance after losing twice, especially with all the other baggage
Hahahahah. He is the gop now. Would be fun watching him shred the party to pieces from a jail cell. Not to celebrate to early or anything.
As much as I want to agree I still don't think it's likely he'll ever see the inside of a cell. Not when the highest court in the land is almost entirely made up of his servants
To me, if trump loses, the charges will start piling up. Sure it may be years until he's actually punished but I wouldn't rule it out. Not with everything he is up against (so far). I'd bet money trump is committing more crimes to this day.
Well there's no way they didn't know what to expect!
90% of the time Kamala finished her point perfectly before the mods started to interrupt. Respec
Trump...was his disgusting self
And the best part was that when they did interrupt her, she finished her sentence, then stopped talking
(Except for one time where it really looked like trump was gonna set her off but she still held up)
I think it's safe to say this is without a doubt the best performance we've seen from a candidate against Trump, which imo really speaks to her ability to keep her composure under pressure, which isn't easy, especially when everybody expects you to be absolutely flawless.
That's cool, but I did like it when Biden told trump to shut up.
If kamala had called trump a little bitch when talking about how he's still recovering being fired I would have lost it.
"This..." (long pause to make sure she doesn't say something stupid) "...former president"
She didn't need to say it. The long pause said everything it needed to.
Also, going over to shake his hand was such an alpha move and she knew it. Trump was pretty much rattled from that point onwards.
It was such a huge stage tonight and she was beyond solid. Like you said, the best democratic performance since... can't remember. maybe you didn't say now that I think about it. She came off so reasonable and nailed all the points that should do damage to a turd like Trump.(i'm fine with name calling)
Thinking that same thing. For once just enforce the rules on this man baby
The problem is that they would hone in on that and make the debate about that rather than Kamala. They took the L for her Win. It's shitty. But what they had to do to make her the focal point. He absolutely is gaslighting them to make it about what he wants.
Who is "they" in this context? If you're talking about trumpers, they're a lost cause, man. They're always going to have some alternate version of reality. The only way we're going to move forward as a country is if we stop worrying about what they're going to say or do. We cannot let the tyranny of the minority hold this country hostage.
speakers took the L for Kamala I think is what he means
They're afraid to be called unfair after he said that they'd be unfair. It's one of the strategies that us uses to suppress fighting back against his lies and ineptitude.
First, your preemptively accuse someone of something. Second you do awful things that would normally rightfully get a response, but the authorities have to be careful otherwise you'll accuse them of doing the thing they should be doing. Third, you get your way even though you broke the rules, or you get to yell about how you knew, just knew! That you'd be treated badly.
Fuck it man, just be unfair. He's going to say you were anyways, go scorched earth on the motherfucker.
This has been a complaint across a dozen debates for 8 years now.
Agree. They are just letting him prove what a crazy duck he is.
That was Harris's request, I thought. In the original terms for the Trump/Biden debate, each person's mic was shut off except when it was their turn to speak. Harris asked for that to be changed to allow interruptions, and Trump went along with it. If that's not working out for Harris, she should probably talk to her own team that wanted it, instead of whining about the moderators.
It worked out just fine for her. Gave him a chance to dig his own grave, which is what he did and what she wanted.
Weird 34 was just showing off his misogyny. It's disrespectful to talk over women and take up their time. The debate proves Harris's point that Sleepy DonOLD cares only about himself and goes to great lengths to tell more and more lies.
What did Eisenhower have to do with it?
That's literally his strongest selling point, his voters support him because he normalizes misogyny.
If he ran over and slapped her to the floor they'd consider it a show of American Strength.
This is not a new development, dude. Do we really need to rehash the lessons of the last 8 years again? The people who vote for him don't care about your sensibilities. They like that he's rude and think it shows strength.
You may have missed the point of the debate, which is to help people on the fence choose a side. Anyone on the fence HAS been asleep the last 8 years and ought to not choose to side with Cult 34 and their rude, misguided values. I expect many a boomer MAGAt has a wet dream of the rapist groping her on stage.
What's up with the 34?
DonOLD was convicted of 34 felony counts in New York. He hopes people don't keep his factual criminality on the top of their minds. The purpose and motive of the crime was to deceive voters. It's election fraud.
Thanks for the explanation.
The mic being active or not doesn't affect her hearing. If he interrupts her she'd still hear it, only the TV audience wouldn't, so she'd seem flustered.
That's a really great point.