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No, Kamala Harris wasn’t wearing these audio earrings (www.theverge.com)

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 month ago

Gosh, I don't know why this seems to be spreading like wildfire while several independent journalists have called out Trump's obvious use of a bluetooth enabled butt plug for message passing in the debate.

It's been credibly pointed out elsewhere that Trump pulled a Hans Neimann

It's well known that Donald Trump was using a bluetooth butt plug during the debate [...]

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Accusations of "a wire" go back to at least 2004 now.

https://www.theregister.com/2004/10/12/bush_wireless_coaching/

https://fair.org/extra/the-emperors-new-hump/

Though in W.'s case, it's not ambiguous.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Personally, and more seriously, I've always found it weird that we care - the job of president isn't a personal role... there are directly supporting staff in the hundreds that the president should rely on to not make an ass of the country with diplomatic faux pas or mispronounciations.

Obviously, Trump will inevitably make an ass of himself, but a lot of people have a very difficult job trying to prevent that.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ve always found it weird that we care

"I didn't lose, they just cheated" is a retort as old as time. What's at issue isn't whether she had an ear bud, its whether she had some undisclosed advantage that might explain how she verbally outmaneuvered Trump.

Obviously, Trump will inevitably make an ass of himself

That's sort of the joke in all this. He didn't lose because Harris delivered some brilliant, fluid, soul-capturing oratory that could only have been achieved with a Sereno de Bergerac esque coaching. Honestly, she felt kinda wooden in the very-obviously-rehearsed opening and closing. But Trump lost because he lied out his ass, repeatedly, and everyone else on stage called him on it immediately.

Harris didn't force him to claim that migrants are going to eat your dog or that infanticide is legal in blue states. That was a totally unforced error on Trump's part. "She had her airpods in!" is just a deflection from the moments that ruined his appearance on stage.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago

It's Cyrano de Bergerac, just FYI.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Also, Trump rambling is hard enough to follow without someone else talking in your ear at the same time…

…as anyone who’s ever had someone talking to you in person while someone else was talking to you on the phone at the same time already knows.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 69 points 1 month ago

I honestly love this; they're basically saying that they think her talking points were good enough that she couldn't have been doing it off the cuff. Great endorsement for Harris.

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago

Just because Trump is an incoherent mess doesn't mean normal people can't talk about things in a normal way. It's not like she said anything mind shatteringly complicated.

Also who fucking cares? It's a debate not a sting operation or a courtroom. Maybe Trump should get an earpiece so he doesn't sound like a moron in front of the entire country.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago

as if he'd listen to anyone's advice anyway

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 month ago

He'd be arguing with them. Out loud.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Speak for yourself. I need someone in my ear constantly reminding me that immigrants won’t eat my pets and it’s illegal to kill newborns. /s

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

So, do these people think they lost the debate because Harris over performed, or because their candidate was rambling about eating pets, legalized infant murder, and the size of his crowds?

All Trump had to do was be calm, not talk about internet conspiracy theories, and not take the bate on things like crowd sizes. If he did that, he would’ve wildly exceeded people’s low expectations. He couldn’t do that. He has zero impulse control.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

The whine I've been seeing the most is that the moderators shouldn't be able to "crusade" or "fact check" they should just be there to do their job, and trump shouldn't agree to another debate unless there will be no fact checking.

Yeah, and somehow they think that will reflect positively on them.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Maybe they should buy Trump some of these magic earrings. It would honestly be hilarious to watch him try to take guidance from an earpiece. I don’t think he could stand it more than two minutes max.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago

This just in: misogynistic racist pieces of shit refuse to acknowledge that a black woman could be even remotely well spoken and prepared on her own, she must have been fed exactly what to say by someone else!

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I am reminded of a very 90s Full House joke, wherein the annoying next door neighbor girl studies for her driver's test and passes. She is amazed that you can read up on potential test questions and then know them when they are asked on the test. She then asks "I wonder if you could do the same thing for tests in high school?" as if studying never occurred to her.

I feel like the concept of "studying the most pressing issues of the day and preparing responses" some people don't even consider, as all Trump has done since 2016 is just ad-lib all responses.

[-] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

They say "she was being fed the questions". What would be the point of being fed the questions while you are on stage?!

I know that what they really mean is that she was being fed the answers. It just shows exactly how little effort they put into these claims.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

“Kamala, the correct answer is ‘immigrants are NOT eating your pets’”

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Oh Christ, earpiece truthers. This shit's been around since Bush/Kerry.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Wee Bush did have that box under his suit that no one could explain.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Eh, maybe, but he still lost that debate pretty hard.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Just in case you didn’t realize that republicans are dumb af.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

James Bond up in here

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