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Washington Post gathered 24 undecided voters to watch the debate. Overall results:
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Perhaps the most important voter moved by this debate was Taylor Swift. Not only did she endorse, she wrote a fine piece of work. Her lyrics are her strength.
Yep, Bink, they did their psyops. As soon as she brought up his rallies I knew he would lose it.
I am so excited millions of Americans got to see the raging lunatic I’ve watched at rallies for so long, but was so frustrated that not enough people were seeing it. I always felt swing voters would run for their lives if they saw just a glimpse of his madman persona, and she baited that right out of him tonight.
“On Tuesday, former President Donald Trumpdemanded that “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.”
“Amid his preemptive efforts to sow doubt about the election, Trump is demanding that Republicans secure passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act), or shut down the federal government. The SAVE Act, which passed a vote in the House in July but has not been taken up by the Senate, would require Americans to provide documented proof of citizenship — such as a passport or birth certificate — in order to register to vote.”
Tell me he knows he’s going to lose with telling me he knows. He’s telling MAGAt Mike & comrades to shut down the government. I wonder if they realized their political goose is cooked by association?
Jon Stewart goes live after the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Filled with face-offs over abortion access, border control, and for some reason eating cats? Jon breaks down what this all means for the election.
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Stephen Colbert delivers his LIVE monologue following the first debate between VP Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
George Conway on VP Kamala Harris giving Trump the biggest beatdown ever in debate history, his reactions to the Presidential Debate, Trump being psychotic and having a huge ego, his tweet after George and Kellyanne Conway got divorced, Trump having Narcissistic Personality Disorder and being one of Trump’s biggest enemies.
Debate night started with an awkward handshake and ended with an endorsement by self-dubbed “Childless Cat Lady” Taylor Swift.
The first debate betweenVice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump was the latest high point for Harris in her seven-week-old campaign — and quite a contrast to the previous presidential debate, which saw President Joe Bidengive a shaky performance that led to calls for him to end his reelection Republicans are fretting that Trump missed a moment and let Harris get to him. Meanwhile, Democrats are thrilled at Harris’s performance.
“Slay,” is how one Democratic official responded when asked how Harris performed.
The stakes were higher for Harris. Trump is a known quantity, while 28 percent of likely voters said they felt they needed to learn more about Harris, according to aNew York Times–Siena Collegepollconducted last week. The debate was her best opportunity to show the American people who she is — and to remind voters who Trump is.
Harris’s strategy was to get under Trump’s skin, a campaign official said, and she did that. A few examples:
She said people leave his rallies early “out of exhaustion and boredom.”
She said military leaders have told her he’s a “disgrace.”
She said 81 million people fired him and “he is having a very difficult time processing.”
She saidRussian PresidentVladimir Putinwould “eat you for lunch.”
It appeared to throw Trump off his game.
“She clearly got under his skin,” Marc Short, a former top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, told us. “He looks angry and not focused on winning topics of border and the economy.
Trump compounded the humiliation by showing up in the spin room continuing to lie…
Trump: “We’re getting polls that show 88 to 11. We’re having a lot of great polls. Lots of polls. You see the polls. The polls are indicating we got 90%, 60%, 72%, 71%, and 98% Reporter: Where are you getting these numbers from? Trump: I felt very good”
On the phone with FOX just now, Trump suggests Disney’s FCC licenses should be revoked due to the debate:
“I think ABC took a big hit last night. To be honest, they are a news organization – they have to be licensed to do it – they ought to take away their license for the way they did that.”
But he gave few specifics about his own plans, instead pitching a second Trump term as a return to his first.
Trump said he would replace the Affordable Care Act “if” he could find a plan that is better. When asked by moderator Linsey Davisif he has a plan, he said he has “concepts of a plan” that he’ll reveal “in the not-too-distant future.” (Trump has been promising details of a health-care plan since he started running for president in 2015.)
The most substantive policy exchange of the night was on abortion.
Trump, who has been all over the map on the issue, praised the “genius” and “strength” of the six Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and “were able to get it to the states.”
Trump said he supports exceptions for rape and incest and said “there’s no reason” to sign into law a national abortion ban because “we’ve gotten what everybody wanted.” (He also said that his running mate, Sen. JD Vance(R-Ohio), was wrong when he said Trump would veto a national abortion ban and that they never talked about it.)
Harris gave a passionate defense for reinstating Roe.
“I pledge to you, when Congress passes a bill to put back in place the protections of Roe v Wade, as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law,” she said.
I’m looking for anything that Dumbass did right last night and am not finding it. 😁
How do we sum up Trump’s message last night? Trump on what American looks like if Harris wins: Immigrants are going to eat your pets, Democrats will execute babies after ninth months and there will be no Israel
Poobah,
You are right about the sluggishness.
Oh, and re: his comments to Fox this morning – Fox fuhchrissake – remove Disney’s FCC license because they what? (1) Gave him 5 minutes more than Kamala to spew his BS? (2) Called him out 3 times for his lies? (3) Turned his mic on contrary to the rules whenever he wanted to try and “explain” how the lie he just told was actually the truth? (4) Didn’t protect him from that mean lady? Goddam cry baby.
Ya know somewhere in J D Vance’s Ivy league education you would have thought his 2 brain cells would have learned to rub together. Having lived in an immigrant community for 30 years I’m well aware of the ” immigrants eat cats” trope. It used to be applied to the Vietnamese community. I suspect the Republicans lost a significant share of the Vietnamese vote last night. I am just totally gob smacked at the stupidity of major Republican political candidates believing it is a good thing to use such language. To say it in a national forum.
If you are a Republican, this is your party. This isn’t some fringe candidate who is going to get 20 votes. This is Ted Cruz, JD Vance, Donald Trump and those are just the ones that came into my view yesterday. If you vote Republican in this election that is you, this is your party and you hug it and embrace it.
This isn’t right, left, this is basic morals.
Jack
He’s not the only one collapsing narcissistically. So are his peeps. They have no other moral compass – their church has lost that role – as he goes down, they’re going there with him. They think it’s the road to heaven but they’ve lost their bearings.
JD Vance is narcissistically going in the wrong direction mentally, physically and spiritually for someone who so desperately needs a program of recovery by virtue of his upbringing. Ivy League is not a “program.” Again, leadership in the wrong direction for a group of our people who need the opposite.
He should be reading Mary Trump’s books instead of his own.
I too was so impressed by this. This campaign is truly Chess vs. Checkers. Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens
This is a little thing but it’s a big thing. Someone in Harris debate prep world came up with a way to make Ukraine resonate with a specific group of voters, Polish Americans, then equipped their boss with the relevant stats for Pa. Then she delivered it like she had said it 100 times. That’s a campaign performing at a very high level.
Another handshake. This morning, it was seemingly facilitated by Mike Bloomberg. Orange Adolf put on his big boy pants for a photo op at the 9/11 Memorial. Remember the lies he told right after 9/11? Remember his Treasury Department taking millions from the fund for first responders’ healthcare?
I love Stuart, another person whose books should be on our shelves.
A prime example of how good ideas may spring from good moral leadership. The republican cult is incapable of high-mindedness because their moral compass is at the bottom of the latrine.
“In a message that could make the government funding effort even more complicated for Republicans, Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday, “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.”
”Johnson emphasized agreement with Trump on government funding in response, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” Tuesday, “I think President Trump is saying exactly what I have been saying, and that is we need assurances on election security and to fund the government.”
MAGAt Mike is doing the lowerd’s work, again, sewing the weeds of distrust; bearing false witness against a system which has been proven to be secure, and where the few false votes out of millions were mostly Republican.
MAGAt Mike is conveniently ignoring the real problem with fair elections; folks being purged from voter roles, gerrymandering, increasing documentation hurdles, reducing the number of polling places and making it harder to mail in ballots. MAGAt Mike is a lying, Russian tool, and he’s certainly not an actual Christian.
I have family who were in the middle of the collapse of the towers. We’ve heard only bits and pieces of their experience that day. They don’t talk about it but we can see the trauma is still with them. I hope one day they can tell the whole story. It should not be forgotten. There is still time to heal.
So many big moments in the debate that the part where he said,”she put out” got lost. Donald John tRUMP is a disgusting misogynist, and an adjudicated rapist. Does he have to register as a sex offender? He should.
He won’t admit to it, that’s not his thing, but he received Comeuppance. Not nearly enough Comeuppance, , but it will suffice for now. Now if we could deliver Comeuppance to the sickeningly subservient “Media”. CNN, WAPO, NY Times…….FOX.
You know who you are.
I am still healing from my own national tragedy caused by Donald Trump. The sooner he is gone from the scene, the sooner the healing can begin. Not while he’s still here pouring salt on the wounds.
Only a couple or 3 years after Joe McCarthy received his Comeuppance, he dropped dead in 1957. That’s the Law of Comeuppance. Kind of an hubris and karma thing.
Seems like it was 1957 that time our teacher brought a small black and white TV into the classroom for us to watch something momentrius. I’ll have to look it up, but I’m sure it wasn’t death of McCarthy. Seems like it was John Glenn.
Never Trump Republicans are out there. Former WA State Party chair Chris Vance on X:
“Last night illustrated why so many Republicans are supporting Kamala Harris. We don’t agree with her on every issue, but Trump is a dangerous, racist, Russia-loving, deficit-exploding moron. An election is a choice and this year that choice is crystal clear.”
I keep seeing attacks on his debate prep. No excuse, it’s their candidate’s fault. He should be fired.
Chris Christie on ABC: “She was exquisitely well prepared. She laid traps, and he chased every rabbit down every hole…This is the difference between someone who’s well-prepared and someone who’s unprepared. Whoever did debate prep for Donald Trump should be fired.”
The only reason to fire a Trump-debate-prepper is to have a convenient scapegoat. The fact is, no one can save an extremist malignant narcissist like Donald Trump from himself. He is his own worst enemy.
Debate peppers …..in addition to being great scapegoats, they’re also a bunch of assholes…….but it’s also all their fault. It HAS to be. If he’s never going to blame himself, who’s he gonna call? SCAPEGOATERS! (Who ya gonna call?)
As if we need more examples of Donald Trump exploiting the private grief of mourners for his personal gain.
Early in the presidential debate on Tuesday, Donald J. Trump invoked a town in Ohio to disparage immigrants and denounce Kamala Harris.
“You look at Springfield, Ohio,” Mr. Trump said. “You look at Aurora in Colorado. They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently. These are the people that she and Biden led into our country, and they’re destroying our country. They’re dangerous. They’re at the highest level of criminality.”
Barely an hour before the debate, in Springfield, the father of an 11-year-old boy killed when an immigrant’s minivan crashed into a school bus, lashed out at Mr. Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, calling them “morally bankrupt” politicians spreading hate at the expense of his son, Aiden.
Speaking during public comment at a regular meeting of the Springfield City Commission, the father, Nathan Clark, said, “This needs to stop now.”
Citizens of Aurora were overnight guests at my house on Sunday and Monday. They were seemingly unaware their city had been taken over by murderous migrants and it wasn’t safe for them to return home.
Trumps debate preppers may be incompetent but who hired them? Being surrounded by incompetent people is generally a Trump trademark. In other words it is a feature not a bug.
Jack
If I am his staff I don’t want another debate and convincing him he won is the best way to keep him from doing it.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
In the World of Boxing or UFC, when a Fighter gets beaten or knocked out, they get up and scream, “I DEMAND A REMATCH, I DEMAND A REMATCH!” Well, it’s no different with a Debate. She was beaten badly last night. Every Poll has us WINNING, in one case, 92-8, so why would I do a Rematch?
Glad to see Dumbass and little Dumbass mini me are talking about shutting down the government – that has worked so well in the past that whatever undecideds out there who didn’t decide after last night’s debate should join Kamala and Taylor when the checks to their doctors and grandparents stop arriving.
Glsd I opened and enlarged the meme of Dumbass throwing stuff at Kamala – in its small format I couldn’t tell whether the stuff he’s throwing is stones or turds. Enlarged I THINK it’s stones – glass house and all…
A rematch is pointless for Harris. She won bigly. She could only do equally as well if his blathering reactions were similar. If he could manage not to loose his Cheeto dust, it would make him look better to some.
It’s still hard to believe anyone who hasn’t decided for Harris is anything more than a racist, misogynist, and a Russian tool.
good opportunity to evaluate your news and opinion sources- anyone spinning the debate as in any way positive for trump or negative for kamala is a disingenuous troll (provocateur), i’m
not being hyperbolic
… happy to see most of the corporate media report on the objective reality that Harris mopped the floor with trump, the headlines are what they should be
Show that his base is tired of him and he loses his power. They don’t actually have to be….just create the impression. Hell, it’s only for couple months……
Put up AI photos of empty venues, create bots who posit that he’s losing the base, show rumors of rampant ennui……..hell, swift boat him. He yells fake this and fake that all the time anyway…..so start putting some REAL fake stuff out there and make him run out of ketchup.
Taylor Swift effect. TargetSmart measures national online voter registration. Last night after Swift’s endorsement, which included links to register, registration jumped over 4x the daily average.
Bink – The New York Times seems to be aligning with NewsMax, although not lying with huge numbers. They just can’t seem to admit tRUMPsky lost the debate. Any Russian investment/ties to NYT? Just looking out for the interests of billionaires?
If it’s not important, why pick a fight with her? Just say she’s entitled to opinion and let it go. This is the dumbest campaign ever.
JD Vance on Fox News:
“We admire Taylor Swift’s music, but I don’t think most Americans are gonna be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans”
the most facile criticism i’m hearing is a lack of policy clarity from Kamala, as if a debate with 60 second answer format is the venue for minute policy details, no one watches a prime time debate for that, they want fireworks
Laughable also the media tries to instill the belief that it’s the candidates’ job to inform the voter of absolutely every detail, when the reality it’s the voters’ responsibility to inform themselves
Meanwhile, trump only emanates gibberish, to imply there is any cogent policy grasp by him is just bad-faith journalism
I wish I could be alive in fifty years to see all the analysis, studies and more of what has happened since 2008. That was the trigger for much of the blatant racism in the U.S. A Black man in the White House, who would have ever thought that could happen? Then caous, then pandemic, then a old white man brings back a strong U.S.
Then, the future president. A Black woman in the White House. I should be around to watch this real time, but we miss out on the deep investigations and various discoveries of secret societies.
i hear the theories, i’ll defer to you if you get a bead on the corporate media complicity, except for that bad-ass David Muir 🫡
We know Zazlav (Pres. of Warner Bros.) is friends with overt sexual harasser and Putin-enabler Elom Musk (photographed attending a sporting event together)
Over on twit the one of the Harris for president accounts had this:
BREAKING: Caitlin Clark just liked Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Could a Caitlin Clark endorsement be coming?
Oh things are getting interesting. I hope I stay awake long enough to see the sfb campaign response.
Elon’s sexual harassment is a transparent expression of insecurity by a man so threatened by any woman having any influence or any power that he feels the need to insert himself try and reduce her to a sex object
It’s important because there is a woman on the top of the ticket and many conservatives of similar philosophy will resort to similar tactics due to similar insecurities now that they must resort to desperation
the curtain has been lifted on this goon and he’s the one that pulled the cord, no more federal funding for him plz
One thing really set it off was when the Black man in the White House ridiculed and humiliated the rich white guy at the White House Correspondents Dinner. His base was thus assured.
By the bye, from another historic significance of the date.
Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 1245 Birmingham Road in Birmingham Township,Chester County,Pennsylvania. The current meetinghouse was built in 1763. The building and the adjacent cemetery were near the center of fighting on the afternoon of September 11, 1777 at the Battle of Brandywine. Worship services are held weekly at 10am.[3]The meetinghouse and adjacent octagonal schoolhouse were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse and School on July 27, 1971.[4][5]
Elon is proving to be a real pig. His response to Taylor Swift signing herself a childless cat lady was to offer to give her a baby and pay to take care of her cats.
“Under the bright lights, the American people got to see the choice they will face this fall at the ballot box: between moving forward with Kamala Harris, or going backwards with Trump,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement after Tuesday night’s debate hosted by ABC News. “That’s what they saw tonight and what they should see at a second debate in October. Vice President Harris is ready for a second debate. Is Donald Trump?”
In the spin room in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, Trump repeatedly told reporters that Harris would likely want a redo because he claimed she performed poorly.
“We’ll look at it, but they want a second debate because they lost,” Trump said.
By Wednesday morning, however, Trump told the hosts of “Fox & Friends” that he was leaning against debating Harris a second time.
“When you win the debate, I don’t know that I want to do another debate,” Trump said, prompting host Steve Doocy to observe, “It sounds like you’re a no.”
“Well I’d be less inclined to,” Trump said, again claiming he had a “great night” — though many Republicans felt he allowed Harris to stay on the attack.
Doocy said Fox News proposed several more debate dates in October to the Trump and Harris teams Tuesday night, moderated by the network’s Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
Trump interrupted to say he’d rather not have Baier and MacCallum and would prefer someone like “Sean, Jesse or Laura” — apparently referencing Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters and Laura Ingraham.
“I didn’t think Martha and Brett were good last night … Jesse was fantastic last night, what he said,” Trump said. “Jesse really got it. Jesse said Trump won that debate.”
In a social media post Wednesday afternoon, Trump claimed that Harris was “beaten badly last night” and asked, “why would I do a Rematch?” Meanwhile, Harris’s campaign posted an ad Wednesday that was simply footage of Tuesday’s entire debate.
“Donald Trump’s social media stock closes at a record low after his rocky debate performance”
“Wall Street sure is acting like Donald Trump lost the debate Tuesday night.
“I think if he loses, he has to sell and DJT goes to $1. If he wins, he doesn’t sell and DJT can make a run for it,” Tuttle said.
The lock-up restrictions preventing Trump from selling his 114.75 million shares in Trump Media are set to expire later this month.”
“The lifting of the lock-up agreement will free Trump to sell some shares, but experts say it would be almost impossible for the former president to quickly unload most or all of his stake without tanking the share price.”
Jamie – I think Felon’s pal Elon made a sexual threat to Swift, and promised not to let (Haitian, per the conspiracy theory) immigrants eat her cats. That’s what the AI cat pics were yesterday. Weird.
JD has already made the huge mistake of going after Swift. Beta baby-man can’t handle the thought of one strong woman, let alone millions. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4875047-taylor-swift-jd-vance-harris-endorsement/
“Well look, we admire Taylor Swift’s music, but I don’t think most Americans, whether they like our music or fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans,” Vance told Fox.
JD is the one who is out of touch. JD doesn’t understand concern for one’s community. JD, like tRUMPsky and their handler Putin, don’t have human empathy. They are more than weird. They are sick.
There’s something very wrong with these undecided voters if they still can’t figure out Donald Trump has never done an effing thing for them and isn’t about to start now.
Bob and Sharon Reed, both 77-year-old retired teachers who live on a farm in central Pennsylvania, had high hopes for the debate between Ms. Harris and former President Donald Trump. They thought that they would come away with a candidate to support in November.
But, Ms. Reed said, “It was all disappointing.”
The couple ended the night wondering how the costly programs each candidate supported — Mr. Trump’s tariffs and Ms. Harris’s aid to young families and small businesses — would help a couple like them, living on a fixed income that has not kept pace with inflation. They said they didn’t hear detailed answers on immigration or foreign policy, either.
Yes, there was a shit load of money injected in 2020 to keep the economy from crashing, but then a bunch of people up and died, ending their economic windfalls.
Keilah Miller, 34, who lives in Milwaukee, grew intrigued by Ms. Harris too. Ms. Miller said she had voted Democratic in past presidential elections but decided to stop voting altogether about a year ago. Her own situation, and that of other Black women in Milwaukee, had not improved, she said.
On Tuesday, she felt nudged unexpectedly toward Mr. Trump.
“Trump’s pitch was a little more convincing than hers,” Ms. Miller said. “I guess I’m leaning more on his facts than her vision.”
Ms. Miller said that, while her heart pulls her to Ms. Harris’s potentially history-making candidacy, she finds herself thinking fondly of her old life.
“When Trump was in office — not going to lie — I was living way better,” she said. “I’ve never been so down as in the past four years. It’s been so hard for me.”
tRUMPsky did not give them those stimulus checks. He did try to kill ACA repeatedly, and take the hatchet to Social Security and Medicare every year.
Folks are uninformed and/or misremembering, but the stressors they are feeling now are real.
I said something needed to be done about grocery prices two years ago. For folks in the flyover, relief has not come like it sorta-kinda did in the suburbs of big cities. Rents have been too high for years, but now it’s insane.
Inflation was never inflation this time around. It was a money grab by corporations who have zero accountability to their customers or employees. The messsging in that needs to be stronger from Harris/Walz, as well as any relief Biden/Harris can give us now.
Project 2025 is real. Kill it at the voting booth.
Grocery prices are insane. Between shrinkflation and corporate price gouging, my monthly shopping has almost doubled. Chris is doing more of the bulk at the base commissary or Costco while I concentrate on the daily stuff at Safeway, but it is still bad.
The federal government will dramatically increase security protections for the joint session of Congress where lawmakers count states’ electoral votes, an escalation of government-wide efforts to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Secret Service said Wednesday in a statement provided to The Washington Post.
The Department of Homeland Security has designated the next electoral count — scheduled for Jan. 6, 2025 — a National Special Security Event, giving the once-routine post-election gathering the same level of security accorded to presidential inaugurations and political conventions, the Secret Service, which will take over security for the count, confirmed.
The price fixing is everywhere. Darned algorithms. Data mining is a very profitable business. It’s everywhere. Rent, hotel rates, surge pricing on ride shares, and now your grocery store shelves.
Russian propagandists bemoan Trump’s debate performance. Russian state TV personalities complained that Trump was “sabotaged” in the debate, with some criticizing the moderators for fact-checking Trump’s claims in real time
The Department of Homeland Security has designated the next electoral count — scheduled for Jan. 6, 2025 — a National Special Security Event, giving the once-routine post-election gathering the same level of security accorded to presidential inaugurations and political conventions, the Secret Service, which will take over security for the count, confirmed.
I suspect Dumbass won’t show for that one (or maybe wear bulletproof ear muffs? – Just sayin …’)
So, when’s the next debate? Ha! He’s whining about ABC being unfair to him. What a weak, whimpering pile of goo he is.
Yes, bId — as the saying goes, Losers blame the refs
Aw, Harris/Walz friendship bracelets in the official merchandise store. TY TS
Do you think he’ll have any of that “courage” he was talking about, and agree to another debate?
CNN’s Erie PA panel of undecided voters said by an 8-4 margin Harris won.
lol, so he got to “they’re eating our pets!” from Harris challenging the audience to attend a trump rally 😆
his sequence of logic was “people go to my rallies, people don’t go to her rallies, they’re eating our pets”
Perhaps the most important voter moved by this debate was Taylor Swift. Not only did she endorse, she wrote a fine piece of work. Her lyrics are her strength.
Yep, Bink, that “eating dogs” moment was Trump’s lowest point in the dials for CNN’s focus group
his brain still grappling with Kristi Noem fallout, wouldn’t wanna be JD tomorrow
or any day, really
ok back to the previous thread for the rewatch, her facial expressions are so effing effective, no joke
ok the line that pushed him over the brink was “people leave his rallies in boredom”, meltdown began right there (30-31min mark)
45 min mark is meltdown stage 2, set-off by Harris calling out his inherited wealth, features his soon to be famous “solar farm” riff
Her facial expression immediately after that needs to be the Shepard Fairey poster
Her game-changing line was an adoption of your tack (re: actually watching his rallies and listening to his insanity) Mr. C 🏆 ⭐️
Yep, Bink, they did their psyops. As soon as she brought up his rallies I knew he would lose it.
I am so excited millions of Americans got to see the raging lunatic I’ve watched at rallies for so long, but was so frustrated that not enough people were seeing it. I always felt swing voters would run for their lives if they saw just a glimpse of his madman persona, and she baited that right out of him tonight.
With that, I am now going to sleep well.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-demands-republicans-government-shutdown-voting-citizenship-1235099381/
“On Tuesday, former President Donald Trumpdemanded that “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.”
“Amid his preemptive efforts to sow doubt about the election, Trump is demanding that Republicans secure passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act), or shut down the federal government. The SAVE Act, which passed a vote in the House in July but has not been taken up by the Senate, would require Americans to provide documented proof of citizenship — such as a passport or birth certificate — in order to register to vote.”
Tell me he knows he’s going to lose with telling me he knows. He’s telling MAGAt Mike & comrades to shut down the government. I wonder if they realized their political goose is cooked by association?
1hr33min mark trump realizes he blew it
amazing job, Kamala, let’s follow through for her, and us 💪 🇺🇸
Bink, adding to your description earlier this a.m. of him being an “obstruction that must be coughed up” to further read
“… like a yuge orange fur ball barfed by a cat lady.”
Attribution: Debate Fallout by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Jon’s wrap-up
Jon Stewart goes live after the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Filled with face-offs over abortion access, border control, and for some reason eating cats? Jon breaks down what this all means for the election.
Stephen’s
Stephen Colbert delivers his LIVE monologue following the first debate between VP Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
George and Jimmy diss debate donald
George Conway on VP Kamala Harris giving Trump the biggest beatdown ever in debate history, his reactions to the Presidential Debate, Trump being psychotic and having a huge ego, his tweet after George and Kellyanne Conway got divorced, Trump having Narcissistic Personality Disorder and being one of Trump’s biggest enemies.
Taylor Swift just endorsed Harris and Walz. Now Elon Musk is trying to pick a fight with her. (msn.com)
WaPo’s early feed:
Trump compounded the humiliation by showing up in the spin room continuing to lie…
Trump: “We’re getting polls that show 88 to 11. We’re having a lot of great polls. Lots of polls. You see the polls. The polls are indicating we got 90%, 60%, 72%, 71%, and 98%
Reporter: Where are you getting these numbers from?
Trump: I felt very good”
Narcissistic Collapse isn’t pretty.
My favorite headline so far —
The Atlantic: “How Harris Roped a Dope”
As heard on FOX last night:
Brett Baier: “Vice President Harris was clearly well prepared, practiced, and on the offensive much of the night. Trump took the bait”
Lindsey Graham said the debate team should be fired and Trump was unprepared: “Disaster”
Brit Hume: “Make no mistake about it, Trump had a bad night… This was pretty much her night”
There were so many but one of my favorite moments…
Vice President Harris: “Donald Trump was fired by 81 millionpeople…and clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.”
So much for my wonderful essay on a punching bag and someone who knows how to hit it. My cat somehow sat on the roller mouse and deleted it.
Ever wonder where the aliens are eating cats came from?
As for losers blaming the moderators, Republican Scott Jennings: “Don’t complain about the refs if you can’t make a jump shot.”
On the phone with FOX just now, Trump suggests Disney’s FCC licenses should be revoked due to the debate:
More from the WaPo article:
I’m looking for anything that Dumbass did right last night and am not finding it. 😁
Patd
Your cartoon is right on. The morning shows are doing their “both sides” as much as possible … Yes she won, BUT
“I’m looking for anything that Dumbass did right last night and am not finding it.”
pogo, he showed up, but then showing up may have been his first mistake.
How do we sum up Trump’s message last night? Trump on what American looks like if Harris wins: Immigrants are going to eat your pets, Democrats will execute babies after ninth months and there will be no Israel
Housekeeping note: Site might be a bit sluggish at times. We’ve got significantly more lurkers on board.
craig, but his subliminal message was “help! get me outta here. don’t you see I’m nuts and I’ve lost it?”
Poobah,
You are right about the sluggishness.
Oh, and re: his comments to Fox this morning – Fox fuhchrissake – remove Disney’s FCC license because they what? (1) Gave him 5 minutes more than Kamala to spew his BS? (2) Called him out 3 times for his lies? (3) Turned his mic on contrary to the rules whenever he wanted to try and “explain” how the lie he just told was actually the truth? (4) Didn’t protect him from that mean lady? Goddam cry baby.
Philippe Reines (Hillary’s former press secy, played Trump in Kamala’s debate prep)
to do:
facial
haircut
spiritual cleanse
WASHINGTON (AP) — US inflation cools for 5th straight month as Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates.
Ya know somewhere in J D Vance’s Ivy league education you would have thought his 2 brain cells would have learned to rub together. Having lived in an immigrant community for 30 years I’m well aware of the ” immigrants eat cats” trope. It used to be applied to the Vietnamese community. I suspect the Republicans lost a significant share of the Vietnamese vote last night. I am just totally gob smacked at the stupidity of major Republican political candidates believing it is a good thing to use such language. To say it in a national forum.
If you are a Republican, this is your party. This isn’t some fringe candidate who is going to get 20 votes. This is Ted Cruz, JD Vance, Donald Trump and those are just the ones that came into my view yesterday. If you vote Republican in this election that is you, this is your party and you hug it and embrace it.
This isn’t right, left, this is basic morals.
Jack
He won’t do another debate. Why should he when he won this one so convincingly?
He’s not the only one collapsing narcissistically. So are his peeps. They have no other moral compass – their church has lost that role – as he goes down, they’re going there with him. They think it’s the road to heaven but they’ve lost their bearings.
JD Vance is narcissistically going in the wrong direction mentally, physically and spiritually for someone who so desperately needs a program of recovery by virtue of his upbringing. Ivy League is not a “program.” Again, leadership in the wrong direction for a group of our people who need the opposite.
He should be reading Mary Trump’s books instead of his own.
I too was so impressed by this. This campaign is truly Chess vs. Checkers.
Stuart Stevens
@stuartpstevens
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/11/politics/heres-how-biden-harris-trump-and-vance-will-commemorate-9-11/index.html
Another handshake. This morning, it was seemingly facilitated by Mike Bloomberg. Orange Adolf put on his big boy pants for a photo op at the 9/11 Memorial. Remember the lies he told right after 9/11? Remember his Treasury Department taking millions from the fund for first responders’ healthcare?
Thinking of our trail pal.
I love Stuart, another person whose books should be on our shelves.
A prime example of how good ideas may spring from good moral leadership. The republican cult is incapable of high-mindedness because their moral compass is at the bottom of the latrine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/11/politics/gop-funding-push-house-vote/index.html
“In a message that could make the government funding effort even more complicated for Republicans, Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday, “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.”
”Johnson emphasized agreement with Trump on government funding in response, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” Tuesday, “I think President Trump is saying exactly what I have been saying, and that is we need assurances on election security and to fund the government.”
MAGAt Mike is doing the lowerd’s work, again, sewing the weeds of distrust; bearing false witness against a system which has been proven to be secure, and where the few false votes out of millions were mostly Republican.
MAGAt Mike is conveniently ignoring the real problem with fair elections; folks being purged from voter roles, gerrymandering, increasing documentation hurdles, reducing the number of polling places and making it harder to mail in ballots. MAGAt Mike is a lying, Russian tool, and he’s certainly not an actual Christian.
Ahhhhhhhhhh….
I feel good!
I have family who were in the middle of the collapse of the towers. We’ve heard only bits and pieces of their experience that day. They don’t talk about it but we can see the trauma is still with them. I hope one day they can tell the whole story. It should not be forgotten. There is still time to heal.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/elon-musk-responds-taylor-swift-political-post-1235770030/
“Fine Taylor,” Musk posted on X, the social platform he owns, “you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.”
Taylor needs a restraining order against Elon. What a disgusting thing to say. That sounded like a sexual threat. Creepy.
Also, babies aren’t gifted to women by men. It takes two. What a misogynistic thing to say.
He also pays homage to the whole pets being eaten nonsense tRUMPsky was spewing. What a racist thing to say.
Swifties to your battle stations, and then to your polling places. Blue up and down the ballot, just as early as possible.
BB – Nice catch on “Alf” being where Adolf saw it on TV.
So many big moments in the debate that the part where he said,”she put out” got lost. Donald John tRUMP is a disgusting misogynist, and an adjudicated rapist. Does he have to register as a sex offender? He should.
Olber-Man’s take on le debate, first broadcast live night after debate.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/id1633301179?i=1000669109441
He won’t admit to it, that’s not his thing, but he received Comeuppance. Not nearly enough Comeuppance, , but it will suffice for now. Now if we could deliver Comeuppance to the sickeningly subservient “Media”. CNN, WAPO, NY Times…….FOX.
You know who you are.
I am still healing from my own national tragedy caused by Donald Trump. The sooner he is gone from the scene, the sooner the healing can begin. Not while he’s still here pouring salt on the wounds.
Healing is a process, not an event.
Only a couple or 3 years after Joe McCarthy received his Comeuppance, he dropped dead in 1957. That’s the Law of Comeuppance. Kind of an hubris and karma thing.
Seems like it was 1957 that time our teacher brought a small black and white TV into the classroom for us to watch something momentrius. I’ll have to look it up, but I’m sure it wasn’t death of McCarthy. Seems like it was John Glenn.
Never Trump Republicans are out there. Former WA State Party chair Chris Vance on X:
Old Time Concert while thinking about old times.
BiD
I’m with you missing 9/11 survivor is (almost). I still follow Jim’s daughter on Facebook. Do you think you might see her in New York?
I keep seeing attacks on his debate prep. No excuse, it’s their candidate’s fault. He should be fired.
Chris Christie on ABC: “She was exquisitely well prepared. She laid traps, and he chased every rabbit down every hole…This is the difference between someone who’s well-prepared and someone who’s unprepared. Whoever did debate prep for Donald Trump should be fired.”
The only reason to fire a Trump-debate-prepper is to have a convenient scapegoat. The fact is, no one can save an extremist malignant narcissist like Donald Trump from himself. He is his own worst enemy.
That said, Tulsi Gabbard is terrible.
Debate peppers …..in addition to being great scapegoats, they’re also a bunch of assholes…….but it’s also all their fault. It HAS to be. If he’s never going to blame himself, who’s he gonna call? SCAPEGOATERS! (Who ya gonna call?)
As if we need more examples of Donald Trump exploiting the private grief of mourners for his personal gain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/us/trump-vance-aiden-clark-springfield-ohio.html
Citizens of Aurora were overnight guests at my house on Sunday and Monday. They were seemingly unaware their city had been taken over by murderous migrants and it wasn’t safe for them to return home.
Trumps debate preppers may be incompetent but who hired them? Being surrounded by incompetent people is generally a Trump trademark. In other words it is a feature not a bug.
Jack
today’s meme…
today’s meme #2…
If I am his staff I don’t want another debate and convincing him he won is the best way to keep him from doing it.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
In the World of Boxing or UFC, when a Fighter gets beaten or knocked out, they get up and scream, “I DEMAND A REMATCH, I DEMAND A REMATCH!” Well, it’s no different with a Debate. She was beaten badly last night. Every Poll has us WINNING, in one case, 92-8, so why would I do a Rematch?
Sep 11, 2024, 12:01 PM
HA!
It’s actually time to lock grampa in the attic.
trump a literal global laughingstock today
America deserves better than a buffoon
Glad to see Dumbass and little Dumbass mini me are talking about shutting down the government – that has worked so well in the past that whatever undecideds out there who didn’t decide after last night’s debate should join Kamala and Taylor when the checks to their doctors and grandparents stop arriving.
Glsd I opened and enlarged the meme of Dumbass throwing stuff at Kamala – in its small format I couldn’t tell whether the stuff he’s throwing is stones or turds. Enlarged I THINK it’s stones – glass house and all…
A rematch is pointless for Harris. She won bigly. She could only do equally as well if his blathering reactions were similar. If he could manage not to loose his Cheeto dust, it would make him look better to some.
It’s still hard to believe anyone who hasn’t decided for Harris is anything more than a racist, misogynist, and a Russian tool.
good opportunity to evaluate your news and opinion sources- anyone spinning the debate as in any way positive for trump or negative for kamala is a disingenuous troll (provocateur), i’m
not being hyperbolic
… happy to see most of the corporate media report on the objective reality that Harris mopped the floor with trump, the headlines are what they should be
Ah, the checks! So many checks! When they stop coming, republicans will be sure to blame it on the waves of migrants eating all the checks.
Show that his base is tired of him and he loses his power. They don’t actually have to be….just create the impression. Hell, it’s only for couple months……
Put up AI photos of empty venues, create bots who posit that he’s losing the base, show rumors of rampant ennui……..hell, swift boat him. He yells fake this and fake that all the time anyway…..so start putting some REAL fake stuff out there and make him run out of ketchup.
Taylor Swift effect. TargetSmart measures national online voter registration. Last night after Swift’s endorsement, which included links to register, registration jumped over 4x the daily average.
But of course, Slump may have become superflously irrelevant to the evil forces arrayed behind him, propping him up…….
Bink – The New York Times seems to be aligning with NewsMax, although not lying with huge numbers. They just can’t seem to admit tRUMPsky lost the debate. Any Russian investment/ties to NYT? Just looking out for the interests of billionaires?
If it’s not important, why pick a fight with her? Just say she’s entitled to opinion and let it go. This is the dumbest campaign ever.
JD Vance on Fox News:
the most facile criticism i’m hearing is a lack of policy clarity from Kamala, as if a debate with 60 second answer format is the venue for minute policy details, no one watches a prime time debate for that, they want fireworks
Laughable also the media tries to instill the belief that it’s the candidates’ job to inform the voter of absolutely every detail, when the reality it’s the voters’ responsibility to inform themselves
Meanwhile, trump only emanates gibberish, to imply there is any cogent policy grasp by him is just bad-faith journalism
There comes a time when the Billioonaires have to put aside their petty squabbles and band tougher to crush the spirits and dreams of the poor people.
JD Vance thinks the woman who built an business empire from middle class Reading, PA beginnings is “fundamentally disconnected”
Swift is very equitable with her blue-collar employees of which there are many. How many jobs has JD created that aren’t based on mocking him?
Yeah, Taylor swift wasn’ t born rich. I’m sure she remembers exactly what it was like before she became rich.
she used to play shopping malls for like ten people by the food court
real fake stuff?
but, sturge, how can we ever top the realest fakest stuff they got, i.e. their candidate cult god?
I wish I could be alive in fifty years to see all the analysis, studies and more of what has happened since 2008. That was the trigger for much of the blatant racism in the U.S. A Black man in the White House, who would have ever thought that could happen? Then caous, then pandemic, then a old white man brings back a strong U.S.
Then, the future president. A Black woman in the White House. I should be around to watch this real time, but we miss out on the deep investigations and various discoveries of secret societies.
i hear the theories, i’ll defer to you if you get a bead on the corporate media complicity, except for that bad-ass David Muir 🫡
We know Zazlav (Pres. of Warner Bros.) is friends with overt sexual harasser and Putin-enabler Elom Musk (photographed attending a sporting event together)
Over on twit the one of the Harris for president accounts had this:
BREAKING: Caitlin Clark just liked Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Could a Caitlin Clark endorsement be coming?
Oh things are getting interesting. I hope I stay awake long enough to see the sfb campaign response.
At least 58 million people watched last night’s presidential debate, according to preliminary Nielsen figures released today.
That’s about 6.5 million more than watched the debate between former President Trump and President Biden… https://www.axios.com/2024/09/11/nearly-60-million-watched-debate-pm?utm_term=emshare
Elon’s sexual harassment is a transparent expression of insecurity by a man so threatened by any woman having any influence or any power that he feels the need to insert himself try and reduce her to a sex object
It’s important because there is a woman on the top of the ticket and many conservatives of similar philosophy will resort to similar tactics due to similar insecurities now that they must resort to desperation
the curtain has been lifted on this goon and he’s the one that pulled the cord, no more federal funding for him plz
One thing really set it off was when the Black man in the White House ridiculed and humiliated the rich white guy at the White House Correspondents Dinner. His base was thus assured.
By the bye, from another historic significance of the date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Friends_Meetinghouse
Elon is proving to be a real pig. His response to Taylor Swift signing herself a childless cat lady was to offer to give her a baby and pay to take care of her cats.
Chickenshit a la king. WaPo.
Oh, waiter, I want some of what he’s smoking.
someone tell Jesse Waters that “1984” is a cautionary tale not an instruction manual
that’s getting stolen 😒
Taylor concert tour hitting Midwest in days before election…
Nov. 1 – Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN
Nov. 2 – Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN
Nov. 3 – Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN
They’re EATING THE DOGS!!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/11/investing/trump-stock-debate-truth-social/index.html
“Donald Trump’s social media stock closes at a record low after his rocky debate performance”
“Wall Street sure is acting like Donald Trump lost the debate Tuesday night.
“I think if he loses, he has to sell and DJT goes to $1. If he wins, he doesn’t sell and DJT can make a run for it,” Tuttle said.
The lock-up restrictions preventing Trump from selling his 114.75 million shares in Trump Media are set to expire later this month.”
“The lifting of the lock-up agreement will free Trump to sell some shares, but experts say it would be almost impossible for the former president to quickly unload most or all of his stake without tanking the share price.”
What was up with the purple hair? Weirder than ever.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/12426408/donald-trump-debate-hair/
Jamie – I think Felon’s pal Elon made a sexual threat to Swift, and promised not to let (Haitian, per the conspiracy theory) immigrants eat her cats. That’s what the AI cat pics were yesterday. Weird.
JD has already made the huge mistake of going after Swift. Beta baby-man can’t handle the thought of one strong woman, let alone millions.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4875047-taylor-swift-jd-vance-harris-endorsement/
“Well look, we admire Taylor Swift’s music, but I don’t think most Americans, whether they like our music or fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans,” Vance told Fox.
JD is the one who is out of touch. JD doesn’t understand concern for one’s community. JD, like tRUMPsky and their handler Putin, don’t have human empathy. They are more than weird. They are sick.
There’s something very wrong with these undecided voters if they still can’t figure out Donald Trump has never done an effing thing for them and isn’t about to start now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/us/politics/undecided-voters-react-debate.html
lol @ 77 years old they want answers to important issues to them personally like “foreign policy” and “immigration”
more disingenuousness, never had an open mind
surprise surprise, a NYT article 😑
“We cherry-picked alleged undecided voters to get exactly the quotes we wanted, here they are…”
Yes, there was a shit load of money injected in 2020 to keep the economy from crashing, but then a bunch of people up and died, ending their economic windfalls.
Compare and contrast.
tRUMPsky did not give them those stimulus checks. He did try to kill ACA repeatedly, and take the hatchet to Social Security and Medicare every year.
Folks are uninformed and/or misremembering, but the stressors they are feeling now are real.
I said something needed to be done about grocery prices two years ago. For folks in the flyover, relief has not come like it sorta-kinda did in the suburbs of big cities. Rents have been too high for years, but now it’s insane.
Inflation was never inflation this time around. It was a money grab by corporations who have zero accountability to their customers or employees. The messsging in that needs to be stronger from Harris/Walz, as well as any relief Biden/Harris can give us now.
Project 2025 is real. Kill it at the voting booth.
Grocery prices are insane. Between shrinkflation and corporate price gouging, my monthly shopping has almost doubled. Chris is doing more of the bulk at the base commissary or Costco while I concentrate on the daily stuff at Safeway, but it is still bad.
Yeah, nothing says “man of the people” like a gold crapper. JD is out of touch. Sniveling Russian tool.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/11/congress-january-6-security-repeat/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
Assistance programs are the only tenable solution at the Federal level to food insecurity due to high grocery prices
The only way that’s happening is a blue wave, so GOTV
Biden’s FTC is actively
opposing monopolistic practices in the grocery industry and pursuing illegal price-fixers, they are doing something
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/feds-grocery-merger-fight-00176231
It’s true she will have a hard time accomplishing her agenda without a Congress, therefore, we have to get her an effing Congress.
The price fixing is everywhere. Darned algorithms. Data mining is a very profitable business. It’s everywhere. Rent, hotel rates, surge pricing on ride shares, and now your grocery store shelves.
KyivIndependent
Russian propagandists bemoan Trump’s debate performance. Russian state TV personalities complained that Trump was “sabotaged” in the debate, with some criticizing the moderators for fact-checking Trump’s claims in real time
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-propagandists-bemoan-trumps-debate-performance/
I suspect Dumbass won’t show for that one (or maybe wear bulletproof ear muffs? – Just sayin …’)
Secret service, eh?
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