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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.
Stephen’s
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.
WaPo’s early feed: 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… Read more »
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.”
More from the WaPo article: 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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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.
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,… Read more »
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.
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: 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… Read more »
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: 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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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,… Read more »
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.