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Even so devoted a bootlicker as Senator Lindsey Graham declared the debate a “disaster” for the ex-president.

Donald Trump is so feral and narcissistic, so unrestrained and so outside the norm of American politics, that he’s difficult to debate. It’s disorienting. Very few people have been able to stand up to him without being pulled into the muck. In the past, even when he lost debates on points, he dominated his opponents.

But on a Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris cracked the code.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I recognize the feral and narcissistic paragraph from somewhere else. Source for this?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

It was super effective. I am surprised he didn't faint

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Liberals should be careful with this. Y'all want them to feel like Trump did alright. We can't have him being switched out at the 11th hour for a more competent candidate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That wouldn't work. The idiots are voting for Trump not the Republican party. If they replaced him the idiots would see that as the Republicans betraying them. Then they would split the vote and write trumps name in anyway. Complete victory for Dems in that scenario

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I don’t know. That might help accelerate the disintegration of the GOP.

But like others have said, if he’s alive he’s running.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Trump would rather die than not be the center of attention. He's a narcissist, not feeling like the center of attention literally feels like dying. His ego wouldn't allow it. His fear of going to jail wouldn't allow it. And the fact that the republican party would implode wouldn't allow it.

The scary thing (for Republicans) is that their whole party is currently held together by hairspray, orange spray tan solution, and Depends diapers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When Trump goes, the rest will tear each other to shreds. As insane as he is, he's the figure who's holding it together. Like a fat gormless toad sitting on a stone in the middle of the pond.

As an outsider to American politics, I predict a (temporary) collapse in support for the Republican party the minute he's ousted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Trump cannot drop out. As long as he's alive, he's running.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

rfk jr was too late to withdraw for filing deadlines, I have no idea what would happen if trump withdrew. His only way out of this is to kill JD Vance and make it look like a democrat did it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Did nobody notice the moment when he tried to silence her and added, 'sound familiar' to make some sexist remark about telling women to shut up? "I'm talking now, sound familiar?"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

She said "I'm speaking" to shut up pence in the 2020 debate. That's what he was referring to. Still he's a dick.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It’s genuinely so amusing how badly that little dig backfired on him. I’ve seen other people also not realizing he was trying to riff on “I’m speaking”. The thing he failed to realize is that essentially any professional women that were watching have likely heard that kind of shit from an older man at some point in their career, and it makes him look like (more of) a complete asshole.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Also she wasn't even really interrupting him. If you watch the clip, she was muted and he was easily heard over her. It wasn't as if she was really steamrolling.

You can tell it got under his skin in 2020, and this was just a pathetic way to "get back" at her for being a woman who asserted herself in a debate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

He got the line wrong so even most who would recognize it didn't and the "sound familiar?" didn't make any sense.

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