this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
381 points (99.0% liked)

politics

19047 readers
4019 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

CBS News, hosting vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz for the general election campaign’s third debate next week, says it will be up to the politicians — not the moderators — to check the facts of their opponents.

(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucking cowards. We saw how quickly fascists crumble when you fact check them. Why won’t CBS want to do that?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Would they really have the time to fact-check the gish-gallop Vance will ejaculate on them? That's just not even feasible to get through the more egregious lies. He already said he just makes shit up. This will be the largest public face-time he will ever have (hopefully) and it all but guarantees he will shamelessly dial the horseshit up, if not just for sound bites.

And yeah, I decided to use that word.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Walz should just bring a fucking airhorn

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

holy shit there is going to be a veep debate?! the last pres one was hilarious and awesome.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh sure, tell the guy who basically said "We'll make up whatever facts we need to to get our point across!" when the whole pet eating debacle was debunked that he won't be fact checked... What could go wrong!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The 90-minute debate, scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday in a Manhattan studio that once hosted the children’s program "Captain Kangaroo,”

Such an easy set up for Vance to call the moderators a "kangaroo court" if they get on his case.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope Vance starts off with some of his amazing jokes /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How long have you been moderating? Just ask me whatever makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, so we're playing street ball now.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Vance isn’t Trump. He’s a wet noodle who can barely work his way through a sentence. Walz is an adorable teddy bear with claws.

It’ll be the cutest bloodbath we’ve ever seen, and we’ll all laugh about how the old guy from Minnesota made the dude wearing eyeliner get scared of giving trans school kids free lunches.

Edit: I can’t wait!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Vance isn’t Trump. He’s a wet noodle who can barely work his way through a sentence.

But what is Vance?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He only isn't things. The absence of morals and personality. Pure lack.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But what is Vance?

Cold pee

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It’ll be the cutest bloodbath we’ve ever seen

When you wrestle the pig, you both get muddy but only the pig likes it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

They both look pretty happy to me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Helps when the pig is both extremely popular already, and the pig’s opponent is… lol.. well, JD Vance lmao

Seriously, the guy lost a debate against the opening staff at a donut shop. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Vance is like a Dollar Store version of Trump. He looks like the same product, he tells the same lies, but the parts aren't all there. He's a grifter but he's not in the same league as The Donald, he even looks like he's in pain when he lies.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The fucked up part is that, since you can’t get cheaper than Trump, the knockoff is actually more expensive. Worse, Vance is also (somehow), dumber, poorer, less-popular, and more insecure. He’s also - unbelievably- worse with interactions with the public and with public speaking.

And we’re about to find out how bad he is at debate against a real politician.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Vance at least looks like an actual human, the Toupee's human disguise was created by a sentient pile of excrement that only once glanced at a human from a distance.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's ok with pushing outright lies, and it's hard to keep up with all the right wing lies that are floating around. I hope Walz just starts calling them the liars they are instead of avoiding 'name calling'.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Vance isn’t much of a public speaker, and, up against a debate opponent like Walz (who is a great public speaker), Vance is pretty much fucked. He won’t have much of a defense but to pivot when confronted, and Walz is both clever and persistent. He’s also extremely charming, which Vance extremely isn’t, lol.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You’re making me look forward to it. Kinda. Let’s say I’m looking forward to the instant replays by the Daily Show.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, it’ll probably be more policy-focused than anything with Trump, which is always just a clown show because Trump only knows how to be a clown. Vance will, at least, try to debate Walz, but it will quickly just be a timed trading of canned campaign jabs. How each plays it will be interesting to see, and - personally - I think it will be fascinating for 3 reasons:

  1. again, Vance’s relative terribleness vs Walz’s very goodness will be awesome to watch. Walz will kick Vance’s ass easily

  2. more than that, this debate will be far more substantive than the last debate, which was, basically, Kamala baiting Trump into crazy-shouting one crazy lie after another while Kamala just laughed and laughed.

  3. Tim Walz is, quite possibly, the most lovable guy to ever exist. JD Vance is, quite possibly, a new form of venerial disease.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Awww the moderator’s hurt poor Donnie’s fee fees during the last debate.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›