Trump refusing to say that he wants #Ukraine to win when asked a “simple question,” “directly,” should be significant news.
#Election2024 #debate #HarrisWalz2024 #trump
harriswalz2024
“Hey, White Dudes! So, I think we’re all pretty sick of hearing how much we suck. Every time you go online, it’s the same story: we’re the problem.
#Masculinity #TonicMasculinity #MAGA #ToxicMasculinity #Men #Women #misogyny #honesty #decency #character #sportsmanship #Strength #truth #evolved #meta #gender #WeAreNotGoingBack
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjnyiMSKB3Q
Trump was up by 1.1 points in 538’s average the day after the Biden debate. Harris is up by 2.8 this morning.
We won’t see a dozen stories every day about Republicans freaking out or a zillion polls showing voters questioning Trump’s fitness for office.
This will be about the size of it.
#debate #HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024
"When your opponent tells people that you care only about yourself, no amount of talking about yourself can answer that charge. You can’t argue your way out of the accusation. The only effective answer is to act in a way that disproves the accusation.
That’s what Trump failed to do. He failed because he’s incapable of it. And that, among many other reasons, is why he shouldn’t be president."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/narcissist-donald-trump-lost-the-presidential-debate
#HarrisWalz #Harris #KamalaHarris2024 #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024
How #Harris Roped a Dope
She stayed human when #Trump went feral.
By David Frum
Vice President #KamalaHarris walked onto the #ABC News debate stage w/a mission: trigger a Trump #meltdown.
She succeeded.
Trump had a mission too: control yourself.
He failed.
Trump lost his cool over & over. Goaded by predictable provocations, he succumbed again & again.
#debate #election #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/how-harris-roped-a-dope/679779/
I got to thinkin’ the same thing at times during the debate last night.
#HarrisWalz2024
#Trump claimed in a social media post Wednesday that #KamalaHarris was “beaten badly last night” [🤣] & asked, “so why would I do a Rematch?”
🐔
It was another signal that Trump is wavering on whether to participate in another #debate against #Harris despite previously calling for 3.
Meanwhile, Harris’s campaign posted a “new ad” Wednesday that was, simply, footage of Tuesday’s debate in its entirety.
#KamalaHarris’ victory on Tues was so clear that even #FoxNews had to accept #reality.
“Make no mistake about it: #Trump had a bad night,” Brit Hume, #FauxNews chief political analyst, said shortly after the #debate. “He lost the debate repeatedly when she baited him, something I’m sure his advisors had begged him not to do. And we heard so many of the old grievances that we’ve long thought that Trump had learned were not winners politically.”
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/fox-news-brit-hume-trump-debate/
I know I’m an old man yelling at the clouds here but the fact that some of the most hardcore right-wingers of the last very conservative administration—Cheney and now Gonzales—are backing Harris should give the press leave to stop treating this as a normal contest.
Obviously Electoral College bias comes into play here but I do find it odd that when Trump was up by a point or two in the averages the press treated him as a clear front-runner headed for an almost certain victory but with Harris up by 2 or 3 points, the race is always referred to as a dead tie.
Pundits and journos want policy details from Harris because they’re looking for flaws in an otherwise flawless campaign rollout so they can have more drama.
So they say the lack of detail is a big problem and then find swing state voters who heard that and echo it back to them for new stories.
This is how a lot of sausage gets made.
#HarrisWalz2024 #Election2024 #trump #media
Nice call, Captain Obvious. 😁
"Ex-FBI official warns Trump could be a Russian asset: ‘His approach with Putin raises significant questions’" - The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-putin-election-b2611577.html
Does anyone else find the idea that a veteran crackpot conspiracy theorist like #Trump is being “influenced” by Laura #Loomer to be comical? How do we know he isn’t influencing her?
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/13/trump-allies-far-right-activist-loomer
Holy fucking shitballs!! George Will endorses Kamala Harris! #HarrisWalz2024 #DumpTrump #FuckTrump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/12/2269978/-Pigs-Fly-George-Will-Endorses-Harris
Ronald #Reagan's fmr staff back #HarrisWalz ticket: "Today is a choice between #integrity & #demagoguery."
17 fmr staff members of the late #Republican President Ronald Reagan are endorsing the Democratic nominee, VP #KamalaHarris.
In a joint statement, the staff members wrote that Reagan, if alive, would have supported #Harris.
"President Ronald Reagan famously spoke about a ‘#TimeForChoosing.'“
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronald-reagan-former-staff-back-harris-walz-ticket/
ICYMI, Adam Serwer’s “The REAL DEI Candidates”
“…Many *#conservatives* have focused on #DEI not because of their moral & sometimes practical objections to #diversity efforts…but because it allows THEM to express underlying assumptions about the inherent inferiority of #Black people & #women implicitly, w/o sounding like THEY are making those assumptions themselves.“
#racism #CultureWars #BS
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/real-dei-candidates/679880/
"The democrats say 'please don't call [immigrants] animals; they're humans.' I said, 'no, they're not humans, they're not humans; they're animals.'"
Trump is reaching new levels of evil.
So when the orange menace went to @NABJ there were no male reporters questioning him.
Now when @vp @KamalaHarris is at NABJ there are two male reporters questioning her.
Isn’t that “interesting”….
VP @KamalaHarris LIVE NOW @ NABJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7PNFOeNUv8
ATTN HOOMANS: CATS OF SPRINGFIELD HEREBY ENDORSE KAMALA HARRIS. WE DON'T GIVE A DUCK ABOUT FAKE IMAGES GUY
TELL US MORE ABOUT THIS TUNA ECONOMY
#Barron Bails On His #Trump #Crypto Launch Speech Because Dad's #Blathering Took Too Long
In what may be the most perfectest Trump product launch ever, Barron (evidently eager to prove #KamalaHarris right about his Dad’s rallies) decided to bail on his presentation as the “visionary” behind the project because his Dad’s blathering took too long. Perfect. So so perfect.
#idiocracy #grift #weird #insane #Nonsense
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/17/2271082/-Barron-Bails-On-His-Trump-Crypto-Launch-Speech-Because-Dad-s-Blathering-Took-Too-Long