Mfer literally quoted Orban. Bruuuuh

221 points

Trump: makes incorrect claim

Moderator: Actually there is no evidence that happened

Trump: well I saw it on TV! Someone said it on TV! Someone wouldn’t just go and say something on TV if it wasn’t true!

Shouldn’t the president of the country have a bit of higher standard of evidence than “I saw someone say it on TV”?

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113 points

“But I saw it on TV!” says the man currently saying untrue things on TV.

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35 points

Someone wouldn’t just go and say something on TV if it wasn’t true!

Not to mention the guy who popularized the term “fake news” back during his first campaign.

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55 points

This was one of the many frustrating things about his Presidency. So many times he was reporting on what “someone” was saying was going on in the government. Motherfucker, you’ve got a big slice of the government working for you. Why don’t you find out from them what’s going on?

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29 points

He spent a lot of his presidency watching Fox News and ignoring his briefings. Staff figured out pretty quickly that he likes pictures and compliments and tried to use those to help him get through minutes of material.

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8 points

Because when he does that, they tell him things he doesn’t like to hear (the truth).

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24 points

Especially since he’s probably the person who said it on TV. But, to answer your question, of course the president should have a higher standard, and the people should hold him to it. For some reason this asshole is still around despite being a living parody.

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13 points

Worse is my coworkers ranting about how biased the moderator was

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179 points

Moderators keep letting trump interrupt & talk over them. Bro just grow some balls & tell him to shut up & mute his shit

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118 points

I have been disappointed by that as well but this has been astoundingly good as far as debates have gone. The immediate fact checking is long overdue. And frankly I look forward to pointing at Trump’s extra speaking time as a bulwark against the “iT wAs BiAsEd By ThE lIbErAL mOdErAtOrS” complaints.

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81 points

I’ve been genuinely impressed by their real-time fact checking. They’re swatting away every wild thing he says calmly and with specific examples of the truth. These moderators are incredibly well-prepared.

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50 points

Hopefully that’s the standard from now on. Unless Donny finally kicks the bucket we’re probably gonna be seeing more of him even if he loses in November

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5 points

Well there’s no way they didn’t know what to expect!

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52 points

90% of the time Kamala finished her point perfectly before the mods started to interrupt. Respec

Trump…was his disgusting self

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And the best part was that when they did interrupt her, she finished her sentence, then stopped talking

(Except for one time where it really looked like trump was gonna set her off but she still held up)

I think it’s safe to say this is without a doubt the best performance we’ve seen from a candidate against Trump, which imo really speaks to her ability to keep her composure under pressure, which isn’t easy, especially when everybody expects you to be absolutely flawless.

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18 points

That’s cool, but I did like it when Biden told trump to shut up.

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12 points

It was such a huge stage tonight and she was beyond solid. Like you said, the best democratic performance since… can’t remember. maybe you didn’t say now that I think about it. She came off so reasonable and nailed all the points that should do damage to a turd like Trump.(i’m fine with name calling)

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48 points

Thinking that same thing. For once just enforce the rules on this man baby

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19 points

The problem is that they would hone in on that and make the debate about that rather than Kamala. They took the L for her Win. It’s shitty. But what they had to do to make her the focal point. He absolutely is gaslighting them to make it about what he wants.

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Who is “they” in this context? If you’re talking about trumpers, they’re a lost cause, man. They’re always going to have some alternate version of reality. The only way we’re going to move forward as a country is if we stop worrying about what they’re going to say or do. We cannot let the tyranny of the minority hold this country hostage.

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They’re afraid to be called unfair after he said that they’d be unfair. It’s one of the strategies that us uses to suppress fighting back against his lies and ineptitude.

First, your preemptively accuse someone of something. Second you do awful things that would normally rightfully get a response, but the authorities have to be careful otherwise you’ll accuse them of doing the thing they should be doing. Third, you get your way even though you broke the rules, or you get to yell about how you knew, just knew! That you’d be treated badly.

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8 points

Fuck it man, just be unfair. He’s going to say you were anyways, go scorched earth on the motherfucker.

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23 points

This has been a complaint across a dozen debates for 8 years now.

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15 points

Agree. They are just letting him prove what a crazy duck he is.

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5 points

That was Harris’s request, I thought. In the original terms for the Trump/Biden debate, each person’s mic was shut off except when it was their turn to speak. Harris asked for that to be changed to allow interruptions, and Trump went along with it. If that’s not working out for Harris, she should probably talk to her own team that wanted it, instead of whining about the moderators.

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29 points

It worked out just fine for her. Gave him a chance to dig his own grave, which is what he did and what she wanted.

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10 points

Weird 34 was just showing off his misogyny. It’s disrespectful to talk over women and take up their time. The debate proves Harris’s point that Sleepy DonOLD cares only about himself and goes to great lengths to tell more and more lies.

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6 points

The mic being active or not doesn’t affect her hearing. If he interrupts her she’d still hear it, only the TV audience wouldn’t, so she’d seem flustered.

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6 points

That’s a really great point.

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123 points

Oh hell naw. I’m maintaining my sanity by letting Jon Stewart tell me all about it afterwards:-).

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23 points

I was so excited to watch the post show but it’s on fucking Paramount+ and only comes the day after

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20 points

It’s on YouTube if you haven’t seen it already. And it is glorious.

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113 points

Nah, I’m busy performing transgender operations on illegal immigrants that are in prison right now

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35 points

Me next 👉👈🙄

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35 points

Don’t forget to do their abortions first

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12 points

Insanely, if he were capable of forming and articulating coherent thoughts, he could have actually landed an attack that would have turned off some swing voters, but he was basically frothing with impotent rage by that point.

Relevant survey response:

“14. As President will you use your executive authority to ensure that transgender and non- binary people who rely on the state for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention — will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care? If yes, how will you do so? Yes X No ⬜ Explanation (no more than 500 words): It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition. That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates. I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained. Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-supported-taxpayer-funded-transgender-surgeries-defunding-ice-in-2019-aclu-questionnaire/ar-AA1qhkiZ

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9 points

Yo pass me your pet first before you go

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5 points

Don’t forget to implant the voting microchip while you’re in there!

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5 points

I laughed for like a solid minute at that one.

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I laughed so hard when I heard that! Best quote of the whole night!

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84 points

I watched it, and I usually skip debates because the summaries are more meaningful (it’s usually just used for fluffy sound bites). This one just felt… Different? She baited the fuck out of him. There will be so many memes.

And yeah the moment he said the great Orban I fucking lost it, more at than the dog eating migrants and the post birth abortions. Like, Harris can’t necessarily call that “ally” an asshole fascist but like, those of us in the know, know.

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