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        10 months ago

        They let him respond, but then make Harris talk about something else… Journalists are already reporting that they have given him 30% more time, up to nine minutes more so far

        • rusticus@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          Yeah but how many of those minutes were spent in the English language on planet Earth?

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          10 months ago

          Yea… I stand by my statement from earlier in the debate but in the last ten minutes or so they seriously dropped the fucking ball - especially trying to cut off Harris when she tried to respond to bullshit Trump said when he stole time himself.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t think I can watch it tonight. I’m feeling too anxious. How are folks feeling this evening?

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      10 months ago

      Same. I have to be awake at 5AM and it’s going to raise my blood pressure too much if I watch.

    • JonsJava@lemmy.worldOPM
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      10 months ago

      I’m feeling good. Sadly, for both sides. Harris is the better speaker, but MAGA will only listen to Trump’s lies

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          10 months ago

          We all know the news tomorrow will be about how Trump was confident and Harris made one statement that could be misleading if you squint hard enough. Then there will be a wet noodle fact check that is far less prominent than some article about how MAGA cultists think he won the debate.

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        10 months ago

        MAGA is the island of lost souls. The point of the debate is not to change their minds. It is to make the stark difference between the candidates laughably obvious, so that even the moderate conservatives feel ashamed and stupid that he represents their interests, and the moderate Democrats feel comfortable mocking them for their weirdness.

        Nobody felt that way about Clinton. She tried to be the better person without alienating the Trump supporters. She used words like “deplorables” when she should have said “shitbags.”

        Trump supporters deserve to be alienated, just as all bigots and nazis and narcissists should be. They will not change because of a rational argument. You need to smoke them out of the crowd, and then point and laugh until they shrivel up and every child sees their humiliation, so that no one grows up thinking it’s OK to be a bigot, or that there are good people on both sides.

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    10 months ago

    I keep quoting this bit from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the hopes that it will happen to Trump. It hasn’t happened yet, but if we’re lucky tonight…

    his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.

      • mbtrhcs@feddit.org
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        9 months ago

        I used to be principled like you, but this man has the potential to cause death and destruction on a scale so unfathomably larger than one person. Would I prefer he face justice? Absolutely. But at some point “not wishing death on someone” flies in the face of the greater good of humanity

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        10 months ago

        Yes, I am wishing that Donald Trump’s intestine ends up throttling his brain like in a comedic science fiction novel.

        On a same level of things that are possible, I am also wishing I held the world speed record for the 100 meter hurdles.

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          10 months ago

          Oh so we can wish death on people and as along as we’re not capable of making it happen it’s okay?

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            9 months ago

            Stop concern trolling. The ridiculous nature of the “threat” makes it obvious they’re being completely unserious.

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            10 months ago

            Sorry… you’re asking if it’s okay to wish someone die in a way that is literally impossible? Sure, why not. Go for it.

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              10 months ago

              Seeing as I can’t actually make it happen and it’s not going to happen because I wished for it, that means its okay with you for me to wish for your death?

              Let’s maybe focus instead of not wishing death on people? How about I wish Trump was in jail for his crimes and wasn’t able to compete in the race.

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                10 months ago

                You are welcome to wish that my large intestine becomes sentient, makes its way through my body up to my brain and then starves it with oxygen for the betterment of humanity.

                Why do you think I would care about that even a little?

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                  10 months ago

                  Careful dude. The small intestine is weak and dumb. But that large one? It’s sneaky. Just been biding it’s time until it strikes. You open that window and you might not be able to close it.

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                9 months ago

                Why do you care more about Donald Trump than all the people who’ve died as a direct result of both his policies and his rhetoric?

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    10 months ago

    “She doesn’t have a plan. Take a look at her plan. She doesn’t have a plan.”

    Trump logic on full display tonight.