Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said there will not be another debate against his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
  • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    with Harris’ team unsuccessfully pushing for both candidates’ microphones to stay on even when it was not their turn to answer.

    Wait a minute, Harris’ team was the one pushing for always-on mics? That’s actually such a flex lol.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I think it would have been a smart choice. The rationale behind muting was trying to force both parties to having a nice, civil discussion, to force decorum upon the proceedings that formerly was just a given, but generally not respected by Trump, by his nature.

      However one part of the first debate was that the muting might have saved Trump from his own worst impulses. To be sure, Biden made his own problems that were far far worse, but part of Trump looking relatively reasonable in his conduct that night was being forced only to speak in turn.

      Slam dunk is if you let him put his unhinged nature and unreasonable behavior on full display, while also managing to manage him so that you are still heard.

      I would not be surprised if a career in the courtroom dealing with all manner of hard to deal with people is the best prep anyone could ask for to deal with a personality like Trump.

    • pingveno@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Not really. It was always her tactic to make him go nuts. Provoking him into shouting over her would have gone along with that and just made him look bad.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Calling it now:

    Since there’s not enough time left for him to recover from this brutal ego bruise, I predict he’ll only do rallies from now on, or appearances on far-right media, because he’ll retreat to his snowglobe for reassurance for a while. He’ll avoid addressing Kamala directly, but he’ll ramp up his own network and rile up his mob. His team will struggle to rein him in, and some appearances might be cancelled.

    e: once he gets tired of being reassured, he’ll double-down on the unhinged scale

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      This would be a good time for Kamala to keep asking for a debate and challenging him. Maybe even agree to do it on Fox to show how weak he is. Even if he accepted, I don’t think Fox would save him from another bad performance. We’ll see how polling works out I guess.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Someone needs to build a huge projection screen outside his rat infested shithole in Florida, and every night he’s there, replay the debate for him.

    • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I’m not saying to release a bunch of chickens in Mar-a-Lago and let them go feral like Ybor city. But then again, I’m also not saying not to.

    • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Project chickens onto Trump tower. It’ll hit the news, he’ll see it, and it’ll push him into another debate. His people can’t control him. The might be able to manipulate him to some extent (e.g., “you don’t need to debate again, you won. What else is there to say/do? All you could do is lose. Leave it on the W.”). So, if you goad him enough, hell agree to another one.

      • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
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        5 days ago

        I will chip in if someone sets up a GoFundMe to do exactly this

        Like, how much could it possibly cost to hire someone in NYC to do this for a few hours some night? Surely this is a crowdfundable amount.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    That’s hilarious. What a pathetic weakling running home with his tail between his legs 😂😂😂

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 days ago

    Well, as he said, he certainly won the first one. I don’t know why he wouldn’t wanna keep racking up wins. Unless, maybe he’s embarrassed to have been manipulated right… the fuck over… by… a… woman.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      He also has a habit of rewatching things like that, and I suspect it has made him bitter. Well, more bitter.

  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Still the Vance-Walz debate Oct 1 for some potential change for either candidacy. Voters think they know both VP picks but we won’t really know who we’re dealing with til they go head to head.