"Kamala #Harris won the #debate not with a line but a look - mixing barely suppressed laughter with utter pathos at the fall of an unhinged 78-year-old
Her Perry Mason moment made #Trump look like every Fox News grandpa, not an ex-POTUS
How KDH made an ex-POTUS sound like your Fox News-addled uncle
My debate column"
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 🧵 1/...
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The night Donald Trump choked like a dog (Kamala’s version)
In their Philly debate, a poised, presidential Kamala Harris turned Donald Trump into a raving Fox News grandpa and lost Taylor Swift.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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in reply to Laffy • • •2/ "But here’s the thing that I — and probably most of the 70 million or so Americans watching on TV — will remember long after we cast our ballots in November.
The look.
For 100 gobsmacking minutes, the Californian who would be America’s first woman president was all of us, as the split screen showed Harris’ highly expressive face ranging from bemused puzzlement to barely suppressed laughter to blinking eyeballs of shock..."
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in reply to Laffy • • •5/ "When Harris goaded Trump that his beloved campaign rallies are actually incoherent when they’re not totally boring, she got her Perry Mason moment...
The tirade about QAnon-level internet conspiracy theories about Springfield, OH was debunked in real time—& kudos to him— by David Muir, & there’s also a richer irony. Throughout Trump’s endless time in pub eye, he revealed himself as a sociopathic dog hater, even falling back on a line that someone “choked like a dog” as his fiercest insult"
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in reply to Laffy • • •7/ "“I’ve seen people on television,” a humiliated Trump insisted to Muir.
No wonder that America’s most popular woman — especially with young voters that Harris needs to fire up by November — took to Instagram the moment the debate ended to post her endorsement. Taylor Swift wrote that Harris is a “steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.”
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in reply to Laffy • • •9/9 "“I think she won in the first five minutes — her demeanor, her presence in being so beautiful and young. And him? ... ehhh,” added Julia Angstrom, a 68-year-old retiree and former Democratic committee person, the next voter I spoke with. Then she and about 200 other watchers drifted away into the darkness of Washington Avenue, convinced — just like Taylor Swift — they had just seen the 47th president of the United States, Kamala’s version."
Please read the entire column.
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in reply to Laffy • • •The Trumpite Mob is going to be pissed
The GOP will make the New Presidents job very difficult
We have to Give this nation some critical help
Elect more Representatives & Senators
This Job of Governing is not easy
Of the people, by the people & for the people is very tall order
We have survived 2 World wars and years of conflict and disputes
America is worth the fighting for it
The Politics of this Nation is everybody's Business
VOTE
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in reply to Laffy • • •A good column but I felt this comment was unfair and unrealistic:
Harris’ flaws: "She continues to offer canned speeches instead of answering questions about her own agenda."
It is patently absurd that people, journo's in particular, expect detailed policy discussions in a two minute response.
Come on folks get real. If you want a detailed response go to her campaign page. https://kamalaharris.com/issues/ .
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A New Way Forward - Kamala Harris for President: Official Campaign Website
Harris For PresidentDan Morris
in reply to Laffy • • •the only thing that's going to "move the needle" is for trump to lose, continue floundering in a haze of dementia, until he loses all political support and slowly dies in ignominy, with republicans trying to flee the stain of Trumpism just like they did with Viet Nam.
Maybe with the implementation of some solid anti-defemation laws and some laws holding candidates to a higher *legal* standard when making accusations and spreading falsehoods.
If Harris wins, I'll be happy to see the right crawl back under their rocks. If she loses, I just don't know if there's a way to come back after that.
Nicole Parsons
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Until there's serious efforts to stem the flood of GOP billionaire money into politics, judicial appointments, and election interference - the rich will simply pick another puppet
Bradley bought the overturn of the Voting Rights Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Foundation
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/conservatives-who-gutted-voting-rights-act-are-now-challenging-one-person-one-vote/
Barre Seid bought the overturn of Roe vs Wade with $1.6 billion & ending rights for 167 million women
https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid
What will Charles Koch's $5 billion buy?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2023/10/10/exclusive-charles-koch-koch-industries-has-given-more-than-5-billion-of-his-koch-industries-stock-to-two-nonprofits/
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