It looks like winning debates is a black job. pic.twitter.com/j84hMx9PQP
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) September 11, 2024
When will Our Very Serious Major Media start demanding that the GOP replace failing candidate Donald Trump?
(But seriously: Can we drag out the dissection of Trump’s performance for the next three weeks, as would only be *fair*?)
lol pic.twitter.com/WY7pyjPcbd
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 11, 2024
The funniest part of last night was how easily Trump was baited into sounding like an unhinged moron.
Like, everyone, EVERYONE could see what she was doing – but like the petulant little bitch he is, he couldn’t NOT respond.
— justin (@justinchirped) September 11, 2024
They are panicking https://t.co/bmWZYNdnG6
— Patrick (@QuadCityPat) September 11, 2024
Just a reminder: Trump didn’t have a bad night. This is just who he is, and has been all along, visible to anyone who looked past the sanewashing.
Probably this is also who Harris has been all along, but now she has broken through the negative narratives that have clung to her.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 11, 2024
Saying you would deal with Vladimir Putin by getting along well with him only means that Vladimir Putin has already dealt with you.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) September 11, 2024
Re-upping that 'Abdul' was not Trump racistly making up a guy. He's just on a first name basis with an enemy leader, captured by Obama, that Trump released (no hostages in return.) Then cut a deal with him that doomed our Afghan allies and hamstrung US forces during withdrawal. https://t.co/ohUBi6QzJs
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 11, 2024
As @geoffgarin said, the strength of KH's performance was that she reached out to swing voters AND energized her supporters. Every Trump hater has spent 9 years w a pack of lines they want someone to say right to Trumps face. And Harris somehow managed to get in every last one.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 11, 2024
Reporter: I was in a focus group this morning of nine former Trump voters from swing states. All of them said they were now leaning far more towards voting for Harris pic.twitter.com/aPAmNHdB9O
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 11, 2024
Taylor Swift endorsing Harris after her debate performance against Trump is like the soldier who walks up to the guy executed by firing squad and shoots him again to make sure he's dead
— Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) September 11, 2024
Vance: They’re saying Kamala Harris knocked Trump off his game and got under his skin pic.twitter.com/goMYRUu6eO
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 11, 2024
Journalist: Trump looked rattled. Vice President Harris looked like she belonged. She looked like she is someone who can be president pic.twitter.com/0By3cU1Mdf
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 11, 2024
The ABC moderators have let Trump speak for 9 minutes longer – roughly 30% more – than Harris. The way they've "rigged" the debate is by letting him hang himself with his own stream-of-consciousness rambles. pic.twitter.com/QWkHCE6L7K
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 11, 2024
Gov. Walz: Folks across the country saw Kamala Harris conduct herself with dignity. And you saw a nearly 80-year-old angry narcissist continue to veer off into things that are dangerous. She talks about them. He talks about himself pic.twitter.com/gXyUd76Vwx
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 11, 2024
Dear Media — You owe the American people three full weeks of wall-to-wall coverage on Trump’s awful debate performance and how he is unfit to be President and should drop out.
— Abraxsys (@Abraxsys) September 11, 2024
Tough to compete with this pic.twitter.com/gh867GBZ2b
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 11, 2024
lol what the fuck were these people watching? Subscribe to The Onion. pic.twitter.com/vcQgX8mAOF
— Tim Onion (@oneunderscore__) September 11, 2024
BREAKING — Trump announces he does NOT want to do any more debates with Kamala Harris, even if they’re on Fox News.
Yup. Kamala wrecked him. It wasn’t even close.
And now he’s scared of her.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) September 11, 2024
Vice President Harris’ closing statement: “You've heard two very different visions for our country. One that is focused on the future and the other that is an attempt to take us backward. But we're not going back” pic.twitter.com/jWhvL9NNC1
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 11, 2024
Delk
Trump Tower is a public nuisance that threatens the Chicago River with its cooling water intake system that illegally sucked in and killed thousands of fish over a number of years, a judge ruled this week.
“Trump Tower has litigated this case by pretending the rules don’t exist or that basic facts aren’t what they obviously are,” said Robert Weinstock, who represented Sierra Club and Friends of the Chicago River through Northwestern University’s Environmental Advocacy Center. “The court’s ruling forces them to live in reality and comply with the law like everyone else.”
SunTimes
Baud
Fun day for you, AL.
mrmoshpotato
Sign of the day
Anne Laurie
@Baud: I take ’em when I get ’em!
KatKapCC
Can anyone lip-read? What is Harris saying when he’s ranting about eating dogs and cats? I think she says “Oh come on” and then laughs, but I can’t figure out what she says after that.
prostratedragon
The face of a skeptic, Concepts of a Plan Edition.
HumboldtBlue
DougJ on point yet again.
Scout211
Ken
“Baited”? “Sounding like”?
Krugman gets it. What you see is what he’s always been.
Kayla Rudbek
Trump learns about Taylor Swift’s endorsement https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bpws74MsI9E
bbleh
Not for the first time, I’m reminded of a third-grader who loses a board game and throws the board and all the pieces into the air and stomps off yelling about CHEATERS!!
And yes, it definitely is noted that it’s still TWO MONTHS until the election, which means they’re gonna have to come up with SOMETHING to alter the Narrative, and said something is gonna have to be … SOMETHING!
Anybody wanna take bets?
— Trump digs Vance out from under the bus and throws him completely overboard
— Trump incites MAGA mob to sack Disney World (because ABC)
— Trump fires multiple senior members of his campaign staff (kinda throwaway guess, cuz duh)
— Trump orders MAGA cultists in House to shut down government (might not work)
Other entries?
Mike E
@HumboldtBlue: McMegan is a calculating moron.
bbleh
@Kayla Rudbek: I’m clearly weakened, cuz these never get old.
dm
@HumboldtBlue: In fairness to McMeghan, she twitted that after only ten minutes, when Harris still seemed a little wobbly, and before she found her footing.
Maxim
@Delk: Excellent.
BellyCat
DAY-UMN… Bigfooted after only 11 minutes?!?! Your post was enjoyed, if too briefly, AL.
zhena gogolia
F–k you, Peter Baker, “looked like she belonged on the stage.” Could this guy shut his mouth for the rest of eternity? Please forgive me if that isn’t Peter Baker. Whoever he is, he’s an idiot.
ETA: Okay, that’s not Peter Baker! He’s an idiot too, though.
danielx
Yup. Got his ass handed to him and he knows it.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
I’m not seeing the problem with that one.
danielx
@BellyCat:
Well, she did get 218 comments. Which is a measure of how things have changed in a short period. Pre-Kamala, BJ comments were getting pretty thin on the ground which I took to be a measure of enthusiasm level amongst the jackaltariat. Now it’s a rare post that doesn’t get at least a hundred, or so I would guess.
MagdaInBlack
Oh man, her expression in that first picture. Just perfect 😄
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Like she had to prove to him she belonged on that stage, after being VP for 3.5 years.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Oh Megan McArglebargle…
BellyCat
@danielx: Look upstairs.
mrmoshpotato
@Delk:
Good!
And tear down that shitstain already!
frosty
You’re en fuego today, Anne Laurie! I can’t get anything done!
mrmoshpotato
@danielx:
Whiny ass titty baby has a SAD! SAD!
mrmoshpotato
How many NYT stories will we see about Dump being a loser, manbaby bitchass?
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Everyone has to prove themselves when it’s their first time, especially she didn’t compete in the primary this year. And pres is different from Veep.
Citizen Alan
@dm: Fairness is wasted on McMegan.
TS
@Kayla Rudbek:
Whoever does this – close to perfect
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
My father in-law got tons of mail in 2020 from TFG and other GQP grifters, despite the fact he died in 2019. I sent most of it back, postage due, with commentary. Today he got a begging note from Trump, return address Kansas city(!???). This one is going back with the business card of the nursing home FIL was in, with a note that trump needs to check in, after that debate “performance.”
TS
@dm: There is no fair to this one – I read much of the live coverage this came from – she spent the whole debate trying to put down Kamala & praise trump
Shadi, yeah, there are moments when it feels like you can see her rapidly flipping through the 3×5 index cards in her head and trying to make sure she reads it verbatim.
Harris is shaking her head as Trump claims that a governor said that it was okay to terminate a viable, healthy pregnancy in the ninth month. But in fact this is true.
Harris is clearly comfortable talking on abortion: She sounds passionate and well-informed, and most important, she doesn’t sound like she’s in dress rehearsal.
It’s too bad for Harris that she can’t spend the entire debate just talking about abortion.
Trump actually got a zinger in on abortion: He asked her to say when she would ban abortion. Eighth month? Ninth month?
And so it went on and on
At the end she said the hated all of the Democratic policies but would vote for Kamala
Ken
@Kayla Rudbek: Someday I must watch Downfall, though I suspect it will be like watching Zero Hour after Airplane! I’ll get to that scene, and burst into laughter.
zhena gogolia
@Ken: Haha, great comparison. We recently watched Zero Hour and were laughing our asses off (although it’s a damn good movie).
bluefoot
@Kayla Rudbek:
This was excellent. I love me a good Downfall parody.
VOR
@Ken: Downfall is a really good movie. It can be hard to watch because it humanizes Adolf Hitler, turns him into a 3D person. Bruno Ganz, who plays Hitler, has an amazing performance.
It’s always projection with Trump. He accused Harris of busing in paid rally attendees when he has repeatedly done exactly that.
To bbleh, the House is going to shut down the government before the election. Count on it. Their ransom is to demand Democrats agree to not allow illegal aliens to vote, something which is both ALREADY illegal and extremely rare.
SFAW
@VOR:
Fixed
Shalimar
@SFAW: I am definitely in favor of not allowing anyone to eat pets. I’m especially leery of the Foley kid on the corner of 3rd Street.
Liminal Owl
@dm: Doesn’t that just mean she had already written the tweet (before the debate started)?
Ruckus
“You’ve heard two very different visions for our country. One that is focused on the future and the other that is an attempt to take us backward. But we’re not going back” Kamala Harris
Shitforbrains is past his prime, likely about 75 yrs past. Why this ass was voted in as president says a lot about our country. Why he still has support is mind numbing. He has shown the world who he is, and it’s bad, only because his brain hasn’t ceased functioning in such a shitty fashion. I mean we know it’s working – he’s still breathing. It’s just that his brain works like a 1950 Nash Rambler with a half a million unserviced miles on the odometer. And isn’t far off in looks either.
Ruckus
Justin on X
The funniest part of last night was how easily Trump was baited into sounding like an unhinged moron.
He wasn’t baited – HE IS AN UNHINGED MORON.
Anne Laurie
@Liminal Owl: McArglebargle’s fingers work faster than her brain. Which is a real advantage, among the libertarians!
Chris T.
@bbleh:
Of an electric boat, with a shark nearby? But the boat will need to sink! Maybe Trump has a helicopter lift him off first? (But what if it almost crashes into Willie Brown?)