They're Eating the Dogs! Debate me!

 

What a split screen. I mean. pic.twitter.com/pKW39fDfoh

— Annika Brockschmidt (@ardenthistorian) September 11, 2024

They are not eating the dogs. Putin is eating Trump's lunch. Kamala Harris is not Joe Biden, and every state has laws against infanticide. Trump's "concepts of a plan" are not a goddamn plan and he looked weak, delusional, unfocused, changed the subject and rambled like a lunatic, and demonstrated why 81 million people voted against him four years ago. Trumps history of racism was discussed. as was his weakness and lack of patriotism. 

Vice-President Harris had reasons to smile, to express pity for delusional old Trump mingled with the satisfaction of having a new crotchet of his to seize on with any given response. He was baited on his weakness, on people leaving his rallies, on his former staff having bad things to say about him--

And he rose, or should we say, sank, to each allusion. 

He messed up by showing up thinking his act was all he needed. The ABC team did a good job of fact-checking, which Trump fans will no doubt view as putting their thumbs on the scale. I guess my point about that is--why are the facts so stubbornly aligned against what Trump says, though?  That is certainly something you might want to consider!

Maybe Trump is just a pathetic liar. 

Another thing to think about is that when Trump was fact-checked, he still retreated to the comfort of his lies--that tariffs weren't either paid by the buyer or that the Biden economy was so actually terrible, despite the stats, which he doesn't believe. Crime is so bad! Open borders! World War III!

The dissembling of a little man who has a lot of complaints but no plans. A lot of predictions of doom, but no optimism for the future. A person who claims to be a patriot while running down this country every chance he gets, like the "negging" of an abusive pick-up artist. 

We deserve better. And Kamala Harris showed us she was the better person in every way. 

While also exposing his Afghanistan culpability, his 1/6 fault, his self-interest in everything he does.

It was a joy to watch--something better than I expected.  And while I might have expected worse from Trump, the pent-up rage is sure to come out on social media or at a rally--because we know what he is.