Kamala Harris beat his butt. She drubbed his derrière. She flogged his fanny. She trounced his tush.
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| Gary Taxali |
That was a presidential debate for the books. Kamala Harris was masterful. She ate him with ketchup.
Kamala was confident.
Kamala was prepared.
Kamala was strategic.
Kamala was powerful.
Kamala was well-spoken.
Kamala was presidential.
She took the upper hand, literally, from the first moment, when she walked up to him and reached her hand out for a handshake. She looked powerful and large. He looked like he wanted to run away at that moment.
And then she got under his skin. Again and again.
Diaper Don was defensive.
The Idiocrat was unhinged.
The Orange Shitstain was seething.
Cadet Bonespurs was small.
King Minus was angry.
In short, IQ45 played the same tiny, broken violin.
He took the bait when Kamala mocked him over and over. She had him on his heels from the get-go and didn't let up.
He took the bait when she mocked his financial history. "The values I bring to the importance of home ownership knowing not everybody got handed $400 million on a silver platter and then filed bankruptcy six times." He got defensive, saying that it was "a fraction of that" (to be honest, that $400 million came over daddy's lifetime) and tried to blather about her change of views on fracking.
He took the bait when she scolded him for calling for the execution of the Central Park Five. He sputtered, "They admitted -- they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty -- then they pled we're not guilty." (For the record, the five falsely accused teens gave false confessions after hours of police interrogation.)
He took the bait when she invited viewers to attend one of his rallies. "I'm going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump's rallies because it's a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom." OOOh that one hurt. Donny don't like to be mocked for the size of his crowds.
He took the bait when she spoke warmly of the Republicans who endorsed her and those who have spoken out against him. He resorted to a spaghetti-on-the-wall retort:
"I fired most of those people. Not so graciously. They did bad things or a bad job. I fired them. They never fired one person. They didn't fire anybody having to do with Afghanistan and the Taliban and the 13 people whose, whose, were just killed viciously and violently killed and I got to know the parents and the family. They should have fired all those generals, all those top people because that was one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen. So when somebody does a bad job I fire them. And you take a guy like Esper. He was no good, I fired him. So he writes a book. Another one writes a book. Because with me they can write books. With nobody else can they. But they have done such a poor job. And they never fire anybody. Look at the economy. Look at the inflation. They didn't fire any of their economists. They have the same people. That's a good way not to have books written about you. But just to finish, I got more votes than any Republican in history by far. In fact, I got more votes than any president, sitting president in history by far."
She mocked his many indictments after he talked about crime. Ouch.
Diaper Don looked small and weak throughout the debate, and he wore his clown-face contortions a lot. When he insisted on talking over his time and taking the mic again when he was out of time, the moderators let him do it, but he should've just shut up. He just kept talking himself into the drain's orange whirlpool.
And a new trove of weird stuff! Wow! Look at these actual quotes from the Orange Stain.
"Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison."
"A lot of towns don't want to talk about it because they're so embarrassed by it. In Springfield [Ohio], they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there."
And when David Muir fact-checked the dog-eating thing by quoting the City Manager of Springfield, djt doubled down. "Well, I've seen people on television ... The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food."
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
He ranted.
He blathered.
He "weaved."
He projected. "He [Biden] hates her. He can't stand her."
He was conveniently forgetful when he couldn't recall recently saying about the 2020 election, "I lost by a whisker."
He showed his ignorance on how tariffs work, and laughably asserted he has "concepts of a plan" to overhaul the Affordable Care Act.
Donny Smallhands, in short, was the same ol' blabbering idiot. He couldn't help using his non sequitur, incomplete-thought, word salad style. He repeated the same talking points as at all his rallies. I'm sure his base was smiling and nodding, smiling and nodding.
Undoubtedly they lapped up his same ol tired schtick:
"Millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums. And they're coming in and they're taking jobs that are occupied right now by African Americans and Hispanics and also unions."
and
"People don't leave my rallies. We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics."
and
"But her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth, it's execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is okay." Why does he keep bringing up executing babies? Why?
and
Blabbering about the election being stolen. Just stop.
and
The Great Breakfast Crisis of 2024. "People can't go out and buy cereal bacon or eggs or anything else."
and
Invoking Hungary's Viktor Orbán, as some sort of positive endorsement. He synonymized "strongman" with "tough person." Pssst, Honey, he's a dictator. Look it up.
Kamala's responses to the chaotic absurdities was masterful. After he blabbered about the election being stolen, she very seriously said:
Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. So, let's be clear about that. And clearly, he is having a very difficult time processing that. But we cannot afford to have a president of the United States who attempts as he did in the past to upend the will of the voters in a free and fair election. And I'm going to tell you that I have traveled the world as vice president of the United States. And world leaders are laughing at Donald Trump. I have talked with military leaders, some of whom worked with you. And they say you're a disgrace. And when you then talk in this way in a presidential debate and deny what over and over again are court cases you have lost, because you did in fact lose that election, it leads one to believe that perhaps we do not have in the candidate to my right the temperament or the ability to not be confused about fact. That's deeply troubling. And the American people deserve better.
And when he said the thing about immigrants eating pets, she laughed it off just enough, but very seriously pivoted to the truth of the matter:
Talk about extreme. Um, you know, this is I think one of the reasons why in this election I actually have the endorsement of 200 Republicans who have formally worked with President Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain including the endorsement of former Vice President Dick Cheney and Congressmember Liz Cheney. And if you want to really know the inside track on who the former president is, if he didn't make it clear already, just ask people who have worked with him. His former chief of staff, a four-star general, has said he has contempt for the constitution of the United States. His former national security adviser has said he is dangerous and unfit. His former secretary of defense has said the nation, the republic would never survive another Trump term. And when we listen to this kind of rhetoric, when the issues that affect the American people are not being addressed, I think the choice is clear in this election.
When he talked about crime –"Crime here is up and through the roof. Despite their fraudulent statements that they made. Crime in this country is through the roof. And we have a new form of crime. It's called migrant crime. And it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible." – she clapped back:
"Well, I think this is so rich. Coming from someone who has been prosecuted for national security crimes, economic crimes, election interference, has been found liable for sexual assault and his next big court appearance is in November at his own criminal sentencing. And let's be clear where each person stands on the issue of what is important about respect for the rule of law and respect for law enforcement."
In short, Kamala spoke clearly to the 127 undecided voters out there, and I think she reached them. She was masterful in mocking him while illustrating her demeanor, plan, power, and ability to fulfill the duties of the office of President of the United States.
The moderators did a pretty good job fact-checking him this time, saying no, it’s not legal in any state to murder a baby; crime rates are actually falling; and no, immigrants are not stealing kittens and eating them.
Let's talk body language.
Kamala was straight and strong. She mocked him with her face, laughing incredulously, and the hand to the chin with great timing. Though she didn't have the mic, she was able to clearly mouth, "That's not true" and "Stop lying." She looked at him pointedly, talking directly to him, at just the right times and with just the right scolding tone. She often looked at him like the patient parent of a toddler, waiting for the tantrum to end so she could tuck him in for his nap. When she turned to the camera, she addressed the voters directly, eye-to-eye, American to American.
Trumplethinskin looked small. He was hunched. He was squinty. He often looked checked out. He never even glanced at Harris. He didn't look at the camera, despite taking his time before the debate to tour the stage and note the positions of cameras. He talked to the moderators, not The People.
All in all, we're feeling a fresh dose of YES SHE CAN.
There was so much more. For all the nuggets of Kamala shade, watch the whole thing on ABC News. And the transcript is here.
Tim Walz vs. JD Vance on Tuesday, October 1! LSR rubs her hands and gets a fresh bag of popcorn.
Moments after the debate ended, we received this gift. Go, Tay-Tay, Chief Childless Cat Lady!
From the pet-eating, to the transgender operations, to the overall ass-shellacking, the meme makers have a lot of fodder. We will have an all-meme post very soon, but here is this evening's offerings. Goodnight, folks.
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