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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

She set a tone at the very start when she walked right into his space to shake his hand and made him almost pull back into himself in response. She was in charge and never stopped being in charge. 

Harris also managed what neither Joe Biden nor Hillary Clinton nor any of the 2016 Republicans managed to do which is successfully bait Donald Trump and get under his skin. Within a few minutes Trump was visibly angry and not in a way that empowered him but in a way that made him lose focus, go down rabbit holes and generally go off onto damaging tangents. Spittle anger, not righteous anger, shall we say.

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[-] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 80 points 2 years ago

It was such obvious bait, I was a bit shocked that he took it!

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wasn’t shocked at all (except the general shock that a person like this has ever come close to the presidency). Particularly in recent years, I’ve seen him take bait so many times which wasn’t even intended as bait, but it triggered him. And because it slightly grazed his fragile ego, priority number one for him is to go on an ego-defending tangent that only confuses and undermines any points he could have made about the actual topic.

Harris knew that as long as she peppered her responses with a trigger here and a trigger there, he would be unable to help himself every time. And that’s what we saw.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 46 points 2 years ago

Yeah I don't understand how people are still surprised by this either. He is an unrepentant, raging malignant narcissist. He physically - biologically! - cannot resist defending his ego when challenged.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The entire reason he ran in the first place was because Obama made a joke about him in a speech, and it embarrassed him.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 37 points 2 years ago

I'm more shocked that Democrats haven't tried to bait him this way much before. It's not hard to get him to prattle on about nothing while you look like the grown-up in the room.

[-] themadcodger@kbin.earth 22 points 2 years ago

"When they go low, we go high" 😑

[-] frezik@midwest.social 25 points 2 years ago

Ahh, right, that shit that sounded nice but didn't work.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It’d work if Americans weren’t morons. But we are so we go low now

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Only took us 8 years to figure out

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 2 years ago

“When they go low, we ~~go~~ give them a high knee”

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Really? You were shocked? Lol

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