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“Several of them told CNN they were stunned that the former president failed to do a better job executing on the talking points that he had been preparing with his team for weeks against Vice President Harris, her record, her policy reversals.”
Apparently, all that practice with members of his team, such as former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard, had ultimately amounted to very little when it came time to debate.
Oh please. If there is a trump “insider” who thinks for one hot second this demented chattering rapist can stay on message without large-type notes and a shock collar, then they're as big an idiot as they sound.
"~~We have always been at war with Eureast Asia~~ Trump will absolutely dominate the debate. "
It doesn't matter what they believe, as long as the repeat what the party wants them to say.
It's amazing to me that anybody on his team was shocked he did so poorly. It just indicates to me that they're absolutely shit at their jobs. Being a good advisor requires you to be able to recognize the difference between reality and fantasy, and anybody who thought Trump would do well in this debate after spending any amount of time actually listening to him has failed this most basic of tests.
I'm surprised that he did so well in the debate, actually. I mean, he still got absolutely bodied, but no microphones picked up the sound of him shitting himself this time, so he's already showing an improvement over his debate performance with Biden.
Edit: it just occurred to me that Trump randomly shitting himself could be the reason his team were so gung ho for muted mics: it means that there's 50% less chance he'll drop a deuce while near a hot mic. If so, that's a great strategy on their part.
He did fine. He likely lost precisely zero votes. There was nothing for him to lose. It's not like cult members watch their cult leader in a debate and then go "oh I guess I'll leave my cult." People leaving cults often literally have to go through a process of deprogramming and copious therapy.
Harris did well, so maybe she picks up a point, but since she's lost about a point since the DNC, that makes it essentially a wash. While it was a good debate for Harris, it ends up meaning very little. All the hyperventilating about it is way outsized to the effect.
He did very poorly. His base is largely racist whites. Harris knows that very well and made sure to embarrass him in ways the base wouldn't like. Belittled him to his face as if he was nothing, and smirked at his impotent old man rage. She made trump look old and bumbling, and even conservative media is having trouble denying it.
He looked weak and it will cost him votes. Especially since his campaign is barely trying dogshit at the moment.
It's really not about him losing votes, though. Despite the fact that there are a truly mind-boggling number of idiot cultists out there who are for some reason devoted to this moron, there are not enough of them to win an election. Both candidates need to appeal to the vast pool of undecided or apathetic voters in order to win. In 2020, the Democrats won because that pool of people were highly motivated to oust Trump after living through 4 years of his presidency, but people have very short memories and even shorter attention spans, and so the Dems can't really count on the same thing happening again in 2024.
When Trump was running against Biden at the beginning of this race, things were looking grim for the Democrats, because that group of morons who can't be bothered to pay the slightest bit of attention to what's happening in their government (apathetic & undecided voters) decided that they couldn't really tell the difference between two senile, doddering old men, so Trump's rambling incoherence wasn't that big of a problem. Now that he's facing someone more than 2 decades younger than him who still has the complete use of her mental faculties, it's imperative for him to do SOMETHING to make himself not look like a shoeless old man in a hospital gown wandering between lanes of traffic after escaping from his rest home. This debate didn't do that.
Is it immoral to start a cult and continue to use cult tactics to steal members from another cult to deprogram them and herd them all into therapy? Asking for a friend, and 90% of our parents.
We need a cult of mental health.
-Are y'all with the cult?
-It's not a cult, it's an organisation that promotes the deprograming of-
-This is it.
You can expect a loss and still be surprised by the extent l.
They were no expecting much, and he managed to even wreck those low expectations.
…because it surprised NO ONE else…
No one is surprised he did poorly, but I don't think anyone expected him to do "immigrants are eating your pets" levels of bad.
They're eating your cats! They're eating your dogs!
They're ~~eating your babi~~ aborting your babies!
Me, making sure I'm not watching The Onion News
I read that as absorbing your babies.
What's surprising is all the people who on Facebook are now saying it's true lol
It's literally the most absurd claim ever lol.
It's possible it happened once probably by some druggie
But it's definitely not something that happens regularly 😂
It's crazy how these people literally see immigrants as animals or a different species lol
They're just normal people
Yeah that’s probably true but I was not so secretly hoping he would.
The "immigrants are eating your pets" works on his followers unfortunately.
Anything would work on those followers. They are not the people anyone is trying to convince with the debate.
Trump is drowning in the misinformation you helped create yet now you wonder why he did badly?
Then they aren’t very good at their jobs.
A dead horse will never win the race, even if you drag it around really fast.
A not totally incompetent trainer of a dead horse would not be stunned how bad the dead horse does.
From the text, I conclude that the team trained El Douché apparently successfully, but the moment he approached the stage something popped in his head, the whole house of cards tumbled down.
When up against someone who can at least stay on topic, he looks like a mad man.
Apparently, all that practice with members of his team, such as former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard, had ultimately amounted to very little when it came time to debate.
Well, in his defense, you try to teach this idiot anything. It's impossible. /s
TBF he did terribly on the first debate as well, however he was able to form up his “terrible” strongly in mostly coherent lies that left Biden’s mumbled and lost “decent” truths in the dust.
This time Harris led strongly and let trump hang himself, which he did admirably at.
That's just testimony that his cadre of sycophantic deer ticks are just as stupid as he is deranged.
Maybe they need more mouth breathing. I would have sworn they had it covered but…
Reality is truly shocking
This kind of article is such a joke. This is the same as them saying they are told people are eating dogs.