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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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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The mood in r/conservative seems to be fairly in agreement with this headline. Kind of delicious to creep on lol

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month ago

You are far braver than I.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But what's the reaction on his propaganda platform with the hilariously tanking stock?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hey cool, its price finally fell below what its initial offer price was. That's the first time in its lifetime.

That's still way, way, way too high. But still.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s still way, way, way too high. But still.

You mean $8,000,000,000 was too much to spend to build a website comparable in functionality to Lemmy?

To my knowledge, it runs a custom version of mastodon. Maybe they should donate some of their winnings to the project, should they manage to dump their stocks before the company goes bust.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Well that part is not surprising, most IPOs tank. What would come as a surprise to me is if it climbed back up.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I will never know firsthand, that's for sure.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I wonder what conservative@lemm.ee thinks. They're an entertaining bunch.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I already showered today.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apparently they don't want to talk about it. The only post since the debate is an unrelated article fearmongering about Haitian immigrants.

The mod there is always doing that game where he winks about how the Democrats were the slave owners during the civil war, as if the numerous political realignments since then never happened.

I got banned yesterday for posting a speech by Lincoln where he was mocking slavers because they called themselves "conservatives" despite the fact that they wanted to break long-standing prohibitions and push slavery onto the rest of the country.

He apparently didn't appreciate my demonstration that it's always been ideological conservatives who are consistently weirdo fascist losers.

[–] don@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty quiet so far. Took a peek and the only posts in the last day are about Ohio and the influx of Haitian immigrants and one person asking what everyone thought of the debate.

So far, that post has two comments, the most upvoted one said Harris won and is the better candidate; the other with the most downvotes said that neither did a good job, that there was no winner, and that the American people lost in the debate.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's great.

Here in my mixed political neighborhood, we have 3 houses with huge banners nailed to their fences, including a 40 ft long "FUCK BIDEN" one, a Christmas lights covered "Outlaws Trump & Vance" larp poster with them both in cowboy costumes and a few others.

We don't talk to the crazy ones, of course. However the fuck Biden banner house has a really nice old lady in her 80s living in it, so very strange...

We don’t talk to the crazy ones, of course.

This is the only good thing about Trump signs. It lets me know who in the neighborhood to avoid.

[–] Disgracefulone@discuss.online 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went ahead and took the liberty of posting a query in there.. and surprisingly the top comment (probably wasn't a member lol) was in favour of Kamala.

[–] BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lol, no one "did a good job" at the debate? Great assertion neur, now let's see you back it up.

[–] Disgracefulone@discuss.online 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pretty much what I'd expect from a trump supporter after that debate. They can't openly come out and say Kamala dominated him.. so they just grudgingly say neither did well and vaguely portend our ok imminent doom

My parents are longtime NPR fans but my mom was pissed today because NPR was basically saying this in their analysis.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Just like Donald Trump is the "hero" our conservative friends deserve.