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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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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 105 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I'm still stuck on this thing about how undocumented immigrants are coming to America to eat dogs and cats, but in the process are being forcibly sent to American Prisons which are actually a front for experimental sex changing drugs creating a squad of latinas-who-used-to-be-latinos with the goal of sending them to dominate women's sports, and the existence of transpeople like myself are an elaborate hoax to manufacture consent for this program.

Do I understand that correctly, that is actually what Donald Trump unironically believes?

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS!" is quickly becoming a thing in my house. That's how my daughter greeted me after school today

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Haha.

A sticker of this should go on every gas pump in America.

Trump's head with a little dialogue bubble...

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't forget that the immigrants are coming from insane asylums, and are not legal immigrants seeking asylum.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's hilarious, he obviously literally does not know the difference between "insane asylum" and "seeking asylum". He's so goddamn stupid he thinks they're the same word.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Goddamn, I wish a moderator had called him out on that one. I didn't realize he was referencing asylum seekers, and the humiliation as they explain it slowly to him would be wonderful.

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

By the millions! Millions i tell you

[–] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the last person who talked to him was Stephen Miller, it probably is. To paraphrase George Burns, putting an idea into his head is like putting a basketball into a thimble.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

putting an idea into his head is like putting a basketball into a thimble.

I'm so going to steal this expression!

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He doesn't believe anything he says. He doesn't even hear himself. He's like a poorly trained LLM at this point. It's become so over tuned it's only spews nonsense with conviction

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

He doesn’t believe anything he says.

Trump has often bragged about how good he is at deceiving people. Anyone who thinks Traitorapist Trump believes his own shit has been Trumped.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 month ago

Man, I'd hate to sneak into the US just to chill and chow down on some cats, just to end up winning gold medals in woman's sports

Would be super annoyed

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You forgot the part about how the trans surgeries are actually medical experiments to create an alien-human hybrid to prepare the Earth for the upcoming alien invasion.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did he say that? I am going to have to watch this now. That's fucking crazy

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

No, I stole it from the X Files.

But the notion that it sounds plausible compared to something Trump would say is really telling, isn't it?

Every accusation a confession.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Can I come to your prison? I would like to be a latina please 🥺💃🏽

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All Trump proved is that he is the social media-addicted racist uncle everyone has in their family. That is what he demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

"I saw it on television"

[–] PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is what my parents unironically believe. Maybe not the part about eating dogs but definitely the rest. They think liberalism is some kind of conspiracy to turn everyone into transgender stoners.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Liberalism would be a lot cooler if it was.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The dudebro to anarchist trans girl pipeline is a widely observed phenomenon.

Capitalism would be in trouble if we were in charge.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

He can't hold a thought that coplicated in his head.