[USA] Presidential Debate Mega Thread
[USA] Presidential Debate Mega Thread
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Why hasn't Vice President Harris fixed everything already, she's the Vice President already so she should fix it.
So says the man that tried to get his VP hung when he dared disagree with him.
"I have concepts of a plan."
Trump closing statement: "She said she's going to do lots of wonderful things. Why hasn't she done it yet? They've had 3 1/2 years to fix the border and create jobs. Why hasn't she done it? She should go down to the beautiful White House and to the Capitol and get them all together, but you won't do it, because you want to do things that Americans don't want like no fossil fuels. Germany tried and now they're back to how they used to be. But I need to ask a simple question: why didn't she do it? We're a failing nation. They're laughing at us. I know world leaders very well. They come to see me and call me and tell me. We don't know what's going on. We have wars going on in the middle east and in Ukraine and we'll have nuclear war. I rebuilt our entire military. She gave a lot of it away to the Taliban. What these people have done to our country- the worst part is they let millions of criminals into our country. They are destroying the country. The worst president and the worst vice president in the history of our country."
Ho-lee fuck.
According to Trump, leaders all over the world are calling and going to see Trump to laugh at the USA.
So like, which ones? Which leaders are visiting Trump to laugh at the USA? And why is he accepting them over and over? Why are world leaders wasting their time laughing at the USA with Trump? Tell us, Trump!
"like a 4chan post came to life" -Jake Tapper, CNN
Trump on his healthcare plan: "Obamacare was lousy healthcare and always was and if we come up with something, and we are, we will replace it. I inherited Obamacare because Democrats wouldn't vote to change it. If they did, we'd have a better plan than Obamacare. I had a choice as president whether or not to let it rot and I decided to tell my top people- I had very good people- some bad ones. They don't get rid of their bad ones. I had a choice to make: do I save it and make it as good as it can be or let it rot? And I saved it and it was the right thing and it will never be great and it is too expensive. We are looking into other plans. If we can come up with a better plan, we would replace Obamacare."
Moderator: "Do you have a plan?"
Trump: "I have concepts of a plan. I'm not president right now. If it's cheaper, I'll do it. We have options. You'll be hearing about it soon."
Trump on what to do to fight climate change: "They lost 10,000 manufacturing jobs this last month. They're building auto plants owned by China in Mexico and they think they can sell their cars in the U.S. because of these people. We'll put tarriffs on those cars so they don't enter the country because it will kill any auto worker. What they have done to business and manufacturing is horrible. Biden doesn't go after people because China paid him millions of dollars. Him and his son. Ukraine gave him money. All these countries give him money. Why is he so loyal to Ukraine? The wife of the mayor of Moscow gave him money!"
Yes, he asked why Biden is so loyal to Ukraine.
Jon Stewart's video just dropped on YouTube for where it's available geographically (where it's not just use a downloader it totally works)
This is too stupid for me .... I turned if off and will just watch the highlights tomorrow
And this is supposed to be a contest for leadership of the most powerful, most developed, most modern nation in the world?
The worst part of all this is that everyone on the planet will be affected by what Americans will decide on .... and that is an absolutely scary idea.
What the fuck is this I rebuilt the military shit he keeps spouting about I have no idea where that's coming from. Even by Trump's normal standards this is confusing for me.
just to be clear. trump currently does not know who is president of the US.
Trump when asked who should win in Ukraine: "I want the war to stop, I want to save lives. People being killed by the millions. It's so much worse than the numbers that you're getting, which are fake. We have to give them $250 billion because we don't ask Europe who are at a greater risk because Biden and YOU don't have the courage to ask Europe like I did with NATO and they paid up, which is why they don't like me as much as weak people. You look at what's happening. They pay lots less. They should be forced to equalized. I want to get the war settled. I know both Zelensky and Putin well and they respect me. They don't respect Biden. Why would you respect him? He hasn't called Putin in two years. This is a war that's dying to be settled. When I win, when I'm president-elect, I'll get them together. That war would have never happened. When I saw Putin after I left, because this country has gone to hell, when I saw him setting up soldiers, I thought he was going to negotiate but he wasn't because of Biden and millions are people are dead and it will be WWIII and where is Biden? We don't even know if he is a president. They threw him out of our campaign like a dog. Biden doesn't know he's alive."
Trump when asked again: "I think the war should finish. Negotiate a deal. People's lives are destroyed."
Harris finally tells him he's not running against Biden.
oh my god. he said his statements that he lost 2020 was sarcasm on his part. I mean. I mean. oh man. this guy.
Trump on the peaceful transfer of power and January 6th: "I told people to be peaceful and patriotic when they were rioting and no one was killed on their side, but Ashley Babbit was shot by an evil cop and the rioters were treated badly. What about the killers coming over the border? She was the border czar, but she doesn't want to be called that because she's embarrassed about it. When are they going to be prosecuted? They're coming from all over the world, not South America and crime is down all over the world. When are they going to be prosecuted? What about the people who burned down Minneapolis? What about the people who took over a large amount of Seattle!"
Moderator: "Do you regret what happened?"
Trump: "I just showed up to make a speech and I went to Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of D.C. and I said- it wasn't a riot by me- and I said I'd like to give you the national guard and they both rejected me and her daughter has a tape saying she was responsible for what happened. It was their fault because she was responsible for security."
If Trump is holding back on stopping the Russian/Ukraine war just as some sort of dangled treat, then we don't need him.
As a human being, if he has that control he should exercise it, no matter the outcome of the election.
And besides, he never answered whether he wanted Ukraine to win or not.
The main problem with the debate is that the audience that is listening has to actually also be SANE.
If you have nutjobs listening to all this ... they'll love Trump no matter how reasonable Harris may sound.
The trouble has been, is and will always be ... the general intelligence of the US population.
Trump looked angry & rattled. Harris looked like she belonged on that stage.
- commentary guy
Trump on immigration: "People don't leave my rallies. They don't go to her rallies. Also, WWIII is going to happen because immigrants, but the towns are too embarrassed to talk about it, but black people are eating dogs. People go to my rallies because they want to Make America Great Again which is a great phrase. She is destroying this country, it will be Venezuela on steroids."
lol. more votes than any republican president. oh wait more votes than any president. you know. except for the ones who have gotten majorities.
debunked by every newspaper. saun hannity. laura ingram. lol
Disregarding everything before, on closing statements alone, Kamala crushed him.
Rump's entire argument has been nothing but FUD.
"Please, I'll give you a minute here". Wait what. I thought they were moving on.
biden let them build pipelines in europe!!!
why cant they just tell him no?!
That was said SaRCasTiCllY
Trump on Israel/Gaza and how he would negotiate to get the hostages out and end the war: "If I were president, it wouldn't have happened. Russia- I know Putin very well- wouldn't have gone into Ukraine. All of the sudden, she hates Israel! She wouldn't meet with Netanyahu because she was at a sorority party. She hates Israel. If she is president, I will predict Israel will not exist in two years. I am good at predictions. She also hates Arabs because the whole place will blow up. It would have never happened. Iran was broke under Trump, now they have $3 billion because they took down my sanctions. Now they are paying terrorists. They are spheres of terror. They had no money. ABC covered it well. Now they are a rich nation and now they are spreading that money around. Look at what's happened with the 'hooties' and Yemen. Look at the middle east. If I'm president-elect, I will get it done before I become president."
We will improve private insurance
Am I hearing Trump promise to infringe on the rights of private businesses???
/s
Until this very moment, I honestly didn't believe he would show up.
"The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that the former president would essentially be immune from any misconduct if he were to enter the White House again. Understand this is someone who has openly said he would terminate, I'm quoting, terminate the Constitution of the United States".. Trump is on the ropes right now..
Concepts of a plan. Genius!
Trump on the election: "I don't acknowledge I lost in 2020. I said it sarcastically when I said I lost. There's so much proof. They should have sent it back to the legislature. I got the most votes. People should never think an election is a fraud. We need a wall and we need elections. They are trying to get illegal immigrants to vote. No judge said we had standing on the election fraud cases, that's a technicality. Can you believe that? I was the president! You do an ABC special on it. We have facts and statistics. But that's old news and we need to solve the problem right now because we have a nation in decline and it is dying."
I loved these moderators. Hard questions all around, fact-checking on outrageous claims, and they were aggressive enough with the mics.
oh now he took a bullet to the head. anyone else hear marsha marsha marsha with his russia russia russia?
oh biden and his son is getting all this money from ukraine and moscow and china
"She doesn't have a plan. Take a look at her plan. She doesn't have a plan."
Trump logic on full display tonight.
lol. their executing babies. self destruction is going well.
Moderator: "You said you would be good for women's reproductive rights. What did you mean by that?"
Trump: "Ramble... lie... ramble... lie... abortion should be illegal, ending Roe v. Wade was good... ramble... lie..."
Oh boy time for racism <rubbing hands with delight>. She put out????
oh man I can't wait to hear him complain about abc with these questions with the attack on the capital. HOW DARE THEY!!!
"Stand up for our principles and not sell them for the benefit of personal flattery' this is not the apprentice Trump
Happy hearing someone talk about Trump's role in the end of the Afghan war.
He looks like he's going boom boom in his pants.
And he very well could be.
those were your words. I dunno. I dunno.
Did Kamala leave? Because I’m just seeing ABC let Trump talk all he wants.
Key takeaways from a debate that featured tense clashes over abortion, race and the economy
Trump, while measured early on, grew more annoyed as the night went on.
I wish I could have watched it but I just couldn't listen to his stupidity for 90 minutes.
We are at war with Russia?
We won the election... let me get my buddy Mike Lindell on the horn!
The dude who just said he lost the election
"... and this... fucking dipshit"
I loved the VPs at the end there. Vance somehow dodged 2 questions about Trumps question dodging.
I love all this fear mongering! 😂 America IS great. Let’s keep it that way!
Trump on his immigration plan: "There are more migrants than they say because they allowed criminals and terrorists and drug dealers to come into the U.S. and are told by countries like Venezuela if they come back, they'll kill them. Crime in those countries are way down because they gave criminals to her and they did it because she'll get votes, but it isn't worth it. They've destroyed the fabric of our country. Millions of people let in and all over the world, crime is down except in America and we have a new form of crime, it's called "migrant crime" and it's at the highest level ever. The FBI lied about crime because they didn't include cities. It was a fraud like the number of jobs they said were created!"
hey I hear crime is way down in Venezuela. should america start doing like Venezuela?
I don't know why, but I just felt the urge to go have a look at r/conservatives. It's exactly what you imagine. Dear oh dear
Did he just forget that she said she doesn't know Putin and instead say she claims not to know Biden?
oh but hes a leader in ivf. oh wait not its probably after birth. are virginians insulted by this at all?
Of course Donald Trump attempted to avoid shaking the hand of Kamala Harris.
Jesus Christ, these people...
Trump on Afghanistan: "If you take a look at when I was president, the Taliban killed lots of our soldiers with snipers. I got involved with them because they're the fighting force. And Abdul is the head of the Taliban and I told Abdul not to do it anymore and he asked why I sent him a picture of his house and I told him to figure that out. Mike Pompeo negotiated the exit, but we wouldn't have done it the way Biden did it. They left beautiful new equipment behind. They didn't do what the agreement said. It was terminated because they didn't do. They did the worst withdrawal and in my opinion the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country and that's why Russia attacked Ukraine."
Trumps lies are going to push Kamala into prosecutor mode.
Please say Childcare is Childcare again.
So idk about everyone else, but did anyone else catch that they both had hot mics?
This wasn't a debate for her, or a law school case scenario, or an undergrad philosophy argument. This was a trap she set.
He managed to call him weak, a poor sport, a sore loser, an idiot, in a publicly appropriate manner, and each time she did, he got more and more unhinged.
Don't stop your opponent from making the wrong move.
what do you mean. these people!
obama sucks, but I saved it, and im gonna do better but go with this until that is because I have better but once we come up with something better.
Trump: "I don't care how she wants to identify"
Secret trans ally? /s (obviously he's just a piece of shit)
Trump on rallies is a little whiney bitch.
peacefully and patriotically and no one got killed but what about the people killed by border crossers. oh man this is a trip.
When Kamala looks like that, I'd be scared of her rebuttal.
now its gonna be ww3
if I were president the israeli thing would never have happened. hey all the don't vote for harris because the israel thing. trump says she will get rid of israel in two years if she is elected president.
Don't do it Abdul!
“We got a president that doesn’t know he’s alive”
her plan to defund police and her plan to confiscate guns.
has to go back 50 years because there is nothing now. um well there was the whole initial topic on your recent rants. soo ah. thats pretty recent.
Such a shame that kid missed.
oh man I so needed this commercial break. my side is killing me. I can't take this. Finally can get some breaths but then I think about what just happend and the giggling starts again.
Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert live shows start at 11:35, think I'll watch Kimmel now then Colbert later on YouTube... I really wanted to watch Jon's live but have to wait for YouTube for that
Of course Holocasut Harris decided to spread debunked israeli Genocide propaganda during the debate about Hamas raping women on October 7 despite the UN investigation finding no evidence for it.
Gotta make sure those brown people are fully dehumanized while complicit in their Genocide.
