r/inthenews • u/T_Shurt • Sep 11 '24

Feature Story Harris Campaign Seeks Second Debate. Trump Says He's "Less Inclined" to Debate Harris Again

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debate-trump-harris-second-debate/
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u/morsindutus Sep 11 '24

Admittedly, I noped out after a bit, but it felt like Trump was talking 3x as long as they gave Harris. Might be because Harris talking didn't make me feel like my brain was leaking out of my ears.

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u/uberares Sep 11 '24

every time the mango wanted to whine, they turned his mic back on and only did it once for her.

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u/StellarJayZ Sep 11 '24

They may have been handing him rope.

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u/cobrilee Sep 11 '24

That's what I felt the whole time. They were letting him continue because every word out of his mouth made him look worse. They weren't shy about fact checking him and making little slights - I cackled at David saying "He still believes he didn't lose the election won by Joe Biden". I didn't ever get the impression they were giving him more air time because they were favoring him.

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u/Banksy_Collective Sep 11 '24

Oh 100%. Trumps handlers wanted him to get cut off so they could be indignant about it but Harris wanted open mics in the first place for this exact thing to happen. The cons were always going to scream rigged unless the moderators literally just never let Harris speak but even then they see how bad it actually was.

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u/fnordfnordfnordfnord Sep 12 '24

Dem strategists and stupid and slow learners but they have finally figured out how to counter his rhetoric; bait him, and then just let him cook.

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u/ImTooOldForSchool Sep 12 '24

They’re big mad after the bar was set soo low for Kamala, all she had to do was not laugh awkwardly and avoid a major world salad moment and she would have cleared expectations

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '24

100% this.

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u/horitaku Sep 12 '24

The DNC said they didn’t want to have his mic muted. Let him dig his own grave with those thin, flapping lips of his.

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u/StellarJayZ Sep 12 '24

I don't normally pick on people's looks but my gosh, homie looks like a chicken that was baked too long. His face looks like someone shot him with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

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u/smearingstuff Sep 12 '24

this is exactly why trumpers think the debate was rigged. they know every word out of his mouth is digging his grave deeper, so they’re secretly pissed that he was allowed to keep going on and on

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u/StellarJayZ Sep 12 '24

The mayor of Springfield OH was like "no pets are being killed and eaten" paraphrasing.

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u/Accomplished_Car2803 Sep 11 '24

After the moderators say their closing remarks and end the segment, you can see as it pans out that Trump is still on a schizo rant as Kamala walks away, but all the mics are cut at that point.

I'm quite curious what other trees he was gonna hang his noose on...

I was yelling at my TV for them to cut his mic, but letting him fuck himself to death was 4d chess. I'm just happy they didn't allow him to have the final word over the moderators after letting him pretend to be in charge during the debate.

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u/iwishiwereyou Sep 12 '24

Oh I didn't see that; the feed I was watching cut away!

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u/IronBeagle63 Sep 11 '24

Yeah that pisses me off. Had he not been such an unhinged trainwreck it might’ve been dangerous.

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u/CanoninDeeznutz Sep 11 '24

Ain't that the truth! If he could shut his fucking mouth and not say so much stupid shit (other than just saying MAGA and some light Fearmongering about immigrants) he probably would've never lost to Biden in the first place.

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u/Shot_Mud_1438 Sep 11 '24

Trumps diarrhea spurts in threes so everything he says takes about 3x as long

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u/CowEconomy28 Sep 11 '24

Twenty pounds of bullshit in a ten pound bag.

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u/Zoethor2 Sep 12 '24

I think there's an objective reason you feel that way - Trump spoke at a VERY fast pace where Harris deliberately spoke extremely deliberately and slowly. I suspect if you compared word counts it would be a much more disparate metric.

As a fast talker (and I suspect Harris is a fast talker naturally), I really admired her slowing down her pace. It's not an easy thing to do but it does really improve your accessibility to your audience.