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Late to the party so this may be somewhere in the 544 other comments but Daniel Tiger is alllll about emotional regulation. He would hate it. "Stop, stop, stop! It's ok to feel angry! It's not, not, not ok to hurt someone!" #danstan

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Kamala versus Brett Kavanaugh at his Senate hearing…Justicebro makes such funny faces…

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She won’t debate …”silent crush “ of this marx , The carbon copy will not debate anything , anyone ! Just stay silent , keep your Kamala Krush .

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Brilliant!

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But isn't PAB a master debater?

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Ta, Gary. I have friends who have chickens for pets. Chickens have far more integrity -- and brainpower -- than Dictator Tot. If he shows up, MVP will kick his sorry, soggy ass.

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If her mic's live, she can fact check him in real time. Call out every lie as it occurs.

Maybe the teams can both get what they want. His mic goes off, hers stays on. That seems fair.

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He'll call her a b*tch or the c word before the n word I think...because he hates women actually more than he hates people of color.

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Sometimes I have to pause and remind myself that I used to live in a time where people would be surprised that a President of the United States of America called people names like a child would.

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Remember when R's had the vapors over "what a bad example for the children Clinton is!"?

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Or a felony conviction, let alone *thirty-four*, wouldn’t have been automatically disqualifying.

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Arrr harr harr

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.bsky.social/post/3l2ng4drufr2i ---

The 2024 version of Trump is capable of delivering 2 speeches:

1) His incoherent rally rant

2) Low energy prompter reading

but here's the big problem for him: *Both of these speeches are boring and stale af*

The man simply doesn't have juice anymore & he's too lazy to try to change

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I’m going to double down on a prediction I made in 2016…Assmouth will drop out of the race at the last minute, when it becomes clear to even his syphilitic squirrel brain that he is going to lose bigly.

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice…I guess I shouldn’t live in a fantasy land…

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But not until he blackmails the entire Republican establishment and starts babbling their deepest, darkest secrets out loud!

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Not so much a "Gish Gallop" as a trump spew.

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The solution is obvious. trump should show up at the debate, make an utter fool of himself, then announce that he won afterwards. Loudly.

Perhaps he could even put up a "Mission Accomplished" banner. There should be an old one lying around somewhere.

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I think there's a small but non-zero chance he could be goaded into losing his emotional regulation and laying hands on her in the debate. In the world in which such a thing could happen, the thing I think destroys him would be for her respond with laughter. His ego doesn't seem like it could handle someone laughing at his (documented) interpersonal violence.

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I can’t imagine Assmouth doing anything as physical as trying to lay even one hand on her. For one thing, she would embed her toe right in his teeny tiny ballsack.

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Do you think that would play well, though? Or would it just muddy the issue of "presidential candidate violence"? My cynicism is such that I feel like the press would take that opportunity to "both sides behaved unbecomingly" that whole scenario, whereas just straightening back up, shaking it off, and laughing would be hard for the compliant press to explain away.

And one of DJT's many unpleasant traits is a domestic abuser (Ivana's memoir and contemporaneous witnesses of Jr's in college both confirmed explosive moments of violence). So, to me it doesn't seem all that unimaginable?

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I agree. Once, the police got the wrong idea there was stealing going on at my house. I saw a group of them crossing the front lawn and went outside to see what was going on. No one immediately shot me, an older white woman. But I saw a cameraman behind the group of police.

I wanted to deescalate the situation and prevent my face from showing up on the evening news. So when the cops asked me if there was something going on because my car had been moved, I laughed. I bent over with laughter. It *was* funny--I'd moved the car myself for a lawn guy--but I was doing it deliberately. Then I apologized and explained respectfully, and they apologized and trickled away (the cameraman looked disgusted). It was nervewracking, though. You never know when a police officer is going to lose control.

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She doesn't have to wait for hands being laid on. There will be many things he says and does that she can laugh at. Eye-rolling is also appropriate.

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As is pointing. Pointing and laughing is very appropriate.

Being a NYer, I would follow that up with, 'Can you believe the balls on this fucking guy?' That, however, is not appropriate. At least not in this setting.

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Oh totally, though I do worry that the ingrained misogyny of the press would read eye-rolling in the worst possible "unpresidential" fashion. But laughing at him I definitely want to see! In my experience it's the most unsettling response for that sort of personality, and that sort of person deserves to be unsettled.

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Not sure about the laying on of hands but PAB lost his emotional regulation decades ago.

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It's not really something that breaks just once... I don't disagree with you on the macro level, but it's the way that he seems to be getting worse at impulse control these days that make me think his private tendency towards domestic violence could get triggered in a public setting where he's under sufficient stress.

I was surprised, to be honest, that there wasn't a domestic violence incident with Melania in the White House during his term, but then again if there had been how would we have even known? It was normal for her to go for months without being publicly seen.

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I am honestly surprised that the Harris camp doesn't want muted mics. To me it would rob Trump of one of his greatest talents in a debate: Talking over people.

OTOH, the Harris people seem to know what they're doing so far, so they get the benefit of the doubt from me on this one.

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A muted mic didn't stop Trump from yelling and interrupting Biden's speech. Without the mic, people watching tv didn't realize that was going on.

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Muted mics offer the possibility of an accidental hot mic.

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Harris is a master litigator. This means exploiting every crack in an adversary's armor, whether it be the too-long pause by a witness confronted with the falsity of his entire premise (See: Kavanaugh) or blathering inanity of a professionally racist liar; this she gutted with a crisp but never impolite assertion of primacy where needed (See: J. Beauregard Sessions).

I'm saying she's got this.

My bet? The Harris/Walz campaign is just keeping the muted mic "dispute" going so they can pretend to trade it later for something much more salient.

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The longer his mic is open in a debate with an intelligent, strong Black woman, the higher the chances he'll blurt out the "n" word.

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The other thought that I saw someone express on this was the idea that it makes it harder for Trump to gish-gallop her if her mic is hot and she's allowed to fact check him in real time. Whether you agree with that premise or not, it's certainly true to point out that God knows the network won't do it.

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I think they may know more about his cognitive decline than we do - eight years ago, he might well have been able to use that talent, but honestly anymore, the longer he talks the more incoherent and obviously racist he gets. His team has actually appeared to have been doing their best to keep him from talking too much in recent days.

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Team? At this point I think they are caregivers. Or zoo attendants.

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“Herders”

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Now I'm imagining Harris turning on Trump like Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction and saying, "I don't remember asking you a goddamned thing!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cougeyF-JNw

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The definitive political re-usage of Pulp Fiction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxm6T8BYml4

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I love that one, it was a small bright spot in an otherwise bleak and goddamn depressing shit show.

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The cheering across this nation after she delivered that line would be deafening.

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"Trump was not upset about having to turn off “Daniel Tiger,” because he’s a big boy who can watch TV whenever he wants, Mom."

I trust that was sarcastic to the max. The Fulvous Flatulence has considerably more than just have "the giant wail of a toddler[;]" the man (and I use that word in the absolutely loosest possible definition) has the attitude of a fifth grade schoolyard bully, doesn't seem to be able to read above the third grade level, has the self-control of an eight year old, is clueless as to how an adult acts in public, he is as petulant as any child I know, and has only a passing acquaintance with the truth (if he recognizes it at all) like many young children do until they grow more mature (something the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus still has yet to do)....

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"Harris’s people want the candidates’ microphones to be on for the entire debate, while Trump’s team wants the mics muted for one candidate when it is the other’s turn to speak"

The Harris campaign team, imo, wants the mics left on is so the entire "debate" viewership will see the Mango Malignancy has zero policy to counter what VP Harris offers, and that his entire debate skills consist of ad hominem arguments, bloviating, outright lies, and shouting down his opponent. The Cadmium Orange Cancer's people want the mics cut for the same reasons.

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"Trump adviser Jason Miller countered that if Harris “isn’t smart enough to repeat the messaging points her handlers want her to memorize, that’s their problem.”"

Just piling on the projections that emit from the Goldenrod Grotesqueness' "advisers" and babysitters. I think that most people already recognize the minor detail that the Sandstone Snowflake is not only not smart enough to keep to *their* preferred narrative, he isn't even smart enough to complete a single sentence without interjecting at least five non sequiturs. Nor, for that matter, can he self-regulate what comes vomiting out of his dog-butt of a mouth.

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"trying to change the terms of the deal at the last minute and threatening to take his ball and go home if he doesn’t get his way"

Props where props are due; I can think of no one as proficient at Calvinball than the MAGA oberster Fuhrer.

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"face off against a Black woman and former prosecutor whose track record of sharp and unnerving questioning of public officials is long established probably has him pooping in his adult girdle"

Strike one: VP Harris is a POC. Strike two: she is a woman (are her supporters aware of this since it is a known fact that women are incapable of serving at the highest levels in politic, they always let their emotions cloud their judgement). Strike three: she's quick on her feet and she will immediately call out his obvious fabrications, mis- and disinformation. She scares the crap out of him, it's a good thing that he wears Depends under his girdle.

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Harris should propose that he keep his mic on the whole time while she moots hers when not speaking. How could he object to that?

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