“We are going to have the best economy, she is Joe Biden and we had the highest inflation we’ve ever seen” - Trump

“Let’s compare your economic plan with mine, we’re giving tax breaks to small business.”

Also, going back to the previous point that Trump lied about several times, Harris nailing the rebuff of Trump’s lies that usually just go unchecked on painting Harris as a person that wants to steal guns. Very good.

Also also, Trump’s entire closing statement stated one positive thing he did (we rebuilt our military) and the rest of the time was saying why Harris was bad. Harris positioned herself well here.

He keeps talking about “he needs to get in here and sign a bill, he signs a bill the border will be closed”. (After going completely non-sequitir about January 6th).

Holy shit. He dead ass thinks he’s still debating Biden. Haaaaaaaaaaa

Night everyone. :)

Thanks for hosting, @jordanlund!

I’ll have to see if it’s streaming since it’s morning where I am. Not sure I want to see the impeached convicted criminal that much, however; might wait for the highlights reel. Edit: spelling.

Yes, yes, yes. Calling him out for his weakness, hiw he is easily manipulated.

I know it’s vaguely sexist, but I do think it would be helpful if Harris stopped doing that dismissive laugh so often. I don’t think she has a weird laugh, it just seems a little canned: “hahaha talk about extreme!” I imagine it’s hard when Trump says such laughable things.

This wins the night…

OMG Trump is off the rails and i absolutely love it!

Moderator: "Just to be clear, you have a plan? "

Trump: “I have concepts of a plan?”

In the post debate interview, Tim Walz just referenced Trump as an old man yelling at clouds. I love it.

“I have the concepts of a plan. I’m not president right now!”

Holy shit, dude. You biffed that one hard.

“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.”

— Former President Donald J. Trump

“i’m a gun owner, we’re not taking guns away.” strongest opinion from a democrat i’ve heard on this topic.

So here are my thoughts:

• First, the obvious: Harris won handily. She was in her element, and just thoroughly excoriated Trump at every turn, while maintaining an optimistic tone.
• But at the same time, Trump is probably not losing any of his base over his abysmal performance. Most of them probably didn’t watch, and the few that did probably tuned out in favor of reading conservative bloggers’ desperate spinning about halfway through.
• The real question is how off-putting he’s been for undecideds. He was pretty bad, but I’m aware enough of my own biases to wonder exactly how bad his behavior looks to undecideds.
• On the issues, Harris didn’t really have a stumble. I was pleasantly surprised by how well she handled the issue of Israel/Palestine, for example.
• The moderators get a B for following up questions, a C- for mic handling, and an A- for calling it out when Trump’s bizarre, rambling bullshit failed to even vaguely resemble an answer.

All in all, I didn’t hate this (other than the sound of Trump’s face hole).

“Donald trump was fired by 81 million people”

Throwing his catch phrase against him!

From where I was sitting, it seemed like Harris beat the ever-loving-shit out him. He took every piece of bait she laid out. I’m not the target though, so I hope undecideds saw what I saw.