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Presidential Debate season, let's stand strong together! (Trump thread #105)

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Roussette · 30/09/2020 10:01

Here we are!

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JamieLeeCurtains · 08/10/2020 00:13

Apparently Trump has shares in Regeneron.

He's like a shoddy salesman. But that's all he ever was, really.

I hope Kamala Harris asks Pence about it.

HoldMyLobster · 08/10/2020 00:14

@Flavabobble

That wasn’t foundation, that was Cuprinol Less-mess fence care in autumn gold.
Grin
HoldMyLobster · 08/10/2020 00:15

After all her efforts to not say whether or not she’s voting for Trump, the Maine Democratic Party posted these everywhere to clarify things.

Presidential Debate season, let's stand strong together! (Trump thread #105)
AcrossthePond55 · 08/10/2020 00:18

@HoldMyLobster

After all her efforts to not say whether or not she’s voting for Trump, the Maine Democratic Party posted these everywhere to clarify things.
Bwah ha ha ha ha!

That's some Maine plain speakin'. Wicked good!

HoldMyLobster · 08/10/2020 00:34

Watch this quick before it’s taken down. Downfall has peaked.

Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:25

Well..... I was not going to watch this but somehow my body clock woke me at 0159hrs... so here I am, tuning in

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OVienna · 08/10/2020 02:27

I'm here too. I am not sure I can stick it. The moderator is making me a little nervous.

Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:28

A very very different kettle of fish to the last Debate. My take so far... Mike Pence is boring, ineffectual and no match to Kamala Harris but early on in the debate so let's see....

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Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:29

OVienna it's very different to when Wallace was moderating that's for sure!

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OVienna · 08/10/2020 02:32

He's lying outright now.

OVienna · 08/10/2020 02:34

Yeah but different characters. Pence is house broken if a smarmy liar. He will be coming across as Churchill to Trump's followers. The bar is very low.

Flavabobble · 08/10/2020 02:35

He's answering different questions to those answered.
It's a bit duller than last week's. Don't think there'll be any "will you just shut up man" tonight

Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:38

He is such a yes man to Trump that it's hard to get the sense of the man.
Whereas Harris is a breath of fresh air and unknown quantity

Being a bit shallow here, I do prefer them stood at lecterns

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Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:39

How Pence can back up Trump's environmental policies, I do not know.

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JamieLeeCurtains · 08/10/2020 02:40

Moderator is rubbish.

Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:42

Agree.
She seems to be asking them both different questions which makes it very disjointed because they are not debating each other on single points

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OVienna · 08/10/2020 02:42

The thing is what he said about the environment is what many people WANT to hear.

OVienna · 08/10/2020 02:43

My TV just died...am I under attack by orange aliens???

Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:47

The moderator needs to get a grip, this is all over the place. We jump from fracking to china to farmers to manufacturing in one minute

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Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:50

Ooooh Kamala Harris is on the ball... this posted 2 minutes ago.. She is live fact checking, or someone from her staff is
Good move

Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris
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@JoeBiden
will not ban fracking. That is a fact

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Roussette · 08/10/2020 02:54

Kamala Harris says President Trump has a "weird obsession" with undoing any success that President Obama had or put in place.

That's on the money!

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AcrossthePond55 · 08/10/2020 03:02

Kamala is trying to keep to the debate rules, as a candidate should (as a rule). Pence is trying to play 'mini-Scrotus'. He's not actually interrupting, but he's refusing to shut up, redirecting the subject to Kamala's last response (rather than moving on) and talking over the moderator. And the moderator is absolute shit.

Roussette · 08/10/2020 03:04

I can't believe this.

Moderator is useless. Pence has just been asked a question about Roe v Wade
He goes back to the previous question and ignores it totally

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AcrossthePond55 · 08/10/2020 03:05

Someone needs to be standing behind Pence with an electric cattle prod and sticking him when he doesn't 'moooove on' as directed. Just like they'd prod any recalcitrant steer.

Roussette · 08/10/2020 03:07

The moderator saying 'thank you' repeatedly to Pence when he runs over his time yet again is not working. He just carries on.

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