Episode 325 has been uploaded: So Who Do The Republicans Get To Replace Trump?
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- SPECIAL COMMENT, PART 1: From the time she reached out to shake his hand and he didn’t seem to know how to do that, to his closing remarks where he basically threatened America with Russian nukes, the debate couldn’t have gone worse for Donald Trump.
- Oh — yeah — it could. Afterwards, Taylor Swift formally endorsed Kamala Harris.
- The Vice President’s control of the debate and the manipulation and baiting of Trump was so complete that very few fascists even feigned that he’d done well. The best they could do was insist that the moderators were “rigged” against him because David Muir and Linsey Davis did the best job of fact-checking against Trump yet. I mean ever. When Trump repeated his nonsense that babies could be murdered after birth, Ms. Davis simply stated there was no state in the country in which this was legal and then without a breath cut Trump off by evenly saying, “Vice President Harris, you have said …”
- Every checklist box Harris had to mark, she aced. She introduced herself, she gave specific policy plans for subsidizing child care and small business, explained how Trump would lie and why — and that was just in the first answer. It was so thorough that I was genuinely surprised that when they came back from the first commercial, Trump was still there.
Well, he was there physically … mentally, who knows where he was?
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- SPECIAL COMMENT, PART 2: The Swift endorsement was one big accomplishment for the Vice President. The appearance of a bead of sweat above Trump’s upper lip at an hour in — and its dogged determination to stay there — was the other. By then Trump was insisting that Harris would spend your taxpayer dollars to give free transgender care to undocumented immigrants who were eating your pet duck.
But sadly, the fly didn’t make an appearance.
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- SPECIAL COMMENT, PART 3: I answered your questions in the immediate aftermath of the debate. I mean, what kind of questions could there be after a debate about which the New York Times, the Associated Press and other paragons of bothsidesist nonsense had to acknowledge was a Harris romp? What do you ask? “Did she win by 100 points or 200?”
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Another sign he’s delusional.
- Actually in the world of boxing or UFC, Trump’s campaign would be in Intensive Care at this hour and the only demand would be to pull it off life support and end its suffering. And actually in the world of debates, it was TRUMP who had demanded additional debates with Joe Biden and then the Vice President so by his own rules Trump just proclaimed he LOST the CNN debate to the President.
- It took Trump surrogate and pretend professor Hugh Hewitt more than 19 hours to come up with this second day excuse: “Three opinions are settling… Trump was not at his best BUT was usually ok and at some points good, especially on the border and his closing statement.” 19 hours to think up some means of pulling his life-line meal-ticket out of the Burning Trumpster Dumpster and Hugh Hewitt comes up with “he was usually ok.”
To summarize the other opinions: “Second, VP Harris was at her best, and that wasn't very good. [...] And, finally, the thoroughly unprofessional, even offensive conduct of the debate by ABC and its moderators has been widely recognized.”
Which debate was Hugh Hewitt watching? And were Mitch Mitchell and John Johnson watching it with him?
- If you think that was bad, JD Vance then dismissed the Taylor Swift endorsement by encouraging voters to ignore billionaire celebrities who are out of touch with ordinary Americans.
Like … him and his running mate?
Actually, Vance gave some good advice. Probably just the stopped-clock phenomenon.
- And there was a cat eaten in Ohio. The woman — a native of the state (represented in the Senate by JD Vance) — the child of Ohio residents — was promptly arrested. She’s not Haitian, but the right wing is trying to make her so. It’s going as well as Trump’s debate night went.
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- THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Republican Virginia Senate hopeful Hung Cao decides to try a little play on words and has made medallions reading “I Want My Senator To Be Hung.”
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- THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Rachel Maddow just celebrated her 16th anniversary. She almost didn’t make it to her first. The day our corporate overlords threatened to fire her, fire me, and shut the damn network off!
