Thanks! I did a quick Google but didn’t see it.
Trump complimenting his opponent for being tough is just like a sports team complimenting their opponent for being tough. It’s a win-win; if you beat them, you look better. If you’re beaten by them, you have an excuse. And you look magnanimous in the process when really you’re just repeating a cliche. My guess is that this is something he was once coached on, and I have to admit, it’s a good strategy, which is why it’s such a cliche; people use it a lot because it’s so good.
I’m pretty sure Trump thinks “magnanimous” is that guy in the comic books who can control metal and wears a purple helmet.
Came across this on Facebook today:
‘She was like a childless cat woman with a laser pointer, and he chased the dot the whole night.’
One other point about the debate I forget if I mentioned. If you look closely the camera angle is slightly unconventional. The main cameras filming the candidates were sitting slightly above eye level. This is unusual. But what made a difference is that Harris spotted this, but Trump didn’t seem to.
Watch how they react. Trump is busy glaring at and responding to the moderators, who were seated below eyeline. But Harris tilts her head upward much of the time, when she’s not directly addressing the front on camera.
This had the effect of contributing to the perception of Harris being upbeat and open while Trump is glaring and glowering, especially early before Harris had time to spin him up.
An astute observation. I did notice the lowered-face glowering that seemed to be the default aspect he displayed.
The beauty of this rant is that it sounds exactly like the stuff he was saying during the debate, in some cases word for word – you know, the stuff that comedians have been replaying endlessly ever since Tuesday night. He just needed to add something about the “YUGE” size of his rallies and immigrants eating cats and dogs for the rant to be complete. It’s just frustrating that Trump is too stupid to realize he’s become his own self-parody. Anyone else would slink off into the night in shame, but Trump is protected by his lack of mental capacity.
Unfortunately, too much of the US somehow finds this admirable…or something. They’ll pinch their noses and vote for him despite the stench because he isn’t Black/Indian/Woman. They are deplorable.
Funny enough, that’s exactly the opposite of how things went last time - Trump was looking at the camera and Biden was looking at the moderator.
Outside of a Kubrick film, yes.
I don’t think so. Republicans are doubting down on it.
I swear to God, if Trump obviously shat himself on stage, the next day Republicans across the nation would all be filling their pants and claiming this was completely normal.
Yes, they probably would. They kind of already did. During Trump’s trial, people were saying he was wearing diapers. Then his supporters started wearing “Real Men Wear Diapers” t-shirts and diapers at his rallies:
Remind me - do normal people spend days shouting and making threats and complaining about how an event was rigged against them and their opponent cheated and had an unfair advantage in an event that everyone says they won?
It’s remarkable how easy it is to rig something against Trump. You would think he would have figured out some way to defend against this by now other than by whining about it after it happens to him… again.
Indeed. I have no idea why his supporters go for such a weak loser who gets sucked in over and over again. I thought they liked strong leaders, not whining crying titty-babies.
Well, since his followers are all whiny, crying titty-babies, LIKE=LIKE.
I started telling Trumpers that whine about the stolen election that I wish it HAD been stolen, because it would’ve been totally badass of Joe Biden, and Trump getting kicked out of the White House and deposed to his tacky golf motel after actually winning would be way more pathetic than him righteously losing.
It’s too bad his people couldn’t figure out ahead of time what questions he was likely to be asked. That way when Kamala was leaked the questions, he’d have been ready. Instead, he was caught by surprise!
Man, this phrase caught me completely off guard and now I can’t stop giggling.