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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Theoretically, debates are supposed to be off-the-cuff. But like I said to someone else, even if beneath the podium, Frank Oz was controlling her because she's really a Muppet... that didn't force him to say anything about immigrants eating dogs and he knows because he saw it on TV.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly this. Kamala Harris didn't necessarily WIN, so much as Donald Trump wadded the whole debate up and threw it in the fireplace. She made some arguably-innocuous jabs and Trump got INCREDIBLY bent out of shape about it, and looked incredibly unprofessional and non-presidential yelling about how immigrants were eating dogs and Democrats were executing babies in the ER.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

wadded the whole debate up and ~~threw it in the fireplace~~ tried to flush it down the toilet