In their first face-to-face meeting, the Democratic nominee humiliated the
former president.

By Peter Wehner

Last night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris did to Donald Trump what Donald Trump
had done to Joe Biden: She broke her opponent on a debate stage.

I’ve been watching presidential debates since 1976, and I’ve even been
peripherally involved in a few. And I’ve never seen a candidate execute a debate
strategy as well as Harris did.

The night, for Harris supporters, went better than even the most optimistic
among them could have hoped. For Trump supporters, it was not just a defeat but
a public humiliation, the crushing comeuppance they probably secretly feared
might one day arrive but, until now, never quite had.

What Harris appeared to understand, better than anyone else who has debated
Trump, is that the key to defeating him is to trigger him psychologically. She
did it by repeatedly calling him “weak,” mocking him, acting bemused by him, and
literally laughing at him. As he lost control of events, Trump became enraged,
his voice bellowing into an empty room, his face not just orange but nearly
fluorescent. Trump realized that his opponent—and not just any opponent, but a
woman of color—was dominating him. And so even as Trump exploded, he was, like a
dying supernova, shrinking before our eyes.

Even so devoted a bootlicker as Senator Lindsey Graham declared the debate a
“disaster” for the ex-president.

Trump needed to paint himself as the agent of change, to fuse Harris to Biden,
and to make the vice president defend her most extreme past statements. Instead,
Harris forced Trump to go on the defensive, wandering into the worst possible
terrain for him.

Over the course of debate, Trump defended the violent mob that had attacked the
Capitol. He insisted that the 2020 election had been stolen from him. He
relitigated his slander of the Central Park Five. He defended his decision to
invite the Taliban to Camp David and invoked Hungary’s authoritarian leader,
Viktor Orbán, as a character witness. He couldn’t bring himself to say that he
hopes Ukraine will win its war against Russia, even when pressed. And he spent
valuable time emphatically insisting that the multiple indictments against him
are “fake cases.”

But that’s not all. Trump savaged people he had appointed to his administration
who have since broken with him. He repeated his claim that Harris wasn’t Black.
And then there was the pièce de résistance: Trump spreading the conspiracy
theory, weird even by his standards, that in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian migrants
are abducting and devouring their neighbors’ pets. “They’re eating the dogs!” he
roared. “The people that came in—they’re eating the cats!” And he still couldn’t
stop himself. When one of the moderators, ABC’s David Muir, rebutted Trump’s
claim, the former president said, “I’ve seen people on television! People on
television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food!’”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/kamala-harris-broke-donald-trump/679780/

I don't think it's too strong to say that Harris *raped* Trump last night.

On 9/11/2024 4:41 PM, Byker wrote:
> In their first face-to-face meeting, the Democratic nominee humiliated the
> former president.
>
> By Peter Wehner
>
> [...]
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/kamala-harris-broke-donald-trump/679780/

More:

Donald Trump is so feral and narcissistic, so unrestrained and so outside the
norm of American politics, that he’s difficult to debate. It’s disorienting.
Very few people have been able to stand up to him without being pulled into
the muck. In the past, even when he lost debates on points, he dominated his
opponents.

But on a Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris cracked the code. She
took Trump apart without losing her composure. She worked to insulate herself
against charges that she’s a left-wing radical, even reminding voters that
she’s a gun owner. Harris succeeded in presenting herself, a sitting vice
president in an unpopular administration, as the change agent. She appealed
to unity, inviting Americans to “turn the page” on a man who belittles the
country and seeks to keep it in a constant state of agitation and chaos. And
she returned time and again to the argument that Trump cares only for
himself, whereas during her career, she’s had only one client: the people.

“As a prosecutor, I never asked a victim or a witness, ‘Are you a Republican
or a Democrat?’” Harris said in her closing statement. “The only thing I ever
asked them: ‘Are you okay?’ And that’s the kind of president we need right
now. Someone who cares about you and is not putting themselves first.”

Two minutes later, after a closing statement in which Trump referred to
America as “a failing nation,” he exited the stage, into the shadows, a
broken man atop a broken campaign.

Beautiful!

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:41:01 -0700, Byker <byKKKer@do~rag.net> wrote:

>In their first face-to-face meeting, the Democratic nominee humiliated the
>former president.
>
>By Peter Wehner
>
>Last night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris did to Donald Trump what Donald Trump
>had done to Joe Biden: She broke her opponent on a debate stage.
>
>I’ve been watching presidential debates since 1976, and I’ve even been
>peripherally involved in a few. And I’ve never seen a candidate execute a debate
>strategy as well as Harris did.
>
>The night, for Harris supporters, went better than even the most optimistic
>among them could have hoped. For Trump supporters, it was not just a defeat but
>a public humiliation, the crushing comeuppance they probably secretly feared
>might one day arrive but, until now, never quite had.
>
>What Harris appeared to understand, better than anyone else who has debated
>Trump, is that the key to defeating him is to trigger him psychologically. She
>did it by repeatedly calling him “weak,” mocking him, acting bemused by him, and
>literally laughing at him. As he lost control of events, Trump became enraged,
>his voice bellowing into an empty room, his face not just orange but nearly
>fluorescent. Trump realized that his opponent—and not just any opponent, but a
>woman of color—was dominating him. And so even as Trump exploded, he was, like a
>dying supernova, shrinking before our eyes.
>
>Even so devoted a bootlicker as Senator Lindsey Graham declared the debate a
>“disaster” for the ex-president.
>
>Trump needed to paint himself as the agent of change, to fuse Harris to Biden,
>and to make the vice president defend her most extreme past statements. Instead,
>Harris forced Trump to go on the defensive, wandering into the worst possible
>terrain for him.
>
>Over the course of debate, Trump defended the violent mob that had attacked the
>Capitol. He insisted that the 2020 election had been stolen from him. He
>relitigated his slander of the Central Park Five. He defended his decision to
>invite the Taliban to Camp David and invoked Hungary’s authoritarian leader,
>Viktor Orbán, as a character witness. He couldn’t bring himself to say that he
>hopes Ukraine will win its war against Russia, even when pressed. And he spent
>valuable time emphatically insisting that the multiple indictments against him
>are “fake cases.”
>
>But that’s not all. Trump savaged people he had appointed to his administration
>who have since broken with him. He repeated his claim that Harris wasn’t Black.
>And then there was the pièce de résistance: Trump spreading the conspiracy
>theory, weird even by his standards, that in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian migrants
>are abducting and devouring their neighbors’ pets. “They’re eating the dogs!” he
>roared. “The people that came in—they’re eating the cats!” And he still couldn’t
>stop himself. When one of the moderators, ABC’s David Muir, rebutted Trump’s
>claim, the former president said, “I’ve seen people on television! People on
>television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food!’”
>
>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/kamala-harris-broke-donald-trump/679780/
>
>I don't think it's too strong to say that Harris *raped* Trump last night.

Didn't even bother with lube.

--
If Harris is guilty of word salad, Trump is serving word sewer.

#nevertrump

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:44:27 -0700, Byker <byKKKer@do~rag.net> wrote:

>Beautiful!

Thanks for the extra. The Atlantic wouldn't let me read it all even after
signing in as a guest.

--
If Harris is guilty of word salad, Trump is serving word sewer.

#nevertrump

On 9/11/2024 4:41 PM, Byker wrote:
> In their first face-to-face meeting, the Democratic nominee hum >
med everybody in the studio

> I don't think it's too strong to say that Harris *raped* Trump last night.

There you go with your fantasies again. You left nuts are always
claiming Trump either raped or got raped.

On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:55:27 -0700, alan downs <alandowns@facebook.com> wrote:

>On 9/11/2024 4:41 PM, Byker wrote:
>> In their first face-to-face meeting, the Democratic nominee hum >
>med everybody in the studio
>
>> I don't think it's too strong to say that Harris *raped* Trump last night.
>
>There you go with your fantasies again. You left nuts are always
>claiming Trump either raped or got raped.

In this case, he got raped and the orange face took on a particularly pink hue
every time she shoved it in deeper.

--
If Harris is guilty of word salad, Trump is serving word sewer.

#nevertrump