U.S. Politics, October 2024 -- “They smear because they fear”

"we have so much we want to get to" for November thread title

Vance getting stepped on by two women is my new kink.

American politics: we have such sights to show you

Moderators didn’t want to miss out on getting bitched about by the GOP

I like Margret Brennans eye makeup

this is pretty boring. i’d say vance is winning but walz is keeping it close enough.

Don't listen to experts

Walz: "I'm a knucklehead at times."

I have no video coverage, but politico seem to be saying that vances ninja debate skills were slicing walz dicing walz. So I just came to thread and will get my news here instead seems legit.

Vance is doing a lot better than Walz. The problem is that the things he is saying better are wholly repugnant and awful.

Vance is over performing expectations but this is a draw

I just read this whenever my blood pressure ticks up a point tonight

https://abcnews.go.com/538/vp-debates-arent-important/story?id=114359816

vance is gonna get a bump from this, but idk how much it’ll help the top of the ticket

damn that vance abortion quote the moderator just read to his face was fucking medieval

I dont think him doing well in a debate will help his likability stats. Will tune in now though

He is widely loathed

This is pretty boring

I got home from bowling 30 minutes into it. What I've seen seems like a draw and inconsequential. And yes, boring.

Well no, it won’t help him be more likable because he is doing an excellent job of being wholly repellent and loathsome

its a weird debate. walz seems nervous but he's okay. i was hoping that walz would just go after trump and he has been. he's being too nice to vance though.

it feels like walz needed better writers. he's slamming trump and vance but they don't sound like slams and what he is saying isn't very memorable. kinda same old/same old.

only thing anyone will remember from this will be vance whining about fact-checking

OTM

Has he advised how to check of it’s my alternator or battery?

Waltz did well on this gun issue, way to go

Walz

Did Walz say he became friends with school shooters?

I heard that too!

Yeah, tongue slip

He wants to understand both sides

Good shots on both sides.

JD sure hates Kamala...

So let's build on federal lands?

"You're passionate about the housing crisis, I can tell."

strong answer by walz on healthcare

I wish they would ask Vance if he understands the powers of the Vice Presidency. Seems like he thinks he’ll be able to do anything.

"we have so much we want to get to" for November thread title

― go polish your nose ring (sleeve)

Not so good if Trump wins.

Walz is doing better after the break, probably pulled even.

“i say this as a personal matter because i’m married to a beautiful woman” - vance

Here’s the problem : Buttigieg played Vance in Walz’s prep. Tonight Vance is playing Pete Buttigieg in this debate . He is perfectly reasonable, collegial , even empathetic.

Walz is allowing this far-right loon to project calm normality. Walz hasn’t figured out how to bring out the ‘weird’ in Vance. Though I’m not sure how he would , anyways.

"January 6th was not Facebook ads"

yeah i agree. vance is lying like crazy but instead of calling him on it walz is focusing on the feel good stuff they “agree” on. i get why he’s doing it but its giving a stalemate at best

xp collardio

Love Walz take on democracy.

vance making it about “muh facebook censorship” was so pathetic

Vance cannot say Trump lost the 2020 election

JD is blaming Harris and illegal immigrants for everything---Harris let the illegal immigrants drive up housing prices, also lying about stuff Trump has done and proposed---brushing it off and denying it, I should say, since he's being polite, nicer than at rallies and in interviews---so yeah, he's set the bar very low, hopping over it real nice in his manner---also a lot of "non-answers," replies talking around the question---but in a smooth way, so it may get called a draw,as a more-or-less consensus/centrist take.

I think Walz got the winning soundbite

Trying to make "...because of Kamala Harris's policies" a thing.

pretty disappointing overall imo