"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."
~ Peter Wehner
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak weakness #ShrinkingMan #loser
/1
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/kamala-harris-broke-donald-trump/679780/
"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."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #weakness #ShrinkingMan #loser
/2
"We’ve been waiting a long time for that, haven’t we—the validation, the satisfaction, the sheer joy of watching a man who so richly deserves it to be humiliated, eviscerated, and dominated."
~ Mary L. Trump
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #weakness #ShrinkingMan #loser
/3
https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/dominance-and-catharsis
"Not only did Vice President Kamala Harris expose my uncle’s weakness on the debate stage last night, which left him seething with rage and reduced to sputtering incoherence, she also gave millions of us something we have needed for almost a decade — catharsis."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #weakness #ShrinkingMan #loser
/4
"Harris turned to the camera and explained to the audience just how entirely thin-skinned and needing of praise Trump was, and how this left him particularly vulnerable to being flattered into making horrendous national and international decisions. In doing so, she indelibly etched an image into viewers’ minds of Trump as an insecure and immature man-child who always needs to be told just how great he is."
~ Sasha Abramsky
"Trump is like 'one of those big balloons when you stick a pin in and it swirls around the room until it comes down to nothing,' Nancy Pelosi told Anderson Cooper last night. She said 'he's just greatly diminished.'"
~ Brian Stelter
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #ManChild #weak #ShrinkingMan #loser
/6
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1726144893687238c6722bc0a/raw
"She beat him with the facts, and she beat him to the punch. She watched, her eyes sparkling, as the tired, angry old racist trotted out his predictable rancid tropes, and exposed himself for what he is, while also managing to bury himself even further into his dark, empty corner."
~ D. Earl Stephens
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #ManChild #weak #ShrinkingMan #loser
/7
"It was, in many ways, a delight to watch Harris win the debate so decisively. ('I have a concept of a plan,' Trump ended up whining, limply.) Unfortunately, however, Harris is likely to be punished by many people for her display of competence. Already she has been called 'insufferable,' her voice likened to 'fingernails running uninterrupted down a blackboard.' Her faces were 'off-putting.'”
~ Kate Manne
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #loser #misogyny
/8
https://katemanne.substack.com/p/harris-wiped-the-floor-with-trump
"Be on the lookout for gender bias in the wake of the debate, and in general. Call people out on their shit. Do not let it fester and proliferate and become a thing on social media. If Harris is labelled too shrill, too mean, too condescending, or too abrasive, name it for what it is: misogyny of the kind that loses crucial elections."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #misogyny #ShrinkingMan #loser
/9
"It wasn’t the moderators or the network, or even Harris, who forced Trump to begin ranting that 'they’re eating the dogs!' That was all Trump. Ever the showman, he may understand just how awful last night’s show was for him—which is why he’s pointing the finger at everyone else."
~ Tom Nichols
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #narcissism #loser
/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/09/trump-blames-everybody-but-himself/679797/
"A presidential debate isn’t just an argument. It’s a job interview. If you win the argument but come off as a jerk, you might lose the election.
When your opponent tells people that you care only about yourself, no amount of talking about yourself can answer that charge."
~ Will Saletan
"The media has a duty to no longer play coy about the imminent threat our globe faces. We, as journalists, must acknowledge our enemies, and the weapons they are using that cause us to tear ourselves apart, allow cries of civil war, and the ongoing mind warping dragging people into alternate realities.
The only stage that man should have is a public sidewalk, wearing handcuffs, going into a courthouse."
~ Heidi Cuda
"After Kamala Harris’s shellacking of Donald Trump at the debate, Trump ventured on to Fox News, where he attacked the moderators as deeply biased against him. Incredibly, he even said their network, ABC News, should have its broadcasting license revoked. This is really a show of weakness: What enraged him is that real scrutiny was applied to the lies he can air unchallenged on right-wing media."
~ Greg Sargent
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #ShrinkingMan #ManChild
/13
@wdlindsy "(I confess, I did not want her to shake his hand—not because I thought it was a tactical mistake, but because I didn’t want her to have to touch him.)"
I forgive her.
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