• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve always found it weird that we care

    “I didn’t lose, they just cheated” is a retort as old as time. What’s at issue isn’t whether she had an ear bud, its whether she had some undisclosed advantage that might explain how she verbally outmaneuvered Trump.

    Obviously, Trump will inevitably make an ass of himself

    That’s sort of the joke in all this. He didn’t lose because Harris delivered some brilliant, fluid, soul-capturing oratory that could only have been achieved with a Sereno de Bergerac esque coaching. Honestly, she felt kinda wooden in the very-obviously-rehearsed opening and closing. But Trump lost because he lied out his ass, repeatedly, and everyone else on stage called him on it immediately.

    Harris didn’t force him to claim that migrants are going to eat your dog or that infanticide is legal in blue states. That was a totally unforced error on Trump’s part. “She had her airpods in!” is just a deflection from the moments that ruined his appearance on stage.