"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 laugh...
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"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
/1https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/kamala-harris-broke-donald-trump/679780/
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"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
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"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
/3https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/dominance-and-catharsis
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"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
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"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
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"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
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"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
/7SHE HANDLED HIM
Kamala Harris gave us all a long-awaited night to remember ...
(dearlstephens.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"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
/8Harris Wiped the Floor with Trump. That’s Actually a Problem (Plus, an Announcement)
When women show their competence, we do not tend to be rewarded. Rather, we are punished and perceived as nasty bitches.
(katemanne.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"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
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"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
/10Trump Blames Everybody but Himself
He can’t face the truth about his performance at the debate.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"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
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #narcissism
/11The Narcissist Lost the Debate
Harris challenged Trump to talk about helping other people, not himself. He couldn’t do it.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"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
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #weak #narcissism
/12Kabuki Demon Masks
In ‘praise’ of dictators, masked face killers, and evil shaman
(www.bettedangerous.com)
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Chris Hessert 🇺🇸 🇺🇦replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
Obvious problem being "the media" are owned by the same people perpetuating and encouraging global warming. We're going to have to embrace independent media as a population to achieve any change of editorial stance, IMO. -
Huntn00replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy #PLD Poor little Donny is a clown who can’t be taken seriously, you may laugh a little at his flagrant idiocy until you discover him molesting your daughter, stealing your car , declaring himself mayor or trying to burn your town down, then he must be dealt with sternly. This is how Harris handled him.
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JonChevreaureplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Nice summary of #TheDonOld’s abysmal debate performance. To me, Kamala took the role of the little boy in the children’s fable, revealing that the naked emperor indeed is wearing no clothes.
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RiaResistsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I’ve been waiting for someone to say all the things for so long!
IMO she was perfect.
#IKnowHisType
#WeAreNotGoingBack
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Martin Vermeer FCDreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@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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the roamerreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Excellent compilation of psychologically oriented analyses of the Harris-Trump dynamics. Bookmarked! Thank you.
We hope that Harris keeps making the right moves, framing the contest in a way that leaves Trump no choice but to dismantle himself.
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Jumping Mousereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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@the_roamer @wdlindsy Yeah, damn - William curates a great feed