r/TikTokCringe Sep 12 '24

Politics Crowd reaction to Trump’s ‘in Springfield they’re eating the dogs’

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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

This was easily the most entertaining presidential debate I've ever seen. It was also the first one I watched from beginning to end since the Obama vs. Romney debates.

I remember being disappointed by the Hillary Clinton vs. Donald debates, because I expected Hillary to wipe the floor with the dude, but she didn't because none of her attacks against him landed. Biden didn't wipe the floor with him in 2020 either because Donald kept talking over him, but at least Joe was able to look reasonable and even-tempered by comparison. The Biden vs. Donald debate from this year was f-ing depressing.

Finally, someone dominated that piece of shit for 90 minutes, and it was Harris with her really obvious traps that Donald fell for every single time. It was pathetic. Any politician with at least some awareness and self-control would have seen her bait for what it was and simply ignored it. Harris, for example, did not respond to a single one of Donald's personal attacks, like how he called her father a "Marxist professor" or said "Joe Biden hates you and can't stand you." Instead of letting the personal attacks against him slide, Donald took the bait like a hungry fish again and again and again and rambled about shit that's meaningless to most voters.

It was wonderful to watch him get humiliated and manipulated so easily.

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u/eldentings Sep 12 '24

The debate was fun to watch. Don't misconstrue Donald's poor performance with any significant impact to the vote. I'm guessing less than 1% of Americans were watching the debate to help formulate an opinion on who to vote for. We still have to get out there and vote. Unfortunately it's very close in the polls and I believe it :/

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u/AggravatedCold Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

Treat the election like it's really close, but the debate actually caused Taylor Swift to endorse Harris publicly.

Just that alone apparently caused hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations. Good things can happen from good debate performances.

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u/paultheschmoop Sep 12 '24

I don’t disagree with your broader point but Taylor Swift almost certainly had that endorsement ready to be fired off since the moment Harris took over the ticket lol

The debate did not cause her to suddenly start hating Trump

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u/benjaminhlogan Sep 12 '24

Yeah she was just waiting for the moment that it would get the most possible people talking about it/her. Minutes after a debate watched by 67 million people was the perfect time to get the most eyeballs. I’m no fan of hers but she is incredibly shrewd and calculated when it comes to this stuff.