The right-wing information silo is not happy and Rupert Murdoch is hedging his bets. Nothing new there. Fox News basically delivered a death knell after Donald Trump’s pathetic showing against Kamala Harris. Plus, the New York Post freely admits defeat as well, although the way they couch it is in backhanded compliment terms.
Harris, meanwhile, delivered a far stronger appearance than the dismal showing by Biden in June that stoked Democratic fears of a Trump landslide victory — with the former prosecutor avoiding major gaffes and deflecting potentially damaging questions about her record and evolving stances on a range of major issues.
The VP was helped by her opponent, who proved unable to resist when Harris used what she described as Trump’s strategy of “lies, grievances and name-calling” against him.
In one illuminating exchange, after Harris accused Trump of persuading Capitol Hill Republicans to kill a border security spending bill, she claimed his signature rallies had lost their action-packed, blockbuster quality.
“Action-packed?” “Blockbuster?” OMFG. I must have been comatose when that was taking place, perhaps somebody here will find me a clip. But this is the state of play now, that it was “three on one” because the two moderators fact checked Trump in real time, which is pure death for the man. That’s holy water on a vampire, throwing the truth at Trump as the lies come out of his mouth.
The moderators tried very hard to get him to stop saying babies can be aborted after birth and that dogs and cats were being stolen and eaten in Ohio. They were trying to do him a favor, but instead of shutting up, he argued with them, which made him sound like a crazy old man.
— Niko (@Niko81812) September 11, 2024
A lot of truth in this comment. If Trump could have avoided conspiracy theory and nonsense, he might have been alright. But that is literally all he has to bring to the table nowadays. The Republican party is gone and all the MAGAs want is their CT red meat. Which he gives them. So now the issue becomes simple: Can Trump win the election with CT red meat? It remains to be seen in the next eight weeks, but for right now, today, consensus on all points of the political media spectrum is that Harris won, Trump lost. Bigly. Rick Wilson’s Substack Page:
Last night, Kamala Harris won the debate by a mile, and Trump lost it so catastrophically that America’s political class is reeling this morning. The Biden Debate Disaster now has a triumphant rival. Trump lost in ways I couldn’t have imagined. He lost on message, affect, physicality, tone, humor, connection, style, facts, reason, logic, consistency, and almost every other imaginable category. […]
His first response told me all I needed to know about the night. There was no “Happy Trump” coming to play, as his desperate campaign had been wishing for in the press. I knew the night was off the rails when he started into the beloved, weird new MAGA conspiracy theory.
“You see what’s happening with towns throughout the United States. You look at Springfield, Ohio. You look at Aurora in Colorado. They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently. These are the people that she and Biden let into our country. And they’re destroying our country. They’re dangerous. They’re at the highest level of criminality. And we have to get them out. We have to get them out fast.”
The minute he mentioned Springfield and Aurora, I knew what was coming, and so did you. Trump’s immersion in the right-wing media ecosystem is complete. Laura Loomer, one of his debate advisors — she was on the plane with him to Pennsylvania — and her ilk have been pushing this nonsense for weeks.
He took the hook on tariffs — a confusing, unpopular, and deeply wrong economic strategy — and dug into a deeper hole, swallowing her predicate and splurting out his usual combination of desperate self-regard – “I got billions from Chynnnna” and an entire Black Mass of voodoo economics before rocketing into the Golden Oldies of the Trump conspiracy handbook.
She baited the hook again by saying Goldman Sachs and Wharton School economists condemned his plan. Wharton, where Daddy Fred greased his slow son’s tenure, is one of Trump’s few signifiers of achievement, and he clings to it desperately. You could see her sly expression as he rolled on the floor like a drunk on fire. She had him on defense for a long block over the economy and even pinned him for sucking up to China’s President Xi during the COVID crisis. Trump had no control of his message or his emotions. Finally, he sputtered with another current right-wing media trope of “She’s a Marxist. Everybody knows she’s a Marxist. Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics. And he taught her well.”
Her side-eye and amused smile were brutally dismissive.
On abortion, Trump flailed, twisted in the wind, and desperately tried to calibrate between his lies on the topic. He was caught between the Scylla of bragging about ending Roe, and the Charybdis of the deeply unpopular abortion restrictions passed in Republican states.
Basically everything you will read this morning across the spectrum has a version of this description. And of course there are right-wing outlets criticizing Harris for being “nasal” and “shallow” bla bla, because that’s what they’re paid to do. But they don’t sound convinced themselves.
As always, Murdoch is the weather vane of right-wing media. He sees how bad things are. Both Fox News and the New York Post have conceded Trump lost, without being brutal about it. But they are not pleased.
Here’s the issue with ABC. Supposedly somebody at the network was pipelining information into Harris’s ears. These are Tiffany earrings, not high tech spy devices.
They are Tiffany earrings you weirdos. pic.twitter.com/Eiz4gwzGeV
— Nette🍯 (@NettePot) September 11, 2024
This is sexism at its worse. It’s simply impossible for MAGAs to believe that Harris is an intelligent, articulate woman who knows whereof she speaks. In their world, that’s not possible. Some man at ABC or the Democratic party or both must be feeding her answers. Don’t forget, some of the far-right lunatics in this crowd have called for the repeal of the 19th Amendment.
It’s a terrible terrible thing when a woman beats the boys club in a national pissing contest. Of course they must find SOMETHING to explain it other than admit they are ignorant, arrogant, privileged morons. It really chaps their asses when the moron in chief pisses himself on national tv. The fly on Pence’s head would have performed better. At least it kept it’s composure. Maybe orangebob shitpants should get himself some earrings.
Very clever commentary. Thank you!
Ach du leber…widdle Stevie Miller is upset that his talking points about immigrants eating pets for lunch didn’t go over so well? Aw, well, whatcha gonna do for an encore, widdle Stevie? He’ll be spotted ripping wings off flies very soon. Getting really antsy that that mass deportation thingie may not be happening, are we? That left wing bias is a real Karma, too – they got rid of Biden, how’s that workin’ out for ya? Nah, they ain’t afraid of no strong, black women, are they?
As any intelligent person knows, the female of the species is much more dangerous than the male!
…..a totally unrecognized and foreign concept to the patriarchal society’s “mindset”…..
WAKE UP, NIMRODS! THE WORLD CHANGES CONTINUALLY!
ADAPT OR BE LEFT BEHIND/ELIMINATED!
D…ump has navigated himself to be stuck between the rock and a hard place he finds himself, with no one else to blame. That though, has not stopped his finger pointing as to why he’s actually stuck there and getting weirder, as the truth of his political and mental health realities relentlessly douse and corride his false facade into an inevitable rusted and discarded scrap heap, that he richly deserves.
I always get a kick out of the very tired old claim “the opponent in the debate had a secret earpiece!” I would be incredibly impressed by the speeds of both the backstage cheater who is interpreting the question/formulating answer/saying it into earpiece AND the onstage cheater who can hear answer through the earpiece/simultaneously saying it aloud!! The skills needed to accomplish all that in real time deserve to be applauded!! 👏
gee, I was just thinking there was something missing in all this idiocy/meltdown after von shitzinpants showed the world, ONCE AGAIN, just how completely unhinged he truly is. Then miller added his own unhinged spin. Ahhhh. Now all is right with the world.
If I looked, and worse, communicated like miller, I’d find a real nice cave somewhere to live out my days.
Ursula, a thought here on the “she claimed his signature rallies had lost their action-packed, blockbuster quality” comment.
It’s true. Remember the “good old days” for Trump and his 2016 rallies? Hell, remember the rallies he was holding through 2022? He was drawing the crowds and getting all sorts of cheers and applause because he was “delivering the goods” and what the audience wanted to hear. Even when he largely repeated himself, he was able to really enthrall his audience. Does ANYONE remember a Trump rally (or speaking engagement) when people started walking out before Trump left the stage before this year?
In a way, Trump has kind of seen his rallies turn into the flip of rock concerts by older stars who are still recording new material. Pretty much every single one of them knows a large part of the audience isn’t there for any of that “new” material–even if said material is over a decade old itself–but rather the “oldies” that they grew up listening to. And the GOOD artists know how to balance the oldies the audience is craving with the newer stuff the artist is trying to sell. Well, with Trump, the base has largely gotten tired of his “old hits” and actually want to hear something “new” and he’s simply not delivering.
I guess he has to hire more fake caring attendees to his flatulently delivered cry-outs for the adulation he thrives on … It has been VERY amusing to see some of his last couple rants where the hired peanut gallery behind him was losing the follow-through with waving signs of Trump and his new co-stupid, realizing in real time how idiotic Trumps rhetoric had become, so the waving turned into a mass of confusion, signs falling into laps … Trump’s cues were stymied and they could not hip-hooray like planned …
My, how the the end of Trumpism is here, the courts are already planning on extra security, more gorillas with ty-wraps cuffs and chains, Trump will probably collapse into that final position of surrender, laying on the floor, knees up hands covering his ears, while tears fall like a good spring rain …
His giant EGO, part of his mean-spirited ingrained mental malignant narcissism will reduce him to a drooling, incoherent fool STILL babbling about immigrants eating kitty’s and puppies, I have absolutely never heard someone say such a stupid thing publicly, Oh, wait, he also said why not inject bleach into people against their Pandemic … It CERTAINLY WOULD kill the virus AND the the injected patient, WOW, a normal person would think Trump would not be so dumb, but he can’t help himself, the scientists would have to use an electron microscope to see ANY intelligence in Trump …