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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 107 points 2 months ago

His strategy will be

  1. Throw word salad at every question

  2. declare his policies are the best that anyone has ever seen in the history.

  3. call “Camila” a Marxist, communist, socialist, bird brain, nasty woman, and a total disaster. All these words mean the same to him and his base.

  4. regardless how bad he does, declare himself a winner at the debate. Whine and fundraise for the rest of the campaign.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

Classic pigeon playing chess strategy.

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The hilarious part is Kamala will do her best to refute those claims. The best strategy is to say "no you", but she won't do that and will fall into his traps. If she calls him a rapist and a felon and a loser with small crowd sizes to his face, than that's a different story.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

Why would she want to play to his strengths, by walking in and just throwing insults at him the whole time? That's a terrible move.

[-] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't think this would necessarily be playing to his strengths, look at how effective the "weird" narrative has been.

Also, almost no one that would vote for Trump is doing so on policy. Sure, she needs to talk some policy to keep moderates (and actual leftists) engaged, but I think there's some need to mock him and his movement.

To make a bit of an analogy, look at how Gamergate actually ended; it wasn't from crossing any bridge that went too far, or convincing people they were enabling harassment, it ended when Steven Colbert made fun of the movement on his show, and then that got mainstream attention.

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Trump should have been knocked out in the first GOP primary debate in 2016. Everyone expected him to be laughed off the stage and for his campaign to fall apart. Instead, the other candidates took him seriously, and he was able to steamroll and bully his way through the primary. Mocking and humiliating Trump for being an unserious candidate was the winning strategy then, and it's the winning strategy now.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Yeah, cause y'all have been doing just a bang up job calling her moves ahead of time, huh.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

When the weird orange felon does his trump trot mouth diarrhea thing, and he will, Kamala Harris should pick out the most obvious, most embarrassing or most offensive one, disassemble it in an unflattering way then say she doesn't have the time to address the other lies.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

‘Trump Trots’ should probably replace Gish Gallop in the lexicon.

Perfect👌

[-] CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

The same could be said of Trump debating a seasoned Junior High Debate Club member.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

Like a well done steak seasoned with ketchup?

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Smeared across a wall in rage.

[-] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 38 points 2 months ago

Hot mics and cage match or im not interested. "Omg it's Harris with a steel chair!"

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Then Principal Waltz threw the Couch Fucker off hell in the cell and he plummeted 15 feet through the announcers table.

[-] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Did u/shittymorph ever end up migrating to Lemmy from Reddit? I miss them.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

He was here briefly, but I believe went back to Reddit.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago

I heard he’s too much of a pussy to leave his mic on. Everybody’s saying it.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

He’s too much of a pussy to debate. He’ll back out.

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Exactly, no way this is happening.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd love for her to hit even harder.

"Trump wants out of the debate. I'd call him a pussy, but those things can take a pounding. Don't know about the rest of you girls, but unlike Trump, my genitals don't wilt at the slightest criticism."

[-] fodderoh@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

This is just working to lower expectations so a bad performance can still be called a win.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 months ago

I sure hope so.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

Trump has frankly gotten embarrassed at every debate he's done, but the media handicaps him so hard that the narrative ends up being about everything his opponent does. So of course he's going to do the debate. He's going to say bat shit crazy things, he's going to lie, he's going to be cringe as fuck and he'll probably say a bunch of racist and sexist things.

And the next day all the media will talk about is the time Harris sneezed or slightly mispronounced some word or some shit.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Hopefully not as bad as election night.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

She'll vaporize him

[-] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

we can only hope. it's gonna be a fun night

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

I'm expecting him to do hilariously poorly. Man can't even maintain his train of thought when saying a single sentence.

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[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

This coward is gonna back out. We all know it.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

New headline: Former president will be a train wreck in September. Order popcorn now.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Shut up then

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 1 month ago

oh yeah, he should totally puss out as no one will make a big deal of that im sure.

[-] RedditSucks88@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] art@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Don't give me home, headline.

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