Cool cool. LMK

Yes, the socialists have definitely been winning this epic fight.

Most people aren’t watching it. It will be the clips and soundbytes on social media. We don’t really know how the debate is going, because the actual reception of this debate hasn’t fully occurred yet.

In some meaningful sense, this debate will actually be broadcast, as in seen by a broad audience, over the next 24-36 hours in fragmented form.

Yeah except he keeps going.

That’s unnecessary simplistic. He also has the “immigrants will eat your pets” strategy.

I wish they just had 45min clocks, and whenever their microphone are hot, their timer goes down. It would be hilarious to see Trump yelling inaudibly for the last 25min of all debates.

Thanks yall! It’s closer than it feels but still lopsided.

He’s always like that. Roughly half the country loves it.

Someone said NYT is clocking speech time. I couldn’t find it does anyone have a link?

“I AM RESPOND!”

“No sir we need to get to the next quest…”

“I AM RESPOND NOW!”

“No, Mr. President we need to…”

“I AM RESPOND!”

“Oh OK.”

“THEY WEAK ME STRONG! HONK HONK!”

I’m generally watching this to see if there’s a performance that will genuinely move the polls, but I just don’t know. I tend to believe there are very, very few undecided voters, so I’m not sure anything could be said here that’s going to swing those voters. At this point it’s about not losing support and motivating your supporters.

In that regard, I think Harris is doing well, and I don’t think Trump has to do very well. His supporters just want him to communicate anger and hate. He has seemed able to barely trip over that very low bar.

Right now at the one-hour mark I would say Harris is winning the debate 65/35. But, I think for his supporters and undecideds already leaning his way, this hasn’t moved the needle. That’s more the result of the fact that his supporters are in the CoOM: Cult of Orange Man.

Trump has officially moved to the “no u” stage of his debate tactics.

Anyone have a clock on the candidates’ speaking times? It feels like Trump is doubling Harris at this point, but maybe it’s just because he’s so infuriating.

It would be nice if they grew a spine and just muted him and talked right over him.

Yeah, I just mean less. She started her response the exact same way three times in a row. I don’t think she shouldn’t laugh, but the laugh was starting to feel mechanical, but then she didn’t do it, so I think she’s probably practiced pulling it back for better rhetorical effect.

I know it’s vaguely sexist, but I do think it would be helpful if Harris stopped doing that dismissive laugh so often. I don’t think she has a weird laugh, it just seems a little canned: “hahaha talk about extreme!” I imagine it’s hard when Trump says such laughable things.

DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER, MASS HYSTERIA!

Kapow! Harris landed a good one. She knew where to hit him: his fragile ego about crowd sizes.

Yeah he lost the thread there. He’s going into ramble mode.