- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
Even so devoted a bootlicker as Senator Lindsey Graham declared the debate a “disaster” for the ex-president.
Donald Trump is so feral and narcissistic, so unrestrained and so outside the norm of American politics, that he’s difficult to debate. It’s disorienting. Very few people have been able to stand up to him without being pulled into the muck. In the past, even when he lost debates on points, he dominated his opponents.
But on a Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris cracked the code.
Did nobody notice the moment when he tried to silence her and added, ‘sound familiar’ to make some sexist remark about telling women to shut up? “I’m talking now, sound familiar?”
She said “I’m speaking” to shut up pence in the 2020 debate. That’s what he was referring to. Still he’s a dick.
Also she wasn’t even really interrupting him. If you watch the clip, she was muted and he was easily heard over her. It wasn’t as if she was really steamrolling.
You can tell it got under his skin in 2020, and this was just a pathetic way to “get back” at her for being a woman who asserted herself in a debate.
It’s genuinely so amusing how badly that little dig backfired on him. I’ve seen other people also not realizing he was trying to riff on “I’m speaking”. The thing he failed to realize is that essentially any professional women that were watching have likely heard that kind of shit from an older man at some point in their career, and it makes him look like (more of) a complete asshole.
He got the line wrong so even most who would recognize it didn’t and the “sound familiar?” didn’t make any sense.