#2024 Presidential Debates

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Walter Einenkel at Daily Kos:

“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born,” Davis said before allowing Harris to respond. “Well, as I said, you're going to hear a bunch of lies. And that's not actually a surprising fact,” Harris said. “Let's understand how we got here. Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade, and they did exactly as he intended. And now, in over 20 states, there are Trump abortion bans, which make it criminal for a doctor or nurse to provide health care in one state.”

On the debate stage Tuesday night, Kamala Harris torched Donald Trump’s nonsensical lies on abortion and his role in getting Roe overturned that has led to several states with abortion bans.

Harris dropped a truthbomb with this quote: “One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government and Donald Trump, certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.”

Moderator Linsey Davis delivered a brutal fact-check to Trump’s bogus lie about post-birth abortions that don’t exist (which it’s called infanticide).

See Also:

HuffPost: Kamala Harris Absolutely Skewered Trump On The Abortion Mess He Created

From ABC's coverage of the Debate, via PBS News:

[kp777]

Buttigieg utterly HUMILIATES Trump over Kamala on national TV

Brian Tyler Cohen, July 24, 2023

[britishtophatwithlondon]

good evening!

Today I am publishing a cartoon of Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden!

This is what the debate looks like and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris fight!

[truthnado]

It's time for a Truthnado! This one about the 2024 Presidential Debate. Now, you may be thinking, "Oh, have they scheduled a time for this 2024 Presidential Debate?" Well, at the time of filming, they have not. That's my first little Truthnado. There's no scheduled. presidential debate this year. And I think there should be for several reasons.

[irnhero]

if i see one more article, post, or news anchor talking about how joe biden is old, i'm putting my fist through a window. i feel like i've gone through the fucking looking glass.

this is project 2025, trump's plan for what he'll do if elected. whatever you think is in there, it's worse. watch a breakdown of the highlights here. this man wants to unravel the fabric of our democracy for good - this all aside from his vitriolic hatred of poc, his determination to start ww3, and the fact that he can't string a sentence together without telling outrageous and easily verifiable lies. his administration will start their crusade to exterminate trans people on day one, and they won't stop there.

do not talk to me about how joe biden is old, as if that could ever matter to me more than my life or the lives of my friends and family. my little sister is 14, she's trans, and i don't know what to tell her when we talk about politics, because one of these people wants her dead and the other one is old and some of you are still acting like those problems are equals.

i can't fucking stand this. i'm not hearing it this time, we are not repeating 2016. refusing to vote is not an act of protest, it is an act of complacency, and our most vulnerable will suffer for your negligence. vote like your life depends on it, because for some of us, it really fucking does.

[bilboyagathechickenfootedhobbit]

“I have concepts of a plan”

My dude the election is less than two months away did the dog eat your fucking presidential homework??

[my-midlife-crisis]

[wisebilly]

twitter has wasted no time putting their two cents in on tonight's presidential debate it appears

[pactii]

Save us.

[always-rolling-my-eyes]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Knefel at MMFA:

Right-wing media figures responded to former President Donald Trump’s poor debate performance on Tuesday night by spreading falsehoods about Minnesota’s abortion law.  During the debate, Trump made false and misleading assertions about legislation enacted by Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. “But her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine,” Trump said. “He also says execution after birth, it's execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is okay.” As ABC News moderator Linsey Davis noted after Trump’s comments, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.” 

Trump’s comments about “abortion in the ninth month” are also misleading. In 2023, Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options Act, or PRO Act, into law, further codifying the right to an abortion in Minnesota. As KARE11 reported this April, Minnesota healthcare providers performed only one third-trimester abortion in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. The same was true in 2019 and 2020. In 2021, a single Minnesota resident was listed as having received a third-trimester abortion, but it was performed out of state. Generally, only about one percent of abortions nationwide occur after 21 weeks.    Despite clear evidence to the contrary, right-wing figures took Trump’s comments and ran with them.

Right-wing media spread inane falsehoods about Minnesota HF1 to falsely insinuate that Kamala Harris VP pick and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) supports “post-birth abortions.”

Moderator Linsey Davis at Tuesday’s debate rightly noted that “there is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.”

[nightqueens-world]

[charlesoberonn]

Debates don't actually test any of the skills you'd want in a potential president.

I suggest we replace presidential debates with Taskmaster-style challenges where the two candidates and their staff have to navigate an intentionally convoluted simulation of a day in the work of the president.

Not only will it be 100x more entertaining, it would actually showcase their readiness or lack thereof for the job.

[just-a-cup-of-anxietea]

“They’re eating the dogs in Springfield!!”

“There are no credible reports of that”

“I’ve seen people on television saying it”

[bigbrotherkillsme]

everybody knowing kamala almost called him a motherfucker is SENDING me