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.

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That motherfucker been broke.

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He’s been broke for a long time. The only thing he actually owns is debt, which he will never, ever pay.

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🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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Trump was always broken. Harris just drew attention to it in the right way.

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Yea, I feel like I didn’t see anything new from him. Kamala just lead him around like a dog on a leash, and exposed it better than anyone else has.

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I don’t even think the immigrants would eat that dog

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no but she really hacked him like a cyberpunk runner.

the issue of immigration is her worst and his best polling issue. so when she was answering that question she added this part about crowds leaving his rallies early. the moderator moved past that and almost helped him by refocusing the question on immigration but he just couldn’t let it go. he not only focused on the crowd remark, but also went immediately unhinged, screaming about people eating cats.

it’s like a fucking cheat code. look at his reaction to her saying people have early. it’s like the sound the game makes to let you know the cheat code is activated.

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Right? Such an obvious trap and he jumped into it, head first. Fascinating to see

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To attack a narcissist, you need to attack the cracks in the reality they paint for themselves.

It just so happens that as someone who has been an enthusiastic and professional grade debater for 40+ years, Harris also knew exactly how to do this without getting his mud on herself, and she knew to do it just as he was hoping to hit his stride.

It was great to watch. So many politicians from so many walks of life have been completely humiliated by Trump’s ridiculous persona. He’s so inflammatory, so full of lies, and so narcissistic professional politicians have been reduced to flinging his poo back at him. Instead Harris made him wallow in it.

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Holy crap she got me too!

I didn’t realize she pulled out that bait on the immigration issue! That was calculated as fuck!

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her campaign is so fucking competent, it’s refreshing. she had the taylor swift ace up her sleeve and planned to play it that day no matter what

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She applied the McGinnis technique.

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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

Trump is Humpty Dumpty.

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*Trumpty Dumpty

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He’s been found liable for sexual assault.

Humpty Trumpty.

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I mean, calling him Dump is also apt.

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