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DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

It is a shame that this debate mattered very little because it is the best one we have had in the past eight years.

I hung last night and all the guys there watched it. Ping pong.... I'm a child man. They're not as political as I am. I'd bet half of them don't vote, but most watched it or clips of it. Vance and Walz are not household names unless you live in those states. I think people were interested.

JD was calm, cool and collected. The Walz school shooter thing is going to burn him, well Kamala. Joe Biden not knowing how to talk and we know he's senile is way different than the school shooter thing. That's kind of beyond a gaffe.

At the end of the day I don't think Americans want a woman POTUS. Then factor in age. Younger Americans around my age and under want fresh blood. That debate I think did that. He's basically 20 years younger than anyone running for POTUS or VP and is a US Senator. At 40. That's not an easy gig to get.

What I think it did is invigorate people that might not normally vote. Is that 1/2 a point or 3? It was a net gain for a Trump vote in my opinion. Independents decide elections. D votes D and R votes R 100%. My House rep is a D, female and I will be voting for her. I will vote for Trump. I'm a classic independent. I vote with who produces what they say.

I respect women, but I don't think they're meant to lead nations with 330+ million people. Run a military. In business women very rarely succeed at running or even starting a company. They can be bitches, but you have to be an ass hole. That's where men thrive. Men laugh at mean bitches. Women are supposed to be nurturing, take care of kids, etc. They can work and they can do well. Lead? Not so much. Call it sexist, I call it biology and science.

A negligible 1% of voters who tuned into the debate said it had changed their mind about whom to vote for, with Harris and Trump supporters equally unlikely to view the event as decisive.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/politics/election-poll-walz-vance-debate/index.html

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

A negligible 1% of voters who tuned into the debate said it had changed their mind about whom to vote for, with Harris and Trump supporters equally unlikely to view the event as decisive.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/politics/election-poll-walz-vance-debate/index.html

Not negligible if they're black. Trump/Vance are going after the black vote as a shield against voter fraud. If you get even 5% of blacks to vote Trump in urban areas it's for sure over. Might only be 1/2% overall, but it's important to win GA, PA and MI.

Black men don't even stay with black women. Soak that one in. Trump/Vance is trying to get them to jump ship. Blacks were lackeys to the Dem party. Throw in school shooter, you got white moms up in arms. No way to tell, but I think it moved the needle more than you'd think.

WookieMan says

Not negligible if they're black.

All of it is negligible. 1% is within the margin of error.

WookieMan says

you get even 5% of blacks to vote Trump in urban areas it's for sure over.

Yes. People who are not in the 1% category of 'welll... that debate changed my mind!'anymore than you and I are.

1% of Blacks or anyone else are not 5%.

https://slaynews.com/news/jd-vance-debate-sharing-supporting-evidence/

During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Republican nominee JD Vance was hit with phony “fact-checks” from the left-wing CBS News moderators.

On the debate stage, Vance asserted that the massive influx of illegal aliens over the Biden-Harris administration’s open border is causing housing prices to rise.

Moderator Margaret Brennan challenged Vance’s assertion.

However, Vance replied that after the debate, he would publish remarks from the Federal Reserve Board that supported his contention.

Just hours after the debate ended, Vance shared the supporting evidence in a post on X “as promised.”

Vance stated during the debate:

“We do want to blame Kamala Harris for letting in millions of illegal aliens into this country, which does drive up costs, Tim.

“Twenty-five million illegal aliens competing with Americans for scarce homes is one of the most significant drivers of home prices in the country.

“It’s why we have massive increases in home prices that have happened right alongside massive increases in illegal alien, alien populations under Kamala Harris’s leadership. …

“We have a lot of Americans that need homes.

“We should be kicking out illegal immigrants who are competing for those homes, and we should be building more homes for the American citizens who deserve to be here.”

Brennan then interjected, “But, Senator, on that point, I’d like for you to clarify.

“There are many contributing factors to high housing costs.

“What evidence do you have that migrants are part of this problem?”

“Well, there’s a Federal Reserve study that we’re happy to share after the debate,” Vance replied.

“We’ll put it up on social media.

“Actually, that really drills down on the connection between increased levels of migration, especially illegal immigration, and higher housing prices.

“Now, of course, Margaret, that’s not the entire driver of higher housing prices.

“It’s also the regulatory regime of Kamala Harris.

“Look, we are a country of builders.

“We’re a country of doers,” Vance noted.

“We’re a country of explorers.

“But we increasingly have a Federal administration that makes it harder to develop our resources, makes it harder to build things, and wants to throw people in jail for not doing everything exactly as Kamala Harris says that they have to do.

“And what that means is that you have a lot of people who would love to build homes who aren’t able to build homes.”

A few hours later, Vance published remarks from Michelle W. Bowman.

Bowman has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2018.

She spoke at the Massachusetts Bankers Association Annual Convention in Key Biscayne, Florida, on May 3.

Vance wrote in a post on X:

“As promised earlier tonight, here is Michelle Bowman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.”

Bowman stated:

“There is a risk that strong consumer demand for services, increased immigration, and continued labor market tightness could lead to persistently high core services inflation.

“Given the current low inventory of affordable housing, the inflow of new immigrants to some geographic areas could result in upward pressure on rents, as additional housing supply may take time to materialize.

“Wage growth has remained at an elevated rate of between 4 and 5 percent, still higher than the pace consistent with our 2 percent inflation goal given trend productivity growth.”

As promised earlier tonight, here is Michelle Bowman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors:

"Given the current low inventory of affordable housing, the inflow of new immigrants to some geographic areas could result in upward pressure on rents."https://t.co/dfO0wFmyPs pic.twitter.com/KfDjPaZC7G

— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 2, 2024

@Patrick - the meme lords are noticing that Timmy Tampon facial expressions are very similar to Muppets. There's some hilarious shit being created to that effect. My favorites are Ernie from Sesame Street and the Lab Doctor who terrorized his assistant from the Muppet Show.

EDIT: I meant Bert, not Ernie

@stereotomy

Please post screenshots or the image link here if you can!

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/doj-indicts-jd-vance-for-brutally-beating-3-women

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tim-walz-jd-vance-debate-odds-winning-kamala-harris-1962373

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/october-surprise

Tuesday night’s veep palaver could be the last time you see the frightened animal known as Tim Walz for the duration of the campaign. He’s famous for his wild body language — jumping around on stage, flapping his arms — but this time the action was all concentrated in his face. You saw his eyes bug out, dart left and right, as if something fierce was coming at him (it was), and more than a few times, his head jerked around sideways so hard you wondered if it might do a whole three-sixty. His mouth, a pain-inflected frown in repose, turned down so deeply it looked like he had sashweights hanging from the corners. Altogether, his face said more than the embarrassing mishmash of mangled English that came out of it. I expect to see a few Tim Walz masks on the little goblins begging for Kit-kat bars the night of October 31.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/all-charges-dropped-after-diddy-claims-hes-just-a-knucklehead