Gazza M — what I meant by “coherent” was more so complete thoughts and properly structured sentences. He’s been struggling with those in recent weeks.

Fully agree he spat out some absurd shit, but his base is about it and plenty of them are reading those same stories on the far right fringes of the internet.

Gazza M Yeah I'm not sure each event matters so much, or at least when the race swings a bit as when Harris supplanted Biden or Walz joined her campaign, it seems the pundits and people are soon looking ahead for the next moment of drama.

I read the polls are very close, within the margin of error. I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it or if this is some kind of Mandela effect, but it seems polling data is far less to be relied upon today than twenty years ago.

Burnwinter I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it or if this is some kind of Mandela effect, but it seems polling data is far less to be relied upon today than twenty years ago.

I assume it’s because of the breakneck speed of events. Historically an assassination attempt would be mainstream news for an entire campaign but it’s already been relegated to a footnote. It’s wild.

Mirth it’s good. Only issue is people are more fixed in their views. So the group of people who can be impacted by a single event like a debate is smaller than ever.

Gazza M but they like that. They like this idea of free speech which is actually just the ability to spread misinformation that fits this narrative. When told by the press that the cat story was fake, JD Vance acknowledged this but still encouraged his followers to share cat memes. Elon earlier this week reminded X users to not spread misinformation, and then promptly distributed cat stories. It’s malicious, very nazi like, understanding the power of media. Hence the desire to discredit the mainstream, burn books, curtail education, etc.

Mirth Yeah. Suspect also that the era of people all watching telly in their suburban homes waiting for the pollsters to ring and then giving up an accurate picture of their views is long gone.

I tuned in for about 2 minutes when they were talking about abortion. I heard Trump essentially assert that many Democrats are in favour of abortion "even after birth". I turned off again.

And yet this statement didn't even make it into the list of weird shit he is saying. What a stuffed up state of affairs US politics is in.

I was just reading that apparently the moderators did pick him up on this. So he complained the debate was 3 vs 1.

Yep. That's the conservative media's excuse. Apparently it was wrong of the moderators to fact check him in real time. The claim is Harris was not fact checked as aggressively, and the moderators were in cahoots with her all along

i saw some summary where he made 33 factually inaccurate statements that didn't get checked and she made one. they should be happy that they couldn't possibly fact check all his lies.

yeah the moderators were totally unfair to agent orange.

hes an absolutely classless piece of shit who is putting people in unnecessary danger every single day

Claudius but they like that. They like this idea of free speech which is actually just the ability to spread misinformation that fits this narrative.

Wasn't it Edi Amin who said something along the lines of I can guarantee freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech?

• 2016 Trump sounds incredibly articulate compared to this version.