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Vice Presidential Debate Megapost! Tue, 10/1/2024

Final (?) Debate thread before the election in 35 days.

Debate begins at 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific and runs 90 minutes.

Vice Presidential debates are always tricky since nobody has voted for Vice President in living memory.

Expect Vance to attack Walz on his military service.

Expect Walz to attack Vance on the whole "immigrants eating cats and dogs" thing.

Expect Vance to attack Walz on being an assistant coach, at best.

Expect Walz to roll out "Weird!" at least once.

CBS has announced the burden of fact checking will be on the candidates themselves.

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10

How to watch here:

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10

"How can you watch the VP debate on cable?

CBS will air debate coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET on CBS broadcast stations and affiliates. Find your local station here.

How can you stream the VP debate without cable?

The debate can be streamed on the free CBS News app on your connected TV or smartphone, on Paramount+, and all platforms where CBS News 24/7 is available, including CBSNews.com and YouTube.

Debate coverage on CBS News 24/7 begins at 4 p.m. ET."

Edit Impressive how a debate can go when one participant doesn't have mental health issues! Thanks for coming everybody!

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Ha, fuck you. My life was destroyed by disability, and the only drug that was helping me went from $250 a month to $3000 a month between 2015 to 2017. Everything got worse, to the point I can’t even afford to live.
This especially pisses me off.
Fuck you Vance and fuck everything you just said. It’s all lies.

Walz: "Well I don't run Facebook and Trump lost."

"Under Kamala Harris' leadership."
I wish Walz would say that JOE BIDEN IS THE FUCKING PRESIDENT.

I will say that I worry about Vance as a candidate when he’s no longer directly tied to Trump and his madness. He’s the face of non-truth leading to fascism.

"Did he lose the 2020 election?"
"OH YEAH?!?! Well did Kamala Harris censor people?"

vance won't answer if trump lost the 2020 election. oh its the lauph into cry now. man he is so weasily.

"Should we force catholic hospitals to do abortions?"
No. Because there shouldn't be catholic hospitals.

It's crazy how... like. Normal? This debate is. I mean they obviously disagree on stuff, but there's at least a baseline of respect here so far.

"She hasn't accomplished what she set out to do in three years" is kind of weird for the running mate of the guy who accomplished fuck all in terms of his campaign promises for four.

Vance after the Debate

Listening to these idiotic "uncommitted voters" in the focus group are the absolute worse. It's a collection of people that love the attention of being an indecisive moron.

Vance lies like he breathes, but he isn’t mentally addled like Trump. He’s a threat. A long term threat.

Attacking Walz on his military record while Vance had a mostly clerical job, never saw combat, was of a lower rank and was in the military for 4 years compared to 24 years? Bold move...
- Prediction: Vance will try the "Stolen Valor" line and get owned.
  https://www.npr.org/2024/08/08/nx-s1-5068668/vance-walz-stolen-valor-military-record

To Vance's credit, he's doing a monumental amount of damage control and sanewashing for Donald Trump and is doing a decent job at it. Yes Vance is lying through his teeth with each answer but he is markedly better at keeping his cool compared to the former Narcissist-in-Chief against VP Harris. It's a position Walz wouldn't envy. So overall I think this is within the best range of events Vance could expect.
They both did well at acknowledging each other and keeping this like a somewhat normal debate, can you imagine. That said, if any viewer can hold a thought without focusing solely on whatever deflection each candidate is doing, Walz is giving better answers, and Vance is putting way more false equivalencies in.
Walz is doing very well with his answers, he's not as calculated and rehearsed as Harris, and you know having a heart makes you mess up more than the recently changed telephone options menu, but he is doing a fantastically better job at connecting with voters than Vance did. Walz's jabs are quick and easily missed ("Wharton") but even with apolitical people, if they understand Walz's language then they'll get when he is jabbing at Vance.
Obviously I was hoping Vance would fold up into a chair and was disappointed for that to not happen. More than that though is that I'm crossing my fingers the news cycle doesn't begin pretending it's a normal election cycle just because the VP candidates could actually look each other in the eye for a night. Idk, give it 48hours and Trump will be starved enough of attention to break the spell and make people glare at him again in disgust.

Vance: I did wanna answer your question, because you did ask it...
Narrator: He did not answer her question.

- "hey, thanks for getting off the couch. I know it can take a lot of effort to be here."
  Also.
  "i wanted to thank you for normalizing men wearing makeup. a lot of my friends really appreciate it."

Walz drove it home on the threat to democracy, and Vance had nothing to respond.

Walz should have just called it out right there: your running mate is a reality denying narcissist, and you're his lapdog. You won't say he lost because you're scared daddy will yell at you if you do.

Vance digging deep into the reddit school of debate. ‘Explain to me how my lie is untrue please. I’ll derail all other talk until then.’

It just occurred to be that Vance is running for president not VP. I don't think he thinks Trump will get through his term if elected.

“Why won’t you rebut my lies?”
“They aren’t true”
“Ok but like why won’t you explain how?”

Vance literally said nothing about Trump's healthcare plan. They still have nothing.

Who is banning books right now JD?!?

“We have well developed views on public policy so we don’t have to prepare that much,” Vance said in a Teamsters press call on Wednesday morning. “We feel a lot more confident and frankly, you don’t have to prepare if you don’t have to hide what you say.”
-Jd "we make stuff up" Vance
😂🤣😂🤣

A little more than an hour in...
Vance has been exactly as polished as expected, other than a slightly rough start coming off as robotic. He's managed a few genuinely human-seeming moments, too, especially upon learning that one of Walz's kids witnessed a shooting. But he's been lying nearly constantly.
Walz isn't as polished, but he's been doing much better in that department than I would have expected, while still coming off as very nice and genuine. He's had a couple of flubs, but none of them were debate killers, while he's gotten in far more actual hits than Vance, by far. Like, it's not even close.
There's another thing: Vance is legitimately boring to listen to. I didn't realize this before, but his voice could be used as a sleep aid.
I'm biased. I'll own that. So take from this what you will: I think Walz is winning. It's close, but I think he's coming off as more honest and more real, while Vance is coming off as dishonest and plastic.

Vance: "Women don't trust us because we are against abortion. We'll make them trust us by making fertility treatments more accessible."
What?

The housing shortage is caused by illegal immigrants and not drilling for oil? I have no words.

LOL! "Thank you, senator, for describing the legal process."

lol Vance did not want to answer that elector question.

The pregnant pause from the moderator followed by her mystified question made me laugh out loud.

“NRA used to teach gun safety” is a great line for purple states.

Vance: "The white guys shooting up schools with legally purchased guns are the fault of immigrants."

I did it. I opened a private tab and checked Truth Social. Trump is obsessed with Walz misspeaking on school shooters. He also screamed in all caps that he would veto a national abortion ban. Also his usual weird fixation with the moderators’ ratings in other shows, and still asserting that anyone who said he lost in 2020 is lying.

What a crazy attack from Vance, why isn't the Vice President fixing the housing crisis? Wasn't Trump President and didn't fix real issues with in his purview.

Finally Waltz telling him the VP isn't responsible, Congress is. I think he's slipped that in a couple times now.

"from AOC to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift."
Taylor Swift confirmed more right-wing than Cheney!1!

I'll be asleep which I suppose I should be thankful for (I've already voted by mail as an overseas voter). I'm still disappointed about the whole fact-check thing.
- The fact checking of the last debate really made it stand out. It felt like the debate served an actual purpose as opposed to just hearing what amounted to a mini rally for the candidates.
  This is a huge disappointment to me, as now there is no need to defend any of their comments. It's basically just a campaign ad.

I'm enjoying the fact that CBS brought receipts about Vance's past statements about Donald Trump.

Wait there’s more? I am going to bed.

No, you dick. Walz was right and everything you said wasn’t true. Everything got worse under trump, and I have fucking receipts.

Maybe let’s fund national health care!

Guns go from the US to Mexico, not the other way. Another blatant lie.

Damn I was a bit worried that we weren't going to get the decisive soundbite, but all anyone is going to talk about tomorrow is going to be the "did Donald Trump lose?" mic drop. Absolutely savage.

Mics got cut. Nice.

Vance: “Our policies aren’t our policies. We actually support your favored policies. You’re not allowed to fact check me. I’ll go back to our real policies tomorrow.”

Guns are flowing into the United States from Mexico?
Wat??!

"Do you want to support Catholic hospitals to perform abortions against their will?" FUCKING YES.

Housing too expensive? DRILL BABY DRILL!!

Vance is trying really hard to convince people they're getting paid better than they did before Trump.

Jd vance: the biggest threat to democracy is censorship
Fucking wild take

walz is getting so annoyed at vance bald face laws. vance trying to distort walzs own law. man walz is doing a good job of restraining himself though.

How is it Kamala Harris's policies!? She's not the president! How much power does Vance think the Vice President wields!?

"I don't really want to talk about the 2020 election, so Google sucks and also Tulsi Gabbard and RFK, Jr. likes me."

I’m a knucklehead at times.
Girl, same.

"Our number one export cannot be topsoil" - Walz
That is a hell of a good line.

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