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"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." -David Hume
MAGAt 1: How could a woman speak so intelligently and run circles around Trump? It's almost like our entire view of women as lesser than men on every level is somehow wron-
MAGAt 2: A MAN TOLD HER WHAT TO SAY WITH MAGIC EARRINGS
MAGAt 1: Praise Republican Jesus! You figured it out!
Reminds me a lot of this video (tw: typical Xbox live homophobia).
People in this clip assume the guy has somehow memorized every song ever written. It doesn’t occur to them that with enough study and practice (and talent), a person can more or less figure out how to play a song just as easily as you can hum it.
I remember being super impressed when my high school friend banged out the intro to Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground on the first try (it’s just power chords). Then I went to college and met a dozen people who were similarly talented on their instruments of choice.
Anyway, it makes me wonder if people who think Harris was fed lines just haven’t met enough people to understand that, while commendable, her achievement on Tuesday was not supernatural by any means. Some people are just that good at what they do.
Also, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground is a very simple descending chord progression that basically just steps down according to the minor scale (if I recall correctly. Don't have a guitar in front of me and haven't played the song in years).
Stuff like that is much easier to figure out by ear than more intricate melodies and chord progressions.
Oh for sure. And that's kind of my point. As someone who didn't know a lot of music or know any musicians, it was goddamn magic.
But meet a few musicians, and you start to realize that it's just a learnable skill.
Trump should have worn his audio enabled ear bandage.
Jokes on you, he was wearing his audio enabled diapers. But there was a malfunction because all you could hear were deep trumpet noises 🤔
I'm always astonished how outlandish and foreign basic leadership competency is to Republicans that anytime anyone displays it, it's so mind-fuckingly unbelievable to them that they develop conspiracy theories involving 5G, covert alliances, secret high-tech earrings, and whatever else as more convincing than "she studied and prepared for the debate."
Saw a clip where he mentioned someone was slipping her “the right answers”. I think he meant to say “the opposite of the shit policies I support”.
That shit would be hilarious if there weren't 50 million+ people like this that vote.
They’re just jealous Trump didn’t think of wearing them.
Bluetooth gauze?
How would that even work? They'd be blasting out sound to everyone around.
I would say bone conduction might conceivably work, except those earrings clearly were not touching any bone.
Primarily though, even if they did work, that didn't make him say all the crazy shit. Being fed answers through her earrings didn't force him to talk about people eating dogs and immigrants being given gender reassignment surgery in prisons.
Yeah, the right doesn't seem to understand that Trump lost because of what he said, not what others did to him. "Unhinged old man screams about things he saw on TV that aren't real" seems to work for them.
primarily though, even if they did work, that didn't make him say all the crazy shit.
He had to say crazy shit because of the covid treatment that the deep state forced on him when he got covid.
They were directing her when to laugh and look at him in disbelief.
I doubt she needed that help.
apparently there are actually earring style earbuds with directional sound, but they look nothing like what she was wearing.
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOV093806012023RP1/
also if they were trying to pull a fast one I'm sure they could get something more discreet than that. like this tiny little thing is $17 on amazon:
I was all, "I need one of these", until I saw the pic of it lodged in the ear canal. How would one ever get that out. NOPE.
Is that what they think caused him to talk about post birth abortions? And immigrants eating cats and dogs? Her non existent ear piece?
Honestly, how else could it be explained that she is up-to-date and ready to coherently speak on current topics, such as may be asked during a presidential debate? STUDYING? PREPARING, you say? What lunacy is this? Real presidential candidates spend their days golfing and rage-tweeting from the toilet!
Welp. If they claimed that, then Trump wore one during the debate.
Or at the very least wanted to and got rebuffed.
Ya but Trump has a replacement Bluetooth ear. That's the only way to explain his magical ear healing powers
Radio pearls from digital clams? Ofcourse! Why didn't we think of that! From the party that brought to you mango flavored kittens 🐈, here come digital clam 🐚!
Those crafty democrats... /s
Seems "being prepared" looks like a super-power to the MAGA people..
You can't just know things! It's not fair!
Reminds me of Anna Rudolf
Rudolf also opened up about the bizarre "lipstick scandal" that has followed her since 2007. She was 20 years old when three players accused her of cheating with a microchip hidden in her lipstick after she played the tournament of her life and beat a grandmaster. Yes, you read that right: A microchip in her lipstick.
The fact that lie detectors don’t really work aside, how exactly was she cheating with a tube of lipstick? Was it magically moving pieces for her? Was it talking to her in a voice only she could hear?
What a bunch of morons.
I heard he replaced his ear with a permanent earpiece
Didn't help him much.
Let's say she did have an earpiece in. Why should I be mad about it? Every speech a president ever gives is going to be read from a teleprompter and written by a staffer.
Theoretically, debates are supposed to be off-the-cuff. But like I said to someone else, even if beneath the podium, Frank Oz was controlling her because she's really a Muppet... that didn't force him to say anything about immigrants eating dogs and he knows because he saw it on TV.
Exactly this. Kamala Harris didn't necessarily WIN, so much as Donald Trump wadded the whole debate up and threw it in the fireplace. She made some arguably-innocuous jabs and Trump got INCREDIBLY bent out of shape about it, and looked incredibly unprofessional and non-presidential yelling about how immigrants were eating dogs and Democrats were executing babies in the ER.
wadded the whole debate up and ~~threw it in the fireplace~~ tried to flush it down the toilet
I was thinking the same thing, but to play devil's advocate:
"Why am I not allowed to bring my phone into the exam? Any job I use this qualification for is going to let me have access to my phone anyway."
Here's the thing about these debates: The Republicans have no platform or policies. All they have is old white people fears. So the debate sounds like this:
"What is your stance on minimum wage?"
"The minimum wage should increase so that all Americans can afford to survive in this nation."
"WOKE MIGRANTS ARE GONNA FORCE YOUR KIDS TO GIVE YOUR TRUCK A SEX CHANGE OPERATION!"
And you're going to tell me there's a meaningful winner of this mediocre reality TV show?
I wouldn’t even care if they could prove that she was directly coached by a professional roast comedian…. You know… could you imagine a world where trump shows up to the debate and found a whole panel of roasters just start dunking on him for 2 hours straight.
I imagine it wouldn't be all that hard to dunk on an elderly person with small hands.