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
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Edit Impressive how a debate can go when one participant doesn't have mental health issues! Thanks for coming everybody!
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.
Yeah, I wish he would just say "one of us is soon going to find out firsthand just how little the Veep can get done unilaterally."
It's like every single response, and he just ignored it each time. Vance literally said "her policies".
I counted at least twenty references to the "Harris administration," or "Harris' immigration policies," and one full-on "the Harris/Biden administration."
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.
Yeah. His biggest handicap is he has to spend half the time trying to explain and defend whatever bullshit Trump says. If he didn’t have that burden on him, he can smooth talk his way into power.
"Did he lose the 2020 election?"
"OH YEAH?!?! Well did Kamala Harris censor people?"
The "meta" debate is incredible here.
This literally happened right after JD Vance promised to shake hands after the election. It proves JD Vance is a fucking snake who shouldn't be trusted.
Its a self-own of colossal magnitude. I fear the full effects of which are lost upon too many as it happened in the last minutes of the debate, so too many Americans had mentally tuned out by then.
vance won't answer if trump lost the 2020 election. oh its the lauph into cry now. man he is so weasily.
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.
Its like Trump is the problem lol.
Oh definitely, I just kind of forgot how debates can be when his dumbass isn't in the room.
Can't wait for him to be completely gone. The neverending circus is making us forget normal things.
I can't wait for trump to be in prison, rotting away with no ability to communicate with the outside world; watching out the window as the world forgets about him in 3 or 4 news cycles.
Vance is just as morally corrupt and full of lies but has a better facade.
Agreed
There isn't really much respect.
The key is that both of them are basically reading their scripts. Walz because he is inexperienced and vance because he has clearly been yelled at for saying stuff his orange overlord does not like. But they are both making it a point to key in on one or two words the other person said to make it sound like they are listening or whatever.
"Should we force catholic hospitals to do abortions?"
No. Because there shouldn't be catholic hospitals.
"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.
well she was the sitting vice president. something you always here about with america. what is the sitting vice presidents view on this and what are they doing about it.
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 after the Debate
Vance lies like he breathes, but he isn’t mentally addled like Trump. He’s a threat. A long term threat.
Yup. He's very slick and relaxed up there. Completely full of horrible ideas and deception, but he's unfortunately doing better on the optics and sound bitey-ness.
Yep. Fortunately, Walz is doing a good job of neutralizing his crap.
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.
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.
Walz drove it home on the threat to democracy, and Vance had nothing to respond.
Vance: I did wanna answer your question, because you did ask it...
Narrator: He did not answer her question.
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.
You're absolutely right. He pulled off quite the balancing act though, just in case.
I think escaping the shadow of Trump might be tricky though, but 4+ years is a long time.
People dont remember trump as president from under 4 years ago and are saying things whent great when he was in power.. It absolutely is a long time.
SNL hit this one out of the park a while ago and posted something that seemed farcical but was truer than any of us would like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAG37Kw1-aw
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.’
JD “Spez” 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.
I see where you’re coming from, but I’d argue that while Walz is doing a respectable job, he’s not quite managing to keep up with Vance’s pace. The thing about Vance that makes him particularly worrisome is that he’s refined Trump’s messaging—he’s just as dangerous, but he presents it in a way that’s far more polished and effective. That’s what makes him so slippery.
Sure, Walz’s authenticity is a big plus, but in a debate setting, especially on TV, polish can sometimes outshine sincerity. And Vance, after shaking off that stiff opening, has settled into a confident, almost calculated cadence that’s making his points hit harder—even when they’re misleading. It’s that ability to mask lies behind a veneer of smooth professionalism that’s giving Vance the edge right now.
So, while I agree that Walz is holding his own and has some solid moments, Vance’s ability to deliver Trump’s talking points with better packaging makes him a much tougher opponent.
The "friends with school shooters" bit might have been a debate killer. I obviously don't want that but it was pretty bad
“Why won’t you rebut my lies?”
“They aren’t true”
“Ok but like why won’t you explain how?”
“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
😂🤣😂🤣
Vance literally said nothing about Trump's healthcare plan. They still have nothing.
Um they have a concept! What more do you want?
One of my MAGA-in-laws is in the hospital for a week with a huge sudden medical emergency. (They're fine now, in recovery)
I'm curious to see if once those bills come in if they start feeling different about healthcare coverage.
Who is banning books right now JD?!?
Walz just brought it up!
You'll still be able to buy Hillbilly Elegy and that book Melania wrote that her husband didn't bother to read.
Hillbilly Elegy has very appropriate passages for children. Like when his Mamaw asked him if he liked to suck dick when he asked her if he was gay.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/07/trumps-vp-pick-jd-vance-thought-he-was-gay-when-he-was-a-kid/
As someone near Appalachia, I would expect that to be the response. 😁
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.
The pregnant pause from the moderator followed by her mystified question made me laugh out loud.
LOL! "Thank you, senator, for describing the legal process."
lol Vance did not want to answer that elector question.
“NRA used to teach gun safety” is a great line for purple states.
It's very true. Now it's their other branch, the ILA, I believe it is, which is their legal lobbying branch, that is the core of the organization.
Vance: "The white guys shooting up schools with legally purchased guns are the fault of immigrants."
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.
It was much more obvious in the first half hour, but vance is basically giving the same speech they would have given if Biden were still running. And Walz doesn't have a good way to say "you do realize Kamala wasn't the POTUS for the past 3.5 years, right?"
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.
Be glad you got to read it before Kamala could censor him! 🙄
A helpful proxy for the future https://trumpstruth.org/
Only losers complain about moderators. 🤔
"from AOC to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift."
Taylor Swift confirmed more right-wing than Cheney!1!
Finally Waltz telling him the VP isn't responsible, Congress is. I think he's slipped that in a couple times now.
They've been pretending lately that the VP is more powerful than the actual President.
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.
No, you dick. Walz was right and everything you said wasn’t true. Everything got worse under trump, and I have fucking receipts.
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.
Maybe let’s fund national health care!
Republicans:
No.
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.”
"Do you want to support Catholic hospitals to perform abortions against their will?" FUCKING YES.
There shouldn't be catholic hospitals
Agreed, but that's a separate issue. There are Catholic hospitals and while those hospitals exist, they have to be forced to perform abortions if the woman's life is at risk.
Agreed. What else can they opt out of based on religion at that point? They could claim they don't help Muslims due to religious beliefs. They could claim they won't help women who don't listen to their husbands.
Guns are flowing into the United States from Mexico?
Wat??!
As I recall it's actually the opposite. But then they do sometimes find their way back up.
Honestly, ‘look over there!’ is basically their whole platform.
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.
Guns go from the US to Mexico, not the other way. Another blatant lie.
Mics got cut. Nice.
Vance is trying really hard to convince people they're getting paid better than they did before Trump.
Me: Opens wallet. Moth flies out.
How is it Kamala Harris's policies!? She's not the president! How much power does Vance think the Vice President wields!?
Trump WAS president. He didn't fix anything.
He doesn’t. This is how they are dealing with not running against Biden. Just playing pretend.
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.
That's because he's a genuinely nice person.
Housing too expensive? DRILL BABY DRILL!!
Jd vance: the biggest threat to democracy is censorship
Fucking wild take
Trump just said he wants to lock up anyone who criticizes the Supreme Court, but self-admitted misinformation being removed from Facebook is the real problem
"I don't really want to talk about the 2020 election, so Google sucks and also Tulsi Gabbard and RFK, Jr. likes me."
"Our number one export cannot be topsoil" - Walz
That is a hell of a good line.
I’m a knucklehead at times.
Girl, same.
FYI, parody accounts are firing up, don't get suckered:
Jack Kimble is a parody account.
https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1841151195198435344
California doesn't have a 54th district:
https://www.jackkimble.com/home
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_congressional_districts
Fuck that "I've become friends with school shooters" misspeak is gonna be clipped to hell isn't it
Yep lol.
you bet ur ass it'll make it into trump vance campaign ads.
Electric bills are what he thinks Americans are worried about right now? Really?
I mean his poverty stricken addict mother was worried about coal 30 years ago so we should be worried about it now, y'know?
I feel like Walz's answer re: The ACA is his best response so far.
It really was great.
Walz is knocking it out of the park on guns.
Kind of interesting that the "get under his skin" thing is kind being deployed against Walz a bit here. He's not Trump, so he's not flying off the handle, but he's losing his cool occasionally. I actually think that could work in his favor if he can channel it effectively. I think an angry Walz, within reason, could be really effective to counter robo-vance.
"You say trust the experts, but experts are wrong sometimes and Trump thinks with his gut brain and also I have kids." -- Vance
Lol
I paid more in taxes this year thanks to Trump. Vance can shove his lies up his ass.
Morning after thoughts:
The way I see it, Walz's clearly superior command of policy details, and the way that fact-checkers are counting nearly everything Vance said as a lie, gives Walz the technical win, while Vance gets the nod for being more polished. In the end, I don't think this debate will matter much to the election.
Those with an interest in history might remember that back during the 1988 election, Lloyd Bentsen absolutely demolished Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush's pick for VP, in a debate. But it was forgotten in a matter of days - if not hours - and Bush went on to win handily.
I think this debate will likely be forgotten soon, too.
I remember when he said "We must stop listening to the experts and start listening to common sense." I rolled my eyes at that one.
Many women who want families or already have families are devastated by your draconian ‘care’.
How are you wrong? In every single way, Vance. Just like on nearly everything, you have no empathy and can only see black and white when the world is many shades of grey.
Vance just appears like a slick televangelist. Smarmy.
Fuck you, you don’t know difficult.
I don’t know how much more of Vance’s bullshit I can listen to. And especially his church bullshit. We’re not all young girls (my son is 27) wanting to be livestock in a church community. Some of us are atheists. But I guess I should just go die because I’m not useful anymore.
Oh nice! Walz mentioned Wall Street speculators driving up housing prices. Then he literally quoted the Bible.
"Were not going to fix this listening to experts, we need to listen to common sense." - Running mate of the old man yelling about immigrants eating pets.
I’m beginning to think he doesn’t even have a family… he brings them up at the weirdest times.
you want to help people to afford babies vance. how about funding education nationally with three meals provided each day. oh and maybe healthcare. that would help.
Take a shot every time Walz says something reasonable and Vance give the camera that “are you buying this shit” grin.
He's actually checking the timer above the moderators
Ah that makes sense. Thank you
Does anyone think this "she's the vice president, so why didn't she implement these policies" thing convinces anyone?
“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know … morons.”
Needed a response of "I don't think you actually know what the Vice President does... The VP makes no policy decisions unless it comes up as a 50/50 tie in the Senate."
Probably some. People don't realize the VP doesn't have much power other than given by the president.
Notice how Vance hasn't said the word Biden.
He keeps beating that drum as well. It was will planned
ok im getting some chuckles now. vance. "pamela harris as the sitting vice president". well there is a phrase you never hear because the vice president as an advisory role and to continue the polocies if they take over so its not to disruptive. my lucifer he is an idiot (yes I already knew)
Did you know that JD Vance has "three beautiful kids?" Because he's told us three times. I'm wondering if he knows their names.
Vance: Smoke and mirrors, we want to do better.... but we won't.
vance keeps going with that bs that obamacare was not working till trump fixed it. it was doing great till they kicked out the leg. they do need ot not allow companies to own more than one leg of healthcare though (looking at you cvs)
LOL! "All Trump has said is that he wants to debate whether or not he won the 2020 election." Sure, JD. Sure.
No kids here, but I have many nieces and nephews, and it makes me so depressed to think of a school run like a police state.
I have two kids. It's very depressing.
Vance: "We can't tell you what the concepts of the healthcare plan are because it's boring."
He doesn't even have a concept of the concepts of the plan.
Vance just admitted that their health care plan is basically to keep Obamacare.
vance is hilarious suggesting you get rid of the workers by deporting them. Obama showed you have to go after the employers which actually works.
Immigrants making almost nothing and sending everything they make (after taxes) back home and living with 10 people in a small apartment are the problem? Not Blackrock and corporate landlords buying everything on the market?
But we need to get them out so American citizens can be stuck in the open air encampments on the federal land for not reproducing enough! 😆
“Where is the firewall?!?” Well put, Walz. Well put.
Phew. This debate does not have enough pee breaks.
You're not watching on the toilet? Vance makes me unexpectedly vomit and shit myself, so I have to watch the whole thing from the throne.
I was unaware that the vice president directly controls food prices.
Little known legal jargon deep in the Constitution.
one thing I love is walz matter of fact way with things. some people villify regulation but you want to be able to have time to get out of your house if theres a fire. I love hearing a debate with quotes like that. point out the dumb.
Stronger locks!!
Good lord, what a moron.
Moderator: "How long should companies pay for family medical leave?"
Walz: "That's negotiable."
Vance: "What if their church wants to pay them for childcare?!"
Oh yeah, tariffs. Please, increase inflation for all of us who can’t even afford shit now.
And your orange god sources his shitty Wish watches from China, what are you talking about?!?
oh he is ducking the will he certify results as a vice president. ok so I got two good laughs.
Sorry... what? Houses are expensive because of diesel fuel prices?
Well yeah. What do you think they fill the walls with?
Random thought: I wonder if that 23-and-me data gets bought up by the healthcare industry when they go under. 🤔 I wonder what they will do with it when they can know if predisposed to heart disease…
Vance won't answer the question about the 2020 election fraud by trump
This has been such a tame debate that the argument my neighbors are having about one of them masturbating to much distracted me.
"I've been consistent" says JD.
Consistently lying.
JD got upset when Tim said Minnesota has the lowest teen pregnancy rate, it's kind of his thing
I love the way vance/trump likes to take credit for the economy they inherited and then blew up just as they left. if, satan forbid, trump got in again any successes will be on the coattails of biden. my devil it still drives me nuts what he did with interest rates which is a dead simple thing for a president to do, which is not to pressure or interfere with the fed.
Will the fly be there to fact-check?
did vance just say he thought the american people don't know much about him or waltz???
Honestly this is an echo chamber and it gives you the idea that people are paying attention. Ask any rando walking down the street and they probably won't know them.
Vance: "Build the wall."
Yeah, no... I don't think you understand how big the southern border is or what terrain it's on, pal.
We'll have tremendous healthcare, and I'll make China pay for it!
Solar panels from China make “dirty” clean energy, while American fossil fuels create “clean” dirty energy.
Moderator: "How do you stop gun violence?"
Vance: "Stronger windows in schools!"
How will we handle child care at a federal level?
Vance: Long stream of bullshit, followed by “give federal money to churches.” Tax credit? Paid leave? Fuck you.
Okay, guys. I get it. You're both way into Jesus.
But did you know that JD Vance's family was working class and his mom was an impoverished, absentee, addict? He's only said it like 30 times so it's pretty easy to miss
Seriously. We get it. Your mom was shooting up while she was pregnant with you.
walz is owning this one. he is doing great and vance goes between evading and just lying. Hes better and more consistent with his lies which makes this no where near as entertaining as the presidential debate.
Well, what about Facebook though? What about censorship? What about that baby hippo on Tiktok? What about Flintstones vitamins?
Vance, that's Congresses job not the vice presidents
PBS pundits are complaining that they were too nice to each other and agreed with each other too much. Sigh.
I can’t watch anymore. Vance is riling me up too much and I’m not seeing enough pushback.
Cheers all, it’s been … interesting.
Senator Vance, are you a traitor?
Forget everything I said before. I have a new answer now. I will go back to my old answer the second I step off of this stage. You aren’t allowed to fact check me.
Thank god, they actually muted!
Yeah, once Walz started talking after they let Vance say his whole point.
Pikachu face
Pass the bill!
This is probably the best moment of this debate.
They will have the study in 2 weeks. Also, was it done by the evil experts we can’t trust?
here we go. hold onto your buts.
What about our ifs or ands?
First question is about the Middle East and Iran's attack on Israel. Walz is talking about how we need steady leadership for dealing with that, contrasting it with Trump.
Started a little stumbly, but already seems to be finding his footing.
Call ing out Vance’s disdain for trump, good
Vance trying hard to pull off Kamala’s faces from the last debate and only looking constipated.
He keeps getting mascara in his eyes.
I really hope Walz hammers Vance on women’s rights and LGBTQ issues. Just make that the focus of the whole thing, because those are the issues that will win in the margins of historically nonvoters. I really hope this campaign can finally understand why many voters are disenfranchised, and start finally enfranchising them.
Vast swathes of voters are unaffiliated because nobody cares about them. I know the dem candidates are capable of caring, but they need to show it.
The borders aren’t open, you numpty twat. Just keep lying.
yeah the problem here is vance says things that could be decent. if they were actually true. walz is doing great but how do you debate just made up crap.
Walz nailed the immigration question. Vance is making up lies and using buzzwords.
Does Congress need to pass bills to help border patrol?
Vance: The president has to solve it by helping law enforcement.
JD, isn't that what the bill passing through Congress would do?
GOP was setting the bar low for Vance before the debate, and he easily cleared it, so with low expectations, the consensus will be that he was fantastic. Walz was no surprise, he was fine, so I think folks are going to call it a slight Vance win. It won't matter, neither got hit hard enough, it won't move anything.
Walz just dropped the pet eating bomb back on JDs head.
We're ~25 minutes in, and so far I would say this debate is close, but Walz is edging out Vance. He's not as polished, but he's coming across as more genuine, and he's directly answering.
vance. those economic experts have PhD's but they don't have common sense.
Do people actually believe the Vice President can single handily pass legislation?
There’s the attack on intelligence by dismissing PhDs by basically calling them stupid and replacing intelligence with “common sense”, feels before reals.
The “experts” said shipping jobs overseas would save Americans money?
That wasn’t experts, that was business lobbyists and CEOs who wanted higher profits.
Waltz really just needed to say "I goofed." And moved on. That was embarrassing.
Excellent answer. Humanizing the issue, giving practical information, and raising project 2025.
Vance is now pro-abortion exceptions? Are you kidding me?
Edit: typo
Here we go. Yes, women’s rights.
“Shortage” more like venture capitalism and artificially limiting supply.
There it is, "I don't know the details. But let me tell you about my kids again"
Walz pointing out that Trump jokes about big storms creating more beachfront property.
It’s great that vance keeps heaping responsibility on Harris for events that happened while she was VP, events which were nothing a VP could affect.
Also, the world was “stable” under trump because tens of millions of people were dying from covid and the world was locked down. If trump wants to take responsibility for the covid virus, go for it.
now vance is trying to make it that its the democrats who don't believe in climate change. His argument is ridiculous given the signature ombudsman bill.
woohoo. walz brought up the bill and how its doing the things vance is suggested they are not doing. looking good.
I will say, I'm enjoying this debate more than I thought I would, simply because the moderators seem competent and both debaters are behaving like actual adults, even if Vance is a makeup-wearing Yale-bot.
exactly . Trump wants issues to run on, not solutions. We just saw this as he tried to manipulate the senate to not fix things so he’d have the problem to rail against and run on. This is anti-American.
"You said you wouldn't call me out on my bullshit!" - JD
Dude, you admit to lying about stuff.
"I'm rootin' for you." What? Rooting for me to do what?
He was talking to Trump
Not being “used” maybe the wildlife needs it?
Walz directly quoting Trump's promises about the wall, including the "Mexico will pay for it."
Walz is friends with school shooters? Lol whoops
Come on, it's obvious he meant their victims.
Remember that Walz by his own admission is "bad at debates" and that Vance is (an admittedly insane) Yale law school graduate. Walz has done few difficult interviews, almost every mainstream interview Vance has done has been difficult because he has to defend Trump. I just think it's important to have realistic expectations.
I'm honestly not sure what to expect, but I imagine Vance will seem like a more polished politician and debater. He is awkward and supports ugly things, but he doesn't seem to get goaded easily. If Walz can summon his "everydad" persona effectively to make it appear like there's a normal candidate and weird candidate up there and use his knack for a folksy phrase or comeback, that will probably be the "takeaway."
Due to the format, these debates have kind of turned into tiktok video farming events, so let's see who gets the most meme-able sound bytes. Let the games begin.
The bar for Vance is super low. All he has to do is avoid a donut shop incident.
woohoo. vance. lets just say its true carbon emissions cause global warming. lets just say.
Why always do this crap, where they act like they're not going to let just babble at their leisure and then they just do it anyway.
It was okay. Walz was the nice dad. Vance was the slimy, mudslinging worm he is, a true politician in every negative sense of the word.
Walz was too nice and charitable towards Vance and gave him credit on certain issues, and Vance didn't return it in kind.
Vance lied through his teeth and wouldn't answer a single goddamn question. Spent most of his time saying how terrible Kamala was and almost none about how Trump would be good for people.
I left thinking it was an okay performance from both, but I suspect people will remember Vance being a greasy little weasel and Walz being a nice dad. Overall, a net positive for Harris/Walz, but only a little.
Here we go, reproductive rights.
Springfield Ohio.
Please bring up cats and dogs. You know you want to. Fucking racist.
No one’s answering the question.
I love vance pointing out that maybe they don't want to be with their baby after its born.
"We're the cleanest economy in the entire world." What the fuck does that mean?
The US pollutes cleanly while other countries pollute in a dirty way. Carbon is pro-America.
Great point from Walz on trusting experts.
oh snap. walz pushing back on anti expert rhetoric from the right.
So far, I like the way the moderators are handling things.
Conclusion: Tim Walz is just too nice a guy to say what needs to be said.
Walz has the receipts on improving the lives of the middle class.
Vance is slick, but Walz is honest. I hope people can see the difference.
so obsessed with impeaching donald trump. yeah well that happens when you use the us presidency for blackmail. Its not obsession when a person is actually being corrupt.
LOL at Walz just out there on his own and ready and Vance like, "WTF? He's already out here?!"
Walz just comes off as so goddamn nice. I wish I could meet him in person.
A winning comment by Walz here.
Good lord. Can he answer ONE FUCKING QUESTION? Just one.
Trump got the house republicans to turn against their own bipartisan immigration bill so he can run on the issue. Hammer that hard.
Well, first of all.
Well... First of all.
First of all.
Well. First of all.
Walz was way too soft on Vance and let him control most of the debate. I'm tired of Dems positioning themselves as diet Republicans, then acting like they are nothing like while saying how much they agree with a guy like Vance on things lol. Vance also loudly saying you weren't supposed to fact-check me was embarrassing. Walz laid out actual plans and policy but that is not going to reach that crowd they are targeting.
Is he capable of answering a single question? This is just tedious.
Trump said blah, pls respond. Lol no, here’s what I imagine Kamala might do in some alternate reality.
Minor Vance win overall since he had lower expectations going in and Walz got that one unfortunate extremely clippable misspeak. Vance refusing to admit Trump lost in 2020 and his Springfield...thing though cost him any chance of a rout, which is basically required for a VP debate to have significant upballot effects. Still the Republicans probably appreciate getting Vance above Sarah Parin and Aaron Burr and getting the media distracted for another day or two.
Walz hitting his stride now
Do we care or not care about the future? Vance what?
Vance:
I want the entire Minnesota law dealing with abortion spoken verbatim, sir or my lies and misinterpreting said law will be true!
This is marketing word salad, which is all you can expect from someone like Vance.
Yeah, I honestly tried to follow his answer, and couldn't. It was delivered smoothly, and didn't mean anything.
Ha, Walz didn’t just accuse trump of being an agent of chaos – he used YOUR words to point that out, idiot.
first of all let me not answer the question and go off on a tangent.
Walz pointing out that Trump does diplomacy by tweet.
Bingo cards here:
https://www.wired.com/story/bingo-how-to-watch-vp-walz-vance-debate/
If you get the square with "The Cathedral" and are wondering what THAT Is:
It's a term related to extremist blogger Curtis Yarvin, who's in the J.D. Vance/Peter Thiel orbit:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets
More on Yarvin here:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarvin-neoreaction-redpill-moldbug
Yup. Keep going Walz, attack Trump over and over. That's all you need to do.
That was a really good answer from Walz, actually.
Vance is... just not answering the question. His delivery is weirdly robotic.
He’s not going to answer the question….
That is 3 AM or 03:00 Central european time or Paris mean time.
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/est-to-cet-converter
We bought Beer and snacks, looking forward to Walz walzing all over Vance. 🍺🍺😀
But he said he would have a plan 8 years ago… I think he should have more than a concept. No?
Kamala Harris is not the president, and you’re a liar.
Your party has relentlessly fought against the working class, which is why we’re struggling and destitute, even after decades of working for the scraps we have.
You’re a liar Vance.
I think this is how the evening is going to go. Vance simply won't directly answer any questions.
Walz Pro Tip of the Day!
The way this evening is going for Vance:
MODERATOR: [DIRECT QUESTION]
VANCE: "I'm going to talk about something completely different now."
The MAGA technique
guys I thought Walz would be doing better
Vance talking over the moderators, now. That won't play well.
I don’t know the details, but I’ll talk about identity politics instead of addressing the number 1 problem right now.
e: and loop back to the border!!
Your running mate tried to refuse aid to natural disasters a few years ago to areas that didn’t rim him hard enough. Were you not paying attention?
Venture Capitalism! Name the monster.
Solving those things in the past! Stop worrying about the future!
Oh shit, Tim just sunk JD's battleship.
Ouch on the Haitian call.
Federal land? We don’t have a land problem.
And Vance is simply refusing to answer the question about child separation. He simply won't.
Cutting both their mics was great. I want more of that, please.
pretty sure America has legalized slave labour via the prison system
Another non answer. No plan
hey so if vance/trump is going to have things done here instead of overseas why did trump not get that done when he was president. this is the problem (well outside all the others) with his campaign. He had his time at bat and he did not do any of these things.
Vance: mah family, so relevant
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Walz gave good answers about 90% of the time but definite dodged a few. Vance, otoh, made shit up constantly and harped on fear topics. Always about the border, blaming Harris for policy she wasn’t responsible for, and offering up an economy that the republicans have zero plans to create.
Lol.. number one export being top soil from flooding.
Bust unions and give the rich tax breaks is the spirit animal of not just Trump, but all the GOP.
but Trump isn’t actually going to work to make solar panels in the US or anywhere. This is a non answer that “they haven’t solved all the problems, so we should do nothing.”
I don't think the experts Walz was talking about and the "experts" Vance is talking about are the same experts.
"First of all..."
So are we voting for Vance or Walz???
think carefully as whoever wins will become the sitting vice president and thats a role that decides everything for the country. well in trump/vance land anyway.
It's like the campaign just crossed out Biden's name off of stuff that they wrote for Trump that he never got to use.
Wtf is Vance talking about? So he’s going to continue separating families, got it.
Maybe people don’t agree with you because you’re a misogynistic dipshit.
So your ex-baby mama is watching. I feel bad for her for ever having crossed your path.
In the last Canadian debate one of the questions was that if you reduce housing prices how will the elderly who own all the houses afford their retirement. I thought it was ridiculous, but it's interesting that it's not even in the discussion tonight