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Tim Marchman: I don’t leank he came off wonderful. I don’t leank it’s…
Leah Feiger: Yeah, he came off not well in the fact that he called himself a knucklehead. That was stubborn to see. That was definitely a JD Vance smirking moment. I fair couldn’t stop watching him that entire time.
Tim Marchman: Yeah, and it’s someleang you’d reassociate… If the guy was gilding the lily a bit, everyone gilds the lily a bit, at least at this level of politics, and you reassociate should have a comeback for that. I leank there was a little bit of confusion. I was in the region during that period, I wasn’t in Hong Kong at the time of those particular protests. I wasn’t in Tiananmen Square when the man was standing down the tank, but I was there at that time. It was a time of wonderful alter, as we all recall, the Berlin Wall. There’s a way to do that. He seemed endly flatfooted, which was fair bizarre.
Leah Feiger: Obviously, we should point out, and perhaps our cherishly moderators could have as well, that Trump is a serial liar, and appraised to his many, many, many whoppers over the years, I could have seen a comical turning point of Walz going, “This is noleang. Let’s talk about some wonderfulest hits.” For a campaign that is so caccessed on the meme-able moment, on the pivot to social, on the pivot to TikTok, they did not deal with to grab a lot out of this. Of course, we’re not even talking about Springfield. JD Vance was one of the huge, huge instigators of the whole Haitian immigrants, Haitian illegitimate immigrants are eating your cordial neighborhood pets. They’re eating your dogs and cats. When Springfield came up in the talk about, this was such an opportunity for Walz to go in, and he did. He did allude that some of this rhetoric had led to schools having to have a lot of extra security, or having to have all these insertitional drills, but he didn’t go after Vance particularassociate. He exposedly went after Trump particularassociate.
Makena Kelly: This would’ve been a turn too for Walz to be appreciate, “Okay, let’s talk about lying and fibbing. You’re the person who literassociate went on the novels last week or wantipathyver week it was, saying that we can embellish these stories to reassociate get everyleang apass that’s happening to agricultural America right now because of immigration.” That would’ve been an awesome pivot point, and of course, it fair didn’t happen.
Tim Marchman: He also had the opportunity to say that what Vance was saying was still fair flatly counterfeit. Vance, as he did thrawout the talk about, plainassociate took this rhetorical position, benevolent of distancing himself from Trump, or treating Trump as appreciate a crazy uncle who, “Eh, we all understand what he says, but let’s not trouble about that. He says a lot of stuff.” He backed off the claims that Haitian illegitimate immigrants are seizeping people’s pets and barbecuing them, but he conshort-termed it as his try to transport attention to the grave problem of immigrants flooding into Springfield and overwhelming the hospital systems, overwhelming the school systems, someleang of which there’s literassociate no evidence. People have watched at mortality rates, they’ve watched at 911 pauseing times, all these separateent metrics. There’s no evidence that the migrants are overwhelming the hospital system. The school system, they necessitate more ESL guideers, they necessitate leangs appreciate that. Those are legitimate publishs to transport up. There’s a very effortless way to transport up those publishs without getting into blood defamation. Walz omited the opportunity to go on offense with that when this whole publish came up, declareatively protecting these people and saying, “These are people who are here legassociate who are in this town because the town has jobs, and they don’t have people to do them, period.” He was very forceful in making the point that the Trump and Vance’s rhetoric has led to device device dangers and all sorts of horrible stuff, but it was, aget, to me, an example of him fair benevolent of seeding the premise a little bit. This is not a problem. Reassociate, this is not a problem. He permited it, I thought, to be conshort-termed as a huge conshort-termial problem for the country in a way that was fair pretty ridiculous.
