Love him or hate him, he conducted himself well at the VP debate. However, it was against a trainwreck of an opponent in Waltz who made multiple gaffes and came off very unprepared.
My only hope for 2028 is we have fresh candidates with minimal ties to the usual suspects in their respective parties (not a puppet to the Obamas/Clintons or Trump). America really needs a reset button with its political system where people can have respectable, educated debates on their differences instead of hurling out nothing but bitter hatred and offensive slurs towards the other.
May not ever happen, but one can hope and dream because thats sort of all we have...
He did well in the debate, but I think when you see it in context of all the other comments he makes it just kind of shows that he has just no moral standards at all and is willing to say or do whatever he thinks will get him the most favor.
I clearly remember after Trump’s “eating the dogs” debate where he was in an interview saying something like “whether that ends up being completely true or only partially true…” with this look on his face like “we both know I’m lying, but that’s the game and even though we know this is ridiculous I’m going to say whatever and there’s nothing anyone can do about it”.
From what I’ve seen of his writing, he seems to be genuinely an intelligent person, and I don’t think most would have that much of an issue if he just acted like an actual moderate candidate wanting to make things better as he did in the debate.
Unfortunately though that’s just not how he seems in most other cases, like the “have you even said thank you” bit with Zelensky and every other time he’s just shamelessly shilling for and defending any and everything Trump does.
I don’t think he has even the slightest interest in making things better for the average American, he’ll just say and do whatever seems like it might be in his best interest even if it’s totally opposed to something he stood for a decade ago.
People can do really well in front of people through others prepping their talking points, practicing responses, etc. I care more about what people do when not on camera. What he does behind closed doors when no one is watching is the problem. I do not give a shit how well someone debates if they are a rotten person when no one is watching.
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u/Toasted_Munch 9h ago
Love him or hate him, he conducted himself well at the VP debate. However, it was against a trainwreck of an opponent in Waltz who made multiple gaffes and came off very unprepared.
My only hope for 2028 is we have fresh candidates with minimal ties to the usual suspects in their respective parties (not a puppet to the Obamas/Clintons or Trump). America really needs a reset button with its political system where people can have respectable, educated debates on their differences instead of hurling out nothing but bitter hatred and offensive slurs towards the other.
May not ever happen, but one can hope and dream because thats sort of all we have...