I think there was just about the right mix of muting the mics and giving him enough rope to hang himself. Harris’ campaign supposedly did want the mics unmuted for exactly that reason, but having them muted did let her get her message across to the viewers without constantly being interrupted.

If it’s a legitimate discontinuation the campaign has a way of shutting the whole thing down.

Fox News cut him off to protect their audience from seeing that the emperor has no clothes on. It’s far from the first time they’ve done it.

Good night Springden, there will be no encores.

“It’s alright when I do it” is a core pillar of conservative ideology, so it’s fine.

And give the death penalty to sex offenders, and classify pornography as a sex offense. See where this is going?

There was a policy document called “Fightback!” published by the Australian Liberal Party (who were in opposition at the time) ahead of the 1993 federal election. The Labor government was behind in the polls, but they ran a massive scare campaign about the deeply unpopular policies in Fightback and managed to win a historic 5th term with a slightly increased majority.

The lesson both major parties took from that election was to never release detailed policies in advance of an election, because you give your opponent time to attack every detail and put you on the defensive (and if you’re defending, you’re losing). Publishing Project 2025 before the election may well turn out to be one of the biggest mistakes they made, because it’s given the Democrats the opportunity to get the news out about all the deeply unpopular things they want to do.

This is also a warning that even if Harris and the Democrats win this election Project 2025 isn’t necessarily dead, and they may learn to hide it better next time. The majority of policies in Fightback did end up happening to some degree over the following 30 years.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Thorpey says it’s fully sick!

Text to speech. There are Tiktok accounts that just scrape popular text posts from Reddit and read them out through text to speech over a video of something like Minecraft parkour or Subway Surfers.