October 2nd, 2024.

When moderator Margaret Brennan noted during last night's vice presidential debate

that Republican nominee J.D. Vance had once again lied about the legal status of migrants

in Springfield, Ohio.

Vance retorted, the rules were that you guys weren't going to fact check.

As scholar of propaganda, Pekka Caliomyani noted, this was the epitome of post-truth politics.

Vance lied throughout the debate and has lied throughout this campaign, and in that he is following the MAGA Republicans and Trump

who has become entirely untethered from reality. Aaron Rupar, who watches Trump's rallies,

and Noah Berlatsky wrote in public notice that Trump's

growing mental incapacity was obvious yesterday, as in two rallies he made a wide-ranging

journey through conspiracy theories, hatred, and nonsense.

He seems ever more adrift in his own fog of hate and ego,

Rupar and Berlaski wrote, he mixes up world leaders, confuses countries, garbles pronouns,

loses track of his nonsense talking points.

Vance's post-truth world did not dominate last night's debate.

A political focal data snap poll afterward showed that while party voters overwhelmingly

declared their party's

nominee the winner, 58% of independence backed Democratic vice presidential

nominee Tim Walls. Before the debate, political consultant Stuart Stevens posted,

If you want to know what the campaigns think of their VP candidates debate,

just watch how they schedule the candidates post-debate.

After Cheney VP debates, Lieberman and Edwards basically disappeared,

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