If one thing stood out in Donald Trump’s one-on-three debate with Kamala Harris and the ABC moderators, it was Harris’ constant mugging, disapproving facial expressions, and endless reproving smirks. To some, it was effective, to others it reminded them of an endlessly nagging spouse or always-annoyed teacher. Count me in the latter group.

People noticed:

I’ve noticed that during this debate, Kamala has only 3 different facial expressions. Disgust, confusion and mockery. You can tell she was trained by her team to keep these 3 facial expressions the whole time lol pic.twitter.com/681dfm0pNL

— cinnamongirl (@highiqgf) September 11, 2024

While the moderators constantly interrupted the former president and fact-checked him relentlessly, they let Harris lie freely without challenge. The more she realized the game was rigged, the more she smirked like an obnoxious Mean Girl.

Kamala's condescending look when Trump talks... every husband or ex-husband in the country is having a visceral negative reaction right now lolol

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) September 11, 2024

My kids make the same facial expressions Kamala Harris is making when they are in trouble.

— Tudor Dixon (@TudorDixon) September 11, 2024

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But facts didn’t matter to the vice president:

Kamala’s Big Missteps:

1) Saying J6 was worse than 9/11 on the eve of 9/11.

2) Not mentioning the 13 people killed in Afghanistan.

3) Laughing at the Haitian Migrant issue.

4) Her horrible attitude/ facial expressions.

5)Attacking Trump versus speaking about herself. pic.twitter.com/v6cphPYvb9

— Christy Kelly (@Kelly4Humanity) September 11, 2024

Instead of addressing substantive policy issues, she'd rather pretend she was in a high-school play:

Kamala's facial expressions are making her look like a drunk wine aunt. pic.twitter.com/qdQBbevomt

— Cryptid Politics (pro-DeSantis) 🇺🇸🐊 (@CryptidPolitics) September 11, 2024

On content, Harris is winning.
Visually, she's hurting herself. #Debate2024pic.twitter.com/74jGI6VHbh

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) September 11, 2024

These sorts of shenanigans may win over liberal Chardonnay moms, vapid Swifties, and the MSNBC fangirls, but will they work against Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping? I don’t imagine so: 

Kamala's exaggerated facial expression set is intended to endear her to Therapy-Americans. pic.twitter.com/2RdhM4BdRy

— Joshua Lisec, Ghostwriter (@JoshuaLisec) September 11, 2024

The “debate” was an absolute disgrace for journalism and will only cause thinking Americans to trust corporate media even less, if that’s possible. What is clear, however, is these charades cannot be allowed to continue—conservatives must find an alternative to these rigged events where they are sandbagged by liberal hacks and condemned to failure before the lights are even turned on. While we’ve seen them put the thumb on the scales before—see Candy Crowley—Tuesday night was the most unabashedly naked media partisanship on the world stage that I have ever seen.

Kamala can mug all night—which she did—but the reality is that progressives have mugged our wallets and our futures. “Annoyed mom” expressions” won’t solve the border, the economy, or the overseas wars. For the shallow progressives, however, it’s all really “cute.”