Donald Trump was a total disgrace in the first Presidential debate last evening!
He would not follow the agreed upon rules, not to interfere, and to stop interrupting when Joe Biden or moderator Chris Wallace were speaking. The moderator should have shut off Trump’s microphone when Biden was being allowed his two minutes to give an answer to a question.
He refused to condemn white supremacists, and refused to agree to concede if he is declared the loser, and encouraged his supporters, in such a circumstance, to provoke civil unrest.
He acted like a 2nd grader, and lied incessantly, and was totally rude and bullyish throughout the debate!
Donald Trump declared war on decency and democracy. He endorsed white supremacist terrorist groups, such as “Proud Boys”, which is anti Semitic, anti Islamic, anti gay and transgender, anti immigrant, and misogynistic, and provokes violence, with Trump promoting them going to the polls and “watching”, a guarantee of bloodshed and violence!
He acted very UnPresidential, as Joe Biden declared, and embarrassed all decent people, as no President or candidate in any debate has acted in such a manner in the history of Presidential and Vice Presidential debates!
Meanwhile, Joe Biden kept his cool, and acted very Presidential, doing a lot of shocked and laughing gestures at the shameful display of horrible behavior by the man child who is our disgraced 45th President! 🙁
One cannot imagine how Joe Biden will not gain much more support nationally, and hopefully, defeat Donald Trump in a massive landslide in November! And early post debate polls indicate Biden “won” the debate two to one!
The Vice Presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris one week from today should go forward, but the last two Presidential debates should be canceled, as America has seen enough, and there is nothing positive to be gained by Biden debating Trump again!
Agreed. After last night, I. wouldn’t have any more debates with Trump.
The winner of the debate was a tie between the mute button and the off button on remote controls across the country.
When Biden said “Will you shut up, man?”, he expressed what many of us have been thinking about Trump for 4 years now.
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Steve Schmidt masterful takedown of Trump’s entire debate performance.
Trump trampled on debate rules so hard the Commission on Presidential Debates is adding new rules.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/presidential-debate-organizers-promise-format-changes-after-tuesday-night-chaos-n1241583
Proud Boys jubilant as Trump endorses their proto-fascist violence during presidential debate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/proud-boys-celebrate-after-trump-s-debate-call-out-n1241512?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Former Republican – Pragmatic, Rustbelt, Southern Liberal, Rational Lefty, and I have also had that happening with our posts.
The orange, racist monster, “untethered from reality†completely lacks impulse control.
God has weighed in about the debate –
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1311133930431471617
God
@TheTweetOfGod
Now I regret inventing time.
#Debates2020
Shepard Smith has a news show on CNBC now. It comes on at 7 pm EST.
Thanks for that, Rational Lefty. I’ll be sure to tune in.
A different take on the debate –
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/10/01/actually-it-was-a-good-debate-seriously/
Actually, It Was a Good Debate. Seriously. It revealed the president’s true nature better than any policy discussion ever could.
I thought the debate was great. And Chris Wallace was outstanding, too.
Since I know pretty much everyone is saying that both the debate and the moderator were global embarrassments, let me explain. The purpose of a debate is to reveal useful things about the candidates. We pretend that we learn by observing a careful exchange of policy positions, and sometimes that happens. But has there ever been a debate where one of the candidates revealed more about himself than this one? Wasn’t it far more clarifying than most debates?
And Wallace was, for that reason, pretty perfect. He inserted himself enough to clarify that Trump was breaking the rules. That was hard to do; he defiantly, on the spot, did not engage in false equivalence. That Trump blew right past him was great for the country—because we got to see Trump in his rawest, truest sense. We didn’t learn about the differences in approaches to health policy—but we did learn about character, temperament, and personality.
We also got to see how Biden handled such a volatile situation. He mostly showed self-restraint and calm. Isn’t that more telling than a few more minutes of him explaining his buy America procurement rules?
Debates should help voters make their decisions. This one provided a deluge of useful information.
Journalists are sometimes criticized for not ‘nailing’ the subjects that they interview. That misunderstands the journalist’s role. The job is often to reveal not rebut. If I’m really honest, I have to admit that when I do interviews, especially for print publications, I will intentionally let subjects continue to say stupid or offensive things, without challenge—because that is far more revealing than if I pointed out their stupidity and thereby prompted them to clarify.
I feel the same way about debates. The point is not to catch the candidates; it’s to reveal them. In that sense, this was the best debate in modern American history.
October surprise is here. Trump has tested positive for Covid. He got it from Hope Hicks. With his yelling at the debate, he may have possibly exposed Biden.
Trump’s diagnosis throws the election into chaos and threatens a governing crisis.
Trump’s campaign did not have the courtesy to notify Biden’s campaign about this.
All I can say is: Karma!
That’s what Trump gets for not taking the virus seriously, not wearing his mask, etc.
Biden tested negative.
Senator Mike Lee has tested positive.
I wonder if Trump’s treatment plan will call for Lysol or bleach.
Or hydroxy, his favorite drug.