With zero moderation and one candidate spewing nothing but lies, they can expect lower future viewership too.
What was even the point, CNN?
The point is fox news.
You want to know the problem?
Obviously both candidates suck, but The questions the moderators ask, can just be ignored by the candidates. There hasn’t been a good moderator in years, if ever. No one insists that the questions be answered and they continually ignore them.
Hold the candidates’ feet to the fire. Don’t let them go off tangent. Slap them down and insist on an answer to the question. They don’t want to answer? Cut their mic and move to the other candidate who might actually answer it.
Too many times during the debate were questions like abortion and climate asked, they were just ignored.
One of Trump’s debates, Anderson Cooper kept grilling him on something he refused to answer about. At one point he declared that Trump is refusing to answer that question, explicitly. It was probably the best moderation I’ve ever seen.
Then in one of the primaries, one of the moderators called Pete Buttigieg a liar after he said their information was false and corrected them (he in fact was not lying). That was possibly the worst moderation I’ve ever seen.
At least in this one they would say “the question was…” when they didn’t actually answer.
A proper debate for Trump and Biden is like setting up a mixer for you and two exes that you despise. What are you going to learn that you don’t already know?
Which is one of the reason why I don’t think this debate will change many people’s minds.
I didn’t watch because fuck those two people. I will still vote Biden. But you all should know, my GE refrigerator is running!
Wow. You better go catch it!
I’m a politics wonk and this is the first one in decades I haven’t watched. I just don’t think my liver can take it.
Yeah I read some transcripts and commentary, good enough. Already know I would never vote for Trump.
Both candidates suck. Nobody wants to watch them.
Thank fuck.
Doesn’t matter whats said. I have the choice between a guy who stutters. A condition that doesn’t affect intelligence or mental faculties in any way. Or I have the choice of a convicted felon who has clearly only cares about himself
the/to the point of mental instability.I’m voting for Biden. Not because he is the best person for the job but because the alternative is a complete fascist shit show with all of his ignorant bigoted sycophant regressives willing the destroy the country. Not to return it to what it was in the past. Instead they seek to create some fantasy dictatorship that never was.
a guy who stutters
Nobody came away from the debate concerned about his stutter. This is like someone on the right calling Trump “a guy who speaks his mind”. I’m voting Biden too, but do you honestly think that’s why many of us will be holding our noses while doing so?
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I’m pretty bad at speaking off the cuff but by all measures, I’m fairly intelligent (went to a competitive school for undergrad and got good grades, etc.)
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When they announced that they were adding ad breaks I decided it was something I didn’t need to watch live. Then I saw the highlights and decided there’s no reason to go back and rewatch it.
Yeah, it doesn’t matter, at least for me. One candidate is old while the other is a 34 times convicted felon. The latter has made it clear he intends to dismantle the democratic institutions of our country and turn it into another fascist regime. At this point the DNC could platform a watermelon in a wig and I’d still vote for them over the convicted felon.
They are both old; only one is a convicted felon.
True. My comment was addressing the perception of Biden as portrayed by the major media outlets (they rarely ever mention that Trump is nearly the same age), but I concede that my comment could have been clearer in that regard.
I got the time-zone wrong and missed the first hour. Biden seemed fine to me - what the heck did I miss in the first hour?
Thank fuck.
Well that’s a relief.
It made me sick to my stomach after 15 minutes and I turned it off.
