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Mitchell Epner

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1/ My thoughts on the Presidential Race after Thursday night's debate. A. Joe Biden had a very bad night. He appeared frail and disoriented, particularly at the start. He was poorly served by a format that provided for no "fact checking" by the moderators, because he was not up to the job of . .

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Wheredafukarwi's avatar Wheredafukarwi @wheredafukarwi.bsky.social
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My understanding is that Trump routinely deploys a tactic called the Gish Gallup. Layer upon layer of unrelated BS. Impossible to fact check. It's all lies anyway. Gish Gallup is not a new debate tactic. It's designed expressly to overwhelm your opponent. More flood the zone, so to speak.

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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2/ . . . correcting Trump's egregious and repeated lies. B. Donald Trump had, in my opinion, the second worst Presidential debate performance in history. He lied throughout, did not bother to veil his fascist intentions and declared "I did not have sex with a porn star" - which will likely . .

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CarpinSanDiego's avatar CarpinSanDiego @carpinsandiego.bsky.social
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Never debate a nazi. There is no "winning" in that scenario. They dont argue in good faith and dont actually believe in the exercise as it pertains to arguing over policy points. Platforming lies (live debate) doesn't strengthen the democratic process it actually erodes and destroys it.

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