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southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social |
I didn’t watch the debate, and most of the professional commentary I’ve seen on it has both not provided me with any new information about the race and inspired contempt for the commentators. I don’t know if I’m a typical American in this regard, but that’s where I’m at.
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ariel gordon
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The fact that we're going to get at least twice as much mention of Biden having a raspy voice than we are of all the substantive batshit stuff Trump said is such a failure of our media ecosystem. People can figure out that someone has a cold and is old without the professional commentators.
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
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Wholly with you on this.
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@snakefeet.bsky.social
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They’ve been able to pump him with the good shit when it’s mattered before. Didn’t work this time. Probably won’t matter for purposes of election except to extent it portends further decline, but it’s infuriating nonetheless that this is what we’re stuck with.
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@youkillmyfather.bsky.social
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Unless one of them died on stage, there's little that was going to change most peoples minds. Although people would probably write-in Trump even if he was dead.
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Keith
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Typical American did not watch it, did not know it was going on, and will consume 2 videos about it online tomorrow and then forget it ever happened.
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Jim Teeth
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I don’t watch debates. I try to avoid reading commentary except from a select group of people from outside the US. Too many people bring too much baggage to how they view it. I mean Trump is nuts and Biden is old. Those are true, but too many people focus on one and ignore the other.
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riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་
@riwoche.bsky.social
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You're exactly where most of the typical Americans are tonight, irrespective of whatever the commentariat comments.
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Trey Lawson
@tlawson.bsky.social
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Hard same.
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J. Christine Leach
@jchristineleach.bsky.social
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It's mostly an exercise noting how badly the media is failing us/serving the oligarchs that pay them, yes. I think most people who have half been paying attention for the last few years already know who they're voting for.
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Scott Burton
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It was real bad
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@copernicus.bsky.social
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It's insane that journalists have decided the public does not need to be informed about "typical falsehoods".
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@vinosmax.bsky.social
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As usual you have summed up my thoughts and far more articulately than I could ever hope to. BTW your book is great.
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marythetrainer🦋🐢🤷🏻♀️😏🌎
@marythetrainer.bsky.social
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Yuuup.
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Babs...all day
@babsallday.bsky.social
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Same. My thinking right now is: Yes, rough night for Biden. We don't yet know why. The mainstream press always catastrophizes any setback on Biden's part. (Few pointing out the insanity of the other candidate being a felon.) Those Dems currently panicking need to chill out and get some perspective.
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The Random Janitor
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I don’t believe that Biden necessarily lost. The problem here is 1. This debate isn’t actually changing anyone mind. 2. Biden when I was watching really struggled physically and mentally to get his point across. When he did I agreed with him but it was hard to hear him a lot. 3. Trump just did
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Maria McGrath
@ikycat.bsky.social
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Same, Pup.
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L
@noisybrooklyn1.bsky.social
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Me too.
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Cigarettes, Michael Dukakis, 1988
@nitricacidbottle.bsky.social
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I watched the first 2 episodes of The Bear season 3 instead. Way better use of my time.
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@la-crystal.bsky.social
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The debate was bad, the commentary worse. The moderators did ok and I think they were helped a lot by the mike cutoff thing. They TRIED to give Trump a chance to actually answer questions by following up, but he just regurgitated his stump speech, lies and obsessed about the border.
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SavluvX
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All this plus chocolate peanut butter ice cream 🤷🏼♂️
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GigaChad Pennington
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As someone rooting, hoping, pleading, for Biden to do well, never pushing for him to drop out previously (though, admittedly I'd have preferred it), this debate was a nightmare. I wish we could assume the average voter would read a transcript. But they won't and his age is all that played.
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What Would John Brown Do?
@johnbrownsbody.bsky.social
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There was no new information presented. Trump is a fascist and Biden does not appear to know what year it is or what is going on
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@dobozysaurus.bsky.social
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BREAKING NEWS: Politico hates Biden and wants him to lose ain't exactly breaking news.
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Randomsome
@randomsome.bsky.social
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I hung out with my new friends who throw big awesome parties instead. Wow would recommend!
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Jen Cross
@jencross.bsky.social
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That's a positive outcome for Biden.
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Kapitalradio
@kapitalradio.bsky.social
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If you didn’t watch it then you didn’t see how bad it was and you shouldn’t be talking about it now
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Jeremy Chao
@jmchao.bsky.social
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Taking a gummy and watching 3 episodes of The Bear seems like it was a much better choice for my mental health.
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Marc Deschamps
@marcdachamp.bsky.social
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My wife, who barely follows politics at all, watched this debate with me today and said “wait, people think Biden lost?”
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@green496.bsky.social
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Yep. The political media is such a failure.
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Max Zorin
@therealmaxzorin.bsky.social
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Wise choice. I wasn’t going to watch but my wife made me watch while I cooked her dinner.
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Paddyboy
@hodag1977.bsky.social
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Same.
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roslyn
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it doesnt matter. women are being attacked. our rights are being taken away. biden could be on life support and women will still vote for him. even maga women have problem pregnancies. women vote at higher rates than men. why is this not obvious to everyone
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Blake Mitchell
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There was no way I was gonna watch it. The last one I subjected myself to was 2004 and I said “never again.”
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VoteBlue4ever
@voteblue4vr.bsky.social
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💯 this
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Shane F King
@shanefking.bsky.social
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I regret watching it
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Ducky Krup
@duckykrup.bsky.social
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Biden: sounds feeble! Oh no! Trump: Answer the question? Nah; im going to go back to talking about my fictional version of the US
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Aviel Roshwald
@avielroshwald.bsky.social
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You should consider yourself fortunate. It was painful to watch.
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We're Skroob
@pseudonymble.bsky.social
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The live meltdown afterward on CNN is worth watching, actually.
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@lconnor.bsky.social
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exactly.
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Cuchulu
@cuchulu.bsky.social
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I watched for half a minute. It was clear they prepped Joe all wrong. DON’T ENGAGE WITH trump. IGNORE HIM. Talk about your accomplishments and the future. If you want to engage trump ask him a random question about mushrooms.
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PA
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Nihl L'Amas
@nih-llamas.bsky.social
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@mirjana.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, you aren't a typical American.
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Julia
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Biden made coherent points but really struggled in speaking coherently and forcefully. He seemed feeble and tired but I think he had a cold still it was VERY painful to watch especially since Trump was such an evil lying monster
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Le Maki
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Biden has to drop out. This isn’t going to work.
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Luke Migneco
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It's surreal watching a bunch of journalists say that one candidate should drop out after any stumble. Which creates its own, additional entirely manufactured stumble. A lot of the NYT crowd are proud non-voters too, so why are they even sharing any opinions of that nature.
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just stir it, Una
@scamble.bsky.social
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A friend of mine missed it and is trying to find any decent, solid news about it is coming up empty-handed. It’s not just you.
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Rob Honeycutt
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You really should have watched. As soon as I started watching the commentators all they did was confirm exactly what I felt watching this debate. Dems are in a position where we need to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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Dr. LurkHer
@lurkher.bsky.social
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SAME
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Kristina of ⭐️⭐️
@maytagsmom.bsky.social
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It was so frustrating to watch. I wish I hadn’t. But I’m picking up a new book now.
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PNW Mom
@strangetimes33.bsky.social
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Me too.
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mkerste
@mkerste.bsky.social
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The clips I've seen, when Biden stumbles, he usually eventually gets to the end of his thought. Tonight was a disaster. The MSNBC headline reads "Biden just gave one of the worst debate performances in recent memory". Maybe you're right, and it's early enough/nobody cares, but it's far from good.
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Kombiz Lavasany
@kombiz.bsky.social
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Me too
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J Cortazar
@jcortazar.bsky.social
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I could not wait to change it from CNN to not hear what they had to say. Something along the lines "yes, Trump lied his ass off but it was a great strategy" and this totally changes things for those (~50) voters who both have no idea how to choose between these 2 and also give a shit about a debate
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@eighthdayarts.bsky.social
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Same on all counts.
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Katelyn Burns
@transscribe.bsky.social
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I’m generally not one for overt hyperbole but it was the worst debate performance of my life time. And not particularly close. I’m 42 years old.
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Kyle Mann
@kylemann.bsky.social
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Their most intense argument was about who had the better golf came and smaller handicap.
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David
@romanticslob.bsky.social
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I think you owe it to yourself to watch a replay of the debate & ask yourself if Joe Biden is fit for office. I definitely think you should watch clips of Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom on the surrogate circuit and see for yourself their inability to mount a coherent defense of Biden's performance.
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