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Looking forward to reading how well Trump's weekend of talking to Evangelical leaders, announcing his nominee for Supreme Court, two campaign stops in PA, a round of golf, a news conference and a meeting with Gold Star Families helped him prepare for the debates.
I read he met with Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani to talk about debating … that may have been useful, too. Rudy provided the scoop to Fox and Friends. Daily Beast headline summarizes:
Trump doesn't need to prep. He'll just make shit up as he goes along and Chris Wallace will be silent. Who the fuck picked this Fox News anchor to be the moderator? Where are the League of Women Voters when you need them?
I give Chris a B given the asshole he had to deal with.
I do, too. He couldn’t really yell, “Will you shut up already!”
Chris Wallace is as good as it gets with moderators. He needed a mic cutoff.
Shock collar.
Suitably placed.
A taser to the balls might work.
Too minuscule a target.
Gonna be a shitshow of biblical proportions.
Giuliani was part of the team that did debate prep with Trump. The demented talking to the demented.
These presidential debates should take place only on nights when the moon is full.
Don't forget, Governor Donuts was in the room, as well. There is no more of a mealy-mouthed opportunist than Christie. He has been trying to get back in that door for quite a while.
He is convinced the O.D.s' problems are only because his obnoxious self wasn't running things.
Christie is an oaf, but compared to Trump, he's Pericles.
Christie is also Einstein compared to Giuliani whose elevator doesn't stop at the top floor anymore.
Not tonight – I have a headache.
OMG! #GoJoe!
OMG again.
Trump seems even ruder and nastier this time than 4 years ago with Hillary.
all the better
to own the libsto rile the baseOh, yeah, no question. We’re now down to calling people “stupid bastards.” Where’s the hook – drag him off the stage. At the very least, cut his mic.
Chris Wallace really should have been able to turn off the mics.
Add soundproof booths to that and an optically opaque barrier between the two. You could have had that debate across two coasts and it would have helped.
Dana Bash just called it a "shit show."
Gonna have to take my ‘Fire the Liar’ yard sign for another long walk down the boulevard again tomorrow.
I actually found myself tonight standing in front of the tv with my fists clenched. I’ve never ever even yelled at a tv before but came close t o punching one tonight.
I'm a little concerned about our collective blood pressure . . .
I thank you all for the summaries. I could not bear to see it.
Stay the course, Senator. Stand by your president.
Love,
Moderatus
FU Chris Wallace. You allowed Trump to prevent a debate from happening. It embarrassed and disgraced our country. You get zero sympathy from me no matter how “hard” it was to tell Trump to shut up. Maybe the next female moderators will have more, umm, fortitude.
FU Chris Wallace.
Wallace clearly failed. You would think they would have been better prepared for the growling hyena. He simply needed to be cut off (meaning his mic) each time, after one warning. The fact that Trump apparently thought his outrageous behavior would win him the debate shows how much he has deteriorated mentally.
No kill switch … rules, donchaknow.
Commission on Presidential Debates did have a statement today (Wednesday) that there would be more structure to the other two debates.
I caught the last 20 minutes on the drive home from family birthday celebration. Cheezun Rice. $rump just showed who he is tonight.. lying, vicious, disordered. And that 35% of the evangelical/ cult / Q Anon base will just lap that verbal diarrhea up like it’s a Tastee Freeze. $rump succeeded in rattling Biden by attacking Hunter, interrupting when Biden was supposed to be getting his two minute summary in.
I agree, Wallace ( or whoever the moderator is next time ) needs a mic cut off button. I’ve taught “underprivileged, at risk “ middle school boys with better manners. The President has forfeited the respect his office normally receives- we shouldn’t give the current occupant respect he hasn’t earned.
Biden was on the defensive way too much in the segment I heard- letting Trump control the narrative, responding to his needling, trying to fact check in real time. Not really a good look for him. Sigh.
I watched the whole debate and Biden did very well. He told Trump to “shut up”. To “quit yapping” called him a “fool” and a “clown.”. Trump may have fired up his base, his apparent goal. But I watched the post debate analysis on Fox and they agreed Trump’s oafish behavior was a “lost opportunity.”.
when Fox says Trump blew it, Trump blew it.
Trump needed a win. He didn’t get it. Biden, the frontrunner, only needed to not lose. He won.
In the next few days, Biden will go up a couple points in the polls. That will bring him close to landsde margins, defined as 55/45 or better.
Trump stinks.
Trump told the proud boys to standby. But he also warned Biden to be careful because he could be overthrown. He ridiculously said that in respect to “antifa”. The main point is that Trump injected a violent overthrow of a Biden Administration. That has been somehow missed by pundits.
"Proud Boys? Stand back and stand by."
This the most disturbing comment of the "debate".
It should be the headline everywhere.
Yep.
Maybe, just maybe, that'll wake up some of the vacuous Pollyanna dipshits who can't bring themselves to contemplate that the GOP is planning Kristallnacht-style shenanigans for election day.
They've already made their plans for Kristallnacht:
Of all the favorable signs for Trump’s Election Day operations, Clark explained, “first and foremost is the consent decree’s gone.” He was referring to a court order forbidding Republican operatives from using any of a long list of voter-purging and intimidation techniques. !e expiration of that order was a “huge, huge, huge, huge deal,” Clark said.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/
Didn't watch, but will be reading plenty about it, I'm sure. r&r has the solution above. Give each a set time to speak/rebut and shut off their mics the rest of the time. "Debates" in future years should be aired on PBS and NPR only with the League of Women Voters moderating…no cable or network news involved except to spin the performances each according to their bias afterwards.
Good lord, CDW! Have you ever been to a League of Women Voters debate? They're dreadful.
I think moderators should have control of the mics, but how is the debate commission going to get the trump campaign go along with that?
They need a padded, sound-proof booth. And if Trump doesn't agree, cancel the debates.
Add soundproof booths to that and an optically opaque barrier between the two. You could have had that debate across two coasts and it would have helped.
The BBC has reactions from the UK and Europe. It's not pretty.
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54354405
Thanks for the link, CDW. You're right. It wasn't pretty at all, but they already knew what an ass Yammie-pie is.