2020 POTUS Debate 1 (29 September) follow-along and discussion thread

You must be kidding

Yeah, that was great - a factual attack on something Trump said while he was president. More of that, definitely.

Yeh, this, that’s all he needs to do to answer anything Trump says. “This is the guy that said you should inject yourself with bleach.” But Dems are above that sort of thing.

Trump pulls out the tired line “ I’ve done more in 47 months than you in 47 years” Biden: silence. He should have said something there, like yeah you’ve done a lot- most of it bad.

I don’t think Biden is doing anything well here. He could take the “rise above” tactic by ignoring Trump’s bullying and talking directly to American people, which I think is what he intended to do, but he’s not being inspirational enough to pull that off. He could be trying the “get under Trump’s skin” approach, which I think the quicker-minded democratic candidates could’ve done very effectively and made Trump absolutely lose his shit, but he’s not able to get anything in. Or he could just point out how many fucking utter bullshit and stupid things Trump is saying but he’s just not trying. Trump has given him so many easy ways to attack - over Republican hypocrisy in the supreme court, over Trump’s disastrous covid handling, over Trump’s taxes, and he’s just not landing any blows.

Waiting patiently for Biden to go full-on beast mode. Disappointment seems inevitable.

fuck me Wallace just shilled for Trump

Here we go… PUNCH HIM IN THE MOUTH JOE!

Trump got Bo Biden in. Biden’s response…err…uhmm…err…

Fuck, I’d take Marryann Williamson or whatever the nut candidate was at this point. How did Biden not formulate a better plan than this?

Trump “You’re a number 2”
He’s got the brain of a 7 year old.

Clown.

God, I can’t take the crosstalk. I’m out.

I think Chris Wallce has said “Mr. President …” at least 947 times already.

The idea that there’s some great way to handle a bloviating clown on stage is false. There isn’t. Trump brings everything down around him and there’s almost nothing anyone can do except ignore it. I think Biden is doing okay at a very tough task.

“CHRIS! CHRIS!” what a fucking baby.

lol “and him too”

Yes, Mr Biden, please stop your interruptions in this debate!

Democrats could have picked a thousand better debaters to take on Trump than Biden.

He didn’t have a plan for Trump being this much of a shit head. I didn’t even think he’d be this bad.

How did he not know that?

Seems impossible.