Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Antiganon]

I want the last 2 hours of my life back.

I feel stupider for having watched that.

I did like that Biden was taking absolutely no shit about his son Beau's military service though.

[Breccia]

It's "Roe" like "Doe."

He's posting from an autocorrectPhone.

[Felya]

I mean, I wish that were true. But I'm sure that about 35% of the viewing audience is rock-solid in their belief that Trump was the more Presidential Candidate tonight. He could take a shit on the floor and these people would marvel at how it enhances the environment.

He appealed to conspiracy theorist and those who were leaning against Bernie policy... his goal seems to be to scare people of Medicare for all and defunding the police... making progressives a pariah, then forcing Biden to defend progressive policy he just demonized, instead of his own. Basically, scare away the undecided voters from Biden and at the same time discourage progressives from voting, hoping it’s enough to swing the democrat advantage in registered voters.

[Thepersona]

If anyone took shots for each lie Trump said they'd probably be dead after the first half hour.

I will make a drinking game for next debate. I will try to not die from alcohol poisoning

[Felya]

You keep misspelling the name of one of the most important SCOTUS cases of the last 100 years and it hurts me. It's "Roe" like "Doe."

Blame autocorrect... I just punch random keys and see what happens...

My point stands though... I’ve gotten more comments on my spelling, than the actual comment from Trump.

[Thepersona]

He appealed to conspiracy theorist and those who were leaning against Bernie policy... his goal seems to be to scare people of Medicare for all and defunding the police... making progressives a pariah, then forcing Biden to defend progressive policy he just demonized, instead of his own. Basically, scare away the undecided voters from Biden and at the same time discourage progressives from voting, hoping it’s enough to swing the democrat advantage in registered voters.

And Biden did not take the bait. He gracefully danced around dotard tang

[gondrin]

Honestly, this debate was everything I expected. The lunacy, insanity and outright babbling. And then there was Joe. I have a feeling that after this one, Trump won't want to do another one as he was told to shut up multiple times. In the morning, he will probably claim "They were being unfair and rude and I'll want no part of it and they forced me to be on!" even though he was the one who wanted them in the first place.

[Edge-]

https://theweek.com/speedreads/94061...te-focus-group

Republican consultant and pollster Frank Luntz asked his focus group to use one word to describe the president and basically "every single word was negative," observed Politico's Tim Alberta. One respondent from Wisconsin called Trump obnoxious and un-presidential, while a Pennsylvania voter said he behaved like a "crackhead." Others described the president as being "un-American" and "arrogant."

Fucking hell I hope that my earlier post is wrong and there's a rather sizable swing for Biden if this is remotely indicative of any remaining "undecideds".

[Sunseeker]

I will make a drinking game for next debate. I will try to not die from alcohol poisoning

I was riding high on painkillers through most of it, but man I woulda preferred to be drinking. I'm making up for that now...

[Antiganon]

And Biden did not take the bait. He gracefully danced around dotard tang

My main concern is that "I don't support the Green New Deal" will be the soundbite, and "I support the Biden Plan, which will generate millions of new jobs in clean energy and American manufacturing" will be completely forgotten, just like Hillary's comments about retraining coal miners for new economy careers.

[jonnysensible]

i saw some people saying this is the worst thing they have seen on american tv which is a bit rich from the country that gave us 3 seasons of young sheldon

[Eviscero]

Trump's strategy to label Joe a secret agent of the far left was so hopelessly ineffective...

Trump: "He can't even say Law Enforcement"

Biden: "Law Enforcement."

Trump: "He just lost the left!"

... Really? This is what you're going with?

Biden is standing right there and can literally directly refute every false claim about his support for 1) antifa, 2) the green new deal, 3) violence, etc etc. This nonsense only tracks in the dumbest of right wing facebook group echo chambers.

[gondrin]

i saw some people saying this is the worst thing they have seen on american tv which is a bit rich from the country that gave us 3 seasons of young sheldon

Eh, not as bad as The Real World and its 5 million offshoots.

[Zan15]

I will make a drinking game for next debate. I will try to not die from alcohol poisoning

never mind, me just being stupid.....and wrong..sorry

[Thepersona]

I was riding high on painkillers through most of it, but man I woulda preferred to be drinking. I'm making up for that now...

I still have half of my litre of pisco (its around as strong as whisky) so... Well, i think if it's still there, a quarter will go down to a very wasted and fearful Latino.

[beanman12345]

I watched the debate on CNN. Saw a bit of the commentary afterword's. The debate itself didn't surprise me, what surprised me was how even Rick Santorum claimed how badly Trump failed tonight.

[Sunseeker]

Trump's strategy to label Joe a secret agent of the far left was so hopelessly ineffective...

Trump: "He can't even say Law Enforcement"

Biden: "Law Enforcement."

Trump: "He just lost the left!"

... Really? This is what you're going with?

Biden is standing right there and can literally directly refute every false claim about his support for 1) antifa, 2) the green new deal, 3) violence, etc etc. This nonsense only tracks in the dumbest of right wing facebook group echo chambers.

Honestly for all of Trump's interrupting, Trump did the worst when Joe could just jump right in, even if Joe wasn't very good at that. Giving Trump 2 free minutes just let him build up a head of steam.

[Benggaul]

He's posting from an autocorrectPhone.

"Roe" is also a word, though.

[Eviscero]

https://theweek.com/speedreads/94061...te-focus-group



Fucking hell I hope that my earlier post is wrong and there's a rather sizable swing for Biden if this is remotely indicative of any remaining "undecideds".

Im going to call a 1-3% swing in Biden's favor over the next two weeks of polling. This is of course based solely on my gut, and absolutely zero quantitative modelling.

[Felya]

Trump's strategy to label Joe a secret agent of the far left was so hopelessly ineffective...

Trump: "He can't even say Law Enforcement"

Biden: "Law Enforcement."

Trump: "He just lost the left!"

... Really? This is what you're going with?

Biden is standing right there and can literally directly refute every false claim about his support for 1) antifa, 2) the green new deal, 3) violence, etc etc. This nonsense only tracks in the dumbest of right wing facebook group echo chambers.

According to some self proclaimed progressives, it worked on them.