Two old guys, both inclined to ramble and go off on their own tack. They got into a beef over their golf handicaps. It wasn't impressive. Hoping for Nixon vs. Kennedy, we got a Hudson & Landry bit instead and not one of their best.
One of them is a lifelong politician; the other one whipped up a gang of thugs to assault the U. S. Capitol while Congress was counting electoral votes and has never admitted he lost that election fair and square. One of them has had a fairly quiet term of office, despite conflict between other countries; the other inspired violence from Left and Right, and fanned the flames when it happened.
I've got points of disagreement with the incumbent but he's not a disaster, and he bids fair to remain acceptable. The challenger and previous President was big trouble last time and promises more of the same if he gets in again, only stronger and better-organized.
Two old guys. That's what's on offer. Pick one or the other. They're old. They're not great speakers. But they're not the same. Mr. Trump will create chaos. Mr. Biden will not. Maybe it's not an ideal set of choices but they couldn't be more clear.
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The real fun part is all the pre-debate conspiracy theories that didn't happen. Supposedly They were going to replace Biden with an actor in a mask. They were going to feed him answers through an earpiece. There was going to be tech errors in Biden's favor. So on and on.
None of these people who posted these theories will look back and think about if they're that wrong, what else are they wrong about. That maybe their ability to properly process information is flawed, or that their sources are off. Nope- they'll forget it and move on to the next bit of kookery.
It was interesting that CNN didn't get around to broadcasting the post-debate "fact-checking" until almost midnight.
A Gish Gallop by definition leaves a huge pile of falsehoods to sift through. I'm surprised they had it done by midnight. Both men got a lot wrong but one of them really dominated the stuff-that-ain't-so contest, and it wasn't the incumbent.
Weird Al now has a song about the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fNWHbnIn0g
Anon: the CNN fact-checker segment started at 11:45 p.m. I can't find an exact time for the end of the debate, but it was scheduled to end at 10:30 p.m.
The Bulwark embedded the CNN segment in this article.
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