No real answers or policy proposals, blaming every problem on migrants (while Biden’s policy on the border is largely a continuation of Trump’s), just a bunch of bullshit “everything was great, now everything sucks, but I will make it great again”. I honestly cringed at Trump more, Biden’s ramblings at least were funny.
I can’t imagine anyone who’s undecided at this point listen to this and say “This guy will make things right”. Trump’s entire objective is to let Biden stumble and fall and then cruise to presidency, but he makes every effort imaginable to prevent himself from it. No zingers or clever retorts against a literal corpse (aside from maybe one “I don’t know what he said and he isn’t either”), just and abysmal performance. Honestly, even someone like Ramaswami would’ve dogwalked Biden.
If anyone is capable of losing to Biden at this point, it’s Trump.
Trump didn’t give a “Yes or No” response to the question of would he accept the results of the election. It’s a very low bar, and he wouldn’t answer. Sadly, that’s all I needed. I would like to continue to have the illusion of terrible choices.
lol no Trump was doing Trump shit which is taking potshots at the competition while selling his sympathizers a fascist fantasy. During the 2016 debates all the libs thought he was losing dismally while he was effectively bodying Clinton because he was following a different playbook. This is why he avoided the questions to veer into culture war shit. His base eats that up. Trump doesn’t try to meet the liberal image of a qualified candidate but that’s because he’s a fascist and doesn’t need to.
*Fake French accent* He knows the ridiculousness of his answers but he’s amusing himself for it’s his adversaries who are obliged to use words responsibly.
Trump did what he needed to do to appeal to his base whereas Biden uh I don’t know what the fuck Biden was doing, mostly sundowning I think, but appealing to his base wasn’t part of it.
The questions were absolute dogshit as well.
Imagine outsourcing your political discourse to CNN who will not call out any innacurate statements and inject commercials into the debate.
Pretty much every facet of this farce shows that the USA is a fucking joke and gives all the power to ‘news outlets’ like cnn.
Part of this is also that the two parties have to agree to the terms of the debate, so you won’t end up with anything actually rigorous or interesting. Still, you’d think if this was the end of american “democracy” that the moderators would maybe once have tried to get someone to actually answer a question.
that’s exactly it, right? trump is a loser, a sick hog dying in the sun, but liberals need him to be a macho supervillain threat to democracy because they’re intent on running the only candidate that could lose to him.
Not gonna lie I was hoping I, personally, would be totally fucked in 3 to 5 years instead of 1 to 4 years. Biden being the oldest man alive on stage sure is making me escaping this country feel even more urgent
