I don’t know what was wrong with Joe Biden. It’s hard to imagine that they ever would have asked for a debate if this was the way he is normally. We’ve seen him recently holding press conferences and giving speeches and he seemed to be fine. They said he had a cold so maybe he really was on drugs — Nyquil or Mucinex or something that made him seem so shaky and frail. Whatever it was, it was a terrible debate for him and if he does stay in the race (which is almost certain in my opinion) the campaign is going to have a lot of work to do to dig out of the hole that was dug last night. The media smells blood and they are circling like a bunch of starved piranhas.

. . . For some odd reason, moderator Jake Tapper told Trump in the beginning that he didn’t need to answer the questions and that he could use the time however he wanted. Trump ran with that, essentially giving a rally speech whenever he had the floor and was unresponsive to the vast majority of the questions. He made faces and insulted Biden to his face, at one point calling him a criminal and a Manchurian candidate. If anyone had said 10 years ago that this would happen at a presidential debate they would have been laughed out of the room.

After the debate when most of the country had turned off cable news or gone to bed, CNN aired its fact check. And it’s a doozy:

It sure would have been good if even some of that epic litany of lies could have been checked while people were still watching. The decision to have the moderators sit like a couple of potted plants woodenly asking questions about child care while Trump responded with irrelevant lies was inexplicable. Why did they even bother to ask questions at all? They could have just run the timer and let the candidates talk for two minutes each about anything they wanted. It probably would have been more enlightening.

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    Lol @ mr “Gaza is the worstest genocide 4evah” going “at least donnie doesn’t start no wars”

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      Lol @ people pretending to care about Genocide and simping for Genocide Joe committing Genocide.

      Factually my statement was correct. You might not like it because your reality gets shattered that Trump is a far cry from being the worst Republican ever.

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        Why would you choose to mention Donnie ‘Factually, just get it over with’ T started just as many wars as Biden, if you weren’t his #1 simp?

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          Because Donnie didn’t. Donny retreated from Aghanistan. The dumbest thing he did was bomb Suleimani. But in the end that did not lead to war.

          Biden is currently illegally at war with Yemen. He did not ask congress to go to war.

          And Biden is currently supporting the israeli Genocide of Gaza with both military intelligence personell and weapons.

          As much as you want to believe it, during his 2016-2020 rule Trump somehow did far less crazy shit than expected.

          Will Trump continue the Genocide? Very likely.

          Will Biden continue the Genocide? 100%.

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            Biden is currently illegally at war with Yemen. He did not ask congress to go to war.

            Lolsimp

            Did your donnie ask congress before he put missiles on Syria? Did he ask congress before he put a genocide on IS?

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              You’re so fixated on Trump that you’re willing to excuse anything done by Democrats. It’s clear you’re not willing to hear criticism of the Blue God Emperor.

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                I just reread your last 3 comments and I saw nothing but simpcuses