Tuesday night was the first presidential debate between former VP Joe Biden and incumbent angry Orange Donald Trump.
It was, in a word or two, a shit show.
There was no clear winner of the debate. Trump lost the debate, to be sure, but not because Biden out-debated him but simply because from the get-go, Trump threw a tantrum. He bullied his opponent, he spoke over Biden and over the moderator - Chris Wallace from Fox News. He broke every rule agreed upon for this debate. He basically played a game of “I can yell louder than you”.
That’s not to say Joe Biden won the debate. He fell for Trump’s tactics a few times, tried to speak over him and avoided a question about whether he would pack the Supreme Court. Although in my opinion, that’s hardly relevant at this point. Trump HAS packed the Court. If Biden wins, he’d only be attempting to balance the court, and yes, probably more in favour of the Democrats, but let’s be real, the Republicans did the same thing.
Trump was asked specifically to condemn white supremacy and failed to do so. Whether he’s on record having done so in the past, this was the time to do it again instead, he told the Proud Boys, recognized as a white nationalist group, to “Stand Down and Stand By”. They have already taken this as a rallying cry.
Politics are messy. But to quote CNN’s Jake Tapper, the debate was “a shit show inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck.” There was no clear winner. Just two men in their 70s, slinging mud.
The only saving grace for me was that I watched a live stream that kept buffering because my internet connection was slow. It gave my brain a few minutes to relax.
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