I Never Watch Debates, Just the Post Debate Analysis

[Rocky17]

I cannot defend Trump`s interruptions and boorishness.  Sometimes he was over the top but he was debating two people.  I do not know how this played with suburban women.  If you disliked Trump before the debate, his performance only made you feel more strongly about it.

Joe Biden gave vague and indirect answers and actually refuted many positions he has given on the campaign trail to separate himself from the AOC wing of his party.  He did remain standing for 1 and 1/2 hours which is a victory for him.  His name calling was actually less Presidential than Trump`s New York rudeness.

Chris Wallace asked questions that avoided many of Trump`s trade, foreign policy and economic successes as well as avoiding the open border issue.  Wallace surprisingly avoided China and gun control to a great degree;  then, again, Wallace dislikes Trump as do most media types who are not pundits on the right.

Interesting that post debate, Telemundo took a poll of its viewers and Trump was declared the winner by a 66-34 margin.  Most other polls afterwards had it pretty close to even which means few minds were changed.  Many Hispanics are extremely wary of bureaucracy, socialism and government supremacy over individual rights and freedoms.

Apparently, the perception that Biden will keep the economy shut down and affect our normal day to day activities is a much bigger liability with voters than I understood before after listening to both D and R focus groups post debate.  People crave normalcy.

One thing that may have significance if you are pro Trump.  The President spent most of the evening playing to his base and reinforcing long held positions which implied consistency.  Biden, OTOH, spent most of the evening contradicting positions he has taken over the campaign to try to appeal to a more centrist group of people.  I do not know how this will ultimately play to the aggressively progressive wing of his party.

 

[Rocky17]

Laura Ingraham’s guest Ari Fleischer did not like the constant interruptions during the debate.  He faulted Trump for his interruptions but he did point out the first three interruptions were by Biden during Trump`s second speaking stint and that Trump got pissed off and began interrupting Biden consistently from that point forward.  The media ignored the fact that Biden started the debate down that road.

[rjnwmill]

I saw an interview with Chris Wallace. He stated that Trump started the interruptions during Biden’s second answer.

Without “going to the video tape” I’ll take Fleisher’s opinion as correct. That suggests that Wallace goes with his confirmation bias without bothering to check. Frankly, I had hoped for better from him.  His personal opinions may have colored his approach to his role and responsibility.

Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long

[cardcrimson]

Ya think? Good grief, it was like having Acosta as the moderator. Fair and balanced, my ass. . . .

[Rocky17]

The debates are playing second fiddle to reality this election.

Our strength as a nation that has given us the means to survive all this time is the Constitution.  We have checks and balances.  Integral to those checks and balances is the filibuster , the Supreme Court and a limit on Executive power.

If you get rid of the filibuster and the 60 vote requirement to being up a bill, the party that controls the Senate has carte blanche to do anything it wants if it has the House and Presidency.  If you pack the Supreme Court with activists, you can declare anything lawful that is passed whether it is constitutional or not.  Adding two more blue states would be easy without a filibuster and with a packed court and will ensure a Dem majority for years to come.

When this happens, you have effectively overthrown the government of the US and we become a dictatorship bureaucracy as any part of the Constitution can be circumvented. Checks and balances do not exist anymore.

Biden will not answer the filibuster of court packing question.  By definition, hate Trump or not, whoever votes for Biden this time around is by definition a revolutionary who wants to overthrow the government we have had here in the US for well over 240 years.

We all should be incredibly fearful because we are 34 days away from something happening that we once thought would take Russian troops invading the US to accomplish.

[cardcrimson]

Who is John Galt?

[Mick]

Trump lost Chris Wallace when he compared him unfavorably to his father about a year ago.  Ever since then, Wallace has had it out for Trump.

I knew the fix was in during the “Economic” section of the night when Wallace asked Trump about how much tax he’d paid in the prior year.  Really?  You think that is what Americans care about vis-a-vis the economy?  Not the record economy, not the trade agreements, not the record numbers of African American, Latino American and female entrepreneurs and business starts, not the record low unemployment for all of those groups.  Oh no, we’re not interested in those.  According to Chris Wallace, it’s Trump’s personal federal income tax for two specified years.  Not other years.  Not business taxes.  Not real estate/property taxes, excise taxes or anything else.  AYFKM?

And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Wallace asked him the cherry-picked question of all time, new jobs during Obama’s last three years.  In other words, Wallace (a) compared job growth past the end of a normal economic cycle with the prior period and (b) failed to note that interest rates were as low as possible and flat with Obama only having been increased once in eight years whereas they went up continuously during Trump’s administration.

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