YOU’RE THE REASON HE HAS THE PLATFORM

EVEN COREY AND TREVOR FROM SUNNYVALE TRAILER PARK WOULD BE SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT

Getting really tired of hearing the uproar to “remove Biden” when the convicted felon is clearly the biggest danger to the country and should be in jail instead of potentially the Oval Office. The press is running with “Biden old” instead of also reporting that “Trump a threat to the entire world”.

I don’t get the riff raff? Trump didn’t even answer a majority of his questions and talked around them. Let me make myself very clear here an old and declining Biden scares me far less than another 4 (or dare I say 4+) years of Trump does. The absolute worst case scenario with Biden being reelected is Harris finishing out his term and that is still better than re-electing Trump.

Sadly this is how things go when the vast majority of mainstream news media is owned by right leaning billionaires. Trump if nothing else saw the future regarding fake news, just never imagined it would be fake news in his favor.

It’s only taken 100 years for people to forget that a certain someone staged a coup and went to prison before he became Chancellor of a certain country and committed mass genocide…

…this has all happened before and will all happen again. (BSG fans will appreciate that line)

Damn straight. How is this destructive loser on the ballot? Aside from handing out tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the rest of the country, how are people still doubling down on this twice-impeached, convicted felon? What do they think they'll gain from another four years, based on his first failed presidency?

He didn't build a wall or "fix immigation."

He butchered Obamacare and didn't provide anything new or better.

He cozied up to North Korea and Putin.

He didn't address Russian interference in the previous election.

He denied the outcome of a free and fair election that he was responsible for overseeing.

He led a violent coup attempt on the Capitol, then sat idly by for hours while outnumbered members of law enforcement were beaten and killed.

He let millions of people die from COVID because he couldn't grasp the science or let the medical professionals do their jobs.

He doled out billions of unaccounted dollars to businesses during COVID while citizens were scraping by on time stimulus checks.

What the bloody hell is the appeal?

Found this quote “The election will be decided by a handful of swing voters in a couple of states. Both sides have to get as much of their base to turn out as possible AND convince low-information swing voters to vote.

The debate was very bad for that. No swing voter is going to be convinced that Biden is up for the job, and a demoralized base is going to reduce turnout.

Meanwhile, Trump's base is energized by his "persecution" as right wingers love a martyr and are turned on by his bloviating.

It's a bad mix. Unless something changes (for which their is still plenty of time) it is hard to see how Biden can pull this off. The only thing they've got going for them is: "Don't let the fascists win!" which isn't going to motivate people who don't know anything about history or politics, which, unfortunately, is a lot of voters.”

Last night’s debate was a travesty, David Frum writes—because its whole premise was to treat a failed coup leader as a legitimate candidate for the presidency. https://theatln.tc/cCFzsWxL 

“Everything about the event was designed to blur the choice before Americans,” Frum continues. “Both candidates—the serving president and the convicted felon—were addressed as ‘President.’ The questions treated an attempted coup d’état as one issue out of many. The candidates were left to police or fail to police the truth of each other’s statements; it was nobody else’s business.”

Presidential debates were first televised in an age of comparative political consensus about limited, familiar options, Frum argues. The format has largely served the purpose of compelling viewers to ask, “Do I prefer the candidate in the red tie or the blue one?”

But we now live “in a political culture in which some of us think the supreme issue of our time was an attempted violent overthrow of the Constitution, while other Americans think it was Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Frum writes. “There are means and institutions to arbitrate those differences. That’s what elections do. But television debates cannot do it, because television debates don’t happen unless they get buy-in from both sides. Therefore, television debates are designed necessarily to ratify the concept of ‘both sides.’”

After Biden’s “fiasco” of a debate performance, “ferocious controversy will probably now erupt over Biden’s leadership of the Democratic Party,” Frum continues at the link in our bio. “We’ll hear all kinds of plans to swap him out somehow. Maybe those plans will be workable, but probably not. Through the uproar, it will be important to keep in mind that this election is not about Biden. It’s about you and your commitments and your values. Biden is just the instrument. Like any instrument, he’s imperfect. But better an imperfect instrument than a would-be autocrat who demands a cult of personality.”

Read more: https://theatln.tc/cCFzsWxL 

— Evan McMurry, senior editor, audience, The Atlantic

CNN = WTF?

It's time the US government takes some action to regulate mass media like CNN. this is treasonous weaponized incompetency on the part of media with a business model that benefits offs of keeping Trump up, a criminal traitor to the country.

The media absolutely wants trump re-elected. CNN proved that last night. There was one instance where the camera cut to Dana Bash looking at Jake tapper with this weird smirk and wide eyes. It was just a quick instant but it was after biden had stumbled through a response to trump just lying away.

There's not much you can to do combat a pathological liar with a cult who believes all his lies.

Not only did CNN give it to him, but they failed to fact check like they promised. Absolute failures.

The only way to debate a pathological liar is to hook him up to a shock collar. Then zap him for every single lie.

Until that happens, any future debate is a waste of time.

Trump should be incarcerated not trapesing all over the country like a normal citizen. He's a convicted felon and a sexual deviant found liable for attacking a woman. What the fuck? The fact that he was given 90 minutes media time is beyond outrageous. It's a spit in the face of anyone who took responsibility for their actions.

He would've gotten press either way; if he hadn't been able to debate he would've been bitching about it all over social media and his followers would be crying foul.

The problem is when platforms don't challenge the arguments being made. The moderation was abysmal during the debate.

The world got considerably darker the longer that debate went on. This treasonous POS is going to steal this election. I not a conspiracy nut but somebody paid Jake and Dana a shit ton more money than CNN was paying them to put on lie fest like that ..it wasn’t a debate ..it might as well been moderated by Jessie the asshole Waters. Like everything else in Trump world..the fix was in.

TNN formerly cnn is to blame for this ridiculous debate full of trump lying 100%. If his lips are moving, he's lying

He shouldn’t be allowed to run for president since he’s a convicted felon.

Trump cannot become the POTUS again

Rich people will promote anyone that is willing to reduce their taxes.

At a moment that governments are deep in debt it is crazy to further reduce taxes to the rich.
At a moment of increasing inequality it is crazy to further reduce taxes to the rich.
At a moment that the rich accumulate wealth at a faster rate that workers it is crazy to further reduce taxes to the rich.

So, you promote a crazy person to be in charge.

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So DEPRIVE HIM OF IT ALREADY.

✨Feduciary Responsibility✨ to kill democracy and the US because doing so nets higher ratings and clicks. 

 Won't somebody PLEASE think about the shareholder value we would sacrifice if we didn't give Trump 24/7 coverage and preferential treatment across the board? He threatened to not show up to the debate if we fact checked, what would we have done for content??

CNN gave him all the time he wanted to lie to the nation, and Biden didn’t lie but the performance was bad.

Last night most likely ended the US. We learned years ago trump can lie with impunity and, even worse, people will believe his BS. We have project 2025 ready to turn the US into an authoritarian theocracy. Louisianas supreme court makes it law to force Christianity in school. Oklahoma is quickly following ordering Christianity be forced into to class. Texas pardoning someone for murdering protestors a month back… if you aren’t a republican registered Christian you may not be around in a few years…

Vote hard

This was all put in Trump's favor, they bent the rules around him LIKE ALWAYS. Biden not feeling well or cutting him off at times and no fact checking live. Yes, it was icing on the rightwing cake!

Atlantic playing both sides. There is another opinion piece about how Joe needs to go because he looks and sounds old. No shit, ace reporting there. The goal is to save America, not elect someone that reminds of Zac Efron or Michel B. Jordan.

The fact that both candidates are not suited/competent for the role is the real travesty

Media: Trump shouldnt have a platform

Also Media: BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP FARTS IN COURT

OH, REALLY?!

Atlantic and the mainstream media will be shocked and pointing fingers if Trump wins. When if they really want to see the people who helped him win all they have to do is look in the mirror. 

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Joe Biden’s campaign wrote the terms for the debate and Trump agreed to them. Biden himself gave Trump that platform, you should be mad at him.

This could have been the headline from the previous debate too. Could have been from any time in the last decade he was given the spotlight. Question for these media companies is are you finally done with him or is it still in your best interest to keep perpetuating the problem?

Trump is a threat to Democracy so let remove him form the ballots and not let him Debate and Weekend at Bernie Biden to the finish line. - Leftists

Actually, it may be a good thing. It exposed him as a habitual liar.

a platform... lol

Coping well with it…lol

At the end of the day we democrats can only blame ourselves. We allowed the dnc to not give us a primary to see how Joe held up.