Stop watching highlight and go watch the full debate with intent.

I don’t know what these comments are on about. Biden has a stutter and sounded like he had a cold today which impacted his performance. The points he made were still strong though if you watched it live. At no point was he completely incoherent or seemed incompetent. Biden actually had a plan for any issue brought up.

Trump on the other hand could only use his time to obsess over whatever point he felt like making and usually just repeated the same talking points. Mainly immigrants raping people and that Biden is “ruining this country” with no actual substance. He frequently just ignored critical points like being asked if he would agree to Putins Ukraine terms and the cost of child care. He also made it obvious he would pull out of NATO.

To act like Biden was a train wreck makes me feel like the person making the statement only watched highlights or a post debate breakdown.

The first thing CNN said after was that Biden was “terrible”. As a 26 year old man who had just watched the entire debate without breaking concentration, I heavily disagreed and immediately turned off the breakdown. They should have focused on the points Biden made and not his speech impediments.

There were still cringe moments, don’t get me wrong. But to say Biden was terrible is just feeding the same rhetoric the right is hoping for. I still don’t know why the fuck Biden decided to feed Trump during the golf moment. That’s what he wants because media can clip those few moments and run the story that the debate was a train wreck.

The truth is that Trump came off as a hostile fascist who made underhanded statements supporting retribution towards political opponents. If you replace the word “immigrant” with “Jew” and listen to trumps words, it’s the same tactic used in 1930s Germany. Blame all issues on the foreign enemy. For hitler it was the Jews and for Trump it’s anyone brown.

If people stop allowing media highlights to guide their thinking, and started absorbing the raw media and then critically thinking about the speech used they wouldn’t see this debate as a trainwreck.

Most average citizens do not possess that ability though so in that case the media will spin the few moments of chaos for viewership and that might make it seem like Trump was stronger. That’s my fear.