1st Presidential Debate Megathread

[bilaps]

Biden blames Trump for jobs but says shut it down.

What?

In the same answer Biden says that Trump will have less jobs than when he became president but he supports shutdowns which are single biggest reason for a job loss this year.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Yeah anyone here who is saying that Trump is winning this debate in a way that can change the election or at the minimum winning it at all your being delusional

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Biden giving it back to Trump. Thank ing Christ. Keep saying stuff like "No one can get a word in with this clown" trust me.... it helps

I think most people watching this debate save for extreme Trump supporters would like Trump to shut up and stop interrupting so they can hear some actual answers in this debate. Biden is speaking for half of the country.

You sometimes hear it even from ardent Trump supporters: I love him, but sometimes, he needs to stop talking and hop off Twitter.  

As I said higher up in this thread, Trump is most prone to say bizarre or offensive things when he's just left to talking.  He seems to have this need to keep talking and talking, dominating a conversation.  

[Admiral Stockdale]

This is an absolute train wreck and an embarrassment for our country.  

[Statilius the Epicurean]

A question about "critical race theory" really?

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

"I'm letting people out of jail now."

Big, if true.

Well, he is. Joe Arpaio and Roger Stone couldn't be more thankful.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

What’s with all these “Biden’s losing the debate” takes? He’s been piped up the whole night

Seems to have calmed down after the initial 10 minutes.

Then again, I've also muted most of the Chicken Littles

[Crumpets]

What is Trump talking about?

[YE]

If this debate was an Atlas thread, would it be locked by now?

The entire topic would be deleted by now.

[Non Swing Voter]

Biden never said "superpredators". How is Trump supposedly winning this again?

Trump's not winning the debate, only hardcore deplorable Trump supporters and Democrats with PTSD from 2016 think otherwise.  The problem is Trump supporters and Democrats with PTSD = 80% of this website.

[Joe Biden 2024]

Biden is acting like a president. Trump is acting like a two year old.

[Ferguson97]

"Crime bill Biden won’t say law and order!"

[DrScholl]

"I'm letting people out of jail now."

Big, if true.

Without context that statement doesn't sound too good.

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Biden claims he "didn't say that." His exact quote:

“There’s about 100,000 of them, if you want to be rhetorically extreme about it, who are the predators,” he said. “There are 100,000 real bad apples out there, 100,000 of the kids you read about in the front page of the newspaper every day.”

It was Hillary who said super, but obviously they were saying similar things.

[woodley park]

Biden looks sharp and focused, and his arguments are cogent. That's all that really mattered about the debate, given Trump's months of attacking his supposed cognitive decline.

[Podgy the Bear]

By not blowing up, Biden is winning the debate where it counts--picking up those few remaining undecided voters.    Trump has played to his base and nothing more.

[Non Swing Voter]

A question about "critical race theory" really?

well we had 2 minutes on covid so we need to balance it out with this...

[DabbingSanta]

Biden never said "superpredators". How is Trump supposedly winning this again?

Trump's not winning the debate, only hardcore deplorable Trump supporters and Democrats with PTSD from 2016 think otherwise.  The problem is Trump supporters and Democrats with PTSD = 80% of this website.

Biden isn't having a good night, but Trump is having what has to be the worst performance in debate history. He said he didn't practice and it really shows.

[QAnonKelly]

Lmao this is effing nuts. Trump is like a ten year old kid talking sh-t in a COD lobby somehow found his way to a presidential debate.

[Ferguson97]

Biden gets a C+ but Trump gets a F-

[Non Swing Voter]

When Trump talks about law and order endlessly, Biden needs to remind the audience that Trump's an unindicted co-conspirator and tax cheat.

[NewYorkExpress]

Chris Wallace is so going to be fired by Fox News.

You don't argue with/disagree with Trump in public and expect to keep your job over there.

[Crumpets]

Lmao this is effing nuts. Trump is like a ten year old kid talking sh-t in a COD lobby somehow found his way to a presidential debate.

I can definitely see Trump trying to get Biden SWATed during one of the debates.

[Dr. Arch]

Trump has been a disaster in this debate.

Big note to everyone from both sides, Joe is talking to us, to voters, to Americans. Trump is talking about himself and only himself.

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Lmao this is effing nuts. Trump is like a ten year old kid talking sh-t in a COD lobby somehow found his way to a presidential debate.

"And I got with everybody's moms.  Everybody's.  Tremendous moms."