What the —— did I just watch?

[All Along The Watchtower]

That was disgraceful. My expectations of it being a terrible debate were exceeded. Enough of this American Carnage!

[Buzz]

90 minutes of hell

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

What we just watched is what happens when you treat an insane fascist wanna-be dictator like he's a legitimate participant in a representative government.

[Rand]

90 minutes of hell

And some change. 90-100 minutes of our lives lost forever.

[Badger]

A complete $hitshow

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

Team Biden needs to buy air time on the public networks the night before the election like Obama did in 2008 but 90 minutes instead of 30 and just air this abortion.

Biden will win by LBJ v Goldwater numbers.

[Indy Texas]

This is what happens when we have a president who's better suited to be leading a country where there are no televised debates...or elections.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Everyone keeps saying this debate was an absolute disaster.  A "s--tshow" is the word everyone's using.

We should be clear.  Trump was a s--tshow.  The debate was a disaster because Trump made it a disaster.  Biden was fine and did the best he could.  The problem is that Trump refuses to obey the rules of the debate, refuses to obey the rules of common decency or decorum, and refuses to participate in civil discussion.

It's like if Biden was forced to deliver a speech at a concert venue where one of BRTD's awful midwestern christian rock bands was playing at 10x the volume.  He can only do so much when forced into that kind of situation.  It's a disgrace that the debate ended up like this but it's 100% because of Trump.  Anyone who just declares the debate a "s--tshow" needs to clarify that.  This isn't a "both sides were bad" or "both candidates were awful" thing.  Biden tried his damndest to give a dignified and respectable, presidential performance.  It was just impossible with a poop-flinging gibbon constantly interrupting and screaming nonsense the entire time.

[NHI]

Team Biden needs to buy air time on the public networks the night before the election like Obama did in 2008 but 90 minutes instead of 30 and just air this abortion.

Biden will win by LBJ v Goldwater numbers.

Agreed. Speak directly to the people and away from the circus.

[MABA 2020]

I gave up halfway though it was so bad

[R.P. McM]

What we just watched is what happens when you treat an insane fascist wanna-be dictator like he's a legitimate participant in a representative government.

Unfortunately, ~40% of the electorate doesn't recognize the distinction.

[Person Man]

It's like a political indie game demo from this YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzEy7pi3B7TIS9cn_sdKK9A

[tosk]

yeah-- I got a text about 20 minutes in from a friend. She said she couldn't watch it and almost cried it was so bad. So, i guess this is our lives now.

[vitoNova]

You have witnessed the Great Tightening.

Due to soft (mayhap flaccid) Biden supporters who have decided to stay home on election day.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Everyone keeps saying this debate was an absolute disaster.  A "s--tshow" is the word everyone's using.

We should be clear.  Trump was a s--tshow.  The debate was a disaster because Trump made it a disaster.  Biden was fine and did the best he could.  The problem is that Trump refuses to obey the rules of the debate, refuses to obey the rules of common decency or decorum, and refuses to participate in civil discussion.

It's like if Biden was forced to deliver a speech at a concert venue where one of BRTD's awful midwestern christian rock bands was playing at 10x the volume.  He can only do so much when forced into that kind of situation.  It's a disgrace that the debate ended up like this but it's 100% because of Trump.  Anyone who just declares the debate a "s--tshow" needs to clarify that.  This isn't a "both sides were bad" or "both candidates were awful" thing.  Biden tried his damndest to give a dignified and respectable, presidential performance.  It was just impossible with a poop-flinging gibbon constantly interrupting and screaming nonsense the entire time.

okay a few things to point out here:

1-"Midwestern emo" as a genre obviously developed in the Midwest but it's very much a worldwide sound now and the pioneering bands were from Denver and Seattle. It's hardly a Midwestern thing now.
2-There's not a whole lot of Midwestern emo Christian bands that I can think of....the only context in which "BRTD's Midwestern Christian rock bands" makes sense as a genre. You're probably thinking of Christian melodic hardcore, a related but distinctly separate genre. There were a couple with a Midwest emo sound like Noise Ratchet, Cool Hand Luke and Twothirtyeight but they were from San Diego, Nashville and Florida. Glow as Ember, the first emo band from North Dakota would be an example but hardly anyone from outside North Dakota remembers them.
3-Most Christian melodic hardcore bands don't come from the Midwest. It's more of a coastal thing. Although I do enjoy some notable ones from Iowa, Michigan, Indiana and of course Minnesota.
4-Most of these bands do not call themselves Christian because they dislike the connotations and being pigeonholed into such a label...they have some songs with Christian themes but they don't distinctly try to be Christian like "Christian rock" implies. Plus they play at secular venues, with secular bands, often on secular labels...etc.
5-If Biden wanted to give a speech at such a show they'd probably let him do so between songs because a lot of bands give speeches on SJW politics type stuff anyways between songs so really Biden would fight right in and if it wasn't for Covid these would be great campaign event opportunities. Well one caveat, he'd fit right in if he'd use the adjective "f[inks]ing" before basically every word because that's basically what every hardcore vocalist does. But regardless examples of this can be seen between songs here and here. They even directly reference Trump at times!

[GeneralMacArthur]

sir, this is a Wendy's

[morgankingsley]

90 minutes of two people who don't know the basic concept of wait your turn to speak