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My Hamilton moment: I was kind of in The Room Where It Happened. More accurately, the media room where they were watching the debate, which was held at UNLV. When the future treasonous, bigoted, mass-murdering rapist-in-chief wouldn't say whether he'd accept the election results, the noise was weird. About a quarter of it was a gasp, a quarter of it a snort, a quarter of it a wheezing laugh, and a quarter of it "whoa." Then they moved right on to whatever squirrel ran by next.

Thus my doubts that they will avoid repeating the same mistakes.

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Dreading the debate and the coverage for the very reasons you outline here. I guess we'll have to watch to see it for ourselves.

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Great, great song. And so unbelievably perfect for this time in history.

As for the debate tonight, I think Trump is going to be crazy, incoherent and boring, if his rallies of late are any indication. People are just tired of his bullshit, of all the chaos and bullshit that surrounds him.

All Joe Biden has to do is keep his cool, pound him on Covid, his taxes, and ACA, and then let Trump destroy himself, and for God’s sake say, “Well now, that’s the $750 question” at every opportunity. 😂

The media’s bothsidism is just irrelevant at this point. If anything, this debate will move Biden’s numbers up even more. I mean, there’s nothing centrist and conservative Americans love more than a fatherly old white guy.

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I've lost respect for the so called journalist who cover everything 45 has to say, knowing his is lying about everything. I wonder if they are afraid of losing their jobs or the people above them don't let them tell the truth. Over 200,000 people dead this so called president has no empathy and the people who enable him, each time you look at your hands they have blood on them that will not wash off. But I guess they don't care either as long as they walk away with money because we all know that is why America is in such a state. GREED

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This is a good run down but are these errors or part of that horse race narrative with which we're so familiar? I go back to the first debate in 2000 in which Gore mopped the floor with Bush but was declared the loser because he came across as arrogant.

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Thanks for calling out the media's sickening enabling and normalizing of this psychotic lying treasonous impeached mass murdering mega-criminal because, ratings! Profits!

Fox propaganda - the real Fake News - has succeeded in establishing mass brainwashing by nonstop fascist lying as completely acceptable and the "real" media goes right along.

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You cannot win with these Trump ghouls. They love it that Trump comes across as an uninformed, boorish, inexperienced, and shallow-minded, as well as a bully. "That's because he's not a politician and he speaks his mind," they say. For them, either Hillary, Gore or Biden have to be comparatively rejected as "politicians" who are inherently dishonest. Their crime is that they come across as sincere, intelligent, informed, competent and sympathetic.

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Trump will lie, cheat, squeal and strut. In other words, it's Tuesday.

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Silly silly thought but when I see that pic of Trump and Hillary I think their poses make it look like they're performing a Donny and Marie song ("I'm A Little Bit Country"). I dare you all to disagree with me!

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