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Mad_Machine76

(24,986 posts)
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 10:50 AM Jul 2024

Biden's Debate Performance

Maybe this is a bit but is it possible Biden and/or his debate preppers got "psyched out" by all of the Republican accusations of Joe being drugged with "performance enhancing" drugs before the debate that he/they felt that he had to tone down his performance? I'm not saying he tried to tank the debate but was that in the back his/their minds going into the debate? Although I'm sure that fatigue and a reported cold might have naturally played a factor but I just wonder if he/they felt like they had to try to battle those, admittedly ridiculous, assertions, which helped to paralyze/slow him down some? I've never heard anybody talk about this but just wondering all the same......

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Biden's Debate Performance (Original Post) Mad_Machine76 Jul 2024 OP
Or maybe it was just simply cilla4progress Jul 2024 #1
Plus being ill. yorkster Jul 2024 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2024 #2
Joe was speaking perfectly appropriately for a non-audience debate. unblock Jul 2024 #4
I concur. Hugin Jul 2024 #5
What millions of democrats who voted to nominate Biden think apparently doesn't matter to the media either unblock Jul 2024 #6
This was two weeks ago. valleyrogue Jul 2024 #7
You don't need to interact with it if you don't want to discuss my post Mad_Machine76 Jul 2024 #8

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4. Joe was speaking perfectly appropriately for a non-audience debate.
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 11:13 AM
Jul 2024

Joe was deemed to have lost the debate apparently because Joe gave a solid B+ performance when he's capable of giving an A, while Donnie gave an unmitigated F when that's all he's capable of.

Donnie's lies and incoherence and confusion and baseless attacks and insane proposals and signs of dementia don't matter because Joe wasn't in top form on one particular night.

The entire post-debate media shitstorm reeks of right-wing propaganda.

*read the transcript* then tell me how Biden lost.

It's all bullshit.

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(56,240 posts)
6. What millions of democrats who voted to nominate Biden think apparently doesn't matter to the media either
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 11:20 AM
Jul 2024

Mad_Machine76

(24,986 posts)
8. You don't need to interact with it if you don't want to discuss my post
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 12:29 PM
Jul 2024

Feel free to trash it and move on. Just a random afterthought.

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