Tapper and Bash are trending on twitter and it does my heart good

[Nixie]

56. That wasn't a "debate." It was a one-sided QAnon orgy of disinformation that is being legitimized

and carried mainstream now by the likes of news outlets like CNN. Nothing Trump said was legitimate discourse in the context of a debate. It was all conspiracies, intentional disinformation and distortion, outright lies, verbal abuse. As has been brought up here, "informational warfare" which is a great term for what we saw, although it is not information in the true sense. It was just plain verbal abuse. A lot of people are taken aback by a barrage of verbal abuse. That's what looked to be the case with Biden. He's an old-fashioned politician with gentlemanly good manners, and to be barraged with nothing but lies is not something easy to prep for.

These "debates" are getting to be very unnecessary and maybe need to be completely overhauled. Something like cutting the mic's if the questions are not answered directly.

Tapper and Bash acted very meekly, as I saw it, probably so that trump wouldn't attack them. Everyone has to act that way around him.

But if nastiness and lies are the new norm, then Biden could say ultra personal things, too. Asking why Trump's own wife wasn't there to support him -- did she not want to hear about his sex with a porn star? Where is all the money his daughter and her husband got from Saudi Arabia. Why was there a Russian jet parked next to trump's plane? What did Trump say to Putin in their private meeting. Why would you tell American's to inject bleach? Yikes, if it's just a shitshow, then don't worry about prep. Just insult away.