• Kroxx@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Because Trump performed exactly how he has in every previous debate, I’m not saying it was good but it was the same shit level of performance that I expected.

    Biden performed horrendously compared to expectations, that’s why he gets the focus. Trump lying his ass off just isn’t news anymore, I’m not justifying it but it would have been stranger if he hadn’t.

    I know Trump shouldn’t get a pass but the reason Biden is getting so much focus and Trump isn’t is pretty obvious. Trump did as Trump does and Biden had a horrible performance.

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      4 months ago

      Biden performed horrendously compared to expectations, that’s why he gets the focus.

      Infuriating because people writing these headlines already know this. The entire purpose of these headlines is to deflect the real problem of Biden’s inability to fulfill his role as Chief Executive onto “Ah but have you considered Trump is worse?!”

      I know Trump shouldn’t get a pass

      I don’t think he really benefited from the debate either. Its not like anything he said resonated with the audience. It was the standard litany of grumpy old fascist bullshit. His approval rating didn’t go up. Nothing he said has endured as a talking point or meme. He didn’t even score a good laugh line.

      This was a spectacle precisely because Biden was supposed to come out as a powerful voice to rally the mushy indie voters and… he didn’t. We have this enormous pool of people who are disgusted with both candidates. Biden didn’t put anything on the table to win them over. Trump didn’t either. So now we go into the convensions with two of the must unlikable candidates in living memory.

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        This was a spectacle precisely because Biden was supposed to come out as a powerful voice

        Yeah I believe one of the people on the post debate panel said that the Biden team were the ones who pushed for this debate precisely to show that Biden was up to the task of being president again, which he failed at. Fair warning I could be dead wrong on that though.

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      4 months ago

      Trump lying his ass off just isn’t news anymore

      Therein lies the problem. It should be the ENTIRE news. This is what we get when we let huge companies dictate the “news” and push all this crap about Biden yet basically nothing about Trump.

      It’s not journalism- it’s money.

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        It should be the ENTIRE news.

        You don’t think another candidate being like a lost and confused grandpa with Alzheimer deserves at least some part of the news?

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        Yeah I’m sure articles on Trump lying aren’t generating clicks like they used to, gotta get good clickbate somehow.