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I only watched 30 minutes of the debate, but what I saw was not as bad as that. He got a couple zingers off, had some good points, rattled off some stats, seemed annoyed at Trump lying over and over and did stutter, and looked like he had a headache.
I'll bet you that if he was on his A game, everyone would have been yelling performance enhancement drugs!
So yeah, calling for him to resign because he struggled to deal with a bunch of shitty js websites, full of ads, and several mining crypto in the background, while leaking memory... Seems like caving into republican talking points way too easily...
Yeah I also watched a 30 minute highlight video because since Trump has been involved I've found watching the whole thing to be intolerable. I am totally open to anybody showing me "high points" for Biden that maybe CNN skipped over in their condensed version.
Lol please share. "Morals of an alleycat"? (or whatever the exact quote is)
As for the rest, I agree that obviously for general factual content Biden even on his deathbed will beat Trump. However it was undermined by the errors, e.g. getting the price of insulin wrong and millions/billions mixed up more than once. That is the problem.
Almost certainly. But he wasn't so it's not really the point here.
You know what they say about stopped clocks. They will always have this shit to say about Biden, absolutely. So why have I (and many others, NYT included) all of a sudden "caved into" republican talking points after ignoring or arguing against them until now?
Honestly to me the more interesting "talking points" at the minute are from some democrats, who after (assumedly) reacting in horror with the rest of us after the debate, have latched onto the "He had a cold" excuse that they came out with and tried to pass the whole thing off as a "stutter" issue.
I think people can see the difference between a stutter and whatever the hell happened at the debate. He wasn't stuttering, he was freezing up and getting sentences jumbled up. He was not capable of having a coherent debate, and the only saving grace is that Trump isn't either (different reasons, but still).
So I find it a little strange how people are talking about his performance, now. We all know what we watched, and that is why everybody freaked the fuck out straight afterwards. Trying to gaslight everyone is not a productive or helpful strategy. (Not you necessarily, by the way, just "the discourse" in general. I would like to see any examples you have of what you're saying)