10/22 Sure Happy It’s Thursday Debate Night at Benny’s Bar
Tonight is the last tug of war speeches debate between the two nominees of their respective parties. One of them should have never been there but managed to wreck our country further, and the other one still wants an Obama-Biden revival.
He shouldn’t be there either.
But we got outnumbered. We know Bernie would have ripped Trump up and down on the pandemic alone and finished him there.
Lots of new #Debates2020 rules tonight. Mics will be muted during the two-minute opening remarks by the candidates at the start of each 15-minute segment of the debate. Can Donald Trump avoid interrupting Joe Biden for two minutes? If you know Trump, you know that’s a tall order.
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) October 23, 2020
So the debate moderator at the debate site of Belmont University, Nashville, is Kristen Welker of NBC News. There will be 6 topics, and they are as follows:
- Fighting COVID
- American Families
- Race in America
- Climate Change
- National Security
- Leadership
Hmmm, let’s see. Except for maybe topic number 2, in which both candidates have family members who have benefitted from political ties to them, Trump will either take the Amy Barrett approach, and change the subject, or we will see “the best ever” answers. Biden will be able to speak to Fighting COVID and National Security at least. The rest– whatever their consultants may prep them for.
The moderator will not have control of the microphone, so it’s not exactly clear who will be muting it.
The debate will be 9-10:30 PM EDT on ABC · CBS · NBC · PBS
Stream: C-SPAN on YouTube · CBSN · CNNgo · Fox News Go · USA Today BBC News on YouTube TV
Apps: CBS News App · Fox News App · NBC News
Guess it’s time for popcorn and plenty of water to chase those cocktails/beers. Benny’s Bar is open, place an order.
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You can treat this as an open thread. Fun tweets, snarks, news, and jibber-jabber. Floor is yours.
Tips for usual suspect bud/bartenders…
Thanks Benny.
The C-SPAN link:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?475796-1/trump-biden-debate&live=
T and R, Ms. Benny!!😊☮️👍 I am skipping this reality show. Folding a ton of laundry and watching some of the Giants-Eagles game on POX. I will check out the reviews of our Nest commentariat manana. Everyone take care!😊🗽🇺🇸
Glad you stopped by!
watching Football and following along here
Trump looks like someone rubbed Tang and Instant Carnation drink over this face. Looks terrible.
First up: COVID.
Trump says a vaccine is forthcoming, says many heads of state have congratulated him on his leadership on the issue, and it’s rounding the corner, going away.
Biden emphasizes 1K deaths daily, 70,000 new cases reported each day. Points out there is no comprehensive plan. He would have rapid testing plan, masks, more resources centralized to meet the challenges of reopening schools.
At the moderator’s request, Trump just listed
all of the stocks where he is a shareholderthe names of the pharma firms working on the vaccine.So far Trump hasn’t interrupted. But has pivoted to attacking Biden for going to a basement.
Facts: Hospital admissions rose 30% since early October
US is 11th worst hit country on deaths per capita
800 deaths daily
I’m peppering with data coming from the BBC (btw)
and who ran to the WH bunker?
Welker couldn’t resist baiting Trump with gotcha questions about Dr. Fauci. Waste of time.
National security….both Russia and Iran (natch) interfering, apparently.
Biden: “they will pay a price, they will pay a price” and also mentions China.
Trump is about to lay in about Hunter Biden, I think.
This is drivel that I don’t understand coming from Trump. The $750 he paid in taxes was a filing fee? There is no filing fee.
Trump reminds me of the baroness — blaming everyone else for troubles he’s created.
An easy target.
Trump’s taxes…he keeps talking about making pre-payments, but why would one do that if you don’t end up owning anything? Doesn’t seem credible. I mean, Trump’s pre-payments could have been for $100, we don’t know.
p.s. have Biden’s handlers told him to stop doing the ‘number one, number two’ thing??
Trump’s properties abroad…
I wish Trump were being asked about the personnel abuses in real estate properties in Africa.
China, the latest bogeyman, Biden hard on China.
“number one, number two” sighhhh
Biden is stumbling, Trump is many things, but he’s not a friend of North Korea.
Biden jumped in to say that the money Trump supposedly gave to farmers was taxpayer money (duh)
Malarkey! Drink
Come on!! (2 drinks)
Now they’re fighting over the awful ACA that funnels massive amounts of $ to insurance companies.
Biden’s public option: sigh, competition within private insurance. Lots of means testing to get into public option.
Oh geez, Welker asks if his plan is a step to “socialized” medicine. Biden says it’s not. What is affordable? Trump is right to hit Biden on it.
Twitter is tamped down, waaay behind what’s going on. Usually twitter is on it.
uninterested?
The so-called trending debate thread is over 30 minutes behind, was behind by an hour before, and only consists of MSM tweets, I’ve never seen that before. Really seems like they suppressed the thread about the debate.
The tweets I grabbed were from my normal feed (I follow a lot of accounts). The usual ‘trending’ thread was a no-go. A first for me.
They might be suppressing it, especially if they were critical of Biden.
You can only retweet once now, apparently one of the bigwigs was saying double retweeting is like giving a four-year-old a loaded gun. Sayin the quiet part out loud again.