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"Why does Biden look and sound fine when his campaign is shooting him on film the day after and didn't when it was the news hand of David Zaslav's company?" has its own answer if you just think about it a little bit
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god, i hate conspiracies, but, man, even the difference between the debate stage and his *immediate* post-debate speech is, like, large and notable.
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Microphone pickups are weird and wonky and they could have fucked it up without any intention to do so
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a simple explanation would be that they chose to keep both candidates’ mics at the same level, which would be absolutely insane in literally any other context but somehow seen as fairness in this one
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Sure. I don't know, but like, it sure seems like the difference between the debate and those other two is so clearly the sound, I wasn't listening to the debate, I watched it and read it in CC, and after the first like fifteen, Biden was doing fine visually and in the text
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Biden also looked about fifteen years older last night than he did at the rally this afternoon.
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Gee, I don't know, sounds like lighting and sound to me
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the lighting is on his prep people, they should have figured that one out
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To be clear, my position is, even with Biden sounding raspy in the debate, that he did just fine, stayed on message, landed some hits, and Trump raved like a madman for two hours and barely made sense.
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mine is that people who want to treat debates like sporting events have to report on it like a sporting event, which does not end after the first period
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like, we call this horserace reporting, but i’ve read the daily race form at the track, no one only reports on the first quarter of the race
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Like Trump's awfulness, "Biden is old" is mostly priced in
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That's... an even milder result than I was anticipating. This is what people are pissing themselves over?
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The biggest net gainer is RFK Jr whose debate performance was, and I didn't watch or listen to it, unhinged
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People really want there to be a knockout blow on Trump and there just isn't.
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The real problem is the media, who have now decided it is their solemn duty to destroy Biden. Destroy him the same way they did to Clinton over her Email server and how she was secretly dying of pneumonia the entire time.
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I'm afraid we're all gonna be sarcastically sneering "But He's Old" for the next few years.
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To paraphrase Voltaire, if we don’t have a reason to piss ourselves, we shall have to invent one
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Acá -casi Canadá- si hay sol, salen en ojotas con -10 grados. Recién este último invierno logré salir con el camperón de -30 sin 8 capaz abajo, solo 3.
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Among debate watchers (who are less partisan than the overall electorate)
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My lesson from the current media environment of short clips and hawt taeks on them is that Trump created an hour of easily spliced unhinged nonsense and his few concrete policy claims are profoundly unpopular, and Biden did not, and this is good, actually.
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Though Jesus Christ, have someone go grab the real Sufeded from behind the counter, worst timed cold in history
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I flubbed that word in solidarity with Biden
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Odd then that all the focus has been on Biden and not on Trump saying "Dobbs was good, actually."