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Honestly I don't know how much better I could do than biden in an argument with trump. His look of just complete confusion as trump just continued to say complete nonsense was pretty much the same look I had listening to it.
really fair, it’s certainly an uncommon skill but it’s definitely a skill we should be able to expect of our literal leaders
Imagine downvoting "I think the President should be good at public speaking"
Fine line. We want "enough" charisma, but we don't want demogoguery.
I would have been fine with both of them having proxies for the debate and sitting in, with the proviso that they could chime in if their proxy said something they don't approve.
You sure about that? Could have fooled the rest of the parts of the world where people are legally allowed to even acknowledge demagoguery..
Buddy, then it's you and me against the world. I'll be your campaign manager, you're the charismatic one.
Nah, I'm way too ideologically consistent to be a politician lol. Plus my hypoactive ADHD and social anxiety combo doesn't lend itself well to public office 😄
I really shouldn't have dump statted CHA. Where's Withers...
Obama spoiled us. Hell, even dubyuh was more articulate than either of the geriatrics we have now.
the ratio got better overnight while the DNC was asleep and eurobros had the floor but i expect it to get worse from here on out
Imagine if Trump had been debating John Stewart
That’s pretty much been the playbook since day one, just shotgun blasts complete bullshit left and right, it’s the equivalent of verbal chaff. Misdirect, confuse, and trip up the opponent so that they have to waste time refuting your BS than actually talking about the facts.
It's really clear to me that that was trumps entire playbook. He more of his time attacking Biden and spouting lies and bullshit than answering the questions. It went exactly how I expected.
I had really hoped that Biden would find his public speaking voice. He's competent but not a great speaker.
The man couldn't even properly answer the abortion questions, I seriously hope you'd do better than that.
He did OKAY on the abortion question, but then incoherently rambled for a few seconds and somehow brought immigration up. Still better than Trump's response.
But this was bog-standard Trump for his entire political career. Gish galloping is what he does. This shouldn't have been a surprised Pikachu moment.
I think you can do a lot better than he did, any of us could. Just look at the transcript here. ctrl+f for "golf". You're gonna tell me you don't have a better response than Biden here?
I'm just gonna come up with 5 things right now Biden could've said:
Instead Biden talked about his height (which he didn't mention) and challenged him to a driving contest. WTF. I recognize how bad this would've sounded before yesterday, but literally any random person we pick from this thread has better odds than Biden at this point.
Trump did absolutely horribly. His answers can be fairly described as completely and transparently delusional. But Biden managed to make him look good.