This was the absolute worst "debate" Ive ever seen and Ive seen the 2016 Republican "debate" where a certain orange rapist/racist bragged about the size of his junk. The yellfest that occurred last night was not only a disgrace for CBS but it may end up being the reason a certain "moderator" gets canned from reading serious news at night and gets sent back to morning fluff where she apparently belongs. Nora O'Donnell and her co "moderator" Gayle King were assigned to this rodeo of screaming cats and dogs and were told to make it watchable. Since I used to be a watcher of the CBS Evening News until last night I knew nightmare to follow was coming because of the hyperbole used by O'Donnell in the pre-debate yakking. You could barely her her speak due to the boxing match like babbling crowd, she used words like "fight" and "last stand" in pumping this disaster up. At least I think she said that because the crowd noise was overwhelming.
Seven candidates walked onstage, 2 women and 5 men and the fireworks began. Stupid questions, yelling, hand raising, avoiding answering direct questions even as dumb as they were, lack of specifics and that was just Bernie Sanders.
Mayor Mike Bloomberg had his fans in the $1700 per seat audience of howling hyenas, Hmm wonder how that happened. Bloomberg basically claimed that he bought the House for the Democrats in 2018, defended himself against his abhorrent behavior and fought off the haymakers still being thrown by apparently settling for Veep, Elizabeth Warren. Warren, who had already stuck Bloombergs candidacy on life support, wasnt content on letting it die slowly but wanted to put a pillow over its head. She was disappointing in that regard attacking a corpse while the source of her lack of support was right there off a disastrous 60 Minutes interview. Bernie Sanders was rightfully attacked by everyone else trying to stop him from running away and staggering home in the lead but Warren declined like she wanted his Vice Presidency job. She may have acted like the only adult up there, but in this day and age, that only works when adults are in charge. Thats not the case in 2020. Petulant children rule.
Sanders defended his views by going back to his stump speech time and time again. He defends Medicare for all in the best of terms, even when Amy Klobuchar goes all Republican by distorting the result. But the rest of his views are all the result of pulling a fucking rabbit out of a hat and we already have that in the Magician in Chief. By doing that and claiming all the free shit is paid for by screaming Abra Cadabra in an old Wizards hat he opens himself up to ridicule. And ridicule is what he gets whether its from Mayor Pete or Joe Biden or Bloomberg or Amy K or that other guy nobody wants up there any longer. Imagine what Trump, the Russians and the cheating lying Republicans have waiting for the 78 year old heart patient. Its a disaster waiting to happen.
Look Ive gone from standing at a middle school in Omaha in 2016 with a bunch of young Bernie Bros, middle aged libs and old hippies and caucusing for Sanders to now, where I just want him and his cult gone. Sanders' candidacy would have ended after that 60 Minutes nightmare had he been named anything but Sanders or Trump. The cult these two rule over is truly the same. Blind devotees willing to put up with any stupid thing their candidate says by then hollering about how rigged the system is and unleashing the vulgar cult onto its opponents. Trumps cult cares only about making libtards mad and self destructing and Bernies cult cares only about pie in the sky issues that benefit them that will never pass in the current atmosphere. If you dont fall into line, they promise to self destruct just like the Trumpers. Its amazing how similar they are.
This "debate" solved nothing. Joe Biden may have benefited the most from this screechfest by not screwing up. He actually sounded Presidential at times. Bloomberg is done. That other guy on the right needs to go away. Klobuchar is finished, the Mom act is over. Sanders hopefully has been exposed as the hocus pocus old warlock he is. Elizabeth Warren , who benefits from the destruction of the old wizard, needs to start acting like it.
Now Mayor Pete. The student council know it all act is wearing thin. He makes one want to slap him. Especially old people like me. Calm down there Poindexter. When he carries on about Trump wanting to go back to the 1950s and Bernies "revolutionary politics of the 1960s" being irrelevant he really pissed me off. Dear Pete, in 1969 the "revolutionary politics of the 1960s" stood up and rebelled against cops rousting gay men at the Stonewall Inn. Ever hear of it? Ever hear of the civil rights movement? Ever hear of John Lewis? Mayor Pete, you suffer from the arrogance of youth. You have no respect or possible curiosity about those that paved the way for an openly gay man to be a serious contender for President of the United States. Barack Obama got that part of campaigning. You dont. Your "OK Boomer" dismissal of that is not going to go well.
So there ya have it. The moderators sucked. The candidates sucked. Get it together or this election will also suck and we will lose American democracy for generations.
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