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Daniel, That is fantastic news. Trump never has substance. My morning news has only talked about “Democrats panicking over Biden’s performance. Nothing about trump’s non-performance.

We need to show people lists of things Biden has done. Right wing news will not.

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Watch MSNBC. They have had excellent coverage of both candidates all night and morning. Discussing what both did good, and bad. Interviews for people on decisions needing to be made by both parties, and all. Great coverage!

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In terms of energy level, Biden disappointed. I was hoping for the kind of presentation he made at The State of the Union address. Luckily, there’s plenty of time to deal with the “acting” and energy aspects of the next debate. There’s no question that Biden was not hitting on all cylinders on this evening.

Trump’s capacity for lies continues to astonish.

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You are very correct, Bayjh. I did hear early in the debate that Biden was “under the weather battling a cold”, so I am attributing his weak start to that. But he did have a weak night even though he finished strong.

There were a few times at the very beginning when he was so low voiced, you almost couldn’t hear him. I was concerned about that.

Trump came out being Trump. Everything he said was a lie. He doesn’t even have to be fact checked on most of them because we all watched everything unfold on January 6th. We have all watched his court proceedings, his criminal trial, and heard, read, the rulings from all of them. He’s a liar, convicted felon, sexual deviant, held liable for sexually assaulting a woman, plus he has numerous charges still for violating the Espionage Act, among other charges dealing with the Top Secret, Classified, Secret documents and information he stole from the White House and National Archives when he heft Washington DC.

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All true, your comments. It does concern me that in too many places there’s limited access for fact-based news. Other than FOX, Sinclair and CNN, many Americans are being deprived of an assortment of views.

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You know I only watch me news station. The only one I’ve found to be true. MSNBC. FOX News isn’t news. It’s all MAGA propaganda.

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Bayjh, Fox, Sinclair & CNN are ultra right. CNN used to be owned by Comcast (as you know very conservative) and is now owned by a trump supporting billionaire named, John Malone. He is literally a trump donor. Sinclair Bros are also nutty right wing and own hundreds of tv stations around the US. The right wing monopolization of news sources is as big a danger as trump.

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I personally feel the moderators of the debate last night did a good job. There was a couple times they didn’t turn Trump’s microphone off when his time was up which allowed him to yak over Biden. Other than that, they kept him in check, and kept pressing him to answer the multitude of questions he was refusing to answer when he kept battering the southern border situation.

Someone needed to remind him that a proposal was set forth to Congress to solve the border crisis, but he (Trump) stopped it telling his Trumpublicans in Congress to vote against it so he could use it for the campaign. So, actually, the southern border crisis is Trumps fault. Especially with him turning down the proposal to solve the issue with more in it than what the Trumpublicans were demanding be done to start with!

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I would not have agreed to CNN moderating the debate. Once again, Dems hand over important, no, critical handling to right wing control.

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Trump wants a debate on FOX News Network! Can you imagine how that debate would be? Talk about a fiasco!!!

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Please note that MSNBC doesn’t even pretend to be “news” in the sense that they call themselves “the place for politics” and that they present as such when they call their speakers as commentators rather than reporters when appropriate. I’m a watcher too. When they accidentally make a mistake, they come back and own it.

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MSNBC is the ONLY channel I watch for the news. Especially political news. I don’t mind saying that they have a lot of commentators on there that either are registered Republicans, or used to be registered Republicans. They gave guest folks come on they question, both Democrats and Republicans. As far as I’ve been able to tell, the only Republicans who are not coming in that network are the true-MAGA/GQP Trumpublicans. They wouldn’t dare go in the ‘Morning Joe’ program with Joe Scarborough and his wife, or the shows with Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki, Lawrence O’Donnell, Stephanie Rhule, and the others. They would rip the MAGA right out of them! They’ve all been invited, but that bunch of no-good politicians will not go on a network they can’t or don’t control!

Plus, like was said. Whenever this group on MSNBC puts something out, they tell you if they were able to verify it yet or not, and if it was wrong, they win their mistakes. I especially like a network that owns up to their mistakes. Tells me a lot about their loyalty to their viewers.

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I agree Bayjh. The Biden’s SOTU hit it out of the park! Biden’s weak voice and appearance worked against him. But I missed the majority of the debate as I had previous plans for the evening. I really had hoped for something close to SOTU for Biden. Being under the weather and 80 years old is a tough one. But trump gave NO information at all! We’ll make america great again….what a tired and useless lie.

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Daniel, I agree. Removing Biden would be an admission that he can’t handle anything…that would be DISASTROUS!

Here’s a list put together to talk to friends about regarding Biden.

*Biden passed much needed legislation after trump mangled the pandemic, destroyed the economy and led a deadly INSURRECTION to overthrow the government.

*Biden lowered unemployment from 6.3% to 3.5% and has held the unemployment rate below 4% for the longest period in 50 years!

*Biden created 15 million jobs in a little over 3 years (A Record).

*Bidenomics grew the economy at 3.1% last year and reduced inflation to 1.9% from 9%.

*Biden cut child poverty in half through the American Rescue Plan

*Re-joined the Paris Agreement to fight Climate Change

*Provided $10k-$20k college debt relief for those who earn under $125k/yr.

*Biden united the West to help Ukraine fight Russia.

*Biden passed the first gun safety legislation in thirty years.

The following legislation was also passed during Biden's first term:

*bipartisan Infrastructure legislation

*The Electoral Count Act

*Science and CHIPS Act

*Respect for Marriage Act

*American Rescue Plan

*PACT Act (expands VA health benefits)

*Inflation Reduction Act (2022)

*Biden cracked down on junk fees

*Banned non-competes for workers

*Banned medical debt from Credit Reports

*Capped drug prices for seniors

*Expanded overtime pay

*Capped credit card fees

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Excellent list! Thanks a million! I had a man here last evening that was a Trump voter watching the debate with me. After the debate he said there’s no way in hell he’s voting for Trump. He realized what I had been telling him for the past couple weeks was true, and he hoped Biden stays in office.

I told him last night. If Trump goes in office again, he will not have his trucking business in 6 months. He’ll be unemployed, broke, and most likely homeless. After the debate, he agreed with me. He said Trump has a “one-track-mind”, and all he can do is lie.

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What stands as Biden’s testament is the expert handling of a complex world left in chaos from #45…ie the catastrophic bungling of a pandemic and blatant opposite direction claim ‘’party of order ‘‘.

Nothing stands more obvious about Trump than being a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR followed through last night’s debate - proof unequivocally . Most, even within his sorry base, know this.

Rise up sisters, brothers. Let’s end this debacle.

💙VOTE💙

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Hey there my lady!!! Hope everything is going well with you. I’ve been battling VOVUD, along with all my other medical issues. Been a rough year!

I fully agree with you! If we don’t VOTE BLUE 💙 💙💙💙up and down the ballot these next elections, we are signing our Democracy Death Warrant! We will be turning this country over to Putin! And that can not happen!!!

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Will Joe now endorse Kamala, please?

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I was hoping she’d be the one on the ticket to begin with, but if he stays, I’ll still support him, and her, to return to the White House.

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I appreciate the comment, David. I truly do. But, the folks at NYT, FOX News, and these other Trumpian networks/news outlets, couldn’t stand me working there. I’d be beat half of them to death.

I can’t stand stupid!!! Drives me insane!

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Thanks for subscribing, David. With my health sues right now, I’m not writing like I should be, but I try to put something out as often as I can. I do respond quite a bit to others posting comments on here though.

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