Re: Covid: Trump sez it's China's fault and he saved millions of lives; Biden sez it's Trump's fault, 220K dead, and Biden would actually take control as Prez. Trump's trying again to bring up swine flu, as if anyone cares #Debates2020
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Biden points to Trump's lack of policy re: Covid. Trump claims Biden is pro-shutdown. Pretty boring so far, you're not missing much #debate "The cure can not be worse than the problem itself," sez Trump, over a mountain of dead
Biden points to the necessity of rational measures against the coronavirus, pointing to the plexiglass. Trump says NY is "dying" as if he cared about that...Biden's going for the "we're all Americans" trope
Trump points to the devastation of the coronavirus as if Biden had been president --apparently it works for his befuddled followers. Biden zings Trump for knowing about the virulence of the pandemic and intentionally dragging his feet
Biden says Giuliani is being used by the Russians as a pawn; "I don't know why" Trump won't take on Putin. Thumps podium. Trump claims Joe took $3.5 million from Russia--just pulled that out of his ass apparently
Trump says Russia took "the submarine port" (meaning the Black Sea Fleet HQ in Crimea) under Obama, and Biden should answer for that. Biden denies the imaginary Russian funds, ever taking foreign money, what about them tax returns eh? #Debates2020
Trump says "under audit" as per usual when cornered on tax returns, claims he "pre-paid" taxes and therefore those $750 returns were ...um something. Repeats the $3.5 million lie, goes with the "Whitmer assassination squad" no doubt
Moderator is letting Trump gas away. Surprised? Are there any journalists left in the US?
Biden calls out Trump on his previous stance of being too smart to pay taxes. Now Trump's whining about the Mueller Investigarion "no collusion and nothing wrong" --sez Biden's brothers (?) made money in Iraq #debate
Impeachment probe showed Biden was a straight arrow, sez Biden. Both candidates slur their words a bit tonight #Debates2020
Moderator brings up emoluments violations, bank account in China, Trump says "I have many bank accounts" and claims again that Biden gets money from China (without factual basis)--sez he's militarily tough on China
Biden says he's tough, that is. Now Trump says Biden took "a billion and a half" from China. Trump says he gave $28 billion to US farmers from China. Oh Christ Biden said "malarkey"
Biden's talking about working class pain (which he of course calls "middle class") and now Trump's shouting over the moderator. #Debates2020 On N Korea, Trump sez he thwarted nuclear war
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Biden sez he would meet with Kim Jong Un if Kim draws down his nuclear capacity--Kim's a "thug" Biden sez. Maybe he'd punch him like Corn Pop
Shouting over the moderator--so much for the magic microphone--Trump yells "They (Obama et al) "left me a mess" #Debates2020
@TheresaTiresias Trump again lies that he was "always protecting people with pre-existing conditions." Biden would make socialized medicine, sez Big Orange
Biden says he'll reduce drug prices with "competition" as if there were not a whole market of capitalist pharma competitors. What's your position on flying elephants, candidates? #Debates2020
Moderator takes Biden to task for getting "one step closer" to socialism. That's what Murica is worried bout!
Trump's trying to say the Obama Administration did nothing about medical care. Ahem. But he calls out Biden on the fracking flipflop--Biden won't take the bait, goes back to Obamacare Plus #Debates2020
Biden points out that he distinguished himself from that oh-so-frightening-socialist Bernie. Trump shouts over the moderator "He doesn't come from Scranton" #debate
Trump blames Pelosi for not approving a #COVID19 relief plan. Moderator asks Biden why no relief? Biden sez HEROES act has been "sitting there" for months, blame Mitch McConnell. "C'mon!"
If Biden gets the Presidency we are going to be hearing that exasperated "C'mon!" a lot more than we want to hear it, mostly from comedians. Biden says small bizzezzez need a further bailout
Just turn off his god damned mike. I'll give you money. Anything.
Biden is trying to say that people should not have to work two or three jobs and an increased minimum wage will not close businesses. #debates
What about the orphaned babies, asks the moderator. Trump says "the cages" are a hoax and Trump's gonna find the parents any minute and bad coyotes bad people bad race bad anyway and it's Obama's fault #Debates2020
My...eye. I will give you an eye to shut off that mike. Nice brown, slightly used. My car? Um wait
Biden stutters the word "river" and I love him for that. 'Cause he is saying that it is evil to steal those children from their parents' arms and it FUCKING IS EVIL #Debates2020 --Biden bears down on the evil. Good good good go man
Now Trump says "murderer rapist very bad person" and implies Biden is naive about race. "Those with the lowest IQ" might show for a court date, says Trump, seething with Whiteness #Debates2020
Moderator points out that Black people have to have "the talk." Biden says he understands and that his daughter is a social worker. Trump says (I'll bet he says 'what about Whites') #debate
--Trump says he understands and that Biden called Blacks 'superpredators.' Nobody except maybe Abe Lincoln has done so much for Blacks (etc). Biden notes the Central Park 5 were innocent yet Trump demanded their deaths. #DebateTonight
Trump says Obama and Biden did nothing for Blacks. Trump is still taking the stance that even after being Prez for 4 years he's an outsider. Trump calls Biden "corrupt politician." Shouting ensues #debates
Shouting over the moderator, guess how? Moderator now calling out Trump for fanning White supremacists, Trump replies that BLM says "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em" "I am the least racist person in this room." No laughter
"C'mon," sez Biden, Trump encourages the "Poor Boys" meaning the "Proud Boys." Now Trump is shouting again
Biden claims his mass incarceration vote, in an unanimous context, was "a mistake" --particularly "the cocaine part" (crack vs powder?)--"all talk and no action, these politicians" sez Trump the politician #debate
Trump is still trying to bait Biden with the incarceration vote--no trace of shame here--
Trump's trying to claim the carbon reduction caused by the COVID economic collapse is proof of his environmental fervor. "Cleanest air and water" he says. Had to spike the Paris accords 'cause Russians and Chinese would have gotten an unfair advantage
Frackin' Joe claims to care about the climate too, lots of jobs coming up from the This Is Not The Green New Deal That Would Be Socialist Shut Up Bill of 2021 I guess. #Debates2020
Biden's gonna grow a trillion bucks with his Presidency, he claims. Trump sez "AOC plus 3" is going to destroy the country with the (don't say the words!) The not-GND would cost a hundred trillion dollars(???) and Biden says "give me a break"
"I know more about wind than you do" sez Trump as Biden coughs his defiance
Biden waffles on fracking. Trump calls him out on it. Moderator points out petroleum generation is disproportionately poisonous to BIPOC, Trump says BIPOC get jobs from oil and it's the best #Debates2020
Biden says BIPOC are frontlines in oil, Trump says "would you close down the oil industry?" Renewables sez Biden as Trump does the Mussolini head-toss #Debates2020
Trump says everything would be fine if it were not for China's "plague." Biden will raise taxes and regulations and cause a depression like you've never seen, sez T. Biden says he would represent all Americans "We would choose science over fiction" #Debates2020
And they're done. Apparently Melania isn't dead. @threadreaderapp unroll
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