It's not good.

Adam is probably rethinking his endorsement.

Debating, Debasing: Notes on the CNN Shitshow

Two weeks ago, on Allison Gill’s Daily Beans tour, we were asked about the upcoming debate. I didn’t believe it would happen. I thought Trump would bail. Clearly I underestimated his hard-on for spewing unfiltered lies and doling out abuse. So I got that wrong.

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

Last night was a fucking disaster—for Biden, for CNN, for truth, justice, and the American way. That wasn’t a debate; it was elder abuse. And Jake Tapper and Dana Bash just sat there and watched it, like two math nerds ignoring the high school bully. I understand that CNN’s rules prevented fact-checking—they may as well have prevented journalism—but those two frauds just participated in an assault on democracy. Tapper, especially, knows better, and if he doesn’t resign after that debacle, I don’t see how we can take him seriously as a journalist ever again.

Yesterday, on Jeff Tiedrich’s post he had asked what questions we would like to see asked. I replied “TBH, none, this isn’t going to move the needle one iota” (paraphrasing, I know many of you read that), and it now seems to me that I was wrong.

This performance by Biden is going to be kryptonite for the “middle” and the “undecided’s” and push a LOT of that cohort to Trump.

Trump might actually win the popular vote this time.

It doesn’t matter that Trump uttered not a single true word. The contrast was enough, and all the sudden stirrings of a “gee Joe, you need to step aside” are going to further drive that “undecided” cohort to go to Trump even harder.

Because there is only one option if Joe does walk away, and that is Harris.

Going to turn comments off on this. I just can’t take it.