Vee

They haven't both sides'ed this debate.

The DB article is paywalled and can be read here.

In full:

When Santorum and the center-right media heads are saying Trump failed, is a disgrace, etc. we won. That was unspeakably ugly, but Biden hung in (and it's his jabs that are trending, nothing from Trump).

It was unbelievably ugly to watch, but Biden got off zingers that went viral, and the needle won't move. Further, Trump lost the media comeback narrative he desperately needed.

It's a complete shitshow of a debate. Joe is doing about as well with this kind of utter [!@#$%^&*] tornado as anyone could, and Chris Wallace humiliated himself - begging Trump to follow the rules and then just say whatever he wants. But some dumb advisor told Biden to stay calm and soft spoken to contrast Trump, and that was a mistake IMO. This debate isn't going to move the needle or the votes to any major degree, but the only way to dominate a debate like this is to be loud and strong. That being said, "will you shut up, man?" and "you're the worst president we ever had" lines will be the takeaways, and that, is what will matter. Joe has gotten more aggressive as he goes, and those hard attacks are what matter now.

Max Ehrich is currently embarrassing himself on social media begging for Lovato to take him back after all his thirst posts over other pop idols, followed by doing the whole poor me/"I'm moving on!!" thing and taking jabs back. Dude is a fool. I'd still take him back as Fen though.

There is no upside to Biden skipping the debates. It's going to go fine. Conspiracy theorists will come up with nonsense, Trump will make a fool of himself, the media will struggle to mount some sort of new narrative for Trump to come back, the polling and reaction won't bear it out, and nothing will have changed in this race tomorrow or by end of week. It's not that serious unless someone's a blogger whose entire existence is built around social media.

And now..... l'affaire Parscale.

Ryan Lizza? Okay. We'll see. I'm sure they will try to push a narrative, but as we've seen often in 2020 these narratives usually fail when they meet the polling and get walked back.

Uhh:

The debates will go fine. They are not a trap. They also rarely move the needle. I think we have a good chance of a blowout. I'm not going to stop being vigilant and nervous, though.

As burns go, this is flawless from Omar, a person I have otherwise become quite tired of.

You can think no story has any impact, but Trump remains 10 point behind for a reason. It's a bombshell and it will continue to keep hurting him. Many have always believed him, but he has never grown his base; it has only reduced a bit. That is why he is 10 points behind and that is why he is losing. It doesn't make a difference if the same people always believe you when you can't win with just them.