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Multiple people all over twitter are commenting that parading our "leader" around in the car for five minutes ... was like something that would happen in North Korea.

The SNL "cold open" sucked. Did the actors/writers even watch the debate? Jim Carrey portrayed Biden as senile, unable to answer any questions. The sketch dialogue writing made it sound like the *only* thing Biden did was hurl insults at Trump. Carrey played Biden as completely unable to control his emotions. And unable to stop himself from speaking against Trump. NONE of that happened during the debate! I'm so pissed that the media and comedians are still pushing the false narrative that Joe is senile and unable to speak coherently, and unable to control himself. Biden answered the debate questions intelligently, calmly, and compassionately. A few times Biden made some comments about Trump - but each time, it was more like calmly doing a verbal exasperated eyeroll. He made very few comments of that nature, and those comments weren't angry or emotionally out of control.

Transcript of statements from White House communications person Alyssa Farah to the White House press pool gaggle: https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-in-town-pool-report-13c-fuller-quotes-from-1845269104

^ Twitter headlines from the newspaper and the reporter A reply on twitter suggested what the headline *should* be: BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was FIRST INDICTED 5 YEARS AGO AND HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY EVADING TRIAL, has been accused by seven current aides of taking bribes and abusing his office. Article: From the "Austin American-Statesman" newspaper (Austin, Texas) Top aides accuse (Republican) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of bribery, abusing office By Tony Plohetski and Chuck Lindel Posted Oct. 3, 2020, update Oct. 4, 2020 https://www.statesman.com/news/20201003/top-aides-accuse-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-of-bribery-abusing-office Details behind the spoiler tag:

"Suffering from COVID-19 science overload? A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) wades through the deluge of information, so you don’t have to." Article explaining this: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/suffering-from-covid-19-science-overload-this-uw-team-wades-through-the-deluge-so-you-dont-have-to/ Link to the "COVID-19 Literature Situation Report" https://depts.washington.edu/pandemicalliance/category/covid-19-literature-situation-report/

Time correction: 8:25:59 pm EDT and 8:35:40 pm EDT as explained in following tweet:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/media/abc-quarantine-chris-christie/index.html

via MNSBC -- from 3 minutes *before* Trump tweeted he was infected.

Yeah I also wondered theoretically if he could have intentionally infected himself to gain pity/sympathy. But wouldn't he see pity/sympathy as a sign of weakness? I don't know. I shouldn't try to analyze his narcissistic brain - I have better things to do with my time.

Some thoughts. What if .... (just speculating) What if ... he *intentionally* got himself infected with the virus for any of these motives: As a way to avoid the rest of the debates. So as to distract from his tax issues. He probably assumes that he will recover quickly ... so if he were infected and recovered quickly, then he would make himself look dominant, to say that COVID is no big deal, that he can beat anything, that it doesn't matter if you wear a mask, etc. These theories might seem extreme, but I wouldn't put it past him to do anything like this. Some say that it cannot be a ploy, because the Dow Jones has crashed but ... I doubt he'd care because he could have money stashed somewhere. I mean, obviously he probably simply got COVID because he doesn't take reasonable precautions. But still ... nothing would surprise me.

Chris Wallace says "I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did." NYTimes interviewed him a few hours after the debate. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/business/media/chris-wallace-debate-moderator.html If a paywall is in the way, there is a copy of the same article here: https://archive.is/1W3fX

Just edited my above post about Lisa Fanjoy -- for clarity and to add waitress note.