A good Salon article on tRump's psychotic debate performance last night.

[PaulRevere08]

What "civil" debate? The one I watched revealed Donald Trump as a cold-blooded psychopath
A calmer tone only exposed Trump's lack of basic empathy about the pandemic, family separation or anything else.

The word on the media reviews for Thursday night's second — and blessedly last — debate of the presidential campaign is that it was civil.

"It was civil, calm, sedate, substantive (at times) and, almost, even normal," Shane Goldmacher at the New York Times writes. "It came down to muting the president," Robin Givhan of the Washington Post writes. "That's what it took to stage a reasonably civil debate between President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden."

Deirdre Walsh at NPR declared the Nashville debate " a much different — and far more civil — night than the last encounter."

I don't know what debate these analysts were watching. Because the one I saw was between a normal politician, Joe Biden, and a man whose utter lack of empathy for any other human being is only matched by his baseless self-regard. The mute button only allowed Trump to speak at greater length, showcasing for all of America to see a textbook illustration of what sociopathy looks like. Afterward, I wondered if Christian Bale had been watching, and if so, if he was worried that his star turn in "American Psycho" was too understated.

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/23/there-was-nothing-civil-about-that-debate-trump-behaved-like-a-cold-blooded-psychopath/

[NoRoadUntravelled]

1. The expectation for Trump's debate performance were apparently so low that people were likely

relieved to see he didn't spew profanities along with his lies, his hair didn't start on fire and he didn't hurl insults at the moderator.

[Nexus2]

18. Yeah, the bar is so low for him that if doesn't come out screaming, crap in his hand

And fling it into the audience there's those will to label his performance as 'presidential'.

[pwb]

2. "He is not nice".

Said my 7 year old Grand daughter after hearing Trump speak for only a short time.

[elleng]

4. Hug her for us!

[pwb]

6. My daughter keeps her away from me because of the virus.

Six feet is close for us. I miss holding them. I will give her a outstretched arm hug k?

[elleng]

7. Outstretched arm hug is FINE!

[Captain Zero]

13. 4 years ago I worked in Mental Health Services

Most of my clients also had slight cognitive deficits too. Almost ALL OF THEM recognized immediately that Trump was a BULLY. They had a visceral fear and dislike of him just from the way he spoke...

[FirstLight]

3. well said!

the last paragraph is , wow...

"But the truth is, without the yelling and headache-inducing interruptions, Trump's ruthless attitude towards any human being besides himself came through with crystalline clarity. There's nothing "civil" about a man who doesn't care about human suffering and death, and is only upset by the fact that he's not receiving the constant praise and flattery he believes is his due."


I can't wait till this pos is locked up or gone to Russia!

[PaulRevere08]

10. And I so wanted Joe to answer tRump's BS about

"People are saying to took millions from ...." with "Well there's plenty of women who say you raped them and hung around with pedophiles."

[Nexus2]

19. But THAT would have been uncivil and not fit for a debate.

[yardwork]

5. Trump lied constantly. That's "normal" for a debate?

In the ten minutes I watched before I turned it off in disgust Trump lied non-stop.

He claimed that he shared his tax returns with Mueller's investigation, claimed that COVID is on the verge of "gong away," claimed that a COVID-19 vaccine is ready to be distributed in two weeks, claimed that he created the greatest economy in the history of the world, claimed that Biden used the phrase super predators, claimed that Biden wants Medicare for all, claimed that Biden took millions from the Russians, claimed that Trumpcare is ready to be released now, claimed that nobody has been tougher on China and Russia, claimed that nobody except maybe Lincoln has done more for black Americans, claimed that refugees from other countries are all criminals and rapists who skip their court dates, etc etc etc.

These probably aren't even the biggest whoppers.

Why does the media normalize pathological lying?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Why? Tax cuts and ratings.

This is the result of decades of GOP appointees who rubber-stamped anticompetitive mergers so that there is very little competition in the media that most citizens access.

[yardwork]

16. I know but I'm still going to keep asking. It's all we have.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. Someday we may get government working for the governed instead of the greedy

If we all ask enough, and demand accountability, it could happen.

Asking could be contagious!

[RussBLib]

8. Very good

Oh, to have Trumpers read it.

[wnylib]

11. Excellent article. The post debate polls

show that Americans who watched or listened to the debate saw the difference between the two candidates. One was a man, with the ability to feel and care for fellow human beings, and to think and plan for the good of the nation and its people. The other was an empty shell incapable of caring about the nation as a whole and the people in it, lacking the most basic ability to think through current problems and resolve them.

The difference was too obvious for people not to notice.

[Illumination]

12. He was hostile, defensive, nasty, angry, etc. Yuck!...

[paleotn]

14. If he didn't drool on the podium and

poop his pampers, much of the media will say he did well. Donnie always gets a really low bar.

[ffr]

15. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

That's my take on this. I can only imagine the drugs it takes to suppress natural human emotions to the degree tRump and his family do.

[tanyev]

20. Kick.

[Cha]

21. The Fucking M$M are Lazy ASS Stupid!

They Always Do this fucking surface "civil" sHIT.

[Solly Mack]

22. K&R