I'm astounded at just how awful that debate was.
I don't think I've seen a coherent, issue-focused Presidential debate in 20 years.
But this was so unfocused, superficial and talking-point oriented that it was tailor-made for the ADHD 3-second-soundbyte market.
Both of them are noisily flapping rectums. Both of them are narcissists. Both of them are the offal of the political process of constantly choosing the lesser of two evils. Of constantly bifurcating every issue into a two party camp, where each camp MUST have a differing stance on every possible issue, just to be contrarian. Of concealing your diseased intentions by wrapping them in sunshine and hoping no one notices. Of peddling spite for those on the "other" side in such a vitriolic way that the spite garners you support.
Anyone who votes for either of these people, IS THE PROBLEM. Not those who abstain. Voters put these belching bowel movements in human form into power.
Absolutely wrong.
I judge a politician by what he does, and only include what he says if it matches what he does.
This is why I couldn't vote for Trump in 2016. I assessed him as untrustworthy and likely to stab us in the back.
Now, he's shown himself to be a shameless self-promoter, narcissistic, and vain, as I assessed him (at least in his public persona)... And a far better and trustworthy President than any in my experience. (Caveat, I have only the vaguest recollection of Reagan, so I'm starting at G.W. Bush.)
Yes, he's brash and rude. And I've come to be glad for that. Our president isn't royalty and we ought to remember that. He shouldn't be expected to be perfectly poised and mannered.
He's the man we hired to do a job and if he's a jerk but can get the job done, then I'm hiring the jerk.(or retaining him in this case.)