Get Joe Rogan to moderate the next presidential debate.
I want to be honest with you. First I’m going to get my opinion out of the way and get to the nitty-gritty.
I’m not too fond of Trump, and I’m not too fond of Biden. I also live in the UK and look at American Politics FOR FUN. I enjoy looking at good debates. I believe politics is at it’s very worst today. Okay, worst might be a little stretch, but it isn’t acceptable from Boris Johnson to Trump to parliament in the UK. It’s a bit of a laughing stock everywhere.
Saying all that… I watched the debate, and I was extremely disappointed.
I am being honest. I thought Trump was going to walk all over him. That didn’t happen.
Chris Wallace was unsatisfactory.
Both Presidents tried taking control of the debate. Both did at different points, but overall it was quite useless. The moderator did a terrible job at moderating the debate.
I also saw a little bias come through Chris’s performance and as a moderator, that is the last thing you want to do. People turn against the candidate your favouring, to no fault of their own, as no one likes a two vs one, which is Trump’s reason for becoming president in the first place.
He paint s picture of it’s everybody vs him, which he portrays very well.
If there is to be another debate I would love Joe Rogan as moderator.
I listen to his podcast a fair amount. He can have conversations with people all along the political spectrum. He is a podcaster who has had to be the moderator in a podcast episode or two before, and I think, under his rules, it would be a deciding factor for me on who to vote for (If I was to vote).
I think he would be able to bring a fresh take to the substandard job Chris did.
I think he would do a better job than any other ‘political’ figure. Things are changing in the world, and politics need to catch up.
Trump had the wrong strategy.
Trump’s personality is very boisterous (when the cameras are on anyway). He was interrupting a lot. His fans would have gotten a ‘kick’ out of it, but Trump isn’t looking for people he knows are going to vote for him. He needs that silent majority everybody keeps going on about. People who don’t know who they would vote for but tune in for the debate… someone like me.
He didn’t convince me. He had a real chance to show us his professional side. The side he (probably) reveals to Russia, China and other the other world leaders. He had a real chance to convince the people who were on the line who he was and what he had planned.
If he let him speak and come back with proper facts and fewer insults (showing his softer side), I think he would have won and maybe, if I was American, got my vote. That didn’t happen so I don’t have to defend myself on that point just yet.
Medium isn’t going to like this… Ah well. Let’s try having an open discussion on this… I’ll just start digging my grave now…
Trump Tips
It’s not like either of them is going to read this, but here is what I find could have gone better for Trump.
Stick to it. You almost had it at the supreme court, but Chris (actually doing a good job here) went after Biden on this more than Trump did. Rather than interrupting him every 5 minutes choose your spots.
You can’t ‘you’d be surprised when someone calls you out on interruption and be interrupting them when you say that. To follow that up by go-ahead is not helping.
Trump needs to go for the knockout punch. That mike Tyson, Ali Punch. That and pick your punches. You seemed like an amateur boxer. You need to be like Wilder against Fury but quicker than the 12th round.
Biden didn’t do much better.
His sarcastic smiles and laugh didn’t do anything for me. He made blanket statements like ‘you know trump is a lair’ without pulling out good examples. Trump might be a liar, but you need to prove it with facts and statements he can’t defend. Then you convince me he is one.
Look, I know Trump has lied, so has Biden. It’s usually apart of being a politician. I am also not saying he’s a good person. That is questionable for both of them.
I liked the way he ignored Trump through the debate, though, it brought him some power and allowed him to keep his frame. One of my main concerns with Biden (aside from the other obvious ones) is his anger and lack of a strong stance. Trump goes in and demands to own the room, while Biden doesn’t. I am not entirely convinced, as anyone could hold a frame for 90 minutes, but I liked to see that he had it in him.
Suppose he got caught up in a quickfire debate, which is very much trumps game. He would have been embarrassed. He stood up firm, which I am going to be honest, didn’t think he was able to do.
He did surprise me. It was a little fishy to me that he declined to have a drugs test and to check his ears for an earpiece, but I think he was able to hold his own.
Biden Tips
First off, answer questions. You don’t need to respond with a yes or no but the answer ‘the American people…’ Gets old real soon. We don’t know where you stand. Do you follow Burnie and AOC into the Socialist realm?
We didn’t get to know what Joe Biden is going to do in a presidency. It’s happened so many times. Politicians promise this and that but your not promising much or giving a definite answer for anything.
The same sort of thing is happening again and Trump is playing it up.
What is your plan for the Supreme court? Get your real answers out there. I know what he’s doing; he doesn’t want to upset the left or the centre. I get it. Politics.
Stay away from your personal life and stuff. Try keeping it to the American people like you have done. Stick to the topics you know.
Was there a winner?
Realistically I can’t find one. Trump beat Biden in some part of the debate while Joe Biden was able to bring it back in others. Both of them had a chance to show the other side themselves and didn’t. They both had a chance to win, but they both got caught up in the lights.
Biden unable to answer direct questions and Trump’s insults and consistent interruption blocked that from happening.
If we genuinely want to boil it down. Imagine cold pizza or Dominoes (or whatever pizza you get) the next morning. Yes, you could consider it breakfast or ‘nice’, but it’s not as nice as it was yesterday afternoon when you bought it.
That how I feel it went for Trump. Even then you could count that up as a loss for him. Expectations were high for Trump. For myself anyway. Low for Biden. Biden did play this perfectly even though I didn’t think he planned it. A lot of democrats thought he wasn’t able to have a debate (I think the numbers were 45% but don’t quote me on them).
The fact that he was able to and not even that but was able to hold his own and not let Trump run away with the debate would impress a lot of people.
Losers?
People on the edge and the average American. The debate became none sensical. They talked over each other more than my ex-girlfriend, and I did. There weren’t enough talks about policy or what each of them had planned for the future and what both men’s presidencies entailed.
It all became too personal. It felt like when you and your best friend fought (before it turned physical) as a kid. It all became about who tagged who and suddenly someone mentions someone’s mum and bang. Right at that moment before the Jodo starts but after the insult, the person is unable to take back.
I don’t think it mattered that much. The second debate might be where it’s at, but I wish Rogan will be the one who moderates it.
