Atheist Debates - Professional debater reviews Biden/Trump 2024 Debate 1

US politics is a global embarassment

political candidate debates are not really debates. They're just talking point opportunities and slander fests.

My hope for the future dwindles everyday. I’m in Louisiana & am currently at work (in the oil/gas industry which I despise). The people I work with cheered at the SCOTUS immunity ruling. They believe Biden shat his pants after watching the cropped video with his chair removed from the video. They swear to me that they’ve done their own fact checking to confirm these beliefs & yet refuse to watch full, un-cropped videos. When I point out Project 2025 plans to replace career government employees with loyalists, they say, “That’s what needs to happen. They can’t be trusted.” Thank you, Matt (& The Line) for helping this poorly educated Louisiana high school dropout learn how to think critically & be skeptical about the information I’m presented with. Now if I can just figure out why I was open to learning where others seem to resist…

17:08 Matt has nearly reached the Farnsworth meme "i dont want to live on this planet anymore" level of frustration with mis/disinformation. I feel you man.

The disregard of facts and/or science is heartbreaking

"Facts are just another opinion" that's what our former prime minster Rutte once said. He's now on his way to become the next secretary general of NATO. For what I see happening in Europe; the voters for ultra-right parties don't care about facts. They just vote for the guy that happens to say what they like to hear. It's worrisome.

21:00 sadly biden started the whole immigrant murder thing in his abortion answer, trump pounced on that one

There won’t be a second debate. Trump has nothing more to gain

You have to create a YouTube short of what Biden should have said about the golf statement.

"The economy is doing great!" For who?

More than two week later, this is easily the best post debate commentary I've come across. Thanks for taking the time and effort to provide this content.

The moderators of the 2024 Colorado Republican Convention should host the final 2024 Presidential Debate.

350 million people in the USA and you get these two as preidential candidates?

The problem is Trump says: How many major world conflicts were we involved in under me vs. Biden? How were gas prices under me vs. Biden? How do you view the economy as a whole under me vs. Biden? How secure do you think our border was under me vs. Biden? When you see me vs. Biden talk, who do you find more confidence in? Not saying anything here is Biden's fault or that Trump is actually better in any of these, but the average American is thinking: well, there was no Russia-Ukraine conflict or Israel-Hamas conflict, gas was cheaper, the economy seemed better, Trump was always active and tweeting, and Trump talks about a wall a lot, so our border was probably more secure. The average American is not going in depth; they're thinking off the top of their head.

Thank you for the breakdown and honest discussion. I will continue to watch for additional discussions over this situation because it’s difficult to articulate what I’m feeling/thinking.

Matt, this is good debate format and technique analysis.

As a brazilian i'm really afraid that Trump wins this election, because I'm pretty confident it will boost the brazilian alt right for our elections in 2026. The polarizarion in your country and the threats to democracy are pretty much in the same status here😢

During the debate, I picked up on some things that I'm not sure the audience caught. I feel like when Biden agreed with Trump that Trump did not cause the inflation, it was very bad for Biden. But what was even worse was that Biden said the inflation didn't happen under Trump due to a "flat economy and not creating jobs," which is a really foolish thing to say. There is no direct relationship between inflation and job creation. In fact, Biden basically implied that creating jobs leads to inflation, which is a very misleading association to leave the viewer with. Now, if the government passes some new social program to create jobs and gets the Fed to print money to pay for it, sure, there is a link, but that's the only way it happens, and that's the government's fault and the central bank's fault. At the end of the day, inflation happens because of monetary policies - i.e. central banks printing more money. That's the real issue, and I even think Biden knows that and just wanted to blame Trump as much as possible. Regardless of how much of a trainwreck this part of the debate was, and whether the audience knows about the Fed or not, Biden admitting Trump didn't create the inflation is an easy enough talking point for the audience to understand. If Trump = no inflation, then I feel like that gives the uninformed voter who is very concerned about inflation every reason to vote for Trump, and Biden is responsible for that. This is one part of the debate where he messed it up or lied (depending on how charitable you want to be). What a horrible exchange. Not only was it factually wrong, but he almost certainly lost support there. The reality is, if you want to minimize inflation as much as possible, you need to reform the Fed and go back to a precious metal standard so they can't just pump new money into supply as easily as they are doing now. Not only does this prevent inflation under the current president, it prevents it for all future presidents. I would have to give this entire exchange to Trump, because Trump has actually talked about the Fed issue in the past publicly, whereas Biden and Harris don't want to educate the public about this at all. Gone are the days of Ron Paul sadly, but Trump is at least aware of the issue and isn't lying about it (even if he lies about a bunch of other things). Also, twice Biden backed up his points by saying "all the scholars agree with X," which again is a terrible talking point since I think the American people have had it with universities at this point. Not exactly the authority you want to put forth as evidence. Many republicans and independents do not hold these institutions with a high regard and these talking points won't sway many of them. Who was coaching him to say this? Stick with facts, not opinions. At the end of the day, Biden's points were not aimed at gaining new support from Republicans and Independents, but trying to maintain and solidify his existing support. That's not a good strategy in a close election. And due to poor execution, Biden actually lost support in the process. Bad coaching up and down.

Cool damage limitation attempt.

Love the content burst!