Here we go, the first Presidential debate between Biden and Trump begins at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific.

How to watch it:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/politics/how-to-watch-cnn-debate/index.html

"The CNN Presidential Debate will air live on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and via streaming on Max for subscribers and without a cable login on CNN.com. CNN will make the debate available to simulcast on additional broadcast and cable news networks.

You can also follow CNN’s live debate coverage on CNN.com, which will include analysis and fact checking."

"According to parameters set by CNN in May, all participating debaters had to appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to reach the 270 electoral vote threshold to win the presidency and receive at least 15% in four separate national polls of registered or likely voters that meet CNN’s standards for reporting.

Polls that meet those standards are those sponsored by CNN, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, Marquette University Law School, Monmouth University, NBC News, The New York Times/Siena College, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist College, Quinnipiac University, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post."

Edit And that’s it! Thanks for watching everyone!

tl;dw:

Consensus is Trump didn’t so much as beat Biden as Biden beat himself.

The real loser is CNN who failed to fact check anyone, and there were obvious fact checks on both sides.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    574·
    5 months ago

    We live in a world where Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is more electable than the candidates we have.

    I figured Idiocracy was prescient, but it’s coming true awfully fast.

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
      192·
      5 months ago

      Even by Idiocracy standards, You people gotta recognize something. President Camacho.

      Former pro wrestler turned porn star turned president. He dresses in American flag pants, he addresses the nation by dancing, singing, and firing a gun into the air and rallying them with his aggressively patriotic (if completely empty) rhetoric. He’s energetic, likable, and absolutely captivating.

      It’s not just flash, by the way. Sure, he may drive a monster truck, and sure, he wears a giant medal around his neck.

      But President Camacho’s bombastic patriotism is not only inspirational and exciting and explosive, it’s also an incredibly useful quality for a leader to have, especially for his situation. America was struggling through a time of unprecedented poverty and loss, but it had a leader who still thought America was the best place in the world.

      It’s not just President Camacho’s patriotism that makes him a great leader. Eventually, in the movie, Joe is brought to the attention of President Camacho.

      This weird-talking time traveler with his fancy ideas made it all the way to the White House, because an IQ test claimed he was the smartest man alive.

      And when that happened, President Camacho did a remarkable thing. He recognized that Joe was smarter, and he bowed to his wisdom.

      Everyone ,everyone, in the world of Idiocracy resented Joe, because he talked differently and because his ideas, to them, sounded crazy. They turned against him out of their fear, their pride, and their inability to understand him.

      Everyone else, when faced with Joe’s unconventional ideas, immediately went on the defensive and resented Joe. He didn’t fit in with their weird hive mind of delusion and idiocy.

      Yet for all of his pomposity and ridiculousness, Camacho had the clarity of mind to look beyond all that. What he saw was a man who was smarter than himself, and he had no problem humbling himself and saying “Let’s trust the smart guy.”

      I want President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
      13·
      5 months ago

      I thought that the introduction going over the rules reminded me of some kind of sports coverage, like ESPN8 covering Dodgeball, and that it reminded more of how close that would be to Idiocracy.

      I then joked that I half expected a woman in a red, white, and blue bikini holding up the round number between each question.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        7·
        5 months ago

        I then joked that I half expected a woman in a red, white, and blue bikini holding up the round number between each question.

        That’s the next debate.

        Trump’s idea, until he backtracks on stage and says he ‘never knew this woman.’ And Biden’s team goes along with it, thinking it will be a distraction, and somehow Biden blurts this out and makes it backfire.