{"id":95712,"date":"2020-10-23T06:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T03:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pass-the-chill-pill-five-takeaways-from-the-final-presidential-debate\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T06:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T03:13:11","slug":"pass-the-chill-pill-five-takeaways-from-the-final-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pass-the-chill-pill-five-takeaways-from-the-final-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pass the chill pill: Five takeaways from the final presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf2e218d72\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf2e218d72\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pass-the-chill-pill-five-takeaways-from-the-final-presidential-debate\/#Trump_would_prefer_a_nasty_fight\" >Trump would prefer a nasty fight\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pass-the-chill-pill-five-takeaways-from-the-final-presidential-debate\/#Biden_stays_above_water\" >Biden stays above water\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pass-the-chill-pill-five-takeaways-from-the-final-presidential-debate\/#The_president_would_like_you_to_take_a_chill_pill\" >The president would like you to take a chill pill\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pass-the-chill-pill-five-takeaways-from-the-final-presidential-debate\/#Biden_calls_Trumps_dog_whistle_a_%E2%80%9Cfoghorn%E2%80%9D\" >Biden calls Trump\u2019s dog whistle a \u201cfoghorn\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pass-the-chill-pill-five-takeaways-from-the-final-presidential-debate\/#Trump_doesnt_know_whats_going_on_with_his_own_taxes\" >Trump doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with his own taxes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Pass the chill pill: Five takeaways from the final presidential debate<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                                                                        <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A dozen days before the United States election and we have just watched one of the last clangs in the excruciatingly-slow-moving car crash that has been the 2020 presidential campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feel free to take a breath of relief because you will not need to see President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden on stage together again before Americans vote. Or maybe ever. Hallelu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those few remaining undecided voters won\u2019t have been swayed much by the second and final\u00a0 debate, although it was meatier, more coherent and more informative than the first. There was no clear winner or loser. Each septuagenarian played well to his base.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">H<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ily, we didn\u2019t need to watch and analyze a handshake. Unfortunately, no fly landed atop either\u2019s head to give us the distraction we might\u2019ve craved during an increasingly taxing 90 minutes. Instead we were left to watch and\u2014whether entertained, bemused or depressed\u2014reckon with the notion that these two men are the best America\u2019s political establishment has to offer in a time of crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On that cheery note, if you decided to skip it altogether (we can\u2019t blame you) here\u2019s what you missed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Trump_would_prefer_a_nasty_fight\"><\/span><b>Trump would prefer a nasty fight\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Across the board, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> wisdom from pundits was that Trump should maybe tone it down a little. Just\u2014you know\u2014have a modicum of patience, a teensy bit of respect, a dash of decorum. A little less bloviating, a little more calm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, colour us absolutely shocked that Trump lost sight of that advice as the night went on. Although he came out of the gate much milder than in his pre-coronavirus-diagnosis performance and maintained a higher level of decorum throughout, that newfound civility frayed into the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the 45-minute mark, his relatively cordial tone toward Welker\u2014who firmly commanded the situation\u2014became much more combative. By an hour in, he got bolder with his interruptions, and the debate began to look more like what we saw earlier this month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A newly-introduced mute button, used sparingly, offered some reprieve from the incoherent crosstalk we might have expected. But to go uninterrupted wasn\u2019t always to Trump\u2019s benefit. It gave him what should\u2019ve been\u00a0 golden opportunities to go after Biden\u2014and sometimes the silence did mean that his attacks took on the tenor of legitimate, traditional debate. But other times, the longer Trump went on by himself with no audience or feedback from his opponent, the more unhinged he came across.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Biden_stays_above_water\"><\/span><b>Biden stays above water\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although many Americans have already voted, and few are at a loss for which candidate to support, every vote still counts. It was entirely possible that Biden, whose verbal snafus have gotten him into hot water in the past, would make a critical mistake on Thursday that could dominate the dying days of the campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden\u2019s answers were sometimes rambling, a word salad of talking points mostly remembered. But he also had moments that were snappy, direct and persuasive. He was deft in responding to Trump\u2019s attacks. When Trump tried to raise the spectre of Bernie Sanders, he explained that he had beat him, and that Trump was actually running against Joe Biden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden avoided a catastrophe, although he <em>certainly<\/em> overused the phrase \u201cc\u2019mon.\u201d\u00a0But several of his retorts could be misleading if taken out of context, like a sarcastic comment mocking Trump for being okay with teacher deaths. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also managed to convey much of his policy platform\u2014including with quite some detail on climate change. That came with some risk, and not because of Trump\u2019s assertion that he knows far more about the climate and about, specifically, \u201cwind.\u201d In what the Trump campaign will inevitably use as attack fodder over the next 12 days, Biden confirmed that, as president, he would \u201ctransition\u201d away from the oil industry over time\u2014an issue important to a number of key states that Trump im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely recited by rote, including Pennsylvania and Texas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, Trump\u2019s main rebuttal to any of Biden\u2019s present-day ideas was to ask why Biden didn\u2019t \u201cget it done\u201d during his time as vice-president. The president rarely pivoted to his own ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_president_would_like_you_to_take_a_chill_pill\"><\/span><b>The president would like you to take a chill pill\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having now spent three days in hospital with COVID-19 himself, you\u2019d think Trump might exhibit more sympathy with the more than 223,000 fellow Americans who have succumbed to the virus. OK, you might not think so, but you might hope so. Too bad for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A segment on the pandemic yielded attempts by Biden to outline his plan, including mandating masks and moving toward rapid testing, and boasts by Trump that things are actually pretty swell, and would\u2019ve been worse under his opponent\u2019s watch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump downplayed the idea that Americans would still be dealing with the pandemic into 2022. The virus \u201cwill go away\u201d and spikes and surges will \u201csoon be gone,\u201d Trump said, touting the drugs he was given while in hospital. \u201cWe\u2019re learning to live with it,\u201d Trump said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re learning to die with it,\u201d Biden retorted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former veep suggested voters shouldn\u2019t trust Trump\u2019s assurances that a vaccine is on the way in \u201ca matter of weeks,\u201d because \u201cthis is the fellow that said it would be over by Easter,\u201d and by summer, and \u201cno serious scientist\u201d was talking about a similar timeline. He said lockdowns can be necessary for public health. \u201cWe can\u2019t lock ourselves up in a basement like Joe does,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe has this thing about living in the basement.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Biden_calls_Trumps_dog_whistle_a_%E2%80%9Cfoghorn%E2%80%9D\"><\/span><b>Biden calls Trump\u2019s dog whistle a \u201cfoghorn\u201d\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump dodged a question about whether his rhetoric has contributed to racial strife by claiming that no president since Abraham Lincoln has done more for the Black community. He said he thought that Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States, \u201cdidn\u2019t even try\u201d to do anything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey can say anything. It makes me sad because I am the least racist person,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI can\u2019t even see the audience because it\u2019s so dark but I don\u2019t care who\u2019s in the audience, I\u2019m the least racist person in this room.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden disagreed, saying Trump has added fuel to every racist fire that ignited under his watch, and has shown no commitment to moving the needle toward equality. \u201cThis guy is a dog whistle about as big as a foghorn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Trump\u2019s attacks that Biden supported crime bills in the \u201880s and \u201890s that led to widespread incarceration on minor drug charges, Biden reiterated that the bills were a \u201cmistake\u201d and that nobody should ever go to jail because they have a drug problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Trump_doesnt_know_whats_going_on_with_his_own_taxes\"><\/span><b>Trump doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with his own taxes<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Biden challenged him on the fact he still hasn\u2019t put out his tax returns\u2014putting him out of step with other modern presidents\u2014Trump said, \u201cI\u2019m going to release them as soon as I can.\u201d About a <em>New York Times<\/em> report that he had paid shockingly low tax bills in 2016 and 2017, Trump said he asked his accountants what happened and concluded that: \u201cI already prepaid it. 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