Democratic Debate 2020 election cycle #2a and #2b

The first debate starts in less than 25 minutes on CNN. Details here:

You can watch for free on CNN’s website, or using CNN’s apps on android or iOS. They also mention it will be available to watch later using those apps even if you don’t catch them live.

Their line up:

Tuesday, July 30:

Wednesday, July 31:

The spread of big contenders seems to be spread out better this time.

This “debate” sucks so far :P

Bernie to Tapper: “Your question is a Republican talking point.” I liked that. It was annoying how he kept harping on the tax increase for health insurance while mumble-mumbling that “oh yeah also it would be offset by reduced premiums.” If so, why push so hard for the yea/nay on your framing of the question?

Sanders comes off way too much like crazy grandpa. Not what he says, how he says it.

I don’t know, “I wrote the damn bill” was a hell of a line.

Pete knocked it out of the park with the “they’re going to call us crazy socialists anyway” bit, IMO.

Granted. :)

I didn’t realize this started at 8, so I’ve missed it until now.

CNN wasted time to open it, seems to want to blitz everyone through answers, and has thankfully kept Williamson’s rambling to a minimum.

They seem to be really tightly enforcing the time limits and limiting people’s ability to just shout out stuff and hog time, which is good.

Me either. I also expected MSNBC to cover it. Ah well.

Tim Ryan looks like a zombie.

Point for Warren.

Delaney believes in scifi climate magic.

I share his reservations about the Green New Deal, to wit, it binds up what should be a non-left-right and utterly critical issue with a bunch of other stuff. I didn’t hear all of his answer, so if he’s into a dubious private-sector or techno solution, nope, not good enough.

Williamson - Trump / Republicans “a dark psychic force.”

Wat.

Please, please, please let this be the last of the clown car debates.

Edit: After the next one.

I mean, I don’t really disagree… (If you take ‘psychic’ to mean ‘of the psyche,’ not like Miss Cleo shit.)

The fact that someone like Williamson is allowed on stage makes this whole thing a joke.