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  • Kamala Harris dominated the debate despite the fact that she was given about 5 minutes less time to speak!

    It’s disappointing to see how the media invariably accommodates Trump. Contrary to the rules of the debate, when Trump continued talking after his time was up or demanded to respond to a point Harris made, they often let him by not muting his microphone. This added up to right around 5 minutes of extra speaking time on prime time television for him to spew his lies. The one time Harris tried the same thing she was shut down by the moderators. If there is any silver lining here it’s that Trump probably made his debate performance worse by talking more!

    I was glad to see some push back and fact checking by the moderators in regards to Trump’s most egregious lies. Today MAGA is complaining that the debate was rigged and the moderators were against Trump due to the fact checks while they should be thanking ABC for the special treatment that allowed Trump extra air time.

    Go Harris/Walz!












  • One of the problems with this is that the debate rules are not enforced. If you go back and watch Trump in previous debates he continually ignores the time limits and talks over the moderator when told his time is up. Microphones for both participants should automatically shut off when the speaker’s time is up.

    Also, obvious, outright lies should earn a microphone cutoff although this would be dependent on a moderator that would be acceptable to both debaters. I can’t see Trump ever agreeing to live fact checking during a debate.

    Additionally, Trump appears to be even less mentally capable than he was in the previous debates - I do not believe it would end well for him.








  • I saw them in December 1978 - it was about 2 months after their debut on SNL with Satisfaction and still before their second album (Duty Now for the Future). I was 17. I still see lots of shows and that Devo show still stands out as one of the best performances of any band I have ever seen. It was loud, raucous, and visually completely over the top. They were completely original and so far ahead of their time as artists. They showed early Devo films on a screen behind them while they played. Nobody was doing multimedia shows like this back then and even now I can’t think of any show that has ever been better in terms of a multimedia experience. Years later I found an audio recording from that show on the Internet. The recording is fair quality but even now when I listen to it, it confirms just how great they were.