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Truly wretched what passes for commentary on cable newshttps://twitter.com/_grendan/status/1197333734439235584 …

Pumped for another round of biased framings, canned lines about ending "purity tests", and an endless bombardment of ads from bloodsucking health insurance companies during the breaks. Let's go. #DemDebate

Sanders, as per usual, sorta has to pivot against the frames offered by the network - in this case MSNBC, which predictably opens by asking about dOnAld tRuMp #DemDebate

Mayor Pete always sounds like the kid who runs for class president and only looks at the teacher during his speech #DemDebate

I'm confused by the rules of this debate. At least three candidates (Gabbard, Steyer, Yang) haven't spoken yet but Warren has spoken three times? #DemDebate

Cory Booker says the Democrats need to talk more about entrepreneurs and "aspiration". Seems to me they've been talking about almost nothing else since the Clinton era. #DemDebate

I see Pete Buttigieg is continuing his strategy of using Republican talking points pioneered by Paul Ryan in 2010 to attack Medicare For All. #DemDebate

MSNBC's moderate of this segment is already so transparently favourable to Warren. They've framed all three debates (corruption, wealth tax, M4A) around her platform so far - misrepresenting her position on the last. #DemDebate

Biden rather misleadingly says "the vast majority of Democrats do not support Medicare For All" - presumably referring to conservative Dems in the House and Senate rather than Democratic voters, who polls suggest feel quite differently. #DemDebate

I mean, this was literally the framing https://twitter.com/70Ceeks/status/1197340626393714688 … #DemDebate

Not like I'm a huge fan or anything, but we're half an hour into this debate and MSNBC has only just given Andrew Yang a chance to speak. #DemDebate

Pete Buttigieg is now apparently trying to frame himself as an outsider to the Washington establishment. I'm unclear how his record as an Ivy League former McKinsey Consultant speaks to being any kind of outsider. #DemDebate

MSNBC's moderators are clearly determined to minimize Bernie Sanders's speaking time. Heaven forbid people hear about actual stuff rather than platitudes about "healing the nation"or whatever. #DemDebate

MSNBC's moderators are now trying to bait Bernie Sanders by getting him to denounce his own supporters. Rock bottom. #DemDebate

Biden: "The next president who starts tweeting! Anyway. It's about civility..." lol #DemDebate

If MSNBC set out to produce the most soporific, substance-free #DemDebate yet with a few dashes of visible bias, they're doing a fantastic job thus far.

Tom Steyer shouldn't even be here. But it should profoundly embarrass the centrist Dems like Klobuchar that he sounds more believably concerned about the material issues facing average people than they do. #DemDebate

I love to be empowered with refundable tax credits. RT if you, too, like to be empowered in such a way. #DemDebate

For the true #DemDebate experience you can't mute the ads. Agitprop for insurance companies are a critical part of the mis-en-scene.

My head's gonna explode, gang https://twitter.com/CarlBeijer/status/1197345796276019201 … #DemDebate

Pete Buttigieg met a guy in Boon, Iowa who said he wished he coulda spent his Trump bailout cheque on conservation. Real conversation that definitely happened! #DemDebate

It's relatedly crazy that Klobuchar's message of "good things aren't possible and it's greedy to want them" is failing to resonate with a wider swathe of Americans https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1197349448306823174 … #DemDebate

Tom Steyer, like the moderators and much of the press, is is pretending Bernie Sanders doesn't exist. #DemDebate

Worth noting that many of these candidates are polling under 5% https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/1197350111313113089 … #DemDebate

"Prosecute the fossil fuel companies" seemed to resonate with the audience more than "Good things aren't possible". Who knew? #DemDebate

ALERT: The phrase "vibrant military" has just been coined #DemDebate

Sorry to keep on this, but Bernie Sanders is shattering fundraising records, attracting record-breaking support from young people, and holding huge rallies. But watching this MSNBC debate you'd think Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer were leading Democratic contenders. #DemDebate

Questions to Sanders so far have included an implicit request that he denounce his own supporters for chanting "Lock him up" and "Would you negotiate with the Taliban?" #DemDebate