Debate tonight
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@Horace said in Debate tonight:
Biden lied at least as much as Trump did
And that somehow makes it okay???
As I said above, the fact that President Trump was considered the winner of the debate is a sad "commentary" on the two major options (currently) on the ballot.
@taiwan_girl said in Debate tonight:
@Horace said in Debate tonight:
Biden lied at least as much as Trump did
And that somehow makes it okay???
As I said above, the fact that President Trump was considered the winner of the debate is a sad "commentary" on the two major options (currently) on the ballot.
Indeed. Since 2016 I have been hopeful that the current phase we're in will pass and we'll somewhat return to a respected and mature discourse. Oh how innocent times were when it was scandalous that Bush Sr "checked his watch" during a debate, or that a VP didn't know how to spell potatoe, or it was a news story that Bill Clinton got up to speak while answering a question.
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@taiwan_girl said in Debate tonight:
@Horace said in Debate tonight:
Biden lied at least as much as Trump did
And that somehow makes it okay???
I'm really sorry for contributing a "both sides are equal" style of argument to this forum, TG. I know how you hate those. I'll try to do better in the future. This has been another valuable opportunity for learning and growth for me.
@Horace said in Debate tonight:
@taiwan_girl said in Debate tonight:
@Horace said in Debate tonight:
Biden lied at least as much as Trump did
And that somehow makes it okay???
I'm really sorry for contributing a "both sides are equal" style of argument to this forum, TG. I know how you hate those. I'll try to do better in the future. This has been another valuable opportunity for learning and growth for me.
Hey now... there are very fine people, on both sides.
UGH, forced self-tangent. I wish Trump clarified that the statement (which I agree with!) he said about Charlottesville IS accurate. There WERE many very fine people on both sides of the protest... proud Virginians, who didn't want to see their Confederate heritage erased. I can understand and I personally empathize with that view point. It didn't mean the Nazi costume players represented the whole protest.
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Nate is PISSED…
https://www.natesilver.net/p/joe-biden-should-drop-out
A few highlights:
If I were a single parent supporting three kids on a minimum-wage job, who barely had time to follow the news, could you really fault me for thinking the one thing I know is that this guy is too fucking old to be president??
I chuckled at this one
But he absolutely crushed Biden, 67-33, in CNN’s poll of debate-watchers. How bad do you have to screw up to lose a debate by 34 points to Donald Trump in a country as divided as this one??
He almost says the quiet part out loud…
White House staffers who unskew the polls showing Biden trailing, charlatans selling you “hopium”, columnists who predicted (!) that Trump was going to drop out of the debate (!!) — if you’re a Democrat, you should be angry at these people for putting you in this predicament. The same goes for special interest groups who insisted that Kamala Harris ought to be VP — against Biden’s initial instincts — even though she’d just run one of the most underperforming campaigns in primary history. Without that, Democrats would have a better set of options, or Biden might not have run again in the first place..
Whoa, bitching about RBG?!
And you should be angry at Joe Biden, every bit as much as you should be angry at Ruth Bader Ginsburg..
Can he recover, Nate?
But instead he’s behind. And once the polling fully accounts for the effects of the debate within a few weeks, he’s likely to be as far behind as he’s ever been, with less time left than he’s ever had. How is the man you saw on stage tonight supposed to turn things around? Or even a 30 percent better version of the man you saw tonight? Sure, it’s possible. But is that really the bet you want to make if you’re a Democrat who thinks Trump is an existential threat to democracy and everything else??
What are the other options?
Picking a new nominee via superdelegates at the convention would be like attending a shitshow at a plumbers’ convention. And Harris remains quite unpopular too, although her disapproval ratings are now notably better than Biden’s. Either of these candidates are probably below 50 percent to win against Trump. But what matters is that they’re probably better bets than Biden. Give me Harris at this point, who at least is more of a blank slate. I’m not a Gavin Newsom guy, but give me Newsom, who at least has had designs on the job and governs a state with the 5th largest economy in the world. Harris and Newsom are very much not my preferred options — but I prefer them to Biden.
But don’t give me any more bullshit about how age is just a number or just a media fixation — or how changing candidates just isn’t how it’s done. We’re playing the highest-stakes game of poker you can imagine, and you do whatever in your power to improve your odds — even if it’s only from 25 percent to 35 percent..
So who are you going to vote for?
since I don’t live in a swing state: after that debate tonight, I’m going to vote third-party if Biden remains on the ballot as a protest against Biden’s irresponsibility in seeking a second term and the Democratic Party’s irresponsibility in nominating him without a serious primary contest..
The Brad
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It is a sad state of US President politics that the consensus is that President Trump won the debate. I believe in any other debate over the past XX years, President Trump's performance would not be considered a winner.
Maybe his debate reponses should go in the "Trump Lies" forum thread.
(I did not see the debate or hear it. Only read the transcript and saw some clips). But, President Biden was terrible, so the bar was quite low.
@taiwan_girl said in Debate tonight:
It is a sad state of US President politics that the consensus is that President Trump won the debate. I believe in any other debate over the past XX years, President Trump's performance would not be considered a winner.
I think it's fair to say that Winston Churchill would have had a decent crack at winning that debate. And just to be clear I don't mean 1940's Winston Churchill, I mean 2024's Winston Churchill.
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It is a sad state of US President politics that the consensus is that President Trump won the debate. I believe in any other debate over the past XX years, President Trump's performance would not be considered a winner.
Maybe his debate reponses should go in the "Trump Lies" forum thread.
(I did not see the debate or hear it. Only read the transcript and saw some clips). But, President Biden was terrible, so the bar was quite low.
@taiwan_girl said in Debate tonight:
It is a sad state of US President politics that the consensus is that President Trump won the debate. I believe in any other debate over the past XX years, President Trump's performance would not be considered a winner.
Maybe his debate reponses should go in the "Trump Lies" forum thread.
(I did not see the debate or hear it. Only read the transcript and saw some clips). But, President Biden was terrible, so the bar was quite low.
I'm sorry your ox was gored. And trampled.
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@Jolly said in Debate tonight:
@89th said in Debate tonight:
@Jolly said in Debate tonight:
@89th said in Debate tonight:
I mean, he deflected. But his answer that "Nancy Pelosi takes all the blame" is so 3rd grade-ish. "Well bobby said he did it, so don't worry about the 100 things I did to contribute to it." Mother fucker it would be so nice if he would just say something along the lines of "I was there to speak to my supporters who want to ensure elections are free and fair, and that they will be for future generations, and I was absolutely appalled by those who stormed the Capitol to disrupt a constitutional procedure." If you're going to lie, at least make it sound like you were appalled, instead of lying that it was totally somebody else's fault.
You want him to lie?
No, I would prefer that stops if at all possible.
Now, address the rest of it, because I've never met a pol that didn't lie.
I can't address the rest of it. I don't believe that Trump actually thinks he won and was cheated. That's what he tells his followers but he knows he lost.
As for BLM, you have no argument from me.
@89th said in Debate tonight:
I don't believe that Trump actually thinks he won and was cheated. That's what he tells his followers but he knows he lost.
And you know this, how?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Surprised @Axtremus hasn’t posted this yet.
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Nate is PISSED…
https://www.natesilver.net/p/joe-biden-should-drop-out
A few highlights:
If I were a single parent supporting three kids on a minimum-wage job, who barely had time to follow the news, could you really fault me for thinking the one thing I know is that this guy is too fucking old to be president??
I chuckled at this one
But he absolutely crushed Biden, 67-33, in CNN’s poll of debate-watchers. How bad do you have to screw up to lose a debate by 34 points to Donald Trump in a country as divided as this one??
He almost says the quiet part out loud…
White House staffers who unskew the polls showing Biden trailing, charlatans selling you “hopium”, columnists who predicted (!) that Trump was going to drop out of the debate (!!) — if you’re a Democrat, you should be angry at these people for putting you in this predicament. The same goes for special interest groups who insisted that Kamala Harris ought to be VP — against Biden’s initial instincts — even though she’d just run one of the most underperforming campaigns in primary history. Without that, Democrats would have a better set of options, or Biden might not have run again in the first place..
Whoa, bitching about RBG?!
And you should be angry at Joe Biden, every bit as much as you should be angry at Ruth Bader Ginsburg..
Can he recover, Nate?
But instead he’s behind. And once the polling fully accounts for the effects of the debate within a few weeks, he’s likely to be as far behind as he’s ever been, with less time left than he’s ever had. How is the man you saw on stage tonight supposed to turn things around? Or even a 30 percent better version of the man you saw tonight? Sure, it’s possible. But is that really the bet you want to make if you’re a Democrat who thinks Trump is an existential threat to democracy and everything else??
What are the other options?
Picking a new nominee via superdelegates at the convention would be like attending a shitshow at a plumbers’ convention. And Harris remains quite unpopular too, although her disapproval ratings are now notably better than Biden’s. Either of these candidates are probably below 50 percent to win against Trump. But what matters is that they’re probably better bets than Biden. Give me Harris at this point, who at least is more of a blank slate. I’m not a Gavin Newsom guy, but give me Newsom, who at least has had designs on the job and governs a state with the 5th largest economy in the world. Harris and Newsom are very much not my preferred options — but I prefer them to Biden.
But don’t give me any more bullshit about how age is just a number or just a media fixation — or how changing candidates just isn’t how it’s done. We’re playing the highest-stakes game of poker you can imagine, and you do whatever in your power to improve your odds — even if it’s only from 25 percent to 35 percent..
So who are you going to vote for?
since I don’t live in a swing state: after that debate tonight, I’m going to vote third-party if Biden remains on the ballot as a protest against Biden’s irresponsibility in seeking a second term and the Democratic Party’s irresponsibility in nominating him without a serious primary contest..
@LuFins-Dad said in Debate tonight:
Nate is PISSED…
https://www.natesilver.net/p/joe-biden-should-drop-out
A few highlights:
If I were a single parent supporting three kids on a minimum-wage job, who barely had time to follow the news, could you really fault me for thinking the one thing I know is that this guy is too fucking old to be president??
I chuckled at this one
But he absolutely crushed Biden, 67-33, in CNN’s poll of debate-watchers. How bad do you have to screw up to lose a debate by 34 points to Donald Trump in a country as divided as this one??
He almost says the quiet part out loud…
White House staffers who unskew the polls showing Biden trailing, charlatans selling you “hopium”, columnists who predicted (!) that Trump was going to drop out of the debate (!!) — if you’re a Democrat, you should be angry at these people for putting you in this predicament. The same goes for special interest groups who insisted that Kamala Harris ought to be VP — against Biden’s initial instincts — even though she’d just run one of the most underperforming campaigns in primary history. Without that, Democrats would have a better set of options, or Biden might not have run again in the first place..
Whoa, bitching about RBG?!
And you should be angry at Joe Biden, every bit as much as you should be angry at Ruth Bader Ginsburg..
Can he recover, Nate?
But instead he’s behind. And once the polling fully accounts for the effects of the debate within a few weeks, he’s likely to be as far behind as he’s ever been, with less time left than he’s ever had. How is the man you saw on stage tonight supposed to turn things around? Or even a 30 percent better version of the man you saw tonight? Sure, it’s possible. But is that really the bet you want to make if you’re a Democrat who thinks Trump is an existential threat to democracy and everything else??
What are the other options?
Picking a new nominee via superdelegates at the convention would be like attending a shitshow at a plumbers’ convention. And Harris remains quite unpopular too, although her disapproval ratings are now notably better than Biden’s. Either of these candidates are probably below 50 percent to win against Trump. But what matters is that they’re probably better bets than Biden. Give me Harris at this point, who at least is more of a blank slate. I’m not a Gavin Newsom guy, but give me Newsom, who at least has had designs on the job and governs a state with the 5th largest economy in the world. Harris and Newsom are very much not my preferred options — but I prefer them to Biden.
But don’t give me any more bullshit about how age is just a number or just a media fixation — or how changing candidates just isn’t how it’s done. We’re playing the highest-stakes game of poker you can imagine, and you do whatever in your power to improve your odds — even if it’s only from 25 percent to 35 percent..
So who are you going to vote for?
since I don’t live in a swing state: after that debate tonight, I’m going to vote third-party if Biden remains on the ballot as a protest against Biden’s irresponsibility in seeking a second term and the Democratic Party’s irresponsibility in nominating him without a serious primary contest..
Hard to disagree with anything he said.
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Shapiro did something today where he played back all of the journalists and pundits enthusiastically demanding Biden’s intelligence and vigor after the special counsel report. It was quite damning.
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What's amazing is how, to a man, the MSM has abandoned the "old but vigorous" line and adopted the "he's a geezer who's too old" line.
All of them.
Even the NYT has been forced to admit the obvious.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Not me. I was cackling madly.
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What's amazing is how, to a man, the MSM has abandoned the "old but vigorous" line and adopted the "he's a geezer who's too old" line.
All of them.
Even the NYT has been forced to admit the obvious.
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@89th said in Debate tonight:
I don't believe that Trump actually thinks he won and was cheated. That's what he tells his followers but he knows he lost.
And you know this, how?
@Jolly said in Debate tonight:
@89th said in Debate tonight:
I don't believe that Trump actually thinks he won and was cheated. That's what he tells his followers but he knows he lost.
And you know this, how?
A combination of hearsay and common sense. People have testified they heard Trump talk about how he knew he lost but wanted to show he puts up a fight. And he’s way to smart to actually think he was cheated on such a large scale where he didn’t actually lose by a landslide.
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@Jolly said in Debate tonight:
@89th said in Debate tonight:
I don't believe that Trump actually thinks he won and was cheated. That's what he tells his followers but he knows he lost.
And you know this, how?
A combination of hearsay and common sense. People have testified they heard Trump talk about how he knew he lost but wanted to show he puts up a fight. And he’s way to smart to actually think he was cheated on such a large scale where he didn’t actually lose by a landslide.
@89th said in Debate tonight:
@Jolly said in Debate tonight:
@89th said in Debate tonight:
I don't believe that Trump actually thinks he won and was cheated. That's what he tells his followers but he knows he lost.
And you know this, how?
A combination of hearsay and common sense. People have testified they heard Trump talk about how he knew he lost but wanted to show he puts up a fight. And he’s way to smart to actually think he was cheated on such a large scale where he didn’t actually lose by a landslide.
IOW, you pulled it out of your TDS ass.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Is anybody going to cover the fact that Biden said “Nobody will have their taxes raised if income is under $400K” during the same debate that he promised that he was going to let the Trump Tax cuts expire, which will raise taxes at all levels dramatically.
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@89th said in Debate tonight:
@Jolly said in Debate tonight:
@89th said in Debate tonight:
I don't believe that Trump actually thinks he won and was cheated. That's what he tells his followers but he knows he lost.
And you know this, how?
A combination of hearsay and common sense. People have testified they heard Trump talk about how he knew he lost but wanted to show he puts up a fight. And he’s way to smart to actually think he was cheated on such a large scale where he didn’t actually lose by a landslide.
IOW, you pulled it out of your TDS ass.
@Jolly said in Debate tonight:
@89th said in Debate tonight:
@Jolly said in Debate tonight:
@89th said in Debate tonight:
I don't believe that Trump actually thinks he won and was cheated. That's what he tells his followers but he knows he lost.
And you know this, how?
A combination of hearsay and common sense. People have testified they heard Trump talk about how he knew he lost but wanted to show he puts up a fight. And he’s way to smart to actually think he was cheated on such a large scale where he didn’t actually lose by a landslide.
IOW, you pulled it out of your TDS ass.
Guess I'm just using Trump's election loss strategery!
