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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/us/politics/john-kasich-biden.html
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Four years ago, John R. Kasich considered it unthinkable to vote for Donald J. Trump for president, yet he could not bring himself to cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton either — so he wrote in Senator John McCain of Arizona.

Not this time around. Mr. Kasich, a lifelong Republican who has spent decades in politics — as a state legislator, congressman, governor of Ohio and presidential aspirant — will become his party’s most prominent leader to cross the partisan divide and support former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., speaking at this week’s Democratic National Convention, and then voting for him this fall.

“I wasn’t going to vote for somebody else,” Mr. Kasich said in an interview before his speech on Monday night. “I just wasn’t going to do it this time. I did it the last time. You know, I had always been hopeful, even after the convention and after the election, that perhaps we would see a change in the president, but we just never have. I happen to think it’s the soul of our country that is being damaged, and that’s what I’m concerned about.”
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“Somebody has to start being willing to break down this tribalism,” he said. “I don’t think that I will achieve that, but somebody’s got to start. Somebody has to be able to begin to say, ‘No, you’ve got to take off your partisan hat, and you’ve got to realize we’re Americans.’”

“With Biden, who I’ve known for a long time, I just think that he has the ability to be patient and bring people together and to try to solve some of our big problems by engaging in dialogue,” he added. “Nothing great was ever achieved in this country where we’re fighting with each other like we are now, nothing. And significant things can be accomplished when there’s respect on all sides regardless of some fundamental differences.”
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Horace · 18 Aug 2020, 01:35

@Axtremus said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

@LuFins-Dad said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

I wonder if they will say Trump’s name more than Biden’s?

They most likely will. Trump unites the Democrats.

One of my favorite TDS ideas is about how divisive Trump is. That idea was invented by those who hate Trump specifically to be a self fulfilling prophecy, and lo and behold it has worked. But only because people who hate Trump tend to be so gullible and stupid, they'll believe pretty much anything. It's really sad.

taiwan_girl · 18 Aug 2020, 02:52

I think there is TDS on both sides:

Hate President Trump
TDS = (President) Trump Derangment Syndrome

Love President Trump
TDS = (President) Trump Deification Syndrome

LOL

Horace · wrote on 18 Aug 2020, 01:24

But the difference is, the hate is so much more prevalent and real than the alleged deification. One of the many neuroses of those afflicted with TDS is the inability to distinguish between a lack of hatred for Trump, and a veneration of the man.

jon-nyc · 18 Aug 2020, 01:57

@Horace said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

@Axtremus said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

@LuFins-Dad said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

I wonder if they will say Trump’s name more than Biden’s?

They most likely will. Trump unites the Democrats.

One of my favorite TDS ideas is about how divisive Trump is. That idea was invented by those who hate Trump specifically to be a self fulfilling prophecy, and lo and behold it has worked. But only because people who hate Trump tend to be so gullible and stupid, they'll believe pretty much anything. It's really sad.

I wonder what Horace 1.0 would have thought of this post.

Loki · 18 Aug 2020, 01:58

More taxes will magically solve all our problems. Think about it.

Horace · wrote on 18 Aug 2020, 01:57

@jon-nyc said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

@Horace said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

@Axtremus said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

@LuFins-Dad said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

I wonder if they will say Trump’s name more than Biden’s?

They most likely will. Trump unites the Democrats.

One of my favorite TDS ideas is about how divisive Trump is. That idea was invented by those who hate Trump specifically to be a self fulfilling prophecy, and lo and behold it has worked. But only because people who hate Trump tend to be so gullible and stupid, they'll believe pretty much anything. It's really sad.

I wonder what Horace 1.0 would have thought of this post.

Yes, trolling is a good response to trolling.

Horace · L Loki 18 Aug 2020, 01:39

@Loki said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

More taxes will magically solve all our problems. Think about it.

It's unclear what the point of taxes is anymore. We've established we can just spend money we don't have. What is the big deal about a little income vs no income, if you have magic money wand anyway?

Copper · wrote on 18 Aug 2020, 02:06

Remember the violence in the streets during the 1968 convention?

The violence now is 100 times worse.

It is, almost, being ignored.

Larry · wrote on 18 Aug 2020, 02:52

@taiwan_girl said in Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2020:

I think there is TDS on both sides:

Hate President Trump
TDS = (President) Trump Derangment Syndrome

Love President Trump
TDS = (President) Trump Deification Syndrome

LOL

There is no deification of Trump. It is the Left that bases everything on their feelings and emotions, not the Right. The Right bases their opinions on policies and accomplishments. We can also tell shit from shingle, and we know who the crazies are.

George K · wrote on 18 Aug 2020, 12:43

Michelle Lies:

Michelle Obama assailed President Donald Trump on Monday for ripping migrant children from their parents and throwing them into cages, picking up on a frequent and distorted point made widely by Democrats.

She’s right that Trump’s now-suspended policy at the U.S.-Mexico border separated thousands of children from their families in ways that had not been done before. But what she did not say is that the very same “cages” were built and used in her husband’s administration, for the same purpose of holding migrant kids temporarily.

A look at her remark in the keynote address at the opening night of the remote Democratic National Convention:

MICHELLE OBAMA, on Americans: “They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages.”

THE FACTS: The reference to cages is misleading and a matter that Democrats have persistently distorted.

Trump used facilities that were built during the Obama-Biden administration to house children at the border. They are chain-link enclosures inside border facilities where migrants were temporarily housed, separated by sex and age.

At the height of the controversy over Trump’s zero-tolerance policy at the border, photos that circulated online of children in the enclosures generated great anger. But those photos — by The Associated Press — were taken in 2014 and depicted some of the thousands of unaccompanied children held by President Barack Obama.

Mik · wrote on 18 Aug 2020, 12:48

And bear in mind that is the Seattle Times.

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