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2020 Presidential Election

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Mar 26, 2020.

  1. Blatz

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    of course... Dear Leader makes sun and moon in the sky. The Earth is spinning because of his laughter...
     
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  2. deb4rockets

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    Oh, I know he did. As a military vet he disgusts me more than I ever thought possible.
     
  3. generalthade_03

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    Not excusing anyone. You’ve got to admit, partisan politics aside, you have to say WTF when you hear Joe’s gaffes.
     
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  5. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    But not Trump's?
     
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  6. SamFisher

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    Boy that Biden what a gaffe machine!

    I'm surprised nobody ever thought of this line of attack before. Expect Bernie to take the reins any day now.
     
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  7. generalthade_03

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    You honestly can not tell the difference? I’m not trying to be funny or partisan. If I was to do some sort of experiment and compile a list of things that both Trump and Biden have said that are considered gaffes and oddballs to a short video, and show that to a focus group. I have a feeling the majority of that group will have similar reactions about Biden’s gaffes(thinking he’s not serious then realizing that he is), then Trump’s gaffes( which they would laugh if off). It is what it is man, no matter how we wish it could be different, Biden is clearly losing it.
     
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    This. I think the shock factor plus the unknown factor carried him in 2016. People confuse the debate format with rally format, the latter is being where Trump excels the most. The dude is a salesman and could get a one legged man to buy a pair of shoes.

    Biden sucks at speaking for many obvious reasons so it will be interesting/possibly cringe worthy.
     
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  9. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Are you seriously suggesting Trump is purposely saying ridiculous things on purpose just to be funny?
     
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  10. generalthade_03

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    I believe so. Remember, he is a showman first and foremost. I’m pretty old so I started following him back in the 80s because he’s always in the news, not a great fan but you cannot deny that the man is interesting and entertaining. He used to sound like this back in the old days too. I’m not sure how old you are but I’m pretty sure that I’m older than you(a few months shy of 60), I’ve followed politics all my life and I can tell you that Biden is definitely declining mentally, he was not like this back in the days. As much as I can’t stand Obama and he does misspeak( everyone does), you never have to question his cognitive functions.
     
  11. T_Man

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    Sorry... No Clinton this time around... So he has no more gimmis....

    T_Man
     
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    As opposed to your grand leaders'?
     
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  13. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    No.... the man is an incompetent speaker. Now his little bullying remarks are clearly planned and aimed at his base, but his off the cuff remarks are borderline incoherent. Now whether or not it is a sign of a declining cognitive ability is arguable, but it is certainly a sign of incoherence.

    And I am 62
     
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  14. No Worries

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    Get back to me, when Biden suggests that people should chug bleach.
     
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  15. SamFisher

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    Trump is borderline incoherent in the same sense that Ciudad Juarez is borderline Mexico.

    He just is incoherent and mentally vacant. Those obscene "inject bleach" press conferences were the real Trump. There's no behind the scenes strategic genius, it's just all reactions of a diseased and deteriorated mind.

    People in the media or whatever try to read grand strategy into it because they can't admit ortor fathom the meritocratic system in the world's greatest country would produce such an outcome, that of a crazy deranged malignant old man yelling at the TV somehow handed the controls and somehow allowed to keep them despite the ongoing chain of disaster. But, that's what we got, and that's what our system (with a little external help) produced.
     
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    Ah so now the defense of Trump is that we shouldn’t take the president seriously. Time to change my vote haha!
     
  17. deb4rockets

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    LOL. I quit taking him seriously a long time ago. He's been blowing nothing but hot air for so long he's causing increased climate change around the world.
     
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  18. Surfguy

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    Chidin’ Biden! I’m voting Independent! To hell with both parties. Take your partisanship and shove it all the way up with a red hot poker! Death to Republicans! Death to Democrats!

    Am I being too extreme? Me so sorry!
     
  19. generalthade_03

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    Damn you’re old. Didn’t think anyone can top me but maybe Deckard and a few other old farts that I don’t remember their handles.
     
  20. deb4rockets

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    Biden made a remark trying to appeal to black voters, but not in a way that wasn't offensive to many. He apologized, and admitted he was wrong. I don't ever remember Trump apologizing to anyone for anything he has ever said or done. In fact, his words and actions for decades, have shown a long history of racism.

    Trump was accused of making his
    African-American employees move off the casino floor when he didn't want to see them, which was any time he came to the casino. One
    employee, Kip Brown, said:

    When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. It was the eightees I was a teenager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.

    Trump was later fined $200,000 by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission for that act of disgusting racism.

    Trump employees have secretly marked the applications of minorities with codes, such as `No. 9' and `C' for colored. .
    . . The employees allegedly directed blacks and Puerto Ricans away from buildings with mostly white tenants and steered them toward properties that had many minorities.

    Trump saying of his accountants:

    I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.

    Speaking of another African-American employee, Trump told O'Donnell:
    I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is. I believe that.


    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2016-09-26/html/CREC-2016-09-26-pt1-PgS6073-2.htm

    No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html
    Trump Thinks Only Black People Are on Welfare, But Really, White Americans Receive Most Benefits
    BY RYAN SIT ON 1/12/18 AT 3:53 PM EST
    HTTPS://WWW.NEWSWEEK.COM/DONALD-TRUMP-WELFARE-BLACK-WHITE-780252
    How Republicans Normalized Donald Trump’s Racism
    Trump’s “shithole” moment was years in the making.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/how-republicans-normalized-donald-trumps-racism/

    The list goes on and on.
     
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