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Kamala is no joke; will vote for her again

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by KingCheetah, Jul 2, 2021.

  1. AroundTheWorld

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    Gonna need some citations on that one.
     
  3. AB

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    just watched Biden Michigan events. He did better than I expecte

    This debate of biden or not Biden has to end soon one way or other. As long as discussion stays on Biden, Trump skates free
     
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    Much like a 2nd debate, its a much bigger risk for Trump. People are already very concerned about Biden. Either Biden does well and people start to think maybe the debate was just a hiccup, or it leads to Biden being replaced. In the ideal world, they both fail and we end up with Haley vs. somebody not already taking RMDs.
     
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    He's just so old that he remembers the runner-up in the election became VP.
     
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    almost made that comment in the game thread but thought better of it
     
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  8. Amiga

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    The citation is me, myself, and I... lol.

    (IIRC)

    Long before Clinton officially secured the nomination, Sanders' path to victory had become nonviable. Despite this, he delayed endorsing Clinton until a month after she clinched the required delegates. During this period, Sanders continued to criticize the superdelegate system—even though altering it to his desires wouldn't have changed the outcome—and alleged DNC bias against his campaign.

    The Trump campaign and Russian operatives capitalized on this narrative, exploiting leaked DNC emails to amplify claims that the primaries were rigged, the system was corrupt, and Sanders had been treated unfairly. They encouraged him to run as an independent to "show them".

    While Sanders claimed he wanted to influence the party platform and push Clinton to adopt some of his policy positions, his prolonged campaign inadvertently fueled a faction of his base that harbored intense animosity toward Clinton. This delay in unity contributed to ~12% of his primary supporters ultimately voting for Trump in the general election (that's the election there).

    By the time Sanders endorsed Clinton, the damage was done. His attempt to shape the party's direction had unintentionally fostered a splinter group of supporters, some of whom defected to Trump rather than backing the Democratic nominee.
     
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    lol. Biden be all like

    it isn't fair gif copy.gif

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...onald-trump-meta-platforms-restrictions-2024/

    an hour ago
    Biden campaign: Meta lifting Trump account guardrails ‘greedy, reckless decision’
    by Alex Gangitano
    07/12/24 8:29 PM ET

    President Biden’s reelection campaign rallied against Meta Friday for lifting the restrictions on former President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram.

    In a statement first provided to The Hill, the campaign called the move "greedy" and "reckless," arguing that it is an attack on democracy to include the former president on the popular platforms.

    “Restoring his access is like handing your car keys to someone you know will drive your car into a crowd and off a cliff," Charles Lutvak, the Biden campaign's national spokesperson, said. "It is holding a megaphone for a bonafide racist who will shout his hate and white supremacy from the rooftops and try to take it mainstream. Without question, it is a direct attack on our safety and our democracy."

    “This greedy, reckless decision will allow Trump and his MAGA allies to reach more Americans with their fundamentally undemocratic, un-American misinformation,” he added.

    Meta said Friday that it has removed additional guardrails on Trump accounts in the run-up to the 2024 election after he was suspended from its platforms following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and then had his accounts reinstated in early 2023 with heightened penalties for repeat offenses.

    “Donald Trump relied on these social media platforms to send a violent mob to the Capitol on January 6, where they tried to overturn an election, he lost fair and square," Lutvak said. "The lies he spread on this platform stoked the mob that assaulted police officers. Five people died."

    Meta also announced that Trump’s accounts will no longer be subject to the additional penalties and it adjusted its general protocol for restricting accounts of public figures during civil unrest.
     
  10. Space Ghost

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    And there you have it, folks. The left eating their own. Its the most popular socialist candidate's fault Trump won. Its definitely not their fault for running a terrible candidate. People like Amiga will go on for years blaming everyone else instead of acknowledging his team is corrupt and FOS.
     
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    I think Biden and Trump should battle it out for the presidency on the golf course (nine holes only; nobody wants to watch 18 holes of poor golf). And, it should be aired live on television. No cheating. Rules enforced. No friendly drops. Nada. And, no complaining after by ANYEFFINBODY! IT'S OVER! MOVE ON AS YOU WILL!
     
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    Allegedly, per Biden's ramblings and rants, Trump fills out his score card first and then tee's. Even a crazy man with dementia is right twice a day.
     
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    I'm quite sure Trump normally cheats when he golfs but physically speaking... I don't know if Biden can golf at all at this point. I think Trump wins that.
     
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    Do these people even hear themselves? It is an attack on democracy to let the candidate of the biggest opposition party have the same access as the candidate of the incumbent party? Is democracy when only one side can be heard?
    I agree, but they should make it a foursome with Chase Oliver and Jill Stein. Winner take all.
     
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    Trump might have been too generous when he said keep getting your 3%…lol. Just go vote Republican and take the mask off.
     
  16. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    No, thank you. I am happy that I am allowed to vote for anyone I want (as long as they are 35 years old and not a member of the Confederacy). I can vote for myself. I can vote for you (or I could if I knew your name and assuming you are neither under 35 nor a member of the Confederacy). I will be voting for Chase Oliver, even though he is pro-choice.
     
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    link will work for everyone

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bi...1xrkgkeb70d&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    The Bitter Biden Reality Sinks In
    Democrats fear defeat in November, but the bigger threat is the next four years.
    By The Editorial Board
    July 12, 2024 at 5:59 pm ET

    We read the Democratic press so you don’t have to, and these days the anguish on the left is palpable. The political reality of the party’s predicament in covering for President Biden’s infirmities for so long is finally sinking in. Could it be that Democrats will end up re-electing Donald J. Trump? Yes it could.

    Thursday evening’s press conference was a microcosm of their self-induced peril. The President showed no sign of political retreat, or introspection, and he was just coherent enough to prevent a wholesale flight from his candidacy. Yet he lost his train of thought numerous times, bailing out of sentence after sentence with his now trademark “anyway.” We counted 10.

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    While Mr. Biden may make it through a particular event, Democrats can have no confidence he won’t have another debate-like meltdown between now and November. As Democratic Rep. Jim Himes put in on CNN in explaining his call for Mr. Biden to step aside:

    “Imagine that three months from now we get another performance like there was in the debate, right before the election. Do you want to take that risk? I don’t.”

    More important for the country—and more damning for the Democrats—Mr. Biden gave the appearance of an old and enfeebled man who has no chance of meeting the demands of the Presidency for another four years. If Democrats are honest, they know America’s adversaries are savoring the prospect of Biden II.

    Here’s Mr. Biden’s answer on Thursday to a question about Volodymyr Zelensky’s request that Mr. Biden let Ukraine use U.S. weapons to strike targets inside Russia:

    “We have allowed Zelensky to use American weapons in the near-term, in the near-abroad into Russia. Whether or not he has—we should be—he should be attacked—for example, should Zelensky—he’s not, but if he had the capacity to strike Moscow, strike the Kremlin, would that make sense? It wouldn’t.

    “The question is: What’s the best use of the weaponry he has and the weaponry we’re getting to him? I’ve gotten him more HIMAR—I got him more long-range capacity as well as defensive capacity.

    “And so, our military is worki—I’m following the advice of my commander in chief—my—my—of the—the chief of staff of the military as well as the secretary of Defense and our intelligence people. And we’re making a day-to-day basis on what they should and shouldn’t g—how far they should go in. That’s a logical thing to do.”

    That’s a hard-to-follow jumble that didn’t begin to answer why Mr. Biden has restrained Kyiv from getting the weapons and employing a strategy that would help Ukraine prevail. Mr. Zelensky doesn’t want to attack Moscow with U.S. weapons. He wants to attack its supply lines and missile bases in Russia’s south. Neither the President nor his policy are going to get better in a second term.

    Democrats ignore this policy weakness, focusing instead on Mr. Biden’s falling re-election prospects. Democratic election analyst Doug Sosnik usually surfaces every four years to assure Democrats they’re going to win. But this week he showed up in the New York Times to say Mr. Biden has only a single, narrow path to victory in the Electoral College.

    Mr. Biden must sweep all of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where he now trails. And he must beat off Mr. Trump’s challenge in states that Republicans haven’t won in years but are now in play—New Hampshire, Minnesota, New Mexico, Maine and Virginia. The Times now wants Mr. Biden to withdraw from the race, so the timing of Mr. Sosnik’s analysis is no accident.

    Every day brings new establishment defections, and new reports of behind-the-scenes scheming. What are Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi up to? Is Chuck Schumer having second thoughts as his Senate majority looks in jeopardy? The progressive press is in open revolt, with even the most slavishly partisan columnists saying Joe must go.

    Will he? Who knows. We’ve been saying since last year that for the good of the country he should withdraw. But Democrats, blinded by their hatred for Mr. Trump, refused to acknowledge the truth about Mr. Biden’s manifest decline. They thought Mr. Trump was unelectable, or that Democratic prosecutions would surely take him out.

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    Mr. Trump is also flawed and unpopular and may have hit his voter ceiling in the polls. A younger Republican would be winning in a rout. This means Mr. Biden can point to some polls showing a still close race, and it may be why he’ll refuse to leave even as the panic and pressure from his fellow Democrats increase. The Democrats did this to themselves, but the tragedy is they also did it to the country.

    Appeared in the July 13, 2024, print edition as 'The Bitter Biden Reality Sinks In'.

     
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    If I was Trump and even before they started playing,I would tell Biden that they had just played and Joe lost, now it’s time for some ice cream. Joe will never know what’s going on because he’s too happy licking his ice cream.
     
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    23 million? That is just another Trump Rally attendance!!!

     

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