Presidential Debate(s)

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

What a pitiful little fella.
900 Proud Boys against a million or more Americans

I'm polishing up my walker.

[Chicks]

“THE FAMILY IS WORRIED BRAD WILL START TALKING”: TRUMPWORLD PANICS OVER DEBATE FIASCO AS CAMPAIGN TURMOIL MOUNTS
Over three days, the New York Times dropped a tax bombshell, Florida cops cuffed Brad Parscale, and the president just couldn’t help himself onstage. “Trump didn’t win over any voters,” said a prominent Republican, “and he pissed off a lot of people.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...turmoil-mounts

Donald Trump’s campaign is still assessing the political damage from Tuesday night’s chaotic first presidential debate. The president’s refusal to condemn white supremacists, of course, is the immediate crisis. “He blew that for sure,” a campaign adviser told me. “It’s nuts,” a former West Wing official said wearily, sounding like a storm survivor with PTSD. “Total lunacy,” said another former White House staffer, who remains close to the campaign. “Trump didn’t win over any voters, and he pissed off a lot of people,” added a prominent Republican.

Trump advisers agree on what he needs to do differently at the next debate. “He has to just relax and let Joe Biden speak,” said the ex-official, who remains close to the White House. But Republicans are resigned to the fact that Trump is unlikely––or unwilling––to course-correct. “Trump thinks he won. He didn’t,” said another Republican with ties to the campaign. “But does anyone have the balls to tell him that? No. They’d be fired.”

Trump doesn’t accept the consensus that the debate was a disaster because, sources said, he was unabashedly himself. “The thing about the debate is people got to see why no one that has any integrity can work for Trump. This is what Trump is like in the Oval Office every day. It’s why [John] Kelly left. It’s why [Jim] Mattis quit,” said the prominent Republican. “Trump doesn’t let anyone else speak. He really doesn’t care what you have to say. He demeans people. He talks over them. And everyone around him thinks it’s getting worse.”

Only three people so far think Donny "won" this debate - Donny, and our two resident Trumpkin idiots. WH staff and Repubes in congress are shell-shocked.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Vote intimidation very against the law. Poll watchers have to be credentialed and registered before hand, and are limited in number, and sure as hell can't have weapons.

Trump and his traitors don't care about the law, of course, but the people do.

Yep. During all the years the missus and I worked the polls we had less than five assholes who thought they were cute wearing candidate gear while voting. They got turned away for politicking within one hundred feet of a polling station. Simple. If you take it off and put it in your car then we'd let you in. If they caused the slightest ruckus we called the local cops who were not sympathetic or amused.

[bobabode]

Speaking of working the polls, any of you Trumplings ever volunteer? Waggles?

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Typical T'rump shitshow. You still voting for that guy?

I knew it would be a shitshow before it started. Yes I'm still voting for him. Trump definately knows how to get under someone's skin and excite them. I actually wish Wallace would have let them banter more with each other cause that's when true feelings come out.

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Speaking of working the polls, any of you Trumplings ever volunteer? Waggles?

Ha. Um no I have never volunteered to work at the polls and probably never will.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Ha. Um no I have never volunteered to work at the poles and probably never will.

I'll bet you've never served in the military, either. Typical Trumpkin, never do anything for your country.

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by JCricket

A person who threatens, propogates, or does not condem violence is the problem. You are the problem in the violence and division in our country. You and any other person who condones or does not condem the violence. And don't use the "the democrats did it first BS statement". That is a weak minded fools argument.

Here ya go. From trump himself.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...supremacy.html

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by Chicks

I'll bet you've never served in the military, either. Typical Trumpkin, never do anything for your country.

I believe you and I have discussed this already, remember?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

I knew it would be a shitshow before it started. Yes I'm still voting for him. Trump definately knows how to get under someone's skin and excite them. I actually wish Wallace would have let them banter more with each other cause that's when true feelings come out.

This person, who I found quoted on FB, thinks Trump was purposefully trying to trigger stuttering in Biden.

Joe Biden is a stutterer. Like many others, he has overcome the disability by understanding it and exercising extraordinary perseverance and discipline. If you know and love a stutterer and you watched the presidential debate last night, within minutes it became obvious what was going on. Abusive tone of voice, rapid fire interruptions, zigzagging change of topic, personal insult and humiliation, and family pain are all tripwires that scramble a stutterer's ability to speak. There was nothing unplanned or spontaneous in the President's strategy. The bastards did not prep him to attack Joe. They prepped him to attack Joe's disability hoping that by triggering his stuttering they might deceive an audience unfamiliar with the disability into thinking that Joe was stupid, weak, uncertain, confused, or lost to dimentia.

If you have ever gotten in the face of a bully on the playground protecting a stutterer that you love, the game being played last night was nakedly and painfully obvious. If you watched with glee while it happened, then you haven't made much progress since the playground.
However, the stutterer that I love taught me early on that he did not so much need my protection. He fought back by owning and integrating his disability into who he is. He learned how to stand his ground as master of perseverance, knowledge, and empathy. Without his example, I would not have recognized the game that was being played last night. I would not have been able to recognize the subtle but intense struggle against the disability that Joe was winning at the same time he was struggling to advance his positions on the issues in the midst of a rhetorical shit storm.
But, like the stutterer that I know, Joe didn't need any help on the playground. I was proud of him.

The President flushed his family fortune down a gold-plated toilet and somehow wants us to believe that he is the poor victim of mean people. Then he tries, and fails, to beat up a kid with a disability on the playground.
I'm done with this, guys. I want my country back. Thanks, Joe.