Presidential Debate(s)

[Chicks]

Fire Orange Shitstain

https://www.thenation.com/article/po...0-endorsement/

This is the most important election in our lifetimes—and one of the most consequential in The Nation’s 155-year history. Accepting his party’s nomination in 2016, Donald Trump promised to “lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace…to add millions of new jobs and trillions in new wealth.” At his inauguration, he returned to that theme, vowing to rebuild “our country, with American hands and American labor.” All lies. He also claimed to be worth billions–and to have paid “millions” in taxes. That turned out to be a lie, too.

Instead of leading us toward prosperity, Trump pushed through a tax bill that gave billions of dollars to his rich supporters (and cabinet members) and cut taxes on corporations by a whopping 40 percent while doling out crumbs to working families. Instead of pursuing peace, Trump scuttled the Iran nuclear deal, reneged on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (negotiated by Ronald Reagan), and is withdrawing the country from the Open Skies agreement. Not to mention his abdication of the Paris climate accord—the predictable consequence of an administration with a contempt for science, an aversion to truth, and a blind faith in the infallible wisdom of markets and corporate elites. Fiddling on Twitter while the West Coast burns, Trump has nothing to offer but four more years of incompetence and indifference. The man who pledged to end “American carnage” has instead revealed himself as a cheerleader for white supremacy, religious bigotry, and nationalist hatred.

And this is without even reckoning with the way the coronavirus pitilessly exposed his terrifying inadequacy as a leader, his literally fatal inability to take advice or rise to an occasion. As the pandemic continues to spread, with our country leading the world in death and suffering, Americans should ask ourselves, “Do I feel safer than I did four years ago?”

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Focus Group - The Lincoln Project

Donald Trump lost the debate.

https://youtu.be/LM3dMJNOFiA

tRump thinks he won the debate and nobody at the WH has the balls to tell him any different. The next "debate" will be in a Town Hall format. Expect to see tRump non-answering questions on a scale never before seen in history. In between the outright lies of course.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.” - Ronald Reagan

Ronaldus reworded the phrase, "It ain't ignorance causes so much trouble; it's folks knowing so much that ain't so."

Of education, knowledge and wisdom, the least is education and the greatest is wisdom - me.

Education is often overrated, knowlege is merely what you know and profound wisdom is just opinion.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by nailer

Education is often overrated, knowlege is merely what you know and profound wisdom is just opinion.

You and I are close on this. I see it this way:

Education is what you've been told. It may or may not be true and it may or may not have been retained.

Knowledge is what you've been told that you have retained. My computer hard drive has "knowledge".

Wisdom is the ability to correctly interpret and apply information.

Some opinion is wisdom, and some is not.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Ok so they dont matter to you, thats fine.

Don't matter enough to worry about, in context.

Like, if you've been without water for three days, you will drink muddy water.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Don't matter enough to worry about, in context.

Like, if you've been without water for three days, you will drink muddy water.

One can often predict which party a person supports based on what things matter the most to them.

A motivational speaker once asked if we thought two men would have the same lifestyle if they said the three most important things in their life are work, family and health. But he gave it a twist: One man rated them, from most important to least as "family, work, health", while the other ordered them "Work, health, family".

Of course, the two men would lead completely different lives, even though they held to the "top three".

[donquixote99]

My, how profound.

Profound enough to be a bot, especially considering the non-sequitur-ness of it....

[Chicks]

It’s not ‘chaos’: Orange Shitstain revealed a clear blueprint for crushing American democracy

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/tru...-20201001.html

September 29, 2020, will likely go down in history as one of the darkest days in American democracy — but arguably not in the way the average voter saw things. All eyes, after all, were focused on a debate stage in Cleveland where the 45th and possibly last president of the United States was interrupting and yelling like a lunatic at rival Joe Biden or moderator Chris Wallace — as if he were instead alone in his White House bedroom, and had accidentally turned his TV to MSNBC instead of the comforts of “Fox and Friends.”

On the bloody morning after, the mainstream media headline writers seemed to have one word for what went down during a stroke-inducing night at the Cleveland Clinic: “Chaos." Yet what was scary about the first (and, who knows, maybe the last?) presidential debate wasn’t that Donald Trump was out-of-control, but that there was actual method to this madness. For one thing, the president*’s imitation of a drunk nightclub heckler was meant to make you lose faith — in the November 3 election, and in America itself. With just a month to go, it’s getting impossible for Trump to win a legitimate vote, so he wants to delegitimize it.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

You and I are close on this. I see it this way:

Education is what you've been told. It may or may not be true and it may or may not have been retained.

Knowledge is what you've been told that you have retained. My computer hard drive has "knowledge".

Wisdom is the ability to correctly interpret and apply information.

Some opinion is wisdom, and some is not.

Wisdom is opinion. In your case depending on how one defines correctly, that is.

Not perceiving the closeness on this.

[Chicks]

Chris Wallace blames Orange Shitstain for chaotic debate: He 'bears the primary responsibility'

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/media...ate/index.html

Well, Duh!