Posted on 06/22/2024 6:05:46 AM PDT by Carry_Okie
If I Were Trump
This debate will have an entirely predictable pattern: Trump will disagree on matters of fact with Biden. It doesn’t really matter who is questioned first. Biden will come out with, “That’s a LIE.” CNN will back him up. That’s when he springs the trap. The first thing Donald Trump should say in the debate is that there will be disagreements on matters of fact in this debate. Therefore, his web site will post every contention made in the debate and back them up with references, to include:
Biden may do the same thing, which is fine. Once the public starts to question Democrat bull$hit, everything will make sense. It's a huge opportunity.
Please Lord, no! It will be the mother of all soundbites: He's out for revenge and no one is safe. Democracy in ultimate peril! Apocalypse coming around the bend!
They don't have to. They're already ideologially in synch with a common body of belief-by-repetition.
I know there have been several deaths from illegals in recent months. I tried to find the number all I could find was they represent a low percentage of crimes murdered. I guess that makes it okay.
Much of your #14 is quite correct. But are you basing that statement on the results of the recent presidential election?
In my view the Dems have a lot to gain with the debate. Either JB flat out "wins" (extremely unlikely even with MSM help) or JB's performance will justify any subsequent replacement.
Trump will, we hope, also recognize that any question presented to him by JB or anything at all the MSM may utter directly or indirectly will likely be an intentional trap.
Best posture IMO is Trump, after checkmating JB on the facts, will treat him somewhat tenderly and convey a sense of sympathy to those who may be thinking of voting for JB.
BTW, great thread, thank you!
You’re assuming they want the truth.
I’ve got marxist siblings who, when evidence is held in front of their faces, will continue to deny reality.
Don’t be surprised by the left’s dedication to their willful ignorance.
Trump is making the same mistake he made in 2020 - allowing lefties to “moderate” the debate - so he then has to debate the Biden-supporting, anti-Trump moderator as well.
He should have demanded Tucker Carlson moderate the debate - as he did with DeSantis vs. Newsom.
Trump should talk about what he is for and not attack Biden. About the conviction he should simply say he was vetted and found competent to stand trial.
You mean like McCaine, Romney, Jeb Bush, etc...?
He should remind Creepy Joe about how he claimed Crackhead Hunter’s laptop was “Russian Collusion” and bring up how even far left Snopes confirmed Ashley’s Diary is real.
Yep..... Trumps gonna Trump, regardless.
That was definitely not Fox hosts' point, but I can see how some may well play it that way. Good call.
Who cares? If everyone else ignores them, that is a good outcome.
Find the feed into China Joe Potato Head Biden's earpiece - and BLOCK IT!
Good examples, but the collage of Afghani American sympathizers and workers falling from the cargo plane wells is much more powerful, IMO. Then top it off with the picture of FJB looking at is watch with 13 American dead were returned of Biden’s melee abandonment of Afghanistan.
Love it. If only that were possible........
Having an independent resource available, real time, would set the moderators on their heels too.
I don't know if it's legally possible, but Trump's people could put a window on their site to show the debate real time, while simultaneously posting the data contradicting the leftists. It's doable, but it would take talented people.
When Biden mumbles ask him if Kalmala Kackles coached him
Trump is allowing lefties to “moderate” the debate -
so he has to debate the moderators as well.
Trump has said they thought he wouldnt accept their
terms, so he surprised them and said he would accept.
I sense “debating the moderators” is part of Trump’s debate strategy.
Biden is left out in the cold while Trump makes points on the backs of the moderators.
After all, he's been doing that for nine years now.
A good issue for Trump’s web site——Afghanis falling from the US cargo plane
Backstory research: BIDEN’S AFGHAN DEBACLE
After Afghans fell from US plane, families live with horror
BY KATHY GANNON, September 21, 2021, apnews.com
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It’s a scene that has come to symbolize the chaotic end to America’s 20 years of war in Afghanistan: A lumbering U.S. Air Force cargo plane takes off from Kabul airport, chased by hundreds of desperate Afghan men scrambling to get on the aircraft. As the C-17 transporter gains altitude, shaky mobile phone video captures two tiny dots dropping from the plane. Footage from another angle shows many in the crowd on the tarmac stopping in their tracks and pointing.
The full extent of the horror becomes apparent only later. The dots, it turns out, were desperate Afghans hidden in the wheel well. As the wheels folded into the body of the plane, the stowaways faced the choice of being crushed to death or letting go and plunging to the ground.......much remains unclear about what happened in that tragic takeoff on Aug. 16, a day after the Taliban swept into Kabul, prompting a flood of Afghans trying to escape the country.
Even how many were killed remains unknown. Videos show two dots falling from the airborne plane, several seconds apart. But two bodies landed on the same rooftop at the same time, suggesting they fell together, so the other figure seen falling in the videos could be at least one other person. Also, the U.S. military has said it found human remains still in the wheel well of the C-17 when it landed in Qatar but did not specify how many people. At least one person, a young soccer player, died on the tarmac, crushed under the C-17’s wheels.
The U.S. military says it has not completed its investigation into the day. It said the C-17 was bringing in supplies for the evacuation effort at the airport but was mobbed by Afghans on the tarmac as it landed. Fearing the plane would be overwhelmed, the crew decided to take off again without unloading the cargo. Videos taken by Afghans on the tarmac show hundreds running alongside it, and perhaps a dozen people sitting on top of the wheel well, though it is not known how many jumped off before the plane lifted off.
One of those tucked into the wheel well was Fida Mohammad, a 24-year-old dentist. He had once been full of hope, his family said. He had married last year in an extravagant ceremony that cost his family $13,000. His dream of opening a dental clinic in Kabul had become a reality. Then the Taliban seized Kabul, and all the possibilities for his future seemed to disappear, his father Painda Mohammed told The Associated Press. The older man still struggles to understand what his son was thinking when he climbed into the wheel well. He’s wracked with guilt, fearing that Fida took such an enormous risk because he wanted to help repay the large loan his father took out for the wedding. Burying his head in his hands, Painda says he spends hours imagining his son’s final minutes, the fear he must have felt as the earth below him began to disappear and the wheels swung in, knowing he had no choice but to let go.
On the ground, Abdullah Waiz was asleep in his home at the time and was awakened by a powerful noise. His first thought was an explosion. He rushed outside. His neighbors gestured toward his roof and told him of the bodies tumbling from the sky. Two bodies hit in the same corner of his roof, Waiz said, pointing at the spot, where the concrete was still stained with blood. Waiz believes they were holding hands since they fell in the same location. He collected the remains on a cloth and carried it to a nearby mosque, he said. They identified one body as Fida, as he had stuffed his father’s name and number in his pocket. Local media said the second body was identified as a young man named Safiullah Hotak.
For two weeks at the end of August as the United States and its allies wrapped up their presence in Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghans surged toward the Kabul airport, frantic to escape a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. A 2-year-old child died in the stampede. An Islamic State group suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of the crowd, killing 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. military personnel. Yet even after the explosion, thousands returned to the airport, hoping to make it inside.
The scenes were so traumatic that the U.S. Air Force offered psychological counseling to the air force personnel who worked at Kabul airport, as well as the crew of the ill-fated C-17 flight after it landed at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Another victim on Aug. 16 was 17-year-old Zaki Anwari, a rising star on Afghanistan’s national soccer team. He would spend hours watching his hero Lionel Messi play. “He couldn’t get enough. It was all he talked about, all he did,” said his 20-year-old brother Zakir Anwari. Zaki was too young to have known the Taliban’s harsh rule of the late 1990s. But as the militant force swept through the provinces, Zaki’s social media were flooded by rumors and horror stories purporting to tell of life under the Taliban.
Last time they ruled, the Taliban banned most sports, including soccer, and routinely rounded up young men at prayer times to force them to the mosque. Zaki was certain his dream of competing internationally on the Afghan team was over.
Zaki went to the airport with an elder brother and a cousin on Aug. 16. He was meant to just watch the car while the cousin, who had worked for an American company, tried to get into the airport. Instead, while they were gone, he climbed over the airport boundary wall. A breathless Zaki then called his other brother Zakir. He said he was inside the airport and was soon getting onto a plane. Zakir said he pleaded with his brother to not go, reminding him he didn’t have his passport or even his ID card with him and asking him, “What will you do in America?’” But his younger brother hung up, then called his mother. “Pray for me. I am going to America,” Zaki said. She begged him, “Come home.” Zaki was no longer listening. He raced alongside the aircraft as it picked up speed until suddenly he was knocked from the side and fell under the wheel and died, witnesses told the family later.
‘Any great nation that spends more on debt interest payments than on defense will not stay great for very long. True of Habsburg Spain, true of ancient régime France, true of the Ottoman Empire, true of the British and Roman Empires, this law is about to be put to the test by the U.S. beginning this very year.’
Gerald Seib WSJ | "National Debt will sink the American Empire."
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