Posted on 09/30/2020 6:21:08 AM PDT by lasereye
Nevertheless, I am not playing your game now.
Bugger off!
First sentence of the article shows their bias and stupidity.
Hes got a great thesaurus.
For the record I will tell you because you post in good faith that I live in Bavaria and often visit my children in the states.
Four posts to me, and you wont say where you live.
Its almost like you are ashamed to say where you live.
Antonius Schwaige best meal in Ingolstadt!!
[I don’t like to say this, I’m distressed to have to say this, but candor requires me to say that Trump entered the debate with the overwhelming advantage of incumbency As President of the United States Of America and left the debate a brawler who was behind in the Real Clear Average of polls. Biden entered the debate as a demented septuagenarian ahead in the polls and left the debate a viable candidate for president of the United States in possession of his faculties ahead in the Real Clear average of polls.
Trump’s objective was to turn the polls around, I believe he failed to do that tonight. Biden’s objective was to appear presidential rather than demented and to safeguard his lead in the polls, I believe he did that.]
Your line of thought assumes that people know more than they actually do. In reality, what viewers *knew* from the media is that Trump is a Russian agent, but Congressional Democrats couldn’t find a smoking gun. Now they’ve heard from Trump that Biden took a $3.5m bribe from Russia through his son Hunter. What they *knew* from the media is Biden is a working class, middle of the road guy. Now, thanks to Trump, they know that Biden belongs to the party of arsonists and looters, because he won’t criticize Antifa and no police unions have endorsed him.
Basically, Trump took Biden’s tactic against Ryan in 2012, and flung it back against him. Biden’s victory over Ryan brought the Obama campaign back to life. We’ll see soon enough how this plays out for Trump. But his strategy is fairly sound - keep hammering away at a few basic points, because voters who will decide the election have short attention spans. That’s why they’re independents - ADD.
The history of debates shows that incumbants don’t do well in the first debates, but get better.
Reagan had a real bad night in 1984, in his first debate against Mondale.
And Romney had Obama on the ropes after their first debate.
As it happens I am looking out my window as I dictate this and I see a beautiful blood red full moon with a face appearing over the snowcapped Alps with a lake below.
If I didn't live here I think I would live in Montana.
And The Blaze, founded by Mr. Rolling his face in Cheetos Glenn Beck, and proudly featuring someone who was an AVID never-Trumper in the first campaign in the run-up to the 2016 election.
I cannot say I am entirely impressed. /dry>
And the n00b comes down from on high to give a pronouncement.
(rolls eyes)
Joes train tour is going really well... 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/0aUI72wmYX— Jewish Deplorable 🇺🇸 (@TrumpJew) September 30, 2020
Trump voters lining the path of the Biden Train. Which train is packed with two people on camera, one of whom appears to be Joe's wife.
Used to summer occasionally on Lake Constance, not far from Zeppelin University. Friend had a lake house....(she was amazing...lol)
My judgment of the debate has to do with who moves closer to victory in the election. That means, usually, who succeeds in the debate of accomplishing goals and musts. You quoted my synopsis discussing that above.
Most of my objections comes not from the particulars you point out, for example Trump bringing up the 3.5 million to Hunter Biden, but to the manner in which it was done. I don't think Trump was clear, concise, fact driven and therefore not persuasive in most of his ad hominem attacks against Biden. His good points got lost in the welter of insults and over talking.
That is not to say that Biden doesn't deserve to be riven limb from limb for his corruption, it is to say that it could have been done better and more persuasively.
The only thing that gives me comfort with the thought of a Biden win is, that no matter if Trump wins or loses this time, there *will* be another Democrat president. Its only a matter of time. And that candidate, if not Biden, will be even further left. So its really not necessary to pin all my hopes and dreams on a Trump win. There is no saving America anymore (the last assured death blow was the ACA and preexisting conditions mandate and Trump isnt getting rid of preexisting conditions. Too many sheep have been taught its a right now).
My main reason for voting for Trump is the exact same as in 2016, to stave off the inevitable. Hopefully making it to retirement with my 401ks intact (Ie all in gold by then) before the economy collapses, and it WILL be collapsing in the next few decades. Because it is inevitable that there will be a hard left Marxist as president one day. Its just a fact of time. Its just that simple.
So in that sense I agree with what pburgh wrote. There really isnt any reason to get all upset and angry about any of this. Its a fait accompli. (And for the last decade people like Hannity have been saying every 2 and 4 years this is the most important election in our lifetime, so I dont put much stock into bromides like that either.)
These days I prefer to obtain happiness from a relationship with God, Hes the real source of happiness anyway, not any political golden calf Fox or CNN tells us to worship.
[That is not to say that Biden doesn’t deserve to be riven limb from limb for his corruption, it is to say that it could have been done better and more persuasively.]
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