That sort of reminds me of your behavior strangely enough.
Anyways I do note that things seem to be a bit quiet on here after the debate. I dont really have much to say on it. I thought the moderators actually did a really good job of not inserting themselves into the conversation and letting the politicans go at each other. Muting the mikes worked out well. It was good to not have them speaking over each other. I will let the mainstream media who mainly support Biden give you their response
Trump wasn't great but Biden was an absolute disaster. Desperation and attempts to cope will be setting in over the next month or so before the DNC Convention in Chicago in August as to what to do. Their bench is empty of viable candidates as they are determined not to allow Kamala to ever be President which...considering Biden's current mental state is a statement on how they view her competency. You guys can now ...unless a miracle happens, and they do.....happily look forward to another close to 5 years of posting Trump memes and vitriol to your hearts content.
That debate was a dagger in the heart of the Democratic party's chances to keep the Presidency away from Trump. The only way they can do it now is through some skullduggery but its obvious now how the media has conspired to keep Biden's mental state from the public, but now they can no longer hide it. That was his performance after 7 days of intense preparation in an airplane hangar with 16 political advisors flying around on scooters.
Im out. Enough is enough. Back to posting about more enjoyable shit.
Aye, it was a dismal bit of political theatre that I only side-watched. What I did pay attention just reinforced the idea that most Americans wanted neither of these candidates to begin with.
Trump lied his ass off, but that's just Trump being Trump. If having no adherence to the facts turned off his core supporters, it would have already happened the previous 2 elections. I think they only measure they go by whether they believe he will do what they want him to do, and maybe they will still get swindled on most of it (like the Mexico wall), but they still have faith these things will happen. Either that or they just accept whatever convoluted explanation he gives on why it doesn't or why the policies change from week to week. At this point Team R is really just team T, so other than Supreme Court appointments, there is no prospect of that party influencing him to behave differently. More like he has forced them into acting like him.
Biden, sheesh. He really brought out the "old grandad" version. He did not seem like himself, not even like his recent self. My guess is maybe his staffers over-prepared him, because he was going through it like a student that has studied so hard that at exam time, all the answers they memorized just blur together. If that can happen to people in their 20's, imagine what it does to a guy breaking 80. A commenter on today's news, an actual professor of debates, said pretty much the same thing - that it made him stiff instead of loose & natural.
The Dems have been running that "don't worry, he's old, but still solid & dependable when it comes to governing" narrative, but even though it may be true in terms of actual POTUS-ing, thanks to that debate the shaky narrative eroded. It's not that he's senile at all, but it still begs the question of why they couldn't have gotten a candidate 20 or 30 years younger who could do all the same policies & decisions, and dispatch Trump with more wit & energy. Better than betting all their chips on winning some "old man grudge match". The Democrats - the DNC, not the grassroots membership who never wanted this - did this to themselves. They decided that "if Biden wants to take on Trump again, that is just how it is going to be". They did not allow even the possibility of any primary challenger. They ignored any need for generational change, and not to mention the fact that Biden was already 8 years a vice president to a guy who was a generation younger than himself. As always, the grassroots members got fucked as the DNC brass grabbed the wheel and steered the party towards an unpalatable choice (unpalatable to their own members).
Is it too late for them to switch candidates? I think it is. The presidential primary season is already over. So unless Biden has a stroke or something that incapacitates him, there's no way to oust him now without destroying his dignity, negating his accomplishments, and looking like a party in a full blown panic. Whoever they replaced him with at this point would have to get in there by acclamation & the DNC brass making an arbitrary snap decision, which is how their party got into this mess in the first place. Whoever else they got at this point would not like ride in like heroic savior on a white horse, but probably end up as some sacrificial lamb who commits career suicide. Any real contenders for power might back away from the idea of even trying. There is still some chance for them to win of course, one more debate an a lot of campaign left to change tack and say it is about the party not just the president, but they can't have any more of what just happened.
