29th September 2020, 8:20 PM
Same, but Trump is a horrible person, as we saw in full display in tonight's.. debate? If you call it that?
I just watched that horrendous trash fire, and we learned several important things.
1) Donald Trump is desperate for you, anyone not a part of his cult, to not vote. So:
A) Trump spent a signficant amount of time trying to attack Biden from the left in order to get leftists to not vote in November -- by trying to connect Biden to anti-police demonstrators, the Green New Deal, not nominating enough judges during the Obama-Biden presidency, Medicare for All, and such. Of course he said all that stuff as a part of an effort to try to tie Biden TO those policies that he thinks are unpopular, but it was clear he was also trying to get people on the left to not vote for Biden because he wasn't sufficiently left enough for them. Biden's counter-point that he leads the party now and his climate plan and health care plan are the party's actual positions and not those other things he does not support but Trump tried to tie him to was strong because it's the truth. But regardless of his reasoning, Trump keeps trying to get the Bernie people to not vote; he's been doing it all year and still is.
B) Trump promises to be a massive pain in the neck in November and to not honor or believe teh election results if they look bad for him, and to falsely claim victory before the count is complete and also to try to get courts to overturn legiticmate election esults if they don't go his way. Fortunately I think that enough of our system is intact that if he does lose none of those efforts will succeed, but still it'll be bad. Because hey, why vote at all? It's note like it matters, Trump will just steal his way to victory either way! Just stay home and let the inevitable happen... or howa bout not, VOTE. As Joe Biden powerfully said, that is how we stop him: by doing what he so badly does ot watnt, by voting.
C) By being an incredibly rude and insulting (and ignorant and unintelligent) bully almost all of the time, by constantly talking over Biden and not allowing him to finish his sentences, and such, Trump made the debate barely watchable. Hep robably wants people to tune out and just quit on politics out of disgust. Tune out if you want, but VOTE. Do not give him what he wants!
2) Also, by being such an incredibly horrible bully Trump tries to show strength, but I see it as weakness -- weakness because it exposes his innter fear of losing. For, why else would he not even let Biden finish sentences? Because he knows Joe would make points people might like, that's why. So if you just talk over him every time, you "win" by not allowing him to speak. All of this -- his constant interruptions, insults, and attacks during what was supposed to be Biden's speaking times, which usually totally derailed things in favor of more Trump insulting either Biden or moderator Chris Wallace (of Fox News) -- could have been controlled by a moderator willing to actually take control of the situation, but Wallace did not do that at all. For instance, the ability to turn off Trump's mike when he starts interrupting into Biden's time is something they MUST have if they do another debate. This was a disgusting display of bullying that cannot be allowed to continue.
3) Trump is still losing after this debate, and if he thinks that show he performed at the debate will help him, he's got another thing coming. I do not think it will one bit.
Of course, given Trump's deep lack of intelligence even had he behaved himself there would not have been much to actually discuss in the debate because he does not understand the issues and lies about everything almost every time he says a word, but even so it was disgraceful both that Trump behaved that way, and that Wallace let him get away with so much of it. Biden did get some pretty good retorts in though, such as calling Trump a clown once. It was good stuff, I laughed. He was, of course, entirely correct, sadly. He described precisely how Trump was acting.
I just watched that horrendous trash fire, and we learned several important things.
1) Donald Trump is desperate for you, anyone not a part of his cult, to not vote. So:
A) Trump spent a signficant amount of time trying to attack Biden from the left in order to get leftists to not vote in November -- by trying to connect Biden to anti-police demonstrators, the Green New Deal, not nominating enough judges during the Obama-Biden presidency, Medicare for All, and such. Of course he said all that stuff as a part of an effort to try to tie Biden TO those policies that he thinks are unpopular, but it was clear he was also trying to get people on the left to not vote for Biden because he wasn't sufficiently left enough for them. Biden's counter-point that he leads the party now and his climate plan and health care plan are the party's actual positions and not those other things he does not support but Trump tried to tie him to was strong because it's the truth. But regardless of his reasoning, Trump keeps trying to get the Bernie people to not vote; he's been doing it all year and still is.
B) Trump promises to be a massive pain in the neck in November and to not honor or believe teh election results if they look bad for him, and to falsely claim victory before the count is complete and also to try to get courts to overturn legiticmate election esults if they don't go his way. Fortunately I think that enough of our system is intact that if he does lose none of those efforts will succeed, but still it'll be bad. Because hey, why vote at all? It's note like it matters, Trump will just steal his way to victory either way! Just stay home and let the inevitable happen... or howa bout not, VOTE. As Joe Biden powerfully said, that is how we stop him: by doing what he so badly does ot watnt, by voting.
C) By being an incredibly rude and insulting (and ignorant and unintelligent) bully almost all of the time, by constantly talking over Biden and not allowing him to finish his sentences, and such, Trump made the debate barely watchable. Hep robably wants people to tune out and just quit on politics out of disgust. Tune out if you want, but VOTE. Do not give him what he wants!
2) Also, by being such an incredibly horrible bully Trump tries to show strength, but I see it as weakness -- weakness because it exposes his innter fear of losing. For, why else would he not even let Biden finish sentences? Because he knows Joe would make points people might like, that's why. So if you just talk over him every time, you "win" by not allowing him to speak. All of this -- his constant interruptions, insults, and attacks during what was supposed to be Biden's speaking times, which usually totally derailed things in favor of more Trump insulting either Biden or moderator Chris Wallace (of Fox News) -- could have been controlled by a moderator willing to actually take control of the situation, but Wallace did not do that at all. For instance, the ability to turn off Trump's mike when he starts interrupting into Biden's time is something they MUST have if they do another debate. This was a disgusting display of bullying that cannot be allowed to continue.
3) Trump is still losing after this debate, and if he thinks that show he performed at the debate will help him, he's got another thing coming. I do not think it will one bit.
Of course, given Trump's deep lack of intelligence even had he behaved himself there would not have been much to actually discuss in the debate because he does not understand the issues and lies about everything almost every time he says a word, but even so it was disgraceful both that Trump behaved that way, and that Wallace let him get away with so much of it. Biden did get some pretty good retorts in though, such as calling Trump a clown once. It was good stuff, I laughed. He was, of course, entirely correct, sadly. He described precisely how Trump was acting.