2020 the battle of the septuagenarians - Trump vs Biden, Part 2

Overheal wrote: »

And still very few new miles of wall. Lots of replacement or upgraded barriers in existing miles of wall tho.

Yawn. This has to be one of the most absurd criticisms of Trump. Listen to what you're saying for heaven sake. You're trying to undermine some of the new wall by saying that it only replaced old barrier and fencing. It's absurd. Trump did not just run on the notion that every single inch of the new wall would be on land where there was never any old barrier, which is what he would have had to have done for any of these nonsense attempted gotchas to make any damn sense.

Of course the new wall mostly replaces old fencing and barriers - duh! The point is that the old crap wasn't working and was hugely ineffective and insufficient. Trump cited this multiple times on the campaign trail and often made fun of the old fencing and barriers in fact. It's not the gotcha you appear to think it is.

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Yawn. This has to be one of the most absurd criticisms of Trump. Listen to what you're saying for heaven sake. You're trying to undermine some of the new wall by saying that it only replaced old barrier and fencing. It's absurd. Trump did not just run on the notion that every single inch of the new wall would be on land where there was never any old barrier, which is what he would have had to have done for any of these nonsense attempted gotchas to make any damn sense.

Of course the new wall mostly replaces old fencing and barriers - duh! The point is that the old crap wasn't working and was hugely ineffective and insufficient. Trump cited this multiple times on the campaign trail and often made fun of the old fencing and barriers in fact. It's not the gotcha you appear to think it is.

So he ran on the basis of building a wall that was already there, but just wasn't working that well?

Did he give any credit to the people responsible for the original wall? Did he point out that it wouldn't be possible to finish within 4 years? Did he acknowledge that American tax payers would be paying rather than Mexico?

Which of course, if you remember, was his answer as to how if proposed to fund the wall because there was no budget, which or course turned out to be the case.

Maybe he meant Reinforce the existing structures. Build the wall is easier to chant I'll give you that.

Fuzzyduzzy wrote: »

I agree, he came across well reading his prepared speech.

Which is more than can be said for Trump, who seemed to experience difficulty reciting what was written on the teleprompter.

But the debates will not have that comfort and that is why I feel sorry for him. Look at any recent video when a host just pops a few regular questions at him that he was not expecting. It would be better if the democrats can avoid the debates altogether.

Do you have any specific examples?

For example, there are very specific examples of Trump having bizarre interview snafus: his interview with Chris Wallace where he tripped himself up about the cognitive testing, the Axios interview where he flubbed on the covid pandemic, "it is what it is," his meandering 138 word answer to Sean Hannity about what he will accomplish with another 4 years that mentioned nothing about what he would do with another 4 years,

"One of the things that will be really great -- the word experience is still good, I always say talent is more important than experience, I've always said that -- but the word experience is a very important word, a very important meaning. I never did this before, never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington maybe 17 times and all of a sudden I'm the President of the United States, you know the story, riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our first lady and I say this is great but I didn't know very many people in Washington, it wasn't my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York, and now I know everybody. And I have great people in the administration. You make some mistakes, like an idiot like Bolton, you don't have to drop bombs on everybody."

Then Eric Bolling interviewed him a couple days later and set him up to give the same softball answer. With days to study for his makeup test, Don said this incoherence:

"We're going to make America great again. We've rebuilt the military, we have a ways to go. We've done things for the vets like nobody's ever seen. We can do even more -- we did choice, as you know, we did accountability. What we've done nobody's been able to do. But we have more to do...

"...At the end of our first term, it's going to be great, it would have been phenomenal. We got hit with the plague. At the end of the second term, it's going to be at a level that nobody will have ever seen a country. We're doing it, whether it's trade, whether it's military -- all made in the USA, so important. Made in the USA. ... We've got to bring back our manufacturing and I brought it back very big, but we have to make our own pharmaceutical products, our own drugs, prescription drugs."

And just today, we have this quote from the president today, it was 24 hours after accepting the Republican nomination, Trump was asked what he would do with another 4 years, and Trump spoke:

"But so I think, I think it would be, I think it would be very, very, I think we'd have a very, very solid, we would continue what we're doing, we'd solidify what we've done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done."

.... that's utter babble. If this were Joe Biden's answers to these questions ye would be apoplectic.

How can Joe Biden call the looters and continuos amounts rioters “peaceful protesters.” I know he doesn't go out in public that ofter but surely he has the internet etc ......

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

How can Joe Biden call the looters and continuos amounts rioters “peaceful protesters.”

He cant ,,,Thats why he didn't

Why are you making up **** ?

Overheal wrote: »

He campaigned on a barrier end to end. He campaigned on an impenetrable wall. A super duper tall wall. A transparent, concrete wall. AND MEXICO WILL PAY FOR IT. That was the mandate.

Now of course clap on the back for refreshing existing barriers, I'm an engineer and all that. But, the barriers he's setting up far underachieve on the performance advertised to Americans, even as they were going in the ground. Infinite% Over budget and way over schedule, with fraud indictments being handed out. While I have no doubt you are personally bored to death of the criticism, and have no impulse in your mind body or soul to have the issue affect your adulation of Trump, it is nonetheless valid criticism and wasn't directed at you if you are that ambivalent about it...

John oliver did a programme on this recently.
https://youtu.be/3ZRE6uVMDAo
What a clusterf#ck!

Biker79 wrote: »

100%.

So shallow. I feel sorry for you.

Ok, time to call it.

Trump will lose.

Biker79 wrote: »

He has no choice seeing how half the party are now radical leftists.

I wonder does he realise he's a trojan force for a Kamala Harris/ AOC presidency?

Doesnt bear thinking about.

He should be left alone to rock in his chair.

What do you consider the criteria to be for some one to be a radical leftist?

I keep hearing that phrase bandied about a lot.

DrumSteve wrote: »

What do you consider the criteria to be for some one to be a radical leftist?

I keep hearing that phrase bandied about a lot.

People who believe in decent universal healthcare or a livable minimum wage or, shock horror, paid maternity leave. Seriously radical stuff.

Overheal wrote: »

Where did he call looters peaceful protesters?

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1299794566376120320

He blames the Mayor: “She hasn’t done her job. Her job is to protect me and protect the city. And I just don’t see that she’s doing it. I can’t go out at nighttime anymore. I’m afraid to. That’s not normal; that’s not the way Americans are supposed to live.”



This has become a vote for or against Evil, Trump will win , and will win in a big way, a landslide is coming, no if, ands or buts about it.
Vote Dems, get chaos and antifa, or vote Trump and get law & order & prosperty.
Chicago , the home of Obama, has shown the USA the future under Dem rule, a total disaster, the vote will be a total Trump Victory.
RFK JR is now on the Trump Train, unthinkable a few months ago, Total Trump victory is a certainty, bet accordantly.

AllForIt wrote: »

Apparently, and someone may have mentioned this already, but Hillary was as far ahead in the polls as Biden is now this time 4 years ago.

And this is a concern for the Dems, because I think 4 years ago there were ppl who would not admit voting for Trump back then, or at least changed their minds on election day at the last minute.

So, given the way polls have been so wrong in recent years, even if Biden wins, he won't win by as much as the polls say today, imo. It might be as tight as the Gore/Bush election. I just can't see Biden winning by a landslide.

Trump's supporters will always vote for him. The question is what reason has he given swing voters to vote for him? If you'd been talking about this in Jan, the economy was running along nicely. This could have been enough by itself.

Since then, the George Floyd protests/riots and coronavirus have shown a worrying inability to lead. Or rather a desire not to be a unifying leader but instead taking sides and pointing fingers. These are not the actions of a dignified statesman or a true leader for all Americans.