DangerScouse wrote: » Trump will bully Joe into a diddering mess. Still have my doubts Joe will complete all 3 debates.
Faugheen wrote: » Haha. You really don’t know Joe Biden if you think Trump will bully him. Biden is the best one-on-one debater out there. If anything he’s more a bully when debating than Trump is, but Biden is able to do so with facts. Watch his debate with Sanders only 6 months ago. Biden smoked him, and Sanders’ policies are so attractive and Biden ripped them apart.
kenmm wrote: » The problem is - that doesn't matter any more.
coolbeans wrote: » Yeah, at this stage it's just monkeys on both sides throwing **** at each other. Whoever wins democracy is ****ed. One of the problems with simple, binary tribal politics is that most of the respective candidate's proponents have no interest in the truth, just one-upmanship.
kenmm wrote: » Nah - its more like you just hurl so much sh!t in every direction than no one knows what way is up. Mud sticks etc and he is the master of deflection.
Faugheen wrote: » Actually, in a setting where there is no live audience it does matter a lot, as Trumps hooping and hollering idiots won’t drown anything out.
Biker79 wrote: » You mean the deplorables ? That must go down as one of the greatest verbal gaffes in history. As well as being completely false, given conservatives overall higher general intelligence.
kenmm wrote: » There is a lot of self evidential posting going on in this thread :-D
coolbeans wrote: » Smart people don't need to tell others that they're smart. It's usually self evident. Reductio ad absurdum.
Biker79 wrote: » Nor do they have the demeanour of a sarcastic teenager. ( Unless they are one? )
coolbeans wrote: » It's a larff innih.
Outlaw Pete wrote: » Just watched the Trump townhall. He handled it well and held his own. Making sure to get some good points in there that he needed to.
Man with broke phone wrote: » People who shoot at police officers, people who burn businesses and police stations, people who cant advise their followers to stop rioting.
People in the middle east who dont want to embrace peace. These arnt Trumps people.
Justin Credible Darts wrote: » yeah....america never bombed the sh1t out of brown people under the democrats. oh wait....
Danzy wrote: » It was a simple gaff but the damage was in that it confirmed a perception and belief. Like Thornberry in England with her tweet it just confirmed that the default position now in both parties was of despising the working class, snobbery and arrogance. For many in both parties that is now a badge of honour.
coolbeans wrote: » Petty insults? Surely you can do better with all your brains...
Biker79 wrote: » I don't know. Historically there was much greater social cohesion..before the deterioration of the left into what is now ' wokeness ' ( Antifa\ BLM\Rights activism, etc etc ). When did that start? Arguably around 2005 but perhaps the trajectory originated from the late 60s. Not particular to the US/ UK either...Fintan O'Toole ( stalwarth of the Irish working classes ) has being class baiting for quite a while now. ' The Psychology and Rise of the Midwit ' is most likely the answer. I would have more faith in conservatives in terms of social cohesion.Its rooted in generations of established tradition. The atheism of the liberal elite is where the nihilism tends to be, and HRC remarks exposed that for eternity. She knew it too. There was never any comeback from that.
Biker79 wrote: » Why would you deserve any more? All you do is randomly drop in to discussions to deliver a dollop of misanthropy/ sarcasm, and then disappear. Whats all that about? Got nothing to say?
Tony EH wrote: » The idea that Trump and the Republicans are "anti establishment" is absolutely hilarious.
Biker79 wrote: » Actually, the evidence is that conservative people are the brightest. Which is why they end up in positions of responsibility/ authority ( discounting the deep state swamp of course ...but these are low value technocratic positions , to be fair ). This has been the pattern throughout history. Wokeness is only a recent ' development ' . It never would have survived prior to the industrial revolution. The science on this is compelling. I doubt you will like it though. We all know lefites are very selective about the scientific facts they support. You should be grateful for the success of conservatism . Without that, wokeness would have not survived Darwinian selection.