2020 US Election Thread

[TheBig3]

Can someone explain to me why you thought Biden was weak?

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by TheBig3

Can someone explain to me why you thought Biden was weak?

Scranton Joe can say anything, but in the end it's all supposition.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by jwb

Also, what is the rationale behind giving the rural mobs an edge in the first place?

Wasn't it about preserving slavery or something?

[Frownland]

They should do the next one over live stream and mute the other candidate during the two minutes. tboy seems to explode when he holds back his interruptions and it's nagl.

I see Biden flirting with the fascist "I define the party, only I can fix this" rhetoric in an attempt to sway right wing voters concerned that Biden will bend to the scary radical leftists.

tboy saying that someone has to do something about antifa in response to the question of whether or not he denounces right wing political violence was predictable but still wild. His comments at the end about poll watchers were a call to action. It's clear that we need to mobilize to watch the newly self-proclaimed poll watchers.

Originally Posted by TheBig3

He said exactly what I was thinking there but pro tip: don't give your opponent tips. Should've just let him jabberdig himself into gibberish the whole time so that nothing was even said. Though I guess that would display an absence of leadership in the eyes of that demographic, so maybe it was a solid strategy.

[Anteater]

I lol'd a bit at Chris Wallace bringing up Ft. Worth as though it were some kind of hot spot for BLM riots. There were like 19 incidents overall in the second quarter of last year and 21 this year in the same timeframe, both less than 2018.

[ribbons]

Funniest part of the evening was when Trump said that racial sensitivity training was racist (we nearly fell off the couch laughing at that one).

[OccultHawk]

like frown said I too was thinking they got to just mute whoever when it’s not their turn. Stick to the time and when it’s up no warning just mute.

Trump looked like an annoying school boy you can’t throw out of class and unfortunately Biden, to me, seemed pretty incoherent.

My bias is probably kicking in but in my mind Biden is trying to argue for a right wing government and you can’t out right wing a republican.

Biden did nothing to defend the left.

On health care I actually thought Trump won because the ACA really does suck. Of course Trump doesn’t have a plan but the ACA isn’t a plan worth defending. If it’s not a case for change why change?

Biden sucked on the environment because he doesn’t support anything there either. Go back six years? WTF ever. Again Trump is worse but if not giving a **** is your thing Trump is your man.

Then man oh man, on not honoring the election, so what are we gonna do about it Joe? VOTE VOTE VOTE. Bitch if he’s not going to honor the results that’s a non-action. Trump was like calling his Nazis to arms. Again Trump is worse but Biden offers no alternative.

[Lucem Ferre]

I think Biden wiped the floor with Trump.

Mostly because he provided the bare minimum of rationality.

Trump had a few good points in hurling as many accusations as he can but his bull**** smothered all of it.

If Trump wasn't going for the racially loaded Law & Order bit he could've pulled Biden's receipts but it contradicted the strawman he was creating.

And Biden really should have used other countries that are already open and hardly affected as proof that Trump's response was terrible.

If Biden's opponent wasn't a literal man child he'd have been walked all over.

[OccultHawk]

man child

Goddamn did Trump look and act like a spoiled child.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by TheBig3

Exert dominance over him? What was Biden supposed to do? Piss on him?

Maybe challenge him to a pushup contest.

In all seriousness, I'm not saying there's anything he could've done about it that was really within his skill set or temperament to do. I think if anything the sympathy angle seems to be helping him somewhat where as the bullying is backfiring on Trump.

Especially the part where Biden brought up his dead son and Trump responded by **** talking Hunter again. Really the Hunter stuff should've worked in Trump's favor of he wasn't such a domineering prick about it.

As far as actual content the format didn't allow the arguments to get into much detail or substance so there really wasn't anything to see in that regard. Basically Trump tried to associate Biden with the left and Biden did a good job avoiding that association.

Originally Posted by Anteater

I lol'd a bit at Chris Wallace bringing up Ft. Worth as though it were some kind of hot spot for BLM riots. There were like 19 incidents overall in the second quarter of last year and 21 this year in the same timeframe, both less than 2018.

Yes it's almost like the recent crime spike has has nothing to do with who happens to be in power locally and more to do with the pandemic, the massive unemployment and the racial unrest. Obviously most of it happens in "Democrat run cities" since most actual cities are run by Democrats. That was basically Wallace's point imo.