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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Biden has been good so far. Not great. He has been pushing back a lot on Trump, especially when he brought up his son, which is what he needed to do.
Trump...I just don't understand how anyone can look at him and say he's doing good. He's interrupting, he's sputtering, and he's talking like a toddler.
Not watching because I have better things to do with my time, but I'm gonna guess it's been Biden, who's putting in a major effort, vs. a guy who really just doesn't give a shit.
If true, does it really matter? "Who cares, fuck you" has been the fundamental linchpin of Trump's core appeal among his followers. Meanwhile, Biden just needs a single flub (real or otherwise) to be used against him, to "balance" things out. I just don't have much faith that this asymmetry will finally break among whatever voters who've been tuned out for the last 5 years (or are mistakenly under the impression that they were) and still need to make up their minds.
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And then he complains that the project was teaching people that America is racist. It's like a reverse No, You.
Edited by PhysicalStamina on Sep 29th 2020 at 10:04:21 AM
i'm tired, my friendBack in 2016, one of the most overlooked but chilling things Trump said was that he was "the law and order candidate".
It's straight out of the playbook of modern Eastern European neofascist dictators who have parties named things like "Justice and Development" or "Law and Justice". It's very much an Asbestos-Free Cereal branding move that still says to anyone actually paying attention to what they mean that they will use the country's law enforcement in a heavy-handed manner.
To Biden's point about suburbs: Montgomery County and Prince George's County, Maryland are pretty much all suburbs, and both have a high Black/Latino population, and in the former's case, a high Asian population as well.
Trump is starting to sound like an impression of himself.
Edited by PhysicalStamina on Sep 29th 2020 at 10:08:50 AM
i'm tired, my friend![]()
Its been a dog-whistle since AT LEAST the days of Nixon, and I'm pretty sure it was even before that.
He literally just took this out of Nixon's Southern Strategy Handbook.
Edited by AzurePaladin on Sep 29th 2020 at 10:09:19 AM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerGoddamn Wallace pull out the guns why don't you
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It could be an electoral risk, by choosing to be ambiguous Biden is leaving the options open. It's definitely better than his prior refusal and short of a radical like Warren the best we'd get. I view it as an encouraging sign.