Election 2020

[Classic-Xer]

(11-10-2020, 03:14 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(11-10-2020, 01:12 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(11-10-2020, 11:12 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(11-09-2020, 01:28 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(11-05-2020, 03:22 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I suspect that President Trump and the GOP made some highly successful ads late in the campaign, including some that blindsided Democrats. He made ads denouncing Joe Biden as a supporter of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, and those ensured that he would win Florida. The GOP made a simple ad that ran something like this:



Donald Trump is a master of the visceral appeal, something powerful if intellectually sleazy in the extreme. It works. The idea is that no matter how you despise him, you need him to protect yourself. 

When it seemed that Trump was winning I contemplated suicide.

You still may end up killing yourself with Biden/Harris in office. The Democrats have been given they're last chance to prove themselves and if/when they fail America, it's all over for the Democrats. America will let go of the Democratic and watch as Rome burns so to speak.

Well, I didn't go buy any vodka or lie to the physician so that I could get a prescription for Valium. Sorry to disappoint you! 

Every Presidential administration is an opportunity to turn its propositions into policy... Congress willing and reality going along or proving such wrong. Trump failed, as the electoral results show. Biden got almost as large a share of the popular vote in an election against an incumbent as did Reagan against Carter. Note well that Biden used Reagan-like appeals in his campaign ads. 

Any Presidency can be a disaster for the Party that wins a poisoned chalice. Nothing says that the economy won't tank or that some aggressive power won't go on the march. Trump was a disaster. He effectively appeased an invader even after it has killed over 240,000 people in America. We take our chances on any President that we elect not being up to the job. 

We are accustomed to Presidents getting elected and winning a second term by promising much the same successes. Trump has had to run from his failures. He sought credit for the medical research that can get us an effective vaccine for the SARS-2 virus. Sorry, Classic X'er: that credit goes to medical researchers, the businesses that fund such research, and the volunteers who take the risks of a lethal disease (even if they are most likely incarcerated prisoners with little hope of leaving prison except in a casket or urn).  Nixon got re-elected; Carter fell short after an unlucky term. Reagan got re-elected. The elder Bush got defeated, but he was basically four more years of the Reagan agenda and people got tired of that. Bill Clinton, Dubya, and Obama got re-elected. 

Trump has failed. We gave him a chance, and he wasted it.

Yep. Trump has failed as you say and you elected a COMPLETE FAILURE  to replace him. Like I said, I have more important to focus on than Biden's Presidency and your needs and I'll be content as Bumbling Biden flounders for a couple of years and a minority woman gets a cheap stint in the White House as President.

We shall see. 

Quote:I'd say that you and every other dip shit Democrat did China a big favor by placing your petty qualms above everything else. Do you know what you do with a half of a country that ain't worth a shit that has no sense of reason or importance?

We cast off an erratic, corrupt, cruel, incompetent, irresponsible, vindictive non-leader. Had your side nominated someone more astute and scrupulous we would be talking about a second term of a duly-elected President who had done enough things right to get elected.

I'll take a mature 78-year-old President who is very much Establishment over one who has no obvious bonds to any other person. If you want to say that Senator Kamala Harris is a token, then go ahead. Just say it.  

Quote:You separate from it and leave it to its own devices and find a way move on without them. Now, I don't really care if a real group of REAL Fascists take over the Democratic party and round you all up and exterminate you as a means to control costs and keep themselves and their tycoons in power.

Real fascists? Kluxers, neo-Nazis, or Christian versions of Ba'athists or ISIS? That sounds more like your side.

Quote:So, what are you going to say about Biden in 6-8 months when Biden is in office and  the death toll is still raising or two years when the death toll is still rising. Like I said, Biden's not God and COVID is pretty much here to stay.

I predict that President Joe Biden will impose a rigid lockdown soon after inauguration, one long enough to put COVID-19 into a death spiral. There will be a rigid enforcement of mask rules.

One story had it that the US Postal Service would issue a mask to everyone with some advertising in the container... one that encourages people to communicate by mail. Yes, write some letters with pen and ink, letters that will contain your distinctive handwriting. 

We need to buy some time so that people are alive to receive a safe and effective vaccination. Then and only then will one of the most dangerous diseases ever known go extinct.

He probably should since that's what he promised to do and has been promising to do all along and whatever happens from there on will be his problem to solve with Trump playing the role of arm chair quarterback and criticizing him the entire time. You reap what you sow mutually applies to Biden at this point.