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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
Pragmatic is about taking the manageable best path forward: perhaps not the shortest or most direct route, but the one that offers the possibility of advancing. Surely you're not swallowing Trump's eagerly promoted idea that "what got us here" was Obama's presidency? What got us here, covid and street violence, was 4 years of corrupt, incompetent divisive mismanagement from the Trump admin and GOP.
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It goes both ways. Obama, during his presidency, constantly blamed the former president, George W. Bush, for the economy. I'm pretty sure B.O. did that even after he was reelected.
When B.O. took office the stock market took a dive, and when Trump took office it had a boom. It's like Wall Street was giving was giving its opinion, its vote of confidence. When Trump elected I was shocked he won, thinking about all the exit polls that had Hillary as a shoe in. Then I heard how much he was hated and a bunch of other stuff. And here Wall Street is behaving like they are confident in the newly elected President Trump, and for some reason there is a positive future. Now it's "was" a positive future - I guess that goes without saying.
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Yes, MB has had a laugh about Biden, who had to overcome a stammering problem. Not MB's finest moment, tbh, but no need to assume so fast that he will be so humiliated in the debates that he will lose his supporters.
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JFTR Don't lump me in with the rest of MB. I am not laughing Joe Biden for "stammering"
per se. It's the silly nonsense that comes out of his mouth e.g.
"I have hairy legs." - Joe Biden.
Another thing about Joseph Robinette Biden Jr is that sometimes he can be lucid, and other times Scranton Joe can be easily derailed from what he was going to say next. It's not so much a "stammering" as in having trouble speaking or finishing ones thought. It's more like Scranton Joe pauses and goes off on an impromptu tangent of gibberish and non-sequiturs. I guess that is why Donald Trump is asking a drug test for both of them before debates?
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
His rival:
"That basically means no windows, no nothing. It's very hard to do. I tell people when they want to go into some of these buildings, how are your eyes because they won't be good in five years."
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Trump sounds concerned.
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"And I hope you don't mind cold office space in the winter and warm office space in the summer because your air conditioning is not the same as the good old days."
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Trump sounds concerned.
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"You're going to abolish the suburbs with this."
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Trump sounds concerned.
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"Human trafficking, one of the worst things ever, all at a level that it's never been at -- because of the Internet, you wouldn't think -- you'd think of it as an ancient statement."
"But you can't make a left anymore and come into the United States loaded up with human traffic."
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Trump sounds concerned.
I don't know the context behind these statements, but each those four quotes he sounds concerned, especially about human trafficking.
"Human trafficking, one of the worst things ever ... " - Donald J Trump. From other talks he speak about what else happens with that, like young women and children being victims of sex trafficking. Just the fact that Trump would recognize it, took me by surprise. No one really talks about that. Whether Trump stopped it or diminish the problem I am not sure.
How what Trump says is portrayed in the media or how it is reinterpreted, I'm not really sure, but I haven't written him off as someone who doesn't care.