2020 US Election Thread

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by elphenor

Trump is already King of nonesense tangents, don't even try Biden

I always found a striking similarity between the way you present yourself on the boards with your lack of punctuation and stream of conscience thought with run on sentences and strings of sentence fragments and I don't know where one thought ends and another begins and idk if it is culturally appropriated from 4chan but it's your thang and there aint nothing ever going to convince you to change otherwise and Donald J Trump.

[Neapolitan]

I don't bother with /pol/ so maybe it's a Jungian Synchronicity.

My friend frequently visit 4chan. He told me even though it is suppose to be anonymous posting however someone made a direct reference to where he lived. His advice to stay away from it cause it's fill with hackers.

Politics is PhKDickian to me. It's like the time the Precogs in media accused Trump during the night of the debate of not accepting Hillary as president, when for three years they (the media) haven't accepted him as president because it's illegitimate due to "Russian Collusion." What a plot twist, just like Minority Report.

Some of the stuff that happens in the media, I'm not sure I would go as far as saying it's "Orwellian," but there things that happen that tempt me to say it is "Orwellian." Plus I gotta refrain from saying "Orwellian" on MB cause saying it's "Orwellian" so it's so controversial. Sometimes I feel I don't even want to say the word even though it is one of my favorites to call things. "Orwellian."

I think next best comparison - if it is permissible - is to say "HGWellian" or "Wellian" for short. The way society is divided in two, it's almost analogous of the division between the humans in the future i.e. the Morlocks and the Eloi. The way things are going I would definitely say it is "Wellian." Does Time Machine contain some social commentary or it is strictly fantasy? I'm not sure. I think the best way to exam society is to avoid obvious political terms and exam it in a sci-fi setting. The way the media and politicians act, I think they want division. I think it's the best thing is to strive to be practical and apolitical. One of the ways of achieving that is to take a step back and take everything said in the media with a grain of salt. Otherwise you'll end up being impractical and totally polarized in politics.

[Lisnaholic]

Yes, Neapolitan, politicians will always blame the previous admin for their own woes, and I'm sure that in some cases there is some justification, especially in the first year or so of a term because changes don't take effect overnight. There's also often a wobble in the stock market when there is a change of leader, but I don't think that it lurched around as much as you suggest. In fact the economy from Obama to Trump has been pretty steady, if these 3 graphs are any indication: stocks, job growth, GDP:-

Spoiler for 3 big graphs:

If Trump has a weak case for blaming Obama for present economic problems, he has a non-existent one for blaming Obama for his own mishandling of the pandemic. In 2018, Trump gutted what he inherited from Obama, a team of professionals working in a Directorate of Global Health Security and Biodefense, exactly the people capable of flagging up and preparing for the coronavirus:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...demic-response

...which makes this obviously unfair blaming even less fair:-

Eyebrows were raised at US president Donald Trump's latest press conference as he appeared to blame Barack Obama's government for faulty coronavirus tests.However, COVID-19 didn't exist when Trump took over from Obama in January of 2017."The original tests, the ones we inherited, they were broken, they were obsolete, they were not good tests and that's what we got stuck with," Trump said."We've developed some incredible tests."

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

.... It's the silly nonsense that comes out of his mouth e.g. "I have hairy legs." - Joe Biden.

I have no answer for that, Neapolitan!

Trump sounds concerned

Maybe, but instead of being clearly focused and leading to solutions, his concern is like this:-


What is Trump's problem with windows and air conditioning? What are his solutions to these pressing issues?

[SGR]

Judicial Watch Files Suit after Secret Service Admits to Destroying Records Related to Alleged Biden Altercation with Secret Service Agent

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for records that the Secret Service claims to have destroyed related to a reported physical altercation between a Secret Service Agent and Joe Biden at a photo op in 2009 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:20-cv-02457)).

The lawsuit was filed after the Secret Service failed to respond to a July 14, 2020 administrative appeal challenging its claim that all files related to the 2009 altercation, “ha[d] been destroyed,” due to “retention standards.”

On March 29, 2020, the Gateway Pundit republished a 2017 report alleging that an unidentified Secret Service agent was suspended for a week in 2009 for “shoving Biden after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him.” “The situation got so heated … that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-Vice President,” according to the report.

[jwb]

Trump spews nonsense yes but Biden just has this delivery where he sounds like his brain is melting mid sentence. You can hear the confidence fade from his voice as the facade of a polished politician vanishes and all you're left with is a sad doddering old man.

But beyond his apparent dementia, this is by far the funniest gaffe I've ever seen possibly from any politician:

[SGR]

Originally Posted by jwb

Trump spews nonsense yes but Biden just has this delivery where he sounds like his brain is melting mid sentence. You can hear the confidence fade from his voice as the facade of a polished politician vanishes and all you're left with is a sad doddering old man.

But beyond his apparent dementia, this is by far the funniest gaffe I've ever seen possibly from any politician:

That was a great one. That would definitely be my top 5 of the current election cycle. I think this would be my number one - fixing slavery with a record player and suggesting African Americans don't know how to parent their children:



Joe gets a lot of flak, now that he's the nominee - but the other candidates had plenty of gaffes/cringe-inducing moments.

Amy Klobuchar doesn't know the name of the Mexican president:



Pete Buttigieg's campaign dance (AKA the reason why he didn't have any Black support):



Tom Steyer joins Juvenile for a presidential rendition of 'Back that Ass Up':



Amy Klobuchar finds a joke so funny, that she decides it needs to be told at every campaign stop and rally:



Some of these really put Biden's bad moments in perspective.

[jwb]

Klonuchar's blizzard schtick is cringe but still none of that quite makes me laugh like "keep punching at it"

[Lisnaholic]

What's with the partisan bias in posting speakers' blunders? Beyond the Dems' Bloopers there are GOP Bloopers, and beyond both are the actual important issues at stake in the election.

Originally Posted by jwb

Trump spews nonsense yes but Biden just has this delivery where he sounds like his brain is melting mid sentence. You can hear the confidence fade from his voice as the facade of a polished politician vanishes and all you're left with is a sad doddering old man.

But beyond his apparent dementia, this is by far the funniest gaffe I've ever seen possibly from any politician:

Wow! One mis-judged metaphor while making the clear and commendable point:

"No man has a right to raise their hand to a woman in anger other than in self defense, and that rarely ever occurs."

[OccultHawk]

Wow! One mis-judged metaphor while making the clear and commendable point:
"No man has a right to raise their hand to a woman in anger other than in self defense, and that rarely ever occurs."

Don’t underestimate the power of a good PUNCHline.

[SGR]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Don’t underestimate the power of a good PUNCHline.