Dems warm to Biden’s bunker strategy

Tony Stark · Jun 26, 2020

LacesOut said:
Cmon Tony. Why so coy? You use the term so flippantly in the past.
I’ll help you.

C _ _ NS

Would you like to buy a vowel?
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Stop projecting

LacesOut said:
Blacks commit HORRENDOUSLY higher amounts of crime, specifically violent crime.
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LacesOut said:
This Is verifiable murder usually with a firearm. Blacks do it better than anyone else.
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LacesOut said:
I would wager that 80% of that crime is done by blacks and latinos.
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LacesOut said:
This is what blacks do. This is their logic. No respect nor admission of any guilt. Resisting and obstructing their way to a VASTLY higher charge. It’s INSANE.
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LacesOut said:
If there were no blacks in New York or Chicago...the gun crime rate would fall 90%.
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LacesOut said:
Not a big news story because blacks commit the vast majority of the interracial crimes.
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LacesOut said:
Bloomy spoke truth about blacks and browns and crime
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LacesOut said:
Blacks and Browns commit and insane amount of crime relative to their demographics and they need to be profiled.
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LacesOut said:
Islam has been overrun by zealots and neerdowells.
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LacesOut said:
Haven’t these idiots been taught by their fathers to behave when dealing with the popo?
(Rhetorical question, obviously. We know their fathers aren’t there).
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LacesOut said:
Good job black men. You are literally killing it.
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LacesOut said:
The real question is - why are black NFL players TEN TIMES MORE LIKELY to be arrested than their white counterparts?
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LacesOut said:
blacks are more than twice as likely to be 'poor' than whites....
Black Americans are more likely to be recipients of means-tested welfare - twice the national average.
blacks marry less, achieve lower in schools, more likely to be single parents.....
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LacesOut said:
100% of all St. Louis murder suspects are black. Lol.
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LacesOut said:
The black home, generally speaking, is so much more fucked up than the white home, generally speaking, that it's not even funny.
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LacesOut said:
If Obama did it they would be sucking his 1/4 black dick.
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LacesOut · Jun 26, 2020

Tony Stark said:
Stop projecting
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All facts. I’d say 100% of it.
Facts hurt. Especially for racists like Tony.

Cuddles · Aug 27, 2020

Here4money said:
and so it begins...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...a-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html?outputType=amp
It’s time to rethink the presidential debates

Given how many ugly turns this presidential election year has already taken and how many more are surely yet to come, it is probably a fool’s errand to go in search of silver linings in 2020.

But the realities of campaigning amid a pandemic are forcing adjustments to the rituals of politics — some of which are for the better and long overdue.

I’ve written before about how the quadrennial party conventions have outlived their purpose. There is no suspense any more to these pointless, lobbyist-funded infomercials, and television audiences find them boring.

President Trump and the Republicans are clinging to the idea of holding a huge gathering this summer, but the Democrats made a wise move on Wednesday and announced that theirs will be drastically scaled back, physically speaking.

While former vice president Joe Biden will not be accepting his party’s nomination with the cheers of 20,000 people ringing in his ears, 21st-century technology — if used creatively — gives the Democrats an opportunity to make their convention a more broadly shared experience and an organizing tool for mobilizing support as the fall campaign gets underway.

Next up: It’s time to do some rethinking about the debates.

Trump is claiming he would like to have four faceoffs with Biden, rather than the three (plus one vice presidential debate), that are currently scheduled to take place between Sept. 29 and Oct. 22.

This is not a serious proposal. Even under the best of circumstances, scheduling these much-watched events on the busy fall calendar is a difficult challenge for the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has been in charge of the process since the 1988 election.

It has to find dates that are not on Friday or Saturday nights, do not conflict with sports and other events networks are committed to, or official presidential business, such as attending the U.N. General Assembly in September. Each debate generally requires the candidates to suspend public appearances for at least a few days to prepare.

Finding venues is a challenge, as well, particularly this year. The University of Michigan, which was originally supposed to host the second debate on Oct. 15, backed out earlier this week. University president Mark Schlissel said that with the challenge of trying to reopen the campus safely amid the covid-19 pandemic, it is “not feasible for us to safely host the presidential debate as planned.” It has been moved to Miami.

All of this could be simplified if the campaigns would drastically reduce the live audiences who attend the debates — or even do away with them entirely.

The debates would probably be better, too, if they were conducted — as the famed 1960 one between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon was — in a television studio. With modern technology, it would be possible even to hold a town-hall-style debate that way.

“I think the reason the audiences are there is to satisfy the demand for seats from contributors and major party figures and from those who support the Commission on Presidential Debates,” says Democrat Bob Shrum, who was a top adviser to candidates Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. “The debates would be better without competing cheering sections, who invariably ignore the advice not to applaud or react.”

Cutting back or eliminating the live audience would also make it more difficult for candidates to pull stunts like Trump did in 2016, when he brought four women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual abuse to a debate in St. Louis and attempted to seat them in his family’s box.

At the time, Trump himself was reeling from similar accusations, as well as the revelations of his own crude comments about women, which were recorded on a now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape. The plan had been to have the accusers confront the former president, who is also the spouse of the 2016 Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, on national television. When debate commission officials got wind of the gambit, they put a stop to it.

There remain a lot of details to be worked out between now and the first debate. Given the president’s love of theatrics, get ready for lots of wrangling over ground rules and the choice of moderators. Nor will it be a surprise if, at some point, Trump threatens to walk away from the debates entirely.

History also gives him reason to be wary. Sitting presidents — among them, Jimmy Carter in 1980, Ronald Reagan in 1984 and Barack Obama in 2012 — often stumble in their first debates because they arrived both overconfident and out of practice.

This year, the stakes for Trump could hardly be higher. His poll numbers are dropping, and there are signs that even Trump’s bluster-loving base is starting to have its doubts about him, now that it is seeing how he handles himself in a real crisis.

So as he looks ahead to the debates, the embattled president might want to focus on winning the old-fashioned way: by studying the issues, showing up prepared and commanding the facts.

If Trump were to manage to do that, it could be the biggest October surprise of all.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...en-shouldn-t-debate-trump-i-wouldn-t-n1238475
Pelosi says Biden shouldn't debate Trump: 'I wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him'
Pelosi also said that if Biden wins the White House and Democrats retain control of the House, they will have the ability to expose Trump’s tax returns.

fan27 · Aug 27, 2020

Here4money said:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...en-shouldn-t-debate-trump-i-wouldn-t-n1238475
Pelosi says Biden shouldn't debate Trump: 'I wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him'
Pelosi also said that if Biden wins the White House and Democrats retain control of the House, they will have the ability to expose Trump’s tax returns.
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I agree with Pelosi...Biden should not debate Trump which would ensure a Trump victory in November. Clearly a contender not capable or willing to debate can handle being POTUS.

userque · Aug 27, 2020

fan27 said:
I agree with Pelosi...Biden should not debate Trump which would ensure a Trump victory in November. Clearly a contender not capable or willing to debate can handle being POTUS.
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I think Biden will be ok.

Trump’s Best Words: Bracket Edition | The Daily Show

fan27 · Aug 27, 2020

userque said:
I think Biden will be ok.

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I agree...he will be ok if he does not debate. He just won't be POTUS.

userque · Aug 27, 2020

fan27 said:
I agree...he will be ok if he does not debate. He just won't be POTUS.
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I can't call it.

Cuddles · Sep 8, 2020

DTB2 · Sep 8, 2020

How about a code breaker to explain what Biden just said? That would be very helpful.

FortuneTeller · Sep 8, 2020

And where is Tony Stark now? In his basement with Joe Biden. That's where. LOL