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  1. 2 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Yup. He knows his answers tonight arent gonna fly

    He did the best he could. If trump was way ahead this wouldn’t have heard but it’s not going to make any sort of difference in these weeks of chaos. The only thing anyone will take from this debate is that the person on the other side dodged some questions. Will be forgotten by the weekend. 

  2. Just now, BradInATX said:
    2 minutes ago, heso said:
    Pence can’t look at her when he knows she’s hammering him with truth.

    He visibly can't wait for it to be over. He's holding his own reasonably well but his sound bites are the same old greatest hits. Kamala's will probably get more run.

    He has the points he wants to make and delivers them with conviction, but he can’t answer direct questions because he hasn’t rehearsed them. 

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  3. 19 minutes ago, 406W30th said:

    Even for 2020, it is absolutely bonkers that the sitting president can be credibly accused of trying to infect the challenger with a deadly virus he knew he was carrying.

    I sincerely hope Biden is on absolute lockdown and that they're taking every imaginable precaution. I would put nothing past the GOP at this point.

    The media needs to run with this. Clearly the Trump admin doesn’t want to say when he got his last negative test because it’s not a good answer for them. Start making FOI requests. Start filing lawsuits. Make as much noise about it as possible. Even if it goes nowhere, legally, the fringe voters need to hear that trump knew he was exposed and either avoided taking a test, or already knew it was positive. They arrived at the debate late on purpose to avoid having to take a test so that they could willfully try to expose Biden to covid. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, sachick said:

    One of these assholes has to get a serious case of it right?

    Unlikely because they’re all being tested and treated immediately. Instead of not being tested until days after getting symptoms and then being told to stay home unless it gets bad. 

    Its the worst case scenario for the general population of the country. They see a bunch of the admin test positive and then recover. Then they are told it’s no big deal. So when they start to get symptoms they are convinced they can just fight through it at home despite being 325 lbs and diabetic, and then end up with lungs looking like crushed glass and neurological symptoms lasting who knows how long. 

  5. 1 hour ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

    They make money hand over fist by doing it. That’s all there is to it.

    On one hand, I get that. My thought on it is that they (Fox News) already have a caprice audience. What do they gain by taking their praise to such fanatical levels. maybe the thought is that it breeds loyalty. Like, if they are seen as being most favorable to Trump within the fox family they gain some stickiness with the viewers. And I guess fox really has that figured out where they’ll give you whatever flavor you want, from constant praise to the faux critical eye that in the end comes to the conclusion that Trump is always right. But I dont feel like that really explains the ridiculous level that it gets taken to. 

     

    1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    It's what insecure people do.  This is a psychosis we are dealing with.  These are insecure, broken people that don't know how to deal with their stature in the world.  They've been brought up thinking they are above everyone else (American, white) and have realized in the past couple of decades that they are absolutely NOT that.  This is their defense mechanism.  They have been brought to critical mass with the election of this carnival barker and they must now be put down.

    I understand it from the perspective of Joe Truckdriver in Fulton county Pa. It’s easy to explain the psychology of the bottom rung rural white trying to convince themself that there are classes of people below them. Those people will buy whatever Fox News is selling them, regardless of the rhetoric surrounding it. 

    1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    It comes off that way because it is. Remember, in North Korea even if you recognize that it is fake as all get out, there is nothing else to watch.

    Here, I suspect it's because you don't have to think. You just do. The leader can do no wrong and has to be exalted to the nth degree because otherwise those little nagging moments can't be overcome as easily. In every society I'm guessing there will always be a percentage that is immune and a percentage that is susceptible. You can't kill or sway them all so some buy it and others hide it. At least we aren't to the stage where Fox and OANN are all there is, but if this doesn't work on election day, the day of free press is gone.

    I think this might start to get at it a bit. If the man gets built up to a point of absolute and total infallibility, it eliminates any seeds of doubt in relation to his fuckups before they can start to germinate.

    We’re talking about a sophisticated media empire. There are brilliant strategists behind it. I can’t imagine that it wasn’t a conscious decision to mythologize Trump to such an extreme nature. I just can’t immediately see the payoff. Like I said before, it seems on the surface like it would only alienate the fringes without any measurable gain in the base.

    Like I said up-post, Cletus in Bedford is easy to explain away. He’s too dumb to understand and too racist to care if he did. 

    What gets me is the smart, educated, urban and suburban conservative. How do they not look see this bombastic rhetoric for what it is and lose interest? How can that person not see that their being lied to with something so obvious, and then not question the legitimacy of other more subtle points being made. 

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  6. 20 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    It means he is the candidate who describes himself as a democratic socialist, who, among the democratic candidates, pushed a variety of socialist ideas the hardest, and, more importantly, would be described by people who might be convinced to not vote for Trump as the socialist, aka the boogeyman commonly used by the right. Being the guy that beat the boogeyman might buy Biden enough cred to convince those people to abstain from voting for Trump. I don't think Bernie takes it personally. Neither should you.

    I saw an interview with Bernie the other day where he said as much without saying it when asked about the way Biden talked about him in the first pres debate. “Look, Joe and I have different opinions on some things, but we both agree on the common ground of removing the existential danger in the White House.” Or something to that effect. 

    He gets it. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Given the tweet about his meds, can someone ask Katie Porter to go check into his stock buys? Have the whiteboard ready. 

    His financial disclosure in 2017 reported capital gains from Gilead. 

  8. 1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    If he’s in some control over his treatment, and he actually believes what he has said about hydroxychloroquine, he would have told his doctors to give him some. They haven’t, to our knowledge, so that tells me he’s not in charge of his treatment. 

    He knows HCQ was bullshit. He told his docs to do whatever it takes to clear it up as quickly as possible. Regardless of how serious his case is, “throw everything you have at it. I can’t go out like this.”

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