It’s my local park. Normally kids everywhere. After this attack, mostly dog walkers, cyclists and runners. This MF certainly changed the local demographics, at least for the time being.

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Why does Tucker Carlson look like he just realised he sharted.

That’s hilarious! Have an upvote!

Who can argue against the proposition that the US is not moving towards a Taliban style society?

Thats a pretty sophisticated bit of analysis, particularly for Lemmy.

I still find it amazing that the vote will be as close as it undoubtedly will become. I mean, Trump is not only for himself, but he is also plainly destructive. He’s now touting the low-information ‘Joe Rogan vote’. Young white guys who haven’t been following anything.

This subsequent post of yours is more substantial in explaining your position and I generally agree with all of your points.

My post was with the absurdist position that critiquing the Biden performance around the time of the last debate made you an enemy of progressive politics. Joe had fired his last good shot in 2016. He’s a good man, a heroic fighter for his age but Trump was always going to steamroll him this time. It doesn’t matter that Joe had a cold, or that he sometimes made excellent policy points, the optics were that he was meandering and frail. It wasn’t that the debate done him in by itself - Obama sometimes had a bad debate (particularly his first one) it was that his performance on the night confirmed what was evident for months. By the time Joe started arguing with Trump about who could beat who in golf the jig was up.

Despite Trump’s own senior moments, despite his atrocious behaviour, despite his obvious lies, the feeling was Joe is doomed. And so was the most important election since last time, and that says a lot. The fact that it is not impossible that he still won’t get in again is beyond worrying. But with Harris there is a decent chance.

I hope that clears up my position? It was more a vent against all those who insisted that we ride the Joe bus over the cliff and disbelieve our own eyes while we did it.

I think that your metrics for picking covert Trumpers based upon that appaling debate is incorrect and simplistic. I watched every second of that shit show and believed that we were doomed for another 4 years of the orange turd.

Trump lied during the debate. Some estimates were that he lied upwards of 250 times in his 45 minutes at the mic. Those numbers seems off, but who knows? I don’t know the true figure, but it was insane. However, it is also not the fucking point. Trump is a serial liar. He lies to his family, he lies to the people, he lies to the courts, he lies non-stop. He would have lied if Biden performed outstandingly in the debate. He would have lied if Biden put in a middling performance. And, he lied when Biden performed badly. Are we supposed to be clutching our pearls in shock that Trump lied?

So, we can’t judge Biden’s terrible performance by the ‘other guy’. We need to judge whether Biden could win in November. And if you had of watched all 90 minutes, like I did, there was zero confidence that he could. The GOP campaign would have portrayed Biden’s lost moments a million times, over and over and over again. And they’d be stupid not to. And yes, Trump lied in the debate. Let’s try and turn the broken bus around on the seemingly new information that a serial liar lied on stage.

The proof of this was the instant jump in the polls once Harris became the candidate and the growing support since. Is the argument that all these covert GOP critics suddenly turned Dems? Or, perhaps, changing to Haris was the sensible thing to do, and perhaps, just might keep the orange turd out of the white house.

Zuckerberg has nothing to fear. Unlike Trump, he’s a real billionaire and they make the rules.

Original photo: Perfect photo, couldn’t sum up the man better.

OP: Hold my beer.

This guy is way too interested in other people’s children.

This is more disturbing than some of the more explicit gross stuff they could have done.

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As to not having the mics cut as a tactic so that Trump’s bullying idiocy is on full display, I disagree. The idea that his ape-like behaviour is somehow a secret after nine years of his bullshit schtick is somewhat doubtful.

For comparison purposes, you need Harris’ intelligent and reasoned argument immediately followed by Trump’s bellowing laundry list of personal gripes, off-mark name calling, ridiculous lies and tangential remarks about sharks, electric cars and Hannibal Lector…

Then, once again, to be sharply contrasted by Harris’ calm and normal description of her politics.

As fascinating as it to watch this Buffoon yelling and screaming on stage, no one will hear what Harris has to say and there will be plenty watching her for the first time waiting to hear.

Edit: Turns out that the Harris campaign wants live mics, so what do I know?

Hahaha - you must be Nostradamus because that’s exactly how it will go.

My take is that statement is perhaps the most authentic thing he ever said in his life. He wouldn’t recognise joy of it went up to him and kissed him on the mouth.

He must be bewildered seeing all that happy emotion.

To be fair, you introduced China into the subject, not us.

I agree, tho. Both are repressive, so is Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and a whole bunch of others.

I take your point, but I wouldn’t categorise NK as being pretty far down the road in terms of political repression.

Try and oppose the Kim’s and see how long you continue breathing.

TL:DR

Your are misrepresenting my position. I am not suggesting that we “meet in the middle”. I’m say that if their ideas suck, attack their ideas.

Furthermore, I understand your position and have respect for it. I was there too. We need to promote and communicate better. Harris’s version will actually lift these same people, but they just don’t understand that because of the GOP’s and related Media’s poison.

Or,just continue to go down the mindless road of hate, that seems to be working splendidly. Anyway, thanks for the discussion!