American Politics 3.0 - Back to Brunch

[Ped]

"Better an answer that is a lie, than no answer at all!"

[flames_fan_down_under]

The more he talks like this the better it is for everyone. Juxtaposed to Kamala's coherent speech that has a clear meaning it will only prove to serve her favorably in the polls.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Smarter than most of the people on this board.

What kind of idiot thinks that??....

[puffnstuff]

He takes questions...he doesnt answer them though.

Its the Seinfeld rental car/reservation bit.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Smarter than most of the people on this board.

Oh man, that's a nice peter12 callback.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Joe Biden was slipping and people called for him to step aside for his health and the party.

Donald Trump much worse much much worse. Rambles incoherently for hours about windmills and dead birds. The Republicans stand up and cheer him on.

It’s unbelievable. Jeff Duncan said once Trump gets bounced the Republican Party can recalibrate and come back in 4 years. It’s going to more than 4 years.

[White Out 403]

if she keeps gaining in the polls why should she change her strategy?

[Huntingwhale]

Where FIU at?

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

Where FIU at?

Christ, this is like saying Candyman 5 times in front of a mirror. Shhh....

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

Where FIU at?

Probably had to relocate after Kursk was overtaken.

[Paulie Walnuts]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1824269123649483155

[Fuzz]

Lord of the fly.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Lord of the fly.

You know what they say. Flies are attracted to ####.

[Dion]

Looks like a circle fly to me. They're common in New York as they can be found circling the horses arse. Hard to fool them flies though.

[Looch City]

Racist, misogynist, pedophile, delusional, compulsive liar, and now even the flies mistake him for a heap of trash.

It's really just an endless list of deplorable values.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

if she keeps gaining in the polls why should she change her strategy?

exactly...Trump and his minions want her to change and there is a reason for that

Trump's strategy of going on national media and acting like an idiot isn't for everyone lol.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

i still think crazy press conferences and taking questions (eventually) are better than none.

based on what exactly...the only people complaining are Trumpers and who the #### cares about them

[Itse]

Sorry for the pile on GirlySports, but I also just really feel a need to say that it makes absolutely no sense to think that it's ever "better" that a presidential candidate is making a fool of himself.

Sure, it's good in the sense that voters get to see that he's acting crazy, but in normal circumstances that just shouldn't be the bar. The normal expectation for a predidential candidate should be as close as possible to zero amount of crazy.

I don't really understand why conservatives these days have no quality standards for their candidates. They don't need to be qualified, they don't need to have a real track record of anything, they just need to repeat the right talking points.

Why is it okay now that Republicans don't make any sense?

For example, having just listened to Trumps "economic" speech in Carolina, it was just really odd to listen to him try to appeal to people who sympathize with Joe Biden, and go on and on about how Joe was treated unfairly when he was pushed out of his candidacy, and then go on extended rambles about how completely horrible Joe Biden was and is in every possible way... and then go on to say that Kamala Harris is a horrible radical who's beyond anyone else in the Democrats and then say she's basically exactly the same as Joe Biden... And the go on to once again say that Harris stole all his policies from the Trump campaign. Oh, and he's also saying that she has no policies.

So Harris according to Trump is a radical leftist who steals all her economic policies that do not exist from the ultraconservatives while being exactly the same as one of the countries more famous centrists. Those are all understandable lines of attack, they just don't make any sense when you listen to them back to back to back.

Trump is in his own way a pretty good speaker, massively better than he was in 2016. Sure he has his weird moments. You can still really notice that he's been doing his campaign speeches nonstop for years now. I often noticed myself going along with whatever emotions he's trying to stir, and that's an impressive skill because I hate the guy. You are very likely to feel worse about the Democrats and Harris after listening to Trump.

However, he mostly does this by completely abandoning even the possibility of being in any way coherent. In the policy stuff, it sounds like he's was given multiple possible strategies to attack Harris by his campaign staff, and instead of picking one Trump's just going with all of them.

He's literally simultaneously saying that Harris has the worst economic policies ever, and that she stole all of them from him. Those just obviously aren't compatible lines of attack.

It's all vibes with nothing inside. Same as his "policy talk", which is 100% of him saying things like "young people will be able to buy houses again", without ever saying how. What's his plan to make that happen? He obviously doesn't have one.

(He also occasionally has these moments where you notice him reading from a prompter much more than you would think. It's weird because he can for example accidentally say "thank you" before the audience actually cheered. It's like a sudden peek behind the curtains.)

[Itse]

I need to add that I would highly recommend that no one ever listen to Trump for very long, because he's an incredibly toxic speaker these days. You will feel terrible about every single thing going on in the world and America right now. It very literally makes you feel very sick and desperate.

I understand that this is good campaign strategy, but this very much comes at the cost of your own wellbeing if you listen to him for very long.

Yes he's captivating in his own way, but it's not a good kind of captivation.