The American Politics Thread

Tucker (f#@kin') Carlson's quotes of the day...

"Nothing Trump said onstage was radical..." It's his tone that rattles people. Trump could make a wine list sound menacing."

"...amazingly, tragically, many people who watched last night may have concluded that Joe Biden is the stable, steady alternative,"

"It's quite a trick, the illusion of reasonableness. Barack Obama was a master of this."

That's right Tucky baby, who wants stable or steady leadership?

What a dumb@ss.

 It's his supporters, not the politicians, that are the problem:  constituents say, politicians do.

They still go along with his agenda anyway it seems. I don't know if it's fear of losing votes or what have you but it seems to be a very real thing. They don't want to rock the boat.

Also, a lot of times you have elections like this people will say it boils down to the "lesser of two evils." I don't think this election is about the lesser of two evils though. That would be like saying a cat is less dangerous than a lion. For me it's more about sanity vs insanity. Biden might not be the best possible candidate to run for president or even the most sane but he's a lot better(and more sane)than Trump. Unfortunately that's not saying much though. However, what matters to me the most is that we get to a point where we no longer have a narcissistic psychopath in the white house.

Ridiculous. It kind of reminds me of a post I saw online where a woman said if Biden picked Kamala Harris she was going to vote for Trump.  People like this are going to vote for Trump regardless. They just don't want to be too obvious about it.

There was another who said Biden calling Trump a clown/liar/asking him to shut up was unpresidential so he couldn't decide.  And here we are thinking Biden could have gone after him harder. Yeah, like Frank Luntz asked his focus group, what could you possibly be undecided/on the fence about at this stage in the race?

All Biden had to do was point to Trump's family without even saying anything about it.  

And when Trump tried to attack the Obama taxes that purportedly allowed him to pay so low taxes, Biden had to simply point to Trump's own even bigger tax cuts.  Trump could not outflank Biden on the Left (which he could do as a challenger to Hillary in 2016) because he did not run that sort of Govt at all. It probably explains why his 2020 campaign has been such a stale and typically GOP affair (painting every Dem as a socialist)...because he ran to the Left on the 2016 campaign to carve out states the GOP hadn't won in years but governed from well to the Right except on trade.  Likewise, a President who cannot bring himself to unequivocally condemn white supremacists cannot convincingly attack Biden for the Crime Bill.