Debate Derby – 8oct20

George Rebane

The Pence/Harris debate was at least an exercise in civility.  We finally got to compare what the socialists want for America, and what wants they’re not willing to admit to Americans.  We compared this with the capitalists’ plan for the next four years.  What a difference.  Harris spent most of her time lying (she got to speak 4 more minutes than Pence).  Her major lie kept focusing on Trump’s handling of the C19 pandemic, which according to the Dems’ Big Lie has been a preventable unmitigated disaster to which they would have responded almost identically as has President Trump.  Well, truth be told, their copycat version leaves out a couple things that this administration accomplished.

What’s interesting to me is that no one points out the comparative C19 stats between the US and other advanced, but much smaller countries.  The US is a huge country composed of diverse cohorts of free people who are about as easy to control as herding cats.  We are undoubtedly the most mobile folks on the planet, continually darting across our big land this way and that.  Somebody gets sick with an infectious disease, it won’t be long until others have the same malady in many different parts of the country.  Our R0 transmission rate is necessarily higher, and there is nothing that either party could do to reduce it other than tell lies.

And those lies are simply all that the Dems have to wave in the faces of voters this election season.  This is not to say that they have mistaken the intellectual acuity of our electorate.  But I will say that the ‘mishandling C19’ ruse has successfully camouflaged their true aim to make America into a world-class socialist autocracy.  With the Democrats' taxing and regulatory burdens on us increasing by the year, we are witnessing up close and personal the truth of Jefferson’s ‘a nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.’

To sum up last night’s VP debate, I think everyone out of the Left’s hard core camp saw Harris as the slimly and snarky scumbag that she is – the evening did not bode well for her.  But is it enough to move the needle, even though one of them may well be our president before the next four years are up?  That is hard to tell.  Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist has more here.

President Trump has responded to next week’s second presidential debate being conducted virtually.  His opening salvo is that he won’t participate under those conditions.  There appears to be no reason for changing the second debate to an online version since “people infected with Covid-19 can stop isolating 10 days after the onset of symptoms, as long as they haven’t had a fever in 24 hours and their other symptoms are improving, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.”  And the WH reports that the president is symptom-free and has already started developing C19 resistant antibodies, all of which strongly indicate that not only will he not be contagious at a town hall debate, but that he will also be immune to further infection.

I’m not sure what kinds of thinking has gone into the decision not to participate.  It seems to me that in the virtual debate Bumblebrain will have all kinds of opportunity to give the long-winded answers that usually reveal his mental acuity and perhaps even his party’s embrace of BLM and Antifa’s neo-Marxism.  My recommendation would be for Trump to not miss an opportunity to go mano a mano with Biden. (more here)

Comments

[L]

I think the problem is that, given the opportunity, Uncle Joe will cheat at every turn. He will have all the questions ahead of time, have written answers and be able to read them off a teleprompter unless opposite party umpires are present. And it won't be Chris Wallace and Fox moderation but one of the openly Marxist networks who will manage to exclude any neutral observers.

Besides, as you said, Trump isn't contagious and Joe just looks like the coward he is.

[Walt]

Harris was flip flopping like an epileptic.
She for get the new thing called video tape? She is on record for being far Left, then in the debate tries to pass herself off as moderate. Not to mention the flat out lies.

As for packing the court, "elect us and find out".
Now where did we hear that before? "Gotta pass it to find out what's in it" And we ALL got screwed.

[Don Bessee]

Just sayin'

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/08/poll-joe-biden-donald-trump-statistically-tied-in-arizona/

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[Don Bessee]

Now that's one way to rig a poll -

USA Today apparently forgot about Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday night, when the newspaper tweeted a poll asking who won the vice presidential debate and listed only “Kamala Harris,” “Joe Biden,” “the pesky fly” and “I didn’t watch” as options.

The mistaken tweet was posted shortly after the end of the debate, which was moderated by USA Today's Washington bureau chief Susan Page.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/usa-today-poll-vice-presidential-debate

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[Don Bessee]

The peoples agenda sure sounds like socialists pushing creepy grampa joe, and he does not even know whats in his platform!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/progressives-including-squad-release-agenda-to-push-a-biden-adminstration-left

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[Don Bessee]

OUCH even the left biased wapo said she was bullshitting about Lincoln and the SCOTUS -

According to Lincoln historian Michael Burlingame, Lincoln told his aides he wanted to delay his Supreme Court confirmation process because he was “waiting to receive expressions of public opinion from the country," though the Post noted, "that didn’t mean he was waiting for ballots so much as the mail."

"The overarching effect of the delay is that it held Lincoln’s broad but shaky coalition of conservative and radical Republicans together," the Post explained. "Congress was in recess until early December, so there would have been no point in naming a man before the election anyway. Lincoln shrewdly used that to his advantage. If he had lost the election, there is no evidence he wouldn’t have filled the spot in the lame-duck session."

The Post concluded, "So Harris is mistaken about Lincoln’s motivations in this regard."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-fact-checks-harris-history-lincoln

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[Don Bessee]

Its the economy stupid's -

Poll: 56% Americans Say They Are Better Off Now Under Trump Than Four Years Ago Under Obama-Biden

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/08/poll-56-percent-americans-better-trump-four-years-ago/

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[Bill Tozer]

I've been hacked! No, I ain't Joy Reid saying that somebody released screen shots of my homophobic posts. Call the FBI. I done got hacked! Its was those racist Trump supporters colluding with the Russians!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/upcoming-debate-moderator-says-he-was-hacked-after-trump-tweet-hes-claimed-twice-before-that-hes-been-hacked

Embarassing when when you get caught calling a full blown antiTrump hater looking for something to slime with. Anything will do.

Embarassing? Only if you got caught and you are a disinterested third party debate moderator from CSPAN. Didn't Steve Scully work as a Dem staffer before CSPAN?

Only embarassing if you can't be shamed like most lefties. A pure tell-tell sign of a psychopath..

[scenes]

Good call.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1314354230656929793