Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby MFP » Wed Sep 30, 2020 15:23:28

Eem wrote:What are the odds Trump resigns after the election and makes Pence handle all the lame duck shit

If you're of the belief that the main reason he wants to stay president is to avoid jail, I'd say the odds are pretty low. I'm sure he'd try to secure a pardon from Pence if he were to resign, but I'm not nearly as sure that Pence would give him one.

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby momadance » Wed Sep 30, 2020 15:37:25

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Congratulations Nestor. You will make one Great American.

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby CFP » Wed Sep 30, 2020 16:03:54

Way to go, Nestor! /bendavis

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby jamiethekiller » Wed Sep 30, 2020 16:14:05

Only 8 years? Know people who have taken 20 years

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby CalvinBall » Wed Sep 30, 2020 16:18:03

you think he would want to make it easier for people after living through how hard of a process it is.

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby CalvinBall » Wed Sep 30, 2020 16:18:46

also it seems pretty weird to adopt a kid as a single man at the age of 30. they arent cats.

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby Gimpy » Wed Sep 30, 2020 16:24:38

CalvinBall wrote:also it seems pretty weird to adopt a kid as a single man at the age of 30. they arent cats.

Is that all that seems weird about it? The kid is his ex girlfriend’s little brother and Gaetz refers to him as his son.

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby thephan » Wed Sep 30, 2020 16:52:26

I'm loving some of these clips from Trump surrogates out there talking about how Trump won last night. That Joe Biden couldn't even answer a question. well he couldn't answer a question because Trump kept talking over him, but that's beside the point. They talk about the debate committee wants their guiy to win. The bipartisan debate committee which has Republicans, some prominent Republicans, serving on it want Joe Biden to win? What kind of alternate reality do these people live in?

I also noticed that all of the clips from these surrogates tend to have those folks talking over all of the commentators on all of the stations. So I guess the new hotness is to just trump it and argue over top of whomever you're speaking to and say whatever you want no matter what the question is. Very reminiscent of the debate.
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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby heyeaglefn » Wed Sep 30, 2020 17:06:57

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby Phred » Wed Sep 30, 2020 17:11:24

MFP wrote:
Eem wrote:What are the odds Trump resigns after the election and makes Pence handle all the lame duck shit

If you're of the belief that the main reason he wants to stay president is to avoid jail, I'd say the odds are pretty low. I'm sure he'd try to secure a pardon from Pence if he were to resign, but I'm not nearly as sure that Pence would give him one.


Pence can't pardon him for state issues. Plus, I don't think you can be pardoned unless you are convicted first.
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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby TenuredVulture » Wed Sep 30, 2020 17:13:46

Phred wrote:
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Eem wrote:What are the odds Trump resigns after the election and makes Pence handle all the lame duck shit

If you're of the belief that the main reason he wants to stay president is to avoid jail, I'd say the odds are pretty low. I'm sure he'd try to secure a pardon from Pence if he were to resign, but I'm not nearly as sure that Pence would give him one.


Pence can't pardon him for state issues. Plus, I don't think you can be pardoned unless you are convicted first.


Nope--Ford pardoned Nixon before conviction, and I believe before even charges were filed.
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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby thephan » Wed Sep 30, 2020 19:02:51

This is how you play the IRS game, but land for$2.7M and you write it off for a hundred million.

Welcome to Donald J. Trump State Park, it's an aspestose laiden shithole
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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby Stay_Disappointed » Wed Sep 30, 2020 19:32:16

Senate Republicans already getting annoyed at possible Democrat stalling tactics over SCOTUS confirmation. “You’ll pay a price!” Lol STFU
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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby jamiethekiller » Wed Sep 30, 2020 19:42:29

this midwest outbreak will all but guarantee Biden winning any 50/50 states out there(iowa, wisconsin, michigan)

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby The Savior » Wed Sep 30, 2020 20:22:39

Just stay alive Joe
On a scale of 1 to Chris Brown, how pissed is he?

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby traderdave » Wed Sep 30, 2020 20:31:46

thephan wrote:This is how you play the IRS game, but land for$2.7M and you write it off for a hundred million.

Welcome to Donald J. Trump State Park, it's an aspestose laiden #$!&@


I really don't need to see this bull shit within hours of getting my 2019 tax bill. I will be paying many, many multiples of the seven fucking hundred fifty dollars Trump pays.

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby Wolfgang622 » Wed Sep 30, 2020 22:00:16

thephan wrote:
momadance wrote:
thephan wrote:
momadance wrote:Still refusing to denounce racist #$!&@.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1311380013325996036


But Tim Scott said that Trump misspoke. Oh poor Tim Scott, he needs to find himself a new god.

https://wpde.com/news/local/sen-tim-sco ... d-stand-by

“I think the president misspoke, and he needs to correct it. If he doesn’t correct it, I guess he didn’t misspeak.”

Seem unlikely to pluck TPB's from the sky and then misspeak


Today he doesn't know who the Proud Boys are.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1311379343684374528


So he is just an idiot. And he is admitting it, except he is actually a really bad liar.


Remember four years ago when he said this when asked about being endorsed by David Duke:

Donald Trump said not wrote:Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK?," Trump responded, adding: "I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So I don't know. I don't know -- did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists.


I mean, I don't think he's an idiot: he is subtle/notsubtle:

The Know Nothing, formally known as the Native American Party and the American Party from 1855 onwards, was a nativist political party and movement in the United States, which operated nationwide in the mid-1850s, originally starting as a secret society. It was primarily an anti-Catholic, anti-immigration, populist and xenophobic movement, although it was also progressive "on issues of labor rights, opposition to slavery, and the need for more government spending"[1] as well as for "its opposition to slavery, support for an expansion of the rights of women, regulation of industry, and support of measures designed to improve the status of working people".[2] It was also a forerunner to the temperance movement in the United States and its nativist spirit is seen in both the American Protective Association and the Ku Klux Klan.[3] The Know Nothing movement briefly emerged as a major political party in the form of the American Party. Adherents to the movement were to simply reply "I know nothing" when asked about its specifics by outsiders, providing the group with its common name.[4]


And President Trump's claim he has done more for blacks than any president outside of Lincoln? Well...

Abraham Lincoln wrote:I am not a Know-Nothing—that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equals, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to that I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby CalvinBall » Wed Sep 30, 2020 22:05:47

jamiethekiller wrote:this midwest outbreak will all but guarantee Biden winning any 50/50 states out there(iowa, wisconsin, michigan)


He's up pretty significantly in WI and MI. Iowa is a coin flip right now but has been trending his way for a month.

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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby da_bad_ass » Wed Sep 30, 2020 22:32:02

watched the whole debate last night, came away absolutely horrified. as a hardcore bernie bro since 2015 i've never been more motivated to get joe biden elected.
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Re: Who's the Master Debater? The Latest Politics Thread

Unread postby Monkeyboy » Thu Oct 01, 2020 02:54:04

da_bad_ass wrote:watched the whole debate last night, came away absolutely horrified. as a hardcore bernie bro since 2015 i've never been more motivated to get joe biden elected.



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