I am loving this Republican convention

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

23 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Literacy in any form from NB!!!  Reported!!!!!!!

1 day added to your rep point ban

[TBoneTX 45,957]

5 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

1 day added to your rep point ban

Can't handle the truth!!!  Reported!!!!!

[laylalex 7,300]

That was a pretty good acceptance speech.  I liked his points about the dignity of work, and how we're one country, not a collection of red and blue states. 

 

Also, fireworks are MUCH more fun to end the convention than balloons. 

[Dashinka 24,736]

8 hours ago, laylalex said:

That was a pretty good acceptance speech.  I liked his points about the dignity of work, and how we're one country, not a collection of red and blue states. 

 

Also, fireworks are MUCH more fun to end the convention than balloons. 

Did he actually say anything of substance?  I know the Dems have to hide the fact that they are a very divisive Party, but this speech pretty much only showed that Old Joe can read from a teleprompter.  Now if Old Joe starts holding actual press conferences, or doing tough interviews my opinion may change, but I doubt that is going to happen.

[laylalex 7,300]

2 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Did he actually say anything of substance?  I know the Dems have to hide the fact that they are a very divisive Party, but this speech pretty much only showed that Old Joe can read from a teleprompter.  Now if Old Joe starts holding actual press conferences, or doing tough interviews my opinion may change, but I doubt that is going to happen.

You should listen to it or read a transcript, and decide for yourself if there's substance to it. Our expectations are likely to be different. I'm not a huge fan of Biden. I think he's from another generation that is too far away from the reality of life in America. But I do think he is a compassionate, thoughtful person. I see the humanity in him, and a passion to serve the people. I think empathy is a virtue that is necessary for a leader of a people, and I see it in every president we have had while I've been alive, until now. It's not enough to talk tough and throw your weight around. A great leader considers the consequences of his or her actions on the people. Not just economic consequences, and not just for some of the people. All of the people, in every corner of the nation. Can Biden do that? I can't predict the future, but I've seen 4 years of Trump and I don't see him giving much thought beyond his base. 

 

RNC next week will be interesting. 

[Crazy Cat 42,100]

2 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Did he actually say anything of substance?

No....Why?  Because the Dems platform is so far left, it scares everyone except the Marxists........polls show that Trump is rising......and for good reason.  This election shouldn't be about personality.......it should be about the direction of the country after this pandemic.

[Dashinka 24,736]

16 minutes ago, laylalex said:

You should listen to it or read a transcript, and decide for yourself if there's substance to it. Our expectations are likely to be different. I'm not a huge fan of Biden. I think he's from another generation that is too far away from the reality of life in America. But I do think he is a compassionate, thoughtful person. I see the humanity in him, and a passion to serve the people. I think empathy is a virtue that is necessary for a leader of a people, and I see it in every president we have had while I've been alive, until now. It's not enough to talk tough and throw your weight around. A great leader considers the consequences of his or her actions on the people. Not just economic consequences, and not just for some of the people. All of the people, in every corner of the nation. Can Biden do that? I can't predict the future, but I've seen 4 years of Trump and I don't see him giving much thought beyond his base. 

 

RNC next week will be interesting. 

That is the interesting thing as I have seen empathy in all of our president including the current one.  Certainly the DNC has a much longer track record of promoting their "empathy" without actually doing anything about it.  As to the speech, and the entire DNC convention, they were simply trying to put up an alternative to Trump and not actually trying to increase enthusiasm for Old Joe as there really isn't any enthusiasm there except for the folks afflicted with TDS.  When you actually put aside the hatred for a personality and look at the positions each Party takes, the DNC and Joe (who is always amenable to change to fit the Party direction) is way more Left, divisive, and regressive than the GOP.  I am not a huge fan of our two party system, but it is what we have, and I would rather vote for someone more in the Center then a candidate closer to Marxism.  I didn't hear Old Joe mention anything about China yesterday, I suppose if we end up electing him, we will go back to a policy of appeasement to the CCP.

 

I am not expecting much from the GOP convention next week, but they do need to focus on Joe's recent racist remarks, and the fact that he won't actually take any questions.  I would stay away from the Old Person bashing, the polls already show many in America already have a perception of Joe's potential issues.

Edited August 21, 2020 by Dashinka

[laylalex 7,300]

12 minutes ago, Lucky Cat said:

No....Why?  Because the Dems platform is so far left, it scares everyone except the Marxists........polls show that Trump is rising......and for good reason.  This election shouldn't be about personality.......it should be about the direction of the country after this pandemic.

Did you watch it? There was quite a bit about the direction of the country moving forward. 

 

And seriously, I crack up every time someone mentions Marxism and the DNC. It's like everybody started yelling about Marxism all at the same time, without actually thinking about what Marxism actually is. Pretty sure all the Wall Street people pushing money Biden's way aren't Marxists, nor are they interested in promoting Marxism. It's too funny. The critique is better placed around socialism, but that doesn't sound as scary as Marxists coming for your stuff.

 

And elections are always about personality. We're humans in a (small L) liberal society. We want to connect. Kindness and humility and humanity go a long way, especially when coupled with tenacity and thoughtfulness and strength. I think we can see that in leaders of all political opinions. It's down to the person, even more than the platform. 

 

But time to get up here, too much lolling in bed. After all I'll be one of the first against the wall when the Marxists take over, and I have a lot to do before then.  (Mostly shopping.)

[Dashinka 24,736]

10 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Did you watch it? There was quite a bit about the direction of the country moving forward. 

 

And seriously, I crack up every time someone mentions Marxism and the DNC. It's like everybody started yelling about Marxism all at the same time, without actually thinking about what Marxism actually is. Pretty sure all the Wall Street people pushing money Biden's way aren't Marxists, nor are they interested in promoting Marxism. It's too funny. The critique is better placed around socialism, but that doesn't sound as scary as Marxists coming for your stuff.

 

And elections are always about personality. We're humans in a (small L) liberal society. We want to connect. Kindness and humility and humanity go a long way, especially when coupled with tenacity and thoughtfulness and strength. I think we can see that in leaders of all political opinions. It's down to the person, even more than the platform. 

 

But time to get up here, too much lolling in bed. After all I'll be one of the first against the wall when the Marxists take over, and I have a lot to do before then.  (Mostly shopping.)

Considering in four days the folks at this convention did not speak against the violence of the Marxist protesters, what should one conclude?  Heck, Trump got hammered for the comments made regarding Charlottesville and Joe even saw fit to mention that in his speech, but when the violence is perpetrated by the DNC's own base, or at least the Bernie "Independent" wing of that Party, no one says boo.  Unless of course the "protests" spill into their neighborhoods. 

[Crazy Cat 42,100]

21 minutes ago, laylalex said:

And seriously, I crack up every time someone mentions Marxism and the DNC.

I think you need to open your eyes if you don't see how far left the Democrats have gone......and yes, I watched Biden........

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Biden and Kamala are both unequivocally neoliberals. Neoliberals represent the Dem establishment and coincidentally the vast majority of MSM faces. These people are a lot closer to centrists. 

 

They are definitely catering to the extreme left and encouraging the violence and chaos not because they themselves are leftists, but because they are sociopathic relativists. They will pretend like they align with any demographic they want votes from. Note that they have the full support of neocons and the corrupt administrative and intelligence apparatus in the federal government, who aren't leftists or even remotely on the left side of the spectrum. So think about their prior actions, and why these people support Biden. It's easy math once we get beyond the designed ingroup/outgroup bias. 

 

The reason I talk up populists on both sides is because they, more than others, see through this, even if many fall into the psychological party trap, whether for Dems or Republicans. They are in large part who establishments throughout western nations like to gaslight the populace about, calling them "Russians". 

 

Establishments are known for their meritocratic approach making their actions very predictable, which is why they try so hard to psychologically brand themselves as something else. If people know their predictable process (and establishments love processes) they realize how corrupt and undemocratic it is. Naturally when things aren't going their way, and especially thriving outside their controlled environment, the best tactic is to destabilize it. We know this because it's exactly how these pieces of trash conduct their foreign policy and cause chaos elsewhere. They are nothing if not predictable. 

Edited August 21, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Crazy Cat 42,100]

Mobs or Jobs.........I choose jobs.

[Crazy Cat 42,100]

Did Biden or any speaker at the Dem convention condemn the looting, arson, and violence in some US cities? If not, why?

[TBoneTX 45,957]

14 minutes ago, Lucky Cat said:

Did Biden or any speaker at the Dem convention condemn the looting, arson, and violence in some US cities? If not, why?

Not mentioned.  They want to avoid offending the Twitter crowd, which they think = America.

[luckytxn 2,265]

On 8/18/2020 at 8:52 PM, TBoneTX said:

NeverTrumpers digging themselves even further into irrelevance...

For sure my brother. I been telling everyone that the 2 parties were essentially the same and that is what is causing the class warfare to nab just 2-3% of the vote. Waiting for Bush to change parties.