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October 23, 2020

...and The Crowd Cheered

October 23, 2020

Daniel Dale: "With Trump you're like the 'I Love Lucy' episode in the chocolate factory."

“For a fact checker, you’re kind of sitting there with Biden. Occasionally you’re like oh that’s wrong. With Trump you’re like the ‘I Love Lucy’ episode in the chocolate factory. You don’t know which one to pick up because there’s just so much.”

— Debate fact checker Daniel Dale, on CNN.
https://twitter.com/maeganvaz/status/1319476492900982784?s=20
https://thebulwark.com/trump-doesnt-poop-pants-wins-debate/

October 23, 2020

snap

& you haven't been getting that for 4 years
October 22, 2020

The Third Presidential Debate Is a Freak Show Preordained

By Charles P. Pierce
Oct 22, 2020

There is no actual campaign left for the president. There isn't even a pretense toward presenting an actual message to the country or a rationale for his re-election.

El Caudillo Del Mar-a-Lago is involved, so Thursday night's last presidential debate was prima facie a freak show as soon as it was announced. He did all he could to make that clear during the run-up, virtually ignoring his actual opponent and running against Lesley Stahl, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Kristen Welker, and the good people of Erie, Pennsylvania. There is no actual campaign left. There isn't even a pretense toward presenting an actual message to the country or a rationale for his re-election. His last month has been a cracker factory, a sprawling banana farm of angry grievance.

It has been the strangest homestretch of any campaign ever, because it has been the strangest campaign ever, because it's had the strangest damn incumbent ever. That's not even to mention the fact that it is being waged in front of a country in which most voters have been living aquarium lives ever since at least mid-March. Barack Obama gave a tougher speech on Joe Biden's behalf than he ever gave on behalf of himself, and the abiding memory is the chorus of automobile horns that rang out in place of applause. Even if the president* manages to moderate his tone on Thursday night, it won't possibly matter. This is a freak show preordained. Unless the mute button also opens a trapdoor that drops the president* into perdition, there is no way to avoid this.


https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34454412/third-presidential-debate-trump-joe-biden/

October 22, 2020

"Turd Immunity"

October 22, 2020

President Obama Gets It

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