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I lived through all of those presidencies, and none of them came close to the relentless, never ending vitriol that has spewed out of trump’s mouth. Maybe it would’ve been different if Clinton had a Twitter to vent on, I don’t know.

Okay.

not sure what to tell you. I meant what I said, but that doesn’t mean you’ve read into my meaning correctly. I’ll try and clarify I guess: Trump’s questionable, and undoubtedly in some instances illegal behavior has opened him up to political railroading by the left. I don’t agree with this railroading, but would’ve preferred he not do these stupid things in the first place.

What I mean is that he could do literally everything the same, without changing any of his policies. All he’d need to do (likely too late at this point) would be to shut up and be polite (and quit posting on social media). ONE democrat tried to assassinate him. And while I don’t agree with the actions the democrats have taken towards trump in the courts, his own bad behaviors opened him up to it. If he hadn’t done things like cheat on his wife with a porn star and then pay her off with hush money, the left couldn’t have brought charges based on it. And if he hadn’t been such a pompous and arrogant windbag for his entire presidency, people wouldn’t be so accepting of his treatment by the left. As it is, when the left calls him names and make accusations, and bring about dubious or even false charges against him, many people dislike him so much they either agree with it or go along with it. Him being unlikeable doesn’t justify those actions, but it does factor in to so many people accepting them.

Doing just that is the smart thing to do, but I highly doubt there will be any landslide. It’s gonna come down to the wire.

If the republicans had nominated anyone but Trump then they would need to. As it is, for a voter who is comfortable voting for either party, one party putting forth someone who is wholly unlikeable makes a big difference. The dems HAVE said some things that were inappropriate, but on a whole they pale in comparison and volume to what Trump has said and done. The media has not reported these things proportionally either, but Trump has been out of control on social media for the better part of 8 years. For the life of me I don’t understand why so many on the right get so bent out of shape when people suggest that Trump could not change a single policy, but only make an effort to be likable and greatly improve his chances in the election. It’s irrelevant that it’s stupid, because you and everyone else know it’s true. It’s irrelevant that the swing voters are stupid to base their decision on it, because it’s still true. If, as a candidate, even if his policy is solid, Trump is losing votes do to his behavior and persona, it’s up to Trump to change his behavior. Sitting back after the fact and talking about how stupid it is that people didn’t vote for him because he’s arrogant and abrasive won’t do us much good if we have a democrat in office for another four years.

You’re right, they should stick to what they did last election, since it worked so well. I guess we’ll see what happens this time. At least he has a weaker opponent and the country is in a bad spot. Maybe that’ll be enough for people to look past his childish behavior, but maybe not. Kinda thought you were above insulting sarcasm, tbh

There’s a rabid core base on each side. There wasn’t any reason to bring up those on the left for the point I was making. Trump has to quit worrying about riling up his diehards and start working on the swing votes, period.

I don’t think he’ll get shredded. I thought he was 50/50 against Biden until the debates, and after I assumed he would win. I think if he goes against Kamala he’s about 50/50 again, which means he’s gotta start winning votes and not just banking on winning because the other side is terrible. Kamala IS terrible, but she’ll galvanize some voters who may not have gotten out for Biden.

I’m curious where his platform goes from here. He’s spent the last couple of months running on Biden’s senility. I guess if Harris gets the nomination he can run on her covering up Biden’s senility.

Why show humility and compassion when you can pile it on? Definitely a misstep on his part. He needs to worry about winning the undecided voters over, not rallying the already rabid core fan base.

My concern is that if they pick just about anyone but her they quite possibly will beat him.

Better hope it’s Kamala. If they plug in anyone who appears slightly competent and not a complete nut job Trump is going to be in a dogfight

Bingo

I’m leaning a lot more towards incompetence. And a lack of resources in place to begin with.

I think sometimes unbelievable conspiracy theories sometimes get taken so far that even most of your conspiracy theorists know they’re fake. It’s about to that point now.

Don’t at all think this was racism. Completely 100% believe it’s a direct indicator of his senility and inability to remember his name, or the fact that his choice of descriptor was inappropriate.

They’ve had a rough year, underperforming, and dealing with a crazy amount of injuries. That said, they’re good enough to make a run, and if they don’t they’ve got a lot of trade pieces while still keeping that solid core intact

He fell off 😀

I tend to agree, but that also works the other way as well.

Took the above from the post I started in the political section because I missed that this one had been started. Deleted the other thread

Here are some of the key points that I’ve seen or heard: The African American city manager recommended an African American candidate, and the council voted against him 4-3, with the 4 white councilmen voting against him. Concerns that he was chosen strictly due to race by the city manager, and also concerns that he was rejected for the same reason by the council could both hold merit. the local white candidate has the support of the majority of the board, BPD’s previous two chiefs, and the endorsement of the Beaumont Police Officer Association. They all make the reasonable argument that he knows how to deal with things like hurricanes, and knows the area, how BPD works, has the respect and support of the dept, etc. His opponents say that fresh blood is needed, want to see minority representation considering Beaumont’sracial makeup, and also point to some accusations of racism with Plunkett (I have no clue as to their validity). Also valid arguments imo. concerns about a chief coming in from ultraliberal Vancouver, Washington are valid. The concern that nothing will change by giving the job to someone local when crime is a major issue is alsovalid. all that having been said, there are a lot of reasonable takes from both sides of this thing, but it’s likely going to devolve into a major mess. there’s always room for improvement, but any time you make a major change there’s always the chance of things getting worse, sometimes much worse.

If you say so. How about this? Any other candidate would have a better chance than trump. Which doesn’t mean I’m saying he won’t win, but anyone else would almost be guaranteed to, especially in light of Biden’s recent debate

You don’t have to like it for it to be true. There were I don’t know how many polls that showed all of the other Republican candidates performing better against Biden.

Could’ve been a Sasquatch on a unicorn, too.