CardinalBacker

Yes, sir. It’s going to be an interesting few days. IMO the Ds have to either pick a different scrub (Harris/Newsom) or introduce America to someone completely new 18 weeks before the election. Interesting fact… Donald Trump is older than Bill Clinton-who retired 24 years ago.

Agreed… plenty of lies to go around.

Keeping trump from interrupting helped Trump. They’re calling for Biden to step aside.

Go watch liberal media… they’re freaking out.

My thoughts? Trump by a mile. I wish he’d have avoided the Hunter/Election stuff. The whole “I wouldn’t have been indicted if I weren’t running” works… “your son is a felon, too” might get MAGA to cheer, but not the people who aren’t committed. I wish he didn’t preach to the choir so much. By comparison, the non-partisans might feel like the better choice is Trump. Biden was so bad that I could see him stepping out or being forced out of the race. Here’s the big news… I’m hedging my bets somewhat. Pay attention. If Biden stays in, I like Trump’s chances better than I did before the debate. He had a really good performance. Kinda makes me wonder what would have happened if Trump had performed like this in ‘20.

Why not just lie?“ Sure- I’ll accept the results.” Biden’s attack at the end seemed desperate and weak.

Biden: “you have the morals of an alley cat.” Hes still swingin’

I think they’ll swing to trump’s extracurriculars towards the end.

Trump: "I really don't know what he just said in that last sentence."

Biden won’t be the dem nominee… he’s getting killed.

Trump needs to just be magnanimous for another hour or two. And Trump just gave the best answer I’ve ever heard a politician give on Abortion.

Y’all might not know this, but I can’t stand trump… but he’s beating the brakes off of Biden in appearance and perception. They’re both lobbing half truths and whole lies… Holy crap… that was horrible Biden just locked up

It’s true. With an asterisk.

Biden looks terrible. Mistakes everywhere two minutes in.

Y’all worship a man who brags about sexually assaulting women, then cry big ol’ crocodile tears when a jury believes him. We all know he did it. Y’all don’t thing he should get in trouble. It’s the reason that football players have gotten away with raping cheerleaders for decades. “But he does so much for us! It was just horseplay that got out of hand. She asked for it. Boys will be boys.” Trump is a rapist.

Yes, he is. A verdict was reached in a civil trial, and a jury of DJT’s neighbors felt that the plaintiff’s attorneys proved to them, upon a preponderance of the evidence, that Donald Trump raped her. Add to that, the fact that Donald Trump’s character attacks on the victim cost him over 300 million dollars in damages… and why was she able to win that judgment? Because she’d already proven that he raped her. It’s a fact. The matter is settled. He did it. And the comical part is that he previously admitted to sexually assaulting other women. Admitted, hell…. He bragged about it to reporters. The fact that you love him doesn’t do anything to the fact that he’s a rapist.

I’ve been saying that for a while…

I’m sorry, brother… you just floated it over the plate and I couldn’t not swing.

Is that how you keep a man?

For once (and maybe the only time), I think you’re right. It might be happening early to give the left the ammo to dump Biden if he is a disaster tonight. I think they hop right past Kamala, but it won’t hurt their chances with their voters. What the objective see (but Trump fans don’t) is this. We all agree with Trump when he said that he could literally shoot someone in broad daylight and his supporters wouldn’t waiver-and he’s right. He’s a proven rapist, tried to overturn an election that he obviously lost, is under indictments, twice impeached, and a reprehensible human… but his supporters are proud to say “I’m still with him!” On the other hand, the sentiment against his enemies is just as strong. It doesn’t matter who gets nominated, those that hate Trump WILL turn out to vote against him. I know that’s hard for Trump fans to understand, but it’s true. There is not a single thing that’s going to make people who hate trump vote for him. They would literally vote for anyone. All the Dems have to do is trot out somebody less objectionable than Biden and it’s over for the Rs. That’s the danger of betting everything on a horse that can’t run, but you really, really like its name.

It’s not that simple. You just read where UT Alum said that Hardin County was 80% democrat in 1980… but according to you the fabled “switch” was finished by Nixon a decade earlier. That’s the fallacy of your argument… we can all agree that as far back as the Civil War, Democrats strongly opposed any measure that would benefit the black community. That policy continued all of the way up through the 1960s. That’s when there was a shift…. But it’s not what you think. It’s not like all of the old white bigots said “to heck with this! Let’s go be republicans instead.” My contention is that the Democrat Party of old didn’t hate black people… they needed the votes of white people, and they got them by whipping up racial animosity towards black people. Right about the time that the civil rights act was passed, the leaders of the democrat party realized that there just wasn’t a whole lot of white on black racial hate to work with… and with the changing demographics in America, they recognized that the next voting block to control would be the minorities, and the best way to harness that vote was by providing them a common enemy… whitey. That’s why you had guys like Strom Thurman and George Wallace renounce their “racist” ways and pivot to trying to win over the monitorities instead of catering to racist whites. You fast forward about 30 years and the democrats have convinced their voters that the whites are the source of all of their problems… just like they told whites that the blacks were the source of all of their problems. It’s not that the racist shifted sides… the Dems just shifted their focus because voters didn’t care about the old racism anymore. But, that same time frame and approach left a void. Suddenly you have white people (who aren’t racist) being told by democrats that “you don’t even realize how big of a racist you are, and everything you worked for means nothing because it was the result of white privilege, and in fact our voters deserve everything that you have…” and people got tired of it, so the next thing you know you’ve got a lot of people like the ones on this board who will fall in line behind somebody who says “I’ll fight those democrats for you.” He calls immigrants rapists, blows his dog whistle until he passes out, and convinces the tiny group of actual racists and antisemites that it’s safe to come out of hiding. “Build the wall” is their rallying cry. The democrat response? They open our borders completely, even though they know it’s bad for us… but they need to keep fanning the flames, too. And you can’t be opposed to the guy who wants to build a wall, but then construct one yourself, right? It’s madness, and it’s all about getting “us” to vote against “them” on both sides. And it really, really needs to stop.

That’s kinda over-simplifying matters. Are you talking about local politics or the platforms of the DNC/RNC? They’re two completely different scenarios. To be frank, a politician couldn’t get elected in Hardin County as a Republican… until 2010-2011 when the locals all switched to the R Party. I think that the truest example of a Democrat is the late George Wallace, Governor of Alabama. He ran in 1958 against a staunch segregationist and lost big time. Both Dems, btw. He came back in 1962 as a hardcore opponent of integration and won handily, becoming the racist spokesperson for a South that wanted to remain segregated. By 1982 he won his last term as Governor of alabama, still as a democrat, but carrying over 90% of the black vote. Who switched? Was it the party? The politicians? The people? All of the above, in all different directions and over a period of about 60 years. The problem with arguments about switching is that there are no constants. We all know that guy…. southern accent, white-headed flat top haircut, short sleeve western shirt with those old wrangler double-knit pants. He probably held public office all over the south, and he had some really crazy ideas about race…. Might not have been in the Klan, but knew a bunch of people who were or had been. And he voted 100% Democrat. We can all say “yeah, and he became a Republican after the civil rights act was passed!” And we’d be wrong. The truth is that those old ideals and ways of thinking pretty much died off. The truth of the matter is that the civil rights act passed the senate with a 71-29 vote majority. But it’s interesting to point out that the 71 “yes” votes were actually 27 Republicans and 44 Democrats voting “for” the civil rights act, with 6 Republicans and 21 Democrats voting against the Civil Rights Act. So which party was in favor and which one opposed? And now 60 years later, with an ideological split in America, both sides are trying to claim moral superiority and cast blame over history that, to be frank, we don’t understand. But to be honest, the Democrat party of 2024 is not what it was… and neither is the Republican. Just because things are so black-and -white today doesn’t mean that they always have been.

Like I said… just for the sake of argument. The person accepting applications at a Trump ORGANIZATION owned property marks applications from black applicants with a “c” so they’ll know not to rent to them. The gov filed a suit against the org and the suit was settled with no admission of guilt. That does not make a then 27 year old Trump a racist. Let’s just assume that a white Amazon delivery worker shows up at your house, gets in an argument with you, then drops and n-bomb. By your math, that PROVES that Jeff Bezos (who owns Amazon) is a racist. Oh, and I left out the part about how the alleged racism by Bezos’ employee happened 51 years ago.

Thank you, sir.

Slightly more black than white in Section 8. [Hidden Content] racial breakdown of tenants,to report on racial characteristics. But that’s completely understandable based on the percentage of single parent households in those respective communities.