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‘plains a lot.
I find Trump to be fun, a welcome relief to the hate -filled left, the fear of viruses, the unpatriotic people who trash the country, etc. If he loses, we don’t go away. We can’t unsee and unhear. We can’t forget the sins of the media and Democrats.
It also signals someone who apparently only watches left-wing news media.
“Effete” works. Also “Jackass.”
Certainly not Kevin Williamson who notoriously wrote that such towns should just die.
Biden is a nasty, angry, dementia-suffering old racist who molests women and uses his sex-and-drug-addicted son to collect bribe money from our enemies.
But yeah, President Trump is the one who is just too icky to vote for.
Totally should have been this year’s halloween costume.
Deep State CIA Spook endorsed the continuation of the corrupt Deep State.
They have never wanted any of that in the first place it would seem.
Evan probably hopes Joe has some spare campaign cash left over and will pay off all the people McMullen stiffed during his 2016 campaign.
No, that is not valid. You make an accusation against Trump, and they fail to back it up. That is not “Agree to disagree” that is “I can’t prove my point so I give up, and what is truth, anyway?” sort of argument.
Henry wins the point, you lose it.
Again.
As you always do.
You should understand how it works in your line of work.
That’s what I’ve concluded. All the alleged conservatives turning against a President who actually did all the things those alleged conservatives have wanted? Proof, if you need it, that they were more interested in fame and money than in conservatism. Charlie Sykes is a perfect example.
The high-tech lynching of Justice Thomas. The years of lying about the driver involved in his wife’s fatal car crash as a guy “who drank his lunch”. A severe Catholic who supports the slaughter of babies, as even Dan points out but is okay with. The Big Guy who takes a cut of Hunter’s foreign money. The plagiarist.
He’s neither good nor decent.
Bishop, I agree, and I think it’s pretty obvious. Biden is about as much as swamp creature as one could seek, a superficially affable old boy who has never taken a principled stand, who has abused his position at every opportunity for pecuniary gain, who likes to tell stories about the people he’s beaten and who talks an awful lot — for a doddering old man — of getting into fist fights. There’s nothing obviously good or decent about him.
But he does the politician thing in a familiar and reassuring way, and that provides a patina of deniability for those who so can’t stand Trump that any alternative, no matter how implausible, must be seized and justified with increasingly preposterous feats of virtue gymnastics.
In response to a criticism of Trump by Dr. John Piper, Dr. Grudem has a brilliant reply. https://www.christianpost.com/voices/a-response-to-my-friend-john-piper-about-voting-for-trump.html These are two theologians, who are friends with different views. I think Dr. Grudem has a more solid position, hugely.
Concerning Biden’s character, in addition to the lying about the driver, saying for years that he drank his lunch, Biden stabbed Bork and Thomas in the back, when each man was at his most vulnerable. Also, if we recall Defense Sec Gates said that Biden had been wrong about every foreign policy decision in the last 40 years, we might surmise the consistency of poor choices as the result of Biden’s life of influence selling.
Biden eulogies for a Klang member, @Garyrobbins, he sucked up to Dixiecrats.
But you are afraid to even acknowledge it. You cower in fear from any rebuttal of your broken worldview.
Sad.
Biden’s 32-year history of bumbling oafishness in the national spotlight, since his Kinnock gaffe in the ’88 presidential primaries, actually has served to soften his nastier edges. Because he’s been a human gaffe machine and frequent source of political comedy even before his current cognitive deterioration, it was harder to work up a mad about him as it would for a politician who was actually competent, and didn’t have to be shielded by having a ‘D’ after his name by the big media outlets, who’d spin every new mistake as “Oh that wacky-but-lovable Uncle Joe!”
Trump cleverly disguises “his total lack of character and integrity” by deceptively keeping a surprising number of his campaign promises.
On what grounds, Gary? Provide evidence.
Here’s mine. Trump’s court appointments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/trump-appeals-court-judges.html
What do you have in reply?
Biden is also a bad man. Arguably, if not obviously, moreso than Trump. And with a lot of other bad people – men and women – behind and around him.
That you evidently choose not to see it, doesn’t make you BETTER or SMARTER.
Gary McVey is a different Gary — the PIT President from a parallel dimension.
Sorry folks. Fixed it—though I can’t call up Gary Robbins using the @ command. Maybe Max can help?
That’s cold, … but funny.
Joe Biden isn’t a good person, it’s just that older people have become so accustomed to his rank dishonesty, bloviating, casual racism, malapropisms and arrogance that they view this as normalcy.
The media doesn’t actively hate him so he must be “good”
Good way to put it.
And a lot aren’t. Moral dilemmas are common in novels and movies, but they also happen in real life. In politics, it gets real dicey because a political candidate’s position on issues almost never lines up perfectly with your positions. For never-Trumpers, it’s not even about issues – it’s about their perception of Trump’s character, totally ignoring the charcter issues with Trump’s opponent . . .
and the sun rose in the East this morning.
Moral preening personified. I should save this in case I am ever asked for an example.
It’s good, but the Kevin Williamson version might be better. Although I suppose it suffers a bit on the “preening” side due to being so obvious.
I like Kevin — in spite of some of his writing, and especially his irrational and unjustified hatred for the state of Ohio — but he strikes me as an oikophobe (as Roger Scruton would say).
If one needed any more proof that Nevers are terminally stupid it came from Rush today. There are two points to consider. First, Nevers want Trump to lose so they can re-build the party in their image. Second, Trump is at 95% approval among Republican voters. The conclusion is obvious, but Nevers suffer from cranio-rectal inversion and can’t see it.
OK, I’ll ask: What do Nevers hope to accomplish with 5% of the GOP?
This tracks with the record of the post 1994 GOP Congress. The “balanced budget” was done with the peace dividend and raiding Social Security when the Boomers were at peak earning. Was any of the GOP voter agenda enacted ? They went after the shiny object of impeaching Clinton.