Biden vs. Trump 2024

Personally, I think the world is a more interesting and funny place when random whack-jobs set themselves on fire publicly to prove some sort of point.

posted by Heretic

Personally, I think the world is a more interesting and funny place when random whack-jobs set themselves on fire publicly to prove some sort of point.

Maybe the trend will catch on with the traffic blockers.

posted by Heretic

Personally, I think the world is a more interesting and funny place when random whack-jobs set themselves on fire publicly to prove some sort of point.

That was a sad story.  There’s been a couple of these this year.  Seriously mentally disturbed individuals.

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

That was a sad story.  There’s been a couple of these this year.  Seriously mentally disturbed individuals.

Well, to be fair, people have been conditioned to welcome mental illness in favor of embracing diversity. Social media has made it a social contagion. Not sure if that can be rolled back in any meaningful way at this point. 

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

That was a sad story.  There’s been a couple of these this year.  Seriously mentally disturbed individuals.

Well, to be fair, people have been conditioned to welcome mental illness in favor of embracing diversity - and more importantly - inclusion. Social media has made it a social contagion. Not sure if that can be rolled back in any meaningful way at this point. 

posted by CenterBHSFan

Well, to be fair, people have been conditioned to welcome mental illness in favor of embracing diversity - and more importantly - inclusion. Social media has made it a social contagion. Not sure if that can be rolled back in any meaningful way at this point. 

Everything is six degrees of separation from dei at this point I guess lol 

posted by geeblock

Everything is six degrees of separation from dei at this point I guess lol 

It's why we don't have enough (or in some areas, none) mental institutions to begin with. Long ago the idea caught fire to just prescribe & forget in an effort to normalize mental illness. 

Interestingly enough, that started being implemented right before the rise, and spike, of mass shootings. It was an overreaction to, at the time, of the deplorable practices and low funding of insane asylums.

The majority of the medical profession who advocated for the new practice of just scribing every mental patient came to regret it in hindsight. The ones still alive are ignored and sometimes shunned. 

We've seen something very familiar in the reactions to covid. It was over-reaction. Look at how doctors were censored and banned for even talking about medicines outside of big pharma's realm.

Here is one of the entrances to this rabbit hole, jump!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation

So I guess Trump was invited to the LP convention and he accepted. Not sure wtf they were thinking to invite him, though. My guess is that a lot of people will think that the LP is selling out. 

For myself, I would lean into their ideology much much more if they could nail down a better consensus amongst themselves. In fact, I would bet that a lot of people would jump ship out of the duopoly if the LP could manage to do that. But since they haven't progressed that much in this particular area people are unsure and largely ignorant. 

Perhaps the organizers are trying to expand their ideas using Trump as a free billboard. Perhaps they are trying to attract the politically homeless. Who the hell knows. 

But we can all probably agree that the corporate medias are most likely to organize with each other to relentlessly focus and attack the LP, which would put it further into shambles.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong and this move will have the opposite effect.

Thoughts?

So Biden's campaign has announced that from now on, his speeches will be short. They are saying that "less is more".

posted by CenterBHSFan

So Biden's campaign has announced that from now on, his speeches will be short. They are saying that "less is more".

Code for: "The longer he talks, the more likely his mind will wander and random word salad will spew out".

So it has come out that the FBI not only staged evidence of classified documents from mar a lago, but it was also manipulated.  Jack Smithsaid he doesn't know how or why or who, but he admitted that he lied to the FISA for this to happen.

WTF

posted by CenterBHSFan

So it has come out that the FBI not only staged evidence of classified documents from mar a lago, but it was also manipulated.  Jack Smithsaid he doesn't know how or why or who, but he admitted that he lied to the FISA for this to happen.

WTF

As if anyone on the left cares or will report about it. 

Totally looking forward to the potential Biden-Trump debates. Good chance it will be the least coherent debate in the history of debating, but regardless of how moronic and out of it both guys act, their groupies will act like their guy ran circles around the other and showed true leadership and whatever.

posted by Heretic

Totally looking forward to the potential Biden-Trump debates. Good chance it will be the least coherent debate in the history of debating, but regardless of how moronic and out of it both guys act, their groupies will act like their guy ran circles around the other and showed true leadership and whatever.

I like a few things about the proposed setup like the turning off of mics when time is up and no studio audience. What I don't like is Biden's only wanting corporate media there that he knows will give him a favorable portrayal. 

Although it will never happen it would be nice to see CNN, FOX and some independent media televising it. Also a purely independent fact checker with no ties to a political party would be nice. It would also be nice if all notes and teleprompters were banned so people can sketch for themselves just how much mental acuity each man can present. 

Hey uh

Is the NY prosecutor /trying/ to throw this trial?

This is a government controlled debate.  Trump will play ball to make that point.

This falls flat without an audience. 

posted by CenterBHSFan

Hey uh

Is the NY prosecutor /trying/ to throw this trial?

No.  He was just pressured by people to make it happen.

Marjory Taylor Green and Jasmine Crockett devolving into catty fights makes me ponder if women in Congress was a mistake.

posted by QuakerOats

As if anyone on the left cares or will report about it. 

They should care about it because that is an easily turned table. 

Unfortunately we have watched a two tier justice system at play for a number of years now. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are allowed to do a thing and not have anything come of it. Trump does the same thing and gets prosecuted for it with staged and manipulated "evidence". 

So Cohen has admitted to stealing 30k from the Trump org.

The NY prosecutor is 1.) trying to throw this trial 2.) knows the trial is a foregone conclusion, no matter what because it's already messing with Trump's campaign 3.) is one of the most incompetent prosecutors of all time.

I don't know which is my pick!