Who will replace Biden?

[brenthutch 420]

3 hours ago, wmw999 said:

Turns out we were wrong. Sometimes that happens.

As far as the rest, when you find a perfect candidate, who has never in their life misspoken, and never in their life made a mistake (or something that could be construed as a mistake by their worst enemy and goal-post-mover), alert us.

Wendy P.

Funny how she wasn’t even mentioned when you guys were talking about who would replace Biden. I correctly predicted it would be her because she was cloaked in a an impenetrable cloak of DEI and there was no way the Ds would survive if they gave her the boot. (Just like our current White House press secretary). The only thing she has going for her is Trump.

[Phil1111 1,086]

1 hour ago, brenthutch said:

No Bill gave me another time out for the unforgivable sin of thread drift.

Seems excessive. But look at the positive side. It allowed you time to gather yourself for four more years of a democrat president.

[JoeWeber 2,573]

1 hour ago, brenthutch said:

Funny how she wasn’t even mentioned when you guys were talking about who would replace Biden.

Is that right? Are you including me?

[brenthutch 420]

10 hours ago, JoeWeber said:

Is that right? Are you including me?

No, but it was the general consensus that it had to be someone other than Harris. Not one mention of her on the “who will replace Biden” thread. 

[brenthutch 420]

11 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

Seems excessive. But look at the positive side. It allowed you time to gather yourself for four more years of a democrat president.

No it is actually par for the course, I believe this is the third time I have gotten a time out for thread drift. Wendy even banned me for answering the question “why would anyone want an AR-15”. I realize, as a participant in this forum, that I am on the outside, orbiting a left wing circle-jerk and when things get a bit uncomfortable I am ejected into a higher orbit. That is a price I am willing to pay in order to proselytize truth to the unconvinced.

Edited August 16 by brenthutch

[wmw999 2,320]

Yeah, you're abused here even worse than Trump is by the unfair fact-checking press. But you take it on the chin for freedom of speech, right?

Wendy P.

[winsor 224]

2 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

Yeah, you're abused here even worse than Trump is by the unfair fact-checking press. But you take it on the chin for freedom of speech, right?

Wendy P.

If there was any hint of balance, you might have a point.

[Phil1111 1,086]

1 hour ago, brenthutch said:

... That is a price I am willing to pay in order to proselytize truth to the unconvinced.

Its too bad that you don't advocate for a real conservative GOP agenda using truth and facts. Somebody here needs to.

3 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

Yeah, you're abused here even worse than Trump is by the unfair fact-checking press. But you take it on the chin for freedom of speech, right?

Wendy P.

As usual nailed it.

1 minute ago, winsor said:

If there was any hint of balance, you might have a point.

Perhaps there isn't balance because the current GOP is so nutty. Winding back the clock to conservative views and policies pre-Trump would be a start. In an odd way your intellect reminds me of Bill Buckley of National Review fame. With the exception that your political views went MAGA off the rails.

[ryoder 1,558]

3 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

...Bill Buckley of National Review fame...

I really wish he was still alive to put his comments into the arena.

[Phil1111 1,086]

4 minutes ago, ryoder said:

I really wish he was still alive to put his comments into the arena.

He would chop Trump up like a fat tuna in the Tsukiji market. Unfortunately his base would never read or hear the commentary.

Edited August 16 by Phil1111

[JoeWeber 2,573]

3 hours ago, brenthutch said:

That is a price I am willing to pay in order to proselytize truth to the unconvinced.

Pretty close, so far in that it is just your beliefs you peddle. I, and many others here, find your views on the second amendment and the sanctity of AR-15's and their like odd at best considering they seem to be favored by madmen everywhere. The tilting you do at the majority of the scientific community on issues like climate change and gender dysphoria at the minimum might be hollered out with a tad less gusto just for the sake of humility if not the facts. But you got's to do you I reckon.

Still, if it's converts that will provide the validation you seek, maybe a wardrobe of robes and sandals, topped with a fuzzy hair wig would get some results.  

[SkyDekker 1,299]

2 hours ago, winsor said:

If there was any hint of balance, you might have a point.

The unfairly prosecuted need to stick together!

[jakee 1,353]

2 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

In an odd way your intellect reminds me of Bill Buckley of National Review fame. 

Particularly apt, since in the UK Buckley is best known for being trounced in a debate at Cambridge University in the '60s with James Baldwin where he argued for the view that there was never anything wrong with America's treatment of black people.

Edited August 16 by jakee

[kallend 1,832]

1 hour ago, jakee said:

Particularly apt, since in the UK Buckley is best known for being trounced in a debate at Cambridge University in the '60s with James Baldwin where he argued for the view that there was never anything wrong with America's treatment of black people.

Not sure how relevant that is.  The Cambridge Union Society (of which I am a Life Member) is a debating club where speakers are often asked to propose or defend a position selected for them.  I didn't happen to attend that particular meeting, though.

 

The Baldwin- Buckley debate is famous, of course:  The motion under consideration was that ‘This House Believes The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro’ and the proposition won by a landslide. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Union

 

Edited August 16 by kallend

[jakee 1,353]

14 minutes ago, kallend said:

Not sure how relevant that is. 

Buckley was an ardent supporter of apartheid in South Africa and segregation in the US, so probably kinda relevant.

As the civil rights movement progressed through the '60s he realised his error in opposing segregation (which gained him a lot of credit) but still didn't think the government should do anything about it. Many years later he realised he was wrong about that too.

Funny how one of the requirements for being considered a titan of conservative thought is the ability to eventually realise the progressives were right all along. Kinda feels like cheating.

[TriGirl 298]

18 hours ago, brenthutch said:

She was in charge of taking care of the border problem, the “addressing the root cause”  was a canard to divert attention from her abysmal failure in doing that.

Nope.  She went to Central and South America and worked out deals with the countries from which people were fleeing. I don't have the reference available at the moment, but I have heard reports that people seeking asylum at our southern border has been cut significantly due to these efforts.

[jakee 1,353]

23 hours ago, brenthutch said:

She is still the Camila Harris ya’all considered unelectable a month ago. She is still the dimwit who let us know that while she has never been to the border as border czar, she hadn’t been to Europe either. Or opined on the passage of time or school buses. Or derangely cackled when she was stumped by a question. I expect her handlers will keep her in the basement when she is not reading a teleprompter and far far far away from any press that is not sycophantic. Fortunately for her Trump is so stupid he can’t engage on the issues and is running the same, now tired, playbook he ran eight (and four) years ago. I’m just hoping the deep state will see us through, whom ever wins.

So when Trump loses badly to this idiot failure who doesn't even have charisma on her side, will that be enough to snap your fellow travellers out of their deluded hero worship of the man, or will they still come crawling back to Mar a Lago to lick his boots?

BTW, did you spell her name that way on purpose?

[brenthutch 420]

2 minutes ago, jakee said:

So when Trump loses badly to this idiot failure who doesn't even have charisma on her side, will that be enough to snap your fellow travellers out of their deluded hero worship of the man, or will they still come crawling back to Mar a Lago to lick his boots?

BTW, did you spell her name that way on purpose?

For the life of me I can’t figure out why you guys think I am a Trump supporter. And no I didn’t do that intentionally.

[nigel99 298]

6 hours ago, brenthutch said:

No, but it was the general consensus that it had to be someone other than Harris. Not one mention of her on the “who will replace Biden” thread. 

That’s blatantly false because I brought it up and we discussed whether America was too racist and sexist for her to be a viable candidate to win. We were partly correct in that the extreme right have jumped right to those very arguments. But we were also wrong in that the broader US certainly seems ready and it’s only a small but vocal group of bigots.

I don’t recall her competency being questioned at all

[nigel99 298]

7 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

For the life of me I can’t figure out why you guys think I am a Trump supporter. And no I didn’t do that intentionally.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a fair assumption that it’s a duck. 
Your posts and almost exclusively parroting Trump and Maga values and views, you may as well be wearing a red hat to match 

[brenthutch 420]

13 minutes ago, TriGirl said:

Nope.  She went to Central and South America and worked out deals with the countries from which people were fleeing. I don't have the reference available at the moment, but I have heard reports that people seeking asylum at our southern border has been cut significantly due to these efforts.

I would be glad to see what proposals she put forward and if and how they were enacted. Crowding out Central American migrants with a flood of millions from other countries of doesn’t count.

[brenthutch 420]

9 minutes ago, nigel99 said:

That’s blatantly false because I brought it up and we discussed whether America was too racist and sexist for her to be a viable candidate to win. We were partly correct in that the extreme right have jumped right to those very arguments. But we were also wrong in that the broader US certainly seems ready and it’s only a small but vocal group of bigots.

I don’t recall her competency being questioned at all

Go back in this thread and find the post where she was deemed the best candidate 

[brenthutch 420]

8 minutes ago, nigel99 said:

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a fair assumption that it’s a duck. 
Your posts and almost exclusively parroting Trump and Maga values and views, you may as well be wearing a red hat to match 

Lower taxes, a less burdensome regulatory environment, energy independence and a secure border are MAGA values?

[nigel99 298]

28 minutes ago, TriGirl said:

Nope.  She went to Central and South America and worked out deals with the countries from which people were fleeing. I don't have the reference available at the moment, but I have heard reports that people seeking asylum at our southern border has been cut significantly due to these efforts.

You should never use the word asylum when talking to Trump or a Trump supporter as they get mighty confused and think you mean insane asylums.

As an aside related to insane asylums, Ed Gein from Wisconsin was the true story inspiration for Texas Chainsaw massacre and Silence of the lambs. Ed was brought up by a radical Christian mother. 

[nigel99 298]

6 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

Go back in this thread and find the post where she was deemed the best candidate 

You said she was never mentioned, that is false. I said it was discussed and consensus was that due to racism and sexism she may struggle to get support (let me be explicit here - we did NOT question competence)

You wonder why we think you’re a Trump supporter? Your response to my post was a perfect example of emulating your dear leader. Twist the facts and try and redefine the question.