http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/10/01/schumer-successfully-trolls-republicans/

-CW

Yep!

Department of Today's Lincoln Project Offering, Focus Group.

Crackhead! Heh.

. . . if only Short Fingers would limit contributions to his campaign to Little Money donations of less than $201, sanity would be achieved!

On the flipside, maybe Don Harris will disappear if everyone limited their contributions to less than $1.00 until his advertisements are gone from this forum. If Don Harris won't change his own singular behavior on this blog, then I cannot fathom why he would believe the utter asinine proposition that he's "discovered" some "magic bullet" whereby millions of other people in America will change their behavior because of his "idea." It's stunning in its reeking stupidity.

His narcissistic personality disorder and sociopathic dementia would just go away like the coronavirus and so would all the Big Dark Money that his campaign can't accept in the first place.

Yep. Like magic. I won't change my behavior one iota when asked, but I have an idea that will transform everybody else associated with American democracy:

Light up. Bake up. Eat up.

GET WEED.

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Snort up. Shoot up. Meth up.

Drop DEAD.

An even better idea! :)

You need to accept the diagnosis and the needed treatment to achieve sanity- One Demand.

Get SANE.

Wasn't Don Harris asked to stop advertising his personal monomaniacal crusade on this website? Isn't it kind of the height of batshit craziness that he's still doing it?

"My Secret Service agent can beat up your Secret Service agent! Nyah nyah nyah!"

That said, something in me responds with a thrill to the image of Uncle Joe decking the president on live TV. Tch, tch, and me against violence and all.

"Trump is a giant wussy who cannot back up his tough guy words"

Correct - he relies on flunkies to back up his tough talk. These flunkies tend to be lawyers rather than boxers.

Trump is a tub of guts* - overweight and out of shape. He is frequently tentative in his walking gait , especially up or down hill. From what I've heard, he can hit a long ball in golf...but not accurately. Trump was a legendary military school athlete - but the legend is notoriously resistant to written confirmation.

Biden works out and is good shape for his age. If it comes down to a boxing match, Biden might well get one punch in before the Secret Service restrains him. After that, I don't what the Hell happens. The Secret Service doesn't generally handle Gerry Springer-esque riots. I doubt it is something they train for. I have friend at the gym who is a serving FBI agent, he may have some insights.

* Trump's body type is remarkably similar to Homer Simpson's - "look at that blubber fly!"

Thanks for the Lincoln-Douglas FYI!

It's not that easy. Even if Trump agrees - and I don't believe he will, turning off his microphone won't help. He'll simply walk over to Biden's podium and bellow. Who is going to restrain him? Do we want a fist fight between the candidates?

I gotta disagree with ya...because Trump knows that Biden very likely would punch Trump right in the kisser! Trump is a coward’s coward! Trump’s ego could not handle that sort of humiliation — the truth that Trump is a giant wussy who cannot back up his tough guy words —as it would destroy him! Trump cannot handle actually telling someone that they are fired, despite what the Apprentice made millions of Americans believe. He has to do it via tweet or have someone else do it for him (remember Omarosa recorded her phone call to him after Kelly fired her and Trump acted like he had no idea that was happening?).

Cutting off the microphone only works if both candidates are in soundproof booths where they can be completely muted.

For the record, the seven(!!!) Lincoln Douglas "debates" were more like competing speeches than debates as we now know them. There was no mic to hog - and very few in the audience could actually what the candidates said. Reporters took notes and newspapers published reconstructions of what was the candidates said.

(1) not drooling on oneself nor otherwise scaring the electorate, and,

(2) uttering the catchiest sound bite/zingiest retort.

And this was before Cheetogod's performance.

It's not that easy. Even if Trump agrees - and I don't believe he will, turning off his microphone won't help. He'll simply walk over to Biden's podium and bellow. Who is going to restrain him? Do we want a fist fight between the candidates? If we get one, will it remain confined to the candidates, or will the audience decide to participate?

Are the debate overseers prepared for a full scale riot town hall riot? Trump, and a substantial fraction of his Trumpsters, would love that! Trump will not follow any rules. He never has, he never will. How many times to we have get hit over the head with the hammer before we accept this?

Trump is lawless by nature. It's a history. The only solution is physical separation of the candidates, locks on their cages, and equally metered candidate access to the sound system. Is the end result worth the bother? I say no!

His narcissistic personality disorder and sociopathic dementia would just go away like the coronavirus and so would all the Big Dark Money that his campaign can't accept in the first place.

Snort up. Shoot up. Meth up.

Get high.

Drop DEAD.

Another quote (thinking of Vous, Elizabeth) from the same article. This got me more enthused about Joe, and I highly recommend y'all read the whole article.

Biden is proposing industrial policy—massive, targeted investment to restructure production for national goals—something that no president has openly embraced since the 1940s. His agenda would also give workers more power, with paid family and medical leave, paid sick days, a public option for health care, and an easier path to organizing and joining unions. It would more than double the federal minimum wage, to $15 an hour—a bitter point of dispute between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016, now uncontroversial among Democrats. Free trade is hard to find on the agenda. For all Biden’s history as a centrist, his economic program would put an end to decades of Democratic incrementalism.

Blockquote in your"Commenting Tips?

Beneath the dreary furor of the partisan wars, most Americans agree on fundamental issues facing the country. Large majorities say that government should ensure some form of universal health care, that it should do more to mitigate global warming, that the rich should pay higher taxes, that racial inequality is a significant problem, that workers should have the right to join unions, that immigrants are a good thing for American life, that the federal government is plagued by corruption. These majorities have remained strong for years. The readiness, the demand for action, is new.

Joe or Bernie/Elizabeth could and should emphasize the broad agreement across Party lines. It's like (successfully) talking politics with my Trumpanzie buddy...I'm not afraid to refer to myself as a Loud and Proud Libtard because it makes him chuckle and lowers his defenses. And I look for these areas of agreement and emphasize how what we have in common dwarfs what we disagree on.

We cannot outhate those were disagree with. We have to outlove them in order to heal our country.

G'Nite, John-boy MtnCaddy.

Gee, little ole moi? That's a compliment, my Good Woman.

Not that it will ever happen but I'd love to someday meet some of our Weigantian posse, very much including you.

So, what do you think provoked my [17]? :)

Joe might say, "Why have we been giving tax breaks to folks who don't need them? Going back to the 80s 'Trickle down' NEVER worked for anybody but the rich. It's past time to set taxes back to pre-Reagan times."

Trump is DESPARATE and needs to be reelected on order to run out the Statute of Limitations.

I wonder if anybody is selling SDNY tee shirts and assorted swag.

Until the Progressivism has once again cyclically ascended and we undo Reaganism® (aaand... solving our racism issues) you should have plenty to write about, Amigo.

Alas, you're correct about Trump having no apparent "bottom -- it can't get worse."

Reviewing Trump's record I strongly suspect Trump is under the influence (if not outright control) of the Kremlin. Remember all the contact with Russia in 2016 and Trump trying (succeeding?) to set up a back channel to Putin?

Trump has done a yuge amount of damage not only to America but also Putin's European adversaries. Either Putin is just incredibly lucky, or...

The insulin epidemic was destroying families and the orange one has made it cheap like water. This could be a game changer.

Like when tax cuts paid for themselves and gay people getting married would bring on the end of the world?

... not to mention "that Trump is an erratic megalomaniac with decided know-nothing and neo-fascist tendencies."

That fine description is courtesy of my other favourite Californian and political analyst, William Bradley. :)

And what scholarship has come out of all that supposed study of the worst one (up til last night), that has informed later hosts and organizers of the quadrennial tradition and so has improved the format and results of more recent ones - like this one?

It seems to me the only conclusion to "what not to do?" wouldn't be about microphones, or host's questions, or back and forth formatting, or open or closed questions, or even make-up and lighting. What not to do is have Donald Trump be the US president. Clearly, with any other candidate this debate would have been just as good, or stupid, as all the other recent ones where the game has become not to explain and debate the issues for better public understanding but to land the best 15-second 'gotcha' sound bite for endless replay for the remainder of the campaign.

So there's an 80-page Ph.D. thesis or five to look forward to. Abstract: "Detailed research and study shows definitively that no imaginable presidential debate format can be sustained in the presence of a maniacally impulsive, rude, mendacious, desperate, and narcissistic candidate."

Trump is quite obviously losing this race, so he can be counted on to get even more desperate as the election looms closer.

i don't know if he's necessarily losing as obviously as you think. what IS obvious is that he THINKS he's losing, which is probably an even better predictor of his behavior.

JL

The final debate was supposed to be the same format that we had to endure last night. This is where the rules changes will be crucial, because if the rules remain the same, we can probably expect a repeat performance from Trump.

Yep. I'm hoping that, by then, Biden will have figured out how to handle Trump and his antics. I want to see Biden destroy Trump. I'll settle for nothing less.