The 2020 Presidential Election - Convention & General Election

[BigRedBuster]

This pretty much sums up Trump. 
 

 

[knapplc]

14 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

This pretty much sums up Trump. 
 

 

 

The old, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago" is not a question Trump wants people asking themselves.

 

 

 

America after the Obama presidency, circa 2016:

 

 

America now:

 

[Danny Bateman]

4 hours ago, Waldo said:

Checks Politics section once a week... sees Knapp still crying over Trump. 

There's a big gulf between crying about him and acknowledging how much he blows.

[Danny Bateman]

22 hours ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

A real analysis of Trump's foreign policy.

 

For all the false talk of its “collusion” with Russia, the Trump administration has repeatedly opposed the surreal German–Russian natural-gas deal. It upped sanctions on Russian oligarchs, jawboned NATO to beef up its expenditures and defenses, especially in the context of Russian bullying of Eastern Europe, and sold lethal weapons to Ukraine after the Obama administration had refused to do so. The U.S. pulled out of an asymmetrical 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that was continually violated by Moscow, and it increased defense spending — also the exact opposite of Obama-era appeasement of Russia.

 

Yet one casualty of the Russian-“collusion” myth was the end of traditional Kissingerian realist triangulation, or the old American policy that neither a nuclear China nor a nuclear Russia should become a better friend to the other than each was to the U.S. One of the reasons China has so brazenly moved on its Indian border, threatened Taiwan, cracked down on Hong Kong, and carved out bases in the South China Sea is that the U.S. has not worked with Russia in areas of mutual advantage to curb Chinese aggression.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/08/10/trumps-reactive-engagement/#slide-1

 

 

 

Good in what sense? It doesn't tell you anything you don't want to hear?

 

Trump defenders always puff their chests out about collusion like that specific charge needs proven beyond a reasonable doubt or there's no there there. Meanwhile the rest of us are concerned about Trump's whole pattern of behavior vis-à-vis Russia.

 

Sanctions and increased NATO funding don't mean diddly if the rest of the world views the U.S. as an erratic, unreliable operator led by an egomaniacal moron who turns into an impotent, servile lapdog every time he has to stare down a dictator.

 

Right-wing Trump true believers can dress it up however they want, but Trump's decision-making and lack of leadership has been utterly ineffective in boxing in either China or Russia. The interview from this morning was another embarrassment, further cementing that Trump is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Putin, Inc.

And apparently VDH thinks another nuclear arms race is a good idea?

 

It's sad because he is a smart guy,  but putting a veneer of intellectualism on Trumpism inevitably forces one to make some really stupid arguments.

 

There's a reason GOP China hawks are seeking out Biden. And it aint that Trump has been an unmitigated success in taking them on.

 

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[knapplc]

1 hour ago, Danny Bateman said:

Trump defenders always puff their chests out about collusion like that specific charge needs proven beyond a reasonable doubt or there's no there there.

 

And at the same time talk about Burisma as if it's a slam-dunk case against Biden.

[BigRedBuster]

 

[Notre Dame Joe]

Would the P&R forum prefer President Trump load up an airplane with cash and fly to Russia?  (without Congressional approval ofc)

[knapplc]

4 minutes ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

Would the P&R forum prefer President Trump load up an airplane with cash and fly to Russia?  (without Congressional approval ofc)

 

What?

[commando]

4 minutes ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

Would the P&R forum prefer President Trump load up an airplane with cash and fly to Russia?  (without Congressional approval ofc)

did we confiscate their bank accounts?

[BigRedBuster]

1 hour ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

Would the P&R forum prefer President Trump load up an airplane with cash and fly to Russia?  (without Congressional approval ofc)

You really need to do more research on subjects. 

[Danny Bateman]

Funny, this reminds me of something...

 

Oh yeah, there it is.

 

[BigRedBuster]

Ouch. 
 

^^^  Trump

 

 

[Moiraine]

32 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Ouch. 
 

^^^  Trump

 

 

 

 

 

I saw today Trump's average poll margin in Texas is 0.2%. Really hoping he loses Texas just to send a big message to the Republican party that they don't have a future if they continue to elect pieces of s#!t then let them break whatever rules they want.

[mrandyk]

4 hours ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

Would the P&R forum prefer President Trump load up an airplane with cash and fly to Russia?  (without Congressional approval ofc)

This almost sounds like an opinion so dumb I'd drunk post it.