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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 5:19:48 GMT 1
You wouldn't have to do this cleaning if you hadn't fucked up.   |
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 5:30:13 GMT 1
The dude's fee-fees were hurt when he was called "not smart", and all he could think of afterwards was "I gotta take down this motherfucker" driven purely by projections.
The Champion of the White Working Class mocking Biden's alma mater the University of Delaware was such a cue for laughter. "You didn't even go to an Ivy school!"
And he did that in OHIO, of all places.
He's hanging onto his precious UPenn/Wharton degree, which, back in his young days, wasn't much to brag about especially since he wasn't admitted on his own merit.
Wounded ego.
Donald always wished he had gone to Yale or Harvard, you know. He always cared a great deal about credentials. Last year I heard someone on TV say, "He isn't the type who would ask you what school you went to, you know!"
He was, though. That was like the third question he asked me.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 6:07:16 GMT 1
This is no laughing matter, though.
The US State Department has always condemned in the strongest possible terms any foreign leader who has either done this or tried to do this.
It's breathtaking to see America strengthen China's position in the world every day, steadily, reliably.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 6:11:31 GMT 1
This guy's won the internet today.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 8:35:35 GMT 1
Of all the things that Trump said in the debate, "Insulin is as cheap as water thanks to my policies!" was probably the most damaging to himself.
The price for Insulin has more than doubled over the last decade. What you actually have to pay every month is not an abstraction that you can simply bullshit away. There are a humongous number of diabetic people in America.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 8:54:29 GMT 1
You shouldn't give a crap about who "won the debate." That doesn't matter, aside from the fact that a shouting match isn't really a "debate".
There's no judge. No, even the result of the election won't be the judge, because debates aren't a big factor to decide the outcome of an election.
All you need to know is that in that utter clusterfuck, Biden barely managed to do the 10 things that he had to do.
1. Not falling asleep during the debate due to dementia
2. Not forgetting his opponent's name
3. Not accidentally revealing the Secret Earpieces or Secret Bottle of Performance Enhancing Drugs
4. Talking about Covid-19
5. Talking about Covid-19
6. Talking about Covid-19
7. Talking about Covid-19
8. Talking about Covid-19
9. Talking about Covid-19
10. Getting Trump NOT to disown white supremacists
Biden was a mess too, but the Republicans set the bar so incredibly low that he just ambled over it.
And, seriously, this has been a single-issue election in essence for more than six months already no matter how hard those pundits pretend that it isn't.
It's Covid-19. That's all that matters in this election. Trump has gotten more paranoiac and unhinged almost entirely because deep down even he knows he fucked up with Covid-19 and feels that his back is against the wall.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 9:23:33 GMT 1
Today Belgium's Covid-19 death toll has surpassed 10,000. The country was sort of hanging in there around 9,900 for a long while, but this "second wave" pushed it over the cliff.
It's a grim milestone. As a former resident I feel down. Thank God that somehow none of the Belgians that I personally and directly know have passed away. 10,000 deaths roughy means 1 out of 1,000 Belgians have died due to Covid-19. That's a hell of a percentage, and incidentally approximately the same percentage as African Americans who died due to Covid-19.
And never forget that Belgium's high figure is partly due to the fact that they do NOT undercount Covid-19 deaths. Their figure most likely reflects the reality more accurately than your country's.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 13:05:21 GMT 1
I don't know if arguing over whether Trump's win percentage is 32% or 29% does this to one's brain (Nate Cohn is a poll aggregator/data analyst), but I have no idea how anyone can feel this while living in America.
Oh boy.
That was easily the best moment that Biden had in the whole debate, because "Will you shut up, man!?" is exactly how tens of millions of Americans have felt for months, years. How can someone who makes a living analyzing politics not see that?
These pundits are beyond ridiculous.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 13:10:25 GMT 1
These Americans opine as if they never met any actual American.
Hell, would you even have to meet one to at least kind of *get* it?
The lack of intellectual imagination is quite astonishing.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 15:34:53 GMT 1
Maybe every non-American should save the clip of that train wreck of a "debate" so that they can quietly show it to every single American who talks about "American global leadership" from now on.
FYI, the mostly-useless Japanese media do possess the "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage" spirit of understatement* but their reaction to the debate was basically What The Fuck Was That Freak Show. I've learned that everyone has a breaking point.
* It's largely the language, though. That's just the way formal Japanese is, and Hirohito's speech was of course done in the formal-est Japanese possible - in fact, it was so formal-anachronistic that most people only vaguely got a gist of it, which was that Japan had officially lost the war, which everyone knew unofficially.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 16:00:11 GMT 1
Yes. Other European countries must follow the German lead.
But this being news-worthy at this point quite clearly shows how far behind Europe still is. Ventilation has been part of the official guideline around this corner of the world since April.
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Post by miscmisc on Sept 30, 2020 18:42:08 GMT 1
I've been looking at the survey data on Covid-19 compliance from the UK and Germany and South Korea and Malaysia, and one country really stands out. You can guess which one has numbers significantly lower than the others' across the board. I don't know how reliable these sets of data are, but the gap is absolutely staggering. It's so staggering that I'm beginning to think that I shouldn't trust these numbers.
You probably expect the UK numbers to be lower than Germany's, but not THIS RIDICULOUSLY much lower. I wouldn't go into the details here, but it's basically a 25% vs. 65% level of difference. In fact, the British numbers seem considerably worse than even America's. This can't be right, can it? For instance, these numbers imply that a majority of Britons would go out for shopping without a facial mask while having Covid-19 symptoms.
Come on. Lockdown fatigue? No way.
I'd like to know how they do surveys in the UK. Perhaps the way they phrase the questions is flawed, and provokes people to answer in a strange way. These numbers are totally untrustworthy and unusable as data, or the UK will be fucked over by Covid-19 this fall and winter.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 1, 2020 6:10:03 GMT 1
Imagine thinking this is some brilliant take. Another West Wing creep.
Yikes.
Anyway, on that "bad person" topic, I think the biggest own goal by Trump in that debate was that he ended up sounding like the most insufferable, obnoxious boss you've ever had, on steroids.
No one likes the bosses who are for some reason absolutely determined to argue against/deny every single goddamn point they are trying to make by constantly talking over them.
When he was a newcomer four years ago, there was some shock value and novelty there. But he's the president now. He is our boss, of sorts. People are getting increasingly tired of that crap. A bully show is fun when you can keep at a certain distance from it, but it's now too close to home literally.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 1, 2020 7:30:52 GMT 1
... says the chief anchor of the network who practically MADE Trump. It's not just boosting his exposure 20-folds in 2016 but his boss Jeff Zucker was behind The Apprentice at NBC, the show that kept Donald "Insolvent" Trump above water, and even as a CNN boss fucking *advised* Trump privately on debates and stuff.
These people. There's a special place in Hypocrisy Hell for this lot.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 1, 2020 9:53:56 GMT 1
You should elect more of these people.
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