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There were at least twice very visible times when dementia kicked in and was clearly affecting his cognitive abilities, but the moderator just had to lend a helping hand.

This guy's protective bubble is incredible, from at first refusal to debate to a mandatory break within 30 minutes... I don't know what to say. Have Dems & the MSM deluded themselves so much that they think the rest of the world would provide poor ol' Biden a 'safe space' when he is engaged in negotiations?

I guess they just want to get rid of Trump very, very badly. <shrug>

Third big news of today: Trump got the Corona's (as well as Melania). Over/under of being such an asshole that the virus just suicides seems pretty big, although, more seriously, him dying a few weeks before the election and Pence taking over would be a pretty unprecedented thing to happen.

^ Don't get your hopes up, Maggie. Fate can still give us the middle finger by making him ends up fine like Boris Johnson.

Yeah, but Bobo did not get sick one month before the election and was out, IIRC, at least a full month. We'll see, I guess.

*Shrug* Or he is just faking it, with already very predictable reaction coming from the MSM, which will become yet another trap they will fall into.

Or that. However, I'd think the Secret Service would notice and with all the leakers in the WH it would leak immediately.

Scenario: Biden also gets it, they both croak and we get two completely unelected people competing for President of the US. Bernie will, of course, stand in the corner and pretend he has no power to declare himself the legitimate candidate, because the dude sadly never had the spine we hoped that he had.

Well, I am going to go into a little tirade here, so bear with me, because I need to let this out of my system.

Bernie Sanders: I do not agree with most of his policies, but I can appreciate his candor. Or at least until he became a sellout after being bribed and accepting millions.

Joe Biden: An actual old-school Democrat who is an actual racist throughout most of his career, and probably broke bread with members of the 'Klan'. He had called all-black schools a racial 'jungle' and was against desegregation. He called Black adults 'super predators' at one point, and helped to draft pretty harsh criminal measures against that community. So it's rich for him to actually raise the issue of 'White Supremacy', but sure. Oh yeah, and he later made up a story about attending a Historical Black University. Now half-dead candidate for presidency.

Barack Obama: Can't talk about 2020 without this guy. Tall and charming, pretty much scoring all the first-impression points you'll ever need as a politician. I voted for him due to his stance on the ongoing wars in the Middle East. After all, instead of spending billions overseas, they could be better served for internal development here in the United States. Unfortunately, after dangling the corpses of dead Iraqi children as prop to get elected, he went and signed into law the justification for extra-judiciary assassinations of American citizens oversea via drones and other means. Then he expanded the very controversial Bush-era Patriot act, and within a few years was bombing other countries. Take Libya, a country that Hillary Clinton praised for abandoning its stash of WMDs and willingness to work with Western nations, including a very publicized photo-op of her and Qaddaffi's son. The same woman who later commented "we came, we saw, he died". Where were all the anti-war protestors then? The same anti-war protestors that raged against the Bush administration? They were nowhere to be found, clearly because their guy won so who gives a fuck.

Oh yes, he got a Nobel peace prize for uhh... 'giving people hope'.

Donald Trump: He is an asshole, no question. Wakes up at midnight and tweets nonsense. It's very, very difficult to appreciate the man on a persona level. But it's also this guy that kept the United States from further foreign intervention even though Iran was ripe for a series of missile strikes, with both political parties in the US fully expected to do. He simply flat-out refused. It is also this asshole that brought Middle Eastern nations to the table and recognize the state of Israel. For the first time, Muslim countries can now charter direct flights to and from Israel. Whether you like it or not, he had accomplished things Obama promised, but failed to commit.

Also, it took this asshole to expose the MSM for what they really are, liars. Period. It doesn't get more clear when MSM reporters stand in front of a burning block and tell the American people that it's a 'mostly peaceful protest'. Then later attempt to blame this on some invisible KKK boogieman (a la Smollett).

I know who threw bricks into my friend's parents shop, a shop I personally helped to remodel. It wasn't some militia group who set it on fire, and certainly not some Klansmen from the deep, dark woods of Alabama. It was people waving BLM, Antifa, Bernie Bros and Communist flags, forcibly taking over property that weren't theirs, throwing bricks into minority owned businesses while committing burning, looting and murder. Kristallnacht, anyone?

Oh, did I mention they force people to give special hand-salutes, and beat-up anyone who do not agree with them for kicks? Then later labeling their victims as fascists while the media gives them cover. The fact that Joe Biden and the MSM want to pretend they do not exist is all I need to know where they stand.

Only reason why I, and others have not taken to the streets and actually repeal these individuals by force is because we still believe in the law, and would like to see the system exercise itself according to the constitution. But when push comes to shove, who knows.

Can't really disagree with much you said there, only that I probably have an even more extreme opinion about many of the people mentioned above.

I'm left on economic issues and pretty radically left on international policy issues. But I think the new wave of super-woke "cancel culture" is authoritarian bullshit, which would fit better in Mao's China. Let people have their own opinions and culture, don't try to marginalize and shame them out of existance.

Also, Obama is a fucking war criminal, who should be put behind bars forever, together with George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton. What Obama and Clinton did to Libyia is disgraceful and I will be ashamed forever for my government having aided that destruction of the most prosperous African nation, bringing open slavery back to Africa.

Not even to mention that civil liberty abuses which began under Bush, were vastly expanded under Obama and now kept going by Trump. I fear I've gotten down from fiery hatred to dull resignation over the last years about them, because it has been made abundantly clear that no matter who is in charge in the US government, they'll be kept going. I had hopes for Bernie and Tulsi to get into power, since they both have some principles (and Tulsi would have had the spine t enforce them) but that was shattered early in the year.

That's the great irony. While the MSM in the United States barrage the populace with talks about Black slavery, their favorite president was also the one man who made it possible in Africa again. But you will not hear about open slavery in Africa from the American MSM, never.

Though I give Trump credit where credit is due. When he was elected, both the Dems and Reps fully expected him to bomb Iran. That didn't happen. Then he hired John Bolton, and the MSM fear-mongered people into thinking Trump was going to start WW3 with N. Korea, that didn't happen. Trump crossed into N. Korea, shook hands with Kim and John Bolton was fired. Then of course the hundred-days of riots happened, and once again, the establishment fully expected him to send Federal troops into states and use the Insurrection-Act. Again, Trump preferred that states ask for Federal aid instead of forcibly cram aid into their throats. He gave the MSM none of their expectations and nothing to talk about, and the MSM felt they have been continuously trolled by Trump. No wonder the MSM have to make up something, anything.

Now, he did launch missiles against the Isis, and the irony is, when he did that, it was also the first and only time the MSM said he was being 'presidential'. Holy fuck.

As for the patriot act and other executive actions of its ilk that was expanded under Obama, I do not have confidence that Trump would abolish them. Though I am rather hopeful he will not expand them. At this time, he has not relied upon them, and they more or less co-existed with a Trump presidency rather than being a part of it. It's not the best outcome, but under the current circumstances, it's probably the most satisfactory one.

Tulsi is the most likable candidate from the Dem primaries, but the left hates her. Holy shit they hate her. She is now their 'secret fascist mole' in the Democrat party. IIRC, Hillary once called her a secret Russian agent. Makes me wonder if she has gone senile too.

Begrudgingly so because Israel was built on the blood of Palestinian muslims who died driven from their land and (still trying) to take it back.

Would you rather Palestinians continue dying, or that they start somewhere positive? You do realize the situation was just that, the former, for more than half-century. But with Muslim countries able to charter direct flights, they will now be able to directly observe the situation. It's a vast improvement over prior arrangements.

Before that, the land we call Israel was built on the blood of Jews. We can all play the go-back game, but it wouldn't be constructive.

Nah, that's just the RussiaGate obsession which has come from Hillary and has infected vast tracts of the mainstream liberal and a lof of the progressive side of the Democrats. Tulsi was on Bernie's side in 2016 and actively opposed Clinton, so there's a grudge.

Now, I imagine from outside "the left" may look pretty uniform, but it's everything but. Since I am quite versed in the internal intricacies of the American left, let me elucidate a little bit.

There are mainstream liberals, mostly white moderately affluent suburbanites, who are pretty content with their lot, but are socially liberal and economically neoliberal. They support politicians like Biden, watch CNN and MSNBC and buy into RussiaGate. These people hate Tulsi with a passion, because they actually believe everything the MSM is telling them.

Then there are economic progressives, who are socially progressive and economically progressive, who think that the best solution to improving the lot of everyone is to bring about more economic equality and want government to provide solutions in that regard and otherwise keep out of people's personal business. A good part of these people support Tulsi (or at least sympathetic to her) and a lot of them oppose RussiaGate. Sadly, due to her being a candidate in the primary, some of them got turned against her, because they went fully into "everything who runs against Bernie is an enemy" mode. That part of the left always brings up India and Modi, since she tepidly said positive things about the guy, when they never bring it up with any other Democrat politician who does so.

And then there are "woke" people, who radically want to enforce a more puritan standard of living, want to meddle in other people's personal business, judge them and destroy their personal lives and economic status when they deviate from woke standards. Those are basically the kind of people you mentioned rioting, doxxing people on Twitter and doing all other sorts of authoritatian bullshit. Sadly they have been gaining influence during Trumps presidency (together with RussiaGaters).

And although the economic progressives seemed to be ascendant during the primary, they totally collapsed to the other two movements after Bernie cucked out after Super Tuesday. It's really quite depressing.

With the Palestine sovereignty getting less and less support from the world and Israel's getting more & more acknowledgement, I'm afraid the Palestinians won't be able to have a start at all, let alone a positive one.

Look at how constant the Israel's encroachment & agression towards the continuously-shrinking Palestine territory as they keep pushing the borders. If left to the Israel's own devices, Palestinians will become endangered species soon.

Palestinians are basically Native-Americans of the middle-east. They got screwed in their own home.

And many others believe the Jewish people are simply returning to their homeland after a long exile. Again, we can play the go-back game, but it wouldn't be constructive.

I am not a Democrat and I imagine I will never be one. Nonetheless, I also support social programs that would help people. In the United States, it would not be difficult to do, especially when we can have more resources once we STOP COMMITTING REGIME CHANGE! However, where I differ from Dems in general is that I believe in an expiration to these social programs, and they must be more than just handing out cash, which is what Dems largely advocate. Since I am employed by the Federal Government, I know the abuses that go in first hand, and I am not a bit fond of it.

When I mention the 'Left', I don't mean Liberals or neolibs. Neolibs are like Neocons, they advocate for the status quo, which also include stupid invasions of third-world countries. Biden was part of this group and still is. If he gets into office, you can bet wars will be returning to the menu, and if he dies during office, it'd be worse since Kamala wants to prove she has balls. This is all the while our real enemy, that being China, will be breathing a sigh of relief and continue commencing actual crimes against humanity.

The Left on the other hand, are just fucking nuts.

Still, "the left" is not a single movement with a single goal. Rather anything but that. So saying "the left are just fucking nuts" is painting with a very broad brush over a very broad swath of people. Many leftist goals are actually overwhelmingly popular with large parts of the American populace (outside of deceptive questioning tactics by the MSM to bias people against them).

As far as social programs ending, as a German I believe in some sort of unemployment benefits which last until you get work again. People have the right to some basic human decency, i.e. financial benefits and healthcare, at least over here where I live. I'd love the right to a place to live added to that, but sadly the government isn't doing that. Yet. So we have some homeless people, too.

The problem with social benefits here in the US (alongside rent reduction) is that anyone can apply, and agencies won't ask you anything other than your ability to fill out an application. Period. There is very little accountability. A normal able-bodied individual can actually be on such programs for an entire lifetime without being employed. That's the problem.

As for having the 'right' to live, let me just say, most of the people who advocated for this in the US would not want any of these disadvantaged people living anywhere near them.

<shrug> Well, people live together in Germany. Yeah, we also have quarters in cities where people who lower social status congregate more and some quarters which are predominantly well off. But in many parts of Hamburg you can have all kind of people in the same house.

Actually you can get "social help" (Sozialhilfe) in Germany for your lifetime as well, but it's kind of a miserable sum of money and the work agency is constantly making you apply to jobs (which normally suck, like working in callcenters). It's considerably worse than before some social reforms made by, of course, the social democrat party. Fucking traitors. Which, as a consequence, are polling now only at 16%, when they used to get something like 35% to 40%.

Well, the people of Israel are not the ones being constantly oppressed for a century now, are they?

And again, the world acknowledging Israel can only mean bad things for Palestinians. There's nothing positive about it like you hope it is. It's like giving a bully more tools to beat the crap outta the bullied.

Holocaust this, Nazi that. The Jewish of Israel now have been living long enough to see themselves become the villain.