Friday, October 23, 2020

What debate?

 


 

Friday, October 23, 2020
 
When Biden checked his watch during the middle of the debate I kept wondering if he had a bus to catch.
Unfortunately the debate won't settle anybody's opinion on either candidate both on their points.
What Trump managed to do was avoid the disaster that the first debate had become.
His supporters could have something to hang their hats on even if Biden wasn't knocked out.
Naturally media kept reprinting everything Biden said so gave him a scorecard that seemed better than it was.
In the end by total campaign is covid-19 everything else at the debate whimpered away.
Democrats and media are trying to sell us that COVID is the worst disaster in American history and that Trump is to blame.
The death rate is being pumped up by the fact that many people seemed to have died from COVID even before they actually caught it – and for the first time in history, we’re seeing a sharp decline in the death rate due to heart attacks, cancer and even car accidents – showing that COVID may actually be the ultimate cure for these other conditions.
One of Biden’s big mistakes was to compare Trump to Lincoln, and to accuse both of these presidents of being racist.
This is not going to settle well in the Midwest where people haven’t drunk the Woke Kool Aid and still see Lincoln is a hero.
The other stupid move by Biden was to compare Trump to Hitler.
Whenever someone tries to win an argument using this or the term fascist, you know they are desperate, and in this case, even the most ardent Biden supporters had to cringe.
Of course, we are not going to actually get anything out of this debate except that media again attempted to derail Trump.
If anyone lost the debate is mainstream media who continually tried to steal the narrative by reporting only those lines Biden seemed to score points on and those which Trump seemed to fumble over.
The moderator doing her best to interrupt the narrative anytime Trump started to get on a roll
To Trump's credit he did not let this shake him.
To an objective observer, Biden probably seemed weak frail and indecisive even during those moments when he seemed to be on message.
Biden is weak on plans for the future. He may come up with a good idea once in a blue moon, but this tends to rattle around in his empty head like a pinball until he goes tilt.
But this will not shake his supporters and so the debate basically came out as a draw with each side getting enough ammunition to carry on the debate for the next two weeks in propaganda.
In the end we are left with one factor to get out the vote campaign and which side will actually do the best job at this.
Biden fortunately gets the benefit of Bad Decisions by Democratic Governors who decided to do all mail-in ballots. Even if these get delivered properly, many people are going to throw them out mistaking these for the flood of campaign literature that has been invading their mailboxes for months.
Biden will win in Democratic states like New Jersey. But nobody knows what the impact will be in the battle ground states.
Some believe Democrats are using mail in ballots as a way to challenge the election later if Trump wins.
We are now in the ultimate last phase of the campaign and so there will be more dirty tricks as media throws everything including caution to the wind to see if they can get a another issue they can hang on Trump
Trump's advantage here is that media has so discredited itself over the last 4 years -- in particular with the lack of coverage over Biden's son's emails --  that whatever media throws at from now will be taken with a skeptical eye by anyone except those that are legally blind or have poked their own eyes out with their “not my president” signs.
But this is one of those elections where anything can happen and if it's going to happen it's going to happen to the next 10 days

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