re: Trump didn’t lose me last night, but I’m tired of the bluster and barking

Reagan shaped my life from my early teens to late teens. He was so suave that he would have the Democrats eating out of his hand. Read some of Tip O’Neill’s works.

I guess much of the shite show that we’ve seen from Presidents can be dated to the Iraqi war and George Bush‘s promise to not raise taxes. Since then we’ve had nothing but warmongers, far left liberals, and Trump (who can’t get past his ego).

With the state of media and fake news, I’m not sure if we’ll ever see decency again.

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Trump has done far more for the black community in less than four years than Biden

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those people are either convinced by what he has done OFF STAGE for the last 3 years or not. the debate doesn't change one thing.

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Critical Race Theory is not the same as sensitivity training

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again, that's an off stage issue. no one is going to be convinced either way by the debate

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shame on Wallace and all of the Left for misleading the country for so long

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same thing and you're even admitting as much when you point to the daily activities of the media. and btw, he handled this issue in the debate as i've pointed out

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The violence we've experienced this summer is not "right wing supremacy" at its source

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he specifically commented on this

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I could fill up this space with similar commentary about COVID

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he made several really strong points on this issue

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Trump could have accomplished so much more

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this might still be true but i haven't seen any reasons so far to think it was true. trump did about as much as any person could do given the circumstances

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bringing as much light to the debate as he did heat

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that time is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY over. the left is only going to understand one thing - being bludgeoned into submission by every red blooded american. that their views and their goals are unacceptable in this country. either wise up and understand how the real world actually works or get out. the time for subtlety and nuance has passed.

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Bham4Tide

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Only dumbfricks are.

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Yes

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that's stupid and not true. and even if it were true, they are being naive and they are giving a vote of confidence to the deep state. good job destroying the country

I’m tired of people complaining about Trump. His personality should not be a revelation after years of his presidency. But he is all that we have. Vote Trump or lose the country.

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His personality should not be a revelation after years of his presidency

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NO KIDDING. my word. NO ONE wants this. no one wants a trump to be president in order to save the country. but this is where the left has driven the country

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Vote Trump or lose the country

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exactly. heck, we might lose the country even if trump is elected. once the trump experiment is over, it's up to the conservative citizens of the country to fight in the streets. the street fight has already started. conservatives haven't joined yet because we control the white house and the senate. once that ends, it's war and the left started it decades ago

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the left is only going to understand one thing

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I think the quote above is consistent with your whole post, so I'll address it.

It's not the Left that needed to learn about/understand Trump. There are millions of voters who don't pay all that much attention to politics until the last month or two running up to an election. A lot of them, even if they identify as Democrats, are not "Left" as we understand the Left today. They are people that have heard headlines through the TDS era, are intellectually skeptical of politicians in general, and were persuadable last night. I think Trump could have won many of them over if he had spent some of that energy on information, particulars, details - after all, it's the other side that chooses "truth" over facts.

Ag Zwin, A&M should have taught you more about cult membership. The first rule of any cult is that you do not question the leader. No matter how batshit crazy or detrimental the leader may seem, you DO NOT QUESTION THE LEADER!

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A lot of them, even if they identify as Democrats, are not "Left" as we understand the Left today. They are people that have heard headlines through the TDS era, are intellectually skeptical of politicians in general, and were persuadable last night

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i don't think this demographic really exists in any appreciable quantity. that is a construct of the political establishment. everyone is somewhere on every issue. 808 is a good example. he's been pretty far right regarding c19 but left of center regarding leo. i don't think there is a whole segment of the population that is in the "middle" on every issue waiting to be persuaded. trump is a result of the left forcing people to take a side. pretty much all of the people who identify as democrat, whether progressive or somewhere closer to the center, will vote democrat. that's how they work. sure, a few will cross the party line, but not many.

thinking there is a homogeneous group of undecided voters, a tabula rasa so to speak, is conventional political thinking. this has gone way beyond conventional politics and trump was just the start. he was elected specifically because convention is going out the window. the politicians in the "middle," rinos and moderate dems, are being pushed to one end or the other and it's all because the radical left fought harder in the political arena than conservatives starting 3 or 4 decades ago.

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are intellectually skeptical of politicians in general

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biden did nothing, NOTHING, to convince such a person that he is the right man for the job. trump showed he's a fighter.