[BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon

[BADecker]

You really don't want the Biden team in there. Watch the video.





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08-15-2020 • https://www.naturalnews.com by Mike Adams

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[dkbit98]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much will having Kamala Harris as a running mate and potential Vice President going to help Biden?

1
Biden said so many stupid things in his life that Trump can post anti-Biden videos on twitter every single day.
Kamala Harris will only ruin her own reputation after this move, and that will not help Biden at all.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293368220498505728

[TwitchySeal]

I am serious and I didn't claim what your implying I did.

He's avoiding tough interviews or any situation where he might fuck up and give Trump ammo and would be a fool not to.  Notice how it's the republicans trying to get him to talk? That's because they want him to lose.

I'm not sure what you would constitute as hiding. I guess we have different definitions. Reading a scripted speech word from word in a rehearsed press event isn't quite putting yourself out there.

You didn't say 'Biden isn't quite putting himself out there', and I wouldn't have pushed back if you did.

The press conference was 3 days ago.

Press conference without answering any questions from the press? Brave.

I was responding to your claim that Biden 'hasn't done a press conference in ages'.  

regardless of it being the main reason or not, "not Trump" shouldn't be a reason to vote for someone.

Try thinking about it without Trump being involved, or even political parties.
If you felt very strongly that a victory for candidate A would be horrible, and didn't agree with candidate B but felt they would be a much better president than candidate A, would you have a reason to vote?

This was the point I was making. What you're describing is tribalism in politics. The reasons people feel inclined that Candidate A would be horrible are not policy based, evident from the Pew Research poll.

Were you just trying to say that you don't think people should vote for Biden?  Or are you making an argument that disliking one candidate shouldn't be a reason to vote for the other candidate?

[JollyGood]

To have a female running mate as a potential Vice President who is a person of colour and of mixed heritage that must count for something more than a 1 that you gave, right?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much will having Kamala Harris as a running mate and potential Vice President going to help Biden?

1
Biden said so many stupid things in his life that Trump can post anti-Biden videos on twitter every single day.
Kamala Harris will only ruin her own reputation after this move, and that will not help Biden at all.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293368220498505728

[eddie13]

To have a female running mate as a potential Vice President who is a person of colour and of mixed heritage that must count for something more than a 1 that you gave, right?

Should it?
Vote for me because I’m a woman and brown?

Just sounds like more of the usual and ever increasing blatant anti-white male bigotry to me..

[Gyfts]

You didn't say 'Biden isn't quite putting himself out there', and I wouldn't have pushed back if you did.

This is a semantics argument. Essentially disagreeing just to disagree. Hiding in the basement, not quite putting himself out there -- call it what you want.

I was responding to your claim that Biden 'hasn't done a press conference in ages'.

I don't consider a rehearsed scripted event a press conference. It is by technicality but the point was Joe Biden hasn't taken questions from the press in a while.

Were you just trying to say that you don't think people should vote for Biden?  Or are you making an argument that disliking one candidate shouldn't be a reason to vote for the other candidate?

People can vote for who they choose but my point was that the majority of voters voting for Biden citing the reason of "not Trump" is indicative of tribalism in politics that aren't rooted in policy. It's not that they shouldn't vote for Biden.

[TwitchySeal]

You didn't say 'Biden isn't quite putting himself out there', and I wouldn't have pushed back if you did.

This is a semantics argument. Essentially disagreeing just to disagree. Hiding in the basement, not quite putting himself out there -- call it what you want.

I think it's just Trump being effective at convincing people to believe something and then go repeat it other people.


Recently it seems to be happening more and more.  Trump says something like 'Kamala Harris is a radical leftist' and boom - talking point for everyone.

[nutildah]

To have a female running mate as a potential Vice President who is a person of colour and of mixed heritage that must count for something more than a 1 that you gave, right?

Should it?
Vote for me because I’m a woman and brown?

Just sounds like more of the usual and ever increasing blatant anti-white male bigotry to me..

Seeing as how every Vice President ever has been a white male, I don't think a change-up is necessarily a bad thing. Slipping one non-white female in there doesn't equal "blatant anti-white male bigotry," necessarily. White guys co-piloted the ship for 240 years. The ship isn't doing so well now; I'm open to trying something else. Historically speaking, having a female vice presidential candidate has spelled doom for the party that had them, so consider Harris a statistical blessing.

I'm more interested in how the Electoral College vote will play out anyhow, since we don't actually live in a democracy and the fate of the nation is ultimately decided by a select group of political elite. Here is my "worst case scenario" for the Dems, giving Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida to Trump:



Trump would need to have those 3 states plus one of any other to pull off the V. Other states potentially flippable are:

- Nevada
- Virginia
- Michigan
- Pennsylvania

But for Trump to get any one of those while also still getting Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida... I just don't see it happening. He could get Michigan and Virginia and then lose Florida, and still lose.

If you want to create your own Electoral College map, you can do it here, its kind of fun to explore potential outcomes:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/create_your_own_president_map.html

[eddie13]

Seeing as how every Vice President ever has been a white male, I don't think a change-up is necessarily a bad thing. Slipping one non-white female in there doesn't equal "blatant anti-white male bigotry," necessarily. White guys co-piloted the ship for 240 years. The ship isn't doing so well now; I'm open to trying something else. Historically speaking, having a female vice presidential candidate has spelled doom for the party that had them, so consider Harris a statistical blessing.

Their is nothing wrong with a woman or any race of president/VP candidate imo, until that is being used as THE reason to vote for them..

This ship, still the greatest ship in the world btw, has been ran by mostly white males for a reason..
The reason being that statistically white males are much more likely to be available and well qualified for the job..
Not saying that women or other races cannot be, but are statistically much less likely to be..

And their is nothing wrong with white males.. They are kinda responsible for the modern luxurious, technological, and civilized way of life we all take for granted these days..
They should be praised and thanked for bringing the world forward into what it is today, rather than hated out of sheer jealousy..

[nutildah]

Their is nothing wrong with a woman or any race of president/VP candidate imo, until that is being used as THE reason to vote for them..

This ship, still the greatest ship in the world btw, has been ran by mostly white males for a reason..
The reason being that statistically white males are much more likely to be available and well qualified for the job..
Not saying that women or other races cannot be, but are statistically much less likely to be..

And their is nothing wrong with white males.. They are kinda responsible for the modern luxurious, technological, and civilized way of life we all take for granted these days..
They should be praised and thanked for bringing the world forward into what it is today, rather than hated out of sheer jealousy..

Taking pride in shit you were born into is pretty cringeworthy, regardless of who does it. It's like if tall people walked around reminding everyone how awesome it was to be tall, or born into wealth for that matter. It's not very impressive if these things are just handed to you from birth and then you celebrate them as some sort of accomplishment.

Kamala Harris worked far harder in life than you or I ever did to get where she is today. I'm willing to give her a chance. If you're not, then fine, vote for Trump. Not that Trump had many great qualifications to be president -- what's the actual difference between her and Harris, besides the fact that he's a white male?

Praising people simply because other people of that skin tone have made accomplishments before them is just plain nonsense.

BTW, nobody is saying there is anything wrong with white males. I'm just open minded to the possibility of trying out something else for a change.

[eddie13]

Trump is obviously very intelligent and a very successful businessman..
Any disagreement with that is nonsense.. He has also done a great job as president thus far..

Other cultures are celebrated ad nausium for whatever their histories, accomplishments, and eccentricities are/were while white culture, that brought the world ideas if liberty, freedom, human rights, democracy, and great advancements in medicine, industry and mechanization, technology, and all, is despised..

All sorts of acceptance and glorification for black pride and latino pride while “white pride” is so strongly discouraged?
You know damn well what Im talking about..

Who said that “If Biden doesn't chose a female minority for VP he will loose the election”? And thats exactly what he did and probably exactly for that reason..
That shit is bananas and it would never be acceptable if the roles were reversed..

Trying out “something else” for a change?
As if anything but a white male is “something else”?
What exactly do you mean by that???
Is their something inherently different about “white males” in specific that would make anything else so different?
You think that given the same education, experience, and inteligence that a woman or other race would think or act differently for some reason??
What is so different about another race or gender? Hmmm??
Are we different? How so?

[eddie13]

No..
Just the fact that that is the reason why she was selected, is what I have a gripe about..
Other than that I don’t care that she is whatever she is, and I hear she is basically a mostly centrist fake progressive that will probably just float around with the tide of the Democrat party as far as her policy positions..
No real convictions, just a pleaser..
And I’m sure her history as a prosecutor will go over really well with the anti-police folk..

[suchmoon]

Trump is obviously very intelligent

No.

[JollyGood]

Did anybody newspaper ever publish Trump's tax returns?

[TwitchySeal]

Did anybody newspaper ever publish Trump's tax returns?

The NYTimes won a Pulitzer for the most in depth investigation from documents we recently found out were provided by his Niece.

Like the Mueller report it proves Trump is a fraud and a criminal but it's too long and complicated for many Trump supporters to read even if they wanted to.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

[JollyGood]

Excellent article, I am reading up on it now but had to post here after reading this part:

"The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances. The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show"

The NYTimes won a Pulitzer for the most in depth investigation from documents we recently found out were provided by his Niece.

Like the Mueller report it proves Trump is a fraud and a criminal but it's too long and complicated for many Trump supporters to read even if they wanted to.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

[eddie13]

“In todays dollars” X100, lol..
Surprised they value inflating their story so much over possibly redpilling the masses on how terrible $dollars are as a store of value..

Trumps are smart.. Pay as little taxes as possible..
Nice exaggerated hitpiece..

[squatz1]

Did anybody newspaper ever publish Trump's tax returns?

The NYTimes won a Pulitzer for the most in depth investigation from documents we recently found out were provided by his Niece.

Like the Mueller report it proves Trump is a fraud and a criminal but it's too long and complicated for many Trump supporters to read even if they wanted to.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Most likely too long for anyone to read. Hard to put that into a one sentence headline which pretty much means that most Americans won't know about it. Not trying to shit on just Americans here, this is an everyone problem - no one has an attention span and wants to do large scale research on topics that they can just be spoon fed about.

Excellent article, I am reading up on it now but had to post here after reading this part:

"The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances. The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show"

The NYTimes won a Pulitzer for the most in depth investigation from documents we recently found out were provided by his Niece.

Like the Mueller report it proves Trump is a fraud and a criminal but it's too long and complicated for many Trump supporters to read even if they wanted to.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Q - Why didn't the IRS or NY State Department of Tax and Finance go after him about this?

Is it just common for rich people to do this so no one wants to go after this?

[TwitchySeal]

Did anybody newspaper ever publish Trump's tax returns?

The NYTimes won a Pulitzer for the most in depth investigation from documents we recently found out were provided by his Niece.

Like the Mueller report it proves Trump is a fraud and a criminal but it's too long and complicated for many Trump supporters to read even if they wanted to.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Most likely too long for anyone to read. Hard to put that into a one sentence headline which pretty much means that most Americans won't know about it. Not trying to shit on just Americans here, this is an everyone problem - no one has an attention span and wants to do large scale research on topics that they can just be spoon fed about.

Excellent article, I am reading up on it now but had to post here after reading this part:

"The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances. The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show"

The NYTimes won a Pulitzer for the most in depth investigation from documents we recently found out were provided by his Niece.

Like the Mueller report it proves Trump is a fraud and a criminal but it's too long and complicated for many Trump supporters to read even if they wanted to.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Q - Why didn't the IRS or NY State Department of Tax and Finance go after him about this?

Is it just common for rich people to do this so no one wants to go after this?

I guess you could say incompetence, but I imagine it's a lot easier to get away with fraud when you have several family members participating and many different types of assets and separate companies.  The more complicated the better.

imo the tax evasion and bank fraud aren't nearly as damning as the fact that Trumps entire "I'm a self made super successful business man that turned a small loan into billions" is false. (yes TECSHARE and spendulus, we know, he had success in the 2016 election) That may describe Fred Trump, but not Donald who blew tons of money that was given to him and whenever he got in trouble (often) his father just gave him more, and when his father was near death he took control of everything.

[squatz1]

SNIP

Probably incompetence, but I mean more in regards to like - I highly doubt that the Trumps are the first people to do this (if all of the allegations are true) -- I also doubt that they're going to be the last ones to do so. An excuse to this could be that it is very expensive for NYS DTF and the IRS to go after this, but like, this is where the money is so wouldn't it be a net gain to be doing this and going against the rich people?

I assume that like, not everything they did is illegal and I think it's fair for us to assume that the NY Times did embellish parts of the story to make it seem worse then it really is. But ya know, rich people and doing illegal shit is pretty common.

NY Times have him inheriting around half a billion from his Dad and the real estate empire. He's worth a couple more billion then that now, so I wouldn't say that he's just not successful. Guy did do pretty well for himself throughout the years with his real estate holdings.