“If you’re explaining, you’re losing”
Rob Belgeri at “Social Media Platform Migration.” Facebook.
The last presidential debate I watched was between Bush I and Dukakis. Bush’s unctuousness and lies flattened Dukakis’s policy wonk lack of dynamism. I tapped out after 5-10 minutes.
These are not debates. They are junior high gotchya sessions. The one who plays by Marquise of Queensbury rules (think, rule-compliant) is the loser. The one with intentions and proposed policies based on complex situations and circumstances is the loser because the Great Genocidalist of Central America, Reagan, said it in his memoirs:
“If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
That makes the debates exercises in bumper-sticker oversimplification and just plain lying horsesh*t.
If you accept my thesis here, what is the value of such debates?
Can you remember one in which the Republican didn’t use it as a platform for mendacity and f*ckery? (Think, Romney in 2012.)
If debates’ value is questionable, that conjecture lies in whether they are predictive of success on the job, should one of them rise to it (or stay in it). They most assuredly are not.
Biden’s difficulties on 6/27 were not predictive of success on the job, which he has already proved. He’s got able back-up if, by some long shot, he has to 25A himself. His failure on 6/27, even without the cold and the exhaustion, was foreordained by the RW-lite network that wasn’t running a debate at all, as well as the Gish Gallop pile of orange shit and lies Biden was undebating.
You can see Biden live at 6:30 PM here:
Biden’s press conference will be a key test for him | AP News
Not sure what time zone.
The AP muzac is getting tired!
Paddy:
Anything Biden does will be critiqued and considered wrong or not enough Too lively and called not serious or addressing the issues. Too sedate, he will be called an old person. It is a crapshoot.
I look at the past and what was accomplished. Somebody did something right, he played a part of it and probably led it with others doing the heavy lifting. Can he reproduce what he did in the first term with his team. I think he can.
I look at his wealthy supporters and wonder how many want to eliminate the 2017 tax cut which mostly went to them. That is a good reason for them to oppose Biden. Even the George Clooneys can get in on that windfall. There is more to this than what is being revealed.
Yep he is old, but he is going in the right direction to benefit the people who need it the most. The aristocratic rich on both sides of the political circus certainly will lose if the 2017 tax break is reversed or modified.