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2020 the battle of the septuagenarians - Trump vs Biden, Part 2

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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    And what if a person believes that Biden being president for the next 4 years presents a bigger threat to the future of America than trump does.

    Would that same person not feel as though it would be a dereliction of their duty to protect their country and fellow citizens by voting for Biden?

    take a look at america and tell me they are better off than 4 years ago.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,330 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    YouTuber livestreams himself taking poop on Nancy Pelosi's driveway

    What disgusting people.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    weisses wrote: »
    Again ... Anyone is free to vote for the man that in itself cannot be considered "flawed" imo, however many of the reasons used as to why Trump is their man are flawed and wont hold in an honest debate ... as is shown on various threads on boards

    If a person believes that he has lived up to his previous campaign promise of Making America Great Again and they believe that he will continue to keep America Great or at least do a better job than Biden of doing so.

    Is that reasoning flawed?


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    If a person believes that he has lived up to his previous campaign promise of Making America Great Again and they believe that he will continue to keep America Great or at least do a better job than Biden of doing so.

    Is that reasoning flawed?

    has he made america great again? in what way has he done that? i can think of nearly 200,000 americans who would disagree with you


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    take a look at america and tell me they are better off than 4 years ago.

    That is very subjective and would be based on whatever method a person would use to measure whether there has been an improvement for them or not


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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    That is very subjective and would be based on whatever method a person would use to measure whether there has been an improvement for them or not

    well it is definitely worse for 200,000 people. plus the millions now unemployed are not too impressed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    has he made america great again? in what way has he done that? i can think of nearly 200,000 americans who would disagree with you

    Since President Trump took office, over 2.4 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty.

    Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans have reached record lows.

    Since President Trump’s election, nearly 7 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps.

    Are they not good things that have happened while Trump has been president?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    well it is definitely worse for 200,000 people. plus the millions now unemployed are not too impressed.

    There's no denying that up until the pandemic struck the economy was doing well and there was record low unemployment levels for a number of groups.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Since President Trump took office, over 2.4 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty.

    Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans have reached record lows.

    Since President Trump’s election, nearly 7 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps.

    Are they not good things that have happened while Trump has been president?

    source for all of that? what about the millions unemployed? have you forgotten them? have you forgotten that trump knew how serious Covid was and did nothing about it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    source for all of that? what about the millions unemployed? have you forgotten them? have you forgotten that trump knew how serious Covid was and did nothing about it?

    It's a bit outdated but still relevant IMO.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-delivered-record-breaking-results-american-people-first-three-years-office/

    The pandemic has hit every country so we can't lay all the blame for the unemployment levels on Trump.

    Sure he could have handled it better but I believe that he would have done a better job than Biden would have and that Trump is a lot more capable of running the county for the next 4 years than Biden is.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    That is very subjective and would be based on whatever method a person would use to measure whether there has been an improvement for them or not

    And that is the problem when you campaign solely on a bunch of slogans (and its not exclusively trumps domain)


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,859 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Sure he could have handled it better but I believe that he would have done a better job than Biden would have and that Trump is a lot more capable of running the county for the next 4 years than Biden is.

    The sad truth is that they're both terrible.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    It's a bit outdated but still relevant IMO.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-delivered-record-breaking-results-american-people-first-three-years-office/

    The pandemic has hit every country so we can't lay all the blame for the unemployment levels on Trump.

    Sure he could have handled it better but I believe that he would have done a better job than Biden would have and that Trump is a lot more capable of running the county for the next 4 years than Biden is.

    how could have done a better job than biden? he hasn't done anything. He is still holding mass rallies. he still refuses to set an example by wearing a mask because he is afraid his makeup will be rubbed off.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    how could have done a better job than biden? he hasn't done anything. He is still holding mass rallies. he still refuses to set an example by wearing a mask because he is afraid his makeup will be rubbed off.

    I think we're just going to go around in circles here you believe that Biden is a better candidate for various reasons and I believe that Trump is a better candidate for various reasons.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,707 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    The Nal wrote: »
    The sad truth is that they're both terrible.

    By what measure is Biden terrible?

    I mean, this is from his wikipedia page.
    He opposed the Gulf War in 1991 but supported the expansion of the NATO alliance into Eastern Europe and its intervention in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He supported the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 but opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. He also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties. Biden led the efforts to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act, and oversaw the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008.

    Biden was reelected six times to the U.S. Senate and was the fourth-most senior senator when he resigned after winning the vice presidency alongside Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.[4] Obama and Biden were reelected in 2012. As Vice President, Biden oversaw infrastructure spending in 2009 to counteract the Great Recession. His negotiations with congressional Republicans helped the Obama administration pass legislation including the 2010 Tax Relief Act, which resolved a taxation deadlock; the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved a debt ceiling crisis; and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending fiscal cliff. In foreign policy, Biden led the efforts to pass the United States–Russia New START treaty; supported military intervention in Libya, and helped formulate U.S. policy toward Iraq through the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011. Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Biden led the Gun Violence Task Force, created to address the causes of gun violence in the United States.[5]

    Now, I am not saying he is the best thing since slice bread, but when compared to the bluffer that Trump is who paid someone to take exams for him, who refused the draft numerous times was handed a fortune, who has had numerous business ventures fail, who has had 6 companies declare bankruptcy, who has paid hush money to a porn star who he cheated on his pregnant wife with, who has pulled the US out of the Paris Accord, The Iran Nuclear Deal, has undermined and inhibited the WHO, has pushed his peers out of the way in an effort to get attention, has supported white supremacists while President of the US, who has undermined the medical and military communities in the US, who was impeached while in Office, who has sought to divide and stoke fear and panic amongst Americans, who used tear gas on his own citizens exercising their first amendment right, who has lied over 20,000 times while in office and who criminally undermined the worst pandemic in 100 years leading to 200K of Americans to die from it in 6 months, there is no competition.

    All people want from the US President at the moment is for them to be a symbol of dignity, unity and diplomacy after the train wreck of the last 4 years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,707 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    I think we're just going to go around in circles here you believe that Biden is a better candidate for various reasons and I believe that Trump is a better candidate for various reasons.

    Please list them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 83,539 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Since President Trump took office, over 2.4 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty.

    Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans have reached record lows.

    Since President Trump’s election, nearly 7 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps.

    Are they not good things that have happened while Trump has been president?

    Are these pre-Covid figures again? They sound like pre-Covid figures. I can show you some footage of some mile long lines for food banks happening far more recently.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,037 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Sure he could have handled it better but I believe that he would have done a better job than Biden would have and that Trump is a lot more capable of running the county for the next 4 years than Biden is.

    What Trump was stooping to during the opening months of Covid was outrageous. Totally nonsensical pandering to his base's paranoid thinking by claiming that the virus was a 'Democrat hoax'. Complete us vs. them nonsense at a time when you would really want to be trying to least look like you're trying to be above day to day politics, make an appeal to unity, and be a proper statesman and deal with the crisis facing your country.

    You're seriously saying that Biden would have been out on the stump doing worse than the kind of crazy sh*t Trump was pulling? Blaming everyone but himself and his administration, and acting petulantly, like he really believed the whole pandemic was constructed just to interfere with his chances of election? Letting 200,000 die and shrugging his shoulders about it? Giving the kind of rambling humiliating interviews that Trump was giving on HBO, completely confusing the interviewer?

    Give over.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    Please list them.

    He has built the wall as promised.

    He has drained the swamp and exposed the deep state as promised.

    He has Made America Great Again as promised.

    I believe that will continue to Keep America Great for another 4 years or at least do a better job of doing so than Biden would.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Danzy wrote: »
    Trump now several points ahead in Iowa.

    He should carry it, though it often flips from party to party.

    Given its solid working class population and that its economy is as far from Wall St. And Silicon valley as one can get in America, he should carry it and has to if he has any chance

    An old American electoral adage - "Iowa picks corn, New Hampshire picks Presidents". New Hampshire is known as a bellweather state for how often they pick the eventual President. Specifically Rockingham County who went for Trump 50.5% to Hillary 44.6% in 2016 and out of the last 14 Presidential elections they have also correctly picked 11 Presidents.

    This time out it is not looking great for Trump, the current state of play in New Hampshire right now (538 poll of polls)
    Biden 49.9%
    Trump 43.1%

    So Biden is just under 7% clear of Trump in a bellweather state, he is well outside the margin of error.

    Steady she goes Joe, steady she goes :cool:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 83,539 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    He has built the wall as promised.

    He has drained the swamp and exposed the deep state as promised.

    He has Made America Great Again as promised.

    I believe that will continue to Keep America Great for another 4 years or at least do a better job of doing so than Biden would.

    Nope, the wall has not been built, for the most part fencing has been built to replace or augment existing miles of fencing. And Mexico didn’t pay for it. The swamp is certainly not drained and even Republicans admit this Qanon Derp State hoax is bogus. MAGA is a slogan and isn’t a way of demonstrating how it is “great again.”


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,600 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    He has Made America Great Again as promised.

    Uhh. How? Not seeing it. Place is a lot worse since I last lived there in 2015.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    He has built the wall as promised.

    He has drained the swamp and exposed the deep state as promised.

    He has Made America Great Again as promised.

    I believe that will continue to Keep America Great for another 4 years or at least do a better job of doing so than Biden would.

    None of this is true. This is QAnon stuff.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,859 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    By what measure is Biden terrible?

    I mean, this is from his wikipedia page.

    From your link - "Biden ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988". 1988 would've been his time.

    Hes an old man. A gaffe prone career politician. Theres nothing exceptional about anything hes ever done. His career as a senator mainly dealt with small time stuff. Where to buy chickens and the like. And any of the other bigger stuff was committee driven. As a legal guy he would've helped draft legislation etc but he didn't create it. Its where hes best suited. Half decent operator, easy to deal with. Knows his way around a legal document.

    And lets not forget that he was 100% only chosen by Obama to "folksie" up the 2008 ticket. Much like Pence was chosen to God up Trumps ticket.

    That said, Biden is a genuinely nice man. One of the good guys.
    Now, I am not saying he is the best thing since slice bread, but when compared to the bluffer that Trump

    No question. And you get wider Democratic policies with him which is the main thing. The actual man is secondary for me. Some of the policies have been disgusting. Particularly the environmental policies, animals, hazardous chemicals etc. The GOP just come in and roll back any progressive policies in favour of short term business gains. That is Trumps real legacy. Hes done huge damage. People get blinded by the other stuff. This all gets reversed if Biden gets in.
    All people want from the US President at the moment is for them to be a symbol of dignity, unity and diplomacy after the train wreck of the last 4 years.

    See I don't think so. This is where the Dems fail. Obama basically ran as a reform candidate. So did Trump. So did Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, JFK....

    Whats Biden really offering here in terms of change? That theres a nicer bloke in the White House? Id expect more of an offer considering the ****show of the last 4 years and all the ammo Biden has to use
    He has built the wall as promised.

    No he hasn't.
    He has drained the swamp and exposed the deep state as promised.

    No he hasn't.
    He has Made America Great Again as promised.

    No he hasn't. Its a bull**** stock phrase anyway. Its meaningless. Was bull**** when Reagan said it. Was bull**** when Clinton said it. Was bull**** when Trump said it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,037 ✭✭✭✭briany


    The Nal wrote: »
    See I don't think so. This is where the Dems fail. Obama basically ran as a reform candidate. So did Trump. So did Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, JFK....

    Whats Biden really offering here in terms of change? That theres a nicer bloke in the White House? Id expect more of an offer considering the ****show of the last 4 years and all the ammo Biden has to use.

    Hold on, the word 'reform' is defined as making a change, especially one of a positive nature. Given the way Trump's conducted himself so far, it's hard to say that a return to the presidential style of old, as Biden promises, wouldn't represent a kind of reform at this point.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    None of this is true. This is QAnon stuff.

    How would you know it's QAnon stuff unless you've seen it ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    How would you know it's QAnon stuff unless you've seen it ;)

    I believe 1% of what you post. That happened to be the 1%.


  • Registered Users Posts: 83,539 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    How would you know it's QAnon stuff unless you've seen it ;)

    You think it’s very hard to have been informed on what Qanon is about?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    I believe 1% of what you post. That happened to be the 1%.

    Touche


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    Overheal wrote: »
    You think it’s very hard to have been informed on what Qanon is about?

    No but it's very hard to be Informed on what is posted there unless you go to the dark side and see if for yourself.

    Otherwise you're relying on what other people or outlets tell you that is posted there.


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