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But he is fine. If he loses its because ya'll are making a big deal out of nothing.
no, no candidate with a 37% approval rating can afford to debate like he did. what kind of message does this debate send to an undecised person or someone who doesn't follow politics? you can bet it'll likely move them towards Trump.
I guess we'll see. I don't think debates tend to have much effect.
This one is having more of an effect partly because it just happened, and partly because ya'll won't shut the fuck up about it.
If you talk and talk and talk about something, yeah, its a story. Because you're focusing on it. But that's something you're doing.
Its a debate, who cares
Biden has beat Trump before, he has an incumbent advantage, he hasn't fucked anything up so far, if he has any cognitive decline, it doesn't seem to be effecting US policy at all.
If you replace him, you lose the incumbent advantage, you risk putting someone untested up there who might have skeletons in their closet we don't know about until they become the candidate, its just not worth the risk.
Biden hasn't accidentally told the president of Uruguay where all our spies are, he hasn't accidentally launched a nuke or given the nuclear codes to someone because his brain doesn't work, nothing. He seems to be doing a good job.
But yeah if you keep yelling about how bad he is, you're creating a self fulfilling prophecy.
no, you don't understand. I couldn't have a lower opinion of Trump and I would vote Biden even if he was actually dead. you don't need to persuade me, Biden needs to persuade an independent and/or undecided voter.
I am not creating a self fulfilling prophecy by saying it's looking very, very bad. It is a fact.
The democrats are completely fucked because they have a bad candidate and not enough time to build up a replacement.
It seems that if this is the case, then the better move is to try to convince people they should vote for the democrats.
Right?
are you trying to make the case that by stating facts and being pessimistic about the situation I'm working against Biden? I can see that point but I don't think on the Sam Harris sub of all I'm gonna affect his chances too much. Sam Harris himself has an even harsher opinion than me about this subject. And I'm always trying to convince people to vote the anti-democratic side. that doesn't mean at all that I'm just gonna pretend that everything is fine though.
And I'm always trying to convince people to vote the anti-democratic side.
Wait what
*against