Quote (Black XistenZ @ 8 May 2020 07:13)

A 5 year old skit from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart about Biden's "audacity of grope":
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/yfmksi/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-audacity-of-grope

If the link isnt working, try this backup:
https://v.redd.it/c97nkrk8eal41

Quote (Skinned @ 8 May 2020 14:48)

If we made a check list of all the shitty weird Trump things, Biden only checks Trump boxes gropes others and has a shitty kid (not Barron). Trump still has a lot of other boxes checked off that are very negative thet Biden doesn't.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 8 2020 12:03pm)

The one area where Biden is really drawing a stark contrast to Trump is bipartisanship/willingness to (try to) bring the country back together. I think that's what's really setting them apart. Well, and the fact that Biden will staff his cabinet and departments with Washington insiders.

Quote (thundercock @ 8 May 2020 21:11)

There's also the fact that foreign countries are more likely to take Biden (and the US as a whole) seriously. I think a lot of countries are banking on Trump being an "oopsie" by America. If we reelect Trump, I imagine that a lot of countries will accept the fact that America shouldn't be the leader of the free world. Maybe that will be beneficial for them in the long run, but there will be A LOT of growing pains.

Climate change is also a big one.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 8 2020 09:22pm)

Sorry, but I dont think that foreign leaders will take the sad, half-empty shell of the man who used to be Joe Biden thaaaaat seriously.

In general, American leadership in the world has already diminished greatly before Trump even set a foot into the Oval Office. The way the world was mislead by blatant lies to justify the disastrous Iraq War has badly eroded trust in American leadership and really cut down their moral high ground (if the US ever had one to begin with). The financial crisis originated in the US, and was caused by the excesses of financial deregulation which were advanced by every US president from Reagan to Bush jr. If there was anything left of your moral high ground, it was lost with the NSA spying scandal and the treatment of Julian Assange/Edward Snowden/Chelsea Manning. China is emerging as a second economic superpower is also something that was already set in stone by the time Trump took office. The time of the US playing the world's sheriff were defnitely over when Obama didnt enforce his own red lines in Syria and Ukraine. Biden wont reverse America's strategic retreat from this role either...

When it comes to climate change: I prefer a more localized, bottom-up approach anyway. Climate change should be tackled more by the states, private businesses and private initiatives. A top-down approach forcing people to make big sacrifices imho wont work, it will only provoke a political backlash.
Hollow and expensive symbolic politics like the Paris Agreement imho dont have nearly as much upside as its proponents claim.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 8 2020 12:22pm)

Sorry, but I dont think that foreign leaders will take the sad, half-empty shell of the man who used to be Joe Biden thaaaaat seriously.

In general, American leadership in the world has already diminished greatly before Trump even set a foot into the Oval Office. The way the world was mislead by blatant lies to justify the disastrous Iraq War has badly eroded trust in American leadership and really cut down their moral high ground (if the US ever had one to begin with). The financial crisis originated in the US, and was caused by the excesses of financial deregulation which were advanced by every US president from Reagan to Bush jr. If there was anything left of your moral high ground, it was lost with the NSA spying scandal and the treatment of Julian Assange/Edward Snowden/Chelsea Manning. China is emerging as a second economic superpower is also something that was already set in stone by the time Trump took office. The time of the US playing the world's sheriff were defnitely over when Obama didnt enforce his own red lines in Syria and Ukraine.

When it comes to climate change: I prefer a more localized, bottom-up approach anyway. Climate change should be tackled more by the states, private businesses and private initiatives. A top-down approach forcing people to make big sacrifices imho wont work, it will only provoke a political backlash.
Hollow and expensive symbolic politics like the Paris Agreement imho dont have nearly as much upside as its proponents claim.

Quote (balrog66 @ 8 May 2020 21:25)

Idk how many people in the US know about the scale of the protests against the Iraq war in much of Western Europe. It was pretty massive.

Quote (Saucisson6000 @ May 8 2020 08:10am)

In my paper:
"Douglas Wigdor, a prominent lawyer and political donor to President Donald Trump's 2016 Republican campaign, has accepted this mission. But he rejects any political motivation and claims not to be paid by Tara Reade."
:rofl:

Quote (fuzzy159 @ 8 May 2020 22:18)

Ok?

Everyone who worked with Dr. Ford was part of the never trump cult...why should this be treated any differently?