Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 22 2020 02:27pm)
What takes the cake imho is when Goom started to argue that Biden becoming president wouldnt matter anyway once it became that his outlook is really grim. The reasoning he gave for this surprising opinion was hysterical, it went along the lines of "Trump was so hyper-successful and -productive that there will simply be nothing left to do for Biden, no judicial openings, no big foreign policy issues, no domestic structural issues, basically nothing of impact (beyond the immediate covid aftermath)". :rofl:
The evolution of his take on the election looks like it was taken straight out of a psychology textbook about the five stages of grief.
I've explained it a few times. I find it kind of odd you suggest that the skeptical, blasé view of the election is somehow hysterical. Like, I'm being hysterical when I say that its not going to matter much and very little is at stake- but not when I change tack and say the frontrunner is a literal manchurian candidate and could destroy our democracy. Its like the word has no meaning to you. What do you think "hysterical" means?
The fact is, Trump & McConnell already rammed through an incredible amount of lower court and supreme court judges- including one scotus pick right now- so that without court packing, the next president will have far less picks than normal. And Biden isn't radical enough to court pack anyway, and the most likely outcome is republicans retain the senate so its a moot point. And Trump indeed already accomplished most of both his domestic
and foreign policy agenda he campaigned on in 2016. There's relative peace in the mideast, ISIS has been destroyed, Al-Baghdadi and the #2-10 guys are all dead, Arab states and Israel are normalizing relations, he got his tax cuts, the economy boomed and jobs came back (then covid), his wall is building for the most part, he's slowed immigration to a trickle, he's deregulated industry and thrown up tariffs and trade barriers. Meanwhile Biden has been campaigning by throwing cold water on liberal democrats who demand he overturn all of Trump's legacies on day 1. Hell, Biden has even been cool on trade barriers, less aligned with the neoliberals.
So you've got Trump, who can't even list a single policy objective for his next 4 years because he's already done it already, and Biden, who doesn't want to repeal any of Trumps
popular policies and might not have congress to do much of it anyway. Whichever gets elected, it wouldn't really change the Obamacare status quo much. Its the same on most of the issues. Status quo will prevail.
And you think that cold water and disenthusiasm is
hysterical?
I think saying Joe Biden is beholden to China and sold out our democracy and might end our sovereignty as we know it, is hysterical. And it looks like its true, too.