Oh give it a rest, Trump insults everybody!
Hate to be the pedant, but why not.
āBelieā means the opposite of what you want in the headline, which is ābespeak.ā
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TheHill uses Disqus commenting. Now thereās a cesspool.
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Surely, THIS TIME the baggage-laden Centrist on friendly terms to Wall Street and big dollar donors who supported the Iraq War will win. That must have been a fluke.
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It depends on how women and POC vote. 60% of the Democratic electorate will be women + POC. If they vote for the top two female candidates (Harris/Warren) then Biden, Bernie, Beto and Buttigieg will be fighting over a smaller slice of the electorate. Bidenās big strength to me is that heās not Bernie and has the name ID to beat Bernie out of the gate. The other candidates have to work their way up to that level. So, if Bernie is not viewed as a strong threat for the nomination, the enthusiasm for Biden may slip. That said, if Biden does successfully navigate the primary and win, I think heāll beat Trump handily in the general election.
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I try to stay out of the comments, even just for reading. That is true for most sites. Anyone who wants to maintain the illusion that people are basically good should never read comments on a public forum.
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A woman Dem nominee would be interesting. I can see it all now. Dozens of Trump rallies, featurng Republican women saying a woman is too stupid, weak, frail and poorly equipped to be President. To loud applause and hearty agreement by compatriots watching the interview.
The only people that hate women more than Republican men are Republican women.
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If you donāt read the comments on a public forum then you miss the trends in commenting. Youāll miss the āthereās more to the story than is being reportedā, the slow decline in absolute support for law enforcement, and the only place where the debate/comments havenāt changed is over abortion and anything else dealing with raising children.
What is harder is learning to identify bots, trolls, and those that are so stuck in mud that theyāre not worth arguing with.
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Honestly, thatās just silly, wouldnāt you agree?
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Well, I gave up the illusion that people are basically good a long time ago. At Thehill, the comment trend is just depressing.
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I will share the one important thing that I learned in reading comment threads, although it is the hardest lesson to actually apply: often the best response is simply not to reply at all. (There is something to be said for continuing a discussion with someone who clearly isnāt offering anything of value, but only if there is still something that you need to say for a potentially broader audience. But at some point, one just has to accept that an idiot is going to be an idiot, and a mindless partisan is going to be a mindless partisan. If you have presented your own best case, it can be time to just move on with life.)
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Exactly, along with critical thinking we all need to develop our ignore abilities.
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My general feeling is that participating in comment threads can be useful to express your opinion or position and to explore those of others (which may not always be to your liking). As soon as the idea of āwinningā an argument appears, the value is mostly lost. But one must also accept the fact that most people you encounter will be locked into that āwinningā mode. (It can also be useful to blow off a little steam with a humorous comment or cat pictures.)
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I am starting to lose my patience. The window we have is a set number of days.
Days difficult to get back.
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The key to not losing your patience is to accept that they probably arenāt going to do it, no matter how much we demand it. (If they do, then you get to celebrate, although it is probably a Phyrric victory.) The problem with representative government is that once we elect the representative, we have little direct influence. (And it isnāt just our representative, but the representatives of all those other people, who donāt necessarily agree with us.) It can be, to use an old friendās analogy from a different context, like trying to eat Chinese food with pool cues.
Which is the lesser of the reasons that it is so unlikely to happen. (The larger reasons is that it isnāt how our leadership usually likes to handle things, whether or not we like that. They are generally happy with their sternly worded letters and occasional public statements.)
In life, you never get time back. (I am sure that Stephen Hawking addresses that issue in one of his books, not that most of us could understand the explanation.)
āTrumpās allies are hanging to the notion that it will never come to that, seeing Biden as far too moderate to survive the primary.ā
Really? This is what his aides are telling him. You can argue Biden one way or another, but I would not be sitting, looking at him as a non-threat. He is a fairly big one. Trump needs better aides, he is being gas lighted by his own people.
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Biden should call Trump mushroom donald ā but when he does, reference the old joke about thriving in a dark place, in a pile of poop.
Of course, Trump and everyone else will know that Biden is referring to what Stormy Daniels said about Trumpās dickā¦but Biden should just act innocent.
It will drive Trump even more insaneā¦
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Supposition and opinion; doesnāt even count as news. Is this the National Enquirer now?
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