Putin Wants To Debate Biden

[VolStrom]

Thank goodness I speeled capit(a/o)l correctly.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I tend to think we've drifted way off track here (like usual) and the simple fact remains, if Biden got on stage with any debate with a world leader including Putin, it would be a national embarrassment.

Putin's going to do what Putin does best. He put the ball in Biden's court and knew it was going to be a disaster. He wins if Biden refuses. He certainly wins if Biden accepts.

One thing is for certain, I do not want Biden negotiating with any world leader on our behalf.

That’s the plan. Distraction on just how bad of an idea it would be to let the dementia patient near any hostile world leader

 

[GSD82]

A few months ago, you guys didn't g.a.f. What world leaders were saying about the POTUS.

Is this back on the menu of things were allowed to worry about again?

Still don’t but it’s funny watching you all act like now you aren’t concerned after you libs spent 4 years talking about being so concerned with what every single country though of then President Trump.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Still don’t but it’s funny watching you all act like now you aren’t concerned after you libs spent 4 years talking about being so concerned with what every single country though of then President Trump.

Septic tank thrives in circular logic

 

[Septic]

Again that's a protest, not a coup. Arrest the violent and move on.

Just because you or I dont like the subject matter of the protest doesnt make it a coup.

More of an insurrection than a protest.

 

[NorthDallas40]

More of an insurrection than a protest.

More of a drunken tail gate party than an insurrection.

 

[Septic]

More of a drunken tail gate party than an insurrection.

Lol yeah and you wonder why your judgment on these matters is mocked.

 

[VolStrom]

More of an insurrection than a protest.

So where do you draw the line between a protest and an insurrection? If you burn crap down is that a protest or insurrection? If you scare the political elites is that a protest or an insurrection?

 

[NorthDallas40]

Lol yeah and you wonder why your judgment on these matters is mocked.

By the ones doing the mocking for what I’d consider a more accurate description than yours I think I’ll recover.

 

[RikidyBones]

It's afterglow from the election.

iTz AfTeRgLo FrUm DaH eLeCkTiOn`

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Someone should really complain about the punctuation of my last post.

You had a participle behind your colon.

 

[Septic]

So where do you draw the line between a protest and an insurrection? If you burn crap down is that a protest or insurrection? If you scare the political elites is that a protest or an insurrection?

When it's in the U.S. Capitol building, during a Congressional session during a vote where Capitol police are being beaten with American flag poles while barrocading doors where participants are screaming "hang Mike Pence."

 

[RockyTop85]

Interview any protest with hundreds and you find exactly what you found in the Capitol. Outliers who said something beyond the scope of the protest. Like the mostly peaceful protests in the summer.
The intent of a few doesnt match the actions of the many. That's why I keep saying it's not a probability argument. You are assigning worse case scenarios to a situation where actual worse case scenarios would be miles higher.
Stealing a podium and carrying zip ties equals a coup. Lol. This was the first worldiest coup I have ever heard of. I didnt know my local grocery store carried weapons of government overthrow.

You continue applying an absurd standard.

They were protesting results, our consitution allows that. Now they way they did it isnt allowed, but that doesnt change it from what it was.

Thank you for the first paragraph. It suffers from proximity to the rest of the post, but it’s the thinnest kid in this fat camp of terrible rebuttals. You still have two major problems:

First is the rally. “Stop the steal.” The whole thing was literally a call to action to prolong Trump’s presidency, even after he lost the election. “Come support Trump’s [pretend] efforts to fight to overturn the election.” Which, by that time, was down to a Hail Mary in which Pence illegally throws out the electoral college votes. Which was the whole reason for throwing this thing on 1/6. Trump telegraphed it in advance on Twitter and at the rallies. May have even blabbed about it on Fox News. Theres no way these people didn’t know what the game plan was.

The bottom line is that even the non-violent ones were there to support an illegal and unconstitutional power grab in which the loser of an election would remain president. Their desire was for the constitutional order to be upturned and an unelected executive be retained. The only element of a coup that’s missing from that is violence or use of force in furtherance of that intent.

The other problem is that you’re trying to muddle the coup as some big-talking fringe element of the rally crowd, but the coup started while the rally was still going on. I can’t believe you didn’t know this. Trump’s lawyers pointed it out over and over during the impeachment. While it makes it clear that Trump’s speech wasn’t the genesis of the coup, it allows an easy distinction between the group that was willing to do violence and the group that may not have been (or at least didn’t get the opportunity). The ease of this distinction makes your efforts to confuse them completely inconsistent with what actually happened.

So then the question is whether both groups shared the same intent, which is easy. Yes. Journalists and other Trumpists recorded the comments, cheers, and chants from the attackers about what their ambitions were. They were recorded threatening violence on elected officials while carrying out violence against law enforcement. There were hundreds of them. The FBI has access to their social media messaging and phones and some allegedly contain discussions of plans to kill elected members of congress. They’re all waving Trump flags and wearing Trump paraphernalia. They predominately come from pro-Trump communities and live lifestyles that are consistent with Trump’s political coalition. Once their inside man sold them out they turned on him, too. Their intent was to use any means necessary to extend the presidency of Donald Trump. It could not be clearer that they shared this ambition of seeing Trump’s presidency extended.

And just to reiterate: they used violence to achieve that intent. They were overrunning barricades, overwhelming the police security perimeter, and shoving and fighting their way into the building. They were dragging the police out and beating them with anything that wasn’t nailed down. They literally trampled a woman to death trying to reach their objective.

They had the intent to help Trump illegally maintain power. They acted on that intent. They used violence to further it. So every single element of the common definition a coup is met.

Calling that an “absurd standard” is like putting window boxes on a burnt out trailer shell. You’ve got some work to do to get that thing water tight and livable before you go worrying about curb appeal.

 

[Vol Main]

If you are not a traitor to America, you are something near to it.

 

[C-south]

If you are not a traitor to America, you are something near to it.

If you voted for the demented imbecile currently in office you should check yourself. Putin, for better or worse, is a million times the leader that Biden could ever be.

 

[Septic]

If you voted for the demented imbecile currently in office you should check yourself. Putin, for better or worse, is a million times the leader that Biden could ever be.

Maybe you'd be more impressed with Biden if he poisoned his adversaries and locked them up? Perhaps you could go live under Putin and report back on the upgrade?

It's astonishing that this kind of rhetoric is where we are. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that guys that idolized trump wouldn't be impressed by other despots.

 

[Septic]

Septic tank thrives in circular logic

Do you understand what the term 'circular logic' means?

 

[Septic]

Still don’t but it’s funny watching you all act like now you aren’t concerned after you libs spent 4 years talking about being so concerned with what every single country though of then President Trump.

Did then and do now. What else ya got?

 

[Septic]

Thank goodness I speeled capit(a/o)l correctly.

You're welcome.

 

[615vols]

When it's in the U.S. Capitol building, during a Congressional session during a vote where Capitol police are being beaten with American flag poles while barrocading doors where participants are screaming "hang Mike Pence."

If you’re going to go around correcting people’s spelling, you might want to make sure you know how to spell pretty basic words like “barricading”. It’s not spelled “barrocading ”.

 

[GreveHaller]

Biden might was to start with debating stairs first

 

[Grand Vol]

Do you understand what the term 'circular logic' means?

We'll come around to it.

 

[Roustabout]

Maybe you'd be more impressed with Biden if he poisoned his adversarys and locked them up? Perhaps you could go live under Putin and report back on the upgrade?

It's astonishing that this kind of rhetoric is where we are. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that guys that idolized trump wouldn't be impressed by other despots.

Are you talking about the Royal family?

 

[tvolsfan]

I like it when they hate our president, it generally means he’s putting the USA before them.

No, it means they think he’s an incompetent buffoon.

“America first” was always mindless BS designed to appeal to simpletons.

 

[tvolsfan]

My concern over what other world leaders think remains the same. It's nil. But to some, that opinion meant so much under Trump. Now it doesn't. That's called hypocrisy. And if anyone cares now when they didn't before, that's hypocrisy as well. None of that changes my opinion of Biden and his mental acuity. Or that I think Putin would destroy him in a debate. And I'm not expressing what I want, just what I think would happen.

I care very much what our allies think of us and our leaders. They don’t need to love everything we do, but they certainly shouldn’t see us or our leaders as unstable and dangerous, like they did the last guy.

The “who gives a **** what other countries think about us” is just a silly, childish sentiment.