Jump to content

Chuckie Finster

Burnt Ends
  • Posts

    8293
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    3

Everything posted by Chuckie Finster

  1. By overshadowed, I meant that Biden's age was THE talking point post-Debate. On this website, on social media, in text groups... nobody remembers the crazy shit Trump said that night (and there was a lot) because everyone was so busy talking about Joe.
  2. And now, when you put them together on the same stage, Joe's oldness far overshadows whatever the hell comes out of Trump's mouth.
  3. It's funny, because our percentages are fairly similar but I have the scenarios reversed. This isn't a scandal that gets better with time. It's just who he is. Every single time he opens his mouth or takes a step is a new opportunity for "Biden is old!" to be hammered into the heads of anyone remotely paying attention. I think removing far and away the single biggest target on your back is a smart strategy. Sure, the right will find new attack angles but there will be a limited amount of time for those to take hold. That being said, this slow drip-drip-drip march to the guillotine is absolutely the worst way to go about it, and any chance of success will require Biden to get behind the change, which it is increasingly becoming evident will not happen. So, in short, doomed.
  4. I disagree. There's "Dumbledore" old and there's "nursing home" old. There's a big difference in electability between the two, and I think a lot of folks moved Biden from one to the other after the debate.
  5. It was evident at the time, and many here expressed skepticism at the idea. My fear though was that it would easily generate a few meme viral clips, not that Joe would be a walking corpse. There are ways to hide whatever is happening to Joe. A debate puts ALL of the bad shit front and center.
  6. The SEC move was strategic and understandable. The BIG move (not that I think there's any real truth to it) would be suicide.
  7. Making me jealous, tbh
  8. Not great when the guy who conducted the interview that was supposed to save the campaign is telling strangers on the street that you can't last 4 more years.
  9. I can't speak to the motives of NYT opinion writers or billionaire donors, but I know there are millions of people like me who turned to their spouse after 10 minutes of debate watching and said "oh shit, Trump is gonna be President again." Go back and read the debate game thread - there's no messaging psy-op there, no coordinated campaign from elites to choose a candidate, just a bunch of internet dorks reaching the same conclusion in real-time. Brushing this all off as some deep state conspiracy is bordering on Alex Jones territory.
  10. The cherry picking goes both ways though. There has been a clear national shift in polls since the debate (Biden was slightly ahead on 6/25 in the above graph.)
  11. He squeaked by in one election during extremely favorable conditions for a challenger. He's had an incredibly successful presidency, yet has had historically low approval ratings almost the entire time. He's the first Democrat to be trailing in July national polls since 2000. The idea that he's some "real American" whisperer is based much more in hope than reality.
  12. That's a "Fuck you, Houston" path if I've ever seen one.
  13. Katy getting absolutely hammered right now.
  14. This is the crux of everything. Somehow in an election featuring Donald Trump, the other guy has become the focal point. It’s unacceptable.
  15. Not a single human being in this country will be swayed by a pre-recorded interview airing on a Friday night. Honestly baffling that many of the same people trying to downplay the importance of the debate are trying to hype up this nothing burger of an interview.
  16. “Relationships matter”… Like a week ago, Moore was tweeting about how much he liked and respected Sark
  17. I realize I’m a broken record at this point, but “we listened to the voters and it’s clear that they want new blood, that’s why I am stepping aside and endorsing my running mate” is a much better campaign message than “vote for the guy that goes to bed after Wheel of Fortune.” Framing this as a “Democrats listened to the voters, Republicans are sticking with the felon” is I think an underrated scenario.
  18. We’ve met the ask. We are obviously the family choice. We have an offense that will feature him and give him every opportunity to get drafted. We have a coaching staff with skins on the wall for his position and a depth chart that looks to open up after this year. If he goes to Oregon, this is the kind of recruitment that makes a man want to stop following this shit.
  19. You don’t need to convince me of anything. I’m voting for his corpse if it comes to it. You need to convince the country currently giving him historically low approval numbers.
  20. Nobody who watched that debate can credibly conclude that Biden is fit to run the country for four more years. You, me, and most on this board understand that he is obviously immeasurably better than the alternative and will get our vote, but there are millions in this country who have been presented with the same information as us prior to last week and are undecided. Now that the debate has made a pro-Biden argument much harder, the election now relies on us over the next four months getting these same undecided voters to draw a conclusion about Trump that they have not yet concluded in his previous 78 years. Good luck to us!
  21. Frankly this is bullshit, and I’m tired of being gaslit into ignoring what I saw with my own eyes. I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Joe, but it isn’t doomerism to point out that others aren’t gonna.
  22. Charlie Strong would still be our head coach if we let the players do the hiring. This is going to be incredible.
  23. There’s a scenario where Biden delivers a surprise speech on Thursday. One where he boasts about his administrations accomplishments and then announces, under the triumphant backdrop of fireworks, that he is stepping aside from the election race for the good of the country. That he’s heard the cry from the nation for the next generation of leadership and he can think of no one better than his running mate to lead us into the future. A scenario where they turn an embarrassing debate performance into an emphatic passing of the torch. And much like March of 2020, the party would fall in line given the very public anointing. But that would require the Democratic Party to have intelligent leadership, so instead we’ll get Biden and Stephanopolous buried on a holiday weekend.
×
×
  • Create New...