US First Presidental Debate - Boomerdome 2020

WELCOME TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/14/presidential-debates/

Time: Starts at 6:10-6:30pm to 7:40-8pm PST / 8:10-8:30pm to 9:40-10pm CST / 9:10-9:30pm-10:40-11pm EST

Where to watch:

Location: Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland

Moderator: Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday”


Competitors:

Former Vice President Joe Biden


President Donald Trump

Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. There will be no opening statements, and instead Wallace will dive right in with the first question to Trump. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that Wallace has chosen. They are:
1) The Trump and Biden records;
2) The Supreme Court;
3) Covid-19;
4) the economy;
5) race and violence in cities;
6) the integrity of the election.

After the debates a poll will be posted on who you think won this first debate. Have lots of fun, keep the commentary fresh as I'm sure we've all heard many of the same lines for months and enjoy the beginning of the end of this presidential election cycle. Just as a reminder, on October 7th there will be a Vice Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.
You can view Joe Biden's megathread here, and Donald Trump's megathread here

Previous Democratic debates-
First Democratic debate (two nights)
Second Democratic debate
Third Democratic debate
Fourth Democratic debate
Fifth Democratic debate
Sixth Democratic debate
Seventh Democratic debate
Eighth Democratic debate
Ninth Democratic debate
Tenth Democratic debate
Eleventh Democratic Debate

Democratic primary results-
Super Tuesday
Mini-super Tuesday

Have fun!

 

[melty]

Fucking 'A! Tell you all what...do the Amazon poll. That's where people actually have to put their money where their mouths are. Just did a quick look. Put "Trump merchandise 2020" in the search bar. Look at the number of reviews/ratings for the merchandise on the front page of results. Then put "Biden merchandise 2020" in the search bar. Look at the number of reviews/ratings for the merchandise on the front page of results. Not. Even. Close. At. All. Joe and Da Hoe LOSE.

I can see the rankings for search terms in Amazon. In August, Trump had two search terms with a sub 1000 rank. This means they are among the 1000 most searched for terms on Amazon. Trump mask had a search rank of 493 and Trump 2020 flag was at 581. The masks are pro Trump slogan face coverings (I thought pro Trump people didn't wear those? Apparently they do)
In comparison, Biden's top search term was biden harris 2020 with a rank of 1,101. It gets worse from there rapidly with his second top term at 2,940 and the third at rank 5,670 (Trump flag, the third top term for Trump, is at 1,240)

Looking at last week, it's even more skewed toward Trump with multiple terms in the top 1000 while biden has one. I will say Biden has somewhat better conversion, but Trump should still be getting more sales, possibly a lot more because sales by search rank get exponential the closer to 1 they are.

Tl;dr people buy Trump things more than Biden things on Amazon, maybe a lot more.

 

[MrJokerRager]

White boy trying to act like a nigger and forgot that he put his real picture as his avatar.

Connecticut sports reporter fired after calling Sen. Tim Scott an ‘Uncle Tom’

A Connecticut-based sports reporter was fired on Wednesday after referring to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., as an “Uncle Tom” in a now-deleted tweet.

www.foxnews.com

A Connecticut-based sports reporter was fired on Wednesday after referring to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., as an “Uncle Tom” in a now-deleted tweet.

The Hill tweeted a link to a story about Scott saying he thought President Trump “misspoke” when he said "stand back and stand by," but called on him to correct his statement if that really were the case.

Now-former News 12 Connecticut sports reporter Fred Gerteiny responded by writing, “Thanks Uncle Tom,” and swiftly lost his job as a result.

"After reviewing the incident, the network released sports reporter, Fred Gerteiny, as a result of a racially insensitive comment,” the network said in a statement. “News 12 Networks has a zero-tolerance policy for racism or improper conduct based on race, and prides itself on being an objective and unbiased multi-platform news company.”

When asked if he had apologized, Gerteiny later tweeted that he “wrote an email to Senator Scott.”

Scott's support of the president and the Republican Party is regularly criticized by the left.

Back in August, CNN’s Chris Cuomo suggested Scott was "carrying water" for President Trump by speaking at the Republican National Convention. Cuomo's remarks stirred some backlash on social media, with some suggesting the anchor's comments were racist.

In June, NBC News anchor Craig Melvin asked the sole Black GOP senator if his party was "using" him as a "token" following the death of George Floyd.

Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2013 when former Sen. Jim DeMint stepped down to run the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

The appointment made Scott the first Black senator to represent a Southern state since the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. Scott won a 2014 special election for his Senate seat and was reelected in 2016.

Political pundits have been tossing around the idea of a 2024 Republican presidential run by Scott.

 

[HandsomeDan]

I can see the rankings for search terms in Amazon. In August, Trump had two search terms with a sub 1000 rank. This means they are among the 1000 most searched for terms on Amazon. Trump mask had a search rank of 493 and Trump 2020 flag was at 581. The masks are pro Trump slogan face coverings (I thought pro Trump people didn't wear those? Apparently they do)
In comparison, Biden's top search term was biden harris 2020 with a rank of 1,101. It gets worse from there rapidly with his second top term at 2,940 and the third at rank 5,670 (Trump flag, the third top term for Trump, is at 1,240)

Looking at last week, it's even more skewed toward Trump with multiple terms in the top 1000 while biden has one. I will say Biden has somewhat better conversion, but Trump should still be getting more sales, possibly a lot more because sales by search rank get exponential the closer to 1 they are.

Tl;dr people buy Trump things more than Biden things on Amazon, maybe a lot more.

I wonder what the impact of Trump supporters who are afraid to display Trump Merchandise is on these numbers. Think about what a sizable number that could be. I hardly think leftest have any fear or apprehension of proudly displaying their political paraphernalia.

Does anyone have an image of that cnn or msnbc (whoever it was) release from the morning of the 2016 Election , where they had clinton at 98% chance of winning? Do yall remember that?

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

Perhaps unrelated, but there's something weird going on with the Amazon Trump/Biden sign reviews. All the Trump signs reviews come from other countries and are about hedgehog containers. All the Biden sign reviews from other countries and are about some sort of fancy pen. I thought it was typical AmazonPost manipulation, but the Biden reviews don't make sense either.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Perhaps unrelated, but there's something weird going on with the Amazon Trump/Biden sign reviews. All the Trump signs reviews come from other countries and are about hedgehog containers. All the Biden sign reviews from other countries and are about some sort of fancy pen. I thought it was typical AmazonPost manipulation, but the Biden reviews don't make sense either.

That's a manipulation tactic you can use on Amazon as a 3rd party seller. You sell product X, get a ton of reviews, then switch it to product Y. The reviews stay, causing your product Y to jump up in the search results.

 

[Local Fed]

Evidently, contributing anything to the Black community is haram to some Whites. So Trump lost support from that alone.

That's an extreme fringe group of people that feel that way. The truth is that there are a fair number of white people, and growing I hope, who are sick and tired about virtually all discourse revolving around black people and their issues. And furthermore, how every black issue seems to get flipped into a discussion of "How white people are fucking them over or not doing enough somehow."

Jobs? We can only talk about how black people are being affected. Race? We can only ever talk about how black people are the victims of racism. Diversity? We can only talk about how we "need" more black people in [space]. If a black kid went and shot up a school and gunned down his white classmates next month the entire discussion would revolve around how we need to have more black teachers and administrators to make black students feel more welcome, clearly this only happened because he felt like he was on a plantation. Over and over and over the discussion is always about how society can do better (for blacks) and how more money (mostly from whites) has to be funnelled into their community.

Regarding losing black support, he's never going to have much anyway. All of these people talking about Blexit or Walk Away are coping. If he manages to get 10% of the vote he'd be lucky, and I would've said that pre-Floyd. I'm not saying to tell them to go bite a curb or anything, but for all the ass kissing of the black community that conservatives/Republicans do the juice isn't really worth the squeeze.

 

[An Avenging Bird]

I've seen for months theories that at the last minute, Biden is going to be replaced by the "real" candidate and that he's been a ringer all along.
So my question is the following: Is there a date that exists where even if Biden had a catastrophic aneurysm, the result would be it's too late to swap him out and Trump by default wins?

 

[derpherp2]

For people not willing to watch the debate here's a transcript of it, with timestamps just in case you need "actual proof" of something.
Say for example, if an assload of people are saying that Trump was told to denounce white supremacists, and not specifically to tell Proud Boys to "stand back" while smugly chuckling about how much they know and how little you know.

 

[melty]

That's a manipulation tactic you can use on Amazon as a 3rd party seller. You sell product X, get a ton of reviews, then switch it to product Y. The reviews stay, causing your product Y to jump up in the search results.

Yeah, that's exactly what happening. But the search term data isn't lying.

I wonder what the impact of Trump supporters who are afraid to display Trump Merchandise is on these numbers. Think about what a sizable number that could be. I hardly think leftest have any fear or apprehension of proudly displaying their political paraphernalia.

Does anyone have an image of that cnn or msnbc (whoever it was) release from the morning of the 2016 Election , where they had clinton at 98% chance of winning? Do yall remember that?

I considered that Biden voters are more likely to live in pods and therefore don't have a yard to put signs in. But they aren't buying alternative products either like Trump buyers. They all love wearing masks and yet Trump fans who supposedly hate masks are buying many, many more masks that support Trump. Trump supporters are also buying more hats, flags, shirts, and stickers.

And it was huffpo:

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I've seen for months theories that at the last minute, Biden is going to be replaced by the "real" candidate and that he's been a ringer all along.
So my question is the following: Is there a date that exists where even if Biden had a catastrophic aneurysm, the result would be it's too late to swap him out and Trump by default wins?

It depends, that would be a disaster for Biden but Harris will be the nominee and pick a VP last minute

 

[X Prime]

Evidently, contributing anything to the Black community is haram to some Whites. So Trump lost support from that alone.

Well yeah, of course Biden would gain support from the types who call people "faux-black" over politics, how is this a surprise?

 

[ChikN10der]

Well yeah, of course Biden would gain support from the types who call people "faux-black" over politics, how is this a surprise?

Unless someone can show actual evidence that he lost support over that, which would be insane, I don't believe it.

We're not terrible awful vicious racist deplorables just because we don't agree with you. Someone can disagree and still be a decent person.

 

[X Prime]

Unless someone can show actual evidence that he lost support over that, which would be insane, I don't believe it.

We're not terrible awful vicious racist deplorables just because we don't agree with you. Someone can disagree and still be a decent person.

It's just @The Last Stand being himself, he periodically slips into prejudices against people he thinks (but cannot confirm) are prejudiced. There's no reason to pay it much mind.

 

[Ineedahero]

I've seen for months theories that at the last minute, Biden is going to be replaced by the "real" candidate and that he's been a ringer all along.
So my question is the following: Is there a date that exists where even if Biden had a catastrophic aneurysm, the result would be it's too late to swap him out and Trump by default wins?

Well according to Biden during the debates, it's already too late, votes have been cast and you can't change anything until the election is over.

 

[make_it_so]

Moderator for the second debates is a former Biden intern.

Archive

Probably not as big a deal as the article is making it out to be, but food for thought.

 

[X Prime]

Moderator for the second debates is a former Biden intern.

Archive

Probably not as big a deal as the article is making it out to be, but food for thought.

After Fox News happened to pick the one Democrat on staff to head up their debate, thought to be the most favorable one for Trump due to it being Fox News?

Nah. This is on purpose.

 

[ChikN10der]

It's just @The Last Stand being himself, he periodically slips into prejudices against people he thinks (but cannot confirm) are prejudiced. There's no reason to pay it much mind.

Being repeatedly called a racist that wants black people to die across all media all the fucking time has officially gotten old.

It was fucking old when I voted for bush, it stayed old when I didn't blindly support Obama's every move, it was old when I didn't sufficiently denounce Trump as a racist, it was old when I was a white supremacist for disagreeing with political violence.

At this point, I don't care about compromise. Those fuckers will just throw it back in my face. I just want to see them lose all power and control. I want to see the violent fucksticks in prison. I want all the liars and grifters exposed and embarrassed.

This needs to end now. Compassion and empathy only go so far in the face of constant bad faith attacks.

 

[ChikN10der]

Moderator for the second debates is a former Biden intern.

Archive

Probably not as big a deal as the article is making it out to be, but food for thought.

It's a pretty big deal. I imagine there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth if a huge Trump supporter was moderator.

 

[An Avenging Bird]

I want to see the violent fucksticks in prison.

As I stated somewhere else, this is inevitable.
Either the conservatives win and this pansy revolution is crushed OR the Commies win and the pansy revolution ends with them all being gunned down by the very people they wailed to get into power.
TL;DR Antifa and BLM will die no matter what.

 

[Vaclav]

One major victory for Trump in the debate was the fact that "law and order" was spoken like 30 times and Biden was put on the spot for his unwillingness to support it. This issue is on a lot of people's minds and Wallace actually helped put it out there and helped frame Trump as the law and order candidate.