Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

What's the matter BM?  You can dish it out, but you can't take it?

Aww..... you poor little boy.  

I guess you're just another example of a snowflake leftist hypocrite.  

Does the name "The Screamer" come to mind?   LOL

Yep, typical leftist.   

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

During a recent evening of viewing with the 100" Hooker telescope at Mt Wilson observatory, we honored fifth district Los Angeles county supervisor Kathryn Barger for her efforts in helping to reduce light pollution within the county of Los Angeles. See the news coverage for details:

https://signalscv.com/2024/06/barger-receives-award-for-efforts-to-reduce-light-pollution-in-scv/

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

the debate will be an ugly, unwatchable mess because they will both talk over one another to the degree that no message will get out from either side.  Each candidate will hear what they believe to be  'untruths' from the other and they sure as hell won't wait to counter that untruth with a truth from their own belief system.

My humble proposal:  Sound-proof booths with switchable microphones.  Candidate can hear the other guy when he's talking but his mic is off so he cannot interrupt.  Give 2-minutes each back and forth of being 'on air'.  While not on air the other guy can make notes to prepare his rebuttal.

There would have to be a coin toss to see who goes first, of course....

Ain't never gonna happen but it would convey much more information than two men talking over one another with a 'moderator' yelling, "Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden" about a million times.

Dave

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Brian:  I agree in general, but this one is so weird.  I could easily see either participant winning or losing big time.  Biden could appear incoherent or just too old.  Trump could speak in stump speech gibberish and appear petty.   

Most of Trump's flaws are baked in of course, so I think the downside for Biden is greater.  On the other hand, if Biden comes across as a competent knowledgeable, reasonable, statesman - I think this could change the trajectory of the race entirely.  If Trump came across as a competent, knowledgeable, reasonable, statesman...  Well, the ERs would overflow with cardiac arrests - it just ain't gonna happen!

The CNN angle is interesting.  Of course CNN is biased, but if they succumb to overt "Candy Crowley" type partisanship, it will backfire and once again Trump will become more likely to win the election.

Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Actually it is even better than I thought.   18 MAGA extremists ran in Colorado and 14 lost.  78% lost.   I bet you can not find a State in the union where lefty cranks like the antisemitic squad lost at anywhere near this clip.  So, I'm thinking that the title of this thread ought to be:

Repubs Threw Out Their Extremist/Dems Elected Theirs 

A very good summary of a good night for reasonable people in Colorado:  
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/06/26/colorado-primary-results-lauren-boebert-dave-williams-extremists/

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Kamila Harris is a weak candidate, and all hell will break loose if she is bypassed as the nominee. Again, unless a very popular celebrity can somehow step in, if one even exists, it’s either Biden or Harris. I don’t like their chances.

it would take a left of center “Tom Hanks” or “Tom Brady” level figure that was active in politics at this point IMO.

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

My post was a direct response to a thread basically asking “how can you posters on AMART that oppose Trump defend this???” As if anyone here would want to. That was offensive,

I should have just left it at “who in the hell do you think on this forum would!!!” 

The fact of the matter, as a lifelong Republican, I say that Trump has himself to blame for to downward spiral into politically violent and divisive rhetoric, regardless of this incident, that has already manifested itself into actual violence on numerous occasions and is likely to get much worse without TRUMPS intervention. Don’t bet on it.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Have you read Cannon's opinion?  I have, front to back.  It may not be correct or upheld on appeal, but it is clearly defensible.  Maybe not if one has political blinders on, but legally it is quite defensible.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Here is a personal anecdote I think is interesting.  We are having some work done on our mountain place, and the three carpenters are all local guys in their late twenties or mid thirties.   Married with young kids.  They are not overtly politically dialed in, no bumper stickers or anything like that.  I have not asked if they are R, D, or even if they plan to vote.  This county is very mixed with the ranchers being very R and the raft guide and artist crowd being very D.  One carpenter is a former raft guide, and another is a hippy who lives in a bus, so I'm thinking that at least 2 outa 3 are D.  I am sure these carpenters did not watch the convention.   

But the other day, they were talking about how bad ass the AP photo of a defiant Trump was, with the bloodied ear and fist raised under the flag.  That photo pierced their bubbles, and one said he could not see Trump losing (to Biden of course at the time) after that photo made the rounds.   

This is an anecdote, not sound political analysis, but at least for these guys, Trump earned a lot of goodwill by the assassination attempt, and he did not squander it with his speech, since they, and I imagine a lot of voters, have better things to do with 90 minutes of their lives than watch an acceptance speech.  

I did not watch it but my brother did.  He thought the first 15 minutes were good for Trump, but it did not stop there.  Did Trump really claim he once stopped a war with a phone call?  And we thought Biden was delusional!  J