It’s so often that I’m hopeless for the youngest generation’s future. One thing that gives me a little bit of joy is how they are about LGBTQ people - it’s normal, they don’t care. I live in a purple/blue state, my kid’s best friend has three moms (there was a divorce), and none of the kids care. There’s a boy in her 5th grade class that still goes by he/him but just likes to wear girl’s clothes, and no one bullies him. My friends are taking care of their nephew and no one at his school has ever given him shit about having two dads.
Three anecdotes aren’t data and I know we’re not where we need to be yet. But it’s headed in the right direction in most of the US.
I was talking to a boomer the other day and he mentioned how rare divorce was when he was a kid in small town Maine. He could still remember the names of the two kids he knew that were divorced. It was a thing people talked about, it was a big deal.
I guess I don’t get it, are they really not going to have a debate with a dem presidential opponent? Is their guy not being on TV/seen by 50+ million americans really that bad for them?
Debates are obsolete in the Trump era and Republicans would probably be better served skipping them in favor of rallies. No one cares about nerd shit like formal debates, just post fart noises and accusations of pedophillia on social media and that will reach 10x more persuadable voters.
Debates might be bad for the Dems? If it’s like Kamala spending two hours defending herself from DeSantis calling her a groomer that’s going to play about as well as John Kerry trying to un Swiftboat himself.
One benefit of the debates for Rs is they can be batshit crazy 362 days of the election year and fake reasonableness for just the debates, and the low engagement voters will hear from fawning media about how the R had a very strong debate. They might even see a couple of clips of the R cosplayin as a sane person and think “Hey, that guy didn’t seem so bad, he certainly doesn’t seem like an anti democracy fascist! All those other people are just exaggerating. I might even vote for the R guy, I didn’t like how shrill the Dem lady was.”
I think R primaries are going to wind up like the the Iowa Caucus where the clear front runner is going to sit it out while all the fringe guys go all-in trying to get some kind of recognition.
Yeah the republicans will create a new group to oversee the republican debates and then scare the dems into accepting this new org and rules wholesale. It is fait accompli.
I think the debate ban only works if Trump dodges all interviews with standard media outlets during another Presidential campaign. And I find that pretty unlikely. He never met a press op that he didn’t like. He did daily 2-hour press conferences just for the hell of it as President. And when somebody does put a mic in his face, I think they need to drill down on the Putin love. Trump absolutely won’t say a bad thing about Putin, and if prompted would probably give Putin a bunch more compliments.
Yeah. I’m not doubting that. I just don’t think the efforts to tilt the playing field will really keep Trump from saying more outlandish things which would be great fodder for criticism if this was real life.
Right. But instead what will matter is the 15-20 minutes devoted to Hunter, the 15-20 minutes devoted to Biden’s cognitive decline, etc. The fact that Trump or DeSantis will never ever ever be fact checked in the moment.