24/10/2020

O debate Trump-Biden visto de Houston

«We are happy to report that the second presidential debate is over. If after the first one people were surprised at what had just happened to the rules of civility, after this people will be surprised at how well Donald Trump performed. Age weighed heavily on Biden, who stumbled on his words and lost his train of thought on multiple occasions. But no harm, no foul: the Biden supporters were happy and equally happy were the Trump supporters. I was mostly disgusted for having to vote in Biden because he is clearly not surrounded by people who can train him properly. The most jarring moment for me was when Donald Trump listed everything that had been going wrong in America: opioid addiction, suicides, etc. Trump even said that it had never been this bad. Biden did not have the clarity of thought to attack the President, to state the obvious fact that it had gotten worse under his watch and, if he did not prevent it or try to fix it in his first term, then one could hardly give him a vote of confidence to elect him for a second term. On the Biden side, the stupidest thing of the evening was when he brought up Hitler to the debate. Godwin's law states that as an online discussion progresses, it is inevitable that someone/something will be compared to Hitler or the nazis, at which point the discussion ends. That pretty much did it for me. If he cannot weave a convincing argument without invoking Hitler, then he must have not done his homework. For example, at some point Donald Trump was talking about how he rescued manufacturing. Manufacturing jobs are lower now than when Trump took office, even though the administration spent a pretty penny trying to subsidize companies to hire more American workers and also staring a trade dispute with China. The tariffs that were imposed on China were passed on to American consumers as higher prices, which Biden failed to state clearly. You have to assume that most citizens don't know the intricacies of how trade and the U.S. work. They need the background information in a simple form that can be understood. That is one thing that Trump does well: he dumbs stuff down. His supporters think that it's for their benefit, but it has to be dumbed down for Trump and even then he may not fully get it. After all, he does not even know that a full time preganancy is 9 months and men don't have uterus. According to Trump, the U.S. economy could not support the cost of $100 trillion in environmental regulation over a period of 100 years even if it had the best years of growth. In 2019, the U.S. economy grew $21.4 trillion dollars (American trillion or 10 raised to the 12th power). Trump clearly does not even comprehend how big the U.S. economy is and neither does Biden. I don't understand how we got here. I honestly don't. It's like we're in a race to the bottom.»

Rita Carreira sobre o debate em A Destreza das Dúvidas

Não é obrigatório apreciar os posts de RC (eu aprecio). Aos devotos de Biden ou Trump que possam considerar-se ofendidos, recomendo que leiam ou escutem o que a Breibart News ou a Fox News dizem sobre o primeiro e tentem demonstrar a falsidade de pelo menos 1% das mais de 20 mil «false or misleading claims» atribuídas pelo WP ao segundo. Boa sorte.

5 comentários:

  1. « Manufacturing jobs are lower now than when Trump took office, even though the administration spent a pretty penny trying to subsidize companies to hire more American workers and also staring a trade dispute with China.»

    Desonestidade pura por parte da Ritinha. Os "manufacturing jobs" estavam em máximos de 10 anos em Fevereiro de 2020, antes de a crise provocada pela Covid-19 ter arrasado a economia dos EUA, tal como arrasou quase todas as economias do Ocidente.


    «After all, he does not even know that a full time pregnancy is 9 months and men don't have uterus.»

    Parei de ler o texto da Ritinha aqui. Isto é demasiado ridículo para levar a sério. É claro que o Presidente Trump sabe que as mulheres têm úteros.


    «Recomendo que leiam ou escutem o que a Breibart News ou a Fox News dizem sobre o primeiro e tentem demonstrar a falsidade de pelo menos 1% das mais de 20 mil «false or misleading claims» atribuídas pelo WP ao segundo. Boa sorte.»

    Não preciso e já expliquei várias vezes porquê: o que realmente me interessa são as acções e as intenções declaradas das duas partes. Até porque o chavão "misleading claims" é em si próprio uma falácia, uma vez que aquilo que é "misleading" para uns é muitas vezes perfeitamente claro para outros. O facto é que Biden, para além de ter sido vice do execrável Obama, quer aumentar o poder do Estado e retirar direitos aos cidadãos, enquanto Trump não quer. E isso é tudo quanto preciso para apoiar o segundo e desejar mal ao primeiro. O mundo já tem demasiados regimes socialistas, não precisa que os EUA se transformem noutro.

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  2. Não há nada como ter um bode respiratório em Houston.
    Abraço

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  3. Ao ler os comentários aos vossos 'post' políticos acerca dos EUA fica-se seguro que os vossos estimados leitores que se dão ao trabalho de postarem, discordam.
    Acredito que sois bons em económicas e financeiras — antigamente, no tempo do fassismo, chamadas de alcoólicas e bagaceiras. Em política não sois.

    Abraço

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  5. Ainda meio a dormir... mas o fact check do WP falha logo na segunda...então a imprensa pode passar a vida a dizer que os USA são o país com mais mortos de covid, isso não é "misleading" mas o Trump falar também em números absolutos e não relativos aí já é um caso de "misleading information"....

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