2020 Election

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(09-24-2020, 11:42 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Or maybe it's that ALL candidates' supporters explain away "clumsy" comments or "blatant authoritarian sayings"?

No, of course not. Only Trump.

Yeah! Only Trump throws out those dangerous authoritartian sayings. Biden doesn't. Biden says something stupid once in a while. And you use that to justify Trump's repeated and repatedly articulated disdain for democracy and love for a strong man regime. 

And yeah, that's what you will have to stomach. That you'll vote for a guy who told you time and again that he has no respect for the sanctity of elections, of democracy, of the law. And if you feel better by saying "oh well, Biden said something quite inconsiderate about black people, so I'm fine with everything Trump said", that is on you. But you cannot tell me that all is the same and hence nothing means anything and you can just project into all of it what you desire.

Also, do not accuse me of hypocrisy. If Biden said something akin to "I will not respect the election results of red states, they are all fraudulent and you know it, I will surely not commit to peacefully concede", then you could do so. But I would not defend that, nor would any other liberal (which, to be clear, I am most distinctly not, I am a deeply shocked foreigner) in here.

(09-24-2020, 11:50 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Trump's comments were uncalled for and dangerous. Luckily Mitch and many of the GOP Senators have pointed them out as such.

Of course none of this excuses Biden's "clumsy comments" about an entire race. 

Thank you.

I want to add, I did not intend to excuse stupid Biden comments, but I really advocate for putting them in perspective to actually dangerous Trump comments.