Friday 25 September 2020

Debate: 4 Days Away?

 How will this Biden-Trump debate go?

I'll make four predictions.

First, I'll predict at least fifteen Biden quotations which open toward the answer....flip to some cowboy western/WW II movie that he saw last week, and drift back to the core ending of what he wanted to say.  The CNN crowd will be standing there at the end....unable to really convince you of anything.  'Dementia' will be uttered by more than 70-percent of the viewers.  

Second, Trump tells Chris Wallace on at least five occasions that he's got his facts wrong, and Trump is correct on three of those occasions.  

Third, more than 97-percent of viewers are settled upon their voting decision at this conclusion of the first debate.

Fourth, the question will linger....how did Joe get this far, with his wit half-gone?  Shouldn't the primary have shown this and his family removed him from the process months ago?

Riot/Loot Burnout?

 Around a hundred days ago, I would have told you that you can only attract a certain amount of positive public attention with rioting, looting and mob-behavior, and then it starts to fall back into negative territory.  At best, you had four to six weeks that the trend might have been in your favor.

Somewhere in July, the trend headed south.

Presently, the Antifa/BLM business isn't attracting voters....it's repelling them.  It's true in western states.  It's true in urbanized areas like Detroit, Minneapolis, and Portland.  

The Democratic Party and it's attachment to the stance?  I don't think they thought much about running this type of operation for a hundred-plus days.  They simply figured that Trump would react....use massive federal resources (maybe even the US military) and this 'Kent-State' type of event would occur.  Then Trump's hype with the general public would go away.  

Well....it didn't happen.

Lot of people just standing there now and having no attachment to the riots....just watching the violent angle of it, and appreciating that they still have police in their neighborhoods.  

Wasted time and resources?  More or less.  You can ask them if they will ever repeat this gimmick, and they probably will just stay silent on that subject.