ExpressLane
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Biden will not do debates
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T. A. Gardner
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BidenPresident
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That's your response?
troll
T. A. Gardner
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Well, I erred on the side of caution, but that one's coming in about 6 months I'd estimate.
ExpressLane
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Nobody is as big of a troll as you.
It's not that "convoluted" it's actually straightforward. And you can see what I said about Trump in this thread.
BidenPresident
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T. A. Gardner
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Trolls post witty comebacks, snark, sarcastic remarks, and bate posts to get a reaction. A radical Leftist just insults you because they aren't sharp or bright enough to do trolling.
ExpressLane
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Yes we know you are Smidge. Now stop bragging about it .
BidenPresident
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gosh
Reagan was a legitimate contender who had a very real shot at unseating Ford. And Ford had never been elected, so he only had a tenuous claim to legitimacy and the power of incumbency.
You also had to hop in your time machine and time travel back deep into the 20th century to find an example.
I wrote that I have never seen an incumbent sitting president debate second and third tier B-list candidates in a party primary in my adult life
You aren't paying attention then.
Brush up on your reading comprehension. I specifically wrote that incumbent sitting presidents almost never debate opponents in a party primary. The power of incumbency generally keeps away all viable opponents except for second tier B-list dark horses.
There are no sitting incumbent presidents in that photo you posted.
NiftyNiblick
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Am I alone in recognizing the stupidity of the debates?
They're obviously not for anybody with a three digit IQ for the reasons I've given,
They're obviously not for anybody with a three digit IQ for the reasons I've given,
You aren't paying attention then.
No sitting incumbent Presidents in that picture.
T. A. Gardner
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Most incumbent presidents don't face much opposition to running for a second term. Biden is a major exception where 3 out of 4 voters think he shouldn't run. That's a near unprecedented amount of opposition. Trump wasn't faced with that much opposition to his running for a second term.
That is not opposition. There is no opponent for Biden at this time, except Kennedy. His age bothers people in a country that does not respect oldsters. Dems will bite their tongues and vote for Biden. Trump is almost as old and crazy.
T. A. Gardner
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Biden can't win on Democrat votes alone. He needs roughly half or more of Independents and some Republican crossover voting to win. Against Trump he might get it. Against anyone else, he's going to almost certainly lose.
Into the Night
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Have a couple of them already, thanks.
Dictionaries do not define any word. No dictionary owns any word. That is not the purpose of dictionaries.
Types of government you may run across:
Anarchy - no government. No voice, no laws, just chaos.
Democracy - government by popular vote. No constitution. No representatives. Athens, Greece was a brief example. CHAZ in Seattle was another one. There are currently no democracies as it is an unstable form of government.
Republic - government by law, or a constitution; which specifies representatives and the power they hold, how long they may serve, and how they are to be elected. Rome was for significant time a republic before it fell into dictatorship.
Dictatorship - government by a single individual...a king or queen, though they take some other title such as Supreme Leader or a state 'father figure' or 'mother figure'.
Oligarchy - a dictatorship by committee rather than a single king or queen. Sometimes the president of that committee is called a 'prime minister'.
Theocracy - government by religion. This is actually just a dictatorship, with the 'speaker of God' being the dictator.
There is no current anarchy, since anarchy is no nation at all.
There currently are no democracies of any significant size. They have all decomposed into something else (usually an oligarchy or dictatorship).
Current republics include 48 States of America, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil.
Current oligarchies include the former federal government of the United States, the UK, Australia, the EU, China, Russia, and the SOTNY (formerly New York).
Current dictatorships include North Korea, the SDTC (formerly California), Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia (a theocracy).
Into the Night
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There is no such thing as a 'democratic nominee'. You probably mean 'Democrat nominee'.