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mcar

(42,356 posts)
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 03:52 PM Sep 2020

Pierce: The President*'s Town Hall Was a Train Wreck Atop a Dumpster Fire

The President*'s Town Hall Was a Train Wreck Atop a Dumpster Fire
The most remarkable thing about this debacle was the fact that it was billed as a town hall for "undecided" voters.

By Charles P. Pierce
Sep 16, 2020

Evidently, while I was watching a fine NBA playoff game that did not end the way I was hoping it would end, the president* had another unfortunate encounter with his alleged fellow humans, this time in Pennsylvania in a "town hall" format which, alas for the president*, meant questions from actual humans with actual concerns. The result, by all accounts, was a train wreck atop a car wreck upon a dumpster fire at the bottom of a cliff....

The true highlight, however, came from Ellesia Blaque, an assistant professor who pinned the president* on his attempts to demolish the Affordable Care Act while insisting that he also is "taking care" of people with pre-existing conditions in his great new imaginary healthcare plan which, like tomorrow, is always a day away. And, once she had him pinned, she didn't let him up....

The most remarkable thing about this debacle was the fact that it was billed as a town hall for "undecided" voters. I simply cannot—and, increasingly, will not—understand anyone who is "undecided" about giving this guy four more years as president* and, thus, four more years to turn constitutional democracy into a SuperFund site. Just to take one facet of that possibility: can you imagine the kind of stumblebum unemployables with whom he will staff his government for a second term? No purportedly serious Republican will come near him. Nobody with any expertise will answer the phone. You're going to end up with an executive branch full of people who make Michael Caputo look like Henry Clay. And you're "undecided" about whether or not this is the outcome you want for the country?

You're lying. You know you are.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34041632/trump-town-hall-trainwreck-preexisting-conditions/

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Pierce: The President*'s Town Hall Was a Train Wreck Atop a Dumpster Fire (Original Post) mcar Sep 2020 OP
The Gentleman Nailed It In One, Ma'am The Magistrate Sep 2020 #1
Daniel Dale's CNN report was both hysterical and terrifying mcar Sep 2020 #2
More People Should tell Him To Shut Up, Ma'am The Magistrate Sep 2020 #5
Indeed, sir mcar Sep 2020 #6
It's Faux pas Sep 2020 #3
Me and Pierce. I was watching the NBA last night too underpants Sep 2020 #4
I don't know if it was the same woman, must have been but Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2020 #7
Might have been mcar Sep 2020 #12
Yes! Same time interview!. Did you hear shit or soot? Either way, it Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2020 #16
i was driving so didn't hear it clearly mcar Sep 2020 #17
Given how Trump's town hall went, Biden at the debates should just say... Yavin4 Sep 2020 #8
... mcar Sep 2020 #13
Love Pierce Hekate Sep 2020 #9
Or they just don't have a serious bone in their body. ffr Sep 2020 #10
K&R smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #11
Daniel Dale is a hero. barbtries Sep 2020 #14
Thanks for the link mcar Sep 2020 #15

The Magistrate

(95,248 posts)
5. More People Should tell Him To Shut Up, Ma'am
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 04:12 PM
Sep 2020

In a variety of tones, to determine which works best.

If the press had twigged this at the start, the cheap thug would never have entered our misery, let alone be difficult to put out of it.

One thing I will state to a certainty --- he is scared shitless of black people. This was very much the fashion among well-to-do white kids in the big cities when he was coming up, no matter how tough they swaggered in their own circles.

Faux pas

(14,686 posts)
3. It's
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 04:06 PM
Sep 2020

an excellent ploy to say you're undecided. It gets you into things like that town hall to help the hump to " proceed " to show the one's who weren't paying much attention what a waste of skin he is. I give them kudos myself.

underpants

(182,848 posts)
4. Me and Pierce. I was watching the NBA last night too
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 04:12 PM
Sep 2020

had no idea he was on. I’ve been saying the same about his current staff. Most are the third string from people who have all been out of their own league.


 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
7. I don't know if it was the same woman, must have been but
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 05:49 PM
Sep 2020

saw a town hall participant being interviewed on CNN.

She said he blew her off when she asked a question and then I thought I heard her say...

" He smooshed me off like he was brushing shit off his $3000 pair of shoes.". Loved it !

But rewound and closed caption said "soot" not "shit

mcar

(42,356 posts)
12. Might have been
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 06:22 PM
Sep 2020

I heard Brianna Keillor interview Ms. Blaque - the one quoted in Pierce's piece. She was very good.

I couldn't agree with her thinking she wouldn't vote, of course, but I'm not a Black woman in this country. Now she's voting for Biden/Harris so Welcome Aboard!

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
8. Given how Trump's town hall went, Biden at the debates should just say...
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 05:51 PM
Sep 2020

"I yield all of my time to the president."

ffr

(22,671 posts)
10. Or they just don't have a serious bone in their body.
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 06:18 PM
Sep 2020

There can be no undecideds, not ones who say they'd can feed themselves and wipe their own back sides.

barbtries

(28,808 posts)
14. Daniel Dale is a hero.
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 06:39 PM
Sep 2020

He watches Trump so i don't have to. The clip with Don Lemon taking a long drink while Dale enumerates just some of the lies is on youtube and well worth the watch.



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