I didn’t see Tucker Carlson’s latest attack on Fetterman discussed here yet but it’s a doozy.
I can’t be the only one who sort of wants a robot Senator. I can see the TV show now. In fact,. I can almost hear the theme song:
Pennsylvania’s elections were really a mess But they voted for the candidate they thought was the best But they didn’t realized just what they had got Because the Senator they elected-was a robot! Robot Senator! Robot Senator! He calculates so carefully before voting Aye or Nay Robot Senator! Robot Senator! He’s been elected so he’ll come and save the day! Robooooot Senatooooor! Hooray!
A Republican from Maine told a crowd that federal lobster fishing regulators were like rapists wanting to rape your family and telling you to choose a child.
I’ve got ZERO love for RJ, but at the same time I hate this “say something nice” bull shit. I think I would tell the moderator I’m not playing that game if it were me.
Hopefully that would be less abrasive than the way RJ handled it.
To be fair, Johnson is perfectly sincere in his belief that being anti-America is an admirable trait. Granted, he would prefer anti-America and explicitly pro-fascist, but you can’t have everything.
That’s actually kinda funny and goes right along with the running gag that everything they say is a projection.
That did sound like something you’d hear a grade school teacher say. I’d much rather watch a debate where the mod specified that you are to answer the questions as stated and not use them as a jumping off point to attack the other person. So, when the question is ‘what would you do about [something]’, the answer should start with “I would…” and at no point should involve ‘but my opponent wants to [do something stupid that will make things worse for you]’. As I like to say, tell me why I should vote for you, not why I shouldn’t vote for the other guy.
Having said that, I noticed that Ron avoided the question anyway. Mandela said “I think Ron is good to his family”, Ron said “I think Mandela’s family is good to him”.
I think it’s a great test of someone’s basic ability to not be a complete shitbag. Sure, it’s bullshit. Sure, we know that “He’s a family man” is like the lowest difficulty setting for answering the question - but this shitbag couldn’t even muster that level of non-partisanship. If you can’t even get yourself to say “He’s a family man” during a debate, what chance is there that you’ll ever actually work with the opposition on anything meaningful?
I don’t know, being able to say something nice about someone with whom you disagree shows character. Also, what you admire in someone else says a lot about yourself.
That’s what they are doing up there. The voters can decide if they want the person who says what they will do, or the one who just wants to cast aspersions.
That does rely on the voters being able to make the “right” decision, but that is the cost of a democracy.