{"id":30725,"date":"2020-09-29T23:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30725"},"modified":"2020-09-29T23:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T04:52:15","slug":"that-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/29\/that-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"That Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debates are almost never about convincing your adversary of the rightness of your position, but of convincing the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I didn&#8217;t watch tonight&#8217;s debate. 20,000+ lies, 200,000+ American lives lost, that&#8217;s all I need to know. It&#8217;s Biden who should be the next President.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen inevitable snippets, sadly. Trump made me quite ill. It&#8217;s as if he&#8217;s five steps behind everyone else, and doesn&#8217;t realize it.<\/p>\n<p>But I cannot comment on it. I have been convinced of his utter failings since the Republican primary debates of 2016. So what&#8217;s the point?<\/p>\n<p>For the audience to see what a shitshow the Trump Administration has turned into.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that in the following two debates, Biden, at some point, will get to ask the pro-Trumpers a simple question: How can you live with the knowledge that you voted for someone who has lied 20,000 times in 4 years? Weren&#8217;t you taught any morals, any ethics?<\/p>\n<p>One more thing: I received a Jason Lewis phone call a day or two ago, and I&#8217;m embarrassed to say I was not ready. See, you have to have a line or two rehearsed. I started yelling at him, and he hung up, but that&#8217;s not so great. The real best line is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does your mother know what you&#8217;re doing, shilling for a Trump Republican? Isn&#8217;t she ashamed of you? How did you turn out so bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d guess I&#8217;d never get to say the third line to a live phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debates are almost never about convincing your adversary of the rightness of your position, but of convincing the audience. Therefore, I didn&#8217;t watch tonight&#8217;s debate. 20,000+ lies, 200,000+ American lives lost, that&#8217;s all I need to know. It&#8217;s Biden who should be the next President. I have seen inevitable snippets, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/29\/that-debate\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30726,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30725\/revisions\/30726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}