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My biggest frustration with Biden is that he just doesn't have that on-your-feet killer instinct. It's really not all that important a skill in actually holding office, but in being an effective debater - it really helps.
Just think how effective it would have been had he just gotten out some pretty easy retorts to stuff we all knew was coming:
- The reason we didn't do [that thing] when we were in office is because your party, the Republicans, blocked everything we wanted to pass. Not a single R voted to expand health care to millions of Americans. None would support fair immigration reform. None would get behind criminal justice changes and common sense gun laws. None of them. That's why in 2020 we have to get out and vote, all the way down the ticket.
- You and your operatives, running around in every country where you have huge business dealings, now drum up this bogus story about my son. You know it's nonsense, that's why you sat on it until now... trying to pull a fast one. It won't work. Americans see this for what it is, a stunt, malarkey. There's nothing there...but we do know that every time you claim someone else is a criminal, it's because you and the businesses that you haven't bankrupted yet are actually out there doing those crimes.
-Your virus math just doesn't make any sense. You are so proud about shutting down some travel from China, but we were way behind many other countries in doing that. You pull a Dr. Fauci comment from January, pre-spread, about wearing masks - where were you when everyone understood masks were super-important? At the last debate you and your whole team stormed in and refused to wear masks, even after knowing you had all been exposed. At every turn, instead of leading Americans through the crisis, you backed away and said you take no responsibility. Said it would just go away. THAT is why we have hundreds of thousands of dead Americans... you couldn't bear to do the right thing when we needed you to.
Shit, I'm not even in pure politics, and I can conjure this shit up typing on a message board. He says any one of these, even with a stumble here and there, and it's gold.
Instead, we get a lot of missed punchlines... the thing about dead teachers could have been good, but he didn't say "Mr. Trump thinks that not too many teachers will die..." to make it clear what he was talking about. You have to personalize a zinger like that.
The joking "Abraham Lincoln" could have been really funny... if he had just delivered it with the obvious sneer "heh, Abe Lincoln over here..." - that's a fucking layup. Instead, he booted it, too, my entire family was confused and so was Trump, it was so poorly executed.
C'mon man, be better at this.
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