"Above all else, the devil can not stand to be mocked." C.S. Lewis
Dear F,
Thanks for inspiring me to think about the best way to prepare Joe for the upcoming presidential debates.
I had a very fruitful "session" contemplating Joe's prep, and here is the result.
How I Would Prepare Joe Biden For The Upcoming Presidential Debates
I do very little unsolicited posting on people's Facebook pages, but I will make an exception for the following essay.
Whether my Facebook friends are left-wing or right-wing, "here I come, ready or not."
Although my essay is packed with good information attractively "packaged," I think you'll especially like my section titled: "Belly Laughs Brought To You By Donald Trump, King Of Comedy - And All The President's Friends"
"As I write, I recall an event from over 50 years ago.
Only once in my life did I debate formally when opportunity arose to replace an indisposed member of the University of Toronto debating team.
We won that debate, and afterward the moderator singled me out for having been unusually effective agreeing with the opposition... but only until "I dropped the other shoe."
Surely, someone will ask Joe to comment on his history with the women's rights movement, in particular why he was so lame - if not openly abusive - in his treatment of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearing.
Joe is perfectly positioned to perp a twin coup here, first admitting that he had been a jerk and that he sorely regrets his stupidity and benightedness.
Then, after opening with a straightforward admission of guilt and wrongdoing. he would refer to his time in the White House as Barack Obama's veep.
"And you know what folks? We opposed same-sex marriage, another decision I have come to regret. But between our first term and our second, we changed. We saw the error of our ways and turned to the light. And going through that conversion, we became ardent supporters of everyone's right to express their love as they see fit. So, who do you want for your president? Someone who is open to learning how to correct his mistakes? Or someone whose knee-jerk reaction is -- ALWAYS -- to double down on bullshit. And the more wrong he is, the more he doubles down, and triples down. And he persists in his perversity because he's too weak, too cowardly, too twisted from a lifetime of lying to remember what it's like to tell the truth.""
As a follow-up, I'll include a passage I frequently cite - a passage that is particularly pertinent to our political climate.
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."
Love
A
PS Just now, friend Robert Hudson steered me to Nicholas Kristof's most recent column.
"To Beat Trump, Mock Him," Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/to-beat-trump-mock-him-nicholas-kristof.html
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 10:18 AM FV wrote:
Word is y k w is practicing to attack, attack, attack going after Hunter big time and Joe's mental and physical fitness.I sure hope Joe's being prepped to take him down not with anger but with ridicule.Something that will drive him hopefully over edge. A melt down would be great.On Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 11:06 PM Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
FiveThirtyEight.com gives a slight bump up to Joe's chances of winningThen there's this:Trump Plans To Steal The Election Even If Biden WinsHere's How He Can Perpetrate This Coup - LegallyAnd, to urge you to do more to elect Joe...Please resolve to do one thing a day to elect Joe.
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