Maybe that will be the next phase in American politics -- First Lady mud wrestling.

Keeping it classy!

Those silly Trump-supporters, they're like zealots who simply refuse to see any shortcomings in their preferred candidate.

Melania is not a natural born US citizen and I think Michele has better things to do with her time.

Like a true republican, or should I say Trumper, he is trying to live up to their expectations of making America great again by:

• Beefing up the military
• Reducing taxes (even if it's only for now)
• Reducing the government's expensive infrastructure
• Giving the green light to business to ignore all rules by getting rid of the rules
• Putting an end to immigration so that good old boy's can work again.

Believe it or not, these are the same interests of many many Americans.

Indeed. One of your most reasonable posts. Probably sarcasm tho.........

It's interesting that they want the military to be "beefed up" and yet as little money as possible spent on the country's own infrastructure.
Also interesting that they try to blame immigration for a lack of jobs rather than automation and the fact that it's companies who are outsourcing their jobs to other countries for cheaper labour.

Interesting opinion piece today that makes several valid points, criticizing both parties. Most notably

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/case-...151442592.html

You forgot the old or the young boys don't want to work

Anyone looking at it objectively can see it. Trump supporters are willing to overlook his mental issues, the sexual assault allegations...they even make feeble excuses for his racist remarks.

Even more 'interesting' is that Trump supporters are now trying to accuse Biden of the same exact things that Trump has been accused of. How strangely coincidental.

From the article I linked above:

Oh, but it's classic warfare.

Projection: A Gaslighter's Signature Technique
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephan.../#5cc2f063514e

"Why do gaslighters/narcissists project? In part, it distracts from their own bad behaviors. A gaslighter/narcissist's goal is to make you question your own reality and keep you off kilter. By accusing you of the very thing he is doing, the gaslighter/narcissist makes you frantically try to defend your innocence. Meanwhile, he is doing whatever he pleases. He has bought himself some time, while you are trying to prove you didn't do something. He has set you up to lose.

What do you do when a gaslighter/narcissist is projecting their own behaviors on to you? First, acknowledge to yourself that just because the gaslighter/narcissist accuses you of a behavior does not make it true. Do not give the gaslighter/narcissist that power. Next, be as nonresponsive to the gaslighter/narcissist's accusations as possible. Because they want a fight - and you are denying them that opportunity. Don't give a gaslighter the satisfaction of a reaction."

He might be the only person in the world with a bigger ego than Trump. He's not quite as much of a knobstick but I suspect that's purely a matter of time.

Exactly.

I think it also shows just how far the Republican party has fallen that their supporters are willing to overlook such accusations.

I think that anyone who has ever taken a basic Psych 101 course would know what Trump, the GOP and the right-wing media are doing. "Divide and conquer." They desperately want these sexual allegations against Biden to divide Democrats and are desperately trying to shift the focus away from Trump's own behavior and problems and put that focus on Biden.

It's lame and pathetic. And there is only one way to deal with crazy people... Ignore them. I think that's exactly what Biden was trying to do for a long time and why he took a while to make a formal statement in regard to the allegations.

Trump is his own worst enemy. He's made it repeatedly clear what low levels he's willing to stoop to to get re-elected. He was already impeached for one of them.

This.

I don't care how many women Biden supposedly assaulted, clearly the GOP are just trying to weaponise the allegations. I agree we need to just ignore them like Biden was trying to do.

That's your fourth attempt; that's some dogged trolling. Respect.

Or has your account been hacked?

Well, Trump is kinda of our hero on this thread.

I think you are right about the Dem candidates, there are defo better people out there who wouldn't make it too far though. People can rarely dissociate the message from the messenger - so not really realistic to propose women, gays, etc There's also the Metoo movement which is not really helping here imho. People want to keep their privileges. To some very conservative souls all of these are very threatening.

I think they went with whom(ever) appeared to counter-balance Trump somehow. And there's also that gerontocracy and party hierarchies and politics within politics so to speak.

I am so old that I remember when candidates just campaigned on their policies.

Interesting claim today that the Obama camp thoroughly vetted Biden before offering him the VP role and in the course of that they found no formal Senate complaints against him in the official record or any other allegations.

It is surprising that the lady involved did not try to sabotage Biden's VP role with her allegation.