Trump and Harvard

[canpakes]

What does my summary of the debate have to do with Hamas, Israel, and so-called "anti-sigmatism's"?

What's going on with you, Markk?

I’m not sure what’s up with Markk, but I’ve heard that he’s increasingly more confused these days. This has been going on since 2018. Jake Tapper even said that he got lost in a closet.

I’m going to subpoena his personal physician to get to the bottom of this.

[Bret Ripley]

... and so-called "anti-sigmatism's"?

#resist

[Markk]

So in reading through it quickly, looking only at your posts....

You wrote...

Are you asserting these groups, leading the protests against Israel are all free of anti-sigmatism's? Are you? You are quick to accuse Israel of all sorts of genocide, and then just casually say, yes Hamas is bad.

If these, and other groups are concerned about both Israel and Hamas, we should see a balanced "protest".....correct?

What does my summary of the debate have to do with Hamas, Israel, and so-called "anti-sigmatism's"?

What's going on with you, Markk?

Morley,

What started this vein of our conversation is that you wrote....

Morley:
I don't think Biden should have run again. But suggesting Fox News for honest reporting about his condition? You're not even trying.

I followed, I believe fairly, why you did not think Biden should have ran again. After asking you several times this question, you wrote....

Morley:
Markk, if you'd been paying attention, you'd know that I've already written about this. About a year ago, I started what turned out to be a lengthy thread about why I thought Biden should withdraw from the race. You can look it up if you wish.

So, I looked it up and I asked you, which you confirmed and wrote that yes, this was that thread you said I should check out to find my answer.
However after reading through your posts, from what I can gather, the reason that you believed Biden should not have run is not real clear. I get it is a summary of the debate as you wrote here, but it does not really get to the meat of my question; but it is closer... you wrote:

Morley:
That Biden was unable to call him out on most of it, and that Biden came across as an elderly great-grandfather who was out of his depth, was devastating. He looked like a old man who was trying to keep focused on what was being said at Thanksgiving Dinner. It was a true Michael-Dukakis-perched-in-a-tank moment. Virtually any other Democratic politician would have done better.

So adding this to my question...." was this just a bad night for President Biden, or was it because of clear mental decline, as Fox news along with other conservative outlets and world media were reporting all along. Or other?

It has nothing to with Hamas, Israel, and so-called "anti-sigmatism's, it has to with your opinion of why Biden should not have run again.

And as a side note, maybe the moderator (cakes?) that wrote I should take this to a forum about "Harvard", should move my post back where it is more than appropriate, "Biden needs to step aside."

[canpakes]

And as a side note, maybe the moderator (cakes?) that wrote I should take this to a forum about "Harvard", should move my post back where it is more than appropriate, "Biden needs to step aside."

No, it doesn’t belong in the thread where you placed it. It appears that you thought that you were answering to a different topic. The response you gave to Morley’s post had nothing to do with that post’s content. But it does relate to this thread.

[Markk]

And as a side note, maybe the moderator (cakes?) that wrote I should take this to a forum about "Harvard", should move my post back where it is more than appropriate, "Biden needs to step aside."

No, it doesn’t belong in the thread where you placed it. It appears that you thought that you were answering to a different topic. The response you gave to Morley’s post had nothing to do with that post’s content. But it does relate to this thread.

You are wrong. It is a thread that Morley suggested I go to, and I chose to do so. The post is about Biden, and has nothing to do Harvard. It originally started in the #1 NYT best seller thread. It was Morely and yourself that was confused.

You just used your moderator position to show your bias against me....and then doubled down on it.

Lol, carry on, triple down, and insist discussing whether or not Biden should have stepped out of the race, in a thread named...."Biden should have stepped aside"....versus a thread discussing Trump and Harvard.

[Morley]

Markk, go back and read what I wrote. Then read what you asked me. The one does not logically follow the other.

[Morley]

Here it is again:

So in reading through it quickly, looking only at your posts....

You wrote...

Though it's not really germane to the election, I couldn't help but see the debate from the viewpoint of the international community. The purported most powerful nation on Earth is in the throes of an election, and each major party is represented by an elderly man, neither of whom could coherently express a complete thought. At one point, they degenerated to trading unintelligible barbs about their respective golf games.

The problem was that Trump lived up to expectations, while Biden was clearly diminished. Trump preformed as predicted: He was a bombastic, prevaricating asswipe, who whined and deflected on the simplest of questions. But because the bar was set so low, all Trump had to do was to keep from taking a dump on stage. That Biden was unable to call him out on most of it, and that Biden came across as an elderly great-grandfather who was out of his depth, was devastating. He looked like a old man who was trying to keep focused on what was being said at Thanksgiving Dinner. It was a true Michael-Dukakis-perched-in-a-tank moment. Virtually any other Democratic politician would have done better.

The problem is--what happens next? The last time that there was a late switch in US presidential candidates was in 1968, when Lyndon Johnson stepped out of the running. That did not end well for Democrats. I still think Biden needs to bow out.

Are you asserting these groups, leading the protests against Israel are all free of anti-sigmatism's? Are you? You are quick to accuse Israel of all sorts of genocide, and then just casually say, yes Hamas is bad.

If these, and other groups are concerned about both Israel and Hamas, we should see a balanced "protest".....correct?

What does my summary of the debate have to do with Hamas, Israel, and so-called "anti-sigmatism's"?

What's going on with you, Markk?

[canpakes]

No, it doesn’t belong in the thread where you placed it. It appears that you thought that you were answering to a different topic. The response you gave to Morley’s post had nothing to do with that post’s content. But it does relate to this thread.

You are wrong. It is a thread that Morley suggested I go to, and I chose to do so. The post is about Biden, and has nothing to do Harvard. It originally started in the #1 NYT best seller thread. It was Morely and yourself that was confused.

You just used your moderator position to show your bias against me....and then doubled down on it.

Lol, carry on, triple down, and insist discussing whether or not Biden should have stepped out of the race, in a thread named...." Biden should have stepped aside"....versus a thread discussing Trump and Harvard.

Markk, the post that I moved to this thread is on the previous page. Here’s a screenshot:



Look at it carefully.

You responded to a comment by Morley in the ‘Biden Needs to Step Aside’ thread by continuing your discussion about antisemitism with him from the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread. Nothing in the excerpt above that you repeated from Morley has anything to do with the antisemitism discussion.

Not only that, you then excerpted a quote from Gunnar that was also from the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread, available here:

viewtopic.php?p=2896199#p2896199

As such, your post has been moved to the thread that has the quotes and discussion you are responding to. That would be this thread, the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread.

It looks like you just forgot which thread that you were beginning your response in, and ended up cross-posting. That’s when I left my red comment, followed up by moving the post. Why would you complain and accuse the moderators of bias for placing your response to comments from the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread into … the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread?

[Markk]

You are wrong. It is a thread that Morley suggested I go to, and I chose to do so. The post is about Biden, and has nothing to do Harvard. It originally started in the #1 NYT best seller thread. It was Morely and yourself that was confused.

You just used your moderator position to show your bias against me....and then doubled down on it.

Lol, carry on, triple down, and insist discussing whether or not Biden should have stepped out of the race, in a thread named...." Biden should have stepped aside"....versus a thread discussing Trump and Harvard.

Markk, the post that I moved to this thread is on the previous page. Here’s a screenshot:



Look at it carefully.

You responded to a comment by Morley in the ‘Biden Needs to Step Aside’ thread by continuing your discussion about antisemitism with him from the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread. Nothing in the excerpt above that you repeated from Morley has anything to do with the antisemitism discussion.

Not only that, you then excerpted a quote from Gunnar that was also from the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread, available here:

viewtopic.php?p=2896199#p2896199

As such, your post has been moved to the thread that has the quotes and discussion you are responding to. That would be this thread, the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread.

It looks like you just forgot which thread that you were beginning your response in, and ended up cross-posting. That’s when I left my red comment, followed up by moving the post. Why would you complain and accuse the moderators of bias for placing your response to comments from the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread into … the ‘Trump and Harvard’ thread?

I stand corrected, I had multiple tabs open and one response to Morley and one to Gunnar. Sorry to you and Morley.

Half of the post should be in the one thread and half in the other, I suppose, if I finished the one to Gunnar.

[Markk]

Here it is again:

So in reading through it quickly, looking only at your posts....

You wrote...

Are you asserting these groups, leading the protests against Israel are all free of anti-sigmatism's? Are you? You are quick to accuse Israel of all sorts of genocide, and then just casually say, yes Hamas is bad.

If these, and other groups are concerned about both Israel and Hamas, we should see a balanced "protest".....correct?

What does my summary of the debate have to do with Hamas, Israel, and so-called "anti-sigmatism's"?

What's going on with you, Markk?

Sorry, I mixed up to replies with open tabs, the first part was directed to you, the second to Gunnar.