i know i'm pissing into the wind, even here on du, but i refuse to concede that

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i know i'm pissing into the wind, even here on du, but i refuse to concede that biden even lost the debate.
the biggest cognitive issue of the night, imho, was donnie insisting that his 10% tariff plan would not lead to price increases.

he's saying that mandating a 10% price increase won't cause a price increase.

if an import used to cost $100, donnie's PLAN is to make it cost $110. he's trying to fight price increases by increasing prices.

stupidest plan ever.

one can pretend that the foreign seller might lower prices to $90.91, such that the 10% tariff (then $9.09) brings it back to $100, but that's pretty much just a theoretical possibility, because it's not even commercially viable if the seller's profit margin is less than 10%.

as a practical matter, most if not all of the cost will be paid by the american buyer (whether that's a direct consumer or an american business, which would then likely pass on the price hike to its own customers.


this is the kind of cognitive issue *that actually matters* when considering someone for the job of president, and this was *donnie's* pathetic little diseased brain in action.


biden had a few moments of cold/tired/jet lag that played into a long-running propaganda narrative, while donnie displayed massive incoherence and stupidity that didn't play into a media narrative because the media is not interested in narratives that don't further the interests of fascism these days.

democrats had reason to be disappointed that biden didn't bring his 'a' game, but *he still won* on the merits.

we, as much as the media, need to stop judging ourselves by the standard of perfection when that standard is irrelevant and certainly doesn't apply in politics when it's *always* a comparison among alternatives.

biden was vastly more knowledgeable, sensible, reasonable, responsive, coherent, and understandable than donnie.

how the hell anyone can claim biden lost is beyond me, and it's politically inexcusable for any democrat to be saying that.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219135264

That is some word salad

[67 Rover]

unblock (53,042 posts)

i know i'm pissing into the wind, even here on du, but i refuse to concede that biden even lost the debate.
the biggest cognitive issue of the night, imho, was donnie insisting that his 10% tariff plan would not lead to price increases.

he's saying that mandating a 10% price increase won't cause a price increase.

if an import used to cost $100, donnie's PLAN is to make it cost $110. he's trying to fight price increases by increasing prices.

But increasing minimum wage will not affect consumer prices right? 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Basic economics and the unblock DUmmy are not living in the same universe.

Raising tariffs will reduce Chinese and other foreign-made goods from being sold in such volume. If you want to purchase your doo-dads from a company impacted, that's the free market.

This will influence American companies to hire more employees to manufacture home-grown products.

[ADsOutburst]

Democrats are loathe to concede anything.

[Old n Grumpy]

unblock (53,042 posts)

i know i'm pissing into the wind, even here on du, but i refuse to concede that biden even lost the debate.

And Jill thought so too she complimented him for answering every question, and she even bought him an ice cream afterwards. She was also ecstatic that he didn’t crap in his pants.