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Harley "Griff" Lofton's avatar

The way both Trump and Biden are framing their upcoming debates sounds more like trash talk at a World Wrestling Entertainment match than a serious encounter of two people vying to become President of the USA.

I hate these "faux" debates to start with and these are probably going to be the worst in since 1988 when CNN's Bernard Shaw wondered if Dukakis' wife were raped and murdered would he change his opinion on the death penalty. A ridiculous question designed to show Dukakis as a either a hypocrite or as being heartless and unmanly in not seeking to avenge the rape and murder of his wife.

That said it will be good that there will be no audience at least at the first debate... no cheering sections and no one for Trump to perform for.

I have never understood why the opinions of old white American men on what is or is not happening in Gaza and Ukraine has any merit other than simple cheerleading for whatever side they are on... it isn't so much propaganda as it is a form of marketing. I would prefer just to be given the facts as they happen and not speculation about what those facts mean.

It might be a fact that 35,000 Palestinians have died in the fighting. It might be a fact the 15,000 Hamas gunmen have been removed from the field. The question to ask is their removal worth the death of 20,000 non-combatants?

I don't know if Israelis are being inhumane or not but much of the discussion that our armchair critics of, and cheerleaders for, Israel is pretty inhumane. The lasting costs to communities, families and the trauma that will be passed on to future generations sure gets little consideration.

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