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vxbush
9/11/2024 5:40:49 AM
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I didn't watch the debates because as soon as I learned bout David Muir being so anti-Trump, I knew what would happen. Based on the stories I'm reading today, I'm was right. But Trump hurt himself too and I expect the media to shout to the rooftops of another Harris poll surge.
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vxbush
9/11/2024 6:37:40 AM
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Thinking about the picture above and today..... Those kids who didn't go through 9/11/2001 have a different take on the world. For them, the defining moment of fear in their day was Columbine. Or some other shooter event. Going through these events changes us and changes our perceptions of reality. You start to realize, just barely, what people who go through a war experience, but you know you can't know how that feels unless you end up in one. I pray we don't get to that point, but there isn't an interest in taking steps to avoid it as far as I can tell. Sarah Hoyt shared a picture today on her blog that could speak for a lot of us: 
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Occasional Reader
9/11/2024 7:30:37 AM
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vxbush
9/11/2024 7:40:32 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 4: Your words, or copying someone else's?
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Occasional Reader
9/11/2024 7:43:30 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5:
My words, copied from my post at Insty earlier this morning.
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Occasional Reader
9/11/2024 7:47:12 AM
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In #2 vxbush said: Those kids who didn't go through 9/11/2001 have a different take on the world. For them, the defining moment of fear in their day was Columbine. Well, that happened 2-1/2 years prior to 9/11, of course. Other than those immediately affected by it, I doubt that was a bigger factor in that generation than 9/11. Now, "Or some other shooter event", as you go on to say, perhaps, yes. I get your overall point, that 9/11 probably looms much, much larger in the minds of people over, say, 40, than for people under, say, 35.
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Occasional Reader
9/11/2024 7:48:13 AM
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Paraphrasing someone from Insty: Last night wasn't so much a "debate" as "da bait'; and Trump took da bait over and over.
I was really hoping he'd land a knockout blow that would leave Harris in word-salad incoherence. To put it mildly, that is not what happened.
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JCM
9/11/2024 9:43:41 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8: Not taking the bait was about the only thing Trump COULD NOT do. He couldn't help himself. The one thing Harris COULD NOT do was generate a rambling word salad. She didn't. I did not watch the debate, but read is Harris won narrowly on points.
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vxbush
9/11/2024 11:01:57 AM
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In #9 JCM said: Not taking the bait was about the only thing Trump COULD NOT do. He couldn't help himself. I'm sure he couldn't stand how the ABC personnel injected themselves into the debate. That might have severely triggered him. Should he have stood against it? Absolutely.
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To me, one of the most surprising things to consider on this 23rd anniversary of the September 11 atrocity is that it has not been repeated. If you had told me on September 12, 2001 that at least 23 years would go by without our suffering another, similar, mass casualty terrorist attack, I would not have believed you.