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    He probably is afraid. He doesn’t get a rich people handicap, though. He can’t just pencil in any score like he does when he cheats at golf. As for reimbursement, L to the O to the L on that one. Maybe the GOP should “reimburse” all the people who died from COVID because they listened to Trump’s dumb advice about taking aquarium cleaner to cure it.

    Wasn’t that the problem with the first debate? CNN made it as cushy as possible for Trump while putting Biden at a disadvantage. They didn’t fact check all of Trump’s lies, because why should a news channel report facts?

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      Yeah, I’m pretty sure an unscrupulously fair moderator who can cut microphones and calls out any and all inaccuracies would end Trump. Of course, that would then look unfair, and we can’t have that.

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    So he wants accommodations. Sounds like something a snowflake beta male would want lmao. Dealing with prosecutors must trigger him after that trial

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      Why would he be afraid? She is not particularly smart, and she is very off putting. I think any extra time of her speaking would be a positive for his campaign.

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        • Degree in PolSci and Econ
        • Head of econ soc, debate team, AKA sorority
        • Doctorate of Jurisprudence
        • president of NLBSA
        • Passed the bar
        • Immediately made Deputy DA
        • chief of Career Criminal Division
        • elected to SF DA as the underdog of 3 candidates, ran unopposed for second term
        • First woman, African American and South Asian American Attorney General
        • Won a legal challenge against a coalition of the five largest mortgage lenders for better rates
        • Brokered privacy policy with FAANG+HP+Blackberry
        • Elected to Senate, committees on Budget, Homeland Security, Fed Spending, Emergency Management, Intelligence, Judiciary, Constitutional Rights, Privacy in Tech
        • Chosen as VP pick
        • Co authored withdrawal from Afghanistan
        • Negotiations with France over nuclear submarines
        • Thurgood Marshall Award
        • Newsweeks 20 most powerful women in 2005
        • Time100 three times, twice before becoming VP
        • bipartisan justice award
        • Two honorary doctorates
        • two books + a children’s book

        • not as smart as Trump

        Hmm, yeah, sure.

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          I know that wasn’t necessarily meant for me but I didn’t know all that, so thanks for putting the list together!

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            She’s also from a very gifted family in general. Both her parents had PhDs, her mother was a researcher who’s credited with making significant advancements in understanding breast cancer, her father was a professor of economics at Stanford and her sister is a lawyer and political analyst.

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            If a university beleives you have contributed a significant level of research / furthered a field of study to a certain point, then they can offer an honorary doctorate. Its like saying you’ve done the equivalent of a PhD thesis but didn’t do the PhD student part.

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          I never said anything about trump intelligence, but I dont see her at particularly smart. Smart people would be someone like Vivek or Elizebeth Warren, Harris is not in their league so she doesnt have that advantage.

          And many of those this are not really brags…

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              Yeah that’s a troll there. Mr Ramaswamy is many things, but he’s about as smart as he is the pride of Columbus, and most of us don’t even realize he’s from here. Hell he didn’t even manage to be the shame of the city.

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                I really detest him. As an Indian guy I hate seeing conservatives extol him as a genius, when he’s actually just a billionaire grifter pandering to conservatives.

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              The one that is uncontroversially an abysmal failure would be “Co authored withdrawal from Afghanistan”. That is incredible someone would even want to mention it.

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                  Of course I could do better, give a map to a toddler and they could have done better. Think about it this way, which would you chose to try to defend, an airport in a city of 4.5 million (semi-hostile) people, or at an AFB that they put billions of dollars into 1 hour north surrounded by desert?

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        Sure, but Donald Trump is even less smart and even more off-putting. Any extra time of him speaking would be a positive for her campaign.

        Yet that doesn’t seem to detract from the reality that Trump resonates with a significant proportion of voters. I am certainly seeing genuine enthusiasm for Harris as well. Neither of these points have too much to do with how they would perform in a debate against each other on grounds of argument. Certainly respective optics will matter, but I feel like Trump’s optics have already shed the folks he’s going to lose, with very few hesitant conservatives remaining and many fanatics who will vote for him no matter which lines he crosses

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          Sorry man but you are eating up the propaganda. Trump is legitimately funny and has charisma enough to be one of the most famous people in the world for decades. The reason people say trump is so bad and dumb and repelling is because it is propaganda.

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            He’s infamous. That’s not the same as famous. He’s infamous for being wold class at being slimy, racist and immoral but, despite this, still managing to have a cult of brain dead sycophants who worship his every action.

            The reason people say trump is bad and repelling is Trumps own actions and words. The difference is that those people that find him to be exactly that haven’t been groomed into rejecting the evidence of their eyes and ears.

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              He is now, but he was top tier famous for decades before politics. If you were actually intereseted in what is happening not just the propaganda, almost everything bad they say about trump is a direct lie or misleading. You just need to read past the headline to see its propaganda. Litearlly just dive down on any story.

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                So, just to be clear, its everyone else in the world who’s wrong and susceptible to propaganda and your little cult whos correct?

                Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure you’ve been groomed into knee-jerk dismissing anything bad anyone ever says about trump as propaganda, before you’ve even had a chance to consciously think about it. However, that’s not the same as your wild and baseless dismissals being the right thing to do. It just means that you have been conditioned to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears.

                What makes you immune to this “propaganda” that all those who fall for it lack? Which bad bits are true then, if its only “nearly all of it” that’s wrong.

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                  I am not going to vote for trump, but no, everyone is susceptible to it, and some are more susceptible. The MAGA people also believe propaganda but its different types, they come from an experience of the government fucking them over for decades and want someone they believe will fight back.

                  I am more immune to propaganda based on being an former engineer that just looks at data to make my beliefs. The trick there is to actually look at correct data and not be influenced by headlines or misleading information. The big problem is that your group believes that the media will tell you the truth and will not lie to you. For example look back a month or so ago when they were all claiming Biden was “sharp” when that was obviously a lie to anyone who was skeptical. Anyone that was impartial could see that he wasnt fully functional anymore back in 2020.

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            Trump is legitimately funny

            To laugh at.

            People confuse his cruelty as humor. Show me a clip of Trump being funny that is not at someone else’s expense.

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        Wow this AI generated comment is pretty awful. You better improve fast or they’re gonna send you to Chasiv Yar!

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    Of course he’s afraid to debate Kamala. She’s a prosecutor and he’s a convicted felon.

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      Don’t turn off the mics on this debate. Ignore the host. Let Dementia Donnie gas himself out. Let Harris interrogate him of his crimes and put it in public. I wanna see how long he can kee on screaming at the mic for two hours.

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          The thing is he doesn’t to admit to anything. People are going to vote for him no matter what but a small logical percentage could be swayed away from him.

          Catching him in lies and even maybe using that against him in the future.

          But really I just want to see his burnt orange face turn red.

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      Old man doesn’t want to face someone nearly 20 years younger than him. Who’s too old to do the job now, Don?

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    They should set the debate up the debate like an obstacle course for geriatrics. A ramp to get to the podium. A glass drinking cup with a little too much water in it. World’s lamest Ninja Warrior course.

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    They should have changes, indeed. Like, before each new topic round, they should show short clips with fact checking the last debates’ statements on that topic.

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    Many people are saying that not only is dementia donnie afraid to debate a girl, but that he’s also just too old and should just drop out.

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    Dementia Don, the racist rapist with 34 felonies is scared to death to debate her. He’s just too old, he can’t even complete a coherent sentence. He really should drop out before she embarrasses him and his cult of morons.

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    Somebody send hima a pacifier and a rattle so he can throw a classic tantrum like the baby bitch he is

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        I also recall she landed some really good body shots on Biden in the '20 primaries. They were pretty obviously scripted, but they still hit hard. It’s practically the only thing I remember about her primary run.

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        Pretty much this. Since most presidential debates have abandoned fact-checking for this and the previous election, he’s free to lie, and nobody but the other candidate can call her on it.