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Republicans dismayed by Trump’s ‘bad’ and ‘unprepared’ debate performance
(www.theguardian.com)
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Trump claimed immigrants were eating people's pets. And doubled down when called on it. How low is your bar?
Remember when claiming immigrants were stealing and eating pets was enough to disqualify someone from being a president?
... No?
Ah, my bad, this insane new low seems to have never happened before.
Rewatch the debate. She rarely actually answered a question. deflected most of the time. I ding a candidate each time they do that.
How often did Trump actually answer a question versus deflection?
Okay, so let's ding them both equally for deflection and now let's focus on how they deflected: Did Kamala say anything nearly as batshit crazy as "schools are forcing surgery on children"?
Let's put this on a scale of 1-10
10 is top
Trump was batshit crazy and lied so he gets a 1
Harris just plain deflected on a ton of stuff, so I ding her to a 2. She had ample opportunity to answer and just plain didn't. So instead of being bat shit crazy, she either wasn't prepared or wasn't able to think on her feet. Either way I give her a two for lack of answers.
So Harris was twice as good as Trump?
Again I have to ask how low your bar is. If neither answered questions, but Trump insisted on deranged delusions (he doubled down on the claim that immigrants are eating pets when challenged) how do you consider that only slightly worse than someone who didn't answer questions but lives in reality?
When Biden had a bad debate Democrats were willing to admit he had a bad debate. It was presented as "we still have to vote for him because Trump wants to be a dictator, but ya, that wasn't good."
Trump makes up absolute nonsense and people try to insist that "it was close."
Umm if you go from 1 to 2 then that sounds like it’s doubled. But if you go from 1 to 2 on a ten point scale then exactly how is that doubled? By that logic going from 2 to 3 is also doubled. Yeah no.
No....no. See, 1+1=2, so we can see that 2 is double the amount of 1. 2+2=4.
Of course, the only thing you reply to is the random joke and not the actual points being made. I can only assume that means you consider the rest of my post reasonable and agree with it.
So because I didn’t say no the answer must be yes?
Talk about a dumb take
Because you don't say anything relevant you must not have anything relevant to say.
At this point with as many ways as questions have been answered and you still don't get it. I am going to classify you as a troll and just move on. Good luck out there
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