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    10 days ago

    Most notably his meandering answer to child-care

    HE NEVER ANSWERED THE FUCKING QUESTION!

    He never answers any question you sad excuse for a journalist! It’s gish gallop bullshit and you fuckers give him a pass every damn time!

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      He kinda did answer, basically “we’ll have import tariffs to pay for all we need including child care” while making it sound like other countries would pay for it. But of course that’s stupid because the money will come from the people who buy the imported goods, i.e. Americans.

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    He’s really not. No one voting for him will care, and everyone voting against him already knows.

    The undecided voters only actually give a shit about things that matter to them personally, and his age and capacity are not The economy or taxes or healthcare or immigration, or whatever else it is those extraordinarily stupid people are still confused about.

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      A lot of people don’t pay much attention until shortly before the election.

      His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can’t give a decent explanation of what he’s going to do on a particular topic.

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        Which is why we need to have another debate closer to the election. So those people might actually see it and the fact that he is completely senile and unable to form a coherent sentence.

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          Even if it’s small, that still can matter in some elctions. Small changes in tight states can make a difference. Mind you in 2000, the presidental election came down to just 537 votes in florida

          Elections can be and often are won on the margins

          Edit: or also provide more state wins to make republicans trying to overide state results much more difficult

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            Mind you in 2000, the presidental election came down to just 537 votes in florida

            And that this led to the Supreme Court deciding who would be president instead of the voters. They didn’t finish recounting. How do we think it would go for us if the Supreme Court decided who would be our next president this year?

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              As a discarded Florida voter in that election, thank you for speaking up on my behalf. And I still feel pretty shitty about that.

              Gore absolutely should’ve won— those hanging chads be damned!

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              The Brooks Brothers riot stopped the counting. Gore would have won. Thousands of votes were thrown out because they were black votes and some voters both punched their votes for Gore and wrote Gore’s name in. The riot was planned so that the Extreme Court would give Bush the election.

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    Instead of testing his capacity, can we instead test his capacitance? Light him up like Topsy the Elephant?

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    The problem with the age and capacity points is that Trump can still speak at an idiotic and simple level to his base and fire them up. What’s coming out of his mouth is conspiratory ramblings without substance but he’s not stuttering and doesn’t look feeble while doing it so his base eats it up. Any time he actually tries to talk substance on an issue it’s clear he’s an idiot but that was true in 2016 and 2020 too.