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Trump has the potential to win. Its rather close, and as Harris avails herself more and more, people are naturally moving away from her; they can see she is low quality. Consider all the weapons the Democrats have used so far....all the fake conspiracies, and the careful protections afforded Biden.....all the lawfare....the assassination attempts,,,,and yet here are, nearing the eve of the election, and its a tight heat...... I am sure the Democrats are weaponizing things further behind the scenes of course, and clearly they will sacrifice everything to stop him.....but I hold hope that he can prevail....and then I want him to gut the DOJ, and expose all of their dirty deeds...ALL OF THEM....

Beats me, I assume he has made some. Perhaps you can provide a list, and I can rank them. By way of example, I support abortion....but oh no....Trump does not.....shall I now abandon him and the rest of the positive things? What matters more? Should I elevate wh0res using abortion as birth control over economic progress for millions? No way. So, mistakes are not all equal. Who is worse Bush or Clinton, I think maybe Bush.....who is worse, Clinton or Obama....thats a tougher one.... So, pretending that the mistakes of Trump measure up in any way to the unforced errors of the current admin is just farcical. This is why the question "are you better off" keeps coming up and why Harris assiduously avoids answering it.....its really the main question that matters. So....uh...make a list I guess....because ALL.......politicians make mistakes.....and ALL......politicians work to hide it......but what were those mistakes?

If you think it could not get worse, I assure you it can. And what will we then leave for those who come after? The harm these people have done, and would continue to do, to this nation is appalling. In four years, the erased two decades of economic progress for the lower classes. and likely doomed them to slow growth for at least another decade, which will result in a widening wealth gap. And it did not need to happen.....

How many has Biden? How many has Pelosi? How many has Obama? I mean, when I say this is politics I am acknowledging this is political theatre. I am noting that she has to dance and avoid questions because she knows very well what she has done. With regard to the border, give me back the Trump-era policies, today.....then play around with the "we have to fix this through congress" game....which is code for "we will do nothing". We can do both.

Not sure I would be successful as a politician, its a dirty business, and my opponents would have ample ammunition to lob grenades.....rather than debate the policy. Of course.....I could run as a Democrat....had not considered that....and then I would be immune from my mistakes....

Being a leader would be chief among the requirements. So what makes a leader? Many factors, and prominent among those factors is admitting mistakes. Sadly, this is not politically expedient so the standard fare in politics is to pretend things arent as bad as they really are, trot out stats that seem to suggest things are better etc.... For Harris, she is apparently so afraid to speak her mind and announce her positions that she essentially just walks around things. She never speaks her truth, and that should be rather telling.....she knows her truth is pointedly harmful to many people, so making it clear what she will do would lose her votes. So for now she dances and evades answering for her role in the harm of the last four years. I would expect her to speak pointedly about the mistakes at the border and with regard to the economy and clearly outline salient elements of her plan to not repeat those mistakes. This pretense that the border is this long standing problem is sorta true, but she and Joe threw gas on it, and now want to pretend its all someone elses fauly...its not...what happened after then entered office is their fault....because they placated morons on the left who think immigrants should be able to flow into our country as they please....well fock that....and fock them.....

Eventually ones misdeeds come back to them. In this instance Joe Biden did not select the best candidate, not unlike Harris herself when she selected her running mate. Instead of focusing on the quality of the person, they focus on the irrelevant. And in the end they hurt themselves. Now they have to live with the person who checked boxes, but really did not have the qualities the position requires. Time and again, Liberals do things for show instead of substance. It's ultimately a self-defeating strategy.

I thought she did better than I would have expected. I think her moves to deny the interviewer a follow up question was a good tactic. She was clearly ready for battle but at the same time tempered her anger rather well. It wasn't perfect. He asked the right questions and she deflected properly perhaps half the time. Sometimes she deflected poorly. I can see why those on the right might view it as a big loss for her, but I am not so sure it was. Bottom line, aside from the COVID situation her and Biden were handed a really great situation which they proceeded to ruin. They ruined economic progress for the least among us, the ruined the border, they ruined our foreign policy and generally just made a complete focking mess. Defending against that is not easy.

There has been a steady drum beat of government "numbers" being "revised" later...... that should been seen for what it is. First and foremost, the DOJ has strayed from its mission and now serves a political party instead of the people. Trusting any component of government is of course foolisj, but given the actions of the DOJ over the years....we should recognize that they are now a significant problem. Crime down? Unlikely. We have added swarms of criminals from other nations, and too many localities now permit crime as if it should just be allowed because people should be able to if they want.... Sadly, it has to get really bad before Democrats will stop the madness. It has to first harm many people before they will back down.

Trump is honest to a fault, its his main weakness. He constantly says things without the requisite caution that a politician should have, conversely Harris lies incessantly, lies of omission mostly. She is cautious to a fault. I am sure Trump lies, though his lies are often meaningless..... He often uses sarcasm a little recklessly, not realizing his political opponents will leverage it against him, as if he is actually saying things literally. Media, all of it, lies ruthlessly to serve their respective political alignments. This is a different problem. The media is supposed to be serving us....you and I....the people.....instead they serve a political wing. So yeah, my expectation for the media is different than my expectations for political players.

I think you are doing it the right way. I may disagree with you on reasoning, but I think you simply have to vote for your reasons and no one elses.

We trust those who can deliver outcomes that benefit us. But all these election activities should be taken with a grain of salt. So for this cycle we have a candidate in Trump who delivered a solid economy, solid foreign policy, worked tirelessly against Democrats to do everything he could to protect our borders....these are things that benefit us.....conversely in his opponent we have someone who participated in the abject failure in all those areas....and told us she would not change a thing.....

All media. Whether they are proposing it is true or proposing it is false. The media cannot be trusted any longer.

I don't know if its true. I could go either way honestly. But it is common practice for media to protect Democrats, so for now I will wait and see what happens later. Typically the media lies eventually give way to some truth, but it could take some time.

We are already aware that this has all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation maneuver. We can come back to this topic later of course. Often, we seem to learn much more about these things later.

“What frustrates me, there are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don’t think females are smart enough to be president.”  He continued, “We could line all those guys up and shoot them. They clearly don’t understand the way the world works.”  The professor then attempted to retract his statement, saying, “Did I say that? Scratch that from the recordings. I don’t want the deans hearing that I said that.” This liberal was teaching kids........

That is what I agreed to in a separate thread, so yeah....

If you were to instead use the word "crude" or maybe even "crass" then I would get it. But this pretending that he is mean, well, I mean.....nah....I cannot get behind that....again, mean people are something completely different.

In order to stay philosophically honest I actually cannot blame Trump for the actions of those people, since in other instances with other politicians and people I have agreed to that stance in principle. So to reverse that course here and now means I would be philosophically dishonest.

I find his policies to my satisfaction, more importantly I find the outcomes from his policies to be deeply satisfying

I do not share your assessment. He is not mean. I know mean.....I have lived with it all my life, he is not....mean.....

And that is a fair point. You as an individual can and should have a prioritization for factors that are important for you as a citizen and voter. I have my own priorities. And the media/Democrat portrayal of their ideological opponents does not have a place in my prioritization. I expect both sides of the isle to portray each other as vile, as they have done in various ways for decades. I simply choose to not be manipulated by such things, and focus on outcomes.....having a really nice or less mean person who focks everything up does not add value for me....

So when you say blame for.....you are speaking pointedly to the events around January 6th? If you cannot answer then that means you are not being an honest participant here.

So what.....time to toughen up. I will take the name caller who delivers good outcomes over the fake one who only hurts us. We have to stop accepting these narratives from the media and politicians about the qualities of people, they only hurl those stones to protect their power......they point to these meaningless factors because they cannot stand on policy.